Coronavirus is one mutation away from infecting millions

[apalisoc_9]

"hostile questions"

"Mr President, you mentioned yesterday about the potential of Clorox to cure coronavirus..Can you spoke more about that please"

" See this is the problem with you..Fake news. Making stories up..You're not a great reporter"

[Blake]

"Mr President, you mentioned yesterday about the potential of Clorox to cure coronavirus..Can you spoke more about that please"

" See this is the problem with you..Fake news. Making stories up..You're not a great reporter"

TAKING MUH BALL AND GOING HOME

[ElNono]

Great news

Hopefully Dr Birx and Dr Fauci can continue to give actual sane information through all outlets.

[DarrinS]

Do you know of any clinical trials using both together? God I hope we're not stuck just letting it run its course through everyone completely unchecked until we have a vaccine.

Not sure


https://www.clinicaltrials.gov

[pgardn]

Great news

Hopefully Dr Birx and Dr Fauci can continue to give actual sane information through all outlets.

Dr Birx had an anxiety attack at the last Trump TV comedy show.
She is older and needs to stay out of the room when he comes on.

Im sorry Dr Birx, but the look on your face was priceless.
I had to laugh, and cry for you at the same time.

[ChumpDumper]

Dr Birx had an anxiety attack at the last Trump TV comedy show.
She is older and needs to stay out of the room when he comes on.

Im sorry Dr Birx, but the look on your face was priceless.
I had to laugh, and cry for you at the same time.

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[Reck]

Oh are you under the illusion that this will be over by late June and that’s it?

By default we’ll be stuck with this for at least a year without a vaccine. So is 2 years really that hard to believe?

[Spurminator]

Media changed the equation when they realized Trump's poll numbers were going up.

The approval bump Donald Trump got from COVID was historically low compared to other crises of this magnitude, and you're ing re ed if you think that bump had anything to do with his daily campaign rally. He was gifted a disaster and still couldn't keep from shooting himself in the foot.

[DarrinS]

Not sure


https://www.clinicaltrials.gov

https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04326725

[DarrinS]

This is just a thing that is with us now. Forever

At the end of the day, you are just waiting your turn to get it. Hopefully, you're not one of the unlucky ones that gets a bad outcome.


Thanks China.

[Winehole23]

Supply and demand shocks in meatpacking:

In Minnesota, it’s so bad that some farmers have resorted to “destroying” full-grown hogs, Bloomberg reported Thursday.

“Hog farmers don’t have the facilities to hold the animals and when they grow too large to be handled by packers, growers don’t have much choice”, the linked article reads, noting that north of the border, Canadian producers are losing money. Apparently, the hog backlog (if you will) stood at nearly 100,000 in eastern Canada as of last Friday.

Ultimately, we’re in a situation where nearly 25% of pork production is offline in the US. For beef, the number is around 10%. That’s according to United Food & Commercial Workers who said the following in an urgent statement on Thursday:

The UFCW also released new updates on the serious and deadly impact of the Covid-19 virus. As of today, and based on UFCW internal estimates, 10 meatpacking workers and 3 food processing workers have died. In addition, at least 5,000 meatpacking workers and 1,500 food processing workers have been directly impacted by the virus. The estimates of those meatpacking and processing workers directly impacted includes individuals who have tested positive for COVID-19, missed work due to self-quarantine, are awaiting test results, or have been hospitalized and/or are symptomatic.

In total, the UFCW identified that 13 plants have closed at some point in the past two months. These closures have resulted in over 24,500 workers impacted and a 25 percent reduction in pork slaughter capacity and a 10 percent reduction in beef slaughter capacity.

https://heisenbergreport.com/2020/04...ationary-side/

[midnightpulp]

. Why do you follow bald face liars? They weren't "defying ." The beaches were reopen:

Coronavirus lockdowns were lifted at beaches across Orange County as temperatures surpassed 80 degrees.

I'm okay with this, too. More and more concrete information about this virus is showing that it doesn't transmit well in open air and is possibly inactivated by UV light. Australia could be an example of this, as they had beaches open, and have one of the most controlled outbreaks in the world. An "authoritarian" wouldn't reopen anything in light of better information.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...coronavirus-us

[ElNono]

[ChumpDumper]

Here we go....

Bar and nightclub owners say they could begin opening their doors to the public within the next few weeks.

The proposed roll-out would begin in two phases with restaurants opening first on May 5 and bars and nightclubs coming two weeks later on May 19, according to the Texas Bar and Nightclub Association....

https://www.kxan.com/news/local/aust...h-restaurants/

[midnightpulp]

Here we go....

Bar and nightclub owners say they could begin opening their doors to the public within the next few weeks.

The proposed roll-out would begin in two phases with restaurants opening first on May 5 and bars and nightclubs coming two weeks later on May 19, according to the Texas Bar and Nightclub Association....

https://www.kxan.com/news/local/aust...h-restaurants/

You can enforce a degree of social distancing in a restaurant. Or have dining outside. Bars and clubs should be indefinitely shutdown. Recipe for disaster.

[Blake]

Here we go....

Bar and nightclub owners say they could begin opening their doors to the public within the next few weeks.

