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Fact check: Did the Obama administration deplete the federal stockpile of N95 masks?
During the presidency of Barack Obama, the national stockpile was seriously taxed as the administration addressed multiple crises over eight years.
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Fact check: Did the Obama administration deplete the federal stockpile of N95 masks?
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The claim: The Obama administration used and did not replenish the nation’s emergency stockpile of medical supplies, including N95 masks
As the novel coronavirus pandemic strains health care systems, questions around the U.S. government's response have circulated in the media and online.
On March 26, The Daily Wire published an article centering on the Obama administration’s role in using and allegedly failing to replenish the federal stockpile of N95 masks.
“The Obama administration significantly depleted the federal stockpile of N95 respirator masks to deal with the H1N1 influenza outbreak in 2009 and never rebuilt the stockpile despite calls to do so,” the piece begins.
The article draws from the reporting of outlets including Bloomberg News and the Los Angeles Times. According to Bloomberg News, “after the H1N1 influenza outbreak in 2009, which triggered a nationwide shortage of masks and caused a 2- to 3-year backlog orders for the N95 variety, the stockpile distributed about three-quarters of its inventory and didn’t build back the supply.”
“After the swine flu epidemic in 2009, a safety-equipment industry association and a federally sponsored task force both recommended that depleted supplies of N95 respirator masks, which filter out airborne particles, be replenished by the stockpile,” the Los Angeles Times reported.
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump said during a press conference the country’s stockpile of personal protective equipment, including medical gear like N95 masks, is almost depleted.
A history of the national emergency stockpile
Established in 1999 to prepare the country for threats like pandemics, natural disasters and acts of bioterrorism, the United States has used and maintained its Strategic National Stockpile of medical supplies during times of acute crisis in the health care system.
The reserve was originally named the National Pharmaceutical Stockpile, but was renamed during a 2003 restructuring when additional materials were added to the supply. The stockpile is jointly managed by the departments of Defense and Health and Human Services.
While officials rarely discuss specifics about the reserve, like the exact locations and value of its contents, the fund's restocking contracts are largely public, including a July 2019 deal for vaccines valued at $1.5 billion.
Warnings about the United States' lack of preparedness for a serious pandemic have come from both inside the federal government and elsewhere since at least the early 2000s and as recently as last year.
“SARS has infected relatively few people nationwide, but it has raised concerns about preparedness for large-scale infectious disease outbreaks,” a 2003 analysis from the Government Accountability Office reads.
HHS Secretary Alex Azar said in April 2019 the BioDefense Summit that a pandemic was among his top concerns, CNN reported on Friday. "Of course, the thing that people ask: 'What keeps you most up at night in the biodefense world?' Pandemic flu, of course. I think everyone in this room probably shares that concern," Azar told the summit. (His full remarks are available on the HHS website.)
The stockpile has been used at least 13 times since its creation, including during the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and 2001 anthrax attacks. Also during the George W. Bush administration, the national stockpile was deployed in response to hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 and then again for Hurricanes Gustav and Ike in 2008, according to the stockpile's history published by the HHS.
In 2005, the Bush administration published a report that urged investment in local and national stockpiles, increasing domestic production capacity and coordinating research efforts toward cures and vaccines. In 2006, Congress approved expanding the stockpile to include protective gear like N95 surgical masks.
During the presidency of Barack Obama, the national stockpile was seriously taxed as the administration addressed multiple crises over eight years. About "75 percent of N95 respirators and 25 percent of face masks contained in the CDC's Strategic National Stockpile (∼100 million products) were deployed for use in health care settings over the course of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic response," according to a 2017 study in the journal Health Security.
Again according to NIH, the stockpile's resources were also used during hurricanes Alex, Irene, Isaac and Sandy. Flooding in 2010 in North Dakota also called for stockpile funds to be deployed. The 2014 outbreaks of the ebola virus and botulism, as well as the 2016 outbreak of the zika virus, continued to significantly tax the stockpile with no serious effort from the Obama administration to replenish the fund.
ProPublica reported on April 3 that congressional budget battles in the early years of the Obama administration contributed to stockpile shortages. But the article notes available funds were used not to replenish masks: "With limited resources, officials in charge of the stockpile tend to focus on buying lifesaving drugs from small biotechnology firms that would, in the absence of a government buyer, have no other market for their products, experts said. Masks and other protective equipment are in normal times widely available and thus may not have been prioritized for purchase, they said."
During the presidency of Donald Trump, analysts have warned the United States is not prepared for a serious pandemic.
“We assess that the United States and the world will remain vulnerable to the next flu pandemic or large scale outbreak of a contagious disease that could lead to massive rates of death and disability, severely affect the world economy, strain international resources, and increase calls on the United States for support,” the 2019 World Threat Assessment from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence states.
The Trump administration has not taken significant steps to replenish the masks in the Strategic National Stockpile.
Our rating: True
We rate this claim TRUE because it is supported by our research. There is no indication that the Obama administration took significant steps to replenish the supply of N95 masks in the Strategic National Stockpile after it was depleted from repeated crises. Calls for action came from experts at the time concerned for the country’s ability to respond to future serious pandemics. Such recommendations were, for whatever reason, not heeded.
Our fact-check sources:
- Department of Health and Human Services, Strategic National Stockpile: History
- Government Accountability Office, 2003 Report on Public Health Capacity
- Health Security, Personal Protective Equipment Supply Chain: Lessons Learned from Recent Public Health Emergency Responses
- Homeland Security Council, 2005 National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza
- National Institute of Health, The Strategic National Stockpile: Origin, Policy Foundations, and Federal Context
- 2019 Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community
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This Is Where The World Is On The "Corona Curve" At This Moment
Sat, 04/04/2020 - 16:05
Two weeks ago, we wrote that with 1.7 billion people in the world under quarantine (a number which has since ballooned to over 3 billion) and "desperate to find out where on the coronavirus "curve" they are to calculate how much more pain there is, JPM made an attempt at a (very nonscientific) visual representation of where on the curve the main covid outbreaks in the world currently stand." Additionally, this is how we laid out the good/not so good/bad news as of March 24:
- The good news, China has is now well into the recovery phase, although since any and every number out of China is a lie, we would ignore any reports that the covid pandemic in China is easing especially after a spate of recent indications that China is openly manipulating its infection numbers. Also good news: Korea is almost "over the hump", and absent new clusters emerging in the next few days, should be in recovery.
- The not so good news: both Italy and Iran are in the "late accumulation" phase. If they fail to halt the breakout at this point as the recovery phase approaches, it will get very ugly as much of the local population could then be infected. Behind Italy and Iran is the rest of Europe, with Spain, Germany, France, the UK all in the acceleration phase. The onus in on them to execute successful lockdowns.
- Finally, the bad news: both the US and India are at the very start of the curve and things will get much uglier in the coming weeks before they get better.
Fast forward to today when we we again have some good and bad news, oh and a graphic update of where on the curve the world is.
First, the bad news: putting the past two weeks in context, back on March 24 there were roughly 350,000 global cases, with 15,000 deaths. As of today, there are now 1.2 million cases and rising by 80,000 every day, with roughly 67,000 deaths and rising by about 8,000 per day.
Now the good news: with every passing day, the world - most of which is currently on lock down - gets closer to the infection inflection point, and as the updated "corona curve" chart shows, all the nations that were in the exponential rise phase (acceleration), are now moving into the stage of infection growth rate slowdown (accumulation), suggesting that a pea for most countries is now just a matter of time, at which point the number of new cases will start slowing down aggressively.
This means that while US cases continue to soar, the light at the end of the tunnel is now visible. One caveat: the giant populations off Brazil, Indonesia and Philippines are only now entering the acceleration phase, meaning that the number of global cases could soar in the coming weeks.
Finally, here is how the virologists over at JPM summarize where the world currently stands:
Translation: finally some good news as the bank concludes it might be reasonable to "gradually map out the potential global curve peak within two months." The risk is that any indication of a slowdown in new cases will also lead to an early relaxation of stricter social distancing practices, as this could drive an infection curve rebound, something which is already happening in Japan, where today there were a record 118 new cases . And since China has been rushing to reopen its economy to avoid an all out economic depression and did away with "social distancing" long ago, one can be certain that China's real numbers are exponentially higher than the political propaganda that Beijing is reporting to the outside world
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Expert Virologist: Here's Everything You Need To Understand About Coronavirus
•Apr 4, 2020
Peak Prosperity Dr. Chris Martenson (pathologist, investments- includes gold)
interviews Dr. Angie Rasmussen - virologist
In this video, Chris interviews expert virologist Dr. Angela Rasmussen, of the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Chris and Dr. Rusmussen dive deep into the science of the covid-19 virus, what it does once in the body and what potential treatments show promise.
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Sat, 04/04/2020 - 19:55
Americans hear it every day now during Gov. Andrew Cuomo's press briefings. In the middle of a crushing pandemic, New York and other states are being grossly gouged as they shop around for medical supplies. With most of their regular relationships exhausted, states are competing against each other, a nonsensical and costly "bidding war" that Cuomo has blamed on President Trump.
N95 masks, which are now among the most prized commodities on the planet, are in such short supply, that some hospitals in NYC simply don't have them to provide to workers, forcing them to improvise. Cuomo says masks that recently cost just 40 or 50 cents are now being sold for $7 a pop, a roughly 13x markup.
While the administration's failure to better prepare for the epidemic certainly hasn't helped, the New York Times on Friday pointed out another, bigger factor that's greatly contributed to this problem. Complex globalized supply chains have been disrupted by the outbreak, and with production largely centered in China, producers are effectively using the masks as political chits: Beijing has given them to Italy, and the UK - and even a few to the US.
But beyond that, the chaos caused by the outbreak caused such a mad scramble to buy up these supplies, that brokers are selling them at crazy markups, many because they bought them at already-crazy markups, and are now either trying to make a sliver of profit, or just break even. Even wannabe 'Good Samaritans' have fallen prey to this cycle, as the dogooders ask simply to be reimbursed for their costs, or just accept that they will lose money, which is hard to do during a time of looming economic catastrophe. At a certain point, it almost becomes difficult to differentiate the scammers from the do-gooders.
Others are exploiting relationships to act as 'brokers', middle-manning N95 masks and other supplies - the masks especially will become even more scarce and costly once the White House and CDC inevitably advise people to wear them in public - for modest profits.
Rampant crisis profiteering has already been well-documented by the press, as have the efforts by states and the federal government to police it. Earlier this week, AG Barr got up at the White House's daily press conference and warned that federal prosecutors would be cracking down. And many have been publicly shamed.
But even as Amazon bans the sale of masks to the general public, next-level 'brokers' are using the power of the internet to deal with hospital systems and other health-care providers who have essentially been forced to participate in the shadowy grey market to acquire essential supplies at a time when people's lives - even the lives of young, healthy people - are very much on the line.
