UK PM Boris Johnson in intensive care. He was admitted for further tests because he's had the virus for more than 10 days but Mr Johnson's health has since deteriorated. He's likely had some of the best treatment anyone in the country has had, the medical staff are obviously being more cautious with him than they would a normal patient, but bear in mind hospitals don't admit people to intensive care for routine tests. Johnson deputized Dominic Raab to take over PM duties.
http://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-prime-minister-boris-johnson-moved-to-intensive-care-after-condition-worsens-11969587
Trump chastised reporters yesterday for asking questions about medical supply shortages and why the government waited months to start purchasing them. He told reporters they should be thanking the White House. Meanwhile, doctors and nurses and patients are dying avoidable deaths. According to a new report by HHS inspector general.US hospitals are facing severe and widespread shortages of needed medical supplies, hampering the ability to test and respond to coronavirus adequately and protect medical staff, This of course reaffirms the important work done by inspectors general.
https://oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/oei-06-20-00300.pdf
Fake Secretary of Navy attacks Cpt. Crozier as stupid for saving sailors, accusing him of betraying America for saving sailors
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/06/politics/uss-tr-crozier-modly/index.html
L-rdy, there are tapes...: SECNAV said Capt. Brett Crozier was either “too stupid or naive” to cc memo to 20-30 people and not think it would leak. Then the SECNAV gave a speech to 5,000 sailors over the 1MC and it leaked. I’m sorry, who’s the stupid and/or naive one? The loud "What the fuck?!" can be heard right after Acting SecNav Modly calling Capt. Crozier "too naive or too stupid" if he did not think the info would come out. (minute 1:57) Also overheard: "He was just trying to help us." (minute 3:18)
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/navy-secretary-blasts-fired-aircraft-carrier-captain
https://soundcloud.com/paul-szoldra/acting-secnav-modley-criticizing-capt-crozier-to-sailors-onboard-uss-theodore-roosevelt
Major Producer of Hydroxychloroquine Once Paid Michael Cohen Hefty Sum For Access To Trump | It just so happens that one of the largest manufacturers of the drug, Novartis, previously paid Trump’s now-incarcerated former personal attorney Michael Cohen more than $1 million for healthcare policy insight following Trump’s election in 2016.
https://lawandcrime.com/covid-19-pandemic/major-producer-of-hydroxychloroquine-once-paid-michael-cohen-hefty-sum-for-access-to-trump/amp/
You can’t use ventilators without sedatives. Now the US is running out of those, too.
https://www.vox.com/2020/4/6/21209589/coronavirus-medicine-ventilators-drug-shortage-sedatives-covid-19
Wisconsin governor denies Republicans' request to allow in-person Easter and Passover services during coronavirus pandemic
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2020/04/05/wisconsin-assembly-gop-calls-person-easter-passover-services/2950830001/
Wisconsin governor suspends in-person voting in Tuesday’s elections amid escalating coronavirus fears.
hhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/wisconsin-governor-suspends-in-person-voting-in-tuesdays-elections-amid-escalating-coronavirus-fears/2020/04/06/9d658e2a-781c-11ea-b6ff-597f170df8f8_story.html
Radiation spikes 16 times above normal after forest fire near Chernobyl
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/06/bad-news-radiation-spikes-16-times-above-normal-after-forest-fire-near-chernobyl
Too little too late: Chad army destroys Boko Haram bases | Chad destroyed five bases of the Boko Haram terror group Saturday following an attack on a military base March 23 that killed 98 Chadian soldiers. The bases in Niger and Nigeria were destroyed as part of “Operation Boma's Wrath," according to Chad’s presidency who said operations against the terror group would continue without pause. Boko Haram launched a bloody insurgency in 2009 in northeastern Nigeria but later spread its atrocities to neighboring Niger, Chad and Cameroon, which prompted a military response. More than 30,000 people have been killed and nearly 3 million displaced in a decade of Boko Haram terror activities in Nigeria, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/africa/chad-army-destroys-boko-haram-bases/1791879
YouTube will suppress content promoting false 5G coronavirus conspiracy | At least seven cell towers have been set on fire in the past week in the UK — four in the past 24 hours— after online conspiracy theories have inaccurately claimed a link between the cell towers and the coronavirus pandemic. One of the towers set on fire wasn’t even a 5G mast.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/5/21208956/youtube-suppress-false-5g-coronavirus-conspiracy
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/05/youtube-to-suppress-content-spreading-coronavirus-5g-conspiracy-theory
https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/4/21207927/5g-towers-burning-uk-coronavirus-conspiracy-theory-link
India has closed its railways for the first time in 167 years. Its trains are being turned into hospitals.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/05/asia/indian-railways-coronavirus-hospitals-intl-hnk/index.html
Never forget that China’s efforts to downplay the coronavirus pandemic in its earliest stages and subsequent disinformation campaign surrounding the disease has cost lives and is hindering the international effort to contain it.
