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The president has previously said Americans should not gather in groups of more than 10 and avoid bars, restaurants, food courts, gyms and crowds for 15 days.
His tweet followed a Fox News segment earlier on Sunday, where it was suggested that the “cure” of social distancing could be worse than the “disease” itself.
It has prompted scathing criticism from experts. In a long tweet, Tom Inglesby, the director of the John Hopkins Center for Health Security, explained why this claim could be problematic.
“In Asia they've slowed the disease by slowing social interaction. Left to its own, this disease spreads from 1 person to about 2.5 people, and then they do the same, and so on. For this disease to stop, we need to make it so that the average person spreads it to <1 other person,” he wrote.
Social distancing, he argued, would also help lift some strain off the healthcare system. Done correctly, it could offer much needed relief to overwhelmed hospitals across the US.
He also warned that a lack of social distancing could make Covid-19 “spread widely, rapidly, terribly” - leading to the deaths of potentially millions in the year ahead.
Noticed that Dr Fauci was missing again from yesterday's briefing
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Across The Pond.... on 11:38 - Mar 24 with 571 views
But he surely has off-set their losses by gaming the stock market on a regular basis over the last three years. Every gibberish, contradictory utterance is a potential cash cow for him. *
*This is not based on any evidence whatsoever, just a seething hatred of everything he stands for.
But I bet he`s got his flunkies doing it. Probably.
And he wouldn`t even see it as being wrong...
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Across The Pond.... on 12:31 - Mar 24 with 557 views
He's obsessed with the Dow Jones Index and it must be higher than under Obama. Also there's been a few really free market economists saying restrictions should be lifted and the deaths would be acceptable to get the economy going.
Playing politics with peoples lives.
When the adults get to (or dare) talk at his briefings some interesting information comes out, like the virus has been found to survive on surfaces for up to 17 days from tests done on that cruise ship. Also 18-44 age group are more vulnerable than first thought.
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Across The Pond.... on 18:04 - Mar 24 with 538 views
Donald Trump: ‘You’ll lose more people to a recession than to virus’
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.”
Will be doing a Town Hall on @FoxNews at 12:05 P.M. (Now). I will go on around 1:00 P.M. Enjoy!
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Across The Pond.... on 18:53 - Mar 24 with 530 views
A 36-year-old man has been killed in a confrontation with FBI agents after allegedly planning to attack a hospital in Missouri with a vehicle bomb.
Timothy Wilson was a "potentially violent extremist" with a record of expressing racial and religious hatred and anti-government sentiment, the FBI said.
He considered several targets, including a school with a large population of black students, a synagogue and a mosque, NBC News reports, quoting FBI officials.
He finally settled on a hospital to cause "maximum casualties", given "the current health crisis", the FBI said. He took "the necessary steps to acquire materials needed to build an explosive device".
Wilson, who was armed, was fatally wounded when FBI agents tried to arrest him on Tuesday in the Missouri town of Belton as he arrived to pick up what he thought was a "vehicle-borne improvised explosive device". "There was no actual bomb," the FBI added
The alleged bomb plotter was "apparently frustrated with local government action to stop the spread of coronavirus", according to NBC News.
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Across The Pond.... on 20:30 - Mar 26 with 489 views
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Across The Pond.... on 22:11 - Mar 27 with 468 views
Trish Regan, Fox Business Host Who Dismissed Virus Concerns, Departs
The host of “Trish Regan Primetime” had said that concerns about the coronavirus were “yet another attempt to impeach the president.”
The Fox Business anchor Trish Regan has departed the cable news network, two weeks after she was benched following an on-air monologue in which she dismissed concerns about the coronavirus as a “scam” fueled by enemies of President Trump.
The network said on Friday that it “has parted ways” with Ms. Regan, whose prime-time program was abruptly pulled from the channel’s schedule earlier this month.
In a statement of her own that was distributed by the network, Ms. Regan, 47, wrote that she was looking forward to “this next chapter” of her career. “I have enjoyed my time at Fox and now intend to focus on my family during these troubles times,” she wrote.
Conservative media stars have faced intense scrutiny after many played down fears about the coronavirus, assuring millions of Americans that concerns about the illness had been overhyped by Democrats and journalists intent on undermining Mr. Trump.
