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Coronavirus US: New York mayor Bill de Blasio blasts Donald Trump

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio blasted US President Donald Trump in a highly personal attack on Sunday — accusing him of abandoning the Big Apple and leaving it to “drop dead” without federal funding.“I need a former New Yorker to step up — President Donald Trump,” Mr de Blasio said at a press briefing on Sunday.The mayor said Mr Trump owed his success to the city which had provided him with many opportunities.“(You) could actually help to save your hometown, or you can turn away and you can fail to protect New Yorkers,” he said.“And right now, you are failing to protect the very people who you grew up around.“When New York City’s in need, where are you?”RELATED: New York’s grim death countRELATED: Why New York never stood a chanceThe US is now the worst affected country by the coronavirus, with more than 732,000 cases, and more than 38,000 deaths. The US has more than half a million more cases of coronavirus than other hard hit nations around the world including Spain and Italy, which have just over 191,000 and 175,000 cases respectively.New York State is the country’s coronavirus epicentre, and has been badly affected, with more than 13,200 deaths. The state total doesn’t include more than 4,000 New York City deaths that were deemed to be caused by the virus on death certificates but weren’t confirmed by a lab test.While the daily deaths in New York state dropped under 550 for the first time in over two weeks on Saturday as hospital admission continue to decline, the crisis is far from over: Hospitals are still reporting nearly 2,000 new COVID-19 patients per day and the temptation for cooped-up New Yorkers to take advantage of the spring weather presents new challenges to keep the outbreak in check, according to Mr de Blasio.media_cameraUS President Donald Trump at a Coronavirus Task Force press briefing at the White House in Washington, DC, on April 18, 2020. Picture: Patrick Semansky.‘ARE YOU TELLING NEW YORK TO DROP DEAD?’During his Sunday briefing, Mr de Blasio also accused the president of failing to take necessary steps to get Republicans - who have called for $250 billion in extra loans for small businesses but have opposed congressional Democrats’ push for funding for cash-strapped cities and states - to approve a stimulus deal.“Literally with a snap of his fingers Donald Trump could fix that,” the mayor said.“If he would just say the word, the Senate would jump.“So President Trump, what’s going on? Cat got your tongue?“Mr. Trump, Mr. President, Are you gonna’ save New York City, or are you telling New York City to drop dead? You have to speak up now.”Mr de Blasio’s comments come one day after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo also took aim at the president over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic.Tensions escalated on Saturday when Mr Trump posted a Tweet telling the governor to “spend more time doing and less time complaining” in response to a televised briefing Mr Cuomo had given where he claimed his state, the worst hit by coronavirus, had been short-changed by US federal coronavirus relief packages.Mr Cuomo fired back at the President in a later briefing, saying he should “get up and go to work” rather than being at home “watching TV”.“First of all, if he’s sitting at home watching TV, maybe he can get up and go to work,” Mr Cuomo said, responding to the President’s tweets.“He wants to say, ‘I’ve done enough!’ None of us have done enough. We haven’t, because it’s not over.”Governor Cuomo should spend more time “doing” and less time “complaining”. Get out there and get the job done. Stop talking! We built you thousands of hospital beds that you didn’t need or use, gave large numbers of Ventilators that you should have had, and helped you with....— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 17, 2020 Remember: We still have about 2,000 new COVID hospitalizations daily.And we lost 540 New Yorkers yesterday. That is a soul-crushing loss.When you feel tired of social distancing, think of those we lost. That's what's at stake here.— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) April 18, 2020 Mr Cuomo insisted there were a number of ongoing issues for the federal government to deal with, including funding testing for the people of America.“He’s doing nothing! He says it’s up to the states (to open up the country), which it always was. Then he calls it a ‘fifty piece puzzle’. It’s not a puzzle. That’s called a map of the United States.”The Trump administration says the US is conducting as many as 120,000 tests a day, the bulk of which is done by commercial laboratories and some by state public health facilities. The president says that is enough for a phased reopening, and on Saturday he praised states that have begun to do so.But experts say that number is low, obscuring the extent of the virus’s spread and leaving newly reopened states vulnerable to a new wave of infections.On Thursday Mr Trump outlined his “Opening Up America Again” plan, which was a road map for different states to ease social distancing restrictions. He said at the time some states were close to being ready to open within days, referring to the country as “a beautiful puzzle”.“Fifty pieces, they’re all different,” he said,[email protected] | @Megan_PalinOriginally published as New York mayor blasts Trump Read the full article

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Turkey's Covid-19 cases overtake Iran to become highest in Middle East

Issued on: 18/04/2020 - 19:52 Turkey's confirmed coronavirus cases have risen to 82,329, Health MinisterFahrettin Koca said on Saturday, overtaking neighbouring Iran for the first time to register the highest total in the Middle East.  An increase of 3,783 cases in the last 24 hours also pushed Turkey's confirmed tally within a few hundred of China, where the novel coronavirus first emerged.Koca said 121 more people have died, taking the death toll to 1,890. A total of 10,453 people have recovered from coronavirus so far, and the number of tests carried out over the past 24 hours came to 40,520, the minister said.The Interior Ministry also said it was extending restrictions on travel between 31 cities for a further 15 days starting at midnight on Saturday.(REUTERS)  Read the full article