One of the details that most stood out to us in Friday's New York Times story was the description of the practice as "medical supply arbitrage." Here's how it works, according to NYT
As prosecutors crack down on re-sellers of medical supplies, the line between what constitutes 'gouging' and simple sales of products that aren't illegal to sell to the general public is becoming more difficult to discern. Barr's press conference appearance aside, last month, the DoJ said it would investigate people manipulating the medical-supply market. Then, five days later, federal authorities charged a Brooklyn man with lying about price gouging after he tried to sell 1,000 masks and other supplies to a doctor for $12,000 (he was also charged with assault for coughing on one of the agents).
It might still be legal, but anybody who's still doing this should watch their backs.
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Outrage After COVID-19 Test-Scammers Set Up Pop-Up Tents In Louisville
Sat, 04/04/2020 - 19:05
Unbelievable as it sounds at a moment local and state police are in many instances imposing draconian measures limiting citizens' movement across state borders, and in some instances fining them for not wearing virus protective face gear, as well as ticketing small businesses for alleged price gouging, this one has slipped past authorities, apparently:
We should also note this seems an incredibly dangerous threat to public safety, given scammers posing as medical professionals administering 'fake COVID-19 tests' on people showing up with symptoms itself increases the likelihood of local spread.
No doubt the scammers are not at all following safe health protocol like changing over gloves and strict sanitization procedures, so the presumed 'test' itself could spread the virus.
"Metro Council President David James and several local advocates have been hunting down a group they say are fake COVID-19 testers," local media reports say further of the group, which has been in the state before conducting similar medical-related scams. "So far, James said the scammers have set up pop-up drive-thru testing tents at Wayside Christian Mission, Sojourn Church and at Broadway and 17th Street."
"It's a scam," James said. "They couldn't even spell HIPAA right on their name tags!" He further said of the health risks posed by the unique new con:
Some states have begun issuing warnings against fraudulent test sites, such as Indiana which also recently saw some examples. Kentucky and others have begun requiring that test sites and labs be approved to work with the state.
The Louisville Courier Journal reported of growing public outrage regarding the increase in unapproved 'pop-up testing sites':
"At this time, we are advising residents experiencing symptoms to seek COVID-19 testing from hospitals, health care providers or government resources," Louisville city spokeswoman Jessica Wethington said after the fraudulent activity was exposed.
Screengrab of local footage of fake testing site, via Louisville Courier Journal.And one local advocate, Tara Bassett, who's been investigative the group said they'd been run out of town on prior occasions.
"They showed up again in late February, early March and I actually ambushed interviewed one of the guys that's still on this team," Bassett said. "They're the scum of the earth and they're preying on the poorest of the poor and I'm going to do everything in my power to get them the hell out of Kentucky."
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"Don't Disrupt The Supply Chain": The 9 States Still Resisting Stay-At-Home Orders
Sat, 04/04/2020 - 18:25
Dr. Anthony Fauci has been talking up a federal-imposed nationwide 'stay at home' order, though many might challenge the very legality or possibility that Washington would even have the power to impose it on states. Thus far Trump has resisted such a move, preferring to leave these questions to the governors.
Fauci told CNN’s Anderson Cooper at the end of this week of a federal order, "I don't understand why that's not happening.” He said, "If you look at what's going on in this country, I just don't understand why we're not doing that. We really should be.”
Meanwhile much of the mainstream media has directed its ire at the last "hold-out" states which have "dragged their feet" on the issue. Many governors have expressed that they don't see the need to take such a drastic step that could decimate their local economies, leaving social distancing to the 'good judgments' of counties, towns, and individuals.
Via The New York TimesFor example CNN has headlined its story: "Why these 8 Republican governors are holding out on statewide stay-at-home orders?"
The nine states that have resisted shutting everything down are Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming.
Gov. Kim Reynolds of Iowa expressed this during a recent press conference, saying:
In some instances like Iowa, schools and 'non-essential' businesses have been closed, while a state-wide 'one size fits all' approach has been resisted.
Oklahoma has also come practically close to a stay at home order, without actually issuing the formal directive.
Map & data via The Guardian/Johns Hopkins CSSE
Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts also affirmed it should be a local and regional matter. He was cited in ABC News as saying, "We're a different state than states like New York that are doing that. We are much earlier in the epidemic curve than New York."
By the New York Times' numbers, some 311 million people have been urged to stay home in at least 41 states:
Governors have said they've "agonized" over the decision, given the economic effects among the earliest states to give the directive were felt immediately.
Ohio for example just days after its governor essentially shut down the state, saw an immediate 600% rise in unemployment filings, with that figure climbing steadily since.
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Thank you for posting this report, it directly affects 90% of my family who live in upstate N.Y. We spoke with my husband's sister about this very thing earlier tonight, and she is livid about it.
NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo orders National Guard to seize ventilators from upstate hospitals (#UpstateLivesMatter)
Cuomo calls this "sharing," but the mostly Republican and rural upstate region has a bitter history with Cuomo leaving deep suspicion, as Cuomo's plan would leave upstate hospitals with no excess capacity as the virus epicenter spreads out from NYC.legalinsurrection.com
NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo orders National Guard to seize ventilators from upstate hospitals (#UpstateLivesMatter)
Posted by William A. Jacobson Saturday, April 4, 2020 at 4:00pm
Cuomo calls this “sharing,” but the mostly Republican and rural upstate region has a bitter history with Cuomo leaving deep suspicion, as Cuomo’s plan would leave upstate hospitals with no excess capacity as the virus epicenter spreads out from NYC.
If you don’t live in upstate NY, you may not realize how horrible a Governor Andrew Cuomo is.
Upstate, a huge region north and west of New York City, is Republican territory, and has been in revolt against Cuomo’s outrageous gun control SAFE Act for years. Almost every upstate county has, in an ultimately futile but symbolic act, rejected the SAFE Act.
Cuomo also banned fracking, which has left upstate stuck in economic decline as nearby Pennsylvania counties thrived. Upstate is shedding population and jobs, while downstate NYC and surroundings receives state government’s attention and majority of votes.
Radio host Bob Landsberry thinks the upstate (Republican) decline is part of Cuomo’s plan, Falling NY Population Is Part Of Cuomo’s Plan:
Cuomo’s “green” agenda continues to run roughshod over rural communities, Andrew Cuomo’s bid to ram industrial wind, solar plants down locals’ throats:
It’s no coincidence that Republican congressional candidates do well in upstate districts, particularly Tom Reed in NY-23 and Elise Stefanik in NY-21, who are national party leaders.
It is these bitter suspicions of Cuomo that have been brought to the surface with Cuomo’s announcement that the state has ordered the National Guard to seize ventilators from upstate NY hospitals for use downstate:
Cuomo reportedly also plans to use military helicopters to seize the ventilators:
Cuomo is not taking all the ventilators from upstate, reportedly he’s only taking 20%, but some hospitals upstate in rural areas already have only a handful to start.
Cuomo, implicitly comparing himself to FDR, says he’ll only be borrowing the ventilators and will return them when NYC no longer needs them.
That’s a dodge — what if small upstate hospitals need them soon, will Cuomo pull them from downstate hospitals? Those downstate hospitals don’t need them NOW, the worry is that they will need them in the future.
Upstate hospitals don’t have a lot of excess ventilator capacity, so Cuomo’s plan is dangerous even in large upstate cities like Buffalo:
Republican politicians have lead the charge opposing Cuomo’s plan, joined by some Democrats like Rep. Brian Higgins:
A hastag has started, #UpstateLivesMatter:
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naegling62
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I don't think they quite get it. There just may not be a second wave. This virus is not playing out anywhere yet. I think it is just going to be a continuous wave.... something wicked this way comes.[COMMENT: Redfield has stated they just found evidence of asymptomatic infection - BS. He was also the one who told the public that this was like a bad flu. HERE is the March 5 German study on asymptomatic carriers https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2001468?query=featured_home]
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CDC Director Says There May Be Second Coronavirus Wave in Late Fall
Almost 200,000 COVID-19 cases have been confirmed in the U.S., according to Johns Hopkins University.t.co
CDC DIRECTOR SAYS THERE MAY BE ANOTHER CORONAVIRUS WAVE IN LATE FALL AND A 'SUBSTANTIAL PORTION OF AMERICANS' WILL BE SUSCEPTIBLE
BY KASHMIRA GANDER ON 4/1/20 AT 4:43 AM EDT
The head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has warned the country may be hit by a second wave of COVID-19 cases in late fall.
Speaking to NPR-affiliate WABE, Dr. Robert Redfield, CDC director and virologist, addressed a potential second wave of infections which may emerge after the spike in hospitalizations and deaths forecast for April or May in models used by the Trump administration.
The CDC is preparing "most likely, for another wave that we would anticipate in the late fall, early winter where there will still be a substantial portion of Americans that are susceptible," Redfield said.
"Hopefully, we'll aggressively re-embrace some of the mitigation strategies that we have determined had impact, particularly social distancing."
Although the nature of the new bug isn't clear, Redfield explained, most respiratory viruses are seasonal, giving experts time to work on countermeasures. This would involve "very aggressively" focusing on states with limited spread.
Redfield also said it appears the new coronavirus is more infectious than the flu, and can be passed by those without symptoms.
Asked what the CDC has learned about the COVID-19-causing virus in recent weeks, Redfield said: "This virus does have the ability to transmit far easier than flu. It's probably now about three times as infectious as flu. One of the [pieces of] information that we have pretty much confirmed now is that a significant number of individuals that are infected actually remain asymptomatic. That may be as many as 25 percent."
The CDC director also highlighted that those who develop COVID-19 may shed its virus in the oropharyngeal compartment (the soft palate, side and back walls of the throat, the tonsils, and the back of the tongue) "probably up to 48 hours before we show symptoms."
Redfield said: "This helps explain how rapidly this virus continues to spread across the country, because we have asymptomatic transmitters and we have individuals who are transmitting 48 hours before they become symptomatic."
According to Johns Hopkins University, the U.S. is the country with the most coronavirus cases, with over 189,600 of the more than 860,100 total confirmed since the virus emerged from China in late December 2019. More than 4,000 people have died in the U.S. compared to the 3,300 deaths reported in China.
As indicated in the Statista graphic below, the coronavirus has spread to every state, Washington, D.C., and four U.S. territories since the first case was reported on January 20.
Number of coronavirus cases in the U.S. as of April 1, 3 a.m. EST.STATISTA
Following a Washington Post report that the CDC is reviewing advice on whether people should wear masks amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Redfield said the agency is "always critically looking at new data." He said figures from Singapore, Hong Kong, and China suggest the issue can be considered both in terms of preventing people from spreading or catching the virus.
