AMSTERDAM/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Europe’s hospital systems are at risk of buckling under the strain of soaring COVID-19 infections that put the continent again at the center of the global pandemic on Wednesday while nearly two-thirds of U.S. states were in a danger zone of coronavirus spread.
With European case numbers that were brought largely under control by the unprecedented lockdowns in March and April now resurging relentlessly, authorities in countries from Poland to Portugal have expressed mounting alarm at the renewed crisis confronting their health infrastructure.
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MIDDLE EAST
Russian navy seen escorting Iranian tankers bound for Syria.
Pompeo says Syria not forthcoming on missing Americans.
Turkish forces withdraw from largest base in northeast Syria.
Israel lauds UAE delegation visit as 'making history', Palestinians deem it 'shameful'.
Iran vows to reveal 'detailed' data on plane probe: Kiev.
Lebanon's exit from crisis hinges on new PM: president.
Khashoggi fiancée sues Saudi crown prince in US court.
ASIA
Thailand’s PM vows to lift state of emergency, but protesters insist he must quit in 3 days.
Taliban ambush kills at least 25 Afghan security personnel.
U.S., South Korea alliance facing setback, ex-U.S. commander says.
U.S. blacklists 6 Chinese firms for dealing with Iran shipping network.
China puts Sweden on notice following Huawei, ZTE decision.
North Korea ship sailed in Japanese waters, Tokyo says.
Catastrophic floods hit Vietnam and Cambodia, killing at least 132 people.
Taiwan charges Chinese captain over killing of 'Somali pirates'.
AFRICA
Nigeria protesters tell of 'terrible' shooting.
Nigeria Sars protest: Unrest in Lagos after shooting.
Ten killed in Guinea’s post-election violence.
Guinea post-election violence turns deadly as police clash with opposition supporters.
UN Libya envoy 'optimistic' on ceasefire prospects.
Opposition complains of repression as Tanzania heads to the polls.
European lawmakers call for release of Egypt's political prisoners.
UN judge orders extradition of Rwandan genocide suspect Kabuga to The Hague.
Ethiopia struggles to suppress desert locust infestation.
EUROPE
Hospitals struggle as 20 European countries record highest daily number of COVID cases.
Spain becomes first EU nation to reach 1 million Covid-19 cases.
Pompeo confirms plans to hold talks with Armenian, Azerbaijani top diplomats.
EU urges Russia, US to prolong New START before February 2021.
US proceeds from fact that Russia agreed in principle to extend New START, Pompeo says.
Pope Francis supports law for same-sex civil unions in new documentary.
France awards Legion of Honor to slain schoolteacher.
Berlin mystery attack targets 70 museum artefacts.
AMERICAS
White House pushing for stimulus deal within next 48 hours.
Obama hits campaign trail for Biden in final stretch of White House race.
U.S. economy recovering slowly, but some sectors struggling: Fed survey.
US tightens rules on more Chinese media outlets.
‘Not even the pandemic’ will stop Colombia protests, leaders say.
Nicaraguan President Ortega denies torture allegations.
Cocaine worth $500m found hidden in charcoal shipment in Paraguay.
TERRORISM/THE LONG WAR
France teacher attack: Students 'paid €300' to identify Samuel Paty.
France to 'intensify' actions against Islamist extremism after teacher beheaded.
ECONOMY/FINANCE/BUSINESS
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Purdue Pharma to plead guilty in $8bn opioid settlement.
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Strange, for decades I was told that the EU's health care system was the envy of the world and just today NPR stated that Covid death rates were declining in all categories. Yet this article states the EU's hospitals are buckling at the very onset of cases ascribed to a second wave. Something is rather odd. Not to mention the WHO pronouncement that total lockdowns were ineffective.
I know a nurse in London
London is under lock down
Hospitals are empty
Media says they're full
Just like in the US
Something is odd indeed
Meanwhile China makes a lot of money of this.. and the left nm media and your Democrats shout at us if we ask any questions about China and the Wuhan virus
And Biden and the Democrats are bankrolled by the CCP. Just like Hollywood and the NBA . Mark Cuban the traitor just came out in defense of China. Good boy. He wants that sweet Chinese money. Human rights issues?ahhh come on, trump is a nazi he says. Good boy. The money flows
Italy, Numbers, and Confusion: Why Is Italy the Hotbed of COVID-19
"Stripped of the panic, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 — the new betacoronavirus that originated in China, and the disease the virus caused — are really fascinating, an exciting and important scientific detective story that someone, someday, will get to tell without ritualized stomping by various political factions. Probably not today, but someday."
