Monday 4/13: “When somebody’s the president of the United States, the authority is total. And that is the way it’s gonna be,” Trump told reporters. “It’s total. And the governors know that.”
Tuesday 4/14, Speaking in the White House Rose Garden, he reversed his position entirely, saying “the governors are responsible” and “have to take charge.”
Wednesday 4/15, Demonstrators and protestors, organized by conservative groups and cheered on by Fox News, began to publicly gather at state capitol buildings contesting the stay-at-home order intended to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
Thursday 4/16, Trump laid out new guidelines for U.S. states to emerge from a coronavirus shutdown in a staggered, three-stage approach.
Friday 4/17, In a series of tweets, Trump rallied on the protestors and demonstrators in spite of his own new guidelines and called on his supporters to “liberate” themselves from strict state policies aimed at keeping residents safe amid the pandemic. In Friday’s evening briefing, remarking on the people who were publicly gathering to protest the state and going against the federal government’s own guidelines, Trump says, “They seem to be very responsible people to me.
Democratic Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear announced Sunday that the state had set a grim record with 273 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus, the highest single-day rise to date.
Kentucky’s increase in infected individuals comes after protesters took to the streets throughout the week to call for the state to be reopened.
With the 273 additional confirmed infections, Kentucky now has 2,960 cases of the novel virus and 1,122 recoveries. Beshear also announced four new deaths on Sunday, bringing the total number of fatalities across the state to 148.
“We are still in the midst of this fight against a deadly and highly contagious virus,” the governor said during his daily news conference. “Let’s make sure, as much as we’re looking at those benchmarks and we’re looking at the future, that we are acting in the present and we are doing the things that it takes to protect one another.”
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Beshear unveiled the state’s phased plan to reopen its economy on Friday. The guidelines, which mimics those released by the Trump administration this week, includes benchmarks such as ramping up testing for health care professionals and a 14-day decrease in confirmed cases.
Kentucky Public Health Commissioner Dr. Steven Stack said that the state had “not yet hit a downward trajectory” and called the required two-week decline in cases a “significant hurdle” that still needs to be overcome. Beshear, however, noted that some measures may be lessened in the next few weeks.
Moscow wanted Trump to lift sanctions. Instead the U.S. extended them.
But Russians take consolation in America’s disastrous, deadly mishandling of the pandemic.
Usually reserved guests on Russian state television are no longer hiding their exasperation—and very likely their fear—as their country is forced to face the tidal wave of disease and despair that is the COVID-19 pandemic.
And the focus of much of their anger?
Kremlin grandstanding with shipments of supplies to the United States in so-far forlorn hopes that the PR stunt will encourage the Americans to lift sanctions.
Monday, on the popular Russian state TV show 60 Minutes, lawmaker Aleksey Zhuravlyov, deputy of the State Duma, practically unraveled on live TV.
When the host, Evgeny Popov, brought up Russia’s “humanitarian aid” to the U.S., Zhuravlyov let it rip, pouring out his frustrations in a bombastic fit of fury.
Zhuravlyov showered the surprised host with a blustering condemnation of what he perceived to be an act of aiding Russia’s enemies. “Our own doctors don’t have enough of what they need—but sure, let’s send some humanitarian aid over there!”
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By contrast, Trump’s handling of the crisis is seen as weak and indecisive.
The Moscow-based daily newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets concluded that the United States “collapsed in the face of the coronavirus” and described Trump’s followers as simple-minded fools for going along with the way he downplayed the deadly pandemic.
(Putin’s government did the same and worse in hopes it could salvage a referendum this month making him in effect president for life, but eventually it found the extent of the crisis too big to obscure entirely.)
The Coronavirus appears to cause long-term health problems for survivors…
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The new coronavirus kills by inflaming and clogging the tiny air sacs in the lungs, choking off the body’s oxygen supply until it shuts down the organs essential for life.
But clinicians around the world are seeing evidence that suggests the virus also may be causing heart inflammation, acute kidney disease, neurological malfunction, blood clots, intestinal damage and liver problems.
That development has complicated treatment for the most severe cases of Covid-19, the illness caused by the virus, and makes the course of recovery less certain, they said.
The prevalence of these effects is too great to attribute them solely to the “cytokine storm”, a powerful immune-system response that attacks the body, causing severe damage, doctors and researchers said.
Almost half the people hospitalised because of Covid-19 have blood or protein in their urine, indicating early damage to their kidneys, said Alan Kliger, a Yale University School of Medicine nephrologist who co-chairs a task force assisting dialysis patients who have Covid-19.
