U.S. braces for 'hardest' week as coronavirus deaths mount

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U.S. braces for 'hardest' week as coronavirus deaths mount

By Daniel Trotta and Amanda Becker

 

U.S. President Donald Trump arrives for the daily coronavirus task force briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 5, 2020. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

 

(Reuters) - The United States on Sunday entered one of the most critical weeks so far in the coronavirus crisis, with government officials warning that the death toll in places such as New York, Michigan and Louisiana was a sign of trouble to come in other states.

 

Still, governors of eight states resisted issuing stay-at-home orders aimed at slowing the spread of the respiratory disease, and some churches held large Palm Sunday services in defiance of such orders in their states.

 

New York, the hardest-hit state, reported on Sunday that for the first time in a week, deaths had fallen slightly from the day before, but there were still nearly 600 new fatalities and more than 7,300 new cases. Places such as Pennsylvania, Colorado and Washington, D.C., are starting to see rising deaths.

 

"This is going to be the hardest and the saddest week of most Americans' lives, quite frankly. This is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment, our 9/11 moment, only it's not going to be localized," U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams warned on Fox News on Sunday. "It's going to be happening all over the country. And I want America to understand that."

 

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Sunday that new hospitalizations had fallen by 50% over the previous 24 hours. He cautioned that it was not yet clear whether the crisis was reaching a plateau in the state, which has a total of 4,159 deaths and more than 122,000 cases. (Graphic: https://tmsnrt.rs/2w7hX9T)

 

Once the peak of the epidemic passes, Cuomo said a mass rollout of rapid testing would be critical to help the nation "return to normalcy."

 

Most states have ordered residents to stay home except for essential trips to slow the spread of the virus in the United States, where more than 335,000 people have tested positive and over 9,500 have died, according to a Reuters tally.

 

But eight states, all of them with Republican governors, have yet to order residents to stay home: Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming. Georgia, which has recorded 6,600 cases and more than 200 deaths, ordered residents to stay home but then allowed some beaches to reopen.

 

Republican Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson defended his refusal to order statewide restrictions, saying the situation was being watched closely and that his more "targeted approach" was still slowing the spread of the virus.

 

Adams, the surgeon general, said governors who had not issued month-long stay-at-home orders should at least consider one for the upcoming week.

 

President Donald Trump expressed hope on Sunday the United States was seeing a “leveling-off” of the coronavirus crisis in some hot spots, citing the drop in deaths from Saturday in New York.

 

"We see light at the end of the tunnel. Things are happening," Trump told reporters.

 

CHURCH BUSES IN PARISHIONERS

A few churches were holding large gatherings on Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week in Christian churches.

 

Pastor Tony Spell, who was arrested last week for holding services, summoned his faithful again, three weeks after Louisiana banned gatherings of 10 people or more.

 

Louisiana has become a hot spot for the virus, reporting a jump in deaths to nearly 500 and more than 13,000 cases. The governor predicted the state would run out of ventilators by Thursday.

 

New York Mayor Bill De Blasio said the city had enough ventilators to get through Tuesday or Wednesday, and he was seeking between 1,000 and 1,500 more from federal and state stockpiles, which he estimated had 10,000 and 2,800, respectively.

 

Oregon, which has reported around 1,000 cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, said it was sending New York 140 ventilators, machines that help people breathe after the virus attacks their lungs. Washington is returning over 400 of the machines to the Strategic National Stockpile for hard-hit states like New York.

 

White House medical experts have forecast that between 100,000 to 240,000 Americans could be killed in the pandemic, even if sweeping orders to stay home are followed.

 

Still, members of Trump's coronavirus task force saw signs of progress in their fight against the virus.

 

"We're very hopeful that over the next week, although we'll see rising number of cases and people who lose their lives to this illness, we're also hopeful to see a stabilization of cases across these large metro areas where the outbreak began several weeks ago," task force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx told reporters.

 

(Reporting by Susan Heavey, Amanda Becker, Alexandra Alper and Matt Spetalnick in Washington, Nathan Layne in Wilton, Connecticut, Joseph Ax in New York, Elizabeth Culliford in Birmingham, England, and Daniel Trotta in New York; Writing by Lisa Shumaker and Andrew Hay; Editing by Daniel Wallis and Peter Cooney)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-04-06

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[Toosetinmyways]

True to form the infighting has started in earnest. Any bets on Doctor Fauci lasting past today?

[XJ650]

 

This is another Doctor that might be in trouble: Dr. Shiva Ayadurai, the inventor of email and candidate for the senate in Massachusetts.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf-qv9o8nq8&fbclid=IwAR078uZmW8Xf6XxK6WuI8bJv_3gaOCppkpIOp-4qh-C71ew5mD04wYUusFM

 

 

 

[UbonThani]

14 minutes ago, XJ650 said:

 

This is another Doctor that might be in trouble: Dr. Shiva Ayadurai, the inventor of email and candidate for the senate in Massachusetts.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf-qv9o8nq8&fbclid=IwAR078uZmW8Xf6XxK6WuI8bJv_3gaOCppkpIOp-4qh-C71ew5mD04wYUusFM

 

 

 

Interesting

Seafood

[Tug]

The Pearl Harbor and 911 are dumb compareisons Pearl Harbor was a sneak attack,we had lots of warning for the coming pandemic the present administration chose to ignore it.911 was a terrorist attack this is not its a virus just inappropriate imo 

[Eric Loh]

Just a month ago, there were 9 deaths and 126 infections. A month later, the virus has rapidly spread to 300k+ infections and 9k+ deaths and all states infected. Has the travel restriction failed which allowed many infected Americans to return from China. I think it is definitely flawed through lack of planning and not taken serious by POTUS. 

