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Wednesday, April 1, 2020

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.
Full article here...

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.

Full details here.




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.

Read all about it here!

#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 Zealand600133.86741