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When Covid-19 first hit America hard last month, the narrative was that it was the great equalizer, that in such a divided nation, our shared humanity meant we would be equal in our suffering. But those of us who understand racial caste in America knew this could never be true.
https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1247176506452905986
While the face of coronavirus in the media has been disproportionately white, race data trickling out shows that the victims, particularly those dying from it, are disproportionately black. So much so that sources in some hospitals say every patient on a vent is black. Here's y.
https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1247177286702583809
In Chicago, a city where black people account for less than 30 percent of the population, 70 percent of the people who have died from Covid-19 are black.
https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1247177895652601858
https://www.wbez.org/shows/wbez-news/in-chicago-70-of-covid19-deaths-are-black/dd3f295f-445e-4e38-b37f-a1503782b507
In Michigan, black people account for about 14 percent of the population, but are 35 percent of confirmed Covid-19 cases and 40 percent of the deaths.
https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1247178303846350848
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/04/02/michigan-coronavirus-by-race-deaths-african-americans-tests-covid-19/5116025002/
In Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, black people account for 26 percent of the population, nearly half of its coronavirus cases and 81 percent of its deaths.
https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1247178771570069504
https://www.propublica.org/article/early-data-shows-african-americans-have-contracted-and-died-of-coronavirus-at-an-alarming-rate
We don't have race data available yet for NYC, the epicenter of the American branch of the pandemic, but based on income data, we can see that it is hitting low-income black and brown neighborhoods the hardest.
https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1247179256435806214
https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/imm/covid-19-cases-by-zip-04032020-1.pdf
Covid-19 attacks groups who are most vulnerable and in America, no one is more vulnerable than poor black people (and poor Native people.) A host of issues ensured black people would contract and die from coronavirus at the highest rates, including housing, employment and heath.
https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1247179714042757120
Black Americans are far more likely to work in service sector jobs than white Americans, meaning they were far more likely to work jobs where they come in contact with a lot of strangers and where they could not social distance and work from home.
https://www.prb.org/racialinequalitiesinmanagerialandprofessionaljobs/
https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1247180349517553665
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EU7f3PWWAAAQxFY.png
Black Americans are the least likely to own a car, the travel the furthest distance to get to work, and are the most likely to take public transit, again, meaning they were mostly likely to be exposed to large numbers of strangers in cramped quarters.
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Srvy_JobsProximity.pdf
https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1247180929757560833
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EU7gPOBWAAAeR_i.jpg
Black Americans have the lowest homeownership rates, meaning that even in the places they are sheltering in place, they are coming in contact with far more people than those who live in single-family homes.
https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1247181637647052805
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EU7hE_XXgAAmro-.jpg
Now, even as black Americans risked higher exposure, they already disproportionately suffer the comorbidities that make Covid-19 so deadly. Black Americans are 40 % more likely to have hypertension than white, twice as likely to have diabetes, up to 3x asthma hospitilization.
https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1247183966442008576
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EU7jMwGX0AEcWQp.jpg
Now, consider that we all thought the virus did not really kill younger people *until* it arrived in the U.S. Well, this makes sense. Black Americans health outcomes are so abysmal that younger black people are suffering from the diseases WE TYPICALLY SEE ONLY IN OLDER PEOPLE.
https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1247184825074712577
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EU7j57JXsAAfA4w.jpg
Now, before all the its class-not-race people jump in here, let me assure you it's both/and. Black Americans have the highest poverty rate in the nation, but most black people are not poor and now I am going to show you how these health effects transcend class.
https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1247185795984883712
US Census data shows the affluent black people live in neighborhoods with higher concentrations of poverty than poor white Americans.
https://s4.ad.brown.edu/Projects/Diversity/Data/Report/report0727.pdf
https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1247188097621733377
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EU7m7gJXYAIeeMJ.jpg
These neighborhoods are the most likely to be near toxic sites that cause some of the the underlying conditions that make Covid-19 so deadly.
