If there is exceedingly good news in the USA then the issues regarding the economic effect on individuals can begin to be rolled back, BUT, if the number of sick, positive tests, those on ventilators and those dead is increased without SIGNIFICANT reductions Americans still need to be protected.
Americans need to listen to their governors and the governors need to prepare for a court fight.
The governors more than anyone want to have people back on their jobs. I believe New York is going to try the medications found to be effective. That is real hope. If that quickly has an effect then there is reason to move forward with economic priorities. BUT, if that fails to improve the health of people in a way that ends the viral spread, there needs to be caution.Ask Dr. Anthony Fauci, he will say the same thing and more.
March 22, 2020
By John Cohen
...Q: You stood nearby (click here) while President Trump was in the Rose Garden shaking hands with people. You’re a doctor. You must have had a reaction like, “Sir, please don’t do that.”
A: Yes, I say that to the task force. I say that to the staff. We should not be doing that. Not only that—we should be physically separating a bit more on those press conferences. To his credit, the vice president [Mike Pence] is really pushing for physical separation of the task force [during meetings]. He keeps people out of the room—as soon as the room gets like more than 10 people or so, it’s, “Out, everybody else out, go to a different room.” So with regard to the task force, the vice president is really a bear in making sure that we don’t crowd 30 people into the Situation Room, which is always crowded. So, he’s definitely adhering to that. The situation on stage [for the press briefings] is a bit more problematic. I keep saying, “Is there any way we can get a virtual press conference?” Thus far, no. But when you’re dealing with the White House, sometimes you have to say things one, two, three, four times, and then it happens. So, I’m going to keep pushing....
March 23, 2020
By Brian Dulle
Kansas City, Mo. - The Kansas City, (click here) Missouri Health Department has released an update Monday evening reporting 25 people have now tested positive for coronavirus COVID-19.
The health department said 16 of the individuals are women between the ages of 26 and 68-years-old and nine men between the ages of 28 and 90-years-old....
By Harriet Ryan
San Francisco Mayor London Breed, left, has called on the public to stay at home
Millbrae - San Francisco officials (click here) warned that a surge in coronavirus is expected to come within a week or two, and voiced dismay over images of the public crowding beaches and parks across California.
“The worst is yet to come,” San Francisco Director of Health Dr. Grant Colfax said at a news conference Monday. “Every community where the virus has taken hold has seen a surge in the number of coronavirus patients who need to be hospitalized. We expect that to happen in San Francisco soon, in a week or two, or perhaps even less.”
San Francisco has already taken steps to decompress the healthcare system — banning almost all visitors to hospitals and long-term care facilities, canceling elective surgeries and routine medical visits, and ordering appointments be done by phone or video if possible, and opening up tents to care for mild coronavirus patients to keep hospital beds free.
But officials say based on what’s happened elsewhere, the surge will come....
March 23, 2020
By Kie Relyea
An outbreak (click here) in a Bellingham nursing home that sharply increased the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Whatcom County has bumped the county’s case count to the fourth-highest in Washington state.
As of Monday afternoon, March 23, a total of 48 Whatcom County residents were diagnosed with the respiratory illness. No new cases have been reported in the county since Sunday night....
