A spike in New Yorkers ingesting household cleaners following Trump’s controversial coronavirus comments | An unusually high number of New Yorkers contacted city health authorities over fears that they had ingested bleach or other household cleaners in the 18 hours that followed Trump’s bogus claim that injecting such products could cure coronavirus, the Daily News has learned. The Poison Control Center, a subagency of the city’s Health Department, managed a total of 30 cases of possible exposure to disinfectants between 9 p.m. Thursday and 3 p.m. Friday, a spokesman said. None of the people who reached out died or required hospitalization, the spokesman said. But compared to last year, the number of cases was worthy of a double-take. According to data obtained by The News, the Poison Control Center only handled 13 similar cases in the same 18-hour period last year. Moreover, out of the cases reported between Thursday and Friday, nine were specifically about possible exposure to Lysol. Ten were in regards to bleach and 11 about household cleaners in general, the spokesman said.
https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-new-yorkers-household-cleaners-trump-20200425-rnaqio5dyfeaxmthxx2vktqa5m-story.html
Trump Sued for Denying Checks to Americans Married to Immigrants
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-25/trump-sued-for-denying-checks-to-americans-married-to-immigrants
Republican Kentuckians are poisoning themselves more as they try to battle COVID-19 | Disinfectant "injections" and bleach baths that have popped up as suggested remedies for the coronavirus over the past few days — including one mentioned by Trump — are alarming medical experts who say such methods have no value and are potentially dangerous, or even fatal. The comments come at a time when calls to state poison control centers including Kentucky's have spiked over accidental poisoning or injuries from household cleaners and disinfectants during the coronavirus pandemic. | The Kentucky Poison Control Center said it witnessed a 30% increase in overall exposure calls related to disinfectant agents last month, including a 56% increase in poisonings from household cleaners and a 30% uptick in poisonings from hand sanitizers. That mimics a national trend. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, poison control centers nationwide received more than 45,000 calls tied to cleaners and disinfectants during the last quarter, a roughly 20% increase. While the increase affected all age groups, children ages 5 and under were impacted the most, according to a news release. Complaints included shortness of breath, dizziness and vomiting.
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2020/04/24/coronavirus-kentucky-poisoning-calls-increase-amid-covid-19/3018364001/
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2018/11/15/kentucky-poison-control-center-can-help-kids-24-hours-day/1817139002/
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6916e1.htm
Maybe, Maybe Not: Japanese media reports N. Korea's Kim Jong Un in vegetative state after failed heart surgery
https://www.ibtimes.sg/kim-jong-un-vegetative-state-following-failed-heart-surgery-by-inexperienced-doctor-43736
Earth's insect population shrinks 27 percent in 30 years
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/earth-s-insect-population-shrinks-27-percent-30-years-n1191516
World Health Organization has been the target of significant cyberattacks. About 450 active WHO email addresses were leaked online this week, along with thousands belonging to others working on response to the COVID-19 pandemic
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/world-health-organization-has-been-the-target-of-significant-cyberattacks/
80 percent of COVID-19 deaths in these European countries were in areas with high levels of air pollution
https://www.newsweek.com/80-percent-covid-19-deaths-european-countries-areas-high-levels-air-pollution-1499976
It's 2020. Pretty much everyone knows that slaughterhouses and factory farms are hideous places where other animals are brutalized and killed. Some people may genuinely not know, but most people don't want to know the true details. They find animal products tasty, and they don't want to think about the implications. That's the fucked up reality. People are happy to have innocent animals tortured and killed, but they can't even bring themselves to watch a 10 minute video of it. I can empathize with people who genuinely didn't know.. But the majority of people, who keep themselves in willful ignorance, are cowards. They're happy to reap the benefits, and can't even do the bare minimum of honestly facing the reality. Most people have the "I'll lose my appetite if I watch Slaughterhouse footage". It really makes you wonder.
When I announced my campaign one year ago today, I said we were in a battle for the soul of the nation. One year later, that is as true as it has ever been. I believe we can and we will emerge from this crisis a stronger, better, and fairer nation. Together, as one America.