Ms. Regan’s remarks, on her March 9 program, were singled out as misleading and reckless, including by many of her colleagues at Fox Business and its corporate sibling, Fox News. On air, she accused liberals of rooting for a market collapse and trying to “demonize and destroy the president” in front of a graphic reading, “Coronavirus Impeachment Scam.”
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
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Across The Pond.... on 08:28 - Mar 28 with 454 views
I`m half way out of my chair at the mention of his name, Red.
The very worst type of capitalist - wanting to keep all the profits in the good times, yet carping to the government to subside any losses in times of hardship - all wrapped in a union jack suit of phoney patriotism from his tax avoidance haven in the Caribbean (which he allegedly asked the British government for financial help when it was hit by a storm).
And then there is the unashamedly self-publicising, posing and gurning like a cheap shill, the creepy touching and uncomfortable lifting of women off the ground, and generally acting like the drunk embarrassing uncle at a family get together.
Utter t**t....
Have I missed anything?
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Across The Pond.... on 14:11 - Mar 28 with 434 views
GONE TO POT Weed, gun and liquor stores along with GOLF COURSES all deemed essential in virus lockdown
STORES selling marijuana, guns and liquor have been deemed essential by many states during the coronavirus crisis.
Even some golf courses have remained open during the pandemic, which has seen tens of thousands of people infected.
Bars, restaurants and other public gathering places were shuttered around the country in recent weeks in an effort to prevent more contagion.
Said New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo: "This is the most drastic action we can take."
However, each state has picked out businesses and services that will remain open.
States such as California and Washington say cannabis stores should stay in business.
Marijuana sales surged in California after a stay-at-home order was issued, according to The New York Times.
“It shows that a lot of people think cannabis is just another consumer good, like beer or wine,” Liz Connors of the market research company Headset told the Times.
“It’s probably the easiest way to get high without touching your face very much."
The city of Denver said pot shops and liquors stories were not essential, but that decision was reversed after protests, according to The Times.
The list of essential businesses varies in every state.
Gun stores and golf courses have stayed open in Arizona.
“What is essential? Is there a list out there somewhere?” Pennsylvania gun store owner Christopher Hegge told WHYY earlier this month.
“Is it essential keeping you and your family afloat, trying to make money?
“If you have a store that you purchased and you have a loan out there to keep it running, would you not go there for two weeks to try and make something of it?”
Nice to know there is still somewhere you can get blind drunk, stoned and play shotgun crazy golf.
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Across The Pond.... on 16:40 - Mar 28 with 417 views
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Across The Pond.... on 14:13 - Apr 1 with 393 views
Donald Trump has criticised Boris Johnson’s initial approach to the coronavirus pandemic saying it would have been “catastrophic” for the US.
Britain’s relative shortage of ventilators was also highlighted in a White House briefing that will intensify pressure on the prime minister’s handling of the crisis.
Criticism is mounting as supplies of critical equipment promised by ministers fail to materialise, with testing of NHS workers a particular problem.
Chris Hopson, the head of NHS Providers, said that if testing was available to all health workers 85 per cent of its staff currently unable to work because of fears they or someone in their household had the virus, could return to the front line.
NHS hospitals say they could increase testing eight-fold if a chemicals shortage were solved, he said.
The US president said that Mr Johnson’s government “had put themselves in a little bit of a problem” by initially seeking to “ride out” the outbreak.
“This is not to be ridden out because then you would have been looking at potentially 2.2 million people [dying in the US] or more . . . in a relatively short period of time,” he said in a press conference. “If you remember, they were looking at that concept – I guess it’s a concept if you don't mind death, a lot of death – but they were looking at that in the UK, remember.
“All of sudden they went hard the other way because they started seeing things that weren’t good. They put themselves in a little bit of a problem.” Mr Trump added: “They have a name for it, but we won’t even go by the name – it would have been very catastrophic I think if that would have happened.”
Dr Deborah Birx, the White House's coronavirus response co-ordinator, meanwhile contrasted the number of ventilators available to the UK with those in the US.
“I don't know if you heard the report this morning, there are 8,000 ventilators in the UK,” she said at the same briefing. “If you translate that to United States, that would be like the United States having less than 40,000 ventilators. We have five times that.”
Mr Johnson’s abrupt acceleration of social-distancing measures a week last Monday followed warnings from scientists that the disease would overwhelm the NHS’s capacity eight times over and result in 260,000 deaths without draconian restrictions on contact.
