Covid-19 Stories.

[JackLuis]

‘I see you’re wearing a mask’: Reporter hilariously nails Michigan protester who says he’s not concerned about coronavirus

A large crowd of protesters organized by a conservative group descended on the Michigan’s state Capitol this Wednesday, calling on Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to reopen the state’s economy.

News footage of the protest showed some demonstrators holding signs and chanting slogans on the Capitol steps while others remained in their vehicles, honking their horns.

An amusing exchange played out during a news broadcast. As WOOD TV8‘s Leon Hendrix approached protesters for interviews, he encountered one protester who also happened to be wearing a mask.

 

[JackLuis]

Leaked CDC report: ‘Significant risk of resurgence of the virus’ under Trump’s plan to reopen the economy

A joint report produced by the Centers for Disease Control and the Federal Emergency Management Agency has warned that even a staggered reopening of the economy could lead to a surge in new COVID-19 cases in the United States.

The report, which was obtained by The Washington Post, writes that even a cautious reopening “will entail a significant risk of resurgence of the virus” even after the country has spent the last several weeks locked down in an effort to flatten the curve of infections.

The only way to minimize the risks, the CDC argues, is to build an elaborate system to test and trace Americans on a massive scale.

The problem, however, is that the United States isn’t close to having the testing capacity to pull off such an operation. In fact, Politico reported this week that “the number of coronavirus tests analyzed each day by commercial labs in the U.S. plummeted by more than 30 percent over the past week, even though new infections are still surging in many states and officials are desperately trying to ramp up testing so the country can reopen.”

Trumpski promised more test kits LAST MONTH, yet...crickets!

 

[Tigersman]

Kellyanne Conway, Trump spokesperson doesn't know why covid-19 is named covid-19. She sure showed how much she pays attention to what is going on.

 

[JackLuis]

Lawyer for Louisiana pastor who told followers to ignore public health warnings has COVID-19 after attending service

On Thursday, TMZ reported that the lawyer for controversial Louisiana preacher Tony Spell has been infected with coronavirus and is suffering from pneumonia.

“Jeff Wittenbrink tells TMZ he was admitted Tuesday to Baton Rouge Medical Center with the virus after his condition worsened over the weekend. In addition to pneumonia, he’s battling a high fever and persistent cough,” said the report. “Wittenbrink attended two services at Pastor Spell’s Life Tabernacle Church on April 2 and April 5, which was Palm Sunday. He tells us he shook hands with the controversial pastor that day, but added Spell sanitized his hands immediately afterward. Wittenbrink says Spell does that after he shakes hands with everyone.”

 

[JackLuis]

Fear of an Impending Car-Price Collapse Grips Auto Industry

The auto industry -- already fretting lengthy factory shutdowns and depressed new-vehicle demand -- is starting to sound the alarm about a potential used-car price collapse that could have far-reaching consequences for manufacturers, lenders and rental companies.

Used-vehicle auctions are for now virtually paralyzed, much like the rest of the economy. The grave concern market watchers have is that vehicles already are starting to pile up at places where buyers and sellers make and take bids on cars and trucks -- and that this imbalance will last for months.

If that fear is realized and prices plummet, it will be detrimental to automakers and their in-house lending units, which likely will have to write down the value of lease contracts that had assumed vehicles would retain greater value. Rental-car companies also will get less money from selling down their fleet of vehicles, which are sitting idle amid a global pandemic that’s been catastrophic for travel.

Added to the fact that $1,200 will not pay for the chrome on a new car, Auto industry will be hungry in 2021!

 

[JackLuis]

4-16-20 PM

USA
678,144 Total Cases

+574 New Cases

34,641 Total Deaths, so far

+24 New Deaths

57,844 Total Recovered.

 

[JackLuis]

China virus epicenter Wuhan raises death toll 50%

China’s coronavirus ground-zero city of Wuhan on Friday admitted missteps in tallying its death toll, and abruptly raised the count by 50 percent following growing world doubts about Chinese transparency.

The United States has led the charge in questioning China’s handling of the pandemic and how much information it has really shared with the international community since the virus emerged late last year.

Authorities in Wuhan initially tried to cover up the outbreak, punishing doctors who had raised the alarm online in December, and there have been questions about the government’s recording of infections as it repeatedly changed its counting criteria at the peak of the outbreak.

