CORONAVIRUS: HE KNEW; HE LIED; & at Least1,150,427 IN THE USA HAVE DIED - ((NEW VIRUS - NEW WARNINGS !!!))

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SEE THE DIFFERENCE? Here are COVID-19 cases per million people in Democratic-run states vs. Republican-run states. Where would you rather be right now? VOTE BLUE IN NOVEMBER!
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The U.S. again hit a new record-high number of new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Friday.
Five states set new single-day highs, and the country recorded more than 40,000 new cases. Wednesday's and Thursday's totals were also the highest yet since the coronavirus pandemic began, and spikes are skyrocketing in places that were previously not as affected. Florida, for example, recorded nearly 9,000 new cases, and Texas officials are warning their hospitals may soon be overwhelmed. Both states moved to restrict activity that had previously been allowed, such as closing bars. Despite the localized spikes, White House coronavirus task force expert Dr. Anthony Fauci warned the hot spots could easily spread. He urged all Americans to heed their "societal responsibility" to wear masks and continue to social distance.
Source: The Washington Post, The New York Times


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THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS

COVID-19 deaths have topped 500,000, but many of the 10 million survivors are still suffering


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The world hit two grim COVID-19 milestones Sunday: [1] The number of confirmed deaths rocketed past 500,000 and [2] the number of cases topped 10.1 million.

The actual numbers are certainly higher. Half a million people dying from the new disease is self-evidently horrible, and those deaths have doubled in just seven weeks. But it's also troubling that the number of new cases is still rising — Sunday saw another 24-hour high, 189,000, according to the World Health Organization — because COVID-19 hits many survivors in long-lasting and little-understood ways.

COVID-19 attacks the lungs but also the heart, brain, pancreas, liver, kidney, and other organs. "In addition to respiratory distress, patients with COVID-19 can experience blood clotting disorders that can lead to strokes, and extreme inflammation that attacks multiple organ systems," Reuters reports. "The virus can also cause neurological complications that range from headache, dizziness, and loss of taste or smell to seizures and confusion. And recovery can be slow, incomplete, and costly, with a huge impact on quality of life."

Many patients with severe cases are still suffering from nightmarish delirium and hallucinations in the Intensive Care Unit, weeks after being released from the hospital, The New York Times reports. Dr. Igor Koralnik, chief of neuro-infectious diseases at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, reported in the journal Annals of Neurology that about half of perviously hospitalized COVID-19 patients had neurological complications like dizziness, difficulty concentrating, absence of taste and smell, and physical and mental fatigue, and it's still unclear how long these effects last or if they're permanent.

At the same time, "doctors increasingly are looking to the needs of patients who were not sick enough to require hospitalization, but are still suffering months after first becoming infected," Reuters reports. Oxford University's Dr. Helen Salisbury wrote Tuesday in the British Medical Journal that while most coronavirus infections resolve in two to three weeks, about 10 percent of patients experienced prolonged symptoms. For another data point. look at Sweden, the only Scandinavian country to eschew tough mitigation measures.


 

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Dr. Fauci warns of ‘greater outbreak ahead’ for coronavirus in US
By Bob Fredericks
July 2, 2020 | 1:03pm | Updated


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Dr. Anthony Fauci on Thursday said the spikes in coronavirus cases in many states were “the worst” the US had seen — and warned of “an even greater outbreak ahead.”
“What we have seen over the last several days is a spike in cases that are well beyond the worst spikes that we have seen,” Fauci told the BBC’s Radio 4.
“That is not good news. We’ve got to get that under control, or we risk an even greater outbreak in the United States,” said Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
The forecast came as the number of new cases of coronavirus in the US hit a record of more than 50,000 on Wednesday, according to Johns Hopkins University, which reported that there were now 2,686,480 confirmed cases in the country and more than 128,000 deaths.
Florida shattered records Thursday when it reported over 10,000 new coronavirus cases, the biggest one-day increase in the state since the pandemic started.
Florida, with 21 million residents, has reported more new daily coronavirus cases than any European country had at the height of their outbreaks.
To contain the outbreak, the Sunshine State has closed bars and some beaches, but GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis has resisted requiring masks in public statewide or reimposing a lockdown.
Outbreaks in Texas, California, Florida and Arizona have seen the US break records and send cases rising at rates not seen since April.
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The top epidemiologist on President Trump’s coronavirus task force also blamed much of the recent spikes on young people ignoring social distancing guidelines in states that reopened.
“We need to engender some responsibility in people, particularly in the younger people,” he told the program.
Fauci, who told lawmakers Tuesday that the US could soon see as many as 100,000 new cases a day, if social distancing and mask wearing are not enforced, said other countries did a better job at containing the virus.
“We got hit very badly, worse than any country, in regards to the number of cases and the number of deaths,” he said.
“Between the European Union, the UK and others, how they’ve handled the outbreak, they’ve had big spikes and then it brought it down almost to baseline, or even to baseline in some countries. They will be having additional infections, but at least they got it down to a reasonable baseline. The situation in the United States has been more problematic,” he said.
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“We never got things down to baseline where so many countries in Europe and the UK and other countries did — they closed down to the tune of about 97 percent lockdown,” Fauci continued.
“In the United States, even in the most strict lockdown, only about 50 percent of the country was locked down. That allowed the perpetuation of the outbreak that we never did get under very good control.
“The problem we’re facing now is, in an attempt to so-called reopen or open the government and get it back to some form of normality, we’re seeing very disturbing spikes in different individual states in the United States, particularly, most recently, Florida, Arizona, Texas and California, some of which are really big states with high populations,” he said.
Intensive care units in Houston were at 102 percent of capacity on Wednesday, while Arizona’s were at 89 percent of capacity on Thursday.
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The Week America Lost Control of the Pandemic
Sixteen states have reported record caseloads since Sunday.