https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1247188475914354691
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/11/study-black-people-are-75-percent-more-likely-to-live-near-toxic-oil-and-gas-facilities/
Black Americans are also the most likely to live in areas where they do not have easy access to the trauma centers needed to treat a deadly disease such as Covid-19.
https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1247188890009636871
https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/trauma-articles/race-and-trauma-desert-research
Now, let's talk about insurance and whether black people can get access to Covid-19 tests,or see a doctor with early symptoms. Black Americans are almost twice as likely to be uninsured as white Americans and pay a greater share of their income on premiums
https://tcf.org/content/report/racism-inequality-health-care-african-americans/?session=1
https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1247190540766019588
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EU7pLbKWsAEYx_O.png
It's far worse in the S, where a majority of black pp live & where most states refused to expand Medicaid. Two of the last states to implement stay-at-home orders -- GA and FL -- have largest share of black Americans. Deadly outbreaks are happening there.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/us/coronavirus-funeral-albany-georgia.html
https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1247192060882489344
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EU7qj7zWkAA2TwT.png
And, we also know that black Americans, regardless of income and education, receive inferior healthcare. They received fewer therapeutic interventions, fewer procedures and poorer-quality care than white Americans.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2425753
https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1247192707472273408
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EU7rJhTXYAQ6GUa.png
Many medical providers STILL believe that there are biological differences bw black and white Americans, that black people do not feel as much pain, and so black Americans are treated differently throughout our medical system, as @lindavillarosa documented https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/racial-differences-doctors.html
https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1247193954677817345
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EU7sSN4XgAcp23Q.jpg
So, now, on top of living in neighborhoods that experience more violence, worse food options, lower paying jobs, and poor access to healthcare, black Americans are not treated equitably within the healthcare system itself.
https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1247195156199231492
"A study of the 171 largest U.S. cities found tht whites living in the worst conditions in urban areas – in terms of poverty rates and single-parent households – are nonetheless residing in circumstances much better than those of the average black person."
https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1247195378950291458
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/policy-dose/articles/2016-04-14/theres-a-huge-health-equity-gap-between-whites-and-minorities
Being black in America, a country built and maintained on a system of racial caste, kills. This virus is NOT the great equalizer, it is simply exploiting the grave inequalities that have always existed and hastening an early death that was coming for so many black folks anyway.
https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1247196260454617089
If it is unacceptable now, it has to be unacceptable when we conquer this virus. And I hope we as journalists, we as society, will stop putting forth notions that a force -- good or bad -- can be equal in a vastly unequal society.
https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1247196843123015681
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https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1247196891382677507
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As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to claim lives in the U.S's coronavirus epicenter, every aspect of city's resources for managing the dead have been overloaded. So to deal with the influx of dead bodies that have overtaken morgues, funeral homes, and cemeteries, the city will soon begin using a park for temporary burials, New York City Councilmember Mark Levine announced Monday. Levine, the chair of the council's health committee, explained in a Monday tweet thread how the city's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner is "now dealing with the equivalent of an ongoing 9/11." Deaths in hospitals are dramatically rising, but so are the numbers of deaths in homes; 20–25 people are usually reported dead in their homes every day in New York City, but that's risen to 200–215. Overall daily death counts have also doubled.
