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I do think the numbers we have in front of us is close to 70-80% of people who have it. US has 24k confirmed cases with 300 deaths while Iran has 20k cases with 1500 deaths. If we go by 1-2% death rate then 30-60k people are currently carrying it which is not bad and still containable if people practice social distancing even at home!
 
Americas brain power is behind effort to defeat this thing, we will be building more ventilators and even supplying them to the world, we got the best scienstists and engineers looking at this problem so rest asurd it will be fixed just do your part and practice and preach social distancing inshallah we will overcome this.
 
sjahmed23 said:
Americas brain power is behind effort to defeat this thing, we will be building more ventilators and even supplying them to the world, we got the best scienstists and engineers looking at this problem so rest asurd it will be fixed just do your part and practice and preach social distancing inshallah we will overcome this.
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USA is not God, it has a clown as a leader who is more interested in making big companies.

According to this 80% of residents could get the virus and Americans are "literally scouring the globe' for medical supplies. Doesnt look like much brain power has been used.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/coronavirus-cases-new-york-state-now-top-10-000-n1165626
 
This administration was not just sleeping, but willfully dismissing the seriousness of this up until 2 weeks ago. Too late.

Over the next 2-3 weeks, cases in the US will hit 50K easy. We need to strictly enforce social distancing guidelines NOW.

People here are still not serious about this - I saw multiple groups of young adults being out and about, partying like any other Friday night where I live. I have friends still going on dates with multiple people :facepalm:

I read reports of the National Guard moving in to multiple states. I sense more 'shelter-in-place' orders coming in the next week.
 
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[MENTION=142162]Napa[/MENTION] where are you based in the US? How’s it there. NY is in total lockdown
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Lol some people were going around partying and to local parks than the national guard pulled up on block and most people went back to there houses
 
Napa said:
So banning people from a country that is the origin of the infection wasn't a good thing?

"Still the idiot wants to make you believe this is nothing more than a common cold". The used of the word "still" implies that this is something that was said recently. This is something you made up. If you didn't, then post a link to a source that shows he said that within the last 3 days.



If you unable to see the bias in the media, then you can continue living in your delusional world. As for trusting doctors and health experts, of course I trust them as a group. That doesn't mean I trust every one of them, and believe every one of them. If I did, then I would have believed the couple of psychologists who keep ranting on social media that they have "professionally" judged Trump to be a madman in violation of the ethics of their profession which forbids them from passing opinions on people they who have not consulted with them in real life.



China will never overtake the US, that is a fact.

This man is careless and has the comprehension skills of a 5th grader, he can't lead the US or the world out of this crisis.
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It is your choice to call a man who made billions, built successful brands, and won a Presidency as someone who "has the comprehension skills of a 5th grader". People are entitled to their delusions, especially if they live in democracies.



I would rather be called shameless by someone like you than give up my powers of reasoning.

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What a load of crap. Your boy screwed america you are too blind to see it. Lol you are more delusional than I thought, must be a product of the Indian education system. Only they can produce a white man worshipping tool like you.
 
USA's response to the Coronavirus has been of a 3rd world country.

I'm expecting an exponential growth of confirmed cases in upcoming week.

What a sad state of affairs. Despite having so many resources, the USA government has let down its people.

And even more pathetic are fools who defend these clowns :yk
 
WhenSultansBowled said:
USA's response to the Coronavirus has been of a 3rd world country.

I'm expecting an exponential growth of confirmed cases in upcoming week.

What a sad state of affairs. Despite having so many resources, the USA government has let down its people.

And even more pathetic are fools who defend these clowns :yk
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Only our Indian friends think DJT has done a tremendous job by putting travel ban on China while not accepting the realty of the situation. He claimed everyone could get tested and everything is under control begining of March, when there were no test kits available?!? that lead people to believe that there weren't many cases in the US when the virus was growing exponentially! The man is literally responsible for hundreds of deaths, the US shouldve been in lockdown since feburary now its too late we will see thousands of deaths and trillions lost to the economy.

Seriously even hatred should have some bounds but this is ridiculous, it seems some people have so much hate for muslims their soul is tainted.
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Senator Rand Paul has tested positive for COVID-19. He is feeling fine and is in quarantine. He is asymptomatic and was tested out of an abundance of caution due to his extensive travel and events. He was not aware of any direct contact with any infected person.</p>— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) <a href="https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1241780756617273345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo chastised New York City residents for defying official health guidance and continuing to socialise in large groups.

"It’s a mistake. It’s insensitive. It’s arrogant. It’s self-destructive," Mr Cuomo said on Sunday.

"This is not a joke, and I am not kidding," adding that he shared New Yorkers’ frustration at having to stay inside. "I’m even getting annoyed with the dog."

Mr Cuomo has cancelled all non-critical surgeries in the state as cases across New York continue to soar. There are at least 15,168 confirmed cases - a jump of 4,812 since Saturday - and 114 deaths, Mr Cuomo said.

At least 38 of New York City’s over 9,000 cases are those inside prisons, including 21 inmates. Activists have urged early releases to lower population densities within the facilities.

Already, prisons in Los Angeles and Ohio have allowed for hundreds of early releases and New York’s mayor has said the city will look to release “vulnerable” inmates.
 
For those that contract COVID-19 and don't have healthcare insurance, how does it work for them?
 
USA has surpassed Italy in increasing of coronavirus cases with an increment of 8149 cases while Italy reported 5560 cases in the last 24 hours
 
sensible-indian-fan said:
Absolutely.

Why?

Cos this is Murica. :))

[MENTION=53290]Markhor[/MENTION] bhai may disagree but Dems and American junta have to be taught a lesson.

For the greater good, Trump has to win 2020 (beating Biden) and make them cry so much they realize their flaws.

Nothing teaches you like failure.
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It's very interesting to see those same individuals and corporations, that lobby/donate for less regulation, that want smaller government, that do their utmost to avoid paying taxes and try their hardest to reduce their tax rates, now go to the US government with their arms wide open for a bailout and to do something to contain this. One would think this would be the death knell of neo-liberal and liberatarian politics, but we know that will not happen until those people are put to the sword. Re-electing Biden will be a bad result for progressive politics in the US, as it will usher in at least 1-2 more decades of neo-liberal politics.
 
WhenSultansBowled said:
USA's response to the Coronavirus has been of a 3rd world country.

I'm expecting an exponential growth of confirmed cases in upcoming week.

What a sad state of affairs. Despite having so many resources, the USA government has let down its people.

And even more pathetic are fools who defend these clowns :yk
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The myth of the US having so many resources gets destroyed once you spend time there. The government has become toothless due to relentless lobbying from corporations and wealthy, to the point where they have very little resources. Ironically, these same people who lobbied for lower tax rates, less regulation, smaller government etc are now begging the government for a bailout.
 
The coronavirus outbreak in New York will get worse, with damage accelerated by shortages of key medical supplies, the city's mayor has said.

"We're about 10 days away from seeing widespread shortages," Bill de Blasio said on Sunday. "If we don't get more ventilators people will die."

New York state has become the epicentre of the outbreak in the US and accounts for almost half of the country's cases.

There are now 31,057 confirmed cases nationwide, with 390 deaths.

On Sunday, the state's Governor Andrew Cuomo said 15,168 people had tested positive for the virus., an increase of more than 4,000 from the previous day.

"All Americans deserve the blunt truth," Mr de Blasio told NBC News. "It's only getting worse, and in fact April and May are going to be a lot worse."

New York now accounts for roughly 5% of Covid-19 cases worldwide.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51998429
 
ahsan17 said:
It's very interesting to see those same individuals and corporations, that lobby/donate for less regulation, that want smaller government, that do their utmost to avoid paying taxes and try their hardest to reduce their tax rates, now go to the US government with their arms wide open for a bailout and to do something to contain this. One would think this would be the death knell of neo-liberal and liberatarian politics, but we know that will not happen until those people are put to the sword. Re-electing Biden will be a bad result for progressive politics in the US, as it will usher in at least 1-2 more decades of neo-liberal politics.
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Absolutely.

Trump has to be re-elected.

He will do whatever he wants in his 2nd term with no fear of future elections.

Then America will realize.

Biden is the worst thing that can happen to America...long term wise.
 
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Usa will see huge spike of deaths because that infection rate is staggering 35k. Their health care will be put under massive stress.
Now is time where inequality gets highlighted. Lower income and homeless will be severely handicapped compared to well todo and that’s reality of life I suppose
 
US President Donald Trump has ordered the deployment of National Guard troops in the three states hardest hit by the coronavirus outbreak.

Troops will be used in New York, California and Washington to deliver medical aid and set up medical stations after the number of deaths nationwide rose to 471 and infections to 35,244.

There are fears of a shortage of key medical supplies in New York City.

A bill to fund national relief efforts has been blocked in the Senate.

Opposition Democrats want the emergency stimulus bill, which is worth almost $1.4 trillion (£1.2 trillion), to include more money for state and local governments and hospitals, while Mr Trump's Republicans are pushing for quick action to reassure financial markets.

President Trump described the crisis facing the US as a "war", saying: "I want to assure the American people that we're doing everything we can each day to confront and ultimately defeat this horrible invisible enemy."

The medical stations the National Guard will set up have a capacity of 4,000 beds, 2,000 of which will go to California, 1,000 to New York and 1,000 to Washington state.

In addition, Mr Trump said he had approved requests to issue a major disaster declaration for the states of New York and Washington, and would do the same for California "very shortly".

Such declarations make federal funds available for relief work.

Earlier, several state governors and local authorities pleaded with the federal government to make more medical supplies available.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Sunday: "We're about 10 days away from seeing widespread shortages. If we don't get more ventilators people will die."

New York state accounts for almost half of the country's cases.

In California, officials have instructed hospitals to restrict coronavirus testing because of a shortage of medical supplies.

Meanwhile, a hospital in Washington state - once the centre of the US outbreak - said it could run out of ventilators by April.