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July 2, 2020


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The American pandemic is careening out of control.

Yesterday, the United States reported more than 52,000 new cases of the coronavirus, setting a new all-time daily record, according to the COVID Tracking Project at The Atlantic. The surge has put the country’s supply of coronavirus tests under strain, especially in some of the worst-hit states, such as Arizona, Texas, Florida, and California. But unlike in past weeks or months, the outbreak is no longer limited to a handful of states or cities. Many places across the country are seeing caseloads spike.

To the degree that the U.S. ever built an infrastructure to contain and suppress the coronavirus, it frayed this week.

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Along the way, nearly every previous landmark for measuring the pandemic has been overwhelmed.

The country reported about , more than in any previous week of the pandemic so far. This shattered the old record of more than 215,000 new cases, which was set last week. On June 16, Vice President Mike Pence bragged that the U.S. was seeing an average of 20,000 new infections a day, a decline from the April high of about 30,000 new daily cases. Since Pence’s boast, the U.S. has recorded more than 30,000 new cases on every day but four. Six days ago, the country reported more than 40,000 daily cases for the first time. Now it has smashed through the 50,000 mark.

Read: America is giving up on the pandemic

These cases aren’t all mild. At least 37,000 Americans are now hospitalized with COVID-19, the same number as were in sick beds in late May. This number is likely a substantial undercount: Florida, which is facing one of the largest outbreaks, does not report its total hospitalization figures, though it says it will publish that data soon. What data we do have suggest that health-care systems are overwhelmed. In Houston, for instance, the Texas Medical Center has filled 100 percent of its intensive-care-unit beds.

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The US is getting an F grade in its response to coronavirus, says Dr. Michael Saag, associate dean of global health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

“This virus, in my opinion, is going to be with us for at least a year or more. … So we've got to create a new normal where we protect ourselves and our communities, and so far, we're not doing so well." https://cnn.it/31HNX1S

 

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UAB preparing COVID-19 vaccine for human trials


BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Hospital has been testing a COVID-19 vaccine on mice, and now medical specialists are gearing up for human trials.

The hospital research lab teamed up with Maryland-based biopharmaceutical company Altimmune to create the vaccine, AdCovid, that will be ready for human trials this fall.

Dr. Frances Lund is the lead UAB investigator for pre-clinical testing overseeing testing of AdCovid. She said the vaccine has taken months of work, and the hope is that humans see the same results as seen in the mice.


Lund said that unlike other vaccines, the COVID-19 antibodies could be found in both the blood and the lungs.

“Most of the vaccines that people are looking at today are ones that you’d give as a shot in your arm, those induce good antibodies in the blood, but don’t do anything in the respiratory tract,” Lund said.

AdCovid is inhaled through the nose, allowing antibodies to form in the body’s respiratory tract.

“It induced a very potent immune response that was seen both in respiratory tracts in the lungs and also in systemic sites like the lungs,” Lund said.

Dozens of COVID-19 vaccines are being tested across the globe. Lund said this is a good thing because certain vaccines may be better suited for certain demographics.

“Each vaccine may have a different set of properties, certain vaccines may be more appropriate for some populations of people than others,” she explained.

When asked if she is optimistic about the vaccine, Lund said she’s hopeful AdCovid is effective.

“I am optimistic that there will be a vaccine,” she said. “Whether or not it is this one, who knows. I am cautiously optimistic that one or more of the vaccines currently being tested will be effective.”

Lund said Altimmune is still working on criteria for human trials. The vaccine will be given to healthy patients to understand the side-effects.

AdCovid is administered intranasally, meaning you may be able to do it yourself, without a doctor or nurse. And the drug doesn’t need to be refrigerated, making distribution much simpler.

