CoronaVirus in US - Updates & Discussion

[ghazi52]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1250046145411178500

 

[ghazi52]

Nearly 600 sailors on USS Theodore Roosevelt test positive for coronavirus

From CNN's Ryan Browne

In this photo taken on April 7 and provided by the US Navy, sailors and staff assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt listen as Vice Adm. William Merz, commander of the US 7th Fleet, answers questions during a visit to the ship at Naval Base Guam. Mass Communication Specialist Kaylianna Genier/US Navy/AP


At least 589 sailors aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt have tested positive for Covid-19, according to a US Navy official.

One sailor died earlier this week, and four have been hospitalized.

Some background: The impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the Roosevelt was at the center of a controversy that led to the resignation last week of acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly, who had dismissed the aircraft carrier's captain Brett Crozier after the leak of a memo in which he implored Navy officials to urgently evacuate the ship to protect the health of its sailors.

Crozier also flagged his concerns about challenges of trying to contain the virus aboard the ship and requested that sailors be allowed to quarantine on land.

 

[grey boy 2]

Looks like the grim milestone of "600,000" is within reach
Updates: "596,211" total cases along with "24,590" death toll

 

[UKBengali]

https://www.mpo-mag.com/contents/vi...pironics-e30-ventilator-to-help-free-up-icus/

"Philips announced its initiative to quickly scale production of its new Philips Respironics E30 ventilator as a readily available ventilation alternative during the COVID-19 crisis in situations where full-featured, critical care ventilators are not available. Philips will begin production immediately, ramping up outputs on an ongoing basis with expectations of producing 15,000 units per week in April, 2020"

@KAL-EL
@dbc

Guys good news as these ventilators are being produced in the US primarily for US needs.

15,000 per week should ensure that USA is covered for all eventualities in this pandemic.

If they can produce the numbers expected then come next month maybe some can be exported overseas as well.

 

[ghazi52]

Scholars helping Pakistani Americans tackle unforeseen situation

Anwar Iqbal
April 14, 2020

A person who dies of other causes, such as a heart attack, can get a normal funeral, which includes washing the body. — Reuters

WASHINGTON: The coronavirus pandemic has created unprecedented fiqhi and spiritual issues for the Muslim community in the United States, says Dr Asif Hirani, an Islamic scholar helping the community deal with this crisis.

The issues range from praying at mosques to burial and funeral rites, as the deadly virus spreads.

Umair Ahmed, a coordinator at the Muslim Funeral Services of New York, said that services at his center have more than doubled, from three to six or ten a day, because of the pandemic.

Kareem Elmatbagi, the co-owner of the Islamic International Funeral Services, Brooklyn, said his funeral home’s intake has doubled to about 400 over the last few weeks.

Yet, the community forced the Pakistan Embassy earlier this week to issue a statement, which created the impression that no Pakistani has died of coronavirus.

“This is because of everyone’s desire to get a proper Islamic funeral and burial — rites that can no longer be practiced because of the virus-related restrictions,” said Moviz Siddiqui, who is associated with a Muslim relief organisation.

A person who dies of other causes, such as a heart attack, can get a normal funeral, which includes washing the body, janaza prayers and friends and relatives attending the burial, rites are denied to a coronavirus victim.

Instead of a ghusl, victims gets tayammum, about 10 people, standing at a distance of six feet from each other can participate in their last prayers and even a smaller number of people accompany the body to the graveyard.

Restrictions on public gatherings also discourage people from praying the five daily prayers in a mosque and holding large Friday gatherings.

The situation forced two of the region’s largest Muslim organizations, the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), to seek guidance from religious scholars for clarifying the issues.

The ISNA guidelines tell Muslims why it’s essential to observe social-distancing and the restrictions prescribed by health officials. ICNA posted a research paper, authored by Dr Hirani, who is a Pakistani scholar of Uloom-ul-Quran, summing up the opinions of prominent scholars from across the Muslim world.

ISNA’s paper deals with the protocols of handling transfer, washing and shrouding of a body and the burial, as established by health officials.

Published in Dawn, April 14th, 2020

 

[grey boy 2]

Newest updates: "607,802" total cases along with "25508" death toll

 

[riscol]

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ have different stats though

 

[ghazi52]

Total confirmed cases in the US:

589,048

Total deaths:

25,163


Total recovered:

45,079


Last updated: 4/14/20 at 4:30 PM


SOURCE Johns Hopkins University; WHO; CDC; USA TODA



State ..............................................Total cases................ Deaths
1 New York....................................... 202,630....................... 10,834
2 New Jersey..................................... 68,824......................... 2,805
3 Massachusetts................................ 28,105............................ 844
4 Michigan......................................... 27,001.......................... 1,768
5 Pennsylvania.................................... 25,450........................... 661
6 California.......................................... 24,579........................... 734
7 Illinois.............................................. 22,025............................ 798
8 Louisiana.......................................... 21,518........................... 1,013
9 Texas............................................... 14,799............................ 336
10 Georgia........................................... 14,223............................ 501

 

[grey boy 2]

Updates: "612,739" total cases along with "25,839" death toll

 

[riscol]

US is the sick man of the World now.