It failed to pass the Senate on Sunday, getting 47 votes and thus falling short of the 60 needed in the 100-member chamber.

Democrats raised objections to the bill with Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer saying it had "many, many problems". Democrats accused Republicans of wanting to bail out big businesses.

Talks between Democrats and the White House are continuing.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52003946
 
sensible-indian-fan said:
Absolutely.

Trump has to be re-elected.

He will do whatever he wants in his 2nd term with no fear of future elections.

Then America will realize.

Biden is the worst thing that can happen to America...long term wise.
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Lol what the hell? The guy who gave massive tax cuts to the same corporations who are asking for a bailout that Trump? Look at the deficit bud.

Trump getting reelected would be the second worst thing that happened to America, him getting elected was the first. He has completely messed this up beyond repair.
 
Sanders is what USA needs. Not Biden and definitely not Trump.
But democratic establishment will never endorse him. We saw it happen in last election against Hillary.
 
sjahmed23 said:
Lol what the hell? The guy who gave massive tax cuts to the same corporations who are asking for a bailout that Trump? Look at the deficit bud.

Trump getting reelected would be the second worst thing that happened to America, him getting elected was the first. He has completely messed this up beyond repair.
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What will Biden being elected solve?

Same status quo with a few differences I believe.
 
One of my family member had a chest congestion and a little bit of cough last week but most hospitals are not testing unless

1. You have a fever over 100
2.You are over the risk demographic and have flu symptoms
3. You have visited one of the high risk counties in the last month like China, Italy, Middle Eastern countries etc.

This is stupid. This is very Reactive instead of being proactive.
 
Local.Dada said:
One of my family member had a chest congestion and a little bit of cough last week but most hospitals are not testing unless

1. You have a fever over 100
2.You are over the risk demographic and have flu symptoms
3. You have visited one of the high risk counties in the last month like China, Italy, Middle Eastern countries etc.

This is stupid. This is very Reactive instead of being proactive.
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Yes. This is stupid. Which city does your family member stay?
 
More than 41,000 people across the United States have been infected with the novel coronavirus. At least 479 people have died.

The number of cases is expected to rapidly grow as more people are tested for COVID-19.

So far, Washington and New York states have been hit the hardest by the virus. At least 75 have died in Washington and 98 in New York.
 
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Normally our office shuts down for almost nothing but today we've received "strong guidance" to work from home. Most of the other departments in our office were already working from home but tomorrow our office will wear a deserted look.

We are in Virginia by the way.
 
What's the latest from the US?

In the last half hour, Democrats in the US Senate have again blocked a $1.8 trillion (£1.6 trillion) economic stimulus package, saying it did not do enough to help regular Americans and did not include measures to keep companies from misusing funds

The US surgeon general has warned "this week, it’s going to get bad" while adding that too many Americans, especially young people, were not taking the pandemic seriously enough

At least 11 states have ordered residents to stay at home; Indiana and Massachusetts were the latest to do so on Monday

US National Guard leader Gen Joseph Lengyel described the situation as having "54 different hurricanes hitting every state" - and as of Monday morning, some 7,300 national guard troops are providing critical support nationwide
 
Coronavirus: Is Trump going cold on lockdown strategy?
As a growing number of states issue "shelter in place" orders, businesses shutter and Americans everywhere are told to limit outings and practise social distancing, Donald Trump may be having second thoughts.

For more than a week, Trump administration officials and state leaders have been talking of the need to "bend the curve" of the coronavirus outbreak, limiting the spread of the illness to prevent the American healthcare system from being overwhelmed. The steep economic toll, however, is becoming increasingly apparent.

Last week Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin predicted that US unemployment could reach 20%. On Thursday the Treasury Department will release last week's new jobless claims, and the numbers are sure to be in the millions. A Goldman Sachs report estimated that the nation's gross domestic product in the second quarter could shrink by 24%, dwarfing the previous 10% record decline in 1958.

In the late hours of Sunday night, the president tweeted - in all caps - that he has some concerns.

"WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF," Trump wrote, using the all-caps he reserves for matters of apparent urgency. "AT THE END OF THE 15 DAY PERIOD, WE WILL MAKE A DECISION AS TO WHICH WAY WE WANT TO GO!"

The 15-day period the president referenced began on 16 March, when the White House announced new Centers for Disease Control guidelines encouraging all Americans to work from home when possible and limit gatherings of more than 10 people.

As is often the case, the president's tweet may have been prompted by watching a segment on Fox News. On Sunday evening, host (and former advisor to then-British PM David Cameron) Steve Hilton warned that an economic collapse would itself result in avoidable deaths and other hardships - that the "cure" could be worse than the "disease".

"Our ruling class and their TV mouthpieces whipping up fear over this virus, they can afford an indefinite shutdown," Hilton said. "Working Americans can't. They'll be crushed by it."

Trump's faithful may be inching back to the view they held a few weeks ago, that the virus is being used by the president's political enemies to damage his political standing by damaging the economy.

On Monday morning the president continued on this theme, with a flurry of retweets of accounts (some with only a few hundred followers) who were calling for Americans to be allowed to return to work after the 15-day period ended.

Former top Trump economic advisor Gary Cohn also joined the chorus, albeit somewhat obliquely.

"Is it time to start discussing the need for a date when the economy can turn back on?" he asked on Twitter. "Policymakers have taken bold public health and economic actions to address the coronavirus, but businesses need clarity. Otherwise they will assume the worst and make decisions to survive."

This conclusion among conservatives is not universal, however. On Sunday Steve Bannon, a former senior Trump campaign and White House staffer who has repeatedly fallen in and out of favour with the president, advocated for a "hammer" style imposition of rigorous separation.

"Drop the hammer, don't mitigate the virus, don't spread the curve, shatter the curve," he said during a Fox News morning interview. "Go full hammer on the virus right now with a full shutdown, use the stimulus to bridge the economic crisis."

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who frequently has the president's ear, issued his own warning, garnished with a bit of praise.

"President Trump's best decision was stopping travel from China early on," he writes. "I hope we will not undercut that decision by suggesting we back off aggressive containment policies within the United States."

Graham somewhat misrepresented the administration's 31 January order that only limited entry by non-US-resident foreign nationals who had been in China in the previous two weeks, but the move has been touted by the president as evidence that he acted early to deal with the spread of the virus.

Meanwhile, others in the Trump administration continue to stress the need for rigorous social distancing - which suggests that there could be growing divisions between medical professionals in the administration and those whose focus on the economic impact.

On Monday morning, for instance, Surgeon General Jerome Adams warned that the worst was yet to come.

"I want America to understand, this week, it's going to get bad," he said in a television interview. "And right now there are not enough people out there who are taking this seriously."

Any move by the administration to ease guidelines could also set up a clash with state governors, a growing number of whom are moving toward greater, not lesser, restrictions on movement and gatherings.

One of the much-touted strengths of the US federalist system of government is it allows states - the so-called "laboratories of democracy" - freedom to devise their own policies and solutions to pressing political concerns. That system has never been tested quite like this, however, as some governors warn of the risks of a patchwork response to a national health crisis

The president underlined this potential for conflict in a tweet on Sunday afternoon swiping at Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, who had earlier criticised the administration's coronavirus response.

@JBPritzker, Governor of Illinois, and a very small group of certain other Governors, together with Fake News @CNN & Concast (MSDNC), shouldn't be blaming the Federal Government for their own shortcomings," he wrote. "We are there to back you up should you fail, and always will be!"

The president, it appears, is being pulled in multiple directions and, as he often does, is airing his internal dialogue on Twitter. He has described himself as a "wartime president" doing battle against the spread of this virus, but he's also spent much of the past year building a November re-election campaign around the claim that he has presided over record economic growth and low unemployment - both of which seem to be evaporating.

And not only is Trump looking at this as a president whose re-election could hinge on an economic rebound, he is also a businessman watching his life's work - his empire of resorts, hotels and golf courses, some of which were reportedly already in financial trouble - face an existential crisis.

The three-plus years of Trump's administration have already had enough turmoil and drama - much of it self-created - to fill an entire two terms. The coronavirus outbreak is a presidency-defining crisis, however - one that, barring the kind of miracle treatment Trump has at times hoped for, appears to offer options that range from bad to worse.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52009108
 
US President Donald Trump has just tweeted that Asian Americans should not get the blame for the coronavirus, adding that the infection "is NOT their fault in any way, shape, or form".

The president has been challenged in recent days by White House reporters for repeatedly describing Covid-19 as the "Chinese virus", and he has defended using that term.

Asian-Americans have been reporting physical and verbal attacks on streets and schools campuses ever since the outbreak reached the US.

A San Francisco State University study found a 50% rise in the number of news articles over the past month reporting anti-Asian discrimination relating to the coronavirus.
 
s the death toll from the coronavirus accelerates across the country—by Monday there have been more than 400 domestic fatalities—Donald Trump is grasping for a strategy before the crisis destroys his presidency. He has tried playing Roosevelt by claiming the mantle of “wartime president” while also playing to his nativist base by labeling COVID-19 “the China virus.” Now, Trump appears ready to disregard the advice of his medical advisers like Dr. Anthony Fauci by reopening the economy far sooner than Fauci has said is safe.

According to sources, Trump is increasingly frustrated with Fauci and governors who advocated for shutting down large swathes of the economy to stop COVID-19’s out-of-control spread. According to four Republicans briefed on internal West Wing conversations, Trump is fuming privately that Fauci advised him that the only way to blunt the pandemic was to bring the economy to a halt. “Trump is furious,” a former West Wing official said. “He’s been calling business leaders asking if he should just reopen the economy,” a Republican briefed on the conversations told me. “He’s hearing that you have to get the economy going,” another former West Wing official said.

So far, Trump has refrained from publicly lashing out at Fauci and New York governor Andrew Cuomo, whose lucid and empathetic press conferences are in contrast to Trump’s shambolic media theater. But late Sunday night, as Dallas became the latest city to compel its citizens to stay home, Trump tweeted: “WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF. AT THE END OF THE 15 DAY PERIOD, WE WILL MAKE A DECISION AS TO WHICH WAY WE WANT TO GO!”

