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    I think Boris was off having a piss.

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    taly has recorded 969 new coronavirus deaths, its highest daily figure in the outbreak so far.
    It means 9,134 people have now died from the virus in the country.
    Earlier World Health Organization chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said a "chronic global shortage" of protective equipment was one of the "most urgent threats" to the ability to save lives.
    Italy is the worst-affected in Europe. Almost everything has been closed and people told to stay at home.
    Earlier on Friday, authorities warned that restrictions were likely to be extended beyond 3 April.


    What is the latest from Italy?

    The hardest hit northern region of Lombardy saw a sharp increase in deaths from Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, following a decline on Thursday that had raised hopes the outbreak there could have peaked.
    Friday's number also included 50 deaths recorded on the previous day in the north-western Piedmont region, but which were not submitted in time for Thursday's update.
    There were 4,401 new confirmed cases recorded, slightly lower than Thursday's figure but still well up on the numbers from earlier in the week.
    The BBC's Rome correspondent Mark Lowen says that progress in tackling the outbreak is proving slow and uneven.
    Image copyrightEPAImage captionOfficials say Italy's lockdown is likely to be extendedFears are also growing of an increase in cases in the poorer south of the country.
    On Thursday Vincenzo De Luca, president of the Campania region around Naples, said the central government had not provided promised ventilators and other life-saving equipment.
    "At this point there is the real prospect that Lombardy's tragedy is about to become the south's tragedy," he said.
    The same day Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said all of Europe would be hit by a severe recession. He promised a second stimulus package for Italy worth at least €25bn (£23bn; $27bn).
    What is happening in Spain?

    Spain - Europe's second worst-hit country - has seen a sharp rise in the number of deaths but the rate of new infections was stabilising, officials said.
    Confirmed cases rose to 64,059, a 14% increase compared with 18% a day earlier and 20% on Wednesday.
    In 24 hours, 769 people died, a daily record, taking the total to 4,858. The Spanish government has extended the state of emergency until at least 12 April.
    People's movement are severely restricted and most shops and businesses closed.
    Image copyrightREUTERSImage captionSpain's health system has been under intense pressure as infections continue to riseAcross the country, the army has been deployed to deep-clean hospitals and other facilities - including some 900 nursing homes where at least 1,517 deaths have been recorded.


    What is happening elsewhere in Europe?

    In France, Prime Minister Édouard Philippe raised the alarm over an "extremely high wave" of new infections, saying the epidemic that started in the east was now in the Paris region.
    Hospitals could reach saturation point around the capital within 24 to 48 hours, the Hospital Federation of France said. Some 1.2 million residents in the Paris area have left in the past week, according to data analysed by mobile phone company Orange.
    The country had 29,155 confirmed cases and 1,696 deaths as of Thursday.
    What about the rest of the world?

    • The US became the country with the largest number of confirmed cases, with more than 85,500 positive tests. Some 1,300 people have died nationwide from Covid-19. On Thursday, President Donald Trump said his team plans to release federal social distancing guidelines that may advise some regions to loosen restrictions
    • New York City is the current coronavirus epicentre in the US but there were signs the disease was rapidly spreading in New Orleans, Chicago and Detroit, where the mayor described the situation as "really concerning"









    Media captionWhy staying at home in is a matter of life and death

    Two new temporary hospitals will be set up to help cope with the coronavirus crisis, the head of the NHS in England has said.
    Sir Simon Stevens said the new hospitals will be built at Birmingham's NEC and the Manchester conference centre and will be ready next month.
    A hospital being set up in London's ExCeL centre will be available for use next week, it was announced.
    Sir Simon told a daily news briefing "further such hospitals" would follow.
    Image captionBirmingham's NEC will become a temporary hospitalThe BBC has seen an internal Ministry of Defence document giving more details about military plans to build the temporary hospitals.
    Listed as phase one, London's ExCeL centre in the capital's docklands, will have capacity of between 4,000 and 5,000 beds and will open next week.
    Phase two is a temporary hospital for England and Wales at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, with a capacity for 5,000 beds, and will open in mid-April.
    The third phase is a 1,000-bed facility at the Manchester Central Conference Centre (formerly the GMEX Centre) and will also open in mid-April.
    Sir Steven said the "NHS is making an extraordinary effort" to ensure there is care for the "patients who need looking after".
    "As of today across England, we have reconfigured hospital services so that 33,000 hospital beds are available to treat further coronavrius patients.
    "It is also why we are taking the extraordinary action to build new hospitals in very short order, starting with the NHS Nightingale hospital in east London."
    He said because this a problem "not confined to London", but across the whole country, "I have given the go-ahead to the building of two further NHS Nightingale hospitals... with further such hospitals to follow."
    Image copyright@MCR_CENTRALImage captionManchester's Central Conference Centre will also be turned into a hospital