"Particularly with the new data, that there's significant asymptomatic transmission, this is being critically re-reviewed to see if there's potential additional value for individuals that are infected or individuals that may be asymptomatically infected," he said.
However, Redfield argued the situation is complex, as if a quarter of cases show no symptoms "the only way you would do it—if you then sort of went into areas that were high transmission zones and had a significant [proportion of] individuals then wearing masks, assuming that they were infected. I can tell you that the data and this issue of whether it's going to contribute [to prevention] is being aggressively reviewed as we speak."
Dr. Benjamin Linas, infectious diseases physician at Boston Medical Center and Associate Professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, told Newsweek: "This virus will be with us until we discover a vaccine. However, that does not mean that we must have a second wave of infection. We will have a second wave of infection if we wait until we see cases drop and then emerge from physical distancing without a plan for containment.
"Containment includes very wide scale testing and aggressive contact tracing and isolation for exposed persons. We must be developing that infrastructure now so that we do not suffer a second wave of infections. It is essential that the U.S. response to COVID begin to look past April and May to think about how we will consolidate our progress made by physical distancing and prevent a second wave of infection."
Addressing the new coronavirus being more contagious than the flu, Dr. Joshua Barocas, infectious diseases physician at Boston Medical Center and assistant professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine, told Newsweek:
"It does appear that this novel coronavirus is more contagious than influenza. This is due, in part, to the longer period of time that it takes for symptoms to appear and the fact that symptoms may be mild.
"Mild and asymptomatic disease makes it harder for us to control the spread. This is why population-level stay-at-home orders are vital."
This article has been updated with comment from Dr. Benjamin Linas and Dr. Joshua Barocas.
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Police App Encourages People To Report Neighbors Who Violate Stay-At-Home Orders
Sat, 04/04/2020 - 18:05
Via MassPrivateI blog,
How do you encourage people to turn against each other during the COVID-19 pandemic?
The answer is not that complicated, especially if you live in the City of Bellevue, Washington.
Four years ago, when the city created the MyBellvue app, it was touted as being a quick and easy way to report things like downed street signs, potholes, street light issues and noise complaints.
Fast forward to 2020 and public fears of COVID-19 have encouraged law enforcement to turn neighbors into government snitches.
Geekwire revealed how the Bellevue Police Department has turned a public service app into a report on your neighbors app. You can report these incidents through the MyBellevue app on your electronic device or the MyBellevue portal.
A recent Associated Press article revealed that people are all to happy to report on their neighbors.
LA Mayor Offers Snitches Rewards For Reporting On Neighbors
According to a CBS LA4 article Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced that the city would reward snitches.
Four businesses have been referred to the city attorney’s office for misdemeanor filings.
When law enforcement encourages Americans to turn against each other we all lose. We become a nation controlled by fear.
The Bellevue Police Departments' MyBellevue page claims police need the public's help monitoring their neighbors.
The MyBellevue customer assistance portal spells out exactly what this is app is really meant for now.
- Report Gatherings: You may report gatherings here in violation of the State mandate to "Stay Home"
- Contact Your Police Sector Captain: Got an issue affecting your neighborhood? Contact the sector captain for your area! A captain is assigned to each of three geographical sectors -- North, South and West -- and is ultimately responsible for issues taking place in their sector.
Reporting on your neighbor apps fly in the face of the freedoms Americans have enjoyed for centuries.
The MyBellevue mobile app can be found at the Apple store and Google Play store. Two recent reviews spell out how everyone should view apps that encourage Americans to report on each other.
Leo Rosas said,
Matthew Harphan said,
Now is the time to fight for our freedoms before a panicked nation willingly gives them away.
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2 Passengers Die Aboard "Coral Princess" Cruise Ship Amid Another COVID-19 "Nightmare At Sea"
Sat, 04/04/2020 - 17:25
Two people on the Coral Princess cruise ship died overnight, after the ship reported 12 positive cases of coronavirus on Thursday, according to an announcement from the ship’s captain, who said the ship likely wouldn’t arrive in South Florida on Saturday as planned, but would rather make landfall on Sunday.
The captain didn’t say whether the deceased had tested positive for the virus, but he confirmed they were treated in the ship’s medical center.
"I know how difficult this news is to bear, but given the current situation, we remain committed to transparent and consistent communication with you," he said. "This information will need to be shared with shoreside authorities and will become public, so I wanted you to hear it from me first," the Captain said, according to a recording of the announcement provided to the Washington Post.
Appearing to follow a similar playbook to the Zaandam - another Carnival-subsidiary-owned cruise ship that docked along with another ship in Port Everglades this week after several passengers and crew had died of the virus, and the ship had been refused entry to several ports - Princess Cruises said guests who are deemed "fit to fly" are expected to start disembarking Sunday and will transfer straight to Miami International Airport to catch flights home.
Meanwhile, anyone with respiratory symptoms who is not too sick to require immediate hospitalization, or who is recovering from being sick previously, will stay on the ship until they are cleared by doctors on board.
The ship is carrying 1,898 people, including 1,020 guests. It left San Antonio, Chile, on March 5, a week before the cruise line announced it would suspend operations after the debacle with the "Diamon Princess", which became host to what was at the time the biggest outbreak outside mainland China after it docked in Yokohama.
At least 12 infected individuals who traveled aboard the "Diamond Princess" eventually died from their infections.
Old Gray Mare
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Fair use.
Common Anti-Parasite Drug May Kill Coronavirus in Under 48 Hours, Say Researchers
BOB PRICE 4 Apr 2020
Researchers in Australia report that Ivermectin, an FDA-approved drug commonly used to treat parasites, appears to be effective in treating the SARS-COV-2 coronavirus (COVID-19). The drug is widely available and can be “repurposed” for this application, doctors said.
The ScienceDirect journal, Antiviral Research, published an article by a group of Australian researchers from Monash University in Melbourne reporting that Ivermectin appears to be effective at inhibiting the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
The article states:
The leader of the research team, Dr. Kylie Wagstaff issued a statement, saying, “Ivermectin is very widely used and seen as a safe drug. We need to figure out now whether the dosage you can use it at in humans will be effective—that’s the next step,” Newsweek magazine reported. “We found that even a single dose could essentially remove all viral RNA by 48 hours and that even at 24 hours there was a really significant reduction in it.”
“Ivermectin’s status as a drug that has already been studied and approved to treat other conditions offers a decided advantage over the development of new drugs, a long process that typically involves many years of studying safety and efficacy before being able to reach human patients,” Newsweek stated.
Dr. Leon Caly, an author of the study and a senior virus identification specialist at the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, added, “As the virologist who was part of the team who were first to isolate and share SARS-CoV-2 outside of China in January 2020, I am excited about the prospect of Ivermectin being used as a potential drug against COVID-19.”
The World Health Organization approved the use of Ivermectin in humans to treat onchocerciasis in 1987. “Ivermectin is safe and can be used on a wide scale. It is also a very effective treatment and has single-handedly transformed the lives of millions of people suffering from onchocerciasis,” the WHO wrote in an article on its website. The medicine is widely available.
Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook.
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Common Anti-Parasite Drug May Kill Coronavirus in Under 48 Hours, Say Researchers
BOB PRICE 4 Apr 2020
Researchers in Australia report that Ivermectin, an FDA-approved drug commonly used to treat parasites, appears to be effective in treating the SARS-COV-2 coronavirus (COVID-19). The drug is widely available and can be “repurposed” for this application, doctors said.
The ScienceDirect journal, Antiviral Research, published an article by a group of Australian researchers from Monash University in Melbourne reporting that Ivermectin appears to be effective at inhibiting the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
The article states:
“We report here that Ivermectin, an FDA-approved anti-parasitic previously shown to have broad-spectrum antiviral activity in vitro, is an inhibitor of the causative virus (SARS-CoV-2),” the researchers write. “Ivermectin, therefore, warrants further investigation for possible benefits in humans.”
The leader of the research team, Dr. Kylie Wagstaff issued a statement, saying, “Ivermectin is very widely used and seen as a safe drug. We need to figure out now whether the dosage you can use it at in humans will be effective—that’s the next step,” Newsweek magazine reported. “We found that even a single dose could essentially remove all viral RNA by 48 hours and that even at 24 hours there was a really significant reduction in it.”
“Ivermectin’s status as a drug that has already been studied and approved to treat other conditions offers a decided advantage over the development of new drugs, a long process that typically involves many years of studying safety and efficacy before being able to reach human patients,” Newsweek stated.
Dr. Leon Caly, an author of the study and a senior virus identification specialist at the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, added, “As the virologist who was part of the team who were first to isolate and share SARS-CoV-2 outside of China in January 2020, I am excited about the prospect of Ivermectin being used as a potential drug against COVID-19.”
The World Health Organization approved the use of Ivermectin in humans to treat onchocerciasis in 1987. “Ivermectin is safe and can be used on a wide scale. It is also a very effective treatment and has single-handedly transformed the lives of millions of people suffering from onchocerciasis,” the WHO wrote in an article on its website. The medicine is widely available.
Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook.
Link to source:
Common Anti-Parasite Drug May Kill Coronavirus in Under 48 Hours, Say Researchers
Researchers in Australia report that Ivermectin, an FDA-approved drug commonly used to treat parasites, appears to be effective in treating the SARS-COV-2 coronavirus (COVID-19).
www.breitbart.com
Doomer Doug
TB Fanatic
Part of the reason young people bought into the "young people can't get sick, much less die from this virus" is China showed data FALSE DATA saying young people can't get sick. Once the tests started happening in Europe and the usa it was confirmed china had lied about it and young people started both testing positive and dying.
marsh
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ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
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Sat, 04/04/2020 - 17:05
Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News,
Around half a million Chinese people, some of them infected with coronavirus, entered America from December to February at the height of the COVID-19 outbreak, new figures show.
The numbers, which were obtained from Commerce Department and U.S. Customs and Border Protection records, were compiled by ABC News.
They show that in the three month period when coronavirus was raging across China, 759,493 people entered the U.S. from China.
This number included 228,000 Americans who were returning home, meaning that roughly half a million were Chinese citizens or people living in China who were visiting the U.S. for tourism, business or to see family.
This number of people were pouring into the U.S. while the World Health Organization was simultaneously insisting that no country should enforce any kind of border controls to stop the spread of the virus.
President Donald Trump restricted travel from China from February 2nd onwards, but that was too little too late because the outbreak (which was subsequently covered up by China for two months) had started in Wuhan in November, according to Johns Hopkins University.
According to Dr. Vinayak Kumar, an internal medicine resident at the Mayo Clinic, out of the total figure arriving in the U.S. from China, “a large number might have been infected at the time of travel.”
The numbers illustrate “how globalized our world has become,” he added.
However, infectious disease specialist Dr. Simone Wildes suggested that the virus outbreak was the price of globalization and that Americans would just have to get used to it.