The pivot away from the strict social-distancing strategy is gaining traction in the business community. On Sunday, former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein—who endorsed Hillary Clinton—tweeted: “[C]rushing the economy, jobs and morale is also a health issue-and beyond. Within a very few weeks let those with a lower risk to the disease return to work.” Tom Bossert, Trump's former Homeland Security adviser, told me the pivot is reflective of Americans' skepticism of government. "This has to do with peoples' relationship to government authority prior to this event."

Sources say that Trump is leaning toward telling at least some Americans to return to work after the 15-day social-distancing period ends on March 31. This puts Trump on a potential collision course with Fauci that many fear will end with Fauci being fired or quitting. “Fauci is the best medical expert we have. We can’t lose him,” a former White House official said. Signs of tension between Trump and Fauci have been emerging. Over the weekend, Fauci gave a series of candid interviews. “I’ve been telling the president things he doesn’t want to hear,” Fauci told Maureen Dowd. “I have publicly had to say something different with what he states. It’s a risky business.” Fauci told Science magazine: “When you’re dealing with the White House, sometimes you have to say things one, two, three, four times, and then it happens. So, I’m going to keep pushing.”

Trump’s view that he can ignore Fauci’s opinion may be influenced by advice he’s getting from Jared Kushner, whose outside-the-box efforts have often rankled those in charge of managing the crisis. According to two sources, Kushner has told Trump about experimental treatments he’s heard about from executives in Silicon Valley. “Jared is bringing conspiracy theories to Trump about potential treatments,” a Republican briefed on the conversations told me. Another former West Wing official told me: “Trump is like an 11-year-old boy waiting for the fairy godmother to bring him a magic pill.” (The White House did not respond to a request for comment.)

Throughout the crisis, Kushner has counseled Trump that the crisis isn’t as bad as the media is portraying. Two sources said Vice President Mike Pence has complained to Trump about Kushner’s meddling in the work of the coronavirus task force. (Another former West Wing official disputed this, saying Pence wouldn’t openly challenge the Trump family. “Pence is politically smart,” the former official said.)

According to sources, Trump has been jealous that Cuomo’s press briefings have gotten such positive reviews. “He’s said Cuomo looks good,” a Republican briefed on internal conversations said. Trump’s solution has been to put on his own show. “Trump wants to play press secretary,” a former West Wing official said. The live briefings have essentially replaced his rallies and given him a platform to air grievances and attack the media. On Friday, he lit into NBC News reporter Peter Alexander when Alexander asked what Trump would say to Americans who are scared about the crisis. The confrontation energized Trump, according to a Republican who spoke to him afterward. “He was in the Oval Office feeling positive,” the source said. On Sunday, Trump was cavalier with a reporter who said Mitt Romney had gone into self-quarantine after spending time with Senator Rand Paul, who’d tested positive. “Romney’s in isolation? Gee, that’s too bad,” Trump said.

As Trump sends mixed messages, the stock market slide has only deepened. On Friday, he said he had invoked the Defense Production Act, but under pressure from his base not to nationalize the economy, he said Sunday that he wouldn’t compel companies to produce critical medical equipment. He’s now experimenting with a new approach to the crisis, but it’s unclear what legal authority he would have to supersede local shelter-in-place restrictions. Behind the bluster, he’s hamstrung. “He can’t make any big decisions,” a former West Wing official said. “He knows once you do, you can’t go back.”
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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/03/as-the-crisis-escalates-trump-experiments-with-a-pivot

Entertaining news.

How much masala I dunno.

But Trump is an idiot. Feel for Fauci who has to do the monkey balancing act. lol.
 
Listened to the white house briefing. Dr Deborah is a smart person.
 
Saj said:
US President Donald Trump has just tweeted that Asian Americans should not get the blame for the coronavirus, adding that the infection "is NOT their fault in any way, shape, or form".

The president has been challenged in recent days by White House reporters for repeatedly describing Covid-19 as the "Chinese virus", and he has defended using that term.

Asian-Americans have been reporting physical and verbal attacks on streets and schools campuses ever since the outbreak reached the US.

A San Francisco State University study found a 50% rise in the number of news articles over the past month reporting anti-Asian discrimination relating to the coronavirus.
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I am 99.99% sure that if this virus was created by man then it was the Americans who made it.

USA/White House are masters of "hypernormalization"; the way they associate a people with something negative is impressive. Trump initially tweeted "Chinese Virus" and now he is saying "it is not Asians' fault'. Lol Donnie, who is blaming Asians? Maybe some "uneducated" Indians or hillbilly Americans, rest of world knows what's up.

What Trump and his propaganda machine is trying to do is associate term "China" with "virus" and divert attention to USA's incompetence in time of need.

They did the same thing with so called "weapons of mass destruction" "terrorism" and Middle East/Iraq. They successfully campaigned invasion of Iraq and supported death of so many innocent people.
 
sensible-indian-fan said:
What will Biden being elected solve?

Same status quo with a few differences I believe.
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Ummmmm we will have someone who will actually believe in Science and Math and not go by what is his "hunch" and a crusadors against Science say. I don't believe the fairy tale lies trump propagandists say anymore having someone competent makes all the difference and we are witnessing that in real time. This idiot is to be blame for this mess and it is getting clearer by the day. Its gotten to the point where federal government is stepping aside and taking cues from NY governor Cuomo. You want to see what leadership in a crisis looks like, look no further than that man.

Keep in mind, Obama had built a dedicated team for pandemics in white house and China! To prevent against disaster like this, what will biden do? He probably wont fire them that's one thing.
 
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Major airlines in the US are preparing themselves for a voluntary shutdown of essentially all passenger flights, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

The paper says US government agencies are also thought to be considering ordering airlines to stop running flights.

The industry has suffered a huge hit from the coronavirus pandemic, with people around the world either choosing not to travel abroad, or being ordered not to by their respective governments.

About 80 million US residents in states such as California, New York and Washington are already subjected to mandatory stay-at-home orders.

And aircraft firm Boeing said earlier that it was suspending operations at its plant near Seattle.
 
(CNN)President Donald Trump appears to have made his choice in the awful dilemma posed by the coronavirus pandemic -- whether to destroy the nation's economic foundation in order to save lives.

In his zeal to fire up American prosperity after helping to trigger an unprecedented self-inflicted economic meltdown, Trump is already losing patience -- weeks before the virus may peak.

"Our country was not built to be shut down," the President warned on Monday. "We are going to be opening up our country for business because our country was meant to be open."

"We are going to get it all going again very soon," he said, without setting a timeline -- though he previously called for rethinking the White House's guidance on social distancing next week.

His comments came on day when the number of confirmed cases soared past 40,000 and 100 people died in a single day for the first time. Dr. Deborah Birx, a member of Trump's coronavirus task force, warned that the "attack rate" of the disease in New York, America's dominant economic and financial powerhouse, was five times that of elsewhere.

The President admitted Monday that "certainly, this is going to be bad," on the deadliest day in America's struggle with the pandemic, but he argued that "if it were up to the doctors, they may say let's keep it shut down -- let's shut down the entire world."

Trump's change of emphasis previewed a building confrontation inside his own administration -- between public health officials using the science of epidemiology to battle Covid-19 and political and economic officials desperate to save an economy that is fundamental to basic life and Trump's reelection hopes.

The President's upbeat prediction of a return to full speed ahead directly contradicted the actions of state governors nationwide -- who are imposing stay-at-home orders, closing businesses and ordering schools out for summer in March.

Local and public health authorities fear the highly contagious virus will cause a tsunami of critically ill patients that will swamp hospitals and mean people will die in the thousands.

The idea that the situation will stabilize in a few weeks -- when most experts say that much, much worse is to come -- appears fanciful. This raises the question of whether Trump is willing to take a decision that could indirectly cause many deaths but that could save millions of other Americans from the deprivations brought on by economic blight.

The President's insistence Monday that "we can do two things at once," may indeed be the eventual prescription for a slow return to normal life. But the reason why the economy is shuttered is that governments have concluded that it is not possible to do two things at once -- keep the curve of infections manageable and open up the economy -- right now.

The most visible and trusted member of the President's task force -- top infectious disease specialist Dr. Anthony Fauci -- was not at Trump's side when he vowed to open the country up at his daily briefing, instead participating in meetings to attack the pandemic. But the President insisted he would listen to Fauci's counsel, as well as others within the White House.

Read more on:

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/24/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-strategy/index.html
 
And the jokes continue...


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U.S. could become next coronavirus epicentre, WHO says

The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that the United States could become the global epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic, which finally forced reluctant organisers to postpone the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics.
 
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has renewed his plea for federal assistance amid deepening shortages for critical medical supplies.

“We need federal help and we need the federal help now,” Mr Cuomo said. “New York is the canary in the coal mine, New York is happening first, what is happening to New York will happen to California and Illinois, it is just a matter of time.”

New York state has reported 25,665 Covid-19 infections with at least 210 deaths. It accounts for more than half of US infections overall.

Gov Cuomo blasted the number of ventilators - 400 - sent to New York from the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema).

“Four hundred ventilators? I need 30,000 ventilators. You want a pat on the back for sending 400 ventilators?” he said.

“You’re missing the magnitude.”
 
Governor Rejects State Lockdown For COVID-19: ‘Mississippi's Never Going to Be China’

One Mississippian asked the governor why the state was not emulating China, the first country to detect COVID-19 and the first to control the spread of the virus. “Mississippi's never going to be China. Mississippi's never going to be North Korea,” Reeves responded. He added that “when looking at the numbers China’s putting out, claiming that they have no new cases over a period of time—I’m not entirely sure we can trust that data.”

https://m.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2020/mar/23/governor-rejects-state-lockdown-covid-19-mississip/
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Incredible! Individuals like this one govern USA!
 