"Of all the locations with clusters of kung flu infections, Italy is the most active."
They identified several things that might be contributing to this:
1 Demographics: Italy is, on average, a country full of old people. According to the CIA World Factbook, Italy is the fifth-oldest country in the world. We know that COVID-19 is more likely to cause death in older people.
2 Comorbidity, that is, association with other diseases: Italy’s aging population, as well as being old, also has lots of old people with heart disease, COPD, long histories of smoking, high blood pressure, and diabetes.
3 There’s a geographic factor here as well: most of the deaths are coming from heavily industrial Lombardy, which also has a long history of bad air pollution.
4 The most interesting one is that the Italian National Institute of Health thinks the cause of death is being over-identified as COVID-19.
Charlie Martin is really smart.
Ask Why 5 times
Apparently Charlie has.
The FBI just pushed out the lamest, no context, nothing-burger gloss-over presser I've ever seen.
FBI holds press conference on 'major election security issue'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s0Jq-IL2NA
/cue Louis Renault
What a load of tosh. Get your facts straight pal...
London is not in lockdown at all, they are in tier 2 restrictions. Households cannot mix and businesses stay open. Pubs and restaurants must close at 10pm. And the rule of 6 applies.
I live in the North West, the current epicentre of the outbreak in the UK, we are in tier 3 restrictions, still not a lockdown as such.
My neighbour is an NHS nurse.
Liverpool hospitals are treating more Covid patients now than at the first peak. Fact.
Russ,
I think bit was a message to China and some domestic people. But it was strange, also why was Ratcliffe there?
He's supposed to be the big cheese in charge, but it didn't feel that way.
London is under lockdown.
If stores, bars, churches, restaurants cannot operate under any capacity they want, it is lockdown.
If there is no indoor dining or restricted indoor dining, then you are in lockdown. Before governmental bodies ran by political cliques panicked or connived to stampeding people like a herd over a cliff in March, people were voluntarily dialing back travel (see petrol usage) and going out (see economic activity).
You can argue until you are blue in the face and start talking like a Democrat, but you are in lockdown. Such restriction affect revenue and unemployment levels.
Assholes have killed more people due to depression and overdoses than the virus had killed. Your "chicken little", "Mother May I" way has resulted in more life=years lost than just letting the disease run its course. You are just trading, who is dying. Nay, you are picking and choosing.
You should be ashamed of yourself for being functionally illiterate in at least two areas. Just because you can sign you name to a document with something other than the proverbial X does not prove that you are functionally literate. It might enable others and yourself to fool you into thinking you are literate, but that is all.
It is okay though. I just read an essay by a person in their late 30's who thinks he is wise. He is a consultant and that automatically confers a degree of respectability. looked up his linkedin profile. He had a degree in physics. philosophy and something else. It might mean he is a really bright guy. It might mean he is lazy. It might mean upper level physics courses got tough and he filled in with philosophy courses to get to the magical 120 semester hours and a folded piece of paper.
Anywho he had graph with his essay. More like it was a picture of 2 curves. One curve was labeled disease cases without action in red and the other in blue labeled disease cases with action. The red curve was lower it had a lower peak. The curve was flattened. Whether number of infections per day or deaths per day it doesn't matter. They are related. One is a proxy for the other.
So I told you this guy is smart. He has a diploma (folded piece of Paper. He is a consultant. He took physics. Does it really matter if he took 3 courses or 20?
Back to the graph/picture. It had two curves. And the consultant took physics. Well presumably if he took physics, he took at least 2 if not 3 semesters of calculus. If he took 2nd semester calculus, he learned Riemann sums and did more than a few exercises in area under the curve.
Now the area under the curve would measure cumulative death or infections.
What if the area under the curves is the same?
It means you have the same # of deaths.
You did gain something and you lost something.
There might not be any queue for the hospital (There wasn't after we set up field hospitals.). And some people gained some more days lived (about 5 months per person).
You lost days lived by the suicides and overdoses. You lost the economy. You can relate poverty rates to life years.
You lost freedom and let me tell you many politicians are very happy about it. They get to dole out more and more money like the chieftains of old.
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