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If a leader has a weakness, the coronavirus is finding it.
Worldwide, the price of putting power and politics ahead of health has been catastrophic: The global death toll is more than 335,000.
In China, it revealed a damaging addiction to secrecy on the part of President Xi Jinping and local officials.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s blustering approach to policy endangered British lives and nearly cost him his own.
And President Donald Trump’s months of false statements and failed efforts to produce a working test left America defenseless to the pathogen. The slowness of the U.S. response may have cost more than 50,000 American lives. Anti-malaria drugs Trump keeps touting as a treatment for Covid-19 not only don’t work, but can kill those who use it, a new study showed.
Americans who have been stuck at home for two months seem resigned to participating in a dangerous experiment starting this weekend, with all 50 states open at least in part. As the outbreak drags on, social-distancing rules are evolving based on changing knowledge. With a vaccine months or years away, a second wave of infection and death is likely.
Unless child care centers reopen, many people wont be able to return to work regardless of whether other restrictions are lifted.
African Americans overwhelmingly disapprove of Trump, who has a long history of racially offensive remarks and policy positions.
The University of Oxford and AstraZeneca are recruiting more than 10,000 subjects for advanced human studies of one of the world’s fastest-moving vaccine programs.
If a leader has a weakness, the coronavirus is finding it.
Worldwide, the price of putting power and politics ahead of health has been catastrophic: The global death toll is more than 335,000.
In China, it revealed a damaging addiction to secrecy on the part of President Xi Jinping and local officials.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s blustering approach to policy endangered British lives and nearly cost him his own.
And President Donald Trump’s months of false statements and failed efforts to produce a working test left America defenseless to the pathogen. The slowness of the U.S. response may have cost more than 50,000 American lives. Anti-malaria drugs Trump keeps touting as a treatment for Covid-19 not only don’t work, but can kill those who use it, a new study showed.
Americans who have been stuck at home for two months seem resigned to participating in a dangerous experiment starting this weekend, with all 50 states open at least in part. As the outbreak drags on, social-distancing rules are evolving based on changing knowledge. With a vaccine months or years away, a second wave of infection and death is likely.
Unless child care centers reopen, many people wont be able to return to work regardless of whether other restrictions are lifted.
African Americans overwhelmingly disapprove of Trump, who has a long history of racially offensive remarks and policy positions.
The University of Oxford and AstraZeneca are recruiting more than 10,000 subjects for advanced human studies of one of the world’s fastest-moving vaccine programs.
Comments (5)
The concern is how quickly kids interact. All it takes is one asymptomatic kid to pass the virus to 20 to bring home to their parents.
It’s very safe to be in Chinatown and hope that others will come”“We know that there is concern surrounding tourism but we think it’s very safe”“Its lovely here. The food is delicious, the shops are prospering, the parade was great. Walking tours continue.””This fear is – I think – unwarranted in light of the precautions that are being taken here in the United States””Don’t be afraid. Enjoy it all. It’s beautiful and there are some good bargains””Please come and visit and enjoy Chinatown”February 24 Chinatown San Francisco Nancy Pelosi pleading for people to gather into large crowds in public places to protest Trump “xenophobic travel ban
The concern is how quickly kids interact. All it takes is one asymptomatic kid to pass the virus to 20 to bring home to their parents.
Within 6 weeks after the social distancing is decreased, unfortunately, we will likely see another increase in hospitalizations.
It has been suggested that June 1st is too soon to reopen schools safely and that more time is needed to set up track and trace systems in the event of another breakout.
It has been suggested that September, the start of the next academic year will be a more appropriate time.
As a key worker my daughter took my grandchildren out of school a week before they closed because she was concerned about picking the virus up at work and them passing it to school families.
The children don't seem to have suffered beyond feeling cooped up and grumpy at times, but there's quite a lot of them in one small maisonette, so isolation is perhaps less of an issue for a big family. My daughter told me that she doesn't let my granddaughter face-time her friends anymore until she's tidied since my granddaughter rushed round the flat with her phone showing off how messy it was.
My 9 year old granddaughter was telling me yesterday that she's reading the first Harry Potter book roughly aimed at 9-12 year olds, so I don't think she's falling behind with her education in any drastic way.
I think my daughter will be relieved of any difficult decision making if schools remain closed until September. I'm not quite sure how they've not all gone insane with two adults, four kids, a dog and a hamster in such a small property with no garden, but they all seem in good health and spirits.