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1254042684131627009
A Nursing Home Failed To Protect From Coronavirus. The Deaths That Followed Included A Nurse Who Never Stopped Coming To Work Or Caring For The Patients.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mikesallah/nursing-assistant-devoted-to-elderly
40 Coronavirus Cases In Milwaukee County Linked To Wisconsin Election
https://www.wuwm.com/post/40-coronavirus-cases-milwaukee-county-linked-wisconsin-election-health-official-says#stream/0
Judge orders Trump administration to speed release of migrant children amid pandemic
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2020/04/25/Judge-orders-Trump-administration-to-speed-release-of-migrant-children/3911587817454/
Massive increase in testing in New York; 47K tests conducted yesterday alone. The percentage of positive tests continues to decline.
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1254108346367557633
Norway accused of ‘acting like Trump’ over refusal to set protected Arctic zone in areas where oil firms want to drill
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/oil-norway-trump-arctic-ice-edge-zone-drilling-climate-change-a9484016.html
This is big, her mother....well we are told its her mother, she doesn't actually give her name....her mother calls in and says her daughter Tara....well she doesn't give her daughters name either....a woman called Larry King and said her daughter was sexually assaulted.....well not sexually assaulted, had "problems with" Joe Biden......well Joe Biden wasn't named but she did have an issue with "a senator".....so yeah, ironclad proof.
Beginning on May 1, the NBA is allowing teams to open their practice facilities to players in cities and states where local governments have eased stay-at-home orders, sources tell ESPN.
https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1254168619761704962
NBA's decision on opening practice facilities to players in markets where governments may be loosening stay-at-home orders doesn't mean a resumption of season is imminent. The NBA is still unsure on if/when it can play again. But getting players safely into gyms was a priority.
http://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1254171418813751297
I personally don’t feel like the season coming back is smart. Don’t get me wrong, I’d watch it, but in all honesty they should just cancel it already. We’re still well in the middle of a global pandemic, and the NBA should just take the L and realize that it’s just a wacky circumstance that’s not even once in a lifetime.
The last CDC briefing was held on March 9
Doctors sound alarm about patients in their 30s and 40s left debilitated or dead. Some didn’t even know they were infected. | The man was among several recent stroke patients in their 30s to 40s who were all infected with the coronavirus. The median age for that type of severe stroke is 74. As Oxley, an interventional neurologist, began the procedure to remove the clot, he observed something he had never seen before. On the monitors, the brain typically shows up as a tangle of black squiggles — “like a can of spaghetti,” he said — that provide a map of blood vessels. A clot shows up as a blank spot. As he used a needlelike device to pull out the clot, he saw new clots forming in real-time around it. | Reports of strokes in the young and middle-aged — not just at Mount Sinai, but also in many other hospitals in communities hit hard by the novel coronavirus — are the latest twist in our evolving understanding of the disease it causes. The numbers of those affected are small but nonetheless remarkable because they challenge how doctors understand the virus. Even as it has infected nearly 2.8 million people worldwide and killed about 195,000 as of Friday, its biological mechanisms continue to elude top scientific minds. Once thought to be a pathogen that primarily attacks the lungs, it has turned out to be a much more formidable foe — impacting nearly every major organ system in the body. | Now for the first time, three large U.S. medical centers are preparing to publish data on the stroke phenomenon. There are only a few dozen cases per location, but they provide new insights into what the virus does to our bodies. | The analyses suggest coronavirus patients are mostly experiencing the deadliest type of stroke. Known as large vessel occlusions, or LVOs, they can obliterate large parts of the brain responsible for movement, speech and decision-making in one blow because they are in the main blood-supplying arteries. Many researchers suspect strokes in covid-19 patients may be a direct consequence of blood problems that are producing clots all over some people’s bodies. Clots that form on vessel walls fly upward. One that started in the calves might migrate to the lungs, causing a blockage called a pulmonary embolism that arrests breathing — a known cause of death in covid-19 patients. Clots in or near the heart might lead to a heart attack, another common cause of death. Anything above that would probably go to the brain, leading to a stroke. Many doctors expressed worry that as the New York City Fire Department was picking up four times as many people who died at home as normal during the peak of infection that some of the dead had suffered sudden strokes. The truth may never be known because few autopsies were conducted. Chou said one question is whether the clotting is because of a direct attack on the blood vessels, or a “friendly-fire problem” caused by the patient’s immune response. “In your body’s attempt to fight off the virus, does the immune response end up hurting your brain?” she asked. Chou is hoping to answer such questions through a review of strokes and other neurological complications in thousands of covid-19 patients treated at 68 medical centers in 17 countries. Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, which operates 14 medical centers in Philadelphia, and NYU Langone Health in New York City, found that 12 of their patients treated for large blood blockages in their brains during a three-week period had the virus. Forty percent were under 50, and they had few or no risk factors. Their paper is under review by a medical journal, said Pascal Jabbour, a neurosurgeon at Thomas Jefferson. | “We’ll be treating a blood vessel and it will go fine, but then the patient will have a major stroke” because of a clot in another part of the brain, he said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/24/strokes-coronavirus-young-patients/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/coronavirus-destroys-lungs-but-doctors-are-finding-its-damage-in-kidneys-hearts-and-elsewhere/2020/04/14/7ff71ee0-7db1-11ea-a3ee-13e1ae0a3571_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/22/coronavirus-blood-clots/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/as-sad-as-it-is-this-job-is-necessary-guardsmen-from-niagara-falls-help-new-york-city-retrieve-its-dead/2020/04/09/43768290-7a81-11ea-8cec-530b4044a458_story.html
As part of the economic rescue package that became law last month, the federal government is giving away $174 billion in temporary tax breaks overwhelmingly to rich individuals and large companies, according to interviews and government estimates.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/business/tax-breaks-wealthy-virus.html
Brazil's Federal Police named Carlos Bolsonaro, son of President Jair Bolsonaro, as an organizer of a criminal scheme that spread fake news. The Supreme Court conducted the investigation
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/brazil/2020/04/federal-police-names-carlos-bolsonaro-as-organizer-of-fake-news-criminal-scheme.shtml
In France, Amazon loses court appeal and must stop selling nonessential items to protect workers
https://ktla.com/news/nationworld/in-france-court-rules-amazon-must-stop-selling-nonessential-items-to-protect-workers/
Good: Trans children to be banned from surgery to change their gender
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/04/22/trans-children-banned-surgery-change-gender-equalities-minister/
Islamist terrorist group kills 52 in 'cruel and diabolical' Mozambique massacre, after villagers refused to join
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/22/islamist-group-kills-52-in-cruel-and-diabolical-mozambique-massacre
Trump sued for denying stimulus checks to 1.2 million Americans married to people without social security numbers who are both legal and undocumented and whom ALL pay social security taxes
https://fortune.com/2020/04/25/trump-sued-stimulus-check-married-immigrant/
FEMA Took 5 Million Masks Ordered For Veterans To Send To Stockpile
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fema-hijacks-masks-for-veterans-hospitals_n_5ea4c72dc5b6805f9ece2bc3
Chief VA physician: 'I had 5 million masks incoming that disappeared'
https://theweek.com/speedreads/911016/chief-va-physician-5-million-masks-incoming-that-disappeared
Republicans discussing replacing the health secretary Azar over his criticisms of Trump's response to covid19
https://www.businessinsider.com/white-house-reportedly-discussing-replacing-hhs-secretary-azar-2020-4
United States Senators have a new idea to boost struggling local news outlets in their home states: Ads from the federal government. Nearly three-quarters of the US Senate have signed a letter to the Trump administration encouraging various agencies to "increase advertising in local newspapers and on broadcast stations in order to help ensure they are able to continue to operate throughout the Covid-19 pandemic."
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/24/media/senators-letter-support-local-news/index.html
The fact he can block people who hurt his feelings on Twitter during a crisis is insane when he's supposed to be "president".
A few weeks ago, Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Jon Ossoff held his first digital organizing event over the video conferencing service Zoom, geared at teaching volunteers how to conduct phone banks from home. "There is nothing more effective than going door to door and having those face-to-face conversations," Ossoff told over 70 attendees. Since moving his primary campaign online over a month ago, the campaign held several virtual town halls and events with local political organizations. "So now that we cannot do that, we have to bring that same spirit that we bring to people's doorsteps to conversations that we're having at a distance," he added. | Now, Ossoff is running for the U.S. Senate, hoping to challenge GOP incumbent Sen. David Perdue. He's competing in the June 9 primary against two major Democratic challengers, former Columbus Mayor Teresa Tomlinson and businesswoman Sarah Riggs Amico. Ossoff has higher national name recognition and more money in comparison to his Democratic competitors — bringing in $3.4 million total as of March 31 — but rousing momentum similar to what his congressional campaign did three years ago poses difficulties during the COVID-19 pandemic. | "One of the reasons why Jon Ossoff has such a strong social media following is in part because of what he accomplished during his 2017 campaign, but it's also a function of the fact that he's a millennial and, you know, is more of a digital native than perhaps his competitors are," Gillespie said.
