China is moving forward to end SARS-CoV-2 in their society.

China knows these viruses don't go away by themselves. They take measures to protect the people. They don't mind spending the money to protect its citizens.

27 March 2020
By Zaria Gorvett

A bus is disinfected using UVC in Shanghai, China 

...There is also a third type:f (click here) UVC. This relatively obscure part of the spectrum consists of a shorter, more energetic wavelength of light. It is particularly good at destroying genetic material – whether in humans or viral particles. Luckily, most of us are unlikely to have ever encountered any. That’s because it’s filtered out by ozone in the atmosphere long before it reaches our fragile skin.

Or that was the case, at least, until scientists discovered that they could harness UVC to kill microorganisms. Since the finding in 1878, artificially produced UVC has become a staple method of sterilisation – one used in hospitals, airplanes, offices, and factories every day. Crucially, it’s also fundamental to the process of sanitising drinking water; some parasites are resistant to chemical disinfectants such as chlorine, so it provides a failsafe.

Though there hasn’t been any research looking at how UVC affects Covid-19 specifically, studies have shown that it can be used against other coronaviruses, such as Sars. The radiation warps the structure of their genetic material and prevents the viral particles from making more copies of themselves.

As a result, a concentrated form of UVC is now on the front line in the fight against Covid-19. In China, whole buses are being lit up by the ghostly blue light each night, while squat, UVC-emitting robots have been cleaning floors in hospitals. Banks have even been using the light to disinfect their money....

Known effects on SARS-CoV

Transfusion. 2006 Oct;46(10):1770-7.

Evaluation of inactivation methods for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus in noncellular blood products.

Darnell ME, Taylor DR.

...Viral inactivation by heat treatment (click here) at 60 degrees C required 15 to 30 minutes to inactivate the SARS-CoV. UVC efficiently inactivated SARS-CoV in 40 minutes, whereas UVA required the addition of psoralen to enhance inactivation of the virus. The presence of bovine serum albumin limited the ability of UVC and UVA to inactivate SARS-CoV and octanoic acid treatment does not reduce the infectivity of SARS-CoV-spiked protein solutions. S/D treatment required 2, 4, and up to 24 hours for Triton X-100, Tween 80, and sodium cholate inactivation, respectively.

CONCLUSION: Heat, UVC irradiation, and S/D treatments effectively inactivate SARS-CoV, whereas octanoic acid treatment is insufficient for inactivation of the virus.

Trump creates victims out of competent people.

Trump has no right to complain about Governors, he never lead this national emergency. The 40,000 ventilator request came from New York and at the peak of the virus New York has 15,000 and was looking to put two patients on one ventilator hence having the capacity of 30,000. Additionally, New York was using  C-PAP pressure support.

Why does he lie like this?

WHO Timeline (click here)

31 Dec 2019

China reported a cluster of cases of pneumonia in Wuhan, Hubei Province. A novel coronavirus was eventually identified.

13 March 2020
By Josephine Ma

The first case of someone in China (click here) suffering from Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, can be traced back to November 17, according to government data seen by the South China Morning Post.

Chinese authorities have so far identified at least 266 people who were infected last year, all of whom came under medical surveillance at some point....

1 January 2020

WHO had set up the IMST (Incident Management Support Team) across the three levels of the organization: headquarters, regional headquarters and country level, putting the organization on an emergency footing for dealing with the outbreak.

4  January 2020

WHO reported on social media that there was a cluster of pneumonia cases – with no deaths – in Wuhan, Hubei province.

5 January 2020

WHO published our first Disease Outbreak News on the new virus. This is a flagship technical publication to the scientific and public health community as well as global media. It contained a risk assessment and advice, and reported on what China had told the organization about the status of patients and the public health response on the cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan.

10 January 2020

WHO issued a comprehensive package of technical guidance online with advice to all countries on how to detect, test and manage potential cases, based on what was known about the virus at the time. This guidance was shared with WHO's regional emergency directors to share with WHO representatives in countries.

