CNBC: WHO officials warn health systems are ‘collapsing’ under coronavirus: ‘This isn’t just a bad flu season’
* WHO officials warned Friday against downplaying the total number of infections and deaths caused by the coronavirus as it overwhelms health systems around the world.
* Last week, the WHO declared that Europe had become the new epicenter of the outbreak, which began in Wuhan, China in December.
World Health Organization officials warned Friday against dismissing the coronavirus that’s swept across the globe as just a bad outbreak of the flu, saying it has overwhelmed health systems around the world in just a few weeks.
“Take one look at what’s happening in some health systems around the world. Look at the intensive care units completely overwhelmed. Doctors and nurses utterly exhausted,” Mike Ryan, executive director of the World Health Organization’s emergencies program, said at a press briefing from the organization’s Geneva headquarters. “This is not normal. This isn’t just a bad flu season.”
The virus has now infected more than 254,000 people and killed at least 10,444 people across the world, according to Johns Hopkins University.
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WNU Editor: Where I live (the island of Montreal) the hospitals have less patients than usual. But we all know that this is going to dramatically change in the next few weeks.
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The Real Question Coronavirus Hell Should Have Us All Asking
Areas where there is no outbreak should send military doctors (who are used to fast deployments and redeployments) into HOT ZONES across nations. This pandemic will otherwise EAT each hotzone one by one, KILLING the doctors who will all get it if it indeed comes in waves - which is uncertain at this point.
I would seriously consider this, it would be a good thing for humanity too, you know, team work and what not. Will make epic movie material too! Someone in Hollywood get on it! Brad Pitt, dammit where are you mate? :D
Insulin makers hardest hit.
"...or leave domestic agencies like the CDC underfunded, the nation will eventually pay for it."
- Daniel R. DePetris
Translated for idiot to Engrish it reads
"Print money Assholes! " - Daniel R. DePetris
Fact #1: CDC budget was increased.
Fact #2: Chronic Disease and infectious diseases are two different things.
Fact #3: Not many people bid on 30 year US treasury bonds last week. With the stock market tanking you think people would. Why lend to a country that prints $$$ ?
Fact #4: De Petrie Dish does not understand the theory of constraints.
- How many diseases are you going to vaccinate against?
- How many diseases can vaccinate against?
- How many diseases can the immune system be primed for?
- If you optimize a system for one thing you sub-optimize it for another. Jet passenger panes are optimized to be stable. Fighter jets are designed to be unstable and turn on a dime
- How many hospital beds with associated facilities are you going to build? During non- peak times will you maintain them or let them decay. People in inventory, production and business deal with this all the time. They have the math and the models. Your "I got a masters in public administration" not so much. If they did, they would be interchangeable and fortune 500 companies would hire them. Hint they don't.
People prefer junk over 30 Year Us treasuries.
"Junk-Bond ETFs Are Faring Better Than Treasuries" - Bloomberg
I like how Fred Lapides quotes writers from the Nixon Foundation.
Not smart writers, but parasitic ones known to infest older institutions like emerald ash borers infest trees.
Trump said Wednesday he was invoking the Defense Production Act, but later in the day tweeted that, even though he’d signed the law, he’d only use it in a "worst case scenario." On Friday morning, he formally acknowledged that he’d put the law “into gear.”
Biden said that Trump’s actions regarding the law were not “straightforward and reliable.”
The former vice president also criticized Trump for having directed governors to acquire critical medical supplies on their own, before relying on the federal government.
President Donald Trump on Friday shot down the prospect for any kind of nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus, resisting a step that California, New York and now Illinois have already taken.
“I don't think so,” Trump told reporters Friday when asked whether California‘s strategy could be adopted nationwide.
Trump, who instead announced another series of mitigation efforts spanning the federal government, maintained that California and New York were exceptions.
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' “I don't think so,” Trump told reporters Friday when asked whether California‘s strategy could be adopted nationwide.'
My spouse and one of my kids got hit by a car. My spouse's 1st instinct was to yank our kid to safety and take the hit.
What I see here is many people salivating over an economic downturn, recession or depression, so that they can gain politically no matter that it hurts young people. We had a death yesterday in the state I think 1 of 4 or just one. It didn't bother me. I did not know their age. They could have been young. But I heard they were visiting from Florida and that told me the chances were they were a "Snowbird" and therefore older. Today, I heard that they were in the 70's. So my guess was confirmed.
It is not callous to be unconcerned. 150,000 people die every day on Earth. There are 86,4000 seconds in a day. If you cried for everyone who died in a day, you would have t cry for 2 people for every second of the day. No breaks for sleeping or eating and definitely no bathroom breaks.
I question whether Democrat governors would even call for quarantine, if a Democrat was in the White House. They did not for the H1N1 outbreak.
Democrats have really set us up for a pandemic. We have poor people and so they invite more people to come to America, before we solve our existing problems.
Now that is genius as in evil genius.
The metropolitan areas were always going to have problems as all metro area will do to density. However those in California are exacerbated by illegal immigration and other problems.
Like Needles
THE SITUATION AT GOLDEN GATE PARK / Sunday in the park -- with needles
Just like I remembered it.
And now shit maps
Drought is natural; Famine is man made
Corona is an Act of God; the severity of the pandemic is an act of the DNC
Democrats made this problem and they are trying to profit off of it.
Of the roughly 150,000 people who die each day across the globe, about two thirds—100,000 per day—die of age-related causes. In industrialized nations, the proportion is much higher, reaching 90%.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortality_rate
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