https://www.npr.org/2020/04/25/843255113/georgia-democrat-jon-ossoff-attempts-homebound-political-comeback
Trump’s Briefings Have Spent Hours On Self-Praise and Personal Attacks And Just Minutes on COVID-19 Victims: Out of 13 Hours of Trump Covid-19 Briefings, Just 4.5 Minutes of Empathy for Victims: Analysis | "During his briefings, Trump spent 10 minutes praising himself for every 1 minute he spent expressing condolences for the 50,000 Americans who died."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/26/out-13-hours-trump-covid-19-briefings-just-45-minutes-empathy-victims-analysis
Covid-19-related plant shutdowns could force hog farmers to kill and dispose of 200,000 pigs to qualify for a crop loss billion-dollar handout instead of releasing them to sanctuary farms
https://www.minnpost.com/greater-minnesota/2020/04/an-absolute-tragedy-covid-19-related-plant-shutdowns-could-force-hog-farmers-to-put-down-200000-pigs/
Top Russian doctor falls from fifth floor window while on call complaining to bosses about lack of PPE for medics
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11485426/top-russian-doctor-falls-window-ppe-medics/
Italy's daily coronavirus death toll lowest since March 14, new cases fall
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-tally/italys-daily-coronavirus-death-toll-lowest-since-march-14-new-cases-fall-idUSKCN2280MD
2 million chickens will be killed and disposed in Delaware and Maryland (instead of released to sanctuary farms) because that is the only way to qualify for billion-dollar farm welfare (crop loss, product loss).
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/25/us/chickens-depopulated-delmarva-plants-delaware-maryland/index.html
After Federal judge illegally rules California ammo background check to be unconstitutional, 9th Circuit grants last minute stay on the ruling, preventing the order from allowing ammunition sales in the state.
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/courts/story/2020-04-25/appeals-court-grants-stay-in-ammo-background-check-lawsuit
Two mink farms in the Netherlands put into quarantine after animals found to be infected with coronavirus | The mink, which were tested after showing signs of having trouble breathing, were believed to have been infected by employees who had the virus, the ministry said in a statement.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-netherlands-mink/mink-found-to-have-coronavirus-on-two-dutch-farms-ministry-idUSKCN2280FZ
1. A bipartisan senate report just agreed that Russia interfered. 2. It’s “Nobel.” 3. As of this minute, 55,333 American deaths, all on your watch. 4. You’re an incompetent, sociopathic moron.
https://twitter.com/richardmarx/status/1254515139635671040
It bothers me that my cowardice was caught in a wide shot, then a slow push in to my reaction of disappointment and yet I was unable in that moment to stand up and say—no, this is not accurate! Do not injest or inject disinfectants! I bothers me because my failures are public.
https://twitter.com/soledadobrien/status/1254410059297284099
Dr. Birx to @jaketapper on if it bothers her when she has to clarify things Pres. Trump says: "It bothers me that this is still in the news cycle because I think we're missing the bigger pieces of what we need to be doing as an American people to continue to protect one another"
https://twitter.com/albamonica/status/1254404610653130756
The stories we wrote were accurate then and nothing has changed. They exposed lies by Trump and others, led to Trump’s firing of Mike Flynn, revealed Kushner’s attempt to arrange secret communications with Moscow, secret Erik Prince mtg in Seychelles and much more.
https://twitter.com/gregpmiller/status/1254503465642012673
Our story last night — which said that White House officials are weighing plans to replace Azar — includes statements from White House and HHS spokespeople.
https://twitter.com/ddiamond/status/1254533280264790026
Coroner Michael Fowler of Dougherty County, Ga., as told to @elisaslow: “Sometimes, I think about stopping and showing them one of the empty body bags I have in the trunk. ‘You might end up here. Is that worth it for a haircut or a hamburger?’”
