Corona Virus Updates Part 5

originally posted by: CrazeeWorld777

originally posted by: cirrus12
Omg i just watched that. Horrible.
Came across this as well when seeing that video:

A Chinese (he appears to be to me) man on the video licks his fingers, touches the lift buttons, then puts his hands down his pants and then touches everything. SICK SICK SICK
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a reply to: tjack

This is really really bad and in Wales apparently.

I remember saying in the beginning when this virus spread that one way to begin a biological warfare was to create the virus and then send mercenaries out into the World spreading that virus and that's exactly what happened. Maybe not all the Chinese who flew out of China were in on it but it could well turn out that many were...

Biggest terrorist act if true.

Regardless of whether it was deliberate or not the outcome is the same! China knowing what this thing was in December should have done the right thing and warned the world and shut its borders in/out and the world could have acted to ensure that the virus outbreak remained mainly inside China!! China is therefore clearly guilty by neglect and failing to act in the interests the global community! Genocide upon humanity by neglect!

Coronavirus: Queen to address country on Sunday over outbreak

The Queen will speak to the nation on Sunday about the coronavirus outbreak - only her fourth special address in a time of crisis during her 68-year reign.

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Watch the hero’s farewell sailors gave their fired Theodore Roosevelt skipper

'Captain Crozier! Captain Crozier!'
Capt. Brett Crozier, then-commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt
addresses the crew during an all-hands call in the ship’s hangar bay March 3, 2020.
Crozier was relieved of command after his letter that warned sailors could die
from the coronavirus outbreak aboard the carrier was leaked to the media.
'Captain Crozier! Captain Crozier!':
Videos show sailors sending off ousted USS Roosevelt commander with cheers
Original Footage:
Michael Washington (facebook)
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Salute from the family of a veteran, Sir.

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A Printable Guide: Print this so you don't bring coronavirus home

Recommendations and steps to take if you're going out, and how to remain safe after you've returned home. Some might seem common sense, but it's good to remain vigilant and cautious.

Life under coronavirus means staying home as much as possible -- but you'll likely need to make a trip to the grocery store or pharmacy at some point.

With the help of physicians and infectious disease experts, we built a tip sheet to make sure you don't bring the virus back with you.

For additional steps on disinfecting store-bought goods once home, thanks to KosmicJack for finding this video:

From French Live Feed :

- 14h50 : Another flight of the Airbus A330 'Phoenix' of the French Air Force, taking 6 patients from 'Grand-Est' region to Toulouse.
They embarked at Luxemburg Airport.
(Source : Luxemburg Govt.)

- 15h20 : French Medical Academy 'For' the obligatory wearing of 'Alternative', or 'Public', Masks during the confinement period, and for some time afterwards.
(It is illegal to sell or buy any of the Medical masks in France currently).
'Alternative' or 'Public' means home-made masks from cloth (washable) or other non-medical masks, to help prevent giving it to someone else, rather than protect you from receiving it.

- 16h25 : France televisions is going to have 3 programs to help people keep fit during this confinement at home.
Each program will be in five steps, warm-up, reinforcement, cardio, challenge, stretching.
Will begin monday, 6th April.

From BBC Live Feed :

- 15.36 : "Fake" Drive-thru tests in Kentucky, USA.

A shocking case of fake Covid-19 test centres charging visitors $240 (£195) in the US state of Kentucky is being reported in US media.

Two medical marketing companies are offering the tests, condemned by a local official as "scams", including in a church and a Marathon gas station in Louisville. Officials warn the companies are instead collecting personal data from visitors. City officials condemned the centres, advising residents to be extra vigilant.

More here at the Link (USA Today)

Elsewhere in the US, one website was shut down after it claimed it was offering a vaccine. And in Virigina, telephone scammers posing as health workers tried to lure people to scam test centres.

- 15.43 : Locations of NHS Field Hospital Sites (Image from BBC) :

a reply to: MonkeyBalls2

Man, that pisses me off.

James said the scammers are making money by charging people and by using people's DNA and personal information. An operation he calls unsafe.

"They're using the same gloves on person A that, they used on person B, that they used on person C," James said.

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That's HIGHLY unsafe. Dangerous. They should go to jail.

From Guardian Live Feed :

- 3.05pm : " Ireland has had a more than fourfold increase in coronavirus outbreaks in nursing homes in the space of a week ", Reuters reports.

The number of nursing homes reporting clusters of cases rose to 38 from nine from 24-31 March, according to the most recent data released on Friday from Ireland’s health service executive (HSE).

“A manifestation of where Covid-19 is at the moment is that the health now of those who are in our nursing homes is a matter of real concern for the government,” the finance minister, Paschal Donohoe, told reporters.