Donald Trump is doubling down on previous comments that the US should immediately reopen the economy, bucking advice of health experts. “You can destroy a country this way by shutting it down,” he said on Tuesday.

“You’re going to lose more people by putting the country in a massive recession” or depression. “I would love to have the country opened up and just rearing to go by Easter.”
 
MenInG said:
Donald Trump is doubling down on previous comments that the US should immediately reopen the economy, bucking advice of health experts. “You can destroy a country this way by shutting it down,” he said on Tuesday.

“You’re going to lose more people by putting the country in a massive recession” or depression. “I would love to have the country opened up and just rearing to go by Easter.”
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Someone please tag Trump's PP fans to this post.

This guy gonna get many Americans killed :facepalm:
 
Trump just knows how to keep his mouth running. Even in testing times like these all he can think about is his money and reelection. Such a pathetic individual. His admin is blocking supplies to NY in time of critical need, NY never forgets.

https://youtu.be/tCpUJfP_S0U
 
A US man has died and his wife is in critical condition after taking a form of a drug that has been touted by President Donald Trump as a possible treatment for the novel coronavirus.

The couple took chloroquine phosphate - a form of chloroquine used to clean fish tanks - in an apparent effort to guard against Covid-19.

Chloroquine itself is one of the oldest and best-known anti-malarial drugs, but the US Food and Drugs Administration has made it clear it has not been approved for treating those infected with the Covid-19 coronavirus.

The couple - both in their 60s - fell ill within 30 minutes of taking the substance, said Arizona-based hospital system Banner Health.
 
US President Donald Trump has said he hopes the US will shake off coronavirus by Easter, even as New York's governor sounded the alarm that the illness is spreading faster than "a bullet train".

The president told a White House news briefing reopening the US early next month would be "a beautiful timeline".

His optimistic tone came as the World Health Organization warned the US could become the pandemic's global epicentre.

The US has recorded almost 55,000 cases and nearly 800 deaths.

Globally there have been more than 420,000 cases confirmed and approaching 19,000 deaths.

On Tuesday, he told Fox News he hoped the country could get back to normal by Easter, which is on 12 April.

Mr Trump, a Republican, said: "We're going to be opening relatively soon... I would love to have the country opened up and just rearing to go by Easter."

He added in a subsequent interview: "Easter is a very special day for me... and you'll have packed churches all over our country."

Mr Trump also warned that unless the country reopened for business it could suffer "a massive recession or depression".

The president said: "You're going to lose people. You're going to have suicides by the thousands. You're going to have all sorts of things happen. You're going to have instability."

Speaking at a White House briefing later, Mr Trump said he was beginning "to see the light at the end of the tunnel", though he said "our decision will be based on hard facts and data".

Dr Anthony Fauci, the nation's leading expert on infectious diseases and a member of the White House's coronavirus task force, told the same press briefing: "No-one is going to want to tone down anything when you see what is going on in a place like New York City."

What's happening in New York?
With more than 25,000 coronavirus cases by Tuesday morning, the Empire state accounted for half of all US infections.

Dr Deborah Birx, of the White House coronavirus taskforce, said on Tuesday the New York City metro area is the source of 60% of all new cases in the US.

She advised anyone leaving the region to self-quarantine for two weeks.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, told another news conference on Tuesday: "The [infection] forecaster said to me, 'We were looking at a freight train coming across the country.'

"'We're now looking at a bullet train.'"

He added: "New York is the canary in the coal mine, New York is happening first, what is happening to New York will happen to California and Illinois, it is just a matter of time."

The governor said New York's hospital system will soon reach breaking point unless the US Federal Emergency Management Agency urgently sends more healthcare supplies.

"You pick the 26,000 people who are going to die because you only sent 400 ventilators," Mr Cuomo said.

New York currently has 7,000 medical ventilators - machines used to keep patients breathing - but needs 30,000, the governor said.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52029546
 
I am actually a bit surprised by USA's sudden sharp increase. Canada also has had cases but not like this.
 
They finally agreed on the package 2 trillion dollars, rich people will be able to save their bonuses,hopefully something trickles down to so many that are laid off and survive paycheck to paycheck.

How is this not socialism though...
 
JaDed said:
They finally agreed on the package 2 trillion dollars, rich people will be able to save their bonuses,hopefully something trickles down to so many that are laid off and survive paycheck to paycheck.

How is this not socialism though...
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Think lots of people will be getting 1200$ one time 500$ for kids one time and than unemployment insurance
So money money money 🤑💲💲💲(WWE soundtrack)
But on the real though I would much rather go do my job than sit at home and feel like a bum
 
Gotham Cronie said:
Anybody that left NY is being suggested to self-quarantine for 14 days
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I am sure I got the virus and the whole family too but it's the NYC culture too where the mayor and governor had to shut everything down so people can stop working cause you HAVE to work you don't,can't stop unless someone does it for you
 
Washington (CNN)The White House and Senate leaders struck a major deal early Wednesday morning over a $2-trillion package to provide a jolt to an economy struggling amid the coronavirus pandemic, capping days of marathon negotiations that produced one of the most expensive and far-reaching measures in the history of Congress.

"Ladies and gentleman, we are done," White House legislative affairs director Eric Ueland said right before 1 a.m. after leaving Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's office following negotiations that have gone around the clock since last Friday. "We have a deal."

McConnell formally announced the agreement on the Senate floor, saying, "At last, we have a deal. After days of intense discussions, the Senate has reached a bipartisan agreement on a historic relief package for this pandemic."

The majority leader described it as "a war-time level of investment for our nation," and said that the Senate would move to pass it later in the day on Wednesday. The Senate will re-convene at noon. An exact time has not yet been set for the vote.

The full details have yet to be released. But over the last 24 hours, the elements of the proposal have come into sharper focus, with $250 billion set aside for direct payments to individuals and families, $350 billion in small business loans, $250 billion in unemployment insurance benefits and $500 billion in loans for distressed companies.

The stimulus bill also has a provision that would block President Donald Trump and his family, as well as other top government officials and members of Congress, from getting loans or investments from Treasury programs in the stimulus, according to Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's office.

The package, if it passes Congress, would be the most significant legislative action taken to address the rapidly intensifying coronavirus crisis, which is overwhelming hospitals and grinding much of the economy to a halt.

Schumer called it "the largest rescue package in American history," in remarks on the Senate floor in the early hours of Wednesday morning. "This is not a moment of celebration -- but of necessity," he said.

The plan will deliver a massive infusion of financial aid into a struggling economy hard hit by job loss, with provisions to help impacted American workers and families as well as small businesses and major industries including airlines.

Larry Kudlow, President Donald Trump's chief economic adviser, called the package "the single largest main street assistance program in the history of the United States" at a White House briefing on Tuesday.

"This legislation is urgently needed to bolster the economy, provide cash injections and liquidity and stabilize financial markets to get us through a difficult and challenging period in the economy facing us right now," Kudlow said.

Under the plan as it was being negotiated, individuals who earn $75,000 in adjusted gross income or less would get direct payments of $1,200 each, with married couples earning up to $150,000 receiving $2,400 -- and an additional $500 per each child. The payment would scale down by income, phasing out entirely at $99,000 for singles and $198,000 for couples without children.

While the final bill text hasn't been released, some of the areas have been debated behind closed doors for days. There was intense partisan debate over the $500 billion proposal to provide loans to distressed companies, with $50 billion in loans for passenger air carriers. Democrats contended there was not enough oversight on how the money would be doled out, but the Trump administration agreed to an oversight board and the creation of an inspector general position to review how the money is spent.

Negotiators also discussed providing four months of unemployment benefits, extending to self-employed workers. Also, the bill would ensure the Small Business Administration could serve as a guarantor for loans of up to $10 billion for small businesses to ensure they can maintain their payrolls and pay off their debts.

In addition, the bill would provide a major amount of funding for hard-hit hospitals -- $130 billion -- as well as $150 billion for state and local governments that are cash-strapped due to their response to combat coronavirus.

After two consecutive days of high-profile setbacks -- with Senate Democrats blocking procedural votes on Sunday and Monday over opposition to a bill initially crafted by Senate Republicans -- a deal appeared to be imminent by Tuesday morning.

Top negotiators signaled that many of the issues had been resolved and suggested there could be action on a package later in the day.
Schumer optimistically announced at one point that the Senate was at the two-yard line. But by Tuesday evening, no legislative text had been made public as negotiators continued their work.

Asked on Tuesday evening why negotiators appeared to be having such a hard time closing out the deal, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who has served as a point person for the administration in the talks, responded, "Who says we are having a hard time? It's just a complicated deal. We go through a lot of language."

"We are getting there," he responded.

Democrats had argued they wanted to see more safeguards for American workers in the deal and oversight for how funding would be doled out. Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi both signaled on Tuesday that they had won concessions in the emerging deal to that end.

Pelosi said in an interview with CNN's Dana Bash on Tuesday that "many of the provisions in there have been greatly improved because of negotiation," while Schumer said the legislation will have "unemployment insurance on steroids."

McConnell praised the emerging deal as a win for Republicans as well, saying, "We are close to a bill that takes our bold Republican framework, integrates further ideas from both parties and delivers huge progress."

Once a deal is released, the next question will be how quickly it can be approved by both chambers -- a challenge made more daunting by the fact that Congress is now operating in a scenario where several of its members have tested positive for coronavirus while many more have self-quarantined after contact with infected individuals.

Pelosi suggested on Tuesday that she is hoping to avoid bringing the full House back to Washington to vote on the package, seeking to pass it through unanimous consent instead. But any individual member can block such a move, creating uncertainty over whether that will be feasible.

Another option may be for the House to approve the package by voice vote as opposed to holding a recorded roll call vote.
House Republicans are falling in line behind the Senate stimulus plan and are willing to allow quick passage of the plan, according to a source on the GOP whip team.

After conferring with the various factions of the House GOP Conference, the source said that it is a "possible outcome" for the House to voice vote the package when the chamber eventually considers it.