https://twitter.com/Carter_PE/status/1254517366177837058
We're not out of the woods in U.S. on #covid. While there are signs of slowing in some areas, and nationally we may have hit a plateau, we're still recording more than 30K infections a day. The trip down the epidemic curve will be far more gradually than the trip up. 1/n
https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/1254388008461221888
Some models like closely watched IHME predict a symmetric epidemic curve, where slope of decline is proportional to slope of the rise. That was mostly the case in China, but not in Italy. And it won't be the case in U.S. Our decline will be far more gradual, similar to Italy. 2/n
https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/1254388765939949569
Our mitigation steps were not as stringent as China's, they were leakier, and our epidemic was far more pervasive across our country. We're likely to see a much slower decline in new cases spread across weeks not days. While there are signs of U.S. improvement, it'll be slow. 3/n
https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/1254389429139111939
We all want this to be over. And things are mostly trending in right direction. But we're still very much in the thick of the epidemic. What we do over next few weeks will determine if we can get this wave more firmly behind us, or whether covid remains a combustible threat. 4/n
https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/1254390606065008640
Florida Sets Record Daily Death Toll a Day After Desantis Boasts About Numbers Declining
https://thespacecoastrocket.com/florida-sets-record-daily-death-toll-a-day-after-desantis-boasts-about-numbers-declining/
54,172 Americans have died of Covid-19. The country's foremost obituary writers are overworked and overwhelmed. But they trudge on. They play a crucial role telling human stories amid a crisis dominated by metrics.
https://www.adweek.com/digital/obituary-writers-restore-humanity-covid-19-crisis/
Four weeks ago, on March 26, there were 938 confirmed U.S. coronavirus-19 deaths. Today, on April 26, there are now 54,530 confirmed U.S. deaths. In one month, more than 53,000 Americans have died. Mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, friends and lovers.
Trump claims the media misrepresented his coronavirus cure comments. Video proves otherwise. The president is now routinely lying about things we saw with our own eyes and that are on tape.
https://www.vox.com/2020/4/26/21237395/trump-birx-coronavirus-disinfectants-light-inside-the-body-spin
No infectious disease in a century has exacted as swift and merciless a toll on the United States as covid-19. With no vaccine and no cure, the pandemic has killed people in every state. The necessary isolation it imposes has robbed the bereaved of proper goodbyes and the comfort of mourning rituals. Those remembered in this continually updating series represent but some of the tens of thousands who have died. Some were well-known, and many were unsung. All added their stories, from all walks of life, to the diversity of the American experience. This is how they lived — and what was lost when they died. | Nathel Burtley, 79, was the first black superintendent of Flint, Mich. Family and friends said Burtley was determined to improve the experience of minority students, using the lessons he learned while growing up in a segregated Illinois city to fuel his work in Michigan. | Marylou Armer, 43, a detective for the Santa Rosa Police Department’s sexual assault and domestic violence unit, was the first California police officer killed by covid-19. She fell ill after being on the job and was denied a test three times, her sister said, inspiring a movement to protect and screen first responders. | Bob Barnum, 64, was a descendant of circus founder P.T. Barnum, an early LGBTQ activist in Florida and a friend of one of the stars of the 1980s sitcom “The Golden Girls.” He pushed businesses in St. Petersburg, Fla., to broaden their nondiscrimination policies and ensured that the local domestic violence center was knowledgeable about LGBTQ couples. | Jerry Givens, 67, led the country’s second-busiest execution team for 17 years, presiding over 62 executions, before becoming a prominent opponent of the death penalty. He organized protests, testified before lawmakers and met with incarcerated people, corrections officers and the families of victims. | April Dunn, 33, center, was an outspoken disability rights advocate in Louisiana state government. Denied a high school diploma and shut out of jobs because of her disabilities, she helped rewrite state law to make sure people like her had equal access to education and employment. | Bishop James N. Flowers Jr., 84, was a pastor in Maryland known to be unwavering in his faith. Decades before he experienced a religious epiphany, he was an up-and-coming rock-and-roll singer who enjoyed the D.C. nightlife, and, in 1961, defied society by entering into an interracial marriage that lasted a lifetime. | Margit Buchhalter Feldman, 90, was a Holocaust survivor who dedicated her life to teaching children about the atrocities that killed around 6 million Jews. She died one day before the 75th anniversary of her liberation from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. | Brian