 

[ghazi52]

US to halt funding to WHO over coronavirus


US President Donald Trump has said he has instructed his administration to halt funding to the World Health Organization (WHO).

He said the WHO had "failed in its basic duty" in its response to the coronavirus outbreak.

He accused the UN body of mismanaging and covering up the spread of the virus after it emerged in China, and said it must be held accountable.

Mr Trump has previously accused the WHO of being biased towards China.

The US president has himself come under criticism at home over his handling of the outbreak.

"I am directing my administration to halt funding while a review is conducted to assess the World Health Organization's role in severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus," Mr Trump told a news conference at the White House.

"The WHO failed in its basic duty and it must be held accountable," he added.

America is the WHO's biggest single funder, providing $400m (£316m) last year - just under 15% of its total budget.

 

[prashantazazel]

Listen to this Doctor from New York actually treating the Coronavirus patients. The Scam keeps getting exposed! But no one wants to listen to Reason, but everyone wants to believe in BS.


FROM NYC ICU: DOES COVID-19 REALLY CAUSE ARDS??!!

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A Post from Spain
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/...=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS

From Anonymous in Spain:
After more than a month of the strictest possible lockdown, it just keeps being extended… they are conditioning the masses to accept that no return to normal life will be possible until everyone is vaccinated (and, thankfully, the mankind loving Bill Gates is fast developing a vaccine – yay!). Now, while many countries in Europe have lockdowns and closed shops & schools, in Spain it’s completely prohibited for people to even leave home except to go to the nearest supermarket or pharmacy (or to work for those in the few sectors that are allowed to operate).

In some towns, you’re only allowed to go to the supermarket once a week and/or your minimum purchase must be 30 euros. Oh, and supermarkets have drastically cut their opening hours while also canceling home deliveries during the lockdown. As a result, and given that only one person is allowed to enter at a time, there are typically long lines of people (often covering a couple of blocks) waiting to be able to enter the store. How does any of this make any sense? It’s just another insane and counterproductive measure that only serves to condition people and get them used to obey the regime without questioning anything.

Police (and in many areas also the military) patrol the virtually deserted streets and harass anyone who can’t produce proof of why they’re out. The fines are absolutely insane, and when someone is caught out for the second time they can face jail (there have already been people jailed for this in the last week or two). The police are now also using drones to catch people who might venture out to stretch their legs and breathe some fresh air.

It’s not only illegal, under this tyrannical government decree, to go out for a short walk, but it’s also not even permitted for children to go out at all. I have no idea how there haven’t yet been many more tragedies and crimes within families who are locked in in their homes (often very small apartments) 24/7, for months on end, with children of all ages. It’s mental torture for everyone, but I can’t even begin to imagine the long term damage this will do to the kids who need to be able to go out and run around for at least a short period of time each day. Italy, the only other country with as tyrannical a lockdown as Spain, at least permits a parent to take their young kid(s) outside once a day.

The economy has of course been completely destroyed, and most of the small businesses (which is the vast majority of businesses in southern Europe) will never reopen. The tourism and hospitality sector, which is a huge part of their economy, has no hope in hell of recovering. Strangely enough, nobody here seems to be thinking about this… they’re still fully immersed in the panic about the fake “pandemic”.

Yeah, I know, there are the 24/7 MSM headlines counting the alleged corona deaths and infections, and telling people how millions will die if anything gets reopened and people are allowed to leave home. Nevertheless, there’s a lot more skepticism about all this in other countries (US, UK, Germany, etc), so it’s amazing to see just how completely brainwashed the Spanish are, and how they totally trust the media and their Marxist government. When there is any criticism of the government, it’s because – according to the people – the government is still not doing enough to prevent people from dying from the “pandemic.” I suppose they should also make it illegal to go grocery shopping; then everyone will just starve to death and the virus will be defeated.

The government is talking about introducing a Universal Basic Income (UBI), which makes sense from their point of view, because with never seen unemployment rates (and a large share of the population not having any prospect of finding a job), people could perhaps eventually revolt once they’re starving. (I say could because I’m not so sure they would revolt even then… most Europeans seem to be plagued by a suicidal death-wish, and not just since 2020.)

