Thankfully it'll all be over by Easter.I see the USA now has more confirmed cases than any other country including China / Italy / Spain.
I see the USA now has more confirmed cases than any other country including China / Italy / Spain.
Thankfully it'll all be over by Easter.
They are so fuckedYeah, but it'll over by Easter.
Trump says so.
ETA - just beaten too it by Numbers.
Well, I know the guy's an absolute bell and talks shite a lot of the time, but if this is genuine then fair fucks to him I guess.
Conor McGregor pledges 1m euros of protective equipment for Irish hospitals
Conor McGregor is buying one million euros worth of personal protective equipment for hospitals in Ireland.www.bbc.co.uk
In a private twitter exchange with Irish Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe, published by McGregor,
I agree, the USA looks unprepared, states are bidding prices up for PPE kit against each other, celebrities are donating money for medical supplies because the states are not funding enough, and federally Trump isn't providing adequate leadership.
I believe the worst areas in terms of infection are New York and California, I believe CA is on some level of lock down but I don't know what is happening in NY. There are also other states that are highly infected.
They'll be fine. God will look after them. They're his chosen ones.I see the USA now has more confirmed cases than any other country including China / Italy / Spain.
Every hospital in New York has been ordered to increase its bed capacity by 50% because at the moment the city is about 90,000 beds short of what they predict they might need.
Trump rather out of step with reality. Surely it must be so obvious how out of touch he is, this must mean it is possible he won't get reelected no?New York now has over 25,000 confirmed virus cases and at least 210 deaths.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday the US has the potential to become the new epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic.
The warnings come as President Donald Trump said he hoped the US would reopen for business next month.
Unfortunately so is his voter base.Trump rather out of step with reality.
Grim181 dead in U.K. registered today?
It’s moving up a gear
Now that we’re all hyperaware of the new coronavirus, you might be thinking back on the last time you were sick. More specifically, you may be reflecting on that cold or respiratory illness you experienced back at the beginning of the year. Is there a chance that was actually COVID-19?
The main symptoms of COVID-19 include a cough, shortness of breath and a fever. Additionally, you might have digestive problems ― like nausea or diarrhea ― a headache and a sore throat. At the onset of the illness, you may experience a loss of smell or taste.
These symptoms can be mistaken for a bad cold or the flu, especially if you have a “mild” case of COVID-19. It’s also very possible to have the virus and not even notice, as some cases can be asymptomatic or negligible.
There’s evidence the coronavirus started spreading in America earlier than people were really tracking it. Some experts suspect that the first U.S. cases began in January. Lee Riley, chair of the division of infectious disease and vaccinology at the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Public Health, told Medium that it’s safe to assume the virus has probably been spreading in your community for about two weeks before there’s a confirmed death.
Combine all of these facts, and the theory that some people may have already been infected with the virus and recovered isn’t an outrageous one. That may be slightly comforting, especially since some experts believe you may have some level of immunity once you get COVID-19.
Unfortunately, there’s no effective way yet to know if you’ve had the virus in the past and recovered.
“At this point, we don’t have a test to tell that,” William Hillmann, an associate inpatient physician director at Massachusetts General Hospital, told The Guardian.
I wonder if we ultimately they'll be able to "sequence" antibodies and spot these viruses repeatedly emerging, petering out and then mutating successfully....
This theory seems to be gaining some traction. Any informed thoughts? I certainly had those symptoms a while back but that probably means nothing.
(CNN)There were over 74,000 cases of coronavirus in the United States as of Thursday midday. About half were in New York -- almost 10 times more than any other state.
Why has the outbreak hit New York so much harder than other places?
Health experts said the answers are largely specific to the New York metropolitan area -- its density and population, primarily -- but they are also a warning to other states that think they may be spared.
New York is the epicenter for now, but Covid-19 will not stop there.
As the United States records the most detected cases of coronavirus in the world, the president, who had questioned the need for additional ventilators, pushes industry to make more. States are pleading for supplies as shortages of protective gear endanger health workers the world over.
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The House passed the $2 trillion stimulus package by voice vote, sending it to President Trump for his signature.
The Louisiana city has around 1,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and, according to one academic study, saw the world’s fastest growth rate in terms of how quickly cases rose in the first fortnight after detection.
Suspicion has fallen on the city’s famous Mardi Gras festivities which ran throughout February before reaching a climax on the 25th, around a month ago. It attracted an estimated 1.4 million tourists.
Yes xes how can China's numbers be true? Worldometers reports that China had 81,000 infections and 3,292 deaths. Italy with a tiny fraction of the Chinese population has 86,000 cases and 9,134 deaths. Unless China did something really exceptional, I accept that once the virus was identified China did respond big time but can their actions really explain the vast difference in their experience compared to Italy's experience?
We will be obliged to out of a sort of international comradeship but also and more relevantly out of pure self interest, if we sat back and permitted countries like these to be massive viral hot spots we would never return to the sort of world order we knew in our past...
Is it possible that we will be in a position to offer help to countries which lack the health and communication infrastructure, as well as funds to deal with this in time to limit the spread.
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