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7,500 feared to have died with coronavirus in UK care homes

As many as 7,500 people are feared to have died after contracting coronavirus in UK care homes, according to a leading industry body.Care England, which represents independent care firms, said it had collected data which suggested fatalities are far higher than those released by the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) – who recorded 217 care home deaths from the virus up until April 3. Chief executive Prof Martin Green told the Telegraph: “If we look at some of the death rates since April 1 and compare them with previous years’ rates, we estimate a figure of about 7,500 people may have died as a result of Covid-19.”But he added that “without testing, it was very difficult to give an absolute figure” on care home deaths.British Health Secretary Matt Hancock has promised data on residents who die with the illness will be available “very shortly”.The pledge comes after experts called for care home deaths to be included in the daily tally amid fears they are going “under the radar”.They currently are not listed every day and there have been lags in reported figures for several weeks because the process relies on death certificates, which must be registered and processed. Earlier this week, the head of Public Health England, Professor Yvonne Doyle, said agencies were working towards producing “much more rapid data, preferably on a daily basis”.Public Health England said there were 3,084 care homes with Covid-19 outbreaks in England, as of April 15.The UK Care Quality Commission (CQC) began collecting data on deaths linked to Covid-19 which occurred in both hospitals and care homes on Thursday, Mr Hancock said.(PA Graphics)He told the Health and Social Care Committee on Friday: “I’m concerned about this as well; I asked CQC to make sure that we record the data in care homes specifically, of those who are residents of care homes, whether they die in hospital or in the care home, and they started collecting that data yesterday and it will be published very shortly.”Mr Hancock did not specify precisely when, or how often, this data will be published.A UK government spokesman said “every death from this virus is a tragedy”, and said people were “working around the clock to give the social care sector the equipment and support they need”. The UK Department of Health statement added: “As a Government, we have a duty to report verified information.“It is important that we have the best possible reliable data to know how many deaths there are, wherever they occur.“In an important step forward, ONS are now providing a breakdown of deaths by place of occurrence.“We are currently working with CQC and other organisations to understand how to best to provide up to date information about deaths in care homes and elsewhere.”Useful information The HSE have developed an information pack on how to protect yourself and others from coronavirus. Read it here Anyone with symptoms of coronavirus who has been in close contact with a confirmed case in the last 14 days should isolate themselves from other people - this means going into a different, well-ventilated room alone, with a phone; phone their GP, or emergency department; GPs Out of Hours services are not in a position to order testing for patients with normal cold and flu-like symptoms. HSELive is an information line and similarly not in a position to order testing for members of the public. The public is asked to reserve 112/999 for medical emergencies at all times. ALONE has launched a national support line and additional supports for older people who have concerns or are facing difficulties relating to the outbreak of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) in Ireland. The support line will be open seven days a week, 8am-8pm, by calling 0818 222 024 Read the full article

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Donald Trump opens investigation into China coronavirus lab conspiracy | World | News

DONALD Trump is conducting an investigation into whether COVID-19 ‘escaped’ from a laboratory in Wuhan, the President has confirmed. Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, Donald Trump said his government was doing a very ‘thorough examination’ into what had happened. However, when asked if he had raised the subject in conversations with Chinese President Xi Jinping, he said: “I don’t want to discuss what I talked to him about the laboratory.“I just don’t want to discuss it. It’s inappropriate right now.” The US intelligence community believed that the Wuhan lab may have accidentally developed the strain while working on bat diseases. On the NBC show yesterday, US Secretary of Defence Mark Esper spoke about the researchers findings so far.He said: “This is something we've been watching closely now for some time.”Results have so been “inconclusive”, he said.Another US official was quoted as saying: “It's a possibility, though not the most likely possibility.”Yesterday, in his latest press conference the President reiterated that he was ‘not happy with China’ or the World Health Organisation for how they had handled their response to the virus.He said: “I spoke to and this could have been shut down a long time ago, and they knew it, and we couldn’t get in, and in all fairness World Health couldn’t get in.“And this is why I wish they took a different stance. They took a verypathetic stance and a very weak stance.“They didn’t report what was happening inside of China.”Suspicions that China has not been transparent about the outbreak has grown in recent days, with the President expressing scepticism about China’s previously declared death figure of about 3,000.France’s Emmanuel Macron has said there is no evidence the new coronavirus is the work of a research laboratory in Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak.However, researchers in the UK and United States and other countries are looking at all possibilities to establish the source of the deadly virus.President Trump has been a vocal critic of both China and the WHO, and has even gone as far as halting the United States’ payments to the organisation.He has repeatedly claimed the outbreak could have been contained at its source and spared lives, had the UN health agency done a better job investigating reports coming out of China.According to the agency’s website, America contributed nearly $900 million (£711 million) to the WHO’s most recent yearly budget.The death toll from COVID-19 has hit 37,000 in America, with more than 708,000 infected with the disease. Read the full article