The data also shows that “From December, January and February on travelers entering the U.S. from eight of the hardest-hit countries: 343,402 arrived from Italy, 418,848 from Spain and about 1.9 million more came from Britain.”
As we document in the video below, while three quarters of a million people, some of them infected with coronavirus, were entering America, political leaders were telling Americans to go out and congregate in huge crowds, including at Chinese Lunar New Year parades.
Doc1
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Doomer Doug hasn't known anything about young people since he traded his buggy in on a Model T!
Best
Doc (another old phart)
marsh
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Zerohedge
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
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Sat, 04/04/2020 - 16:45
Tucker Carlson on Friday night blasted Dr. Anthony Fauci for his lately publicly urging the Trump administration to declare a federally-imposed 'stay at home' order across all 50 states, while also underscoring the FOX host still considers the White House coronavirus task force member and nation's top infectious disease expert to be an “impressive person”.
“We’ve interviewed Dr. Fauci respectfully on this program, and we’d gladly do that again if he came back, and he will come back. He’s an impressive person. But that does not mean that he’s never wrong,” Carlson said. “On the question of this pandemic, Fauci has been wrong repeatedly.”
Carlson expressed he's particularly bothered by Fauci’s recommendation of a national quarantine given that economic devastation would be pretty much assured. The night prior Dr. Fauci told CNN's Anderson Cooper during a coronavirus town hall: "I don't understand why that's not happening." He said further, "You know, the tension between federally mandated versus states' rights to do what they want is something I don't want to get into," and added, "But if you look at what's going on in this country, I just don't understand why we're not doing that."
Carson slammed Fauci's “extreme measures” as tantamount to "national suicide":
Carlson aired the clip of Fauci saying, “I know it’s difficult, but we’re having a lot of suffering, a lot of death. This is inconvenient from an economic and a personal standpoint, but we just have to do it.”
To this Carlson responded:
Meanwhile much of the mainstream media has directed its ire at the last nine "hold-out" states which have "dragged their feet" on the issue.
Many governors have expressed that they don't see the need to take such a drastic step that could decimate their local economies, leaving social distancing to the 'good judgments' of counties, towns, and individuals.
The nine states that have resisted state-wide 'stay-at-home' or 'shelter in place' orders are Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming — though it should be noted that Oklahoma has passed measures that come very close yet without giving a final formal directive.
marsh
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ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
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India Drags China To International Court For COVID-19 War
Sat, 04/04/2020 - 16:25
Via GreatGameIndia.com,
As a direct impact of extensive GreatGameIndia reporting on the sinister aspect of Coronavirus being manufactured as a biological weapon, now India has dragged China to international court for waging COVID-19 War. India’s complaint to the United Nations Human Rights Council seeking compensation from China specifically presents as evidence GreatGameIndia‘s report on how Chinese biowarfare agents stole Coronavirus from a Canadian lab and weaponized it at Wuhan Institute of Virology.
In addition to the Indian complaint, a $20 trillion lawsuit has also been filed against China for waging a Biological war in Texas Federal Court, alleging that it unleashed the coronavirus as a bioweapon upon the world.
GGI has come under massive attack for reporting these stories from so-called fact-checker organisations like NewsGuard who themselves are funded by Bill Gates to clear their name. The mainstream media owes GGI a big apology for slandering our name, failing to ask the basic question of ‘conflict of interest’.
The Complaint
The International Council of Jurists (ICJ) and All India Bar Association have moved the United Nations Human Rights Council seeking compensation from China for “surreptitiously developing a biological weapon capable of mass destruction.”
The complaint was penned by senior advocate Adish C. Aggarwala, the Chairperson of All India Bar Association and President of International Council of Jurists, in the backdrop of the spread of deadly coronavirus, which has claimed thousands of lives across the world.
The advocate demanded remuneration from China for inflicting serious physical, psychological, economic and social harm on the world. Aggarwala also pointed out the effects of the pandemic on the Indian economy, the imbalance in demand and supply of commodities and migration of marginalized people.
The complaint further claimed that China meticulously hatched a conspiracy to spread the coronavirus in the world and violated provisions of International Health Regulations (IHR), International Human Rights and Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Laws and UDHR clauses.
The complainant further claimed that the virus was developed in the Wuhan Virology Lab from where it was carefully deployed to affect a miniscule 0.001% of the Chinese population.
He said that the neighboring country deployed the coronavirus virus in a bid to control the economy of the world by buying up stocks from countries that are on the brink of economic collapse.
The Chinese government had deliberately censored information and hid the early warnings given by Dr. Li Wenliang, who was, in fact, reprimanded and initially punished by local authorities in China, he said.
GGI Impact
It complaint states that the Chinese government has meticulously planned the execution and spread of the Novel Coronavirus and the same can be inferred in the way China has taken regard of the situation as also of the curious case of the spread of the virus all over the world. As pointed earlier, it remains a mystery as to how the virus has not spread in all provinces of China but at the same time, has spread to all countries in the world.
The complaint further presents as evidence findings of GreatGameIndia‘s investigation cited by India’s national daily on how Chinese biowarfare agents stole Coronavirus from a Canadian lab and weaponized it at Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Further the complaint also blasts the mainstream media’s agenda for suppressing these facts being raised by prominent experts and influential personalities worldwide.
$20 Trillion Lawsuit Against China For Waging Biological War
In addition to the Indian complaint to the United Nations Human Rights Council, a $20 trillion lawsuit has also been filed against China for waging a Biological war, alleging that it unleashed the coronavirus as a bioweapon upon the world by U.S. lawyer and conservative activist, Larry Klayman, his Company Buzz Photos and his group Freedom Watch.
First page of the class action lawsuit brought by Larry Klayman against China for waging a Biological War. Find the full document here Source: Freedom Watch
In the lawsuit, Klayman argued that because China had already agreed by Biological Weapons Convention treaty to outlaw such weapons c. November, 1984, these actions cannot be official governmental actions of the People’s Republic of China and therefore, China cannot claim legal immunity from the class action lawsuit.
Klayman added in a statement, “There is no reason why the American taxpayer should, contrary to the establishment in Washington, D.C., have to pay for the tremendous harm caused by the Chinese government. The Chinese people are a good people, but their government is not and it must be made to pay dearly.”
Klayman is seeking $20 trillion in damages and has called for affected Americans to sign up at his website Freedom Watch USA and become part of the class action lawsuit. The case has been filed in a Texas Federal Court.
Klayman is not the only one calling out China’s Biological Warfare activities. Chinese mishandling of the virus has attracted global criticism and numerous prominent personalities have come forward urging the international community to conduct an investigation into these serious matter and take action.
zookeeper9
Veteran Member
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnShqaHdYgo
12:30 min
Do Ventilators Save COVID-19 Patient's Lives?
•Apr 4, 2020
Doctor Mike Hansen
Do Ventilators (Breathing Tube) Save COVID-19 Patient's Lives? Ventilators are not a cure, but instead are a form of life support.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAHhhweamIU
In this video, Dr. Mike reviews the studies and finds out only 14% of those with the ARDS from Wuflu who are put on ventilators survive. So if 50 are on a vent, 7 survive. I would like to know how that compares with other forms of ARDS to see if there is a comparable survival rate or if the Wuflu has a higher mortality rate.
marsh
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Taiwan Donates 2M More Masks to the United States
Taiwan this week announced it will donate two million more masks to the United States during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Taiwan Donates 2M More Masks to the U.S. for Coronavirus Battle
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Taiwan this week announced it will donate two million more masks to the United States, continuing its humanitarian support for its allies during the coronavirus pandemic.
In total, Taiwan is donating ten million masks to the U.S., the European Union member states and other European nations, and diplomatic allies.
“Undertaken in the spirit of ‘Taiwan can help!’ and accompanied by a call for greater international cooperation, this constitutes Taiwan’s first large-scale humanitarian assistance initiative in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak,” a statement from Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Taiwan’s two million mask donation is in addition to the 100,000 masks per week provided to the U.S. The donations are under the Taiwan-U.S. epidemic prevention cooperation framework, the statement said.
Taiwan is also donating seven million masks to the EU and member states Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and the United Kingdom and Switzerland.
Taiwan will hold consultations with the EU and individual European countries to establish reciprocal partnerships against COVID-19, such as complementary supply chains for related equipment.
Taiwan said now that it has taken care of its domestic needs, the government can direct its attention toward international support.
The ten million masks is only the first wave of assistance, the government said.
“Moving forward, Taiwan will continue to appraise the situation and its own prevention and containment capacity when planning assistance, including that directed toward partner countries under the New Southbound Policy,” it said, referring to regional nations.
“Disease knows no borders. In the wake of the global coronavirus outbreak, Taiwan’s efforts to prevent and contain the disease have drawn international praise. Taiwan also has a responsibility to stand on the frontline and assist others,” it said.
Taiwan has been fighting its exclusion from the World Health Organization (WHO) due to pressure from China. In recent years, China has blocked Taiwan’s participation in the body, even as an observer, and has banned Taiwanese officials from participating in the annual World Health Assembly.
“Taiwan can help and Taiwan is helping. Taiwan should not be excluded from the international public health system,” it said in the statement.
“Taiwan again urges WHO to comprehensively include it in related meetings, mechanisms and activities, so that Taiwan can work hand in hand with the world to overcome this grave challenge,” it said.
“Taiwan will take concrete actions to prove to the international community that the world needs Taiwan and that Taiwan will not be absent.”
marsh
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Trump Thinking of 2nd Coronavirus Task Force on Reopening Country
Donald Trump said Saturday he was thinking about creating a second coronavirus task force focused on reopening the country for business.
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Donald Trump Thinking of 2nd Coronavirus Task Force Focused on Reopening Country
CHARLIE SPIERING4 Apr 2020324
President Donald Trump said Saturday he was thinking about creating a second coronavirus task force focused on reopening the country for business.
The president detailed his desire to reopen the country during a White House press briefing.
“We have to open our country,” Trump said, repeating that “the cure cannot be worse than the problem itself.”
Trump endorsed the idea of a second task force on Twitter on Saturday after it was proposed by Fox News host Dana Perino on Twitter.
“Good idea Dana!” he wrote.
Trump said he wanted the country to reopen as soon as possible. The presidentt old sports commissioners earlier on Saturday that he hoped that sports fans could return to stadiums by August.
“We’re not going to have to have separation for the rest of our times on the planet,” Trump said, referring to the six-foot distancing recommendation by the federal government.
Trump said he was pleased to see Americans staying in their homes to slow the spread of the virus.
“We’re going to be back to good health soon in my opinion,” Trump said. “And we’re making progress.”
Tristan
Has No Life - Lives on TB
It has seemed clear to me for weeks that any treatment must be started early, or even as a preventative treatment for those at greatest risk.