    Work to turn part of Birmingham Airport into a mortuary able to store at least 1,500 bodies has begun.
    Bosses previously said discussions were under way, but West Midlands Police confirmed the project had started.
    An airport spokesperson said it was working to provide land and a hangar for the temporary morgue.
    Police said there was "scope to expand" the starting capacity of 1,500, as the region prepared for a predicted rise in coronavirus deaths.
    The force said regional mortuaries may close as staff were transferred to the new facility, which could eventually accommodate all deaths across the West Midlands.
    This would include those unrelated to coronavirus, it said.
    The force said it would do everything possible to accommodate religious requirements and that it was "vital" to give people "the utmost dignity and respect" at all times.


    Senior coroner for Birmingham, Louise Hunt, said: "We understand that it is a very difficult time for everyone and we will do all that we can to make sure bereaved families understand what is happening to their loved ones and to release them for funeral as soon as we can."
    Assistant Chief Constable Vanessa Jardine said public sector agencies and their partners were working together "to better deal with this challenge... at a critical time of need".

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    I heard 65 is the cut off age for treatment in Spain now!

    Anyone over 65 gets sedated till they pass away...

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    ^ WOW. That’s brutal.

    Find a link.

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    Quote Originally Posted by misskit View Post
    ^ WOW. That’s brutal.

    Find a link.
    I know!

    A friend in Spain mentioned it on FB.

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    After piddling around for weeks, Trump is finally compelling GM to produce ventilators.

    Trump invokes Defense Production Act to force GM to make ventilators for coronavirus fight

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    Everyone needs to stay at home to flatten the curve otherwise our doctors will be making horrible decisions about who lives and dies , as is the case with Spain now.

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    Jesus that's brutal hard to believe it's come to this.

    I heard on the news that here in the US there having to also choose who to treat based on the ability to "recover"

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    The curve is still going up. I keep wondering how high will it get. I have a feeling that it will continue to go up until a cure or vaccine is discovered.

    I happen to have a Covid-19 responder ID with a distinct position/title so I can just pass through check points without a quarantine pass or any sort of paperwork within in Municipality..... Been going to town almost every day to pick up groceries and meds for neighbors. I live in a community with over 6 thousand inhabitants and only 10 people are given a quarantine pass everyday from Mon - Fri. No passes are issued for Sat and Sun.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Seekingasylum View Post
    You do realise you are mentally ill, don't you?
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    @graceless fawn - take care, keep safe! Some of my neighbors are now feeling the pain of 2 weeks lockdown re: food. I hope we can flatten the curve here in PI, so that the lockdown will end by April 15.

    @chitty, misskit - I saw a video message from someone in Spain, through my work group, re: that situation of over-65s in Spain. The one who made the vid played a voice message from a Spanish female doctor.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GracelessFawn View Post
    I have a feeling that it will continue to go up until a cure or vaccine is discovered.
    Not seeing any other way for it to end either. If everyone stays locked up at home and has no social contact outside those 4 walls the numbers should flatten out, but the world can't function that way forever.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dragonfly View Post
    the funny thing is that History will prove him right

    who cares what snowflakes think in the short term, they are always wrong anyhow, hence why nobody that matters listen to them
    You have obviously been listening. Otherwise, how would you know? Idiot.

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    hmm...

    The metrics of life - at 65yo don't bother seeking healthcare services - you're just too damn old...

    Anybody ask the medical insurance companies 'bout this. After all, that's their bread and butter, high premium paying customers with lots or exempted pre-existing conditions.

    Interesting point though, age is not an infallible indication of general health and survivability. And, once this age scale metric is implemented it'll be quite easy to slide the pointer down. Probably will select the pointers position for maximum profitability... Yup - 'tis profits we measure

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    The workers who supply the world's food are starting to get sick
    by Lydia Mulvany, Deena Shanker and Isis Almeida (Bloomberg)
    1 hr ago


    • Poultry giant Sanderson Farms Inc. on Monday reported the first case of a worker at a major U.S. meat producer testing positive for coronavirus. The employee and six more from the McComb, Mississippi, plant were sent home to self-quarantine, with pay, but operations continued as normal.


    A few days later Smithfield Foods Inc., the world’s biggest pork producer, confirmed a positive case at its Sioux Falls, South Dakota, facility. On Friday, beef producers in Canada and Argentina shuttered plants after virus cases.

