[NYT] "We worked hard to flatten the curve in California," said Carmela Coyle, president of the California Hospital Association, who issued an appeal to hospital systems across the state for help. "Now we have a surge in the Imperial Valley because the situation is so severe in Mexicali."
Other parts of the border, including San Diego County, also have been scrambling with a wave of patients from Baja California, the state adjacent to California. Border towns in Arizona are experiencing an increase in infections that health officials believe is tied to people coming in from Sonora state.
"Our E.R. is used to receiving patients from Mexico for things like complications from bariatric surgery and plastic surgery, and alternative cancer care, but this pandemic has brought a whole different dynamic," said Juan Tovar, physician operations executive at Scripps Mercy Hospital in Chula Vista, across the border from Tijuana, which has been hard hit by the pandemic.
"We’re seeing Covid patients arrive at our E.R. who are very ill, whose disease has progressed to an advanced stage because care wasn’t readily available in Baja California," he said.
The border influx is likely the reason that Chula Vista has more cases per capita than San Diego, a city five times larger.
#Kuwait reports 671 new #coronavirus cases and four COVID-19 related deaths, raising the total confirmed case count to 46,195 and the total number of deaths to 354, says the Ministry of Health.#COVID19https://t.co/CNfWtlrxa2
#Qatar records 982 new #coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of active cases in the Gulf country to 14,411 as the infection rate in the last 24 hours has risen, says the health ministry.#COVID19https://t.co/434RS9Lfy6
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In a dire warning Monday, Los Angeles County health officials reported that 1 in 140 people are infected.
Dire, indeed! I calculated the national average the day before yesterday at 1 in 130 folks. It's been awhile, but I think that's still less than one percent.
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Metric system, Robert
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This would be China implementing "R2P" which legalized American bombing all over the globe.
How is it surprising that they are adopting successful techniques pioneered by Americans? Copying is what they do, and Chinese will never copy anything that's not successful.
#Australia's PM Scott Morrison is to announce a substantial increase in defense spending and focus on projecting military power in the Indo-Pacific amid escalating tensions with #China.https://t.co/Pneniionyu
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) July 1, 2020
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Besides, all the anti-Trumpers will smugly retort that this is merely a continuation of the trend started under President Obama, so President Trump doesn’t deserve credit for it.
Gold futures rise above $1,800 an ounce for the first time since 2011 as low interest rates and a resurgence in #coronavirus cases drive demand for the metal as a haven.https://t.co/xbmmjIYedO
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Gold Bugs versus fiat currency, *snort*. This *assumes* gold has any intrinsic value compared to, say, a bushel of rice that you can actually eat when you are starving.
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In ancient Japan wealth was measured by how much rice a "province" produced. They actually had a futures market for "bushels" of rice. Part of a Samurais' job was inventory accounting of the rice available.
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Well, my understanding that it takes the collision of two neutron stars to make natural gold. Food comes in nearly every year. It appears that we have plenty of food, just a crappy and corrupt distribution system.
Looks like President Trump wants to decouple from China but congress critters and some businesses are not enthused. Wonder why? /rhetorical question
[gcaptain]Just as the U.S. president urges American companies to ditch China, many of them can’t get more of China fast enough.
Consider the voyage of the container ship Melina, which set sail Wednesday from a Chinese port near Shenzhen with products bound for U.S. households, a hulking symbol of how the flow of goods is adapting in a global economy crippled by a pandemic.
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Enriching China's awful government is highly profitable for elites. Why would they give it up? They will fight before they let the gravy train stop.
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I remain hopeful that we can decouple our most important industries from China in the medium term. But even in the long term, I am fairly sure that our cheap plastic garbage will keep flowing from China, however unfortunate that is.
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Wages are already artificially low. You cannot defy supply and demand. Congress has worked/bent over very hard to increase the labor supply with incredible levels of immigration and work visas (often leading to more even green cards).
The artificially increased unemployment due to massive outsourcing has gutted towns and cities and has lead to masses of unemployed young people who riot and loot on the drop of a dime.