The proposed roll-out would begin in two phases with restaurants opening first on May 5 and bars and nightclubs coming two weeks later on May 19, according to the Texas Bar and Nightclub Association....

https://www.kxan.com/news/local/aust...h-restaurants/

Dance six feet away from everyone while drinking through the mask?

Stupid

[DMC]

You can bet Brad Pitt got a test. Ironic skit by him tbh

[TimDunkem]

You can enforce a degree of social distancing in a restaurant. Or have dining outside. Bars and clubs should be indefinitely shutdown. Recipe for disaster.

I think there are far too many small, poorly circulated restaurants to safely do the dine in thing too. One gust of air after a door opens in a place like that and suddenly people are sucking in Covid. Unless they're somehow eating with masks on, I guess.

[Chris]

You can enforce a degree of social distancing in a restaurant. Or have dining outside. Bars and clubs should be indefinitely shutdown. Recipe for disaster.

I'm sure you would be donating to these bar and club small businesses while they endure your indefinite shutdown.

[Blake]

I'm sure you would be donating to these bar and club small businesses while they endure your indefinite shutdown.

So Trump bad now?

[Trainwreck2100]

The approval bump Donald Trump got from COVID was historically low compared to other crises of this magnitude, and you're ing re ed if you think that bump had anything to do with his daily campaign rally. He was gifted a disaster and still couldn't keep from shooting himself in the foot.

It's funny cause his approval went up when he surrounded himself with experts and they delivered all the info, like grown ups. Trump's problem was that he ran out of to talk about so it regressed to his usual moonbat campaign rally shtick.

[ElNono]

You can bet Brad Pitt got a test. Ironic skit by him tbh

Don't watch SLN, but I thought it was hilarious

[boutons_deux]

The early count on what COVID-19 does to the body:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Infographic...cal_impact_of/

stop with this misinformation.

We were told (by the Usual Suspects of the right wing hate media and Repugs) that C19 was the flu, or what just like the flu, so relax, no need for anybody to do anything special. the flu kills a lot more people, C19 is less fatal

[Winehole23]

Testing, testing, testing, but especially in nursing homes, jails, prisons, assisted living homes, mental health facilities, etc..

A new approach that expands Covid-19 testing to include asymptomatic persons residing or working in skilled nursing facilities needs to be implemented now. Despite “lockdowns” in these facilities, coronavirus outbreaks continue to spread, with 1 in 10 nursing homes in the United States (>1300 skilled nursing facilities) now reporting cases, with the likelihood of thousands of deaths.6 Mass testing of the residents in skilled nursing facilities will allow appropriate isolation of infected residents so that they can be cared for and quarantine of exposed residents to minimize the risk of spread. Mass testing in these facilities could also allow cohorting7 and some resumption of group activities in a nonoutbreak setting. Routine rRT-PCR testing in addition to symptomatic screening of new residents before entry, conservative guidelines for discontinuation of isolation,7 and periodic retesting of long-term residents, as well as both periodic rRT-PCR screening and surgical masking of all staff, are important concomitant measures.

There are approximately 1.3 million Americans currently residing in nursing homes.8 Although this recommendation for mass testing in skilled nursing facilities could be initially rolled out in geographic areas with high rates of community Covid-19 transmission, an argument can be made to extend this recommendation to all U.S.-based skilled nursing facilities now because case ascertainment is uneven and incomplete and because of the devastating consequences of outbreaks. Immediately enforceable alternatives to mass testing in skilled nursing facilities are few. The public health director of Los Angeles has recommended that families remove their loved ones from nursing homes,9 a measure that is not feasible for many families.

Asymptomatic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is the Achilles’ heel of Covid-19 pandemic control through the public health strategies we have currently deployed. Symptom-based screening has utility, but epidemiologic evaluations of Covid-19 outbreaks within skilled nursing facilities such as the one described by Arons et al. strongly demonstrate that our current approaches are inadequate. This recommendation for SARS-CoV-2 testing of asymptomatic persons in skilled nursing facilities should most likely be expanded to other congregate living situations, such as prisons and jails (where outbreaks in the United States, whose incarceration rate is much higher than rates in other countries, are increasing), enclosed mental health facilities, and homeless shelters, and to hospitalized inpatients. Current U.S. testing capability must increase immediately for this strategy to be implemented.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2009758

[baseline bum]

You can enforce a degree of social distancing in a restaurant. Or have dining outside. Bars and clubs should be indefinitely shutdown. Recipe for disaster.

Packing into dining rooms is lunacy when SARSCov2 can be transmitted through airborne droplets. How do people wear masks when they're eating? And they'll be spreading tons of droplets all throughout the dining room talking to their family/friends while sitting there for half an hour to an hour. Six feet is a joke with people not wearing masks in a small area with AC carrying their droplets around the room while they're there for an extended period.

But the worst thing is gyms reopening. That right there shows you Trump couldn't give the slightest about any of our lives. A bunch of people in an enclosed area for extended periods exhaling droplets through breathing hard on the treadmill, bike, bench press, etc. Who doesn't exhale with a lot more force than normal when exercising hard?

God damn the USA