[Opl]

"Two months before the novel coronavirus probably began spreading in Wuhan, China, the Trump administration ended a $200 million pandemic early-warning program aimed at training scientists in China and other countries to detect and respond to such a threat."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-administration-ended-pandemic-early-warning-program-to-detect-coronaviruses/ar-BB1260A8

 

"Dan Coats’ 2019 “Worldwide Threat Assessment: “the United States and the world will remain vulnerable to the next flu pandemic or large-scale outbreak of a contagious disease that could lead to massive rates of death and disability, severely affect the world economy, drain international resources, and increase calls on the United States for support.”

https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/Newsroom/Testimonies/2018-ATA---Unclassified-SSCI.pdf

 

"So far this year, the intelligence agency chiefs have not agreed to release a public worldwide threats assessment or testify in public, because, officials tell NBC News, they are reluctant to discuss intelligence that might displease President Donald Trump. "

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/u-s-intel-agencies-warned-rising-risk-outbreak-coronavirus-n1144891

 

 

[Pinot]

Having Trump running this disaster is like going into a knife fight while handcuffed behind your back. 

 

Trump's Medical Advisers: 1. Rudy Giuliani 2. Sean Hannity 3. Peter Navarro 4. The doctor who told him he could live to be 200 5. The surgeon general who said Trump is healthier than a 40-year-old 6. The doctor who said Trump was the healthiest person ever elected president

 

Atrocious. 

Edited April 6, 2020 by Pinot

[Traubert]

What goes through people's minds when they set off to church?

[JCauto]

1 hour ago, Traubert said:

What goes through people's minds when they set off to church?

Baaaaaaa! Baaaaaaaa!

[candide]

And the moron goes on....

President Trump prevented Dr. Anthony S. Fauci from answering a question on hydroxychloroquine on Sunday during a coronavirus task force briefing.Credit..

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/us/politics/trump-hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus.html

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8190349/Trump-refuses-let-Dr-Tony-Fauci-answer-anti-malarial-coronavirus-treatment.html

[johnnybangkok]

With plenty of warning and ample time to impliment life saving measures, Trump ignored it, denied it, minimised it, joked about it, politicised it (calling it a Democratic hoax), spread false information, backed false cures and generally flew in the face of all scientific and W.H.O. advice.

These deaths (and the many, many more that will happen) are firmly on him and only his cult followers (who I'm sure will be along shortly) will deny this truth.    

[DoctorG]

14 minutes ago, johnnybangkok said:

With plenty of warning and ample time to impliment life saving measures, Trump ignored it, denied it, minimised it, joked about it, politicised it (calling it a Democratic hoax), spread false information, backed false cures and generally flew in the face of all scientific and W.H.O. advice.

These deaths (and the many, many more that will happen) are firmly on him and only his cult followers (who I'm sure will be along shortly) will deny this truth.    

Wow! Good post. You managed to get everything wrong. Well done.

[Gweiloman]

Haven’t been following this for a while as I’ve been sleeping. I thought it would miraculously go away in April? After all, there were only 15 cases and that would drop to zero quickly, right? Or was I wrong to believe Trump?

[gargamon]

1 minute ago, Gweiloman said:

Haven’t been following this for a while as I’ve been sleeping. I thought it would miraculously go away in April? After all, there were only 15 cases and that would drop to zero quickly, right? Or was I wrong to believe Trump?

Yes, you were wrong to believe trump. There's a reason his supporters are mainly the non-college educated elderly white males. I guess they never learned to see through the BS.

[johnnybangkok]

11 minutes ago, DoctorG said:

Wow! Good post. You managed to get everything wrong. Well done.

Please enlighten me to how I got 'everything wrong'? He is on camera ignoring it, denying it, minimising it, joking about it and politicised it.

Or are the cameras themselves part of the fake news now?

[jany123]

48 minutes ago, johnnybangkok said:

Please enlighten me to how I got 'everything wrong'? He is on camera ignoring it, denying it, minimising it, joking about it and politicised it.

Or are the cameras themselves part of the fake news now?

Dude... please.

 

aren't we already inundated with enough false links and repetition of trump tweets.? Not to mention doctored video of people not supporting trump (latest a manipulation of Biden, I believe, so he knows not to believe the camera)

 

best just acknowledge the truth of it. A refusal of facts in evidence, with a personal attack for good measure, is clear evidence that the poster has nought to rely on in countering your post. I doubt this surprises.

[dunroaming]

1 hour ago, johnnybangkok said:

With plenty of warning and ample time to impliment life saving measures, Trump ignored it, denied it, minimised it, joked about it, politicised it (calling it a Democratic hoax), spread false information, backed false cures and generally flew in the face of all scientific and W.H.O. advice.

These deaths (and the many, many more that will happen) are firmly on him and only his cult followers (who I'm sure will be along shortly) will deny this truth.    

Spot on!  The man is a disgrace and pretty much all the people are finally coming to realise that.  There will always be the fools with their heads in the sand who still think he has some credibility but for them denial of the truth is the easy option to take.

[dunroaming]

I think this is worth a listen