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Coronavirus: 9 new deaths, 421 new COVID-19 cases reported in L.A. County
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"I was sent to the #COVID19 isolation ward room in a major hospital ER from a separate urgent care facility," Griffin tweeted Wednesday while criticizing the White House Coronavirus Task Force. "The hospital couldn't test me for #coronavirus because of CDC (Pence task force) restrictions. #TESTTESTTEST"
Griffin attached several pictures of herself to the tweet that showed the hospital room that she was staying in -- while waiting for a test kit. The 59-year-old was also wearing a mask and had a higher probability of contracting the disease than a younger person.He’s lying. I was sent to the #COVID19 isolation ward room in a major hospital ER from a separate urgent care facility after showing UNBEARABLY PAINFUL symptoms. The hospital couldn’t test me for #coronavirus because of CDC (Pence task force) restrictions. #TESTTESTTEST Donald J. Trump on Twitter pic.twitter.com/0sU9fHu4r0
— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) March 25, 2020
"In fact," the president added, "over an eight day span, the United States now does more testing than what South Korea (which has been a very successful tester) does over an eight week span. Great job!"
Just reported that the United States has done far more “testing” than any other nation, by far! In fact, over an eight day span, the United States now does more testing than what South Korea (which has been a very successful tester) does over an eight week span. Great job!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 25, 2020
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7s6n_ySkmQ&pbjreload=10
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'Hell' at NYC's COVID-19 ground zero
•Mar 26, 2020
Sky News
President Trump has admitted that New York City is "by far our biggest problem" - the city is now the epicentre of the outbreak in the US.
Negative | Positive | Deaths |
16,441 | 1,687 | 16 |
Negative | Positive | Deaths |
16,441 | 1,687 | 16 |
County | Cases | Deaths |
Adams | 7 | |
Allegheny | 133 | 2 |
Armstrong | 1 | |
Beaver | 13 | |
Berks | 36 | |
Blair | 1 | |
Bradford | 2 | |
Bucks | 107 | |
Butler | 19 | 1 |
Cambria | 1 | |
Carbon | 2 | |
Centre | 9 | |
Chester | 84 | |
Clearfield | 2 | |
Columbia | 3 | |
Crawford | 1 | |
Cumberland | 15 | |
Dauphin | 13 | |
Delaware | 156 | 1 |
Erie | 4 | |
Fayette | 8 | |
Franklin | 5 | |
Greene | 3 | |
Indiana | 1 | |
Juniata | 1 | |
Lackawanna | 28 | 2 |
Lancaster | 21 | |
Lawrence | 1 | |
Lebanon | 4 | |
Lehigh | 63 | 1 |
Luzerne | 36 | 1 |
Lycoming | 1 | |
Mercer | 3 | |
Monroe | 67 | 2 |
Montgomery | 282 | 2 |
Montour | 4 | |
Northampton | 56 | 3 |
Philadelphia | 402 | 1 |
Pike | 15 | |
Potter | 1 | |
Schuylkill | 9 | |
Somerset | 2 | |
Susquehanna | 1 | |
Warren | 1 | |
Washington | 12 | |
Wayne | 6 | |
Westmoreland | 24 | |
York | 21 |
He (Gov. Chris Sununu) said the moves will align New Hampshire with other states in the region that have issued similar orders.
What a MORON SHE ISChicago mayor: "Dear God, stay home, save lives"
From CNN's Melissa Alonso
Chicago's bike trails, paths and green spaces will be closed until the "threat to our lives is over," Chicago Mayor
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Lori Lightfoot said at a news briefing today.
Lightfoot addressed Chicagoans who continued to congregate in public areas in large numbers, while the state is under a stay-at-home order.
"Your continued failure to abide by these orders" could lead to more deaths, Lightfoot said.
"Dear God, stay home, save lives," she added.
Chicago's is closing its lakefront from north to south, effective immediately. Chicago Police will ramp up patrol and are prepared to give warnings and citations and, if necessary, arrests will be made, Lightfoot said.
"You must stay at home, period," Lightfoot said.
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news...0-intl-hnk/h_952f75b1f47ec4c9610d26354699b818
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Interesting. I wonder what is going on behind the scenes? I am near the border and was just noticing this morning the lack of traffic noises.
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Justin Trudeau confirms report that the Unites States is considering stationing troops near the Canadian border. PM says Canada is speaking to American officials, says Canada's view is that the border should remain unmilitarized.
Trudeau pushing back as U.S. looks to place troops near Canadian border | CBC News
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada is in talks with the United States over reports that the Trump administration is thinking of stationing troops near the Canadian border.