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What happens if you catch the new coronavirus? | News

A new coronavirus that emerged in China late last year has spread to at least 185 countries on six continents, with the World Health Organization (WHO) declaring the outbreak of the pathogen a pandemic.  The death toll from the virus has surged past 133,000 and the number of reported cases is more than two million globally, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. More than 494,000 people have so far recovered. More: As fear has spread, scientists and researchers around the world have ramped up efforts to understand the new virus and how it affects the human body. Currently, there is no vaccine to prevent coronavirus disease. Here is what we know about the coronavirus and the highly infectious respiratory disease it causes, COVID-19, and what happens if you are infected.

'Varying levels of severity'

The new virus belongs to a family of viruses that can cause respiratory illnesses in humans ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). Thought to have been transmitted to humans from an as-yet-unidentified animal source, the new virus spreads primarily through respiratory droplets, such as those generated when an infected person coughs or sneezes. On average, it takes about five to six days for someone to show symptoms after becoming infected. However, some people who carry the virus remain asymptomatic, meaning they do not show any symptoms. The virus multiplies in the respiratory tract and can cause a range of symptoms, according to Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, who heads the WHO's Health Emergencies Programme. "You have mild cases, which look like the common cold, which have some respiratory symptoms, sore throat, runny nose, fever, all the way through pneumonia. And there can be varying levels of severity of pneumonia all the way through multi-organ failure and death," she told reporters in Geneva on February 7. However, in most cases, symptoms have remained mild. "We've seen some data on about 17,000 cases and, overall, 82 percent of those are mild, 15 percent of those are severe and 3 percent of those are classified as critical," said Van Kerkhove.

Fever, cough, pneumonia

A study of 138 patients infected with the new virus in Wuhan, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) on February 7, showed the most common symptoms were fever, fatigue and dry cough. A third of the patients also reported muscle pain and difficulty breathing, while about 10 percent had atypical symptoms, including diarrhoea and nausea. The patients, who ranged in age from 22 to 92, were admitted to the Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University between January 1 and 28. "The median age of patients is between 49 and 56 years," JAMA said. "Cases in children have been rare." While most cases appeared to be mild, all the patients developed pneumonia, according to JAMA.  About a third subsequently developed severe breathing difficulties, requiring treatment in the intensive care unit. The critically ill were older and had other underlying conditions such as diabetes and hypertension.  Six of the 138 patients died - a figure amounting to a 4.3-percent death rate, which is higher than estimates from other parts of China. Less than 2 percent of the total number of infected people have died from the virus so far but that figure could change. Meanwhile, a study published on January 24 in The Lancet medical journal found what it called a "cytokine storm" in infected patients who were severely ill. A cytokine storm is a severe immune reaction in which the body produces immune cells and proteins that can destroy other organs. Some experts say this could explain deaths in younger patients. Statistics from China show some people in their 30s, 40s and 50s, who were not known to have had prior medical issues, have also died from the disease.

A timeline of how the disease progresses

According to JAMA, on average, people became short of breath within five days of the onset of their symptoms. Severe breathing trouble was observed in about eight days. The study did not give a timeline for when the deaths occurred. However, an earlier study published in the Journal of Medical Virology on January 29 said that, on average, people who died did so within 14 days of the onset of the disease. The New England Journal of Medicine, in a study published on January 31, also offered a look at how the coronavirus infection affects the body over time. The study examined the medical data of a 35-year-old man, the first case of infection in the United States. The first symptom was a dry cough, followed by a fever. On the third day of illness, he reported nausea and vomiting followed by diarrhoea and abdominal discomfort on the sixth day. By the ninth day, he had developed pneumonia and reported difficulty breathing. By the twelfth day, his condition had improved and his fever was subsiding. He developed a runny nose, however. On day 14, he was asymptomatic except for a mild cough. According to local media reports, he sought care on January 19 and was discharged from the hospital in the first week of February. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO chief, told reporters on February 24 that statistics from China suggest the recovery time for people with mild disease is about two weeks. People with severe or critical disease may take between three and six weeks to recover. On February 28, Tedros said nations should prepare themselves for a potential pandemic, as countries aside from China at that point accounted for three-quarters of new infections. On March 4, he warned that a global shortage and price gouging for protective equipment was compromising countries' abilities to respond to the epidemic, and called on companies and governments to increase production by 40 percent. On March 11, the WHO chief characterised COVID-19 as a pandemic and expressed concern over the "alarming levels of spread and severity, and by the alarming levels of inaction".  On March 13, Tedros said that Europe had become the epicentre of the pandemic after reporting more cases and deaths than "rest of the world combined, apart from China". But later the United States became the worst-hit country. By April 15, the US death toll had surpassed 26,000 amid more than 609,000 cases, according to a tally by the Johns Hopkins University. !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)}; if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0'; n.queue=;t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0; t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e); s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script', 'https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js'); fbq('init', '320402738661210'); fbq('track', 'PageView'); Read the full article