Based on experience with SARS and MERS and known modes of transmission of respiratory viruses, infection and prevention control guidance were published to protect health workers recommending droplet and contact precautions when caring for patients, and airborne precautions for aerosol generating procedures conducted by health workers.

12 January 2020

China publicly shared the genetic sequence of COVID-19.

13 January 2020

Officials confirm a case of COVID-19 in Thailand, the first recorded case outside of China.  

14 January 2020

WHO's technical lead for the response noted in a press briefing there may have been limited human-to-human transmission of the coronavirus (in the 41 confirmed cases), mainly through family members, and that there was a risk of a possible wider outbreak. The lead also said that human-to-human transmission would not be surprising given our experience with SARS, MERS and other respiratory pathogens.

20-21 January 2020

WHO experts from its China and Western Pacific regional offices conducted a brief field visit to Wuhan.

22 January 2020

WHO mission to China issued a statement saying that there was evidence of human-to-human transmission in Wuhan but more investigation was needed to understand the full extent of transmission.

22- 23 January 2020

The WHO Director- General convened an Emergency Committee (EC) under the International Health Regulations (IHR 2005) to assess whether the outbreak constituted a public health emergency of international concern. The independent members from around the world could not reach a consensus based on the evidence available at the time. They asked to be reconvened within 10 days after receiving more information.

28 January 2020

A senior WHO delegation led by the Director-General travelled to Beijing to meet China’s leadership, learn more about China’s response, and to offer any technical assistance. 

While in Beijing, Dr. Tedros agreed with Chinese government leaders that an international team of leading scientists would travel to China on a mission to better understand the context, the overall response, and exchange information and experience....

March 6, 2020
By Jon Cohen

Clifford Lane

On 13 February, Clifford Lane went to a Washington, D.C.(click here) –area airport to catch a flight to Japan, where he would help launch a study of an experimental drug, remdesivir, against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Lane is a deputy director at the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a right-hand man to Anthony Fauci, head of NIAID and the top research scientist in the country advising the White House on the outbreak of the virus. As Lane waited to board his plane, he was told that his final destination had changed. “I get an email, ‘You need to go to China.’ It’s like, are you kidding?”

Lane had been selected as one of two U.S. scientists to join a World Health Organization team of 13 international researchers who would tour five different cities with 12 Chinese colleagues to get a firsthand look at the coronavirus epidemic there. The joint mission, which ran from 16–23 February led to a report that offered more details about the clinical course of COVID-19 and the epidemiology in China than had appeared anywhere before.

Lane is a clinician who has been on the front line of HIV/AIDS research and led studies of vaccines and treatments in Liberia during the West African Ebola epidemic in 2014–16. On 4 March, Lane, still under quarantine in his Maryland home, spoke with ScienceInsider about the China trip and his view of the situation in the United States....

March 25, 2020
By Marisa Taylor

Washington - The Trump administration cut staff (click here) by more than two-thirds at a key U.S. public health agency operating inside China, as part of a larger rollback of U.S.-funded health and science experts on the ground there leading up to the coronavirus outbreak, Reuters has learned.

Most of the reductions were made at the Beijing office of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and occurred over the past two years, according to public CDC documents viewed by Reuters and interviews with four people familiar with the drawdown.

The Atlanta-based CDC, America’s preeminent disease fighting agency, provides public health assistance to nations around the world and works with them to help stop outbreaks of contagious diseases from spreading globally. It has worked in China for 30 years.

The CDC’s China headcount has shrunk to around 14 staffers, down from approximately 47 people since President Donald Trump took office in January 2017, the documents show. The four people, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the losses included epidemiologists and other health professionals....

I lost five family members due to the Avian Flu virus of 1918.

This is from my family's diary. It is about my Grandfather John Daniel Barrett. He died on February 3,1973 from Black Lung after losing one of his lungs to surgery years earlier.

This was authored by a dear Aunt.