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Looks like it Won't be long and you will need to use it. Seriously you should get out of there.I am also doing my laundry, seven quarters each. The banks are closed, so my neighbors are running out of quarters already. Moi, being Doomer Doug bought 4 rolls last week. Each roll holds 40 quarters or 6 washes or 3 weeks x 4 =3 months. Now you see why I have Mr
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I am also doing my laundry, seven quarters each. The banks are closed, so my neighbors are running out of quarters already. Moi, being Doomer Doug bought 4 rolls last week. Each roll holds 40 quarters or 6 washes or 3 weeks x 4 =3 months. Now you see why I have Mr Mossberg?
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed that the US is requesting American troops be placed within 20 miles of the US-Canada border to help with border surveillance especially at irregular crossings. Trudeau indicated his government did not believe that was necessary at this time, but that talks were ongoing.
I was just discussing shelter in place with DW. We've been doing it for over a week and can do it for months ahead. We think God has blessed us with our little debt-free, rural homestead (down a dead end road). If we want to walk and take in the fresh air, we have a few acres to do that on and can walk the little-traveled neighborhood if we wish.
Food is still incredibly cheap in the US. People bitch about the high cost of food in America, but it is still very inexpensive compared to most places on Earth. I hate to recommend that people still go into the supermarkets because of the expanding virus infection rates, but if you need to go, it's better to do it now than wait until infection rates increase further.
If you can afford it, but as many shelf stable groceries as you can now. No one - including myself - really knows how long the supply disruptions will last. People complain about the shortages now. What happens if they are much worse in a month or two and then you'll be surrounded by more infected people as you shop? Buying food (if you do it properly) is not much different than holding precious metals or having cash. It should never lose its value or its ultimately utility of eating it!
Be careful and smart - and pray God daily.
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Coronavirus I SA COVID-19 cases rise to 927
•Mar 26, 2020
SABC Digital News
As South Africa prepares to go into a national lockdown in seven hours' time, President Cyril Ramaphosa has confirmed that the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the country has risen to 927. The President participated in a virtual Extraordinary G20 Leaders' Summit meeting on a coordinated international response to the current COVID-19 pandemic. The Summit aims to advance a coordinated global response to the COVID-19 pandemic in view of its considerable global human, economic and social implications. For more news, visit sabcnews.com and also #SABCNews on Social Media.
If you can afford it, but as many shelf stable groceries as you can now. No one - including myself - really knows how long the supply disruptions will last. People complain about the shortages now. What happens if they are much worse in a month or two and then you'll be surrounded by more infected people as you shop? Buying food (if you do it properly) is not much different than holding precious metals or having cash. It should never lose its value or its ultimately utility of eating it!
Damn! I trained doctors and transplant staff at Brigham and Women's. Bright, bright people, and we need them. Hate to see this. Boston has a Subway too, and Mass General actually has its own subway stop...More than 100 Boston hospital employees test positive for coronavirus
From CNN's Ellie Kaufman
Massachusetts General Hospital is pictured in Boston, on March 14. Michael Dwyer/AP
More than 100 employees at three Boston hospitals have tested positive for coronavirus
- Boston Medical Center said 15 employees have tested positive for the virus.
- Brigham and Women’s Hospital has 45 employees that have tested positive, Brigham Health Media Relations Associate Serena Bronda told CNN.
- Massachusetts General Hospital has 41 employees who have tested positive, though Senior Public Affairs Officer Terri Ogan told CNN the hospital believes most contracted the virus somewhere other than the hospital.
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The novel coronavirus pandemic continues to spread worldwide, sending countries into lockdown with millions under movement restrictions.www.cnn.com
Biogen conference.
Italian strain SARS COV-2.1
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If you can afford it, but as many shelf stable groceries as you can now. No one - including myself - really knows how long the supply disruptions will last. People complain about the shortages now. What happens if they are much worse in a month or two and then you'll be surrounded by more infected people as you shop? Buying food (if you do it properly) is not much different than holding precious metals or having cash. It should never lose its value or its ultimately utility of eating it!
I wonder if components of these kits come from china?
Exclusive: U.S. coronavirus testing threatened by shortage of critical lab materials
Exclusive: U.S. coronavirus testing threatened by shortage of critical lab materials
The slow pace of coronavirus testing has created a major gap in the U.S. public health response.
Public health labs across the U.S. have tested more than 5,000 people, according to the Trump administration. | California Department of Public Health via AP
By DAVID LIM and BRIANNA EHLEY
03/10/2020 06:56 PM EDT
A looming shortage in lab materials is threatening to delay coronavirus test results and cause officials to undercount the number of Americans with the virus.
The slow pace of coronavirus testing has created a major gap in the U.S. public health response. The latest problem involves an inability to prepare samples for testing, creating uncertainties in how long it will take to get results.
CDC Director Robert Redfield told POLITICO on Tuesday that he is not confident that U.S. labs have an adequate stock of the supplies used to extract genetic material from any virus in a patient’s sample — a critical step in coronavirus testing.
