China Quarantines Millions After Thousands Exposed To Mutating Virus That Has Killed Many

[Muddy]

[Goofy]

tbf it is easy for us Europeans to "forget" just how fucking massive the States is

[Pony]

tbf it is easy for us Europeans to "forget" just how fucking massive the States is

Every year I tell the foreign kids that come here to work that I don't have a passport. They always get a kick out of it. Then I explain that we can drive for 24+ hours and still be in the US.

[Pony]

Distance between West Quoddy Head, Maine, and Point Arena, California, the United States is 2,892 miles (4,656 km) 54 hours drive time.

[KevinD]

Hell I can drive for 12hrs and not be out of Texas, lol

[Griffin]

Hell I can drive for 12hrs and not be out of Texas, lol

Texarkana to El Paso all interstate, 815 miles, 11 hours 45 minutes.

[KevinD]

It takes me about an hour to go north to I10. That's mile marker 695. Go west for a tad over 400 miles (on I10 the mile markers count down heading west) , then I turn north to Odessa, about an hour and 15 minutes.
Iirc, the first mile marker on I10 at the TX/LA border is 885.

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Beijing accuses Australia of 'dancing to the tune' of US on calls for Covid-19 investigation
Daniel Hurst


China has accused Australia of “dancing to the tune” of the United States, as Beijing pushed back at calls for an independent inquiry into the origins and handling of the coronavirus outbreak.

Australia’s foreign affairs minister, Marise Payne, had stressed the need for transparency as she suggested a review to examine how Covid-19 developed into a pandemic.

When asked on the ABC’s Insiders program on Sunday whether her trust in China had been eroded, Payne said her “concern about these issues ... is at a very high point”.

China’s foreign ministry spokesperson, Geng Shuang, said Payne’s remarks were “not based on facts”.

“China is seriously concerned about and firmly opposed to this,” he said when asked by the ABC to respond at his regular press conference yesterday.

According to the official transcript – which has now been posted online – Geng argued China had acted openly, transparently and responsibly and had not lost any time in reporting the outbreak to the World Health Organisation.

And he said the origin of the novel coronavirus was “a serious question of science that should be studied by scientists and medical experts”.

“We hope that the Australian side can treat this issue in an objective, scientific and scrupulous manner,” Geng said. He said China hoped Australia would “do more things to deepen China-Australia relations, enhance mutual trust and help epidemic prevention and control in both countries, rather than dancing to the tune of a certain country to hype up the situation” – an apparent reference to the US.

In the interview with Insiders, Payne had said she shared some of the concerns the US had raised about the WHO. She had said an independent review should look into details “about the genesis of the virus, about the approaches to dealing with it, and addressing it, about the openness with which information was shared, about interaction with the World Health Organization, interaction with other international leaders”.

[Godfather]

It really is time to divest China. I still think a lot of Western nations blundered here in trusting them too much to contain this virus, but China's lies overshadow everything. They're not an ally, they're not transparent, we need to stop dancing to their tune.


This is kind of a tangential thought but I really wish Amazon would be more clear about where products are manufactured and distributed from, and let me filter searches accordingly. I've obviously been shopping on Amazon more than ever, and often times it's impossible to tell. I'll spend a little more to get things made outside of China.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Vandana Rambaran | Fox News


The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning that a second wave of coronavirus could coincide with the start of flu season, proving to be even more devastating than the enduring COVID-19 pandemic.

CDC Director Robert Redfield told The Washington Post in an interview Tuesday that the nation should be cautious even as some states attempt to reopen their economies in the coming weeks and continue to practice social distancing measures to mitigate the spread of the virus.

Redfield stressed that the practice has had “an enormous impact" on containing the outbreak, but said Americans need to plan ahead and consider getting a flu shot in the summer so that when winter comes, hospitals are not once again overburdened.

He added that the precaution “may allow there to be a hospital bed available for your mother or grandmother that may get coronavirus.”

The coronavirus pandemic has overcrowded hospitals around the world and across the country, taxed the capacity of morgues and exposed the shortage of ventilators and protective equipment for health care workers and others on the front lines of the virus.