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It might appear that tariffs hurt US consumers. That is a short term way of looking at the world. I assure you, allowing communists to sell us "cheap" goods that we entirely rely on and give them a stranglehold over our nation, while depressing the national economy, hurts us far more. It is IMPOSSIBLE for free workers to compete with slaves. That is what is just not computing in the minds of most free market capitalists. The Chinese workers are not free workers. They are slaves, paid in wages that are artificially low and forced to "buy" goods that their masters tell them to buy. No free nation could ever compete with workers that work essentially for free. Tariffs will make it more expensive to buy things, yes. But it will also make us more able to resist the Chinese when they demand that we also bend our knees.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Trade has slowed, but not as much as the 'experts' predicted, therefore OrangeManBad.
There have been several stories here over the last few months saying many companies are trying to decouple, so keep trying to Buy American.
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It is fascinating to see Americans completely clueless about Capitalism.
If the Chinese are slaves explain to me how they buy more General Motors than US, how Shangai has alread a per capita bigger than several European capitals...keep imagining China of 2020 is like China of 2000 and you'll have shock of China of 2040.
You Americans have the Education and Media complex in the hands of Marxists and you expect your society to be competitive?
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Notice that when those who talk about the price of goods to the consumer and higher labor costs never seem to include to whole picture. Yep, items will be more expensive, but with people employed that means taxes for those unemployed and their associated programs drop and the need for the bureaucracy that run those programs. Consider that as 'overhead' in your calculations in 'costs'. If you haven't noticed, bureaucracy is really expensive (just look at those pensions).
[ZH & CNBC] The German leadership has already scapegoated an industry group, the Financial Reporting Enforcement Panel, over the Wirecard disaster in the hope that the appearance of reform might be enough to placate Brussels and ESMA after Germany's most powerful financial regulator, BaFin, was exposed as virtually complicit in the biggest corporate accounting fraud in the country's post-war history.
But as prosecutors continue to build their case and demonstrate to the German public (and the world, and most importantly Brussels) that they're taking the Wirecard investigation extremely seriously, officers stormed several offices belonging to Wirecard, including the company's headquarters.
Munich prosecutors and police searched Wirecard’s headquarters and four further properties as part of a fraud probe following the arrest of the payments firm’s former chief executive, Markus Braun, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
Twelve prosecutors and 33 police officers were involved in the raids to investigate suspected fraud, including market manipulation, prosecutors said.
A spokeswoman told Reuters that prosecutors were investigating board members Alexander von Knoop and Susanne Steidl, as well as Braun and former director Jan Marsalek. Those people could not be immediately reached for comment.
Wirecard CEO/mastermind Markus Braun, meanwhile, remains out on bail.
#AirFrance aims to present a plan to trade unions to cut just over 6,500 jobs over the next two years, say three sources familiar with the matter as the airline grapples with the #coronavirus crisis.https://t.co/NFflAnAdqT
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) July 1, 2020
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UK regulators have approved the resumption of a global trial aimed at determining whether hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine are effective in preventing COVID-19 infections in healthcare settings, according to Reuters.
The trial, known as COPCOV, was paused after another British study found the drugs to be ineffective in treating the virus, however the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has now allowed the research to resume following positive COPCOV trial results.
"Participants will take the study drugs each day for a period of three months, and will be followed closely to see how well the drug is tolerated, whether they contract the virus, and if they do, whether they develop mild or more severe COVID-19," according to Tropical Health Network.
According to Reuters, COPCOV is a "randomised, placebo-controlled trial that is aiming to enrol 40,000 healthcare workers and other at-risk staff around the world," conducted by Oxford University's Bangkok-based Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU).
The study is funded in part by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Unsurprisingly, their website makes no mention of the inclusion of zinc - largely credited by pro-HCQ physicians as the key ingredient to the treatment.
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^He told you not to rely on herd immunity. You didn't listen - until morgues started filling up. No amount of cheap sophistry can change this simple fact.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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