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Italy aims to turn suffering to advantage with experimental Covid-19 treatment

The country is pinning its hopes on using the blood plasma of Covid-19 survivors to help those who are suffering most from it in hospitals now. "Good can come out of this," said Dr. Fausto Baldanti. "We had such a huge outbreak, now we have many potential donors."People who recover from an infection, or who tested positive but never experienced symptoms, develop antibodies in their blood plasma. Those antibodies can be transfused into another victim, where they might help to neutralize the virus in the recipient's body.For decades, doctors have used plasma or even whole blood from recovered patients to treat the newly infected.Baldanti is a virologist at the University of Pavia San Matteo Hospital in Italy's northern Lombardy region, which has seen the most cases and deaths in the country. He hopes "this plasma treatment can be crucial for controlling the infection in patients admitted to intensive care units."

That's the theory, anyway -- but the treatment is still in the experimental phase in Italy.It depends on the development of a proven test for coronavirus antibodies -- which is not yet available. (In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration just tightened restrictions on antibody tests after an earlier relaxing of the rules led to a flood of low-quality tests.)Antibody tests, also known as serology tests, don't diagnose active infection with the coronavirus. Rather, they check for proteins in the immune system -- antibodies -- through a blood sample.The presence of antibodies may mean a person has at least some immunity -- although experts are not sure how strong the immunity may be or how long it will last.The director general of the Italian National Blood Center hopes to have a test ready within weeks."We should have a serological exam (blood test) that is approved to test if someone has antibodies by the end of April. We will start selecting the first donors by the end of the month," Giancarlo Maria Liumbruno told CNN."This new initiative would allow us to go through our 1,700,000 blood donors in Italy, to see who has been infected or is asymptomatic and has developed antibodies," he said.

Once an antibody test is approved, Italy plans to open its blood banks to donations from people with coronavirus antibodies, Liumbruno said.The test would allow scientists to select the most effective blood donors, San Matteo hospital virologist Baldanti explained: "So, who has the highest activity of the virus? You use that plasma to infuse into the sick patients."The project aims to recruit repeat voluntary plasma donors with antibodies, Liumbruno said.In northern Italy, trials have already begun at some hospitals of treating patients with plasma from an individual who has recovered from the virus and has tested negative for it for at least 14 days.The plasma is separated from blood cells in a process called plasmapheresis and intravenously given to a Covid-19 patient. Plasma could also be the key to creating an effective drug therapy, according to Liumbruno.Hospitals from the hard-hit northern region are working with Kedrion Biopharma, a global biotech company with production facilities in Italy and the United States.It is one of four companies authorized by Italy's National Health Service to fractionate plasma from blood banks. It is working on a plasma-derived treatment for Covid-19 and expects it to be ready in three to six months, according to its Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Alessandro Gringeri."Initially we will use plasma from about 100 patients who have recovered from Covid-19 in order to develop a dosage that can be injected through either intravenous or intramuscular means," Gringeri said. "We will generate a plasma-derived immunoglobulin therapy that can be administered to either patients who are suffering from Covid-19 or health care workers to provide temporary passive immunization."Gringeri says the company plans to start collecting plasma from convalescent patients by the end of May, with a hope of having a prototype of the treatment by the end of September.If the theory proves successful in practice, Italy's tragedy may at least turn out to contain the seeds of a solution. Read the full article

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Governors, White House Race to Reopen America