Probably won't be the last time China 'adjusts" the numbers.

 

[KeithD]

China virus epicenter Wuhan raises death toll 50%



Probably won't be the last time China 'adjusts" the numbers.

If they just had suppressed testing, like Donald Trump has, there wouldn't be any real numbers to have to deal with.

 

[JackLuis]

4-17-20
Box Scores

USA
698,749 Total Cases

+21,179 New Cases

36,838 Total Deaths so far

+2,221 New Deaths!

Like a new Katrina everyday.

Heck of a job Dumpy!

 

[KeithD]

Do remember that Trump has already declared that 100,000 deaths would be a victory. In his mind--and he'd have no trouble saying it--we're still winning.

 

[JackLuis]

Stupid Kills: The 5 Worst GOP Governors’ Responses to COVID-19

As late as March 30, 15 states had issued neither stay-at-home orders nor ordered the closure of non-essential businesses. All 15 have Republican governors. Since then, most have finally taken too-little-too-late statewide measures.

In a target-rich environment, selecting (much less ranking) the five dumbest GOP governors is no easy task. But somebody has to do it. By focusing exclusively on their response to the COVID-19 crisis, the task becomes a bit easier.

 

[JackLuis]

VA Hospitals Are the U.S. Safety Net. Covid-19 Exposed the Holes

The Department of Veterans Affairs is supposed to provide a safety net for the U.S. medical system in times of crisis.

Yet its hospitals have treated just 135 civilians afflicted with Covid-19, according to numbers released this week, even as coronavirus infections have pushed tens of thousands of Americans into the nation’s hospitals.

The limited response stems in part from efforts to rein in the VA’s medical services, after a series of political battles over whether to privatize elements of the nation’s largest hospital network. In the early months of his term, President Donald Trump assigned an unconventional group to oversee the VA -- his son-in-law, senior adviser Jared Kushner, and three political advisers who socialized at his Mar-a-Lago resort. Their involvement caused so much bureaucratic distress that the VA ended up with an assortment of vacancies in high-level management positions.

The Trump administration has been increasing funding for veterans to seek care from private doctors, while presiding over chronic staffing shortages within the VA’s hospital system, the Veterans Health Administration. In the months since the coronavirus began threatening the U.S., the White House task force and agencies responding to the crisis have kept the VA largely on the sidelines.


“When you have a government being run by people who don’t believe government works, you get a government that doesn’t work,” he said.

 

[JackLuis]

Florida to release list of nursing homes with coronavirus infections after Republican Ron DeSantis was sued by Miami Herald

Florida’s Republican governor announced on Saturday that he was reversing course and would release a list of nursing homes where residents or staff have tested positive for COVID-19.

“After weeks of refusing to release the names of elder care facilities that have had residents and staff test positive for the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Saturday that he has ordered health officials to release the names,” the Miami Herald reported. “The governor and the Florida Department of Health has been under increasing pressure from families of residents and advocates such as AARP to release the names of the more than 100 nursing homes and assisted living facilities that have indicated they have positive COVID-19 cases on their campuses.”

Now you have to sue the Government to get the TRUTH!

 

[JackLuis]

Red states may be facing a perfect storm of illness and death from COVID-19

Rural, conservative-leaning states have so far been spared widespread outbreaks of COVID-19. But experts say that they’re simply behind the curve of denser, more urban states like New York and Florida. The New York Times reported this week that “many communities that watched the pandemic unfold in faraway places are now experiencing the crisis firsthand. More than two-thirds of rural counties have confirmed at least one case.” Forty-two states now have over 1,000 confirmed cases of the disease, and many red states are among those conducting the fewest tests.

 

[KeithD]

Florida to release list of nursing homes with coronavirus infections after Republican Ron DeSantis was sued by Miami Herald



Now you have to sue the Government to get the TRUTH!

Trump and McConnell are busy trying to fix that by stuffing the judgeships.

 

[KeithD]

Red states may be facing a perfect storm of illness and death from COVID-19

Thoughts and prayers.