https://theweek.com/speedreads/907102/new-york-city-plans-temporarily-bury-coronavirus-victims-park
https://twitter.com/MarkLevineNYC/status/1247155043171741696
NYC’s healthcare system is being pushed to the limit. And sadly, now so is the city’s system for managing our dead. And it, too, needs more resources. This has big implications for grieving families. And for all of us. 1/
https://twitter.com/MarkLevineNYC/status/1247155043171741696
NYC’s “city morgue” is the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME), which luckily is the best in the world. But they are now dealing w/ the equivalent of an ongoing 9/11. And so are hospital morgues, funeral homes & cemeteries. Every part of this system is now backed up. 2/
https://twitter.com/MarkLevineNYC/status/1247155196234522625
A typical hospital morgue might hold 15 bodies. Those are now all full. So OCME has sent out 80 refrigerated trailers to hospitals around the city. Each trailer can hold 100 bodies. These are now mostly full too. Some hospitals have had to add a 2nd or even a 3rd trailer. 3/
https://twitter.com/MarkLevineNYC/status/1247155334776578048
Grieving families report calling as many as half a dozen funeral homes and finding none that can handle their deceased loved ones. Cemeteries are not able to handle the number of burial requests and are turning most down. 4/
https://twitter.com/MarkLevineNYC/status/1247155444310777856
It’s not just deaths in hospitals which are up. On an average day before this crisis there were 20-25 deaths at home in NYC. Now in the midst of this pandemic the number is 200-215. *Every day*. 5/
https://twitter.com/MarkLevineNYC/status/1247155576221716480
Early on in this crisis we were able to swab people who died at home, and thus got a coronavirus reading. But those days are long gone. We simply don't have the testing capacity for the large numbers dying at home. 6/
https://twitter.com/MarkLevineNYC/status/1247155771462365185
Now only those few who had a test confirmation before dying are marked as victims of coronavirus on their death certificate. This almost certainly means we are undercounting the total number of victims of this pandemic. 7/
https://twitter.com/MarkLevineNYC/status/1247155922188804096
And still the number of bodies continues to increase. The freezers at OCME facilities in Manhattan and Brooklyn will soon be full. And then what? 8/
https://twitter.com/MarkLevineNYC/status/1247156026333413376
Soon we'll start “temporary interment”. This likely will be done by using a NYC park for burials (yes you read that right). Trenches will be dug for 10 caskets in a line. It will be done in a dignified, orderly--and temporary--manner. But it will be tough for NYers to take. 9/
https://twitter.com/MarkLevineNYC/status/1247156159896748032
The goal is to avoid scenes like those in Italy, where the military was forced to collect bodies from churches and even off the streets. OCME is going to need much more staff to achieve that goal. 10/
https://twitter.com/MarkLevineNYC/status/1247156395880873984
Thankfully the Dept. of Defense and the NY National Guard have already sent teams, and volunteer medical examiners have come from around the country. But we are going to need much more help if we're going to avoid disaster. 11/
https://twitter.com/MarkLevineNYC/status/1247156725985284096
As New York City continues to appeal to the nation for help, we need to ask not just for doctors and nurses and respiratory therapists. We also need mortuary affairs staff. This is tough to talk about and maybe tough to ask for. But we have no choice. The stakes are too high. 12/
https://twitter.com/MarkLevineNYC/status/1247156835813150720
To recap: Nothing matters more in this crisis than saving the living. But we need to face the gruesome reality that we need more resources to manage our dead as well. Or the pain of this crisis will be compounded almost beyond comprehension. 13/13
https://twitter.com/MarkLevineNYC/status/1247156970169270272
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Doctors Want The Government To Give More Racial Data About Who Is Dying And Sick From The Coronavirus | "I have seen in my waiting rooms, in my exam rooms, mostly black and brown patients who are essential workers and service workers who cannot afford to stay home," one New York ER doctor said. Hundreds of doctors and a civil rights group are calling for the federal health department to release race and ethnicity breakdowns of COVID-19 data to identify and track potential disparities in how the coronavirus crisis is affecting different communities. “This Administration’s alarming lack of transparency and data is preventing public health officials from understanding the full impact of this pandemic on Black communities and other communities of color,” the group, which includes the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and doctors from around the country, wrote in a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on Monday. “We are concerned that Black communities are being disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, and have lower access to COVID-19 testing which may cause delayed care, an increased risk of high mortality rates, and the acceleration of the spread of the disease in our communities,” they wrote in the letter. “The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and its sub-agencies are charged with ensuring that racial disparities do not persist in the administration of healthcare services, even in a pandemic.”
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nidhiprakash/coronavirus-race-deaths-covid-19
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6825785-DHHS-Letter-COVID-19.html
Sadly, the US has passed the 10,000 deaths mark — 10,335, per Johns Hopkins.
