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Post by Admin on Apr 10, 2020 10:21:25 GMT -7
Covid 19 News for Friday April 10th, 2020
Montana reaches 354 COVID-19 cases The Bozeman Chronicle reports:
"Montana reached 354 known COVID-19 cases Thursday, with six deaths reported statewide and 36 hospitalizations.
The state also reported 157 recoveries, a number recently added to a website with COVID-19 information."
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Post by Admin on Apr 10, 2020 10:25:24 GMT -7
CHP gets $795K for virus fight in Park and Gallatin counties The Livingston Enterprise reports:
"Community Health Partners is receiving $759,005 in federal funding to help fight COVID-19 at their five locations across Park and Gallatin counties.
The money comes from over $12 million from the Coronavirus Economic Recovery Package that will be distributed to 15 health centers across the state of Montana, according to a news release from U.S. Sen. Steve Daines.
“This is about getting our health care professionals on the front lines the resources they need to combat the Coronavirus pandemic,” Daines said in the news release.
Community Health Partners will use the funding to keep operations open while its number of patients has reduced by 50 to 60 percent during the pandemic, said Buck Taylor, CHP’s public information officer for COVID-19. CHP gets funding based on the number of visits it produces in a given day or week, which is why this award is important to stay open and keep a full staff, Taylor said."
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Post by Admin on Apr 10, 2020 10:27:48 GMT -7
Ben Carson says 'about 98 percent' of people who get coronavirus will recover: 'We can't operate out of hysteria' Fox News reports:
"Housing & Urban Development Secretary Dr. Ben Carson told "The Story" Thursday that not enough public attention is being paid to "the number of people who have recovered" from coronavirus" -- which Carson said "is going to be about 98 percent of all the people who get it."
Carson, a one-time Baltimore pediatric neurosurgeon, added that between one-quarter and one-half of all people infected with coronavirus are asymptomatic.
"You probably do know someone that has it, you may have it, who knows?" Carson told host Martha MacCallum. "But people have been terrified because we've talked about the bad."
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Post by Admin on Apr 10, 2020 10:30:04 GMT -7
VIRUS PERIL Terrifying video shows how a single cough can spread a cloud of coronavirus across supermarket that lingers for minutes The Sun reports:
"THIS terrifying animation shows how coronavirus particles from a single cough can hang in the air "several minutes" and spread across two aisles of a supermarket.
Scientists created a computer simulation to study how far the virus can travel indoors - and worryingly found how a cloud of droplets will infect others even after the sick person has walked away."
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Post by Admin on Apr 10, 2020 10:32:25 GMT -7
Fed Is Seizing Control of the Entire U.S. Bond Market Yahoo Finance and Bloomberg Opinion report:
"The Federal Reserve is not leaving any corner of the U.S. bond market behind in this crisis.
There’s no other way to interpret the central bank’s sweeping measures announced Thursday, which together provide as much as $2.3 trillion in loans to support the economy. It will wade into the $3.9 trillion U.S. municipal-bond market to an unprecedented degree, can now purchase “fallen angel” bonds from companies that have recently lost their investment-grade ratings, and has expanded its Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility to include top-rated commercial mortgage-backed securities and collateralized loan obligations.
The details matter. Here’s what’s new and significant for bond markets:
Municipal Liquidity Facility
This is new and close to what I’ve argued for over the past year. The Fed’s facility will buy muni debt directly from issuers that’s sold for cash-flow purposes and matures no later than 24 months from the date of issuance. I had figured that for simplicity the central bank would make this available only to states, but the Fed decided that in addition to states and Washington, D.C., it would also buy notes from cities with more than 1 million residents and counties with more than 2 million."
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Post by Admin on Apr 10, 2020 10:36:35 GMT -7
Immigrants Self-Deporting from U.S. to Avoid Possible Coronavirus Infection Breitbart News reports:
"Foreign nationals held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody are self-deporting from the United States to avoid potential infection with the Chinese coronavirus.
While federal judges are helping release convicted illegal alien and legal immigrant criminals from ICE detention amid claims that they could potentially contract the coronavirus, some ICE detainees are self-deporting back to their native countries.
Recent cases detailed by USA Today found two ICE detainees getting ready to leave the U.S. to avoid potential coronavirus infection:"
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Post by Admin on Apr 10, 2020 10:41:06 GMT -7
U.S. Postal Service asks Congress for $75 billion bailout as coronavirus crushes economy The NY Daily News reports:
"The U.S. Postal Service’s top official pleaded with lawmakers Thursday for a $75 billion federal bailout, saying her agency is hemorrhaging cash so quickly that it could go bankrupt by the end of this fiscal year because of the coronavirus crisis.
Speaking via video conference with members of the House Oversight Committee, Postmaster General Megan Brennan said the USPS anticipates losing $13 billion in revenue this year “directly” because of the viral pandemic, which has prompted a variety of businesses to stop mailing advertisements and other letters that bring in the service’s bread and butter income.
Over the coming decade, Brennan told lawmakers that the USPS expects to shed an additional $54.3 billion.