 

[JackLuis]

WATCH: Chaos erupts in Walmart as woman uses pepper spray to enforce social distancing

A customer at a D.C. Walmart looking to enforce social distancing pulled out her pepper spray and sprayed a fellow shopper after an elevator got too crowded, and the incident was caught on video.

According to a report from WHSV, shoppers at the D.C. location were trying to board an elevator when a woman who wasn’t wearing a face mask tried to close the doors. When another woman tried to force her way through, the unmasked woman pulled out pepper spray and sprayed the encroaching woman in the face.

 

[KeithD]

An elevator in a Walmart?

 

[JackLuis]

4-22-20 AM Box Scores


United States
Coronavirus Cases:
830,566

Deaths:
46,235

Recovered:
83,420

 

[JackLuis]

Conservative radio host agrees with caller that vaping bleach might cure COVID-19: ‘You’re not crazy’

A talk radio caller suggested vaping bleach as a possible treatment for coronavirus, and conservative host Jeff Kuhner assured him the recommendation wasn’t crazy.

The caller, who identified himself as Zack from Stoughton, called into Boston’s WRKO-AM on Friday morning to talk about President Donald Trump’s dangerous suggestion to use disinfectants or powerful light internally to treat COVID-19.

After hearing an ad on Kuhner’s program offering a disinfecting service during the pandemic, Zack said he started connecting the dots and wondered whether vape pens could deliver bleach and other disinfecting chemicals into infected lungs.

“Maybe they could make some sort of vape that could help people, you know, that would atomize chemicals into your lungs and you could blow it out your nose,” Zack said. “Thinking outside the box is what we need to do now, and no one seems to want to do it. I don’t know if I’m crazy.”

The host assured the caller his idea was sound.

“No, you’re not,” Kuhner said. “Zack, you’re not crazy, and bingo — you said the word, you said the phrase. Thank you for that call. Thinking outside the box.”

Recommended for all Trump Supporters

 

[JackLuis]

WHO warns of COVID-19 reinfection — coronavirus survivors may not have future immunity

The WHO warned on Saturday that people who test positive and survive infection cannot be certain they will not be hit again by the coronavirus.

The warning came as some governments study measures such as “immunity passports” for those who have recovered as one way to get people back to work after weeks of economic shutdown.

“There is currently no evidence that people who have recovered from #COVID19 and have antibodies are protected from a second infection,” the UN health body said in a statement.

Just fucking wonderful!

 

[JackLuis]

Monday 4-27-20 Morning Box Scores

World WIde

Coronavirus Cases: 3,018,203

Deaths: 207,733

Recovered: 894,759

USA

Total Cases 987,322 32.7% of World Cases

Total Deaths 55,415 26.6% of total deaths

Total Recovered 118,781 13.2% of recovered

Active Cases 813,126

 

[JackLuis]

Mysterious blood clots are COVID-19’s latest lethal surprise

After nearly three weeks in an intensive care unit in Los Angeles, doctors treating 41-year-old Broadway actor Nick Cordero for COVID-19 were forced to amputate his right leg.

The flow of blood had been impeded by a blood clot: yet another dangerous complication of the disease that has been bubbling up in frontline reports from China, Europe and the United States.

To be sure, so-called “thrombotic events” occur for a variety of reasons among intensive care patients, but the rates among COVID-19 patients are far higher than would be otherwise expected.

“I have had 40-year-olds in my ICU who have clots in their fingers that look like they’ll lose the finger, but there’s no other reason to lose the finger than the virus,” Shari Brosnahan, a critical care doctor at NYU Langone told AFP.

 

[KeithD]

Oh just go ahead and get it and get it over with and open up the economy, the Trumpettes say. It's just like the flu.

 

[JackLuis]

Covid-19: French death toll tops 23,000 – but hospitalizations continue to fall

The number of people who have died from coronavirus infection in France rose by 437 to 23,293 on Monday, the health ministry said in a statement.

The 1.9% increase is the highest in four days but well below the more than 4% rate seen 10 days ago.

The number of people in hospital with COVID-19 infection fell further to 28,055 from 28,217 on Sunday, and the number of people in intensive care fell to 4,608 from 4,682 on Sunday. Both have been on a downward trend for more than 10 days.

France has half of America's deaths and declining. Trump's terrible performance is outstanding!!!