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| Coronaplague Roundup: Virus may never go away, per WHO; Dr. Fauci moves to background |
| 2020-05-14 |
| Trump clashes with Fauci over virus reopening as global death toll nears 300,000 [IsraelTimes] US president at odds with top medical adviser over opening schools in September as US surpasses 83,00 fatalities; UN predicts worst global economic downturn since Great Depression. So far, Trump has stuck with Fauci, but the doctor is increasingly in the background as the president pushes his reopening message. Europe, meanwhile, pushed ahead with plans to gradually reopen for summer tourism, even as fears persist of a second wave of infections in the pandemic that has forced more than half of humanity behind closed doors in recent months. Russia, now the country with the second-highest number of virus cases, recorded more than 10,000 new infections after authorities this week eased stay-at-home orders. Fears were also growing of a second wave in China, with the northeastern city of Jilin put in partial lockdown and Wuhan, where the virus was first reported last year, planning to test its entire population after clusters of new cases. Elsewhere, however, cases were surging. Chile imposed a total lockdown in its capital Santiago after a 60% leap in infections over the past 24 hours. Brazil — emerging as a new global hotspot despite President Jair Bolsonaro dismissing the pandemic as a “little flu” — registered its highest virus death toll in a single day, with 881 new fatalities. Coronavirus may never go away, WHO says [IsraelTimes] “This virus may become just another endemic virus in our communities and this virus may never go away,” he tells a virtual press conference in Geneva. “HIV has not gone away — but we have come to terms with the virus.” Worldometers: I find it comforting that the logarithmic world graphs are now flattening. Coronavirus Cases: Reopened Texas sees a surge in COVID-19 cases with 1,000 new daily infections over five consecutive days after state lifted lockdown measures two weeks ago
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #17 When I see Dr. Fauci, I remember this: |
| Posted by: Anomalous Sources 2020-05-14 20:30 |
| #16 Top Men - 顶级男士 |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-05-14 16:40 |
| #15 ..smallpox. However, rest assured, there a top men working on bringing that back. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-05-14 16:25 |
| #14 Is there a virus that doesn't come back every year? |
| Posted by: Tom 2020-05-14 16:19 |
| #13 Consider those goalposts MOVED. LA Mayor Eric "Homeless drug addicts" Garcetti says no opening up til there's a cure |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-05-14 15:51 |
| #12 Meanwhile, has the 'curve flattened'? According to Worldometers the curve has flattened for the world and for the U.S. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2020-05-14 15:03 |
| #11 From the Daily Mail article about Texas In the two weeks since Texas lifted its coronavirus lockdown measures, daily infections have only dropped below 1,000 twice So they're not "accelerating". Republican Governor Greg Abbott started easing restrictions on some businesses and allowed the state's stay-at-home order to expire on May 1 Eased, not eliminated. Many restaurants will not open under the restrictions. All bars are still closed, schools closed, public gatherings, sports venues, concerts all closed. Mobile data compiled by Google for Texas shows that 16 percent of residents are still staying home despite restrictions being lifted I'd say, more than that, but I'm not Goo-goo. A forecast model relied on by the White House is predicting that 3,092 people will die in Texas by August That would be the Gates/IHME model. Meanwhile, has the 'curve flattened'? Anybody remember that goal? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2020-05-14 10:13 |
| #10 There's no money in any part of the health system (doctors, hospitals, insurers, gummint agencies) in Americans staying well. Only sickness pays. So a virus that will never go away is a dream come true for them. Ya know... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-05-14 10:02 |
| #9 Granted, alcoholism and opioid addiction are not contagions Wrong, wrong, wrong. They are contagions in the sense they create abuser cultures and abuser economies. And the courts and LE are parts of that economy. And we are still in Afghanistan because of that economy. And many more have died of that contagion than have dies from Chinavirus. And masks don't help, and when AIDS was spreading, Dr. FauxShe wasn't helping either. So, there's that... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-05-14 08:58 |
| #8 Dr. FauxShe |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-05-14 08:53 |
| #7 Granted, alcoholism and opioid addiction are not contagions, but I hear ya, MM. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-05-14 07:39 |
| #6 Ain't it funny, you can legally drink and / or smoke yourself to death, you can illegally (though there is a faction trying to legalize) OD on a variety of dangerous drugs, but you are not allowed to take your chances with Chinavirus. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-05-14 07:35 |
| #5 Since when are healthy people quarantined? |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-05-14 07:33 |
| #4 Quarantine means segregating the infected. Locking down "at risk" people who are not infected is at best protective custody and at worst a constitutional travesty. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-05-14 07:33 |
| #3 Lockdown is only there to DELAY infection... The development of Herd immunity is slowed by a lockdown. The best course of action is to solely quarantine the vulnerable. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2020-05-14 07:20 |
| #2 Well, if you got more test kits, you get more results. Doh. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-05-14 06:18 |
| #1 Surely, somebody else has figured out by now - the numbers will keep rising until everybody stops counting. Start looking at the new cases, or the three-day percent change. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2020-05-14 00:05 |