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
Pennsylvania House Republicans proposed legislation Monday to undo business closures ordered by Gov. Tom Wolf in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. In a statement, House Republicans said they aim to “start the process of looking ahead” and "to rebuild and rise from this event as efficiently as possible.” | But in a separate statement, Democratic House leaders excoriated the GOP’s approach as creating “an immediate threat to public health” by “pushing workers back into their workplaces prematurely” and increasing their chances of contracting the virus and spreading it to others. The Democrats, who are in the minority in both the state House and Senate, instead endorsed measures to enact paid leave for coronavirus-related issues and to provide free testing and treatment for COVID-19.
https://www.wesa.fm/post/state-house-republicans-propose-scale-back-pa-business-shutdown
Mega-large corporate restaurant and hotel chains worth double-digit and triple-digit millions and double-digit and triple-digit billions won an exemption to get "small business" loans that they don't need. I'm not surprised. When you hand over SBA loan process to big banks, like Wells Fargo, don't expect them to play fair and help small businesses. They love big and solid businesses as their clients. If you're a small business owner, don't even think you will be qualified for loans.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/big-restaurant-hotel-chains-won-exemption-to-get-small-business-loans-11586167200
It’s always a personal business interest: Rep. Kevin Hern (R., Okla.), a McDonald’s franchisee, pushed hard for the franchisee exception.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/big-restaurant-hotel-chains-won-exemption-to-get-small-business-loans-11586167200
33 MTA workers on NYC subways and buses have died of COVID-19 -- Sarah Feinberg, President @the_nyctransit
https://twitter.com/hgoldman77/status/1247269189770936322
I spoke to the president and he has agreed to our request to treat #COVID patients on the USNS Comfort. This means 1,000 additional beds staffed by federal personnel. This will provide much-needed relief to our over stressed hospital systems.
https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo/status/1247275243321737216
Where the clusters of the highest density of coronavirus cases — and deaths — are located
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/AYED6WKTMBFIVERTH6XALXEMFQ.png&w=1023
Can’t control what people say about me, only what I do. Manufactured cynicism is a real thing. I’m blessed to be held accountable and made better by activists + movements. If you point to actions I can adopt to be better I’m grateful, but I can’t do anything about gossip. Sry!
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1244798448605564929
Imagine measuring a candidate’s "purity" by how much their actions alienate figures on the "left".
A potential coronavirus vaccine funded by Bill Gates is set to begin testing in people, with the first patient expected to get it today
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/a-potential-coronavirus-vaccine-funded-by-bill-gates-is-set-to-begin-testing-in-people-with-the-first-patient-expected-to-get-it-today/ar-BB12e01f
U.S. Army started testing coronavirus vaccine today. Private vaccine testing at Fort Derrick, Md., @ChiefPentSpox says
https://twitter.com/rtiron/status/1247257654239662083
Major supermarket chains are beginning to report their first coronavirus-related employee deaths, leading to store closures and increasing anxiety among grocery workers as the pandemic intensifies across the country. A Trader Joe’s worker in Scarsdale, N.Y., a greeter at a Giant store in Largo, Md., and two Walmart employees from the same Chicago-area store have died of covid-19 in recent days, the companies confirmed Monday. Though more than 40 states have ordered nonessential businesses to close and told residents to stay home to stem the spread of the virus, supermarkets are among the retailers that remain open. Thousands of grocery employees have continued to report to work as U.S. infections and death rates continue to climb, with many reporting long shifts and extra workloads to keep up with spiking demand. Many workers say they don’t have enough protective gear to deal with hundreds of customers a day. Dozens of grocery workers have tested positive for the coronavirus in recent weeks. Industry experts say the rise of worker infections and deaths will likely have a ripple effect on grocers’ ability to retain and add new workers at a time when they’re looking to rapidly hire thousands of temporary employees. Walmart, the nation’s largest grocer, is hiring 150,000 workers, while Kroger is adding more than 10,000. Many are offering an extra $2 an hour and promising masks, gloves and hand sanitizer. But finding workers willing to work on the front lines for little more than the minimum wage could be an increasingly tough sell, according to supermarket analyst Phil Lempert.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/06/supermarket-workers-deaths-coronavirus-/
Multiple Republican donors have stocks in hydroxychloroquine manufacturers. That is why Trump has been pushing hydroxychloroquine
https://www.propublica.org/article/republican-billionaire-group-pushes-unproven-covid-19-treatment-trump-promoted
"You're a third rate reporter, Trump tells Jo Karl. "You will never make it."Jon Karl is ABC News' chief Washington correspondent and president of the White House Correspondents Association. And he's earned the Walter Cronkite Award for National Individual Achievement and an Emmy. If that isn't making it, I don't know what is.
I'm waiting for a reporter to shout back,"Well you're a third rate president..." but they're cowards.
Todd Gillman asks Trump about Texas imposing checkpoints for people coming from Louisiana. Trump starts to answer by talking about wall building on the US Mexico border.
