Confirmed cases globally 4,801,202 (click here)
Deaths 318,935
USA Confirmed cases in the USA 1,477,459 (click here)
Deaths 80,271
The USA percentage of global confirmed cases is 30.8 percent.
The USA percentage of confirmed cases in the Americas is 70.2 percent.
The USA percentage of global deaths is 25.2 percent.
The graph below (click here) shows confirmed cases on a timeline. I welcome any interested to examine the animated timeline to understand the rapid growth in the USA, 70 percent of the confirmed cases in the Americas.
The top graph is March 23, 2020, when the first cases were detected in the USA. Immediately, the spread of the virus in the USA surpassed all other countries and continue to this day. The virus is not stopped in the USA, not by a long shot compared to the rest of the world.
These statistics don't even scratch the surface. (click here) The negatives of those tested are high. Why risk exposing them to the virus? Of those testing, there is seven percent that tests positive. Florida needs to at the very least advise the people to wear masks. They are known to work when most of the people are wearing them.
River gauges May 20, 2020 (click here)
Localized flooding (click here) is expected to continue across portions of northern Michigan. Watch for flooded roadways: turn around don't drown.
There are some major rivers in the areas that are black. But, the high water areas appear to be different from any of the major rivers. It is basically local flooding.
Michigan may want to ask the US Army Corp. to take a look at this mess. The Great Lakes have been extremely high on any one day this year. There are times they are at flood stage with fluctuations of 12 inches a day when large ships are on the lakes. I really think the Governor needs an ally in the US Army Corp. With higher lake levels that raises the water table.
May 18, 2020
By Stacy St. Clare
After soaking paper towels in a liquid mixture developed by an infection preventionist, they deliver the 3.5-gallon buckets — bright green drums with “Menards” printed on them — throughout the 151-bed hospital.
The regular vendor stopped supplying the wipes weeks ago when the medical center struggled to pay its bills on time. And a worldwide shortage has made them difficult to find on the open market, where hospitals now try to outbid each other for precious stock.
With a century-old mission to care for people living in Little Village and other nearby neighborhoods, this is the unorthodox approach St. Anthony must take as it battles both insolvency and a deadly virus that has hit the neighborhoods it serves harder than other parts of the city....
April 29, 2020
By McKayla Haack
Butt, Montana - St. James Healthcare in Butte (click here) will start doing elective surgeries again starting Thursday. It hasn’t done any since late March in order to conserve personal protective equipment and to help reduce the possible spread of the new coronavirus. Their move wasn’t unique -- it followed a recommendation by the Montana Hospital Association.
Everyone who enters the hospital gets their temperature checked and a mask to wear.
“The COVID pandemic has been very challenging for health care workers across the country, across the world,” said Dr. Jennifer Davenport, chief medical officer for St. James Healthcare....
This is an interesting article out of New Zealand. Storage of healthcare supplies has expiration dates. The way this can be overcome is to have the STORED supplies constantly rotated through providing a supply to the health care industry all the time. Is there something wrong in providing masks to hospitals to ensure the national supply is up to date. Better that than being ill-prepared.
April 28, 2020
By Matthew Tso
Two major health agencies (click here) have written-off 100,000 face masks from Wellington's emergency stocks after they were allowed to fall into disrepair.
Earlier in April Stuff reported 10 per cent of the masks held by the Capital & Coast and Hutt Valley district health boards had degraded in storage after staff at Hutt Hospital reported brittle and crumbling elastic fittings on masks issued to stop the spread of coronavirus.
The health boards had intended to retro-fit the masks - which they said had been purchased a decade ago- with new elastic, however in a statement the health boards' joint director of provider services Joy Farley said this idea had been abandoned.
"[The] DHBs made the decision not to continue with the repair of the masks with deteriorated elastic as testing of these retro-fitted masks showed they were not reliably fit for purpose....
Secretaries of State are responsible for the elections. This is blatant blackmail.
May 20, 2020
By Darlene Superville
...President Donald Trump (click here) threatened Wednesday to hold up coronavirus relief money for Michigan after he said — erroneously — that the state had sent absentee ballots to millions of voters. It's not clear that he can do so....
Why didn't I guess it was his mental health at issue more than even blackmail?
The symptom of a deeper disorder is called mythomania and pseudologia fantastica. It is chronic. These symptoms ARE a part of a deeper disorder.
May 20, 2020
By Ken Haddad
...The information stated (click here) in the President’s tweet is not true. Michigan is not sending absentee ballots to 7.7 million people ahead of elections this year....