An arms race of sorts has emerged between red states and blue states to reopen America, with Democrat and Republican governors developing rivaling plans to lead their states out of the darkness of the coronavirus crisis while the White House’s Coronavirus Task Force and President Donald Trump’s ultimate decision looms large over the country. Hundreds of millions of Americans are under some variation of stay-at-home orders in every state in the union, with all 50 states also having active disaster declarations—the first time such a crisis has ever swept the nation in her nearly 250-year history. The president has called the decision to reopen America for business the biggest he will ever make in his presidency, and his life, and is expected to roll out a new task force from the White House on Tuesday to detail his plans and lead the effort from Washington. The president has also said it is his decision—and his alone—to make, arguing Monday that he has the authority as the nation’s commander-in-chief to override any governors or local officials nationwide who may get in his way. That being said, while some Democrat governors have expressed unease with moving too quickly—in other words, they want to go on their own timetable, not Trump’s—there is an emerging competition between various governors nationwide to see who can get there first safely for the people of their state. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, is eyeing a plan rollout as early as this week to begin opening parts of his state back up for commerce. During an interview on Sean Hannity’s program on Fox News on Monday evening, Abbott reiterated the need to get Texas back to work as early as this week—and definitely ahead of the previous schedule of May 1. “We want to open. Texans love to work. Texans are dying to get back to work,” Abbott said during the Hannity interview. “We want them to get back to work, but we have to do so in a very safe way so that we don’t regenerate the spread of the coronavirus in the state of Texas. But we’re working on strategis as we speak with medical experts and business leaders to find the right strategy so we can unleash our economy.” He added that he believes Texas—and many other states—can reopen well before May 1. “I think most states can reopen even sooner than later. We don’t have to wait until May 1,” Abbott said. The White House, sources familiar with the matter told Breitbart News, has a list of approximately 20 states they intend to begin the reopening process in as soon as potentially later this week but definitely before the end of April. The virus, public health and federal officials admit, has not lived up to the dire predictions that doomsday models had originally forecast. The vaunted Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) model from the University of Washington has been notoriously wrong, predicting first anywhere from 100,000 to 240,000 dead Americans, then dropping that several times in subsequent weeks down to 93,000, then 81,000, then down to 61,000. The IHME model, which is what the White House used to extend the original “15 days to slow the spread” out from ending at the end of March all the way until now April 30, has also been even more incorrect when it comes to hospitalization numbers. In fact, a little-noticed revision to the model—one of many that the organization has made in the past several weeks—announced that the United States has already passed the proverbial “peak” of the curve of the virus days ago when it comes to hospitalizations and now the modelers admit the virus is in retreat. 1/ Yes, the geniuses at @IHME_UW have updated their model again. According to them, we are now PAST the peak of hospitalizations – which were cut yet again, to 57,000 beds from 94,000 in the previous forecast (and 262,000 in the April 1 forecast – April Fool’s!)… pic.twitter.com/sCioDU9gtG — Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) April 13, 2020 Part of the reason why U.S. officials at the federal, state, and local level relied on these now demonstrably flawed models to make their public policy decisions is because they had no real-world data on the threat of the quickly-spreading disease. Chinese Communist officials in Beijing lied to the world—including the World Health Organization (WHO), which dutifully reprinted the inaccurate information the communists provided about the disease’s spread—and then Europe was rocked quickly by it as the virus took a major toll on Italy then Spain then France and the United Kingdom. Meanwhile, the coronavirus scared the public as celebrities like Tom Hanks and several NBA stars were infected early, and lawmakers like Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) as well as Reps. Ben McAdams (D-UT) and Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) were all infected. Each of those U.S. lawmakers has since recovered, but their infections combined with the infection of U.K. prime minister Boris Johnson—who was admitted to the ICU in a British hospital for treatment as his condition worsened, something he has since bounced back from as he continues his recovery outside the hospital—gripped American leaders with fear that even they were not invincible to the threat of the coronavirus. Despite all the high-profile cases, and what appeared to be a nasty perfect storm heading into April where U.S. hospitals would have been overrun and not enough ventilators would be available to treat the public as the virus spread, the models and projections have not come to pass. The models have been so badly inaccurate, in fact, that even Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM 125 the Patriot Channel on Monday morning that the White House team is no longer using them—but instead making decisions on real world data. “It’s important to know that models are projections when you don’t have data,” Adams said. “Our original models were people’s best guesses, and/or they were informed by experiences in very different cultures and very different places. What the American people need to know now is we actually have data and we’re tracking that data and we’re not as reliant on these models as we are as say ‘this is what’s happening in California, this is what’s happening in New York, this is what’s happening in New Orleans.’ We’re following that data every single day and we’re giving that data to the community so they can make intelligent and informed decisions about when and where to reopen. It’s not going to be light-switch—just like it wasn’t a light-switch going off, it’s not going to be a light-switch going back on. Different communities will reopen sooner than other communities and they’ll have to do so based on their testing data—not a model, but actual data—and their capacity to be able to follow up on cases and isolate them. I feel confident that some places will start to reopen in May, June—other places won’t—it will be piece by piece, bit by bit, but it will be data-driven.” On that note, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo—a Democrat—said on Monday that his state has contained the virus, a huge win for the country as New York has represented the American epicenter of the disease. “We can control the spread. Feel good about that,” Cuomo said early on Monday, also adding, “because, by the way, we could have got to a point when we said we can’t control this damn thing.” “The worst is over,” Cuomo also said. After announcing those breakthroughs against the virus in New York, Cuomo then led a conference call with several Democrat governors from neighboring and nearby states like New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and others to discuss reopening the country. That effort came as the governors of Washington state, Oregon, and California each announced a pact between those western states to discuss reopening the country. This very interesting analysis came in just as the three Democratic governors of CA, OR, and WA announced a pact to reopen WITHOUT an explicit goal of no infections or deaths. (A long way from no @nfl season, as @CAgovernor said just days ago.) https://t.co/IBcM25I946 pic.twitter.com/5Nqw5yy29D — Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) April 13, 2020 Several other GOP governors in a number of states in addition to Texas are looking at reopening before May 1, too, Breitbart News has learned, though much remains in flux and depends on data that keeps rolling in this week. What these efforts by the White House and by these various governors—Republican and Democrat from all different parts of the country—could end up forcing, however, is essentially an arms race to reopen America. “Whoever figures it out first, good on them,” a former Trump White House official told Breitbart News. “They should be competing over who can safely open back up for business first and then instill confidence in their neighbors around the country, all while President Trump keeps edging the country back from the brink. if Texas leads the way or California does, it really doesn’t matter. 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Spain records another fall in its daily Covid-19 death toll