If you wait until a patient requires a vent, the odds of survival are terrible...
marsh
On TB every waking moment
Common Anti-Parasite Drug May Kill Coronavirus in Under 48 Hours, Say Researchers
Researchers in Australia report that Ivermectin, an FDA-approved drug commonly used to treat parasites, appears to be effective in treating the SARS-COV-2 coronavirus (COVID-19).
www.breitbart.com
Common Anti-Parasite Drug May Kill Coronavirus in Under 48 Hours, Say Researchers
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Researchers in Australia report that Ivermectin, an FDA-approved drug commonly used to treat parasites, appears to be effective in treating the SARS-COV-2 coronavirus (COVID-19). The drug is widely available and can be “repurposed” for this application, doctors said.
The ScienceDirect journal, Antiviral Research, published an article by a group of Australian researchers from Monash University in Melbourne reporting that Ivermectin appears to be effective at inhibiting the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
The article states:
“We report here that Ivermectin, an FDA-approved anti-parasitic previously shown to have broad-spectrum antiviral activity in vitro, is an inhibitor of the causative virus (SARS-CoV-2),” the researchers write. “Ivermectin, therefore, warrants further investigation for possible benefits in humans.”
The leader of the research team, Dr. Kylie Wagstaff issued a statement, saying, “Ivermectin is very widely used and seen as a safe drug. We need to figure out now whether the dosage you can use it at in humans will be effective—that’s the next step,” Newsweek magazine reported. “We found that even a single dose could essentially remove all viral RNA by 48 hours and that even at 24 hours there was a really significant reduction in it.”
“Ivermectin’s status as a drug that has already been studied and approved to treat other conditions offers a decided advantage over the development of new drugs, a long process that typically involves many years of studying safety and efficacy before being able to reach human patients,” Newsweek stated.
Dr. Leon Caly, an author of the study and a senior virus identification specialist at the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, added, “As the virologist who was part of the team who were first to isolate and share SARS-CoV-2 outside of China in January 2020, I am excited about the prospect of Ivermectin being used as a potential drug against COVID-19.”
The World Health Organization approved the use of Ivermectin in humans to treat onchocerciasis in 1987. “Ivermectin is safe and can be used on a wide scale. It is also a very effective treatment and has single-handedly transformed the lives of millions of people suffering from onchocerciasis,” the WHO wrote in an article on its website. The medicine is widely available.
SSTemplar
Veteran Member
If a coronavirus is 160 nm in size do you really think a N95-100 are really going to stop there transfer. It might make you feel good but you're just pissing in the wind."Medical Supply Arbitrage": How Hordes Of Middle Men, Profiteers & Scammers Massively Inflated Prices Of N95sZerohedge
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
Sat, 04/04/2020 - 19:55
Americans hear it every day now during Gov. Andrew Cuomo's press briefings. In the middle of a crushing pandemic, New York and other states are being grossly gouged as they shop around for medical supplies. With most of their regular relationships exhausted, states are competing against each other, a nonsensical and costly "bidding war" that Cuomo has blamed on President Trump.
N95 masks, which are now among the most prized commodities on the planet, are in such short supply, that some hospitals in NYC simply don't have them to provide to workers, forcing them to improvise. Cuomo says masks that recently cost just 40 or 50 cents are now being sold for $7 a pop, a roughly 13x markup.
While the administration's failure to better prepare for the epidemic certainly hasn't helped, the New York Times on Friday pointed out another, bigger factor that's greatly contributed to this problem. Complex globalized supply chains have been disrupted by the outbreak, and with production largely centered in China, producers are effectively using the masks as political chits: Beijing has given them to Italy, and the UK - and even a few to the US.
But beyond that, the chaos caused by the outbreak caused such a mad scramble to buy up these supplies, that brokers are selling them at crazy markups, many because they bought them at already-crazy markups, and are now either trying to make a sliver of profit, or just break even. Even wannabe 'Good Samaritans' have fallen prey to this cycle, as the dogooders ask simply to be reimbursed for their costs, or just accept that they will lose money, which is hard to do during a time of looming economic catastrophe. At a certain point, it almost becomes difficult to differentiate the scammers from the do-gooders.
Others are exploiting relationships to act as 'brokers', middle-manning N95 masks and other supplies - the masks especially will become even more scarce and costly once the White House and CDC inevitably advise people to wear them in public - for modest profits.
Rampant crisis profiteering has already been well-documented by the press, as have the efforts by states and the federal government to police it. Earlier this week, AG Barr got up at the White House's daily press conference and warned that federal prosecutors would be cracking down. And many have been publicly shamed.
But even as Amazon bans the sale of masks to the general public, next-level 'brokers' are using the power of the internet to deal with hospital systems and other health-care providers who have essentially been forced to participate in the shadowy grey market to acquire essential supplies at a time when people's lives - even the lives of young, healthy people - are very much on the line.
One of the details that most stood out to us in Friday's New York Times story was the description of the practice as "medical supply arbitrage." Here's how it works, according to NYT
As prosecutors crack down on re-sellers of medical supplies, the line between what constitutes 'gouging' and simple sales of products that aren't illegal to sell to the general public is becoming more difficult to discern. Barr's press conference appearance aside, last month, the DoJ said it would investigate people manipulating the medical-supply market. Then, five days later, federal authorities charged a Brooklyn man with lying about price gouging after he tried to sell 1,000 masks and other supplies to a doctor for $12,000 (he was also charged with assault for coughing on one of the agents).
It might still be legal, but anybody who's still doing this should watch their backs.
marsh
On TB every waking moment
Coronavirus Poll: 9 in 10 Children Report ‘Happiness' Staying Home
A gallup poll shows a large majority of children report experiencing “enjoyment” and “happiness” staying at home with their family.
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Coronavirus Poll: 9 in 10 Children Experiencing ‘Enjoyment,’ ‘Happiness’ at Home with Family
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Children may be benefiting from the stay-at-home orders many states have in place during the coronavirus outbreak in the United States. According to a Gallup poll, a large majority of children report “enjoyment” and “happiness” while spending their days with their families.
Gallup reported on its survey of 1,039 U.S. adults who are parents of children under the age of 18:
Gallup noted that parents also reported feeling enjoyment or happiness but not as much as their children. But children also were more likely than their parents to be bored.
The Gallup poll was conducted March 24-27 of adults who are members of the Gallup Panel using random sampling.
The methodology portion of the poll said:
“For results based on any individual sample, the margin of sampling error is plus or minus 6 percentage points at the 95 percent confidence level. Margins of error for subgroups are higher.”
marsh
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Ex CIA: U.S. 'Collateral Damage' of Chinese Lies About Severity of 'Xi's Chernobyl,' Coronavirus
The U.S. is "collateral damage" of Chinese communist officials' lies about the extent of the novel coronavirus outbreak within their country.
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Ex CIA: U.S. ‘Collateral Damage’ of Chinese Lies About Severity of ‘Xi’s Chernobyl,’ Coronavirus
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The United States is the “collateral damage” of Chinese communist officials’ lies about the extent of the novel coronavirus outbreak within their country, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) station chief told Breitbart News.
During the latest edition of the satellite radio show Breitbart News Saturday, Daniel Hoffman, a former Chief of Station with the CIA, told host Matt Boyle the deadly and highly contagious coronavirus that spilled over into the world from China is dictator Xi Jinping’s “Chernobyl.”
Hoffman declared:
Chernobyl refers to the 1980’s nuclear disaster in Russia attributed to negligence at the hands of Soviet officials who refused to acknowledge the spread of dangerous levels of radiation across Europe stemming from the meltdown of an atomic power plant in Ukraine.
“The Chinese are lying. They’ve lied right from the very beginning about the severity of this health crisis and they did it because they were afraid of their own people. Now, we were collateral damage in that,” Hoffman, who has a combined 30 years of distinguished government service in the CIA and other federal entities, told Breitbart News Saturday, echoing U.S. officials and the American intelligence community.
Hoffman went on to note that there is a role for the U.S. intelligence community to play in lifting the veil on what is taking place in China with the coronavirus.
“We need our intelligence community to mount a full-court press to determine how bad it is in China,” he said. “How fast it’s spreading. What they’re doing about it. This has implications for China’s own stability.”
Anonymous members of the U.S. intelligence community allegedly agree that Beijing has been hiding the severity of the viral outbreak in China, Bloomberg reported this week.
Several U.S. officials – including Vice President Mike Pence, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force – have questioned the legitimacy of China’s official coronavirus death toll and infection rate.
Beijing has vehemently denied distorting the facts about coronavirus cases in China, calling the outbreak “the U.S. and Europe’s New Chernobyl” although the pandemic began within its borders.
However, several news reports show that Beijing hid the severity of the outbreak during the early stages of the epidemic in China, muzzling and jailing whistleblowers and critics in a move that U.S. officials say allowed the disease to gain a firm foothold across the world.
marsh
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Fmr Acting ICE Director Homan: Coronavirus Underscores Need for Border Security to Stop Spread of Communicable Diseases
The outbreak of coronavirus around the world has brought attention to the need for border security to prevent the spread of communicable diseases, according to former acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director Tom Homan. | Clips
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Fmr Acting ICE Director Homan: Coronavirus Underscores Need for Border Security to Stop Spread of Communicable Diseases
JEFF POOR4 Apr 202053
The outbreak of coronavirus around the world has brought attention to the need for border security to prevent the spread of infectious diseases, according to former acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director Tom Homan.
Homan, author of the recently released “Defend the Border and Save Lives,” told Huntsville, AL radio WVNN’s “The Jeff Poor Show” on Friday confronting disease was a reality of border security.
“Disease comes across our borders every day,” he said. “When I was the director of ICE, we had to shut facilities down because someone had the measles, and we didn’t know it at the time — but the next thing you know, the whole facility had to be shut down. We had mothers and children — we had chickenpox running rampant through our facilities. We had to quarantine a facility for that.”
Homan recounted an instance his agency had to deal with a resistant strain of tuberculosis, which could have gotten through if immigration officials had not stopped the carrier.
I tell you — I specifically remember one case where a border patrol arrested a man, he came out of custody, and we found out through testing he had [tuberculosis],” Homan explained. ‘He had a strain of TB that was resistant to any drugs that we normally use to treat TB. So we worked very closely with the Texas Department of Health and the CDC for months, got them in isolation for months trying to figure out how to treat this rare strain of TB that we hadn’t seen before. And we eventually came up with a cocktail that could treat it.”
“But as another example — what if that person wasn’t arrested?” he added.
“What if he got by the border patrol and came in? It makes sense that we not lose focus on securing this nation, on securing our border. It’s not only about keeping the bad guy out. It’s not only about saving lives. It’s not only about illegal immigration. It’s also about communicable diseases.”
The former ICE director also reminded listeners of the economic costs of illegal immigration, which could be valuable in the days and weeks ahead as the country grapples with the economic fallout from the coronavirus.
