Wuhan virus 2020

[Jimbuna]

Prince Charles has officially opened London's new NHS Nightingale Hospital via video link.

Confirmed coronavirus cases pass one million, a US university tally says.

Nearly 53,000 people have died and more than 210,000 have recovered.

US records world's highest daily toll with 1,169 deaths.

US unemployment figures hit a record high of 6.6 million.

Prince Charles opens a rapidly-built field hospital in London.

UK faces questions on how it will meet targets for testing.

WHO urges Middle East countries to do more to contain the virus spread.

Peru imposes restrictions based on gender.

[u crank]

The downside of globalism in the age of the pandemic.

Travel data of passengers arriving in the United States from China during the critical period in December, January and February, when the disease took hold in that country, shows a stunning 759,493 people entered the U.S.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/disa...ry?id=69933625

Those travelers from China included more than 228,000 Americans returning home and hundreds of thousands of Chinese nationals arriving for business, academics, tourism or to visit family.

The data shows how a highly communicable disease can quickly move throughout an interconnected global community, spreading across the globe in a matter of hours. The novel coronavirus was off to the races before the international community knew what had hit it.

"I think this was bound to eventually happen," Kumar said. "The high volume of international travel, the lack of screening, the inconsistent hand-washing and cough control ... these laid down the perfect conditions for a disease to spread. Add that to a virus that is both largely asymptomatic and has a prolonged infectious period, and you have got a perfect storm of factors for a pandemic."

"Could China have announced to the world a couple of weeks earlier that there was concern that a SARS-like outbreak was occurring? Possibly," Ellerin said. "Could an immediate travel ban announced by China have slowed the spread of this virus even further? Likely. But, in the end, given the complexities of global travel and the insidious nature of this virus, even an immediate travel ban probably would not have fully contained this contagious pathogen."

[Skybird]

Canada, Fance and Germany accuse America of pirating deliveries of masks for these countries on the airfield by storming on the airfield after the transport and offering the crew cash money three and four times a smuch as the payment by the customers, and thats it.

I would not be surprised if the disappearing of 6 million German masks on an airport in Kenya also was an American coup. The uS is on of the very few countries havig the global logistcs capbilities to support such operations, and a leader ruthless enough to like such stunts.

[Skybird]

The president of the German Robert-Koch-Institute said in his daily PC that in Germany the reporuction rate of the virus now is 1.0, means every ifnected person enfects one other perosn (r0=1).


I would love to be proven wrong, but I do not beleieve it before I see it, it happens too fast, and the man has talked so much opporutnistic drivel in past days that for me his crediblity is completely gone. Also, the RKI is being criticised since long now for the qualiity of its numbers.

[Skybird]

Imperial College London, data on the events.

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/mrc-globa...ysis/covid-19/

The Lockdown in Germyn so far has saved the lives of around 60 thosuand. Globally, without the measurements in place that we now have, around 3.8 million more people would have and would die. This quote I base on a german summary of the latest ICL calculations.

[Jimbuna]

[Jimbuna]

[Rockstar]

Best Korea is still coronavirus free. What a country!


https://news.yahoo.com/n-korea-insis...052826079.html

[Jimbuna]

[STEED]

STAND BY HERE COMES THE QUEEN...

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

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52155430

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Not here....only the wife and I plus a nearby neighbour who works for the NHS

Put up a sign, those who do not clap show they care not for those on the front line.

[Jimbuna]

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by STEED

Put up a sign, those who do not clap show they care not for those on the front line.

Not sure if any of the buggas can read.

[Skybird]

The Antonov that brought Russian equipment and ventilators to the US, hardly was an act of Russian selflessness, but the items represent an order placed by the US for which the US pays good money.


Oh, and the ventilators stem from a Russian company that is under sanctions since several years. The Russians make the Americans pay for undermining the sanctions the Americans have imposed themselves on that Russian company.

[Mr Quatro]

I'll be glad when this battle with covid-19 ends then we can get back to fighting the drug wars that are reported to cause 10's of thousands of deaths a year right here in the USA.

Guess where most of the drugs that kill people come from?

Guess what country ships these dangerous drugs across out southern border?

Read the answer at the end

How many drug overdose deaths in the US?

In the United States, more than 72,000 people died from drug overdoses in 2017, which was an increase of about 10 percent over 2016. Since 2000, the U.S. drug overdose death rate has gone from 6.2 per 100,000 people in 2000 to 14.7 per 100,000 in 2014.

Which drug causes the most deaths each year?

Every year, tens of thousands of Americans die from drug overdoses. Perhaps the most well-known source of these deaths is the opioid heroin. However, another, more powerful opioid substance — fentanyl — now causes more fatalities than any other drug in the U.S.

China

Most fentanyl in the U.S. comes from China. China isn’t where fentanyl originated, but because of the lack of regulations in the pharmaceutical industry there, the country is a pretty significant supplier of illegal prescription drugs and chemicals.