Spain's death toll from the coronavirus dropped to 517 on Monday from Sunday’s 619, taking the total number of Covid-19 fatalities up to 17,489, the country's health ministry reported in a statement. Read the full article

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Wuhan Reopens After Coronavirus Lockdown

Wuhan, China, had been sealed off since late January in an effort to limit the coronavirus outbreak’s spread. The city’s recovery could dictate how other places move forward. Read the full article

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Woman, dad hit with bat after social distancing warning

KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) - A woman and her 61-year-old father were hit in the head with a baseball bat Saturday after warning a group of about 20 college-aged people gathered on a Florida Keys beach about social distancing due to coronavirus, sheriff’s officials said. The woman, 21, told Monroe County Sheriff’s deputies that she and her father noticed the group drinking on Wisteria Island, which is off Key West, and confronted them about social distancing, sheriff’s officials said in an email. They also asked them to keep the noise down. The woman told deputies that she and her father live in a boat anchored off Wisteria Island, the report said. She said the group of young people had three center-consoled boats. The woman told deputies she didn’t know how many people hit them, but her father headed to a hospital for treatment while she stayed behind to speak to investigators. The report said the woman had a large lump on the back of her head. The news release said a witness told investigators he didn’t see the attack but noticed three boats leaving as he went to help the injured pair. The woman and her father were treated at the hospital and released. The sheriff’s office is investigating. Sign up for Daily Newsletters Copyright © 2020 The Washington Times, LLC. !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n; n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=;t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0; t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e);s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script','https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js'); fbq('init', '329974197684672'); fbq('init', '450591302454597'); fbq('track', "PageView"); fbq('track', 'ViewContent'); fbq('trackSingle', '450591302454597' , 'Subscribe', {value: '0.00', currency: 'USD', predicted_ltv: '0.00'}); (function (d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s); if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.5"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); Read the full article

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COVID-19 symptoms keep U.K. leader in intensive care

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Daily rate of new COVID-19 infections dropped Monday for 4th day in a row

The latest data from Johns Hopkins University shows there are at least 337,590 active COVID-19 cases across the United States as of Tuesday morning. That figure does not include about 20,000 patients who have already recovered from the disease, and almost 11,000 who have died of it. The rate of new infections continues to rise across the U.S., but some major hotspots — New York in particular — have seen a "flattening" of the rate of newly recorded cases. The daily infection rate in New York has dropped by approximately 1% over each of the last four days, with an increase of about 7% on Monday. New York hospitals struggle as military reinforcements arrive to battle coronavirus Only two states, Connecticut and South Dakota, saw a daily rise of 20% or higher on Monday. In both California and Washington state, where lockdown measures were implemented as some of the first outbreaks surfaced in the U.S., the rate of new infections on Monday was below 10%   53m ago

India agrees to export hydroxychloroquine after "retaliation" threat from Trump

Hours after President Donald Trump warned of "retaliation" if Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi refused to allow the export of anti-malarial drugs, India said it would supply hydroxychloroquine to "nations that have been badly affected," without naming the United States or any other country specifically.  hid "In view of the humanitarian aspects of the pandemic, it has been decided that India would licence paracetamol and hydroxychloroquine in appropriate quantities to all our neighbouring countries who are dependent on our capabilities. We will also be supplying these essential drugs to some nations who have been particularly badly affected by the pandemic," Indian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Anurag Srivastava told the press.  The anti-malarial drug is being tested widely as a treatment for the COVID-19 disease caused by the new coronavirus. Mr. Trump has described it as a potential "game-changer" and touted its use even before it is approved to treat the new disease. Trump clashes with doctors on possible coronavirus treatment Last month India restricted exports of 26 pharmaceutical ingredients and medicines made from them to ensure sufficient stocks at home. Hours before India's decision to allow the export, Mr. Trump said "there may be retaliation" if India refused to export hydroxychloroquine.  - Arshad R. Zargar   4:43 AM

No deaths reported in China over last 24 hours

China on Tuesday reported no new deaths from the coronarivus over the past 24 hours and just 32 new cases, all from people who returned from overseas. Another 12 suspected cases - also all imported - were being kept under observation, along with an additional 30 asymptomatic cases, officials said.  China said it has 1,242 confirmed cases in treatment and 1,033 asymptomatic cases under isolation and monitoring. The country that gave rise to the global pandemic said it has recorded 3,331 deaths and 81,740 total cases. Numbers of daily new deaths have been hovering in the single digits for weeks, hitting just one on several occasions. - Associated Press     4:43 AM