Thats 29 more Nursing Homes, compared to only 9 last week. Thats a lot of Old People in danger there.

a reply to: Liquesence

Absolutely agree. Jail, or work-placement in a Hospital (Helping Morgue Staff).

originally posted by: Chance321
Okey, here's little update for this morning. Yesterday we were at 92381 this morning 93053:
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Johns Hopkins Numbers:

And just hours later the number has gone to 102,863 (total increase of 10,120). Deaths 6,591 (total increase of 518)

'Surreal': NY funeral homes struggle as virus deaths surgeText

NEW YORK (AP) — Pat Marmo walked among 20 or so deceased in the basement of his Brooklyn funeral home, his protective mask pulled down so his pleas could be heard. “Every person there, they’re not a body,” he said. “They’re a father, they’re a mother, they’re a grandmother. They’re not bodies. They’re people.” Like many funeral homes in New York and around the globe, Marmo’s business is in crisis as he tries to meet surging demand amid the coronavirus pandemic that has killed around 1,400 people in New York City alone, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University. His two cell phones and the office office line are ringing constantly. He’s apologizing to families at the start of every conversation for being unusually terse, and begging them to insist hospitals hold their dead loved ones as long as possible. His company is equipped to handle 40 to 60 cases at a time, no problem. On Thursday morning, it was taking care of 185. “This is a state of emergency,” he said. “We need help.”

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Interesting point from worldometers
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On April 2, France reported 884 additional deaths that have occurred in nursing homes over the past days and weeks [source]. The French Government did not include these deaths in their official count, as their count only takes into consideration deaths of hospitalized patients.

Japan mulls offering anti-flu drug Avigan to nations fighting coronavirus

The Japanese government is considering offering the anti-influenza drug Avigan for free to countries looking to use it to treat new coronavirus patients, its top government spokesman said Friday. "Some 30 countries have made requests through diplomatic channels to Japan for the procurement of Avigan," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said at a press conference. The drug developed by a group firm of Fujifilm Holdings Corp. is seen as effective in treating the COVID-19 disease caused by the virus. "We intend to expand clinical research on Avigan with countries wishing to cooperate," Suga said. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told a press conference last Saturday that the government will push the development of drugs and vaccines, including Avigan, to fight the pneumonia-causing coronavirus. Fujifilm Toyama Chemical Co. said Tuesday it has started clinical tests to evaluate the efficacy of the drug, also known as Favipiravir, to COVID-19 patients. On Thursday, the German health ministry said it will seek to purchase Avigan tablets as a treatment drug for the new coronavirus. Local media said the ministry will buy several million tablets to treat patients with severe symptoms. A study by researchers at Wuhan University and other institutions in China has shown cases in which Avigan was effective against the coronavirus, especially for the treatment of those with mild symptoms. Avigan has been manufactured and stocked in Japan as an anti-influenza drug. There is hope it can also help treat other diseases, including Ebola, as well as a tick-borne illness.

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a reply to: Halfswede

I really doubt the US is testing post mortem any person that dies outside of a hospital. Especially in NYC where they are totally and completely overwhelmed.

a reply to: pasiphae
They are having a hard enough time testing the living...

a reply to: pasiphae

Cuomo just said in his press conference he is going to use the national guard to take ventilators from private hospitals to redistribute to those that "need them"...

Unprecedented...

a reply to: SonOfThor

That is going to be a mess. He probably should have moved the patients to where the available ventilators and staff were located, not the other way around.

Whoa hefty jump for NY since this morning. 93053 now we have 102863 with 2935 have past on:
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originally posted by: SonOfThor
a reply to: pasiphae

Cuomo just said in his press conference he is going to use the national guard to take ventilators from private hospitals to redistribute to those that "need them"...

Unprecedented...

That could get very ugly. Who is going to make the determination on who doesn't need it at the private hospitals?

C.I.A. Hunts for Authentic Virus Totals in China, Dismissing Government Tallies

WASHINGTON — The C.I.A. has been warning the White House since at least early February that China has vastly understated its coronavirus infections and that its count could not be relied upon as the United States compiles predictive models to fight the virus, according to current and former intelligence officials. The intelligence briefings in recent weeks, based at least in part on information from C.I.A. assets in China, played an important role in President Trump’s negotiation on Thursday of an apparent détente with President Xi Jinping of China. Since then, both countries have ratcheted back criticism of each other. Obtaining a more accurate count of the Chinese rate of infection and deaths from the virus has worldwide public health implications at a time of grave uncertainty over the virus, its speed of transmission and other fundamental questions. For American officials, the totals are critical to getting a better understanding of how Covid-19 will affect the United States in the months to come and of the effectiveness of countermeasures like social distancing, according to American intelligence agencies and White House officials.

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