Pelosi has called for the bill to be approved by unanimous consent, but the GOP source said that "it's a very real possibility" that a member would object, preventing that from happening.

Pelosi is also open to allowing the bill to pass by a voice vote, which would allow the presiding officer to rule in favor of the side that has the most voice votes.

However, members could request a recorded, roll call vote, which would require the full House to return to pass the bill, something lawmakers are eager to avoid amid the coronavirus outbreak.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/25/politics/stimulus-senate-action-coronavirus/index.html
 
Trump, despite virus warnings, wants US back at work by April 12

Trump's desire to be back to normal soon contradicts advice from health experts, who say more action is needed.

Public health authorities, state governors, and even some members of his own administration are pushing back against President Donald Trump's professed desire to roll back measures intended to keep the coronavirus pandemic in check and reopen the country for business.

In his regular daily briefing on Monday evening, Trump said the nation could not afford to continue the lockdowns that have brought the country, and its $20-trillion economy, to a virtual standstill during the past several days.

"America will, again, and soon, be open for business," Trump said. "Very soon. A lot sooner than three or four months that somebody was suggesting. Lot sooner. We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself."

In a town hall broadcast on Fox News on Tuesday, he reiterated his preference for a quick return to normality and said he hoped to have the country "opened up and just raring to go by Easter", which is April 12.

Trump's pronouncements run counter to the advice from health experts and emergency management officials, who have said that unless Americans continue to dramatically limit social interaction - staying home from work and isolating themselves - the number of infections will overwhelm the healthcare system and lead to many more deaths.

The debate reflects a growing gulf between Trump's economic and political advisers, who fear that weeks of uncertainty will lead to even further economic devastation and weaken his political prospects in the November general election, and his public health officials.

Trump's scientific point man on the crisis, Dr Anthony Fauci, director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, acknowledged that the internal debate has been "intense".

"What the president is trying to do is to balance the public health issues with the fact that this is having an enormous impact on the economy of the country, which may actually indirectly even cause a considerable amount of harm and difficulty - even health-wise," Fauci said on Monday.

"So, it's a delicate balancing act which the president is trying to get right. And we're under very intense discussions right now about what the most appropriate timeline is and, if we do modify it, how to modify it."

On Tuesday, however, most public health officials said curtailing the preventive measures now would cause more harm than good. Tom Inglesby, the director of the Center for Health Security at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said the country is still early in the throes of the epidemic.

Trump's own Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator, Pete Gaynor, said the "social distancing" measures in place are working and any decision to roll back those precautions should be made by health professionals.

"I think it's about timing, so I leave the timing up to the medical professionals and the scientists about when we get out of it," Gaynor said during an appearance on CNN.

Even some Republicans have pushed back against Trump. Maryland's Republican Governor Larry Hogan, also appearing on CNN on Tuesday morning, lamented the "mixed messages" coming out of the administration regarding the preventive measures.

"We're just trying to take the best advice we can from the scientists and all the experts, and making the decisions that we believe are necessary for our states," Hogan said.

"We don't think that we're going to be in any way ready to be out of this in five or six days, or whenever this 15 days is up from the time that they started this imaginary clock. Most people think that we're weeks away from the peak, if not months."

What remains unclear is to what extent Trump is in a position to dial back the preventive measures. So far, most of the restrictions have been enacted by state and local officials, who retain the ultimate authority over the extent to which businesses remain shut down.

People across the country were taken aback when one of Trump's surrogates, Texas's Republican Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, appeared on a Fox News opinion programme on Monday evening and suggested that older Americans most susceptible to the virus might be willing to heed Trump's counsel and sacrifice themselves for the good of the country.

"No one reached out to me and said, 'As a senior citizen, are you willing to take a chance on your survival in exchange for keeping the America that America loves for its children and grandchildren?' And if that is the exchange, I'm all in," Patrick told Fox News' Tucker Carlson.

"Those of us who are 70-plus, we'll take care of ourselves. But don't sacrifice the country," Patrick, who turns 70 next week, added. "I don't want the whole country to be sacrificed."

There were indications on Tuesday that Trump's rhetoric was influencing his supporters. Jerry Falwell Jr, a prominent evangelical leader and steadfast Trump fan, announced that the 5,000 students at his Liberty University in Lynchburg, Tennessee would be welcomed back to campus next week at the conclusion of spring break.

The move runs counter to almost every other university in the country, which has moved classes online for the remainder of the academic year.

"I think we have a responsibility to our students - who paid to be here, who want to be here, who love it here - to give them the ability to be with their friends, to continue their studies, enjoy the room and board they've already paid for and to not interrupt their college life," Falwell told a local newspaper, the Lynchburg News & Advance.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/trump-suggests-open-business-warnings-200324154914741.html
 
BEIJING/MONTREAL (Reuters) - As the coronavirus spreads across the United States, Chinese students from wealthy families are persuading their parents to pay tens of thousands of dollars for seats on private jets to get home.

The alternative, in a world of locked borders and grounded commercial planes, is 60-hour flights with multiple transit hops over the Pacific.

Jeff Gong, a lawyer in Shanghai, asked his daughter, a high school student in Wisconsin, if she wanted 180,000 yuan ($25,460) as pocket money or a ticket on a private flight home.

“My daughter begged me to get her back home ... She said ‘No papa, I don’t want the money, I want to go home’,” he told Reuters.

U.S.-based Chinese students are scrambling to get home as U.S. infections top 50,000 while new cases in China - where the flu-like virus emerged in humans late last year - have fallen to zero.

The sense of urgency is further heightened by the dramatic cutback in flight capacity. On Tuesday, 3,102 out of 3,800 planned commercial flights to and from China were canceled, according to aviation data provider VariFlight.

“(Education) agents and schools are the ones making contact on behalf of the Chinese families looking to group together to arrange a private charter, given the lack of airline flights,” said Annelies Garcia, commercial director for Private Fly, a global booking service for charter flights.

But even the window for chartered flights is closing fast, further elevating prices. Beijing has banned all chartered flights from overseas and Shanghai is expected to follow suit soon. Hong Kong and Macau have blocked transit flights.

U.S-based Air Charter Service can fly passengers from Los Angeles to Shanghai on a 14-seat Bombardier 6000 for 2.3 million yuan ($325,300), or about $23,000 for a spot.

“We have arranged a number of private jets traveling from the U.S. to China repatriating Chinese nationals with routes including New York and Boston to Shanghai, San Jose to Hong Kong and Los Angeles to Guangzhou,” said Glenn Phillips, a PR and advertising manager at Air Charter Service.

“The prices range greatly depending on the positioning of the aircraft on the dates and time requested, and the exact route.”

But even the well-heeled have to wrestle with logistics.

Air charter providers have been notified informally that private jets registered in China are not allowed to land in the United States, and those registered in the United States cannot land in China, two sources at such firms told Reuters.

“The Chinese government is reluctant to let people abroad to come back, though they cannot make it too obvious. We have received a lot of verbal guidance to restrict chartered flights these days and the door is closing rapidly,” one of them said.

Jet operators circumvent the restrictions by either getting planes from other countries to run the U.S.-China routes or arranging transfers in Tokyo, they said.

“Operators of U.S. or Chinese-registered aircraft are not permitted to land in each other’s countries at the moment, so for U.S.-China route inquiries, we are working with operators of long-range jets based elsewhere,” said Private Fly’s Garcia.

The Civil Aviation Administration of China did not respond to a Reuters request for comment.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...20000-for-seats-on-private-jets-idUSKBN21C0SF
 
The Johns Hopkins Center for Science and Engineering’s tally of confirmed cases of Covid-19 coronavirus continues to rise, with an increase of about 40,000 over the past day to almost 340,000 as of 1:19 a.m. Eastern time.

Six countries now have more than 20,000 cases, including the U.S., where the Hopkins case total tops 35,000. China, Italy, Spain, Germany and Iran are the other five countries. France is next, with more than 16,000 confirmed cases.

New York City—where a majority of the population takes public transit to work—is the hardest-hit area, with more than 10,000 cases and 99 deaths. Around New York City, there are almost 3,000 cases confirmed on Long Island and almost 2,000 cases reported in Westchester county, north of the city.

The latest date from the World Health Organization shows 26,000 new cases diagnosed on Saturday, and almost 300,000 confirmed cases globally. The Hopkins database is updated more frequently, but the trends and totals of both data sets closely track each other.

The WHO reports almost 13,000 deaths, while the Hopkins database reports almost 15,000, including almost 5,500 deaths in Italy.

Hopkins also report recoveries. Almost 99,000 people have recovered, up about 7,000 compared with the previous day. The mortality rate of Covid-19, based on the Hopkins numbers, is ticking higher at about 4.3%. Mortality in Italy—the country with the second-most confirmed cases—is running north of 9%.

Rising coronavirus cases continue to unnerve investors last week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 4,000 points, or 17.3%, for the week—its worst week since 2008. The S&P 500 dropped 15%. The Dow is off about 25% for March and 33% for the year. The same numbers for the S&P 500 are 22% and 29%, respectively.

The volatility will continue Monday. U.S. stock futures are down between 3% and 4% after Congress failed to pass a trillion dollar stimulus package intended to mitigate the impact on workers displaced by coronavirus restrictions.


https://www.barrons.com/articles/co...w-york-city-is-hardest-hit-in-u-s-51584965781
 
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has pleaded for medical supplies, warning Covid-19 is spreading in his state faster than "a bullet train".

"The apex is higher than we thought and the apex is sooner than we thought," Mr Cuomo told reporters on Tuesday.

He said the federal government was not sending anywhere near enough lifesaving equipment to confront the crisis.

New York now has over 25,000 confirmed virus cases and at least 210 deaths.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday the US has the potential to become the new epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic.

The warnings come as President Donald Trump said he hoped the US would reopen for business next month.

"We need federal help and we need the federal help now," Mr Cuomo, a Democrat, said.