First Rikers Island inmate dies after testing positive for coronavirus

An inmate housed at New York City's Rikers Island died after contracting coronavirus, his legal team announced Monday. Michael Tyson, a 53-year-old with underlying health conditions, was being held at Rikers over an alleged parole violation, according to the Legal Aid Society.  Last week, the New York Civil Liberties Union and the Legal Aid Society filed a lawsuit against city and state officials calling for the release of inmates who are at a higher risk of serious illness from the virus. Tyson was one of 100 inmates named in the suit. Read more here.    4:40 AM

Miami launches antibody testing to measure spread of coronavirus

An ambitious testing program by the University of Miami began in South Florida on Monday. The goal is to clear up the chaotic picture of just how widespread the virus is, helping some governments plan their response. The test looks for a person's antibodies and the proteins the immune system makes to attack the COVID-19 virus. It doesn't look for current infection; instead, it detects who has had it in the past. Read the full article

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Covid-19: US records 1,150 coronavirus deaths in 24 hours: Johns Hopkins tracker - News

The US currently has by far the most number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the world.

The US recorded 1,150 coronavirus deaths in 24 hours, Johns Hopkins University said late Monday, pushing the country's toll further above the 10,000 mark reached earlier in the day. According to Johns Hopkins' running tally, there are more than 366,000 cases of new coronavirus in the United States -- including in excess of 30,000 new cases in 24 hours -- with total deaths at 10,783. The US has by far the most number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the world. The number of deaths recorded since the start of the pandemic has for the past several days increased by at least 1,000 per day and is gradually approaching the number of deaths in Italy (16,523) and Spain (13,005). (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s); if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); Source link Visit Our website to get update regularly about coronavirus Read the full article

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Covid-19: US records 1,150 coronavirus deaths in 24 hours: Johns Hopkins tracker - News

The US currently has by far the most number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the world.

The US recorded 1,150 coronavirus deaths in 24 hours, Johns Hopkins University said late Monday, pushing the country's toll further above the 10,000 mark reached earlier in the day. According to Johns Hopkins' running tally, there are more than 366,000 cases of new coronavirus in the United States -- including in excess of 30,000 new cases in 24 hours -- with total deaths at 10,783. The US has by far the most number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the world. The number of deaths recorded since the start of the pandemic has for the past several days increased by at least 1,000 per day and is gradually approaching the number of deaths in Italy (16,523) and Spain (13,005). (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s); if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); Source link Visit Our website to get update regularly about coronavirus Read the full article

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In hard-hit New York City, even a tiger tests positive for coronavirus

Issued on: 06/04/2020 - 10:49Modified: 06/04/2020 - 10:49 A tiger at the Bronx Zoo has tested positive for the new coronavirus, in what is believed to be the first known infection in an animal in the U.S. or a tiger anywhere, federal officials and the zoo said Sunday.  The 4-year-old Malayan tiger named Nadia – and six other tigers and lions that have also fallen ill – are believed to have been infected by a zoo employee who wasn't yet showing symptoms, the zoo said. The first animal started showing symptoms March 27, and all are doing well and expected to recover, said the zoo, which has been closed to the public since March 16 amid the surging coronavirus outbreak in New York.The test result stunned zoo officials: “I couldn't believe it,” director Jim Breheny said. But he hopes the finding can contribute to the global fight against the virus that causes COVID-19.“Any kind of knowledge that we get on how it’s transmitted, how different species react to it, that knowledge somehow is going to provide a greater base resource for people,” he said in an interview.The finding raises new questions about transmission of the virus in animals. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which confirmed Nadia's test result at its veterinary lab, said there are no known cases of the virus in U.S. pets or livestock.“There doesn’t appear to be, at this time, any evidence that suggests that the animals can spread the virus to people or that they can be a source of the infection in the United States," Dr. Jane Rooney, a veterinarian and a USDA official, said in an interview.The USDA said Sunday it’s not recommending routine coronavirus testing of animals, in zoos or elsewhere, or of zoo employees. Still, Rooney said a small number of animals in the U.S. have been tested through the USDA's National Veterinary Services Laboratories, and all those tests came back negative except Nadia's.The coronavirus outbreaks around the world are driven by person-to-person transmission, experts say.There have been a handful of reports outside the U.S. of pet dogs or cats becoming infected after close contact with contagious people, including a Hong Kong dog that tested positive for a low level of the pathogen in February and early March. Hong Kong agriculture authorities concluded that pet dogs and cats couldn’t pass the virus to human beings but could test positive if exposed by their owners.Some researchers have been trying to understand the susceptibility of different animal species to the virus, and to determine how it spreads among animals, according to the Paris-based World Organization for Animal Health.The American Veterinary Medical Association and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention  have been recommending that out of an abundance of caution, people ill with the coronavirus should limit contact with animals – advice that the veterinary group reiterated after learning of the tiger's test result.In general, the CDC also advises people to wash their hands after handling animals and do other things to keep pets and their homes clean.Dry coughs, wheezing and loss of appetiteAt the Bronx Zoo, Nadia, her sister Azul, two Amur tigers and three African lions developed dry coughs, and some of the cats exhibited some wheezing and loss of appetite, said Dr. Paul Calle, the zoo's chief veterinarian.The staff figured there could be a relatively routine explanation for the cats' symptoms but tested Nadia for coronavirus out of “due diligence and an abundance of caution,” Breheny said. Only Nadia was tested because it takes anesthesia to get a sample from a big cat, and she had already been knocked out to be examined.Calle said the test was different from the one used for people and was carried out by a veterinary school laboratory, not one that handles human samples.“There is no competition for testing between these two very different situations,” he said.The seven sickened cats live in two areas at the zoo, and the animals had contact with the same worker, who is doing OK, zoo officials said. They said there are no signs of illness in other big cats on the property.Staffers who work with the cats will now wear infection-protection garb, as primate keepers have done for years because of the animals' closer genetic ties to human beings, Breheny said.For most people, the coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as a fever and cough that clear up in two to three weeks. For some, especially older adults and people, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia, and can be fatal.(AP) Read the full article