“People think illegal immigration is a victimless crime,” Homan said. “You think these people just come up to get a job and support their family. They don’t understand there’s a whole underbelly to this. No one hires an illegal alien out of the goodness of their heart. They hire them because they can pay them less, work them harder, and undercut their competition, competition with U.S. citizen employees.
Doomer Doug
TB Fanatic
Oregon just released its latest figures, although several places like westher.com, opb, and others still haven't haven't updated since Thursday. At any rate, Oregon is starting to show the EXPLOSIVE GROWTH FIRST WAVE that presages hundreds to thousands. Oregon has gone from 600 to 1000 cases since Monday. Next, it has gone from 16 to 26, in the same time frame. Our stupid marxist bitch just gave away, including in use, 140 and 40, respirators
She based this on the fact oregon won't need them! Stupid bitch didn't realize going from 16 to 26 dead in four days is a 60 percent increase, and going from 600 to 1000 in the same time frame is also a 60 percent increase.
Now these globalist whores now in control of Oregon with their brain dead media shills and their marxist morons just don't get we are now in the surge of the 100,000 TO 300,000 WHO WENT TO THE BEACHES 2 WEEKS AGO. Yhe people of oregon deserve all the crap their marxist elected morons are going to allow happen to them. I got no problem pulling the pillars down on me like Sam
She based this on the fact oregon won't need them! Stupid bitch didn't realize going from 16 to 26 dead in four days is a 60 percent increase, and going from 600 to 1000 in the same time frame is also a 60 percent increase.
Now these globalist whores now in control of Oregon with their brain dead media shills and their marxist morons just don't get we are now in the surge of the 100,000 TO 300,000 WHO WENT TO THE BEACHES 2 WEEKS AGO. Yhe people of oregon deserve all the crap their marxist elected morons are going to allow happen to them. I got no problem pulling the pillars down on me like Sam
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All across the United States, the coronavirus is killing more men than women, data show
As New York City erupts in coronavirus infections and deaths, Kaedrea Jackson has noticed something peculiar during her shifts inside the emergency department at Mount Sinai Morningside hospital. "It seems there are more men coming in with really severe illness,"...
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All across the United States, the coronavirus is killing more men than women, data show
April 4, 2020 at 2:30 pm Updated April 4, 2020 at 2:54 pm
By
Brady Dennis Sarah Kaplan and Chris Mooney
The Washington Post
As New York City erupts in coronavirus infections and deaths, Kaedrea Jackson has noticed something peculiar during her shifts inside the emergency department at Mount Sinai Morningside hospital.
“It seems there are more men coming in with really severe illness,” said Jackson, an emergency physician. “In general, I’ve seen more male patients. And when they do come in, they are at a sicker state.”
She and her colleagues on the front line of the pandemic have had little time to ponder why COVID-19 seems deadlier for men than women — a phenomenon she could not recall happening with other diseases, such as the flu. “I don’t think there’s anything that’s very clear that shows me the ideology of why it’s been more males,” she said.
Coronavirus data reported by more than a dozen states and the nation’s largest city support Jackson’s experience. In most states, slightly more women are getting infected than men. But of more than 3,600 deaths in 13 states and New York City that report fatalities by gender, the majority of victims are men.
The disproportionate toll of the virus appears to have deep biological roots. An emerging body of research has revealed that women’s bodies are better at fighting off infection, thanks to the hormones in their systems and the genes on their two X chromosomes.
Scientists say these differences may partly explain why men have been hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic. And they may provide a vital clue in the search for a cure.
The Washington Post identified 37 states that provide a breakdown of how many men, and how many women, have tested positive for COVID-19. In 30 of those states, including the large outbreaks in Massachusetts, Michigan and Washington, women had a higher number of reported cases, though not always by a large margin. In several large states including California and Florida, and in the vast outbreak in New York City, the data swing the other way toward male cases, leaving an ambiguous picture overall.
Fewer states provide an analysis of the differing numbers of deaths among men and women. But at least 13 with substantial death numbers reported that data. (The Post did not analyze some states, like Alaska, where the death numbers remain small.) In every one of those states, men died more frequently, and that was the case even if they had fewer total cases of the disease to begin with.
That’s also true in the city with the country’s biggest outbreak. As of Friday, men made up 59 percent of overall hospitalizations in New York City and were 62 percent of more than 1,800 fatalities.
“I’ve seen more males that need immediate respiratory support — to be intubated or supplemental oxygen,” Jackson said. “That’s been the major difference. They come in sicker.”
Men in New York are dying at a disproportionately high rate, even when accounting for the fact that male cases are more numerous to begin with. Men are 55 percent of cases but make up 62 percent of deaths.
— — —
Often, the virus doesn’t start out feeling deadly, said Katrina Hawkins, an intensive care doctor at George Washington University Hospital in the District of Columbia. Many patients experience mild symptoms for about a week, then recover.
But in a small fraction of cases, the disease takes a sudden, dramatic turn. A dry cough and shortness of breath will give way to acute respiratory issues and dangerously low blood-oxygen levels. The body’s immune system unleashes a storm of protective cells and other molecules that can overwhelm vital organs, sometimes causing more damage than the virus itself.
This progression suggests that the worst form of the disease is triggered in part by the patient’s own immune system, Hawkins said. “There’s probably something written in their DNA that we just don’t know or understand yet,” she said.
To Robyn Klein, director of the Center for Neuroimmunology and Neuroinfectious Diseases at Washington University in St. Louis, the combination of lopsided statistics and divergent immune responses is an indicator that sex differences may be at play.
For almost all infectious diseases, women are able to mount a stronger immune response then men, she said. Women with acute HIV infections have 40 percent less viral genetic material in their blood than men. They are less susceptible to the viruses that cause hepatitis B and C. Men infected with coxsackie viruses — which in severe cases can cause inflammation of heart tissue — are twice as likely to die of the disease.
That holds true even in other animals. Female birds show higher antibody responses to infection than males, especially during mating season. The immune cells that eat up microbes and cellular debris are less active in male lizards than in their female counterparts.
“With regard to viral infection, it’s been very well established that females have much stronger immune responses than males,” Klein said. “Not just as a result of exposures or behavior. But there are actual differences in the ways that immune cells respond.”
Some 60 genes involved in immune function are located on the X chromosome, said Sabra Klein, a microbiologist at Johns Hopkins University, who is no relation to Robyn Klein.
Genetic females have two of these molecules — one from their mother, one from their father — whereas people who are genetically male have only one. When there are two copies of this genetic molecule, the gene on one copy is typically turned off. But as many as a quarter of X-linked genes can escape this inactivation, giving people with two copies of the chromosome a “double dosage” of the genetic instructions needed to fight disease.
One such gene codes for a protein called “toll-like receptor 7,” which gets its name from a German word for “great.” These receptors recognize strands of viral RNA and will alert the body to the presence of an invader.
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A German exception? Why the country’s coronavirus death rate Is low
They call them corona taxis: Medics outfitted in protective gear, driving around the empty streets of Heidelberg, Germany, to check on patients who are at home, five or six days into being sick with the coronavirus. They take a blood...
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A German exception? Why the country’s coronavirus death rate Is low
April 4, 2020 at 12:54 pm Updated April 4, 2020 at 1:43 pm
By KATRIN BENNHOLD The New York Times
They call them corona taxis: Medics outfitted in protective gear, driving around the empty streets of Heidelberg, Germany, to check on patients who are at home, five or six days into being sick with the coronavirus.
They take a blood test, looking for signs that a patient is about to go into a steep decline. They might suggest hospitalization even to a patient who has only mild symptoms; the chances of surviving that decline are vastly improved by being in a hospital when it begins.
“There is this tipping point at the end of the first week,” said professor Hans-Georg Kräusslich, head of virology at University Hospital in Heidelberg, one of the country’s leading research hospitals. “If you are a person whose lungs might fail, that’s when you will start deteriorating.”
Heidelberg’s corona taxis are only one initiative in one city. But they illustrate a level of engagement and a commitment of public resources in fighting the epidemic that help explain one of the most intriguing puzzles of the pandemic: Why is Germany’s death rate so low?
The virus and the resulting disease, COVID-19, have hit Germany with force: According to Johns Hopkins University, the country had more than 92,000 laboratory-confirmed infections as of midday Saturday, more than any other country except the United States, Italy and Spain.
But with 1,295 deaths, Germany’s fatality rate stood at 1.4% compared with 12% in Italy; around 10% in Spain, France and Britain; 4% in China; and 2.5% in the United States. Even South Korea, a model of flattening the curve, has a higher fatality rate: 1.7%.
“There has been talk of a German anomaly,” said Hendrik Streeck, director of the Institute of Virology at the University Hospital Bonn. Streeck has been getting calls from colleagues in the United States and elsewhere.
“‘What are you doing differently?’ they ask me,” he said. “‘Why is your death rate so low?’”
There are several answers to this question, experts say — a mix of statistical distortions and very real differences in how the country has taken on the epidemic.
The average age of those infected is lower in Germany than in many other countries. Many of the early patients caught the virus in Austrian and Italian ski resorts and were relatively young and healthy, Kräusslich said.
“It started as an epidemic of skiers,” he said.
As infections have spread, more older people have been hit, and the death rate — only 0.2% two weeks ago — has risen, too. But the average age of contracting the disease remains relatively low, at 49. In France, it is 62.5, and in Italy 62, according to their latest national reports.
Another explanation for the low fatality rate is that Germany has been testing far more people than most nations. That means it catches more people with few or no symptoms, increasing the number of known cases but not the number of fatalities.
“That automatically lowers the death rate on paper,” said Kräusslich.
But there are also significant medical factors that have kept the number of deaths in Germany relatively low, epidemiologists and virologists say, chief among them early and widespread testing and treatment, plenty of intensive care beds and a trusted government whose social distancing guidelines are widely observed.
Testing
In mid-January, long before most Germans had given the virus much thought, Charité hospital in Berlin had already developed a test and posted the formula online.
By the time Germany recorded its first case of COVID-19 in February, laboratories across the country had built up a stock of test kits.
“The reason why we in Germany have so few deaths at the moment compared to the number of infected can be largely explained by the fact that we are doing an extremely large number of lab diagnoses,” said Dr. Christian Drosten, chief virologist at Charité, whose team developed the first test.
By now, Germany is conducting around 350,000 coronavirus tests a week, far more than any other European country. Early and widespread testing has allowed authorities to slow the spread of the pandemic by isolating known cases while they are infectious. It has also enabled lifesaving treatment to be administered in a more timely way.
“When I have an early diagnosis and can treat patients early — for example, put them on a ventilator before they deteriorate — the chance of survival is much higher,” Kräusslich said.
Medical staff, at particular risk of contracting and spreading the virus, are regularly tested. To streamline the procedure, some hospitals have started doing block tests, using the swabs of 10 employees, and following up with individual tests only if there is a positive result.