By a 5-4 vote, the Republican-Controlled U.S. Supreme Court just approved one of the most brazen illegal acts of voter suppression in modern times, illegally allowing Wisconsin Republicans to exploit the coronavirus pandemic to suppress tens of thousands of votes. I am absolutely blown away. Let me be very clear about this. Tens of thousands of Wisconsinite voters will not receive their absentee ballots by Election Day BECAUSE OF THE PANDEMIC, THROUGH NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN. The U.S. Supreme Court's five conservatives just said: "Too bad. You don't get to vote."
U.S. Senator David Perdue (R-Ga.) bought stock in medical PPE producer DuPont de Nemours on Jan. 24, the same day the Senate received a classified Coronavirus briefing.
https://twitter.com/ossoff/status/1247275032109334528
https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/david-perdue-stock-trading-saw-uptick-coronavirus-took-hold/MRWmzwXeHgxi6IcmBbPgaN/
Louisiana state officials release new data on covid-19 deaths in Louisiana
• 70% of deaths were African-American
• 66% had hypertension
https://www.nola.com/news/coronavirus/article_7cb2af1c-6414-11ea-b729-93612370dd94.html
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EU9DgBTX0AApsO-.jpg
This will be fun to go back to in a month. A week maybe? A day? Trump on Joe Biden: “I think he’s a nice man. I’ve always thought he was a nice man."
Trump is telling his usual story about how governors will ask him for 1,000 ventilators and he'll send 10,000 and then governors will complain to the media because it's politics.
Trump keeps saying the HHS deputy IG "came out of the Obama administration" and is politically biased against him. FACTS: Her name is Christi Grimm. She is a career official who has worked at HHS since 1999. She served during the Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump administrations. The implication apparently being, all government employees with any
experience predating Trump's tenure are illegitimate and working against
him even if they were appointed to their current positions during his
time in office and even if they are Republicans.
https://www.hhs.gov/about/leadership/christi-grimm/index.html
The more defensive he feels, the most offensive he becomes.
And as you listen to him denigrate reporters, remember what Trump told Lesley Stahl in 2016 about why he attacks the media. “I do it to discredit you all and demean you all so when you write negative stories about me no one will believe you.'
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/05/23/leslie_stahl_trump_told_me_he_uses_term_fake_news_to_discredit_the_media.html
Trump said the government would buy nearly 167 million masks from 3M Co. over the next three months, resolving a spat with the industrial conglomerate over efforts to ramp up supply of gear for frontline workers confronting the coronavirus pandemic.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-administration-orders-167-million-face-masks-from-3m-11586209922
Fox anchor: Can you tell me your thoughts on the drug that is used normally to treat malaria.
Dr. Haseltine: It's sad to me that people are promoting that drug.
Anchor: But what about the anecdotal evidence?
Haseltine: That's complete and utter nonsense. Irresponsible.
https://twitter.com/LisPower1/status/1247233437519536129
One month ago today, rump visited CDC and said, falsely, "anybody who wants a test gets a test." Wasn't true then and isn't true now. Today he kicked it to states and hospitals, saying the federal government is "not supposed to stand on street corners doing testing."
Of course not, the Republican-controlled Ajot Pai-led Federal Communications Commission will not pursue misinformation complaints against broadcasters who air Trump’s daily press conferences, the commission announced today. The FCC’s announcement came in response to an emergency petition by the advocacy group Free Press, which had called on the commission to investigate “the spread of false COVID-19 information via broadcast outlets across the United States.” In particular, Free Press alleged that Trump and Team Trump are spreading misinformation about the efficacy of the drug hydroxychloroquine, which has been erroneously promoted as a miracle cure for the ongoing pandemic.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/6/21209818/fcc-misinformation-trump-coronavirus-free-speech-covid19
I'll have a full post on this Wisconsin travesty in the morning, but for now: I literally told you three weeks ago that this was EXACTLY how Republicans would use coronavirus to steal this election. SCOTUS just said it was OK for them to do it.
