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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Coronavirus Roundup
2020-03-19

Global COVID-19 cases said to top 200,000, over 8,000 deaths
[IsraelTimes] The number of people infected worldwide has crested the 200,000 mark and deaths now topped 8,000, with the number of people now recovered at more than 82,000, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University.

The tally of 201,436 cases and 8,007 deaths does not include 147 deaths reported by Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
in the last day.

Most of the recovered are in China, which remains the world leader in number of cases.

In Italia, which has seen over 30,000 cases, fewer than 3,000 people have recovered.

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

That should take care of the coronavirus problem, shouldn't it?

Coronavirus pandemic will last 18 months or more, could come in several waves and cause a critical shortage of medical supplies, 100-page federal plan warns

Italy sees 475 new coronavirus deaths – the highest one-day toll of ANY country – and infections shoot up by 4,207, erasing hopes the rate was slowing

Ford, GM suspending production at all U.S., North American plants until March 30

NYPD is preparing to put cops on 12-hour shifts and making plans for investigators to go back on patrol to deal with rapidly growing number of officers who have called out sick due to coronavirus

Navy dispatches two ships to act as floating hospitals in New York and along the West Coast to help care for tsunami of coronavirus patients who will need care amid shortage of beds and ventilators
Posted by:Fred

#12  re #7 "age of less than 80 or a score on the Charlson Comorbidity Index of less than 5."

IOW, IIUC -- and I ask this fondly mindful of an ancient ancestor who benefitted greatly from prolonged, expensive treatment in old age -- a centenarian diabetic on dialysis would meet the CfA? Or one with dementia, CHF, and lymphoma? Or a patient just shy of eighty suffering every ailment, self-inflicted and otherwise, known to science?

Sure, bureucrats suck and all, but is that really "Comrade Janitor, drag Granny out back and shoot 'er!" territory?
Posted by: Marilyn Elmeque9472   2020-03-19 22:59  

#11  Italy has a number of problems not related to the type of health insurance system.

Older population. Many multigeneration households. The older people in their 70s and 80s had high incidence of smoking. Heavy use of antibacterial agents has left them vulnerable to a bacterial infection that sneaks in when the virus disrupts the immune system. Lots of diabetics.
Posted by: lord garth   2020-03-19 18:14  

#10  ^Unless one is rich, RiV.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-03-19 17:33  

#9  " [The]Fastest way to kill the coronavirus is to convince Hillary Clinton that it will testify against her."

Yeah, I stole it....
Posted by: Anomalous Sources   2020-03-19 17:32  

#8  re #7: in other words, the death panels the US was warned about.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2020-03-19 17:29  

#7  Why Italy and EU death tolls will be higher: Socialized Medicine/Health Care.

All the Euro countries have something similar to what the Italians call Criteria for Access. Once you hit 80 or have existing conditions, you are a burden to the system.

CfA starts like this,

"The criteria for access to intensive therapy in cases of emergency must include age of less than 80 or a score on the Charlson Comorbidity Index [which indicates how many other medical conditions the patient has] of less than 5."
Posted by: mossomo   2020-03-19 17:04  

#6  Trump announces FDA making anti-malaria drug available to test coronavirus treatment
Posted by: Skidmark   2020-03-19 16:40  

#5  Update: President Trump confirmed Thursday that Hydroxychloroquine has been approved by FDA for prescription treatment of COVID-19.

Original Post:
As the Wuhan coronavirus is ravaging countries across the globe, there may be some promising news on the horizon. According to Gregory Rigano, an advisor to Stanford University School of Medicine, a world renowned French researcher tested a promising COVID-19 treatment option with hydroxychloroquine, a drug that’s been around for decades and is typically used to treat malaria.

“As of this morning…a well-controlled peer reviewed study carried out by the most eminent infectious disease specialist in the world—Didier Raoult, MD, PhD—out of the south of France, in which he enrolled 40 patients…that showed a 100 percent cure rate against coronavirus," Rigano told Fox News's Tucker Carlson.

Carlson, looking shocked, said he “only knows what you’re telling me” but that it is “very unusual for a study of anything to produce results of 100 percent.”
Posted by: Spike Hupush2094   2020-03-19 13:43  

#4  Young and Stupid: 20 Percent of COVID-19 Hospitalizations Are Age 20-44
Posted by: DarthVader   2020-03-19 13:30  

#3  Italy's fleet of the dead: Military trucks transport scores of coronavirus victims' coffins to be cremated as footage from one hospital shows infected patients lining the corridors
Posted by: Skidmark   2020-03-19 11:50  

#2  There are a couple ongoing studies with Chloroquine that I'm paying attention to. Seems to be doing some good with the infected and may possibly be a prophylaxis.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2020-03-19 08:24  

#1  ^Gracias mods.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-03-19 06:08  

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