Trump warns coronavirus more "vicious" than flu, despite his previous comments.

Trump warns coronavirus more "vicious" than flu, despite his previous comments

1st April, 2020:  President Trump acknowledged Tuesday that Covid-19 is worse than the seasonal flu, despite claiming otherwise multiple times in the past.

“It’s not the flu. It’s vicious,” Trump said of Covid-19 Tuesday while discussing a personal friend of his who is in a coma battling coronavirus.
Some context: The tone is new for Trump who on March 9 tweeted: “So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!”

Two days after Trump made that comment, Dr. Anthony Fauci warned that coronavirus is “10 times more lethal than the seasonal flu.” 

Today members of the coronavirus task force warned that Americans should be “prepared” for over 100,000 deaths.

Coronavirus and a fake news pandemic.

Coronavirus and a fake news pandemic.

Megyn Kelly is probably the most famous female journalist in America today (though Oprah Winfrey might object). Kelly was for years an anchor on Fox News; her dealings with its boss, the sexual predator Roger Ailes, is the subject of a recent film called, yes, Bombshell. Charlize Theron played Kelly.
On Thursday morning, Kelly tweeted: "I'm so frustrated right now… that we can't trust the media to tell us the truth without inflaming it to hurt Trump… that Trump has misled so many times we no longer know when to trust his word… that even I as a journalist am not sure where to turn for real info on COVID".

If trust in the media is your concern, perhaps working for Fox News wasn't the smartest place to start, as many of Kelly's nearly 20,000 respondents pointed out. I'm not one to encourage a social media pile-on; indeed I hardly tweet these days, so corrupting has that platform become for our public domain. But everything about Kelly's tweet is at once remarkable and awful.

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Fact check: Sunlight does not kill the new coronavirus. #coroanvirus, #covid19virus, #coronavirusnz, #davidlimnz, #drmobileslimited

The claim: Sunlight kills the new coronavirus

An article on a holistic health blog that has been circulating Facebook tells people to go outside to prevent catching the new coronavirus because sunlight kills it.

“In my opinion, keeping the beaches closed and having people quarantined inside their homes is a bad decision. Getting more sunshine is a proactive step we can all take at protecting ourselves from the current coronavirus outbreak,” wrote David Friedman, the author of the blog post. “Instead of staying quarantined inside your house, go outside on your back deck and soak up some virus destroying sunshine!"

The claim has been shared elsewhere. Similar posts of graphics offering tips have spread throughout social media.

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8 strains of the coronavirus are circling the globe. Here's what clues they're giving scientists. #coroanvirus, #covid19virus, #coronavirusnz, #0800429429

April 1st, 2020:  SAN FRANCISCO – At least eight strains of the coronavirusare making their way around the globe, creating a trail of death and disease that scientists are tracking by their genetic footprints.

While much is unknown, hidden in the virus's unique microscopic fragments are clues to the origins of its original strain, how it behaves as it mutates and which strains are turning into conflagrations while others are dying out thanks to quarantine measures.  

Huddled in once bustling and now almost empty labs, researchers who oversaw dozens of projects are instead focused on one goal: tracking the current strains of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that cause the illness COVID-19.

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#Covid19 Update: Wednesday, 1st April, 2020 #globalvirusupdate, @davidlim, #davidlimnz

#Covid19 Update: Wednesday, 1st April, 2020

Source: Sources:

WHO, CDC, ECDC, NHC of the PRC, JHU CSSE, DXY and others

	Location	Confirmed	Cases/1 million	Recovered	Deaths
	Worldwide	797,490	113.18	161,542	38,540
	United States	164,406	502.64	5,945	3,172
	Italy	101,739	1,610.68	14,620	11,591
	Spain	94,417	1,905.48	19,259	8,189
	China	81,518	59.36	76,052	3,305
	Germany	67,051	816.33	6,522	657
	Iran	44,605	550.73	14,656	2,898
	France	43,973	650.81	7,202	3,018
	United Kingdom	22,141	341.19	135	1,408
	Switzerland	16,016	2,360.50	2,105	381
	Belgium	11,899	1,154.43	1,527	513
	Netherlands	11,750	721.56	0	864
	Turkey	10,827	129.35	162	168
	Austria	9,851	1,257.15	636	108
	South Korea	9,786	191.73	5,408	162
	Canada	7,435	215.18	1,079	89
	Portugal	6,408	600.18	43	140
	Israel	4,831	423.65	163	17
	Brazil	4,661	22.61	127	165
	Australia	4,561	199.27	226	19
	Norway	4,465	837.89	0	32
	Sweden	4,122	410.07	18	166
	Czechia	3,001	281.79	25	23
	Denmark	2,815	507.3	0	77
	Malaysia	2,766	83.24	537	43
	Ireland	2,615	500.65	5	46
	Russia	2,337	16.32	121	17
	Romania	2,245	104.59	220	69
	Chile	2,139	122.37	75	7
	Poland	2,132	57.34	35	31
	Philippines	2,084	19.99	49	88
	Luxembourg	1,988	2,483.18	40	22
	Ecuador	1,890	114.16	3	57
	Japan	1,866	14.72	404	54
	Pakistan	1,865	9.28	58	25
	Thailand	1,651	24.65	342	10
	Indonesia	1,528	5.86	81	136
	Saudi Arabia	1,453	51.39	115	8
	India	1,417	1.12	140	47
	New Zealand	600	133.86	74	1