R. Miller, 52, built a career in the Education Department’s Rehabilitation Services Administration after a lifetime of battling for the rights of those living with disabilities. Born with defective retinas, Miller was among the first wave of blind students to sit in classrooms alongside the sighted in the 1970s and 80s. He sang a cappella, was fluent in four languages and vowed to set foot in 100 countries. | Wallace Roney, 59, was a Grammy-winning virtuoso of jazz trumpet who was mentored by Miles Davis. He performed with Davis during one of the jazz legend’s final performances. | Jennifer Arnold, 67, was a longtime costume dresser on Broadway for “Phantom of the Opera” and a “New Yorker through and through,” her friends and family said. She lived her life immersed in creativity, spending her childhood summers in an artist’s colony in Woodstock, dancing her way around the world in her 20s and showcasing her late father’s paintings throughout New York City. She worked the final performance of “Phantom” before Broadway went dark — and fell ill days later. | Keith Redding, 59, made friends wherever he went; even the nurses who treated him in his final days at the hospital were charmed by his easy smile and good-natured humor. Keith wore a suit every day to his job as a project manager for an FBI contractor, but he was most at home in biker boots and jeans, playing with his grandchildren or riding his motorcycle. After his death, Keith’s wife allowed doctors to share a rare 3-D image of his lungs in hope that it might aid in the fight against the disease. | Frank Gabrin, 60, right, became the first emergency room physician in the United States to die of the virus after he treated patients in hard-hit areas in New York and New Jersey. Known for his buoyant Type A personality, he cooked lasagna dinners for his colleagues and wrote two books to help other health-care workers find purpose in their jobs. | Dez-Ann Romain, 36, was the principal at a Brooklyn high school for students who struggled and fell behind elsewhere. She pushed disadvantaged young people to succeed, building a reputation for “tough love” and sharing her own story of growing up as an immigrant in New York City. | John Prine, 73, was a raspy-voiced heartland troubadour who wrote and performed songs about faded hopes, failing marriages, flies in the kitchen and the desperation of people just getting by. He was, as one of his songs put it, the bard of “broken hearts and dirty windows.” | Patricia Frieson, 61, left, and Wanda Bailey, 63, were sisters whose lives centered on their large but close-knit family and their deep faith in G/d. The family was shaken when Patricia became the first patient in Illinois to die of the coronavirus and was further devastated when Wanda died days later. | Larry Rathgeb, 90, was in charge of engineering racecars for Chrysler during the heyday of stock car racing. His team famously broke a world record for closed course racing. Two days before the 50th anniversary of that automotive achievement, on March 22, Rathgeb died after contracting the coronavirus in his West Bloomfield, Mich., senior living community. | Leilani Jordan, 27, was a Giant grocery store employee with an overpowering desire to help others. Nicknamed “Butterfly,” she kept going to work despite the risks, and her mother held her as she died. | Adam Schlesinger, 52, co-founded the rock band Fountains of Wayne and racked up many accolades for his music over the years, including Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for writing the title track to the 1996 comedy “That Thing You Do!” and a Grammy nomination in 2003 for the band’s tongue-in-cheek “Stacy’s Mom.” | Bennie Adkins, 86, received the Medal of Honor in 2014, 48 years after close-combat fighting in Vietnam. A farmer’s son eager to see the world outside Oklahoma, he had volunteered for Army Special Forces training and found himself in a harrowing firefight in the steep hills of the A Shau Valley. | Douglas Hickok, 57, a physician assistant in and out of uniform, was the first service member to die of the coronavirus. The New Jersey Army National Guard captain, baseball fanatic and outdoorsman was the latest of three generations of family members to serve in uniform — and his son will be the fourth. | Lee Konitz, 92, was an alto saxophonist who was an innovative figure in jazz for more than 70 years. He was the last surviving member of the groundbreaking “Birth of the Cool” group of the 1940s, with Miles Davis. | Jeff Bagby, 60, was a math whiz, family man and legend in the world of DIY loudspeaker building. He was unfailingly upbeat — even as he endured kidney failure and cancer — and sometimes wore a Superman tee his wife bought him beneath a button-up shirt like Clark Kent. | Ellis Marsalis, 85, was a pianist and patriarch of a jazz dynasty that included his sons Branford and Wynton Marsalis. They and their brothers became unquestionably the American first family of jazz.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/24/coronavirus-dead-victims-stories/
One other thing: re President Trump's use of "failing" to refer to @nytimes. Well, actually, I will just let the chart do the talking.
https://twitter.com/cliffordlevy/status/1254539354132959235
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