In any case, UBI would prevent that, and the masses would not dare to say (much less do) anything against a government that is providing their daily bread. Actually, their idea is that Germany should be paying for it all. Every day the Spanish government and the press are demanding that the EU cough up more money for Spain and Italy, and they always blame evil Germany (and the Netherlands) for denying them what they see as their right. So, Spain and Italy have deliberately destroyed their entire economies, and now Germany etc have an obligation and duty to pay for it all. You couldn’t make this shit up!

It’s a known fact that Italy and Spain are counting all the dead who happened to also have a coronavirus (or pretty much any flu-like symptoms) as having died from this virus. Which is a total fraud, of course. Other countries are doing it to some extent too, but at least there have been many doctors in places like the US, Germany, and others coming out and denouncing this. Meanwhile, I have not seen or heard a single voice here telling the truth about any of this.

Doctors, nurses, health “experts” etc are out there lying unashamedly, and nobody in this country seems to have the least integrity to call them out. I know a person who went to one of the hospitals that was supposedly overflowing, and there was nobody there, no chaos, barely any people, staff calm and not busy at all, etc. ie., the same fraud as with the hospitals in the US and elsewhere. Hey, perhaps they’re all determined to continue with this charade until Germany gives in on coronabonds!

As far as the masses here… what more can I say? They are calling the cops and military (i.e. the regime goons out to punish anyone who wants to breathe fresh air for a few minutes) “heroes” and the approval rates of what these thugs are doing are something like 95%. And they’re even more enamored with their medical “heroes”, clapping and cheering from their windows every evening at 8pm to show their support – yeah, the same “heroes” manufacturing fraudulent death numbers, lying about death rates and overflowing hospitals, making this unexceptional flu to be the new Black Death, and demanding that strict lockdown be kept pretty much indefinitely (or until everyone is vaccinated).

It is telling that when so many doctors and epidemiologists in other countries have been coming out to denounce these lies, no such thing has happened here. In fact, none of the actual data and foreign doctors’ statements have even been published here, much like the fact that countries that did not impose any lockdowns whatsoever (i.e. Sweden, Belarus, etc) have actually fared much better or no worse than those with strict lockdowns. Nobody here seems to know about these things, and when you send them the information, they dismiss it or get upset and accuse you of wanting to kill their elderly.

It’s scary to see how an entire country has fallen for the (by now totally disproved) lies and propaganda. They are not only willfully supporting the worst kind of tyranny but are actively calling for more of it. Back in communism in Eastern Europe people did what they had to do to survive but they didn’t actually believe the regime propaganda. So, for instance, people participated in the parades in support of communism once or twice a year, but only because it was mandatory. Well, here they’re doing it voluntarily and from their own initiative – clapping and cheering in support of their jailers every day (and calling the cops on people they see out on the street, or denouncing a neighbor who dared to go to the supermarket twice in a day, etc).

I don’t know whether this totalitarian police state tyranny we’re now seeing in a large part of the world is just a test run or the real thing. I suppose if they complete the few steps still missing (such as abolition of cash, forced vaccination/chipping, etc) within the next 6-12 months, the global NWO tyranny and mass enslavement will be a done deal. Even if it’s a test run, I doubt we’ll get any of our basic freedoms back. Those “temporary” measures are never scaled back once a manufactured crisis is over.

Clearly a propaganda piece. Talks of new world order and government tyranny.

 

[grey boy 2]

Newest updates: "614192" total cases along with "26,043" death toll
On pace to the next grim milestone which is "700,000" on a fast track

 

[atan651]

I like to see new higher numbers of total infection and fatality everyday. Perhaps this will bring a quicker end to this epidemic in the US and to instill some sense of humility in the administration.

 

[ghazi52]

Trump's name to be printed on $1,200 coronavirus stimulus checks going out to Americans,

William Cummings
USA TODAY

When Americans receive their anxiously awaited checks from the federal government, which are being sent out to help mitigate the economic hardships caused by the coronavirus outbreak, they may notice the words "President Donald J. Trump" have been added at the bottom.

Trump suggested to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin the idea of adding his signature to the $1,200 paper checks, and the department agreed Monday to add his printed name (but not his actual autograph), according to multiple media reports citing unnamed Treasury Department and IRS officials.

The president's formal signature won't appear because he is not legally authorized to endorse the checks. Instead, his name will be on the memo line, The Washington Post and The New York Times reported. According to the Post, it is standard for a department employee to sign the checks "to ensure that government payments are nonpartisan."

Senior IRS officials said the addition of the president's name could delay the checks, according to the Post, which first reported the story. But both the Post and the Times said Treasury Department officials disputed that assertion and said the checks will begin going out next week.