The failure to deliver promised increases in testing capacity, meanwhile, threatens to undermine public confidence in the government’s handling of the crisis. Mr Hopson, the chief executive of the body that represents NHS trusts, said maximum testing capacity in the UK was currently “very constrained”, at about 13,000 tests per day.
At present, the focus is on testing patients in hospital to see if they have coronavirus, with NHS trusts told earlier in the week they should use up to 15 per cent of any spare testing capacity for NHS staff.
Mr Hopson said labs were having to beg for the reagent used in testing machines from local vets in order to get through the day, because the chemicals were so scarce.
“If existing NHS pathology labs had unlimited swabs and reagent there is enough test machine capacity to process c.100,000 tests a day but reagent and swab shortage is currently limiting this to c.13,000 a day,” he wrote on Twitter this morning.
Better testing is a “huge opportunity” to get staff back to work because early data shows only one in seven currently self-isolating actually has coronavirus. After the first 900 staff were tested over the weekend, Mr Hopson wrote: “Only around 15 per cent of those in 14 day isolation tested positive so other 85 per cent could come back to work.”
However, he said with 1.2 million NHS staff, given the shortage of testing there was “no immediate prospect of mass staff testing. Testing will have to be tightly targeted where most needed whilst capacity grows”.
Ambulance, intensive care and A&E staff will be prioritised for tests, but Mr Hopson urged ministers “to give a public estimate of how rapidly testing capacity will ramp up so trusts can start making sensible plans on how rapidly staff testing will grow.”
A super-lab dedicated to testing key workers is not expected to get above 500 tests a day this week or next, despite promises of hundreds of thousands of tests, he warned. Using spare capacity in different hospitals was a “Rubik’s Cube” because many used different equipment that required couriering around the country, Mr Hopson added.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock has now scrapped that cap, telling NHS hospital labs to use all spare capacity to test their frontline workers.
Robert Jenrick, the communities secretary, admitted that the 900 NHS staff tested over the weekend was “a low number”.
“We now have capacity today to be testing 12,750 people and we expect that within a couple of days to be 15,000.
“So we should now have the growing capacity to test NHS staff in addition to the patients in critical care.”
Mr Jenrick denied the government and Public Health England (PHE) would only agree to centralised testing after claims from scientists and universities that their offers of help have been rejected.
He said the government was willing to “work with any provider” who had the “right infrastructure and skills” and urged them to get in touch.
The minister also said he expects there to be 25,000 tests per day by the “middle of April”.
Asked when the national coronavirus testing centre near Milton Keynes would be fully operational, Mr Jenrick replied: “I don't know precisely when that’s going to be coming on board.”
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Across The Pond.... on 16:30 - Apr 7 with 379 views
The New York Times (and other media outlets) have been reporting that NY City will have to use a park as a temporary grave site. However the Mayor has denied this.
Whatever the truth their Health Care System is totally broken.
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Across The Pond.... on 08:07 - Apr 8 with 358 views
The US state of Wisconsin pressed ahead with an election on Tuesday, despite a state-wide stay-at-home order amid the escalating coronavirus outbreak.
Voters braved long queues at a limited number of polling stations where some staff wore hazmat suits.
The governor had tried to postpone the primary to June, but was blocked on Monday by the state Supreme Court.
On the ballot were Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, who are both vying to be the Democratic presidential nominee.
The eventual winner will challenge President Donald Trump, a Republican, in November.
Local offices were also on the ballot, and a seat on the state's Supreme Court.
Wisconsin is the first state in three weeks to hold a primary with in-person voting since stay-at-home orders swept the nation amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Badger state imposed its own lockdown on 25 March.
All other states have postponed their primary season elections or moved entirely to postal votes while the country remains in the throes of its health emergency.
Wisconsin has recorded more than 2,500 coronavirus cases and 92 deaths.
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Across The Pond.... on 17:48 - Apr 17 with 331 views
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Across The Pond.... on 18:27 - May 10 with 303 views
On my day off, I went to downtown Raleigh with @juliawall_ and took photos of these demonstrators at a Subway. Seems like they've gotten a bit of attention. Here's the story behind the photos. https://t.co/MYFyxs7gXu
Always take your bazooka with you when going to a Subway.
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