Emergence of a Deadly Coronavirus

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China is not having difficulty keeping track. They are lying.

And you claim to be smarter than me.

Really, I guess what I'm suggesting is that a more selfish act would have been to accept them to keep them to avoid clashing over opinions, meanwhile knowing they will not make use of them. Wasting is selfish, keeping something someone else will use when you know you won't is selfish, so that's what I'm focused on.

Um to be honest what you said is true. Once I noticed it was stuffed away (earlier when this stuff was beginning to take hold) I asked if they planned to use it. They said nah just take it

Such spikes occured in statistics for France and New York before.
Hot data is never very reliable, it gets retrospectively corrected all the time.

The COVID-19 virus can travel as far as 13 feet from patients, a new study found, which would make the U.S. government order for people to stay six feet away from each other essentially obsolete.

According to AFP, a team of researchers at the Academy of Military Medical Sciences in Beijing examined surface and air samples at a hospital in Wuhan, China, the city where the virus first cropped up in November.

What they found was the virus could travel 13 feet from an infected patient. The samples were taken in a general ward housing patients with the virus and an intensive care unit..

▶️An orangutan at a Polish zoo showed the world how not to wear a face mask, Friday, April 17.
Staff at Gdansk Zoo, who wear face masks at work to help prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, recently gave 46-year-old Raja a mask to play with.
But instead of covering her face, the orangutan decided to place the mask over her shoulders and wear it on her torso.
Raja, who was born at a zoo in Rostock, Germany, before being moved to Gdansk, shares her cage with a male orangutan named Albert.

How so? At least they returned the useful gift they had no intention of using.

Obese people in serious to critical condition from covid19 who were administered hydroxychloroquine recovered rapidly.

It's mainly the middle one. The other two don't leave the house. The middle one I yelled at.

When you subsidize something, you get more of it.

A single Brooklyn nursing home reported a staggering 55 residents dead from coronavirus during the ongoing pandemic, with more than 40 deaths revealed Friday in another four facilities located in Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island.

The grim revelations indicated that one in every five of New York state’s COVID-19 fatalities died inside a nursing home, with a staggering 19 of the facilities statewide reporting 20 or more deaths in the ongoing pandemic. The grand total of statewide nursing home deaths was 2,477 through this past Tuesday, officials said.

“These have been surreal times, and we are suffering as is everybody else,” said Dr. Roy Goldberg, medical director at the Kings Harbor Multicare Center in the Bronx. “Every death is heartbreaking.”

The 720-bed home reported 45 fatalities, giving credence to recent reports from nursing home workers of death tolls well above what anyone expected.

Employees at a Brooklyn nursing home held a demonstration earlier in the week, alleging the bodies of 10 deceased patients were stored in a room with the windows open and the air conditioner on.

And the Friday figures could actually undercount the number of fatalities. One state nursing home official said 21 of their patients had died — while the state reported just 10 fatalities inside the Montgomery Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, about 50 miles north of the city.

“It’s been a very trying time for the staff, to lose residents they care for day in and day out,” said center Vice President Vincent Maniscalco. “When somebody passes away, they celebrate a resident’s life.”

Gov. Cuomo signed off Friday on an executive order requiring nursing homes to report coronavirus deaths and positive tests to family members within 24 hours. The homes were previously asked to share the grim news with relatives, but notification is now mandated.

We have too much milk, may not have enough meat and could eventually run short on soup.

Let’s just say America's food supply chain is getting out of whack due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The sudden shift from restaurant dining to at-home eating, coupled with panic buying at grocery stores, is causing major disruption in the manufacturing, distribution and sales of food products. Dairy farmers are dumping excess raw milk, while meat companies are scrambling to meet demand.

Though experts say the food supply chain has performed admirably so far – most factories are still operating and many are doing so at full blast – industry watchers are getting concerned about supplies of beef, poultry and pork as the COVID-19 crisis continues.

After Smithfield Foods on Sunday announced the indefinite closure of its pork processing plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, due to an outbreak among its employees, CEO Kenneth Sullivan issued a warning about the state of the nation’s meat supply chain.

The closure of this facility, combined with a growing list of other protein plants that have shuttered across our industry, is pushing our country perilously close to the edge in terms of our meat supply,” he said in a statement. “It is impossible to keep our grocery stores stocked if our plants are not running.”

Some food companies – such as Conagra Brands, which makes Duncan Hines desserts, Slim Jim jerky and Hunt's ketchup – are temporarily reducing varieties to focus on items that are in high demand.

Discounts are also disappearing as retailers and manufacturers try to shore up supplies.

In the wake of panic buying, supplies of products like soup and pasta “are still catching up,” said Mike Duffy, CEO of C&S Wholesale Grocers, a wholesale grocery supply company with more than 15,000 employees. He estimated that retailers have only about half of the pasta and soups they would typically carry.

The COVID-19 pandemic has put the world to the test. Never before have we been so aware of the many ways we come into contact with innumerable others. We have been forced to reassess and retrain common habits, from the handshake to the simple act of opening a door.

This is because the virus spreads via physical proximity: direct contact between people (handshakes, kisses and hugs), coughs, or even touching objects with contaminated droplets. The sum of all of these contacts forms a large and dynamic network – just like Facebook maps out our social interactions online. Disconnecting or weakening this extensive network is the key purpose of social distancing measures, currently experienced across the world.

How we come out of lockdown is the next challenge. It is important to avoid a resurgence of the virus while minimising the societal and economic damage. Proposals range from creating herd immunity to keeping the lockdown intact until the development of a treatment or vaccination.

We are part of a group of mathematicians and economists specialising in modelling random and uncertain situations. We propose an exit strategy that mitigates the health risks of the former, and the social and economic risks of the latter. This is in line with other ideas such as keeping limitations only for high-risk groups.

Our recently published proposal is based on two key elements. First, identifying green zones, meaning areas where the sanitary system is operational, the growth rate of infections is low and the future risks appear manageable. And second, progressively joining these green zones together once it is safe to do so.