"New York is the canary in the coal mine, New York is happening first, what is happening to New York will happen to California and Illinois, it is just a matter of time."

The governor blasted the 400 ventilators sent to New York from the US Federal Emergency Management Agency.

He said: "You pick the 26,000 people who are going to die because you only sent 400 ventilators."

New York currently has 7,000 ventilators, but needs 30,000, the governor said.

Mr Cuomo continued: "The [infection] forecaster said to me, 'We were looking at a freight train coming across the country.'

"'We're now looking at a bullet train.'"

The state is also looking into creating more healthcare areas, possibly by turning college dormitories and hotels into makeshift hospitals.

With 25,665 cases in New York, the state accounts for more than half of all US infections.

The number of new cases in the state is doubling every three days, the governor said, and showing no sign of slowing down.

Mr Cuomo said the rate of infections could overwhelm the healthcare system. New York may need up to 140,000 hospital beds in a worst-case scenario, he said.

The governor also said he would not "put a dollar amount on human life", in what was seen as an implicit criticism of Mr Trump's concerns that measures to contain the virus could wreck the US economy.

"My mother is not expendable and your mother is not expendable," said Mr Cuomo.

On Tuesday afternoon, Donald Trump sat in the verdant White House grounds for a Fox News "virtual town hall" and said he hoped to get US businesses reopened by Easter, in just over two weeks.

"A great American resurrection," the Fox host suggested.

A few hours earlier, Governor Cuomo held a much more sombre press conference at the Javits Center in Manhattan. The building, which three years ago hosted Hillary Clinton's ill-fated election-night party, is now a makeshift field hospital.

The president and the governor - two New Yorkers with a long history - clashed over the state's shortage of ventilators to treat the most serious cases.

Mr Trump blamed Mr Cuomo for not purchasing more in 2015, citing a conspiracy-mongering website. Mr Cuomo said the administration should use its emergency powers to order more machines manufactured.

When it comes to easing the recent shelter-in-place orders, governors like Mr Cuomo, not the president, will have the final say.

If there's disagreement, however, the American public could be left wondering what to believe.

On Tuesday, President Trump told Fox News he hoped the country could get back to normal by Easter, which is 19 days away.

Mr Trump, a Republican, said: "We're going to be opening relatively soon... I would love to have the country opened up and just rearing to go by Easter."

He added: "Easter is a very special day for me... and you'll have packed churches all over our country."

Mr Trump also warned that otherwise the country could suffer "a massive recession or depression".

The president said: "You're going to lose people. You're going to have suicides by the thousands. You're going to have all sorts of things happen.

"You're going to have instability. You can't just come in and say, 'Let's close up the United States of America, the most successful country in the world by far.'"

Speaking at a White House briefing later, Mr Trump said "our decision will be based on hard facts and data as to the opening [of our country]".

According to the latest Gallup poll, his approval rating has risen five points this month to 49%, the best of his presidency.

There are over 53,000 confirmed cases and more than 700 deaths attributed to Covid-19 in the US.

Dr Deborah Birx, of the White House coronavirus taskforce, said the New York City metro area was the source of 56% of all cases and 60% of all new cases in the country. She advised anyone leaving the region to self-quarantine for two weeks.

On Tuesday, Wisconsin, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Mexico, West Virginia and Indiana were introducing stay-at-home orders, bringing the total number of US states under such lockdowns to 17.

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have been debating the details of an economic stimulus package that could total over $2 trillion (£1.7 trillion).

Democrats and the White House indicated negotiations could conclude on Tuesday, with Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin saying "the president wants us to get this done today".

In other developments:

A New Jersey man has been charged with making a terroristic threat after he coughed on an employee of a Wegmans supermarket during an argument on Monday, and then claimed to have coronavirus. Governor Phil Murphy described the suspect as a "knucklehead"
A 26-year-old in Missouri was arrested on Monday and charged with making a terrorist threat after he posted a video earlier this month of himself licking deodorants at a Walmart store while asking: "Who's scared of the coronavirus?"
An individual in Kentucky tested positive after attending a "coronavirus party", according to the state's governor, who added: "Don't be so callous as to intentionally go to something and expose yourself to something that can kill other people"
A 31-year-old Mexican national detained by US immigration officials in New Jersey became the first individual to test positive for Covid-19 while in the agency's custody

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52012048
 
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US is about to become the epicentre of the crisis taking over from western Europe and they are thinking of easing restrictions.
 
It's great they are lifting the quarantine. People who are vulnerable should isolate themselves and healthy people should be allowed to live their life. It's stupid to lock down the entire country and bring the whole economy to a standstill because grandma and grandpa is going to catch this virus.
I am not a Trump supported but I agree with this statement "We cannot let the cure be bigger than the problem." Medical staff and the news are mooching all the attention. Let the healthy people who are not at risk move on with their life and take care of the vulnerable population.
 
What's the latest in the US?

As the US wakes up, here's a quick summary of the latest headlines from around the country:

The White House and the Senate have agreed a huge stimulus package worth more than $1.8 trillion (£1.5tn) to help ease the economic impact of the virus

While the full details of the deal aren't yet known, it reportedly includes payments of $1,200 to most American adults and aid to help small businesses pay their workers

It also includes tax rebates, loans, money for hospitals and rescue packages

The deal was announced shortly after President Trump said he hoped the US would shake off the coronavirus by Easter, but experts have sounded caution on that timeline

New York state remains at the centre of the US crisis. Governor Andrew Cuomo has warned that the illness is spreading faster than "a bullet train" in the state

And after 802 deaths and 55,225 confirmed infections, America is more than midway through a 15-day attempt to slow the spread of the virus through social distancing

Earlier, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that it could become the new epicentre of the virus
 
Some US leaders take ‘do as I say, not as I do’ virus stance

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has advised against all international travel because of the coronavirus, but that didn’t stop Secretary of State Mike Pompeo from flying to Afghanistan this week.

Gyms across the nation’s capital are shuttered, but Sen. Rand Paul, an eye doctor, still managed a workout at the Senate on Sunday morning as he awaited the results of a coronavirus test. It came back positive.

The guidance against shaking hands? That hasn’t always applied to President Donald Trump, whose penchant for pressing the flesh continued even after public health officials in his administration were warning that such bodily contact could facilitate the spread of the contagious virus. Practice social distancing? Daily White House briefings involve Trump and other senior officials crowded around a podium.

Even as the country has largely hunkered down, heeding the guidance of health experts and the directives of state leaders, some powerful people in Washington have defied preventative measures aimed at curbing the spread. Their business-as-usual actions are at odds with the restrictions everyday Americans find themselves under, and with the government’s own messaging.

Some human behavior experts say the “do as I say, not as I do”′ ethos seemingly on display is common among powerful officials, who may be inclined to think they don’t have to follow rules for the general public in the same way or who can easily dissociate their own actions from what they say is best for others.

“When we have high power, we think of ourselves as exceptional as if the rules don’t apply to us,” said Maurice Schweitzer, a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania who has researched behavior and decision-making. “We’re much more prone to do what we want because we don’t feel constrained in the way that less powerful people do.”

In Pompeo’s case, the State Department says the unannounced trip — coming amid a near-global travel shutdown — was necessary and urgent because of political turmoil in Afghanistan that U.S. officials fear could threaten a recent U.S.-Taliban peace deal that calls for American troop withdrawals. Pompeo left Kabul on Monday without being able to secure a power-sharing deal.

People traveling with Pompeo had their temperatures taken and were given bags containing a face mask, hand sanitizer, bleach wipes and mini-disposable thermometers. A State Department medical official told reporters Pompeo and his staff would not be quarantining themselves because Afghanistan is not considered a high-risk country for the virus and because Pompeo’s movements on the trip were controlled.

For most people, the new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough that clear up in two to three weeks. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia and death.

Some of the behavior by other officials has drawn rebukes.

Asked in a Science Magazine interview about Trump shaking hands, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said he tells White House staff that “we should not be doing that. Not only that — we should be physically separating a bit more on those press conferences.”

Several senators, scolded Paul, R-Ky., for refusing to self-quarantine after he’d been tested. The doctor overseeing the government’s coronavirus response suggested that Paul’s actions fell short of model “personal responsibility.” More than two dozen senators are in their 70s and 80s, putting them at high risk if exposed.

Still, despite risk to senators and the fact that gyms across the country have been closed as a precaution, Paul and other senators were able to continue going to the Senate gym, using a keypad for access.

Paul went into quarantine Sunday after learning his results. His announcement led Utah’s two GOP senators, Mike Lee and Mitt Romney, to place themselves into quarantine.

Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, said in an interview with Newsy, an online and streaming news site, that Paul’s actions were “irresponsible” and that senators in general have been acting as if they were somehow immune to getting sick. Brown cited what he said was a “photo opp” for senators held over the weekend.

“I think that senators must think that they’re invincible,” Brown said.

Paul said he thought it “highly unlikely” he was sick before getting the test results and had no symptoms of the illness. He said he did not have contact with anyone who tested positive for the virus or was sick. He was at the Senate gym Sunday morning, though Paul’s staff says he left the Senate once he received the results.

Asked about Paul, Deborah Birx, the coordinator of the White House coronavirus task force, said people can spread the virus while being asymptomatic, so social distancing is imperative. She noted that she herself stayed home over the weekend when she felt ill. She took a coronavirus test that came back negative.

“These are the kinds of things that we have to do for one another. This is the personal responsibility that I’m talking about that we all have to practice,” Birx said.

Trump raised eyebrows among public health specialists when he shook the hands of retail and health industry specialists at a Rose Garden news conference two weeks ago. He acknowledged Monday that shaking hands has been a hard habit to break, having become accustomed as president to doing so with “literally thousands of people a week.”

Even now, he stands close to other officials at White House briefings, including Vice President Mike Pence. By contrast, Defense Secretary Mark Esper began separating from his deputy as a precaution.

Itzhak Yanovitzky, a Rutgers University communications professor, said public officials or people in positions of power frequently dissociate their public behavior from their private behavior, often thinking they have greater control over their circumstances compared to strangers.