"...His father, Edward Barrett, was an Irish immigrant coal miner. Edward was the father of eleven children, John was the fourth child born on November 30, 1900...His childhood was lost to him when he entered the dark, damp inners of that mountain (of coal) at the age of nine...But, John was not alone, there were many other young boys joining him (at work)...

...the next time we visit his life he is 17 years of age, still entering the mine day in and day out with his father Edward, at his side.

Then came the day his father told John he would be going to work alone. "I'm not feeling well today, John, you'll be going to work without me....He was unable to think of a day his father hadn't left home with him on their way to work. But today was going to be a day to remember for so many reasons.

(The day was October 19, 1918, in northeast Pennsylvania.)

...finishing the day with the sound of work ending whistle, only to arrive home to the most devastating news of his young life. As he got closer to his home, he was very aware of the somber glances and soft whispering of his neighbors. He attributed this sad atmosphere to the fact that so many of his friends and neighbors were effected by the loss of life due to the flu epidemic.

But John would realize upon entering his family home that there was more to it today. His sister, Mae, who was nineteen at this time, would meet him at the door to tell him of the untimely death and burial of his father. Edward Barrett was 46 years old. Also, John was told his mother's condition had worsened throughout the day.

...In fact, graves were dug in advance of someone's death, in an effort to head off the epidemic.

Later that evening, Mae and John were summoned to their mother's bed, Mariah Lynott Barrett, age 41, had a very urgent message for her third and fourth born. She would entrust them with the raising of their seven younger siblings. Since the elder two brothers were in the armed forces or married, the burden of rearing the younger seven children would fall on their young shoulders. Mariah Lynott Barrett would die that night and be buried in one of the readied graves.

He for the second time seventeen-year-old John Barrett entered the mine without his father to support his siblings...Francis nearly 16, Bessie age 14, Margaret age 12, Vincent age 10, Anna age 8, Tilly age 4 and Clare age 2.

The tragedy did not end with his parents, some of the children were ill with the flu as well. Some of the children died of long term complications of the flu. Tilly died in 1919, Claire in 1921, Francis died in 1923....

...The remaining siblings grew in age, grace and most importantly good health. Anna would marry but later died in childbirth at the age of 30. Bessie became a nurse and worked in the profession until she retired. She married once at an older age but would lose her husband Joe. John would eventually marry Gladys Lucille Dougher at the age of 25. He eventually would enter training to become a pipefitter and the years of entering a coal mine ended. Eventually, he ended his home in Pennsylvania and took five of his own children to Michigan....

Needless to say, there is more to my Grandfather's diary than these paragraphs, but, these viruses are horrible entities in the world that destroy lives, reassign others and causes history to bend to it's will.

COVID-19 is a deadly serious problem in the USA. Going forward we must be careful in returning to a vibrant economy. It is not worth it to simply "get back to normal." It won't happen that way and the scared lives and deaths will be a very sad legacy to the USA.

Trump is touting a return to work by Americans on May 1st because he wants to be blameless for any impact on the economy if the "Stay At Home" orders of the states remain after his demands otherwise.

Trump wants to blame the "Democratic Governors" for any pain Americans are feeling.

Trump's statements can be traced to his political standing and priorities. He isn't interested in the well being of the American people, so much as winning an election.

We already know from the examples of other countries that returning people to a "normal" life only results in a return of the country to a second "Stay At Home" order. I think it will be more difficult to achieve a second stay at home order and will be more painful than continuing the current paradigm. The healthcare systems will be stressed all over again. A return To Stay At Home would occur closer to the November election and will delay the national election for the chaos and Trump's concern for re-election.

It is my opinion that if governors are acting in the best interest of the people they will succeed in their favor. The payments to people currently Laid Off will serve to increase the movement of the economy within the USA and far less economic pain that people may be experiencing now. Once the payments are working to help the people, they will defer a return to work to the best judgment of governors that have kept them safe so far.