At the end of April, health authorities also plan to roll out a large-scale antibody study, testing random samples of 100,000 people across Germany every week to gauge where immunity is building up.
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Coronavirus daily news updates, April 4: Washington state now has 7,591 cases of COVID-19 and 310 deaths
Throughout Saturday, on this page, we’ll be posting updates from Seattle Times journalists and others on the outbreak and its effects on the Seattle area, the Pacific Northwest and the world.
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Coronavirus daily news updates, April 4: What to know today about COVID-19 in the Seattle area, Washington state and the nation
April 4, 2020 at 7:55 am Updated April 4, 2020 at 5:19 pm
Louie Gong, founder and CEO of Eighth Generation, makes sure his mask has a good fit during... (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times) More
By Seattle Times staff
It’s time to start looking for T-shirts or bandanas to cover your face: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now encouraging people, especially in areas hit hard by the spread of coronavirus, to use rudimentary coverings to shield their nose and mouth while outdoors. While the new guidance raises concerns that it could cause a sudden run on masks, local leaders and communities in Washington are rallying to round up as many masks and other medical supplies as possible to support health care workers.
The state Department of Health confirmed an additional 625 cases and 26 deaths from COVID-19 , totaling 7,591 cases and 310 fatalities in Washington on Saturday. The bulk of the cases remain in King County, where 2,898 people have fallen ill and 200 have died. The state has recently struggled to report these numbers in a timely manner, a problem it blames on a flood of data swamping the state’s disease-reporting system. The technical difficulties are partially blinding health officials and the public to the latest information about the disease’s spread.
Throughout today, on this page, we’ll be posting updates from Seattle Times journalists and others on the outbreak and its effects on the Seattle area, the Pacific Northwest and the world. Updates from Friday can be found here, and all our coronavirus coverage can be found here.
The following graphic includes the most recent numbers from the Washington State Department of Health, released Friday.
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COVID-19 Home
www.cdph.ca.gov
COVID-19 by the Numbers
As of April 4, 2020, there are a total of 12,026 positive cases and 276 deaths in California.
Ages of all confirmed positive cases:
- Age 0-17: 137 cases
- Age 18-49: 5,917 cases
- Age 50-64: 3,253 cases
- Age 65 and older: 2,660 cases
- Unknown/Missing: 59 cases
- Female: 5,674 cases
- Male: 6,202 cases
- Unknown: 150 cases
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Stop smoking.....monkeys.
Done it myself several times over the years. Quit for good many years ago. Not a Nazi. Just know that dying of suffocation....NOT GOOD.
GET HEALTHY STAY HEALTHY
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Coronavirus Today: The risk of being essential
Our special edition newsletter breaks down the latest coronavirus news, including the risks that essential non-health workers are facing.
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Coronavirus Today: The risk of being essential
By DIYA CHACKOAUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT EDITOR
APRIL 3, 2020
Good evening. I’m Diya Chacko, and it’s Friday, April 3. Here’s what’s happening with the coronavirus outbreak in California and beyond.
With the United States recording 1,000 COVID-19 deaths in a single day and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now recommending that Americans wear cloth face masks, the crisis has become particularly stressful for everyone who comes in direct contact with the public and faces a higher risk of contracting the coronavirus.
Frightened flight attendants, including some stricken by COVID-19, are pushing airlines that have already slashed capacity by as much as 90% in the last few weeks to reduce the number of flights even further. About 150 flight attendants have tested positive for the virus, with hundreds more putting themselves in self-quarantine.
For many grocery workers, assuming personal risk to perform roles now widely seen as vital to public health has given them new visibility and leverage. A number of major chains including Target, Walmart, Whole Foods, Costco, Sprouts and Kroger have offered them bonuses or temporary raises during the pandemic — but workers worried about their personal safety are protesting and pushing for better conditions as they perform increasingly difficult and dangerous jobs. “Compensation should reflect that risk,” said one Whole Foods employee.
That call has been echoed by Amazon warehouse and delivery workers across the country, who have asked for the company to do more to protect them from or compensate them for the health risks they’re taking on. Workers at six facilities in Southern California have tested positive in the last week for COVID-19. Two of the facilities handle the final stage of Amazon deliveries to customers in Los Angeles.
For many of Southern California’s small businesses, the launch of a Trump administration relief program brought more confusion than clarity. The program depends on lenders to provide them forgivable loans, up to $10 million, to cover payroll. But some of the nation’s largest banks said they weren’t ready to participate, having received information too late from the Treasury Department. Others were overwhelmed by a deluge of applications. By Friday morning, it appeared that small banks were shouldering most of the work. “Being denied access to the money is a death sentence for our small business,” said the owner of a camera store in Torrance.
Parents around the world face a dilemma: What will happen if we’re too sick to take care of our child? That scenario almost happened to one Southern California couple who while fighting the debilitating symptoms of COVID-19 had to look after their toddler without help, for fear of spreading the virus to their friends and relatives. “I cried a few times,” the father said. “I felt like I was failing.”
Given the lack of COVID-19 treatment options, doctors are looking into any medication that shows promise in keeping people off precious ventilators.
Several antiviral drugs that were developed to treat Ebola and AIDS are now the focus of a U.S.-sponsored international trial with as many as 60 sites. The World Health Organization has called remdesivir, which was developed (but failed) to treat Ebola, the most promising. It was widely used on patients in China, and the results of clinical trials conducted there should arrive in the next few weeks.
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... don't nobody gang up me, I have security system in place to catch the tag teamers.....
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Suck it up buttercup, this is what you should get.
Hazardous Duty Incentive Pay
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Hazardous Duty Pay for Non-Aircrew Members
Servicemembers, who under competent orders, perform hazardous duties such as:flying duty as non-crewmembers, parachute jumping, demolition of explosives, handle toxic fuels, engage in flight deck duty or experimental stress duty, and so on earn $150 per month. There is one exception to the $150 per month for parachute jumping, is the authority to bestow $225 per month for HALO jumps.
Servicemembers that meet the requirements for more than one type of hazardous duty pay during the same period are entitled to receive a maximum of two types of hazardous duty pay. This presumes that the individual in question was assigned to a unit whose mission involves the performance of both types of hazardous duties.
Hazardous Duty Pay for Aircrew Members
Servicemembers that perform flight duties as aircrew members and meet their services operational requirements are eligible for a form of Hazardous Duty Incentive Pay - more commonly known as flight pay. The following table reflects the current level of HDIP for each paygrade.
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Hazardous Duty Incentive Pay
Military.com
Hazardous Duty Pay for Non-Aircrew Members
Servicemembers, who under competent orders, perform hazardous duties such as:flying duty as non-crewmembers, parachute jumping, demolition of explosives, handle toxic fuels, engage in flight deck duty or experimental stress duty, and so on earn $150 per month. There is one exception to the $150 per month for parachute jumping, is the authority to bestow $225 per month for HALO jumps.
Servicemembers that meet the requirements for more than one type of hazardous duty pay during the same period are entitled to receive a maximum of two types of hazardous duty pay. This presumes that the individual in question was assigned to a unit whose mission involves the performance of both types of hazardous duties.
Hazardous Duty Pay for Aircrew Members
Servicemembers that perform flight duties as aircrew members and meet their services operational requirements are eligible for a form of Hazardous Duty Incentive Pay - more commonly known as flight pay. The following table reflects the current level of HDIP for each paygrade.
| Hazardous Duty (Crew Member Non-AWAC) | |||||
| Pay Grade | Amount | Pay Grade | Amount | Pay Grade | Amount |
| O-10 | 150.00 | O-2 | 150.00 | E-8 | 240.00 |
| O-9 | 150.00 | O-1 | 150.00 | E-7 | 240.00 |
| O-8 | 150.00 | W-5 | 250.00 | E-6 | 215.00 |
| O-7 | 150.00 | W-4 | 250.00 | E-5 | 190.00 |
| O-6 | 250.00 | W-3 | 175.00 | E-4 | 165.00 |
| O-5 | 250.00 | W-2 | 150.00 | E-3 | 150.00 |
| O-4 | 225.00 | W-1 | 150.00 | E-2 | 150.00 |
| O-3 | 175.00 | E-9 | 240.00 | E-1 | 150.00 |
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Coronavirus Today: The risk of being essential
Our special edition newsletter breaks down the latest coronavirus news, including the risks that essential non-health workers are facing.
Coronavirus Today: The risk of being essential
By DIYA CHACKOAUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT EDITOR
APRIL 3, 2020
Good evening. I’m Diya Chacko, and it’s Friday, April 3. Here’s what’s happening with the coronavirus outbreak in California and beyond.
With the United States recording 1,000 COVID-19 deaths in a single day and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now recommending that Americans wear cloth face masks, the crisis has become particularly stressful for everyone who comes in direct contact with the public and faces a higher risk of contracting the coronavirus.
Frightened flight attendants, including some stricken by COVID-19, are pushing airlines that have already slashed capacity by as much as 90% in the last few weeks to reduce the number of flights even further. About 150 flight attendants have tested positive for the virus, with hundreds more putting themselves in self-quarantine.
For many grocery workers, assuming personal risk to perform roles now widely seen as vital to public health has given them new visibility and leverage. A number of major chains including Target, Walmart, Whole Foods, Costco, Sprouts and Kroger have offered them bonuses or temporary raises during the pandemic — but workers worried about their personal safety are protesting and pushing for better conditions as they perform increasingly difficult and dangerous jobs. “Compensation should reflect that risk,” said one Whole Foods employee.
That call has been echoed by Amazon warehouse and delivery workers across the country, who have asked for the company to do more to protect them from or compensate them for the health risks they’re taking on. Workers at six facilities in Southern California have tested positive in the last week for COVID-19. Two of the facilities handle the final stage of Amazon deliveries to customers in Los Angeles.
For many of Southern California’s small businesses, the launch of a Trump administration relief program brought more confusion than clarity. The program depends on lenders to provide them forgivable loans, up to $10 million, to cover payroll. But some of the nation’s largest banks said they weren’t ready to participate, having received information too late from the Treasury Department. Others were overwhelmed by a deluge of applications. By Friday morning, it appeared that small banks were shouldering most of the work. “Being denied access to the money is a death sentence for our small business,” said the owner of a camera store in Torrance.
Parents around the world face a dilemma: What will happen if we’re too sick to take care of our child? That scenario almost happened to one Southern California couple who while fighting the debilitating symptoms of COVID-19 had to look after their toddler without help, for fear of spreading the virus to their friends and relatives. “I cried a few times,” the father said. “I felt like I was failing.”
Given the lack of COVID-19 treatment options, doctors are looking into any medication that shows promise in keeping people off precious ventilators.