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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson hospitalized for testing after coronavirus symptoms persist

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was hospitalized Sunday, 10 days after testing positive for coronavirus. Johnson was admitted "for tests" after displaying "persistent symptoms," according to a press release from his office. Johnson was admitted to an unnamed London hospital "on the advice of his doctor," the release explained. The statement also said the hospitalization is a "precautionary step."Johnson tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus, on March 26 and has dealt with lingering symptoms, including a high fever, since then. Johnson is the first known world leader to contract the disease. Since then, the 55-year-old prime minister had been quarantined at his residence at 10 Downing Street.  Coronavirus: The Race To Respond › More in Coronavirus: The Race To Respond Johnson remains the head of the British government for the time being, however, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab — who would take over for Johnson should he become unable to lead — will handle Monday's coronavirus meeting, according to The Associated Press. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson seen March 25, 2020. Getty Johnson made headlines in early March, when the outbreak was just starting to hit the U.K., for saying he had shaken hands with coronavirus patients that he had visited in the hospital."I shook hands with everybody, you will be pleased to know, and I continue to shake hands," Johnson said at a March 3 press conference. Johnson tested positive for the virus 23 days later. Johnson announced Britain was going on lockdown on March 24.Johnson's fiance, Carrie Symonds, said Saturday on Twitter that she "spent the past week in bed with the main symptoms of coronavirus." Symonds said that she was not tested for coronavirus, and that "after seven days of rest, I feel stronger and I'm on the mend." Read the full article

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U.S. deaths top 8,500 as Trump warns of "toughest week" ahead

The number of people who have been killed by the coronavirus is now at least 8,503, a stark increase that comes as the country braces for what is likely to be the deadliest week of the pandemic in the U.S. thus far.There have been at least 312,245 confirmed cases in the U.S., according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University. More than a quarter of deaths have been in New York state, the epicenter of the outbreak, where 4,159 people have died. Governor Andrew Cuomo said Sunday that New York could be "very near the apex" but more data will be needed in the coming days.President Trump warned Saturday that the country could be headed into its toughest weeks, but also said he's eager to get it reopened and its stalled economy back on track."This will probably be the toughest week, between this week and next week. And there will be a lot of death, unfortunately," the president said in a somber start to his daily briefing on the pandemic on Saturday. "There will be death."Read the latest:Detailed information from the CDC on coronavirus treatment and prevention. Medical workers stand outside a refrigerator truck being used as a morgue outside of Brooklyn Hospital Center on April 3, 2020 in New York City. Getty Images The Associated Press contributed to this report. Read the full article

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Covid-19: 14 merchants in Dubai fined for hiking prices - News

DED reminded businesses to refrain from taking undue advantage of the present situation.

Dubai has fined 14 establishments for hiking the price of face masks - an essential item during the coronavirus pandemic and as UAE fights Covid-19. Dubai Economy Department on Sunday issued a statement saying that it had imposed fines on 14 merchants, including nine pharmacies in Nad Al Hamar, Al Mizhar, Nad Hessa, Sheikh Zayed Road, Hor Al Anz, A Twar, Al Qusais, Umm Suqaim and Al Warqa, for inflating the prices of face masks to exploit the rise in demand for hygiene essentials following the nationwide alert against Covid-19. Five other merchants were fined for tampering with prices, including two supermarkets and suppliers. The Commercial Compliance & Consumer Protection (CCCP) sector in Dubai Economy issued fines to the merchants following consumer complaints and due investigations, including tracking the supply chain to verify the price.  A repeat offense would attract double the fines and may lead to closing down the outlet. Dubai Economy reminded businesses to refrain from taking undue advantage of the present situation and also called on pharmacies and medical equipment suppliers to demonstrate their social responsibility by reducing the prices of essentials, such as face masks, sanitisers, and disinfectants. Consumers can raise their complaints and queries relating to price increases of their basic needs, including hygiene essentials, on the www.Price.ded.ae portal or by calling 600 54 55 55. [email protected] (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s); if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); Source link Visit Our website to get update regularly about coronavirus Read the full article