Anonymous ID: f6167c April 18, 2020, 7:41 p.m. No.8845946   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Los Angeles County Suffers Deadliest Day Yet As COVID-19 Kills 81: Live Updates

 

Update (1910ET): No sooner did we highlight the rash of new deaths and cases reported in California nursing homes than LA County revealed that it suffered its deadliest streak yet during the last 24 hours, reporting 81 deaths, along with a huge jump in cases (642).

That brings the total to 576 deaths and 12,021 cases.

In a statement, Dr. Barbara Ferrer, the director of the Department of Public Health, specifically cited nursing homes as a source of particular concern for county health officials.

"Today marks a very sad milestone for our county, we are reporting the highest number of COVID-19 deaths for any one day since the beginning of the pandemic, and our deepest condolences go out to each and every person grieving the loss of their loved ones," she said in a statement.

She also pointed out that the number of deaths in the county have doubled in a week, a trend that has been seen in other hot spots around the country.

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/shocking-reports-claim-1000s-perished-uncounted-ny-uk-nursing-homes-spanish-death-toll

Anonymous ID: f6167c April 18, 2020, 7:44 p.m. No.8845978   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>6026 >>6027 >>6028 >>6062 >>6065 >>6121

Shocking Report Shows Half The Homeless At Boston Shelter Tested Positive For COVID-19: And None Had Symptoms

 

After a cluster of cases involving residents of a South Boston homeless shelter, Massachusetts public health officials tested every resident of the Pine Street shelter in Boston's South End.

The results have garnered the attention of the CDC, which is "actively investigating the situation," according to Boston 25 News.

The CDC is now "actively looking into" into universal COVID-19 testing at Pine Street Inn homeless shelter.

The broad-scale testing took place at the shelter in Boston’s South End a week and a half ago because of a small cluster of cases there.

 

Of the 397 people tested, 146 people tested positive. Not a single one had any symptoms.

"It was like a double knockout punch. The number of positives was shocking, but the fact that 100 percent of the positives had no symptoms was equally shocking," said Dr. Jim O’Connell, president of Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, which provides medical care at the city’s shelters.

O'Connell said that the findings have changed the future of COVID-19 screenings at Boston’s homeless shelters.

The big takeaway, if you couldn't tell, is that a pattern is developing here: When mass testing is conducting, a shocking number of new cases are being identified, and - what's even more surprising - often none of them even show any symptoms/.

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/shocking-report-shows-half-homeless-boston-shelter-tested-positive-covid-19-and-none

Anonymous ID: f6167c April 18, 2020, 8:03 p.m. No.8846171   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>6199

Michelle Obama Given PBS Show After Democrats Gave Public Broadcaster $75 Million in Coronavirus Relief Bill

 

Former First Lady Michelle Obama has been given a show by PBS starting next week, the taxpayer funded network announced Friday. The timing of the announcement comes after Democrats marked $75 million for PBS’s parent the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in the coronavirus relief bill that passed at the end of March.

 

Newsbusters reported the $75 million is on top of the $465 million given CPB in the current year’s federal budget, which is an increase of $20 million over the previous year. Local PBS and NPR stations receive funding from CBP as well as donations from the public, businesses and charitable foundations.

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/michelle-obama-given-pbs-show-democrats-gave-public-broadcaster-75-million-coronavirus-relief-bill/

Anonymous ID: f6167c April 18, 2020, 8:06 p.m. No.8846210   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>6226 >>6229

If new data suggesting Covid-19 no more lethal than FLU is correct, should the world REVERSE its lockdown strategy?

 

We have entered a second stage of the virus crisis. The first stage was a scramble to act in the face of an invisible enemy, whose potential for harm seemed almost unlimited. Governments everywhere felt that they had no choice but to hit the big red button, and like a chain of falling dominoes one after another took unprecedented lockdown measures from around the middle of March.

 

But now things have stabilized in much of the world, and are clearly on the downswing in badly-hit places like Italy, Spain, China and Australia. In this calm after the storm, politicians and the public health experts advising governments should take the opportunity to re-examine the evidence and decide a new, and more targeted, course of action for the future.

 

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/486224-covid-flu-lockdown-strategy/