In times of crisis, most people look to health experts as the ultimate authority, Yanovitzky said in an email. But for the segment of the population already disinclined to take the risk seriously, inconsistencies between what people say and do risk undermining the recommendations and mandates of the public health community, he said.

“The problem,” said Schweitzer, the Wharton professor, “is that the mixed messages sow confusion, and it seems disorganized, undisciplined, chaotic.”
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Sen. Rand Paul kept working for six days after virus test

WASHINGTON (AP) — Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul says he was tested a week ago for the novel coronavirus, but continued working at the Capitol because he had no symptoms of the illness and believed it was “highly unlikely” he was sick. Paul also said he did not have direct contact with anyone who tested positive for the virus or was sick.

Paul announced Sunday that he had tested positive for the virus, becoming the first case of COVID-19 in the Senate and raising fears about further transmission of the virus among senators, including more than two dozen who are in their 70′s or 80′s.

Paul’s refusal to self-quarantine after being tested sparked bipartisan outrage, including from some of his colleagues. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, a Democrat from Arizona, chastised Paul on Twitter, saying his decision to return to the Capitol before he learned the test results was “absolutely irresponsible.”

Sen. Martha McSally, R-Ariz., retweeted Sinema’s comments and said she “couldn’t agree more. As we ask all Americans to sacrifice their livelihoods and alter their behavior to save lives, we must ourselves model appropriate #coronavirus behavior. No one is too important to disregard guidance to self-quarantine pending test results.″

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, a former health policy adviser to President Barack Obama, said Monday that Paul, an eye surgeon, “did just about everything wrong” by not self-quarantining in the days before his test results came back.

“What I’m really upset about is he’s a physician, and he ought to know best in the whole Senate,” Emanuel told MSNBC.

Paul defended his actions in a statement Monday. Since most senators travel frequently by plane and attend “lots of large gatherings, I believed my risk factor for exposure to the virus to be similar to that of my colleagues, especially since multiple congressional staffers on the Hill had already tested positive weeks ago,″ he said.

“For those who want to criticize me for lack of quarantine, realize that if the rules on testing had been followed to a tee, I would never have been tested and would still be walking around the halls of the Capitol,″ Paul added. Current federal guidelines would not have called for him to get tested or quarantined, Paul said.

“It was my extra precaution, out of concern for my damaged lung, that led me to get tested,″ he said.

Paul, 57, had surgery last year to remove part of a lung damaged in a 2017 assault by a neighbor who attacked him over a long-standing landscaping dispute. Paul broke several ribs in the incident and was later awarded $580,000 in damages and medical expenses.

Paul said his decision to get tested was not related to his attendance at a Mar. 7 fundraiser for a Louisville art museum. Two event attendees have tested positive for COVID-19, but Paul said he “never interacted with the two individuals even from a distance.″

“Perhaps it is too much to ask that we simply have compassion for our fellow Americans who are sick or fearful of becoming so.″ he said in the statement released by his office. “Thousands of people want testing. Many ... are sick with flu symptoms and are being denied testing. This makes no sense.″

Paul went into quarantine Sunday after learning his results.

His announcement led Utah’s two GOP senators — Mike Lee and Mitt Romney — to place themselves into quarantine, stepping away from negotiations as the Senate worked on a $1.4 trillion economic rescue package for the coronavirus crisis. At least five senators, including Paul, are in self-quarantine.

Paul was on Capitol Hill this past week, including at a luncheon Friday among GOP senators. He spoke on the Senate floor on Wednesday afternoon, addressing the cornonavirus and a failed amendment he sponsored that would have paid for virus relief efforts by withdrawing U.S. forces from Afghanistan.

A spokesman for Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., said Moran briefly saw Paul at the Senate gym Sunday morning and shared that information with GOP colleagues. Moran “followed CDC guidelines and kept a safe distance between him and Sen. Paul,″ spokesman Tom Brandt said. Moran has spoken with the attending physician at the Capitol and has been told he does not need to self-quarantine, Brandt said.

In a tweet Sunday, Sinema said Paul acted irresponsibly: “You cannot be near other people while waiting for coronavirus test results. It endangers others & likely increases the spread of the virus.″

Other senators, including Republicans Ted Cruz of Texas and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, had gone into self-quarantine while they awaited the results of a coronavirus test. Both were negative.

A day after Paul’s announcement, calls grew among senators for remote voting. Graham, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, tweeted that “I totally support” the idea and said the change should be made before the Senate leaves town. First-term Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., tweeted that “extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. It is time to bring the Senate into the 21st century.”

Sens. Rob Portman of Ohio and Dick Durbin of Illinois have put forward a bipartisan resolution to amend Senate rules to allow senators to vote remotely during a national crisis.

“At some point (remote voting) is going to become inevitable,” said Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., who announced Monday that her husband has coronavirus.
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New York state has recorded more than 5,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in a single day, putting the total above 30,000
 
Gov. Andrew Cuomo blasted the feds' $2 trillion proposed economic relief package Wednesday, saying it would be "terrible" for the state of New York, which faces an accelerating rate of infection that doubles case count every three days.

"We have 15 times the problem of the next state. Every state will have a different apex with this virus. New York is first," Cuomo said Wednesday. The Senate plan, which must still be approved and then go to President Trump to sign, would give New York $3.8 billion, a "drop in the bucket" compared with the up to $15 billion Cuomo says the state needs for the crisis. He's already spent $1 billion.

"How do you plug a $15 billion whole with $3.8 billion? You don't," Cuomo said.

The rapid spread has hastened the approach of the "apex" of the crisis in New York, Cuomo said. The wave, now more like a tsunami, could crash on the health care system in three weeks rather than 45 days -- and with life-saving supplies already heavily depleted, New York is increasingly desperate for resources to get through just the immediate future. Mayor Bill de Blasio has said he expects the crisis to be worse in April than in March, and far worse in May than April.

The predicament is such that the Columbia ER doctor who famously survived Ebola a few years ago, and now finds himself on the front lines of the COVID-19 war, says he's more fearful of the new virus than of the one that nearly killed him.

Tracking Coronavirus in Tri-State

As of Wednesday, more than 30,800 cases had been confirmed in New York, an increase of more than 5,000 overnight. At least 285 people have died. The city, impaired by the density that makes it one of the world's most vibrant places, bears the brunt of the impact, with more than 17,850 cases across the five boroughs as of Wednesday morning. Late Tuesday, the mayor's office said the death toll had soared to 192, a 50 percent increase over the morning.

New York City is the epicenter of the nation's outbreak, with an "attack rate" of COVID-19 five times higher than anywhere else in America. The White House said Tuesday that anyone who visited NYC should self-quarantine for 14 days because of exposure risk. It was just a few weeks ago that suggestion applied only to people who had visited five countries on the other side of the world.

Dr. Deborah Birx, the response coordinator for the White House Coronavirus Task Force, said Tuesday night that the New York metro area now accounts for about 56 percent of all U.S. cases. About 50 percent of all new national cases, and a third of the deaths, are coming from this region, Birx said.

The city has implemented extensive social distancing measures, most recently a pilot plan to close some NYC streets to car traffic to help people spread out.

There is evidence the efforts may be working, Cuomo said. On Sunday, hospitalizations were doubling every two days. On Monday, that number rose to 3.4 days. By Tuesday, hospitalizations were doubling every 4.7 days. Cuomo said Wednesday those numbers are encouraging, but time will tell if they can hold.

Though 80 percent of New York cases have self-resolved, actual hospitalizations have moved at a higher rate than the projected models, Cuomo said Wednesday. He initially projected the state would need 110,000 hospital beds at the peak of the crisis. Now he believes New York will need up to 140,000 beds. That's more than double current capacity. The intensive care situation is worse; the state has 3,000 ICU units and may need up to 40,000, Cuomo said. ICUs need ventilators.

Ventilators are so critical, and in such short supply, the governor said he is experimenting with having patients share a single machine. Cuomo said Wednesday the state has 11,000 ventilators, including 7,000 newly state-procured ones. But New York needs 30,000, the governor said, adding that acquiring the life-saving machines is "our single biggest challenge."

"I told the White House, send us the equipment we need. Then we will deploy it to the states that come after us," Cuomo said. "I personally guarantee it."

FEMA sent an initial shipment of 400 ventilators earlier this week and another 2,000 Tuesday. Another 2,000 were expected to be sent Wednesday, and de Blasio said the city would get half of the 4,000 total.

The head of FEMA also said the Trump Administration would use, for the first time amid the pandemic, the Defense Production Act, which lets the federal government order private companies to manufacture needed supplies. FEMA Administrator Peter Gaynor said it would be used to secure tens of thousands of COVID-19 test kits and hundreds of millions of masks -- only for the White House to say hours later that it had not been necessary after all for the kits in particular.

States have been begging for that lifeline -- and while local leaders acknowledged the step in activating the DPA, they want it fully leveraged -- and they need beyond kits and masks. More people will die, and many of them could be saved if hospitals had the fundamental resources to help them, officials say.

Coronavirus Resources

The economic impact of COVID-19, and its rampant spread, has been devastating on every micro and macro level. Trump said Tuesday he hoped to have the country reopened and "just raring to go" by Easter — a notion that de Blasio called "absolutely inconceivable" given the current situation in New York.

Cuomo says the first order of business has to be saving lives, period. But he said the government can look at ways to restart the economy, thinking about which people can begin to go back to work, while still prioritizing public health.

Job-seekers have not been hard to find. Some areas of the state have seen a 1,000 percent increase in unemployment claims, according to the latest labor statistics. But the number of those out of work has been outpacing the number of open opportunities, particularly in states that have shut down all non-essential business. New Jersey Gov. Murphy said his state has 12,000 jobs available now; according to the state's page, 88,000 people are looking for them.