 

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Jim Acosta calls out Kayleigh for not having the “guts” to own up to smears against Dr. Fauci

 

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President Trump "is doing what he always does, trying to shift blame to someone else," says Chris Cuomo.

"We must reject efforts to shift stink on to the one man that we can trust [Dr. Anthony Fauci.]"


 

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SHAMELESS COVER-UP Hospital data on coronavirus patients will now be rerouted to the Trump administration instead of first being sent to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed to CNN.
 

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U.S. coronavirus infections hit 3.5 million, California smashes record

A near record one-day increase in coronavirus cases lifted the total number of infections in the United States to 3.5 million, with more than 137,000 deaths.

The outbreak has gotten worse in 41 states over the last two weeks. California officials said Wednesday their state had 11,142 COVID-19 cases reported over the last 24 hours, shattering the record of 9,816 cases reported on July 9. Hospitalization numbers also hit a new high of 6,700. The state also had its second highest single-day death toll, 144, with minorities and Los Angeles County hit hardest.

California has paused reopening plans in some areas and reimposed some restrictions that had been lifted. Cases also have been surging in Florida, Texas, Georgia, and Louisiana.


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US Coronavirus Data Has Already Disappeared After Trump Administration Shifted Control From CDC to HHS
When reached for comment Thursday by CNBC, HHS spokesman Michael Caputo said in a statement that CDC has been directed to reestablish the data
By Will Feuer | CNBC • Published 37 mins ago • Updated 34 mins ago
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Previously public data has already disappeared from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website after the Trump administration quietly shifted control of the information to the Department of Health and Human Services.
Since the pandemic began, the CDC has regularly published data on availability of hospital beds and intensive care units across the country. But when Ryan Panchadsaram, who helps run a data-tracking site called Covid Exit Strategy, said he tried to collect the data from the CDC on Tuesday, it disappeared.
“We were surprised because the modules that we normally go to were empty. The data wasn’t available and not there,” he said. “There was no warning.”
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CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield told reporters on a conference call Wednesday that states were told to stop sending hospital information to the National Healthcare Safety Network site, the CDC’s system for gathering data, beginning Wednesday. Instead, all data will now be reported through HHS’ reporting portal, officials said, adding that the decision was made to streamline data reporting and to provide HHS officials with real-time data.
Public health specialists and former health officials acknowledged that the CDC’s data reporting infrastructure was limited, and said it needs to be overhauled to meet the demands of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, they expressed concern in interviews with CNBC that the change could lead to less transparent data.
When reached for comment Thursday by CNBC, HHS spokesman Michael Caputo said in a statement that the CDC was directed to make the data available again. In the future, he said “more powerful insights” will be provided by HHS.
“Yes, HHS is committed to being transparent with the American public about the information it is collecting on the coronavirus,” he said. “Therefore, HHS has directed CDC to re-establish the coronavirus dashboards it withdrew from the public on Wednesday.”
Representatives of the CDC did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment.
The CDC’s web page for data on available hospital and ICU beds has been replaced with a note that reads: “Data displayed on this page was submitted directly to CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) and does not include data submitted to other entities contracted by or within the federal government.”
“We don’t have this critical indicator anymore,” Panchadsaram said. “The intent of just switching the data streams towards HHS, that’s fine. But you got to keep the data that you’re sharing publicly still available and up to date.”
Panchadsaram said he and his team, which includes researchers from the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy and from Resolve to Save Lives, a public health initiative led by former CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden, have been tracking the data since April.
Panchadsaram thinks of the project as something of a “progress czar” as they grade different states on the overall progress they’ve made in fighting Covid-19. Available hospital beds and ICU capacity is a key indicator they use to assess state performance, he added.
“It’s disappointing. It happened a lot quicker than expected,” he said. “The picture that we’re presenting to the world is incomplete.”
Other coronavirus researchers and public health specialists expressed concern because the policy change was announced so suddenly in the midst of a public health crisis that appears to be worsening.
Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University, which runs one of the most popular third-party coronavirus data dashboards, said the policy change won’t impact the Hopkins site because they’ve managed to source their data directly from states.
“What worries me is that we seem to be pushing rather suddenly in the midst of what feels like a very urgent time in terms of surging cases that we’re seeing across the country,” she told CNBC. “The question is, what are we going to lose in this transition, and in particular at a moment where we really don’t want to lose any ability to understand what’s happening in hospitals.”
Nuzzo expressed concern that the administration didn’t appear to fully plan out how the transition in data reporting would work and didn’t give hospitals or researchers a warning about the change or how it might affect them.
“I think it’s reasonable to worry that it could lead to erosion of capacities at a moment where we very much can’t afford to lose any abilities at this point,” she added. “I don’t fully understand how it’s going to work. That in and of itself is problematic.”
 
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