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2020-03-24 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Spain's coronavirus death toll rises 514 in one day – 23.6 PER CENT – to 2,696 as dead and dying elderly are found ABANDONED in multiple care homes

[DailyMail]

The 514 new deaths mark the largest one-day increase recorded so far in Spain

Total infections also rose sharply, jumping by 6,584 to reach an overall 39,673

Spanish soldiers found bodies when they were called in to disinfect care homes

Some care home staff had been sent home after virus was detected at property

Health workers have been instructed to leave bodies in place in suspected Covid-19 deaths until the arrival of a doctor

20 per cent of Madrid elderly care homes have coronavirus cases

Posted by Skidmark 2020-03-24 12:25|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 That's that I was saying. Spain has exactly the same profile as Italy - without being a suburb of Wuhan.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-24 15:23|| 2020-03-24 15:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Spain has a National Health Care System. It is close to a medicare for all but does not cover everything, it has co-pays and is administered by the various provinces.

Posted by lord garth 2020-03-24 16:14|| 2020-03-24 16:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Spain has a National Health Care System

So does England but England doesn't have this level of infection & death.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-24 16:19|| 2020-03-24 16:19|| Front Page Top

#4 #MoreRoomForMuslims

Too soon?

Posted by Albemarle Bourbon4037 2020-03-24 16:23|| 2020-03-24 16:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Hardly an endorsement of socialized medicine.

Posted by Iblis 2020-03-24 16:25|| 2020-03-24 16:25|| Front Page Top

#6 No. I'm actually curious.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-24 16:30|| 2020-03-24 16:30|| Front Page Top

#7 Spain is a winter resort destination.
Spain is a gateway from Africa for drugs and trafficing, perhaps of asians.
Lots of foreign visitors.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-03-24 17:46|| 2020-03-24 17:46|| Front Page Top

#8 I can't tell from the article whether the toll is from controlled, observed environments, or includes the abandoned old folks home where they may of died from Wuhan Flu or of neglect.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-03-24 17:57|| 2020-03-24 17:57|| Front Page Top

#9 Spain, the UK, Italy and the USA all have problems caused by medical personnel who contracted the virus.

I think I read that this was especially bad in Italy. Maybe it was in Spain also.

Posted by lord garth 2020-03-24 18:02|| 2020-03-24 18:02|| Front Page Top

#10 ^Latin Machismo kills?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-24 18:12|| 2020-03-24 18:12|| Front Page Top

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