Even more alarming, he added, is early data that shows 14 to 30 per cent of intensive-care patients in New York and Wuhan, China – birthplace of the pandemic – have lost kidney function and require dialysis, or its in-hospital cousin, continuous renal replacement therapy.
New York intensive care units are treating so much kidney failure, he said, they need more personnel who can perform dialysis and have issued an urgent call for volunteers from other parts of the country.
They also are running dangerously short of the sterile fluids used to deliver that therapy, he said.
Susceptibility of ferrets, cats, dogs, and different domestic animals to SARS-coronavirus-2
AbstractSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causes the infectious disease COVID-19, which was first reported in Wuhan, China in December, 2019. Despite the tremendous efforts to control the disease, COVID-19 has now spread to over 100 countries and caused a global pandemic. SARS-CoV-2 is thought to have originated in bats; however, the intermediate animal sources of the virus are completely unknown. Here, we investigated the susceptibility of ferrets and animals in close contact with humans to SARS-CoV-2. We found that SARS-CoV-2 replicates poorly in dogs, pigs, chickens, and ducks, but efficiently in ferrets and cats. We found that the virus transmits in cats via respiratory droplets. Our study provides important insights into the animal reservoirs of SARS-CoV-2 and animal management for COVID-19 control.
Darsan54 Premium Member over 4 years ago
Sooooooo, all the Corona protesters are susceptible after all ?
Cheapskate0 over 4 years ago
Just ask them tigers!
Can we catch C19 from animals?
That was the original allegation back in China.
Somehow, this thing got from bats into our belfries!
Dtroutma over 4 years ago
Pucker up, kid.
braindead Premium Member over 4 years ago
Not to worry Disciples.
The Messiah already hates dogs.
Sanspareil over 4 years ago
Don’t worry! the Odious Orange Orifice says let’s open up the country!
What could possibly go wrong?!!
Silly Season over 4 years ago
Monday 4/13: “When somebody’s the president of the United States, the authority is total. And that is the way it’s gonna be,” Trump told reporters. “It’s total. And the governors know that.”
Tuesday 4/14, Speaking in the White House Rose Garden, he reversed his position entirely, saying “the governors are responsible” and “have to take charge.”
Wednesday 4/15, Demonstrators and protestors, organized by conservative groups and cheered on by Fox News, began to publicly gather at state capitol buildings contesting the stay-at-home order intended to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
Thursday 4/16, Trump laid out new guidelines for U.S. states to emerge from a coronavirus shutdown in a staggered, three-stage approach.
Friday 4/17, In a series of tweets, Trump rallied on the protestors and demonstrators in spite of his own new guidelines and called on his supporters to “liberate” themselves from strict state policies aimed at keeping residents safe amid the pandemic. In Friday’s evening briefing, remarking on the people who were publicly gathering to protest the state and going against the federal government’s own guidelines, Trump says, “They seem to be very responsible people to me.
Silly Season over 4 years ago
Democratic Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear announced Sunday that the state had set a grim record with 273 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus, the highest single-day rise to date.
Kentucky’s increase in infected individuals comes after protesters took to the streets throughout the week to call for the state to be reopened.
With the 273 additional confirmed infections, Kentucky now has 2,960 cases of the novel virus and 1,122 recoveries. Beshear also announced four new deaths on Sunday, bringing the total number of fatalities across the state to 148.
“We are still in the midst of this fight against a deadly and highly contagious virus,” the governor said during his daily news conference. “Let’s make sure, as much as we’re looking at those benchmarks and we’re looking at the future, that we are acting in the present and we are doing the things that it takes to protect one another.”
✄
Beshear unveiled the state’s phased plan to reopen its economy on Friday. The guidelines, which mimics those released by the Trump administration this week, includes benchmarks such as ramping up testing for health care professionals and a 14-day decrease in confirmed cases.
Kentucky Public Health Commissioner Dr. Steven Stack said that the state had “not yet hit a downward trajectory” and called the required two-week decline in cases a “significant hurdle” that still needs to be overcome. Beshear, however, noted that some measures may be lessened in the next few weeks.
https://www.newsweek.com/kentucky-reports-highest-coronavirus-infection-increase-after-week-protests-reopen-state-1498835
Silly Season over 4 years ago
Moscow wanted Trump to lift sanctions. Instead the U.S. extended them.
But Russians take consolation in America’s disastrous, deadly mishandling of the pandemic.