https://twitter.com/ElieNYC/status/1247318963501105153
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-stealing-election/
Apollo has given many millions to Jared: The co-founder of a huge private equity firm sent an email to Jared Kushner and other Trump admin. policymakers seeking relaxed rules on coronavirus relief money in a way that would benefit the company, according to sources familiar with the matter.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/seeking-coronavirus-relief-investment-firm-ties-kushner-emails-kushner-trump-n1176686?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_np
So that’s what the second wave looks like: Chinese tourist sites packed as country comes out of lockdown but experts say risk still high
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/06/asia/china-coronavirus-tourist-warning-intl-hnk
The world really is run by fucking pedophiles. Serial child rapists convicted overturned because he's a cardinal. | Cardinal George Pell will be released from prison after the country's highest court quashed his child sexual abuse convictions.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2020/apr/07/cardinal-george-pell-high-court-decision-appeal-latest-verdict-live-news
Antarctica's Denman Glacier is sinking into the world's deepest canyon - The melting glacier could raise sea level by almost 5 feet (1.5 meters).
https://www.space.com/denman-glacier-retreat-worlds-deepest-canyon.html
Animal rights groups have criticized the governments of Canada, Japan and Norway for continuing to allow commercial hunting of seals and/or whales as essential activities while their populations are subjected to lockdown measures amid the COVID-19 pandemic | "These ongoing and cruel persecutions of marine mammals are increasingly out of step with modern scientific thinking, which shows that healthy marine mammal populations contribute to healthy marine ecosystems and the overall health of our planet. We need to look again very carefully at our relationships with these animals and appreciate their roles and not see them simply as commodities to be harvested," Mark Simmonds, HSI's senior marine scientist, said in the statement.
https://www.newsweek.com/these-countries-whale-seal-hunting-essential-activities-coronavirus-pandemic-1496370
Modley apologizes to Crozier, says he doesn’t think he’s naive or stupid, just hours after saying in another statement: “I stand by every word I said” and “the spoken words were from the heart.”
https://twitter.com/stevenportnoy/status/1247326024263782400
So he flew 8,000 miles to say something he didn’t believe to 5,000 sailors? Great use of taxpayer resources during a pandemic.
https://twitter.com/Runningman429/status/1247327127936159751
Over 12K people have requested but not even been SENT absentee ballots. https://elections.wi.gov/index.php/node/6815 … Countless other ballots have been sent, but have not yet been received. Thanks to SCOTUS, thousands of Wisconsinites who wanted to vote now cannot do so without risking their lives.
https://twitter.com/brendan_fischer/status/1247319919093600256
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Thread 🧵- INCUBATION TIME LONGER THAN 14 days. ⚠️This is a serious problem that I can’t stress enough because we based all our quarantine on this magical 14 day number. But many people have longer incubation periods than 14 days- this is problem. #COVID19
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1247206316814336002
https://www.revealnews.org/article/is-14-days-enough/
2) For weeks, the WHO and CDC have been saying that while half of those #COVID19 exposed get sick within about five days, they recommend 14-day quarantines for anyone knowingly exposed to the virus to prevent its spread...
3) ...That quarantine period was extrapolated from an analysis published in January of a small sample of patients in Wuhan, China, which suggested that 95% of those #COVID19 infected would show symptoms within 12 and a half days. But...
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1247206815118626832
4) But new studies indicate that it takes some people much longer to develop symptoms after they’re exposed – spurring some scientists to raise an alarm that 14 days not enough. Some public health experts are calling for longer quarantine periods, especially low testing countries
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1247207130635124736
5) A team of scientists from five universities in China and Canada released a study in mid-March that found that nearly 1 in 8 patients had incubation times longer than 14 days, leading them to question whether current quarantine recommendations are optimal. #COVID19
6) “As the outbreak is fast-moving in the world, based on this analysis we recommended that an extension of adults’ quarantine period to 17 or 21 days could be more effective,” they wrote. #COVID19
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1247207307798351872
7) That team found that of 2,015 #COVID19 cases they studied across China – sample that included 100 children – 233 patients had incubation periods longer than the 14-day quarantine period recommended, or nearly 12%. The range of incubation days they saw ranged from 0 to 33 days.
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1247207549121835009
8) “If you have 10 people in the city get #COVID19, maybe not (a) big deal,” said one of the researchers. But, he said, if you have 10,000 people infected, you will have 1,200 people missed by the quarantine. “So that is a disaster.”
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1247207763475922948
9) Another study found that for every 10,000 exposed #COVID19, 101 would develop symptoms after a 14-day quarantine. Reuters reported on one such case in late Feb, that of a 70-year-old man in China’s Hubei Province who did not show symptoms until 27 days after he was infected!