    In all likelihood, the number of cases will keep going up at meat plants, farms, warehouses and packaging factories across the globe.
    The infections speak to a growing threat to the world’s food supplies. Massive operations where workers pick berries together, cut meat side-by-side on a production line or load warehouse trucks in sometimes close proximity risk slowing down. Some facilities may have to shutter for cleaning and worker quarantines. Produce could end up rotting in fields if there aren’t enough healthy workers.

    “If we can’t flatten the curve, then that is going to affect farmers and farm laborers -- and then we have to make choices about which crops we harvest and which ones we don’t,” said Al Stehly, who operates a farm-management business in California’s North San Diego County, growing about 250 acres of citrus crops, 250 acres of organic avocados and 60 acres of wine grapes. “We hope no one gets sick. But I would expect some of us are going to get the virus.”
    To be clear, the food from a plant where infection pops up doesn’t pose health concerns because by all accounts Covid-19 isn’t a food-borne illness. Supplies from a farm or a production plant with a confirmed case can still be sent out for distribution.

    And it’s important to note that so far there’s been no major interruptions to food supplies. Inventories are still ample, and major bottlenecks have not yet developed in the supply chains, which tend to react quickly to changing situations.

    Still, there is a risk to continued production. When a worker gets sick, the employee and every person they’ve come into contact with has to be quarantined. That could mean limited impact in some cases, like at the Sanderson factory, where the infected individual’s work was contained to one small processing table. But the more employee mingling there is, the bigger the threat to production.

    “One of our beef plants feeds 22 million people per day, so it’s vital that these plants stay open,” Dave MacLennan, chief executive officer of Cargill Inc., the world’s largest agricultural commodities trader, said in a recent Bloomberg Television interview.

    At many meat-processing plants, workers are “essentially elbow to elbow,” said Thomas Hesse, president of United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 401, the largest private sector union in Western Canada that represents 32,000 members, mostly in food processing and retailing. Though employees are usually wearing protective gear, the risk of contagion is difficult to completely eliminate.

    “There’s underlying tension, there’s fear and there’s anxiety,” Hesse said, calling on employers to act more diligently to keep workers safe, including by increasing the space between work stations.

    Moves like that would likely hamper output though. It’s a tricky balance for producers who are prioritizing worker safety but also trying to meet the huge surge in demand that the virus has unleashed. Grocery store shelves across the world are running empty as consumers load their pantries in anticipation of long lockdown periods.

    Just about every major agricultural and food producer is stepping up its sanitary procedures to keep workers from getting infected. Companies are enforcing hand washing, spraying down plants and break rooms and wiping down door knobs. Workers are covered in head-to-toe protective gear, shifts are staggered and lunch breaks are taken alone.

    In Sabah, the state that churns out about a quarter of Malaysia’s palm oil, the local government ordered plantations and factories in three districts to shut after some workers tested positive for Covid-19. To avoid further disruption, the country’s industry is in a desperate bid to “starve the virus,” disinfecting tractors, providing workers with antibacterial body soap and distributing face masks to employees and their families, said Joseph Tek, CEO of palm-oil producer IJM Plantations Bhd.
    It’s hard to say if all that will be enough. Given the real possibility of an illness-driven labor crunch, some companies are stepping up hiring now to prepare.

    Steve Cahillane, CEO of Kellogg Co., said bringing in additional workers is part of the company’s “mitigation plans,” without specifying how many employees have been added.

    “We’re going to see some creative solutions where folks that are being laid off are going to be able to find new opportunities that continue to support the essential critical infrastructure,” said Mary Coppola of the United Fresh Produce Association. Many food companies will be trying to aggressively hire, including in distribution centers and in retail stores, she said.

    But it may not be that easy to lure people into the field. For all their import, these are not glamorous jobs.

    Think of the back-breaking work of tomato pickers, the dangerous conditions at slaughter houses and what many would consider the unpalatable environment of large livestock-feed operations. The wages are often low, benefits meager and contributions hidden from the public eye: How many social-media posts have you seen bursting with appreciation for the grain-export inspectors?

    Now they’re putting their health at risk by keeping food flowing. Not surprisingly, there’s been some backlash. Unions in South America have threatened to strike over safety concerns. And some poultry workers in the U.S. recently walked off the job.

    Food companies are ramping up efforts to make sure employees feel appreciated. Cargill, Maple Leaf Foods Inc., Campbell Soup Co., Mondelez International Inc., Kraft Heinz Co. and Hormel Foods Corp. are among those paying bonuses or premiums to workers.
    In some places, more unusual solutions are being deployed.

    Dairy producers in Vermont recently put out a call through social media, asking for volunteers to come milk cows if farmers start falling ill. A day later, more than 80 relief milkers had signed on as standbys.