Usually reserved guests on Russian state television are no longer hiding their exasperation—and very likely their fear—as their country is forced to face the tidal wave of disease and despair that is the COVID-19 pandemic.
And the focus of much of their anger?
Kremlin grandstanding with shipments of supplies to the United States in so-far forlorn hopes that the PR stunt will encourage the Americans to lift sanctions.
Monday, on the popular Russian state TV show 60 Minutes, lawmaker Aleksey Zhuravlyov, deputy of the State Duma, practically unraveled on live TV.
When the host, Evgeny Popov, brought up Russia’s “humanitarian aid” to the U.S., Zhuravlyov let it rip, pouring out his frustrations in a bombastic fit of fury.
Zhuravlyov showered the surprised host with a blustering condemnation of what he perceived to be an act of aiding Russia’s enemies. “Our own doctors don’t have enough of what they need—but sure, let’s send some humanitarian aid over there!”
✄
By contrast, Trump’s handling of the crisis is seen as weak and indecisive.
The Moscow-based daily newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets concluded that the United States “collapsed in the face of the coronavirus” and described Trump’s followers as simple-minded fools for going along with the way he downplayed the deadly pandemic.
(Putin’s government did the same and worse in hopes it could salvage a referendum this month making him in effect president for life, but eventually it found the extent of the crisis too big to obscure entirely.)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-state-media-tries-to-clean-up-putins-coronavirus-aid-stunt
biz.gocomics over 4 years ago
And here I was going to complain about the inaccuracy of today’s “Over the Hedge”…
RobinHood over 4 years ago
MLB,The NHL, NBA, NCAA all shut their seasons down. There may be other seasons that could benefit from that example and shut down also.
Silly Season over 4 years ago
It’s not just outright death that is the issue….
The Coronavirus appears to cause long-term health problems for survivors…
~
The new coronavirus kills by inflaming and clogging the tiny air sacs in the lungs, choking off the body’s oxygen supply until it shuts down the organs essential for life.
But clinicians around the world are seeing evidence that suggests the virus also may be causing heart inflammation, acute kidney disease, neurological malfunction, blood clots, intestinal damage and liver problems.
That development has complicated treatment for the most severe cases of Covid-19, the illness caused by the virus, and makes the course of recovery less certain, they said.
The prevalence of these effects is too great to attribute them solely to the “cytokine storm”, a powerful immune-system response that attacks the body, causing severe damage, doctors and researchers said.
Almost half the people hospitalised because of Covid-19 have blood or protein in their urine, indicating early damage to their kidneys, said Alan Kliger, a Yale University School of Medicine nephrologist who co-chairs a task force assisting dialysis patients who have Covid-19.
Even more alarming, he added, is early data that shows 14 to 30 per cent of intensive-care patients in New York and Wuhan, China – birthplace of the pandemic – have lost kidney function and require dialysis, or its in-hospital cousin, continuous renal replacement therapy.
New York intensive care units are treating so much kidney failure, he said, they need more personnel who can perform dialysis and have issued an urgent call for volunteers from other parts of the country.
They also are running dangerously short of the sterile fluids used to deliver that therapy, he said.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/coronavirus-symptoms-lung-kidney-heart-covid-19-us-doctors-a9466701.html
martens over 4 years ago
Susceptibility of ferrets, cats, dogs, and different domestic animals to SARS-coronavirus-2
AbstractSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causes the infectious disease COVID-19, which was first reported in Wuhan, China in December, 2019. Despite the tremendous efforts to control the disease, COVID-19 has now spread to over 100 countries and caused a global pandemic. SARS-CoV-2 is thought to have originated in bats; however, the intermediate animal sources of the virus are completely unknown. Here, we investigated the susceptibility of ferrets and animals in close contact with humans to SARS-CoV-2. We found that SARS-CoV-2 replicates poorly in dogs, pigs, chickens, and ducks, but efficiently in ferrets and cats. We found that the virus transmits in cats via respiratory droplets. Our study provides important insights into the animal reservoirs of SARS-CoV-2 and animal management for COVID-19 control.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.30.015347v1
RobinHood over 4 years ago
Denial is more than just a river
braindead Premium Member over 4 years ago
Three months after the first U.S. case of the novel coronavirus was reported, the country still has NO national testing strategy.
NONE.
And there are NO plans to develop a national testing strategy of any kind.
You know, the Stable Genius has it all under control, tremendous control, no one has ever had anything under control like we have.
.
“I don’t take responsibility for any of it!”