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| 2020-04-22 |
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Photos show bodies stacked in the back of a [F150] pickup truck in Philadelphia and left for the medical examiner to collect Forty workers who volunteered to live and work at a manufacturing plant to make a raw material needed for protective masks go home for the first time in 28 days [Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
USS Comfort leaving NYNY for home port [Twitter]
For 1st time since virus spiraled, Italy has more respirators than ICU patients [IsraelTimes] Italy’s extraordinary commissioner for the COVID-19 emergency says that for the first time during the pandemic the nation has more respirators than patients with coronavirus infections in intensive care beds. “This gives us the strength to go forward,” Domenico Arcuri tells reporters on Tuesday. There are currently some 2,500 patients receiving intensive care for coronavirus infections. For several days running now in Italy, the number of patients in intensive care wards have been diminishing. Italy has Europe’s highest number of deaths — more than 24,000 — in the outbreak, which in the early weeks overwhelmed hospitals, especially in the north where most known cases were registered. In role reversal, Egypt sends virus aid to US [IsraelTimes] Egypt yesterday flew a plane of medical supplies to the United States to assist in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, a role reversal for a top US aid recipient. Egypt’s general-turned-president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, has been eager to cement relations with US President Donald Trump, and his country has already shipped medical goods with fanfare to China and Italy. A video statement from Sisi’s office shows crates in wrapping that read in English and Arabic, “From the Egyptian people to the American people,” being loaded into a military cargo plane. The plane brought 200,000 masks, 48,000 shoe covers and 20,000 surgical caps among other supplies, says Ruppersberger, a Democrat who heads the bipartisan group. New York City will store bodies of coronavirus victims in freezer trucks instead of burying them on Hart Island to ease pressure on overflowing morgues and funeral directors struggling to keep up with demand |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 I hope Fauci is next. Scarf Lady can stay. For now. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-04-22 10:54 |