The credibility of these tapes is very low at this point. Guiliani and a Russian operative, Andriy Derkach are involved. The FBI could run forensics on the tapes to determine their credibility. Additionally, the tapes are tapered with as Trump, Jr. got his hands on these tapes and posted one. There is no determining credibility if the Trump campaign has possession of official recordings of the Ukraine government. The FBI needs to take custody of the tapes currently in possession of Trump, Jr. and the Trump campaign. I am more than confident Russia is involved in the same way they were in the hacking of the DNC, DCCC and Clinton campaign.
Guiliani has had these tapes since December? Forget it, the FBI needs to run forensics for tampering by Guiliani and the Trump campaign.
May 20, 2020
By David L. Stern
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (click here) called on his law enforcement agencies Wednesday to investigate leaked audio of private phone calls several years ago between Vice President Joe Biden and Ukraine’s then-president, Petro Poroshenko, and said that the conversations “might be perceived, qualified as high treason.”
Speaking at a news conference at Kyiv’s Mariinsky Park to mark the first anniversary of his presidency, Zelensky again found himself pulled into U.S. politics just eight months after a phone conversation between him and President Trump became the subject of an impeachment inquiry.
The recordings, which were first played at a news conference Tuesday in Kyiv, shed relatively little new light on Biden’s role in ousting Ukraine’s prosecutor general four years ago. But Zelensky’s comments Wednesday could have been aimed at appeasing Trump, discrediting a rival in Poroshenko and deflecting to investigators all in one swipe....
May 6, 2020
By Meghan Bartels
Yevgeny Mikrin, (click here) the head of Russia's human spaceflight program, has died, the country's space agency Roscosmos confirmed Tuesday (May 5). The statement did not specify a cause of death. Mikrin, who was in his mid-60s, tested positive for the new coronavirus last month.
Before his diagnosis, Mikrin had attended the April 9 launch of a Soyuz spacecraft carrying a NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts to the International Space Station. On April 28, Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin said on Twitter that the incubation period for any crew exposure to the coronavirus had passed and that the astronauts were feeling fine. Earlier in April, NASA expressed complete confidence in the astronauts' health and the integrity of the crew's prelaunch quarantine....
May 19, 2020
By Bob Jacobs
“We are deeply saddened (click here) by the passing of Annie Glenn. A stalwart member of the space and military communities, her courageous support of her legendary husband John was unmatched.
“She provided an example for other women who followed to face the challenges of being part of our nation’s space program, and the stress of having spouses in combat. She stood steadfastly by her husband as he took to space once again as the oldest person to orbit Earth, even as she continued her own lifelong public service on behalf of children, the elderly, and the disabled.
“The Glenns dedication to each other is well known, and we looked to them as an unmatched example of the strength and compassion that a lifetime of devotion creates. She will be missed.”
May 19, 2020
Annie Glenn, (click here) wife of the late astronaut and U.S. Sen. John Glenn who overcame a childhood stutter to become an advocate for others with speech disorders, died Tuesday of complications from COVID-19. She was 100.
Glenn died at a nursing home near St. Paul, Minnesota, where she’d moved in recent years to be near her daughter, said Hank Wilson, a spokesman for the Glenn College of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine also announced Glenn’s death, the latest among centenarians succumbing rapidly to the new coronavirus....
Trump has been pushing NASA to bypass the moon in it's ambitions to go directly to Mars. I think Trump is bypassing NASA by allowing SpaceX to bring about missions into Mars and Deep Space.
The evidence adds up lately especially with Musk making statements about ordering a large number of engines. He is selling all his worldly possessions because he intends to leave Earth in his lifetime. Recently, Ivanka Trump tweeted Musk on Twitter.
There is something amiss at NASA and the public has a right to know after Douglas Loverro (click here) resigned ahead of the much anticipated SpaceX launch.
...Loverro, who came to NASA in October 2019, would have presided over the Flight Readiness Review — an important safety check scheduled for later this week to get ready for the planned May 27 launch that will send two NASA astronauts on a brief journey to the international space station....
Alternate realities have alternate agendas. This is more than palace intrigue. It could be that Ivanka is seeking voters, too. Trumps do that. They try to bring in voters from every aspect of extreme USA culture. But, either way, there is something not quite right.
July 19, 2019
...Bridenstine, (click here) who was standing to the right of the president in the Oval Office, replied that the Moon is a “proving ground” for going to Mars, allowing NASA to test out technologies needed for keeping people alive for extended periods of time on the Red Planet. “When we go to Mars we’re going to have to be there for a long period of time, so we need to learn how to live and work on another world,” said Bridenstine.
The Trump administration’s stated goal for deep space human exploration is to go to the Moon. The very first space policy directive that Trump signed in December of 2017 was to send people back to the Moon to establish a sustainable presence there. “Beginning with missions beyond low-Earth orbit, the United States will lead the return of humans to the Moon for long-term exploration and utilization, followed by human missions to Mars and other destinations,” the directive states....