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1247208128900476928
10) “Because the U.S. has such, such low testing rates and such poor coverage of the community in terms of identifying new cases that crop up, I would take a much more conservative approach, as in increasing the quarantine duration in the U.S.,” said Eric Feigl-Ding. #COVID19
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1247208337047015425
11) “I would advocate we need a much more stringent quarantine because it is like a perimeter around someone who may have #COVID19. But if you don’t have a good testing for someone that escapes this quarantine detection, then you better have a comprehensive, longer quarantine.”
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1247208725997371392
12) “If your goal is to catch 99 out of 100 people, maybe 14 days of quarantine is OK,” Feigl-Ding said in response to the new findings. “One person may slip by and infect other people. So the question is, are you going to tolerate that kind of risk?” #COVID19
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1247208989898739712
13) “...This study should make every public health leader ask what is an acceptable risk tolerance for cases slipping out. I think our risk tolerance should be more than 1 in 100. It should potentially be 1 in 10,000.” #COVID19
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1247209162502701063
14) Feigl-Ding said researchers need to study whether the incubation period varies by age, gender and underlying health conditions.
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1247209259999379460
15) “The point of quarantines at this point is not necessarily to catch every single sick person,” said Justin Lessler, an associate professor of epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University and a co-author of the Annals of Internal Medicine study.
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1247209806668144641
16) He said the cost of taking nurses or firefighters out of the community during the quarantine period has to be balanced with the risk that they might develop COVID-19 and spread it. “It’s not for us to say what that balance should be,” he said. #COVID19
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1247209898833821697
17) Sandy Adler Killen is an emergency room nurse at a Northern California hospital that, as of Sunday, had handled about 10 confirmed COVID-19 patients. “We do not have the capability” to quarantine exposed health care workers for more than two weeks. #COVID19
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1247210328536088582
18) “If we had numerous staff members that had to be quarantined for long periods of time, it’s just not tenable.” Longer quarantines carry financial implications as well, Bollinger points out. “Those people that you’re quarantining need to be paid,” she said. #COVID19
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1247210424208105473
19) Felicia Goodrum, an immunobiologist, emphasized that vast majority of those exposed present symptoms w/in 14 days of known exposure. “Does that leave outliers on tail end of that curve?” “Yes, absolutely. So would it be safer to quarantine for 16 days? Absolutely.” #COVID19
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1247210790953857029
20) given the irregular incubation period, it is critical that people be tested for #COVID19 on final day of quarantines. “That would be the way, especially in a high-risk situation where you’re talking about HCW going back to work or, say, a caregiver at a nursing home”
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1247211076367810560
21) The risks of the looser #COVID19 CDC recommendations were on clear display early in the U.S. outbreak when, in late February, the agency released from isolation a woman who had been evacuated from Wuhan. When she arrived in the U.S...
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1247211408854528001
22) ...she was taken to a health care facility near Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland and was in isolation for a few weeks after testing positive for #COVID19. But after testing negative twice, she was released and visited a hotel and mall while a third test was pending.
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1247211558297534465
23) That test came back positive. By that time, she had been out in the community for 12 hours. San Antonio Mayor @Ron_Nirenberg called the patient’s release a federal “screw-up,” declared a public health emergency and sued the federal government. #COVID19
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1247211858383290369
24) “I would encourage the federal administration to not wash its hands of the responsibility to protect the public,” Mayor @Ron_Nirenberg said. #COVID19
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1247211995146878976
25) Recent studies from China & Europe showed that people can shed #COVID19 virus well after recovery. One study- researchers found cases shedding the virus for a median of 20 days after they got sick, half of them were shedding for even longer periods – the longest was 37 days
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1247212617808175104
26) These new studies are very preliminary, but they have caught the attention of doctors dealing with #COVID19 patients and struggling to make sense of glaring difference between the recommendations of WHO and CDC. “This is a big contention currently,” said Dr. Frederick Davis.
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1247212816240689152
27) among biggest hardships of getting sick has been not knowing whether she had #COVID19, whether she may have been infectious & exposed people before she felt ill, or how long might be contagious now once feels better. “The uncertainty has really been the most difficult part”
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1247213424993583107
28) BOTTOMLINE: 📌14 day quarantine might not be long enough because of really long duration. 📌Virus shedding duration even after recovery. ➡️ Thus, we need to be careful from a precaution principle. Maybe increase quarantine time to 16 or 17 days to be more certain. #COVID19 🤔
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1247214116349018118
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