Redfield said that in order to avoid a repeat of the horrors of this pandemic, which has killed 43,630 people and infected 804,194 others in the U.S. alone, the CDC is beefing up the workforce that is dealing with public health issues to accommodate and adequately plan for a second onslaught.

The agency plans to add an additional 650 personnel to the already existing 500 staff members across the nation to “substantially augment” the public health response when all of the states begin to roll back stay-at-home restrictions and have people reenter the workforce and resume daily life.

Still, more workers are needed and the CDC is weighing utilizing field workers intended for the Census Bureau -- which suspended operations until May due to the coronavirus outbreak -- as well as the Peace Corps and AmeriCorps to establish "an alternative workforce," it said.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Good thing we sgut everything and killed the economy and destroyed so many people's livelihoods

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Covid-19 causes sudden strokes in young adults, doctors say



The novel coronavirus appears to be causing sudden strokes in adults in their 30s and 40s who are not otherwise terribly ill, doctors reported Wednesday.

They said patients may be unwilling to call 911 because they have heard hospitals are overwhelmed by coronavirus cases.

There’s growing evidence that Covid-19 infection can cause the blood to clot unnaturally, and stroke would be an expected consequence of that.

Dr. Thomas Oxley, a neurosurgeon at Mount Sinai Health System in New York, and colleagues gave details of five people they treated. All were under the age of 50, and all had either mild symptoms of Covid-19 infection or no symptoms at all.

“The virus seems to be causing increased clotting in the large arteries, leading to severe stroke,” Oxley told CNN.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Victor Garcia | Fox News


Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called Wednesday for structural changes to the World Health Organization (WHO) and greater transparency from China over the origins of the coronavirus.

"Even today, the Chinese government hasn't permitted American scientists to go into China, to go into not only the Wuhan lab but wherever it needs to go to learn about this virus, to learn about its origins," Pompeo told "The Ingraham Angle". "Look, we know it began at one [lab], but we need to figure this out. There's an ongoing pandemic. We still don't have the transparency and openness we need in China."

Pompeo then criticized the WHO for not helping the U.S. gather crucial data from China.

"It is the World Health Organization's responsibility to achieve that transparency. They're not doing it. They need to be held accountable," Pompeo said. "And what's been great is to see other countries around the world to begin to recognize the WHO failures as well."

President Trump announced at a coronavirus task force briefing last week that the United States will immediately halt all funding for the WHO, saying the global health agency had put "political correctness over lifesaving measures."

Ingraham asked Pompeo whether he was "ruling out" that WHO leader Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus should step down as a requirement for the U.S. to renew their relationship with the organization.

"No, I think that's right," Pompeo said. "Or even more than that. It may be the case that the United States can never return to underwriting, having U.S. taxpayer dollars go to the WHO. We may need to be have even bolder change than that."

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Vandana Rambaran | Fox News


A new study by a medical journal revealed that most of the people in New York City who were hospitalized due to coronavirus had one or more underlying health issues.

Health records from 5,700 patients hospitalized within the Northwell Health system -- which housed the most patients in the country throughout the pandemic -- showed that 94 percent of patients had more than one disease other than COVID-19, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

Data taken from March to early April showed that the median age of patients was 63 years old and 53 percent of all coronavirus patients suffered from hypertension, the most prevalent of the ailments among patients.

In addition, 42 percent of coronavirus patients who had body mass index (BMI) data on file suffered from obesity while 32 percent of all patients suffered from diabetes.

The study also revealed that the overwhelming majority of patients who were on ventilators eventually died, and those who did more often had diabetes.

Data gathered from 2,634 patients who either died or were discharged from the hospital showed that 12 percent of them were placed on ventilators and of those who were, 88 percent of them died.

“Having serious comorbidities increases your risk,” said Karina Davidson, one of the study’s authors and senior vice president for the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, which is part of the Northwell Health system, according to reports by Time.

“This is a very serious disease with a very poor outcome for those who have severe infections from it. We want patients with serious chronic disease to take a special precaution and to seek medical attention early, should they start showing signs and symptoms of being infected. That includes knowing that they’ve been exposed to someone who has this virus.”

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