“The availability of those reagents is obviously being looked at,” he said, referring to the chemicals used for preparing samples. “I’m confident of the actual test that we have, but as people begin to operationalize the test, they realize there’s other things they need to do the test.”
The coronavirus task force convened by the White House is also aware of the shortages, and one official said members are working on it.
The growing scarcity of these “RNA extraction” kits is the latest trouble for U.S. labs, which have struggled to implement widespread coronavirus testing in the seven weeks since the country diagnosed its first case. Epidemiologists and public health officials say that the delayed rollout, caused in part by a botched CDC test, has masked the scope of the U.S. outbreak and hobbled efforts to limit it.
If enough processing kits aren’t available, the risk that testing will be disrupted is “huge,” said Michael Mina, associate medical director of molecular diagnostics at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
“RNA extraction is the first step in being able to perform” a coronavirus test, he said. “If we cannot perform this step, the [coronavirus] test cannot be performed.”
Qiagen, a major supplier of the kits, confirmed that its product is backordered due to “the extraordinary pace” at which the world has increased coronavirus testing over the last few weeks.
Public health labs across the U.S. have tested more than 5,000 people, according to the Trump administration. HHS Secretary Alex Azar told lawmakers on Tuesday that U.S. labs’ capacity could grow to 10,000-20,000 people per day by the end of the week.
“Increased demand for testing has the potential to exhaust supplies needed to perform the test itself,” said Robin Patel, president of the American Society for Microbiology. That would limit the testing capacity of public health, hospital and commercial labs alike, she added.
Complicating the situation, most labs have been running at least two tests per patient — although that could soon change. The CDC issued interim guidelines on Monday that minimize the number of tests required for a diagnosis. The agency says labs can combine a patient’s nose and throat samples into one test, a move experts say will cut in half the amount of supplies used to test each person.
But Redfield said he doesn’t know how the agency would deal with any scarcity of RNA extraction kits and reagents that arise. “I don’t know the answer to that question,” he said when asked how the CDC would handle such a situation — adding that he is hopeful “there will be mechanisms between multiple manufacturers to correct” it.
Mandy Cohen, North Carolina’s secretary of health, said that a shortage of extraction kits and other chemicals had hampered testing in her state. “Folks were saying, ‘We are sending you the [test] kits,’ and I don’t think they understood at first what exact part of the supply chain we needed,” she said. “We needed extraction kits.”
An FDA spokesperson said that the agency is contacting labs that are testing for the coronavirus “to understand their supply issues and assist where we can.”
The FDA has also approved a change to the CDC diagnostic test that allows labs to switch from Qiagen’s RNA extraction method to another manufactured by Roche, says Denny Russell, who leads the coronavirus response at Washington state’s public health lab. But getting his lab ready to use the Roche method could take a week in part because technicians will need training to use it.
Commercial labs, which have recently started running coronavirus tests, have not experienced any supply shortages, according to a spokesperson for the American Clinical Laboratory Association.
In the meantime, Qiagen has told customers that it may not be able to fill large standing orders, because it is trying to provide smaller numbers of kits to as many labs as possible, said spokesperson Robert Reitze. The company is ramping up production of RNA extraction kits at manufacturing sites in Hilden, Germany; Barcelona, Spain; and Germantown, Md.
I thought Trump just sent or directed 10,000 doses of this stuff to NY just for this purpose?!Michael Coudrey
@MichaelCoudrey
WOW: NY Gov Cuomo updated an executive order Monday to block pharmacists from filling prescriptions for the drug hydroxychloroquine for any uses not approved by the FDA. That means this NY doctor who successfully treated 350 patients w/ COVID19 can no longer prescribe the drug.
View: https://twitter.com/MichaelCoudrey/status/1242897547171004417
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finish your laundry first!Looks like it Won't be long and you will need to use it. Seriously you should get out of there.
“They’ve put science at the center of their policy, and they’ve let the data drive the decisions.”
I'm in Chicago. You don't know WTF you are talking about. You have no mother effing idea. We are in the process of converting satiums and McCormick Place into a the world's largest hospital. Shit's about to hit a big ol fan in Chicago. We've already been on lockdown. Yes, you can take a walk. Yes. You can go to the store. Yesterday, there were 150 assholes playing football on the lakefront. that's who she's after.What a MORON SHE IS
If she expects her people to stay inside 24/7 she is a bigger Marxist moron than I thought. She has just guaranteed a mass outbreak as people will violate the stay at home and will not stay trapped inside. Another example of the incompetent political leadership nationwide. I just got back from a 2 mile walk. People will tolerate that
The Chicago Mayor is a marxist bitch, they voted in, and she will get them killed.