3/22 COVID-19 news

[aurora]

Have we talked about this NYT visualization yet showing how it spread?

www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/22/world/coronavirus-spread.html

Because it's incredibly well done.

ETA it's what made me sign up for the free coverage.

[litebright]

Also from today's NYT. I will be thinking about this story two weeks from now.

www.nytimes.com/2020/03/22/us/deniers-and-disbelievers-if-i-get-corona-i-get-corona.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage

[InBetweenDays]

North Korea says Trump sent Kim Jong Un a letter expressing his intent for them to cooperate in their "anti-epidemic" work. 😒

www.cnn.com/2020/03/21/politics/north-korea-trump/index.html

[rubytue]

Cuomo just announced he is requesting FEMA turn the Javits center into a hospital. I don’t know why this is making such an impact on me, but it is...

[Saudade]

On day 8 of a 14 day lockdown, Spain just announced it would be extended to 30 days.

[waverly]

Mar 22, 2020 10:24:53 GMT -5 rubytue said:

Cuomo just announced he is requesting FEMA turn the Javits center into a hospital. I don’t know why this is making such an impact on me, but it is...

It’s a big deal. I never went to an event there but many people I know did and talked about the Javits center a lot.

[gretchenindisguise]

Mar 22, 2020 10:28:56 GMT -5 Saudade said:

On day 8 of a 14 day lockdown, Spain just announced it would be extended to 30 days.

Spain seems to be enforcing the lockdown well too. My Hs family is there, and thus far they are doing ok. I was really worried about them, but have eased up a bit in my worries, they seem to have learned from Italy.

[Saudade]

Mar 22, 2020 10:33:21 GMT -5 gretchenindisguise said:

Mar 22, 2020 10:28:56 GMT -5 Saudade said:

On day 8 of a 14 day lockdown, Spain just announced it would be extended to 30 days.

Spain seems to be enforcing the lockdown well too. My Hs family is there, and thus far they are doing ok. I was really worried about them, but have eased up a bit in my worries, they seem to have learned from Italy.

I agree. My friends seem to be tolerating it really well and making the best of it. 

I follow a nurse in Madrid on instagram and it seems chaotic but manageable at this time.

[mbcdefg]

Mar 22, 2020 10:29:27 GMT -5 waverly said:

Mar 22, 2020 10:24:53 GMT -5 rubytue said:

Cuomo just announced he is requesting FEMA turn the Javits center into a hospital. I don’t know why this is making such an impact on me, but it is...

It’s a big deal. I never went to an event there but many people I know did and talked about the Javits center a lot.

I used to attend a yearly conference (geared toward pharmaceutical/ lab/ medical companies) there. It’s massive.

Hillary Clinton’s election night victory celebration was supposed to take place there, because it’s got a glass ceiling.

[Gato]

Italy’s coronavirus death toll may be much higher than the official number:

www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-homes-insigh/uncounted-among-coronavirus-victims-deaths-sweep-through-italys-nursing-homes-idUSKBN2152V0

[mbcdefg]

FEMA administrator Pete Gaynor says Trump hasn’t enforced the Defense Production Act to order companies to manufacture masks, ventilators and other critical supplies because they are being donated: “It’s happening without using that lever”


www.cnn.com/2020/03/20/politics/defense-production-act-trump/index.html

[smock]

Rand Paul tests positive for COVID-19.


www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2020/03/22/kentucky-sen-rand-paul-tests-positive-covid-19/2894959001/

[ESF]

Here’s RP’s office’s statement

[af1212]

Mar 22, 2020 12:51:38 GMT -5 ESF said:

Here’s RP’s office’s statement

I call BS. No symptoms and no contact but let’s still test in case even though our nation has a shortage of tests for those who are experiencing symptoms?

I wish they would be honest like Tom Hanks and other “public” figures have been about the symptoms.

[Saudade]

Mar 22, 2020 12:51:38 GMT -5 ESF said:

Here’s RP’s office’s statement

THEN WHY WAS HE TESTED?!!!

[msmerymac]

Angela Merkel is in quarantine as her doctor has tested positive for COVID-19.


www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/merkel-quarantine-doctor-tests-positive-174901962.html

[curbsideprophet]

I fully believe a Senator could get tested without symptoms. Look at how many NBA teams were able to get tested.

We should be testing way more people than we are.

[atarianna]

Ohio is shut down.

[georgeglass]

tweet - If Rand Paul does require treatment, I propose that it be blocked until he agrees to several additional, completely unrelated treatments.

[SusanBAnthony]

Even though I dislike RP, I'm kind of ok with some level and up of elected officials being tested if there is any reason to believe they might have it.

We're taking maaaaybe 1000 people across the country.

But it is terrible optics.

[mbcdefg]

Rand Paul was at the gym this morning before receiving his test results:

[anastasia517]

At least two grocery chains - Loblaws/Your Independent Grocers and Metro/Food Basics - in Canada are giving workers hazard pay and taking extra protection. They are also trying to get extra protection gear for workers and some places are adding plexiglass at checkouts.

globalnews.ca/news/6713693/grocery-stores-coronavirus-canada/

It is much appreciated, but the fact that so many workers (including my husband) are getting hazard pay for working at a grocery store is insane.

[rubytue]

Is there a clinical trial for bootstraps and covid?

[cous0226]

Why the fuck did he got to the gym? This is seriously so fucking dumb. I pray he and 45 interacted over this hoax.

[ESF]

I agree Rand Paul’s story doesn’t add up.

He claims he had no symptoms and didn’t have known contact but decided to take a test just in case.

Then he went to the senate gym and pool, despite thinking he might have it?

And now does?

It’s just a strange chain of events.

It’s weird like the story of the neighbor attacking him was weird.

I feel like he’s hiding something. I need know if the neighbor’s wife has it, lol.

[ESF]

Also why the fuck is the senate gym and pool even open?!

[georgeglass]

Harvey Weinstein has it and has been put into isolation.

www.thedailybeast.com/jailed-harvey-weinstein-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-report?source=TDB&via=FB_Page&fbclid=IwAR223x1ENFGeJyy7AyiFSOYGEpEDbWI6QdnFKReRsy9TkjLTnoXKOWzxeis&fbclid=IwAR0Fg5SGhk-tWf7G_VcYAb2HOb3DLBL02dtjucHKt-nz01fu3rKJr0cJlJI

[pumpkin]

Mar 22, 2020 15:17:20 GMT -5 ESF said:

Also why the fuck is the senate gym and pool even open?!

This is what I don't understand!

[curbsideprophet]

Exclusive: U.S. axed CDC expert job in China months before virus outbreak


www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-cdc-exclusiv-idUSKBN21910S


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Several months before the coronavirus pandemic began, the Trump administration eliminated a key American public health position in Beijing intended to help detect disease outbreaks in China, Reuters has learned.

[mbcdefg]

Senate balance is now 48 R -47 D

Sens. Lee, Romney, Scott of Florida, Paul and Gardner are all quarantining.