States have announced extreme cuts on non-COVID-19 spending, and face devastating budget shortfalls as coronavirus spending spikes. Temporary hospitals are being built, and while the feds are footing the bill for some -- like four 250-bed, fully staffed facilities within the Javits Center to treat non-virus patients, individual states are saddled with the brunt of the financial burden.

They're also looking, on a daily basis, for more sites to convert to temporary medical facilities. Cuomo has a number of projects in the works, including on Long Island and in Westchester in addition to the Manhattan facility. He also says he's been speaking with hotel owners about using their rooms. Murphy has said the same. He announced Tuesday that FEMA was building four temporary field hospitals in New Jersey, including one at the sprawling Meadowlands complex.

More medical professionals are needed, too, not just to give weary health care workers their much-needed breaks, but to shore up defenses before the floodgates open further. Legions of retirees have stepped up across the tri-state area - Cuomo said Wednesday 40,000 people from physicians to RNs to respiratory therapists have responded to the call to date. NYU says it will graduate its medical students early to help reinforce the battered army.

New York has also launched a free mental health hotline (844-863-9314) for COVID-19 patients. Cuomo says more than 6,000 professionals signed up to field calls.

Grave Reality, Growing Desperation

The majority of cases in New York City (80%) are impacting people age 18 to 64, according to the city's data. Fifteen percent of statewide cases to date have required hospitalization, though that number has vacillated on a daily basis. To date, New York has accounted for 28 percent of all COVID-19 testing in America.

"We're exercising all options we're doing everything we can, on every level. To 'slow the spread, flatten the curve,' we've closed businesses. We've reduced street density," Cuomo said Tuesday. "We have increased testing to the highest per capita level on the globe. No one is testing more than we are testing. We have exhausted every option available to us."

New Jersey and Connecticut have seen their case totals rise, now at 3,675 and 618, respectively, along with their death tolls (44 in NJ, 12 in CT to date). Murphy added 846 new cases in 24 hours and 17 deaths, the highest one-day fatality increase his state has seen since the pandemic struck America.

Regionally, tri-state cases have surpassed 35,000; at least 341 people have died.

All three states are scrambling to develop their own mobile testing centers and drive-thru stations. But there have been bumps, as the number of people desperate to get tested flood the capacity of the new facilities. New Jersey's largest testing center in Paramus has had to shut down within minutes of opening each day because it hits capacity; newly opened stations face similar plights.

Increased testing begets more positives by default and all local leaders have stressed their states will continue to see the number of cases rise. The rise in numbers is not in and of itself cause for concern. That just underscores the need for an infrastructure that can handle it — and that takes federal power, they say.

The three tri-state governors have already taken unprecedented joint action to help slow the pandemic. New Jersey followed New York's lead on the stay-at-home order, and Connecticut enacted its version Monday night.

Governors are working to accelerate action on the drug front as well. New York launched a clinical trial for an experimental treatment Tuesday and plans to be the nation's first state to try to heal critically ill patients using recovered people's plasma — a process called convalescent plasma that was used during the flu epidemic of 1918. Right now, everything is on the table.

Where Do We Go From Here?

The depths of the outbreak — and its impact — are incomprehensible at this point but most definitely catastrophic: Billions upon billions of dollars have been lost and more will be lost; many have died, far more have been sickened. The grim totals will rise — and it may be months before we see the curve flatten out.

The World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus a pandemic, the first coronavirus to ever earn the dubious distinction. It's novel — that means it's new and no one has immunity to it.

Nationally, NBC News estimates nearly than 55,000 have been infected with the novel coronavirus and at least 780 people have died. The numbers are far more stark globally. WHO offered a somber outlook in a recent situation paper: It took three months to get to the first 100,000 cases. It took 12 days to get to the next 100,000, and just five days to get the next 100,000 after that.

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More from Mr Cuomo


30,811 people in the state have tested positive for COVID-19.

12% of those are in hospital and 3% (888) are in intensive care.

$2 trillion bill would be "terrible" for New York.

The governor says the crisis will have cost the state several billion dollars by the end, so the relief fund would be a "drop in the ocean".

New York State is short by 30,000 ventilators.

"This is our single greatest challenge".

Hospitals in New York state have been told to increase their capacity by 50% to cope with demand - others offered to increase by 100%.

"Evidence suggests that density control measures are working."

On Sunday, hospitalisation rate was doubling every two days, but today there have slowed to every 4.7 says.

Mr Cuomo is piloting closing streets to cars and open to people so they can keep apart during walks.

He is also asking people to stop using outdoor sports facilities voluntarily.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says there are 140,000 cases in the state, but there are only 53,000 hospital beds.

He predicts there are 40,000 cases that need an intensive care bed, and far less of those spaces.

Crowds forming in New York City's parks have been a problem - as a result, the city is going to pilot closing certain streets to cars, so that pedestrians can use them.

Mr Cuomo said he had spoken to President Donald Trump, and White House officials, several times. He has asked the White House for more essential equipment and personnel, as "our apex is first and our numbers are the highest", and pledged to redeploy equipment and personnel to the next hot spot "as soon as we get past our critical moment... we're asking the country to help us - we will return the favour".

He reminded young people to stay cautious. "I've been as blunt as I can... you may think you're a superhero, but you can catch it and you can transfer it."

He also asked mental health professionals to sign up to provide services online, saying: "No one's really talking about that. Don't underestimate the emotional trauma people are feeling."

Mr Cuomo said the $2tn (£1.7tn) stimulus bill agreed in the Senate would be "terrible" for New York, as the state had already spent $3.8bn combating the outbreak, and would only receive $1.3bn from the bill.
 
Bigboii said:
Think lots of people will be getting 1200$ one time 500$ for kids one time and than unemployment insurance
So money money money 🤑💲💲💲(WWE soundtrack)
But on the real though I would much rather go do my job than sit at home and feel like a bum
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Yup.. how is that enough in States? Un employ insurance makes sense..

Exactly its unprecedented what has happened.
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BREAKING</a> US coronavirus cases cross 60,000, 827 dead: tracker <a href="https://t.co/2jliCDN4y1">pic.twitter.com/2jliCDN4y1</a></p>— AFP news agency (@AFP) <a href="https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1242878547473117186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 25, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The governors of Minnesota and Idaho have issued state-wide "stay at home" orders - sayings residents should not leave home for non-essential activities.

In Minnesota, the order will last for two weeks - and restaurants and bars will be closed, although pharmacies and grocery stores will remain open. "The virus will still be here when this two-week period is over, but we’ll be better prepared," says Governor Tim Walz.

The Idaho order is expected to remain in place for 21 days, local media report. Local residents can still go outdoors for exercise, but must stay 2m (6ft) away from others.

They join at least 16 other US states that have already issued stay at home orders, including New York and California.
 
Asked about his comments that the US should not rely on other countries, Mr Trump takes a swipe at the European Union (EU).

"We make the best medical equipment in the world… but they have specifications, designed specifically so that our equipment can't come into their countries," he says.

The EU has its own safety and specification standards for a variety of products - and the US does not meet all of them.

"They're all playing games against us OK? They've been playing games against us for years... Some of the people who took the biggest advantage of us? Our allies. They took advantage – financially but even militarily as well."

Mr Trump has long argued that Nato allies should contribute more financially to the alliance, and that other countries should shoulder more of the burden.
 
The economy is very much on Mr Trump's mind.

He says that "certain people" would like the US "not to open so quickly - would like it to do financially poorly, because they think that would do well at defeating me at the polls."

He tells a reporter: "There are people in your profession that would like that to happen... there are people in your profession that write fake news."

He adds: "We've done one hell of a job - nobody's done the job we've done."

Mr Trump regularly emphasises the importance of the economy - and attacks the media - in a way that appeals to his base. His re-election campaign is built around the claim that he has presided over record economic growth and low unemployment.
 
Trump: US wants to get back to work

President Trump keeps reiterating that people need to get back to work, or the economy will suffer. However, he appears to have softened his stance slightly, compared to Tuesday, when he said: "We're going to be opening relatively soon... I would love to have the country opened up and just raring to go by Easter."

Now, he says he hopes to have a recommendation on next steps by Easter, adding "it could be sections of our country" that go back to work, as "there are big sections of our country that are little affected". He says some of those going back to work could still practise "social distancing and no hand shaking - they're going to wash their hands more than they've ever done".

"The longer we stay out, the harder it is" to improve the economy, he adds.

The number of coronavirus cases confirmed across the US does vary greatly from state to state - from over 30,000 in New York, to about 30 in North Dakota.
 
MenInG said:
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo chastised New York City residents for defying official health guidance and continuing to socialise in large groups.

"It’s a mistake. It’s insensitive. It’s arrogant. It’s self-destructive," Mr Cuomo said on Sunday.

"This is not a joke, and I am not kidding," adding that he shared New Yorkers’ frustration at having to stay inside. "I’m even getting annoyed with the dog."

Mr Cuomo has cancelled all non-critical surgeries in the state as cases across New York continue to soar. There are at least 15,168 confirmed cases - a jump of 4,812 since Saturday - and 114 deaths, Mr Cuomo said.

At least 38 of New York City’s over 9,000 cases are those inside prisons, including 21 inmates. Activists have urged early releases to lower population densities within the facilities.

Already, prisons in Los Angeles and Ohio have allowed for hundreds of early releases and New York’s mayor has said the city will look to release “vulnerable” inmates.
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Not long ago..
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Since I’m encouraging New Yorkers to go on with your lives + get out on the town despite Coronavirus, I thought I would offer some suggestions. Here’s the first: thru Thurs 3/5 go see “The Traitor” <a href="https://twitter.com/FilmLinc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FilmLinc</a>. If “The Wire” was a true story + set in Italy, it would be this film.</p>— Bill de Blasio (@BilldeBlasio) <a href="https://twitter.com/BilldeBlasio/status/1234648718714036229?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 3, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
Trump is right. The country needs to reopen asap. This is not sustainable for much longer. If the lock down continues millions of people will lose there jobs. Small business will be devastated, maybe to the point of no return.
 
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