Several antiviral drugs that were developed to treat Ebola and AIDS are now the focus of a U.S.-sponsored international trial with as many as 60 sites. The World Health Organization has called remdesivir, which was developed (but failed) to treat Ebola, the most promising. It was widely used on patients in China, and the results of clinical trials conducted there should arrive in the next few weeks.
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‘Asymptomatic transmission’ is driving the coronavirus pandemic, experts say
It’s now widely understood that asymptomatic transmission is a major driver of the...
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‘Asymptomatic transmission’ is driving the coronavirus pandemic, experts say
Erin Allday April 3, 2020 Updated: April 3, 2020 7:36 p.m.
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1of6A woman is seen wearing a mask as she waits at a crosswalk in San Francisco, Calif. on Friday April 3, 2020.Photo: Nick Otto / Special to The Chronicle
2of6A woman is seen using her hood as a mask as she walks down the street in San Francisco.Photo: Nick Otto / Special to The Chronicle
3of6A worker in a haz-mat suit walks to an entrance to the Abigail Hotel in San Francisco, Thursday, April 2, 2020. Since the beginning of an international pandemic, officials in California have said one population is particularly vulnerable to contracting the coronavirus and spreading it to others: the homeless. The Abigail Hotel is one of Photo: Jeff Chiu/Associated Press
As the coronavirus landed in the U.S. in January, scientists began whispering about an apparent difference from its notorious sibling, the virus that caused SARS: People infected with this one could easily infect others — even if they had no symptoms.
The first reports seemed questionable, and many infectious disease experts didn’t believe them. Two months later, the virus has swarmed across the United States, forcing tens of millions into self-isolation. And now some experts believe that asymptomatic transmission — the passing of a virus from an infected person who feels just fine to others — is driving the pandemic.
Concerns about people without symptoms infecting others were part of the reason county health officers across California, including most of the Bay Area, this week began advising everyone to wear face coverings in public, whether they feel sick or not. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a nationwide advisory on Friday.
That’s an abrupt turn from earlier messages from federal and state public health authorities, who had said face masks did not prevent spread of disease and should not be used. On Wednesday, the California Department of Public Health stopped just short of recommending all people wear face coverings, but acknowledged that there “may be a benefit to reducing asymptomatic transmission.”
But many infectious disease experts, including some who previously rejected masks for prevention, said they’ve come around.
“I’m changing my view and my actions, since anybody could have (the coronavirus), including me,” said Warner Greene, a senior investigator with the Gladstone Institutes. “I’ve only been to the market once (since sheltering in place), and I wore a mask. I’m protecting myself in case someone else is infected, but I’m also protecting them in case I’m asymptomatic.”
The CDC and local public health advisories recommend that people wear cloth face coverings, not surgical or N95 masks, which are in short supply and should be used only by health care workers.
Viruses that cause respiratory illness usually spread when people are actively ill — especially when they are coughing and sneezing, releasing virus-laden droplets into the air around them. People who are infected and not yet feeling sick, or who will never experience symptoms, generally are less likely to spread the virus to others.
That was largely the case with SARS, the respiratory syndrome also caused by a coronavirus that infected about 8,000 people worldwide in 2004. It was known to be highly infectious, but primarily when people were well into the illness and very sick with cough and fever.
That made it fairly easy to contain the spread of SARS, because people could be quarantined as soon as they had symptoms.
But with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, it’s now believed that some large number of people — anywhere from 20% to 50% — will never have symptoms. Even those who do can spread the infection before they feel sick.
That makes controlling the new coronavirus a far more difficult challenge — and that’s part of the reason why it’s raged more explosively around the world than SARS ever did, now infecting more than a million people.
“The asymptomatic part is what’s causing this thing to go on,” said Jay Levy, an infectious disease expert at UCSF. “When people are sick they know it, and they’re going to be in quarantine. But the asymptomatics have a lot of virus and they’re healthy, so they don’t know it.”
Scientists are still figuring out exactly how the coronavirus spreads from person to person. It clearly is transmitted through droplets that come from the nose and mouth. It’s widely believed there are two ways most people become infected: by standing too close to an infected person and breathing in their droplets, or by touching a contaminated surface and then touching their mouth or nose.
The new coronavirus appears to thrive in the nose and mouth, even in healthy feeling people who transmit it simply by speaking or singing, or even just breathing hard, said Robert Siegel, a Stanford infectious disease expert.
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...and your medical taken care of if you get covid-19 in the line of duty.
desertvet2
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Us Americans need to get tough, right damned quick. If those bastards invade, you all will have to become stone cold killers...
Or you become stone cold dead.
....back to my bunker I go....
Or you become stone cold dead.
....back to my bunker I go....
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Why does COVID-19 kill some, not others? Answer may lie in human immune system
The big mystery about COVID-19 that infectious disease specialists are trying to figure...
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Why does COVID-19 kill some, not others? Answer may lie in human immune system
Peter Fimrite April 4, 2020 Updated: April 4, 2020 7:02 a.m.
2of3Levi Garraway, chief medical officer at Genentech, seen in October 2019: An inflamatory response to the virus “can be a good thing, but in some cases there may be an excessive response. That can lead to its own problems.”Photo: Courtesy Genentech /
3of3Dr. Carolyn Calfee of UCSF, on Thursday, March 26, 2020, in San Francisco. Calif. One thing common in virtually every critical COVId-19 case, she said, is the onset of acute respiratory distress syndrome, which is characterized by fluid leaking into the lungs. That is why many victims need a ventilator to breath.Photo: Jana Asenbrennerova / Special to The Chronicle
It is scary enough that a dangerous virus is multiplying throughout the world, but one of the most frightening aspects of COVID-19 is the mysterious way it affects its victims, killing some people and leaving others with mild or no symptoms.
It is a puzzle that has baffled medical professionals and prompted a batch of studies in the Bay Area and around the world to try to figure out what is going on. The early evidence is sobering.
Infectious disease specialists increasingly believe the perplexing randomness of who gets sickest may have less to do with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease, than it does with some people’s overly robust immune responses to the infection.
The quandary has taken on new urgency, given that many hard-hit victims are not old or harboring preexisting medical conditions, but young, healthy and active people. That troubling fact was highlighted this week by Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of President Trump’s coronavirus task force.
“You get so many people who do well and then some people who just, bingo, they’re on a respirator, they’re on ECMO (a life-support machine) and they’re dead,” Fauci said during an interview with CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta. “I mean, the dichotomy between that, there’s something there, Sanjay, that we’re missing from a pathogenesis standpoint. And I don’t think it’s only if you’re elderly or if you have underlying conditions. There’s something else going on there that hopefully we’ll ultimately figure out.”
The death toll is, no doubt, highest among the elderly and those with underlying medical conditions, but the extreme respiratory distress that causes those deaths — inflammation, the filling of the lungs with fluid, pneumonia — seems to be less selective.
“Some of the symptoms are caused by the inflammatory response to the virus,” said Levi Garraway, chief medical officer at Genentech, which is conducting trials on a drug called Actemra, which was designed to control overactive immune responses. “The response can be a good thing, but in some cases there may be an excessive response. That can lead to its own problems.”
Most autoimmune diseases, like rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and multiple sclerosis, are the result of a hyperactive immune response. Although the causes of most autoimmune diseases are unknown, it is believed that some kind of bacteria, virus or drug tricks the body and causes white blood cells to think healthy cells are invaders and attack them.
Experts theorize that it was the strong immune system responses of victims that caused so much death during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, which actually killed more young, healthy 20- to 40-year-olds than anyone else.
The coronavirus spreading across the globe appears to be triggering a similar autoimmune type reaction in certain people, experts say.
Dr. Carolyn Calfee, a professor of medicine and anesthesia at UCSF, is researching those reactions and trying to understand how this coronavirus differs from other infections.
One thing common in virtually every critical case, she said, is the onset of acute respiratory distress syndrome, or ARDS, which is characterized by fluid leaking into the lungs. That is why many victims need a ventilator to breathe.
Calfee, an expert on the condition, said ARDS is caused by inflammation in the lungs, similar to a burn or blister on the skin.
“Imagine what happens when you burn your arm. Well, when you have acute injury to the air sacs in your lungs, a similar thing happens,” Calfee said. “The nice clean barrier between the air sacs and the blood becomes leaky and inflames and fluids begin pouring into the lungs.”
What’s strange, she said, is how suddenly ARDS materializes in COVID-19 patients and how difficult it is to eliminate.
She said patients may experience relatively mild, flu-like symptoms for as long as a week before symptoms of ARDS begin, and its onset is usually sudden, without warning. And then it often requires a week to several weeks on a ventilator — an unusually long time for a patient with a respiratory illness — for patients to recover, if they do.
Calfee and her colleagues are collecting blood and lung fluid samples trying to figure out what it is about some people’s immune systems that causes them to have such severe reactions. These kinds of studies are the key for dozens of university laboratories and biological institutes around the world trying to develop medicines and a vaccine.
Dr. Melanie Ott, a senior investigator with the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology in San Francisco’s Mission Bay, said the extreme coronavirus cases are the result of a unique interaction between the virus and its human host.
Viruses such as SARS-CoV-2, she explained, are parasitical microbes that cannot reproduce or live very long outside of an animal.
“It needs to go inside and hijack the machinery, which is what makes it so dangerous because it takes the host machinery away,” Ott said. “It propagates its genome into a host cell.”
The problems begin, experts say, when the body gets confused and attacks healthy cells along with the virus-compromised organisms in the lungs, causing an out-of-control inflammatory reaction that sometimes impacts the heart and gut, too.
Microbiologists must now comb through the sequenced genomes of the virus in search of the mechanisms that provoke such a harsh human immune system response, which specialists call cytokine storm syndrome. They will scour through the microbes in inflamed and healthy tissues, examine molecules in the fluid extracted from the lungs of sick people and search for a weakness in the virus that can be exploited.
“We’re trying to predict how this virus is vulnerable by replicating the infection and the damage it causes in humans,” Ott said.
The scientists working on this case have done it before with HIV/AIDS, which was once a death sentence and is now a chronic but treatable disease, and hepatitis C, which can now be cured in eight weeks with a drug that was approved for use in 2014.
Duplicating those success stories isn’t an easy task, said Dr. Annie Luetkemeyer, an infectious disease specialist at San Francisco General Hospital, who participated in the clinical trials for both HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C.
“There were no coronavirus experts” before this pandemic, Luetkemeyer said. “All of us had to step up and say, ‘What am I gonna do?’ We had to become COVID experts. ... Not only have we been asked to take care of this disease that nobody has ever seen before, but also figure out how to treat it.”
It appears now that the key to unlocking the mystery of the pandemic is to figure out why a damaging immune response occurs only in some people and what COVID-19 does to cause that reaction.
“You can learn a lot from a virus,” Ott said. “The more we learn, the more we can fight.”