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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Coronaplague update
2020-04-27


Wisconsin hospitals: 361 admitted COVID-19 cases, 4,272 empty beds
[JOURNALTIMES] As the COVID-19 pandemic strains health care in hotspots of the country, a close look at the situation at hospitals locally and across Wisconsin shows reason for optimism.

In recent days, the number of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 statewide and locally has held steady or declined.

On Friday, the state Department of Health Services reported that 361 COVID-19 patients were hospitalized in Wisconsin, with 143 requiring intensive care.

Earlier in the week the total number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients was 358, with 137 in ICUs.

Overall, as of Saturday, 4,272 of the state’s 11,489 hospital beds were empty, and the DHS reported that 1,253 ventilators were on hand in Wisconsin hospitals.

And of the 5,687 confirmed cases of the virus statewide, 1,376 patients, or 24%, were ever hospitalized, the DHS reported Saturday.

The news on the state’s hospital vacancies comes at a time when some health care workers are being furloughed across the country, and concerns are being raised about Gov. Tony Evers’ extension of his Safer At Home order to May 26.

Last week, the Mayo Clinic, headquartered in Rochester, Minn., announced it was furloughing or reducing the hours of 42% of its 70,000 employees across all campuses in an attempt to mitigate financial losses for the pandemic.

NYC coronavirus cases reach over 150,000 as state death toll nears 17,000
[NYPOST] More than 400 Big Apple residents succumbed to confirmed or suspected cases of the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
 Saturday into Sunday, raising the combined corpse count to nearly 17,000, City Hall statistics show.

A total of 16,673 New Yorkers have now been lost as of 2 p.m. Sunday, a jump of 403 from the last update at 1:30 p.m. Saturday.

That unthinkable tally includes 11,460 confirmed coronavirus fatalities, and 5,213 "probable" cases in which the dear departed exhibited telltale signs of the disease, but weren’t officially tested, according to the city Department of Health.

Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo earlier Sunday announced a confirmed statewide corpse count of 16,966.

Unlike the five boroughs, Albany does not yet include "probable" deaths in its public accounting.

Meanwhile,
...back at the barn, Bossy's udder had begun to ache...
 the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the city rose to 153,204 on Sunday — up 2,628 from Saturday.
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Shocking video shows 1,000 people drinking and dancing in defiance of social distancing orders at massive party in Chicago
[MAIL] Around 1,000 people ignored coronavirus lockdown orders and packed into an apartment to party in Chicago’s West Side over the weekend.
Many arrived on foot or were dropped off.
Videos emerged on social media showing the raucous group dancing, drinking, and chatting in a packed room on Saturday, ignoring warnings to practice social distancing to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Chicago’s leaders Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Governor J. B. Pritzker have been strict in their lockdown orders, barring people from leaving their homes except for essential trips and banning gatherings of over 10 people through May 30.

However, the group of youngsters defied all preventative measures and gathered for an evening of fun.

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UK seeing definite downward trend in people in hospital with COVID-19 -medical director
[AlAhram] Britain is now seeing a very definite downward trend in the number of people who are in hospital with the new coronavirus, the national medical director of England's health service said on Sunday.

"We now have a very definite trend in reduced number of people in hospitals. That is most marked in London but you can also see that in the Midlands and the beginnings of that in other areas of the UK," National Medical Director of NHS England Stephen Powis told a news conference.

"That is definitely showing that our compliance with social distancing is proving to be beneficial, it is reducing the transmission and spread of the virus."

Italy's Conte Vows to Reopen Schools in September, Businesses Next Week
[AnNahar] Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte vowed Sunday to reopen schools by September and allow many businesses to resume in a week's time as the country emerges from a near-total shutdown. Conte told La Repubblica newspaper that he will spell out the full details of how Italy will ease its way out of the world's longest active coronavirus lockdown by the start of next week. He has reportedly been presented with a cautious proposal that involves a gradual lifting of restrictions over the course of May.

Italy's official death toll of 26,384 is Europe's highest and only second globally to the United States. But its number of cases has been ebbing and Italy believes its contagion rate -- reported at between 0.2 and 0.7 -- is low enough below the key threshold of 1.0 to try and get back to work.

New York announces lowest death toll this month, may partially reopen May 15
[IsraelTimes] Cuomo said that any easing of measures would take place first in the north of the state and not in the New York City metropolitan region, by far the hardest-hit area in the US. He said that any potential reopening of New York City, the country’s most populous city, could need to be coordinated with authorities in the adjacent states of New Jersey and Connecticut.

A lockdown of New York ordered by Cuomo is set to expire on May 15. Under a plan for reopening, the first sectors would be construction and manufacturing.

New York state reports 367 fatalities in 24 hours. COVID-19 has now killed 16,966 people in the state, accounting for around a third of the deaths in the United States.

Cuomo said that some school districts were investigating whether to hold summer sessions to make up for lost time.
Posted by:Fred

#3  ...empathy.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-04-27 15:50  

#2  Eric Hoffer wrote, "A cult does not need a God figure, but it must have a Devil."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-04-27 09:11  

#1  You cannot fix stupid have a good summer planet earth!
Posted by: Theamble Spawn of the Faeries2529   2020-04-27 07:56  

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