    “It started when we got a couple of calls from dairy farmers who were super worried they might get sick and wouldn’t be able to milk their cows, and that would be it -- they’d lose their farms,” said Kim Mercer of the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont, which posted the online plea. “We now have people everywhere all across the state who are ready to go.”
    Majestically enthroned amid the vulgar herd

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    US coronavirus cases top 100,000, doubling in three days

    Confirmed COVID-19 cases in the U.S. surpassed 100,000 Friday, doubling in just three days as the pandemic accelerates and the U.S. rolls out broader testing measures.

    Data from Johns Hopkins University showed the total number of coronavirus cases as 101,707 and the total number of deaths in the U.S. as 1,544.

    “The pandemic is accelerating,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Monday at a press briefing from the organization’s Geneva headquarters.

    “It took 67 days from the first reported case to reach 100,000 cases,
    11 days for second 100,000 cases,
    and just four days for the third 100,000 cases.” –William Feuer

    US coronavirus cases top 100,000, California bans evictions for those impacted by COVID-19
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chittychangchang View Post
    Everyone needs to stay at home to flatten the curve otherwise our doctors will be making horrible decisions about who lives and dies , as is the case with Spain now
    Two hours earlier...

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    Another two hours of lung and thigh bursting cardio today.

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    Cycling is a safe self isolating exercise.
    You need to crank it up on your home cycle and feel the burn lardy☺ booyakasha

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    ^ you would be arrested here for cycling outdoors.

    How much phlegm are you offing onto pavements and hedgerows on these lungbursting rides?

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    Quote Originally Posted by David48atTD View Post
    “It took 67 days from the first reported case to reach 100,000 cases,
    11 days for second 100,000 cases,
    and just four days for the third 100,000 cases.” –William Feuer
    Yet, how much of this reported "acceleration" is on the basis of the increased availability of tests, increased testing in general and public awareness of the problem. Initial reports indicated that 80% of those infected experienced minor or no symptoms - runny nose, scratchy throat, minor cough, i.e. not even enough discomfort that they would consider not going to work.

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    Conspiracy Theorists Wrong: Study concludes COVID-19 'is not a laboratory construct'

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    ABC News March 27, 2020, 8:09 PM GMT+7


    Sorry, conspiracy theorists. Study concludes COVID-19 'is not a laboratory construct'. Conspiracy theories claiming COVID-19 was engineered in a lab as part of a biological attack on the United States have been gaining traction online in recent weeks, but a new study on the origins of the virus has concluded that the pandemic-causing strain developed naturally.

    An analysis of the evidence, according to the findings first published in the scientific journal Nature Medicine, shows that the novel coronavirus "is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus," with the researchers concluding "we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible."


    The US leads the world in number of coronavirus cases

    The national death toll has exceeded 1,200 people and many hospitals are overwhelmed. ABC News’ Megan Tevrizian reports.

    "There’s a lot of speculation and conspiracy theories that went to a pretty high level," Dr. Robert Garry, a professor at the Tulane University School of Medicine and one of the authors of the study, told ABC News, "so we felt it was important to get a team together to examine evidence of this new coronavirus to determine what we could about the origin."

    Tune into ABC at 1 p.m. ET and ABC News Live at 4 p.m. ET every weekday for special coverage of the novel coronavirus with the full ABC News team, including the latest news, context and analysis.

    Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, supported the study’s findings, writing on his blog, "This study leaves little room to refute a natural origin for COVID-19."

    Researchers concluded that the novel coronavirus is not a human creation because it does not share any "previously used virus backbone." It likely arose, the study said, from a recombination of a virus found in bats and another virus, possibly originating from pangolins, otherwise known as scaly anteaters.

    COVID-19 is 96% identical to a coronavirus found in bats, researchers said, but with a certain variation that could explain what has made it so infectious.
    "We know from the study of other coronaviruses that they’re able to acquire this [variation] and they can then become more pathogenic," Garry told ABC News. "This is a good explanation as to why this virus is so transmittable and has caused this pandemic."

    The mutation in surface proteins, according to Garry, could have triggered the outbreak of the pandemic, but it’s also possible that a less severe version of the illness was circulating through the population for years, perhaps even decades, before escalating to this point.

    "We don’t know if those mutations were picked up more recently or a long time ago," Garry told ABC News. "It’s impossible to say if it actually was a mutation that triggered the pandemic, but either way, it would have been a naturally occurring process."

    And while many believe the virus originated at a fish market in Wuhan, China, Garry said that is also a misconception.
    "Our analyses, and others too, point to an earlier origin than that," Garry said. "There were definitely cases there, but that wasn’t the origin of the virus."

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