Most alarmingly, Brennan raised the prospect that her agency could entirely “run out of cash this fiscal year" without government relief.
She laid out a request for federal aid that includes $25 billion in emergency appropriations to offset coronavirus-related losses; $25 billion to bankroll “shovel-ready” projects to modernize the Postal Service, and another $25 billion in unrestricted borrowing from the Treasury Department.
In light of Brennan’s warnings, House Oversight Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) said it’s critical for Congress to earmark funds for the USPS in the next COVID-19 stimulus package that’s expected to top $2 trillion.
“The Postal Service is holding on for dear life, and unless Congress and the White House provide meaningful relief in the next stimulus bill, the Postal Service could cease to exist," Maloney said in a statement.
Despite the USPS’s dire financial situation, President Trump voiced skepticism about a bailout on Wednesday, instead suggesting that the service raises levies on companies like Amazon.
“They have to raise the prices on these companies who drop thousands of packages on the floor of the post office,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “They ought to do that. I’m pushing them.”
But Democrats on the House Oversight Committee said hiking prices alone wouldn’t help, since the USPS is losing entire contracts due to the virus, which has killed more than 16,000 people in the U.S. so far.
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Post by Admin on Apr 10, 2020 10:43:12 GMT -7
Fauci finally says what conservatives have said for weeks – U.S. death toll will be lower than thought WND reports:
"In an appearance on MSNBC Wednesday, Obamacare architect and public health expert Ezekiel Emanuel sounded a clarion call: It could be a year and a half until life gets back to normal.
"Realistically, COVID-19 will be here for the next 18 months or more. We will not be able to return to normalcy until we find a vaccine or effective medications," he said. "I know that's dreadful news to hear. How are people supposed to find work if this goes on in some form for a year and a half? Is all that economic pain worth trying to stop COVID-19? The truth is we have no choice."
Sounds painful, but Emmanuel made it clear he thought it was for the best we hear these things now: "One thing I've learned as a cancer doctor is that it's wrong to paint an overly rosy picture in order to maintain a patient's hope. It's wrong because it fails."
This is a fair point. You don't tell someone with stage 4 esophageal cancer that a round of chemo should clear things right up. On the other hand, what happens if you paint an overly dour picture? Perhaps not by much, per se, but by enough that it throws off our responses?
I ask this because earlier in the day, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said what many conservatives have been saying for weeks -- namely, that death toll predictions, including the White House's own models, could be overestimating the number of deaths and the amount of medical resources needed to deal with the novel coronavirus."
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Post by Admin on Apr 10, 2020 10:48:58 GMT -7
Buchanan: Trump's Presidency Hangs On One Decision Zero Hedge reports:
"Easter may not bring America the victory in the war against the coronavirus pandemic that President Donald Trump anticipated. But in this Holy Week, we may be reaching our Saratoga moment, our turning point.
While New York state reported a record number of deaths from the virus on Tuesday, over 1,800, new hospitalizations were down.
Referrals of patients to ICUs were down. Intubations were down. And the discharge rate for patients from hospitals was holding steady.
The thousands of ventilators Gov. Andrew Cuomo had been crying out for are, apparently, not immediately needed. The U.S. Navy hospital ship Comfort moored on the Hudson with a capacity of 1,000 beds remains largely empty. So, too, are the thousands of beds in Manhattan’s Javits Center, which has been converted into an emergency hospital.
“We are flattening the curve,” exulted Cuomo on Wednesday, “Thank God. Thank God. Thank God.”
Predictions of 1 million to 2 million U.S. deaths are no longer heard.
Last week’s projection from the White House briefing room of 100,000 to 240,000 dead has been revised, sharply downward.
Tuesday, Dr. Deborah Birx said the model she is working with projects 81,000 deaths. By Wednesday, that had dropped 25% to an estimated 60,000 U.S. deaths.
A terrible toll, still more than all the Americans who died in the Vietnam war, but compared to earlier estimates, hopeful news.
Social distancing and sheltering in place are working.
California, Oregon and Washington have begun to ship medical equipment to states where infections are still surging.
Moreover, it appears that some deaths being attributed to COVID-19 were caused by underlying conditions patients had when they came to the hospital, such as cancer, heart disease, hypertension, pneumonia, diabetes, asthma.
Yes, this could be a false dawn. We are warned of the possibility that the coronavirus, after cutting its initial murderous swath by August, could revisit us in the fall with a new season of lethal attacks.
But by then, we may have developed vaccines or drugs to prevent, mitigate or even cure the disease.
What appears conclusive now is this: The American people and nation are aware, fully engaged in the fight, and, on several fronts, gaining the whip hand over the pandemic.
Hence, understandably, consideration is being given to resuscitating the U.S. economy before this nationwide shutdown plunges America into a full-blown depression that exacts its own toll of premature deaths.
Upon this question now, the Trump presidency appears to hang:
Will Trump’s actions flatten the curve and put the pandemic on an irreversible downward course in daily cases and deaths, as he produces a U-turn, if not a V-turn, dramatically driving the economy upward from depression and toward national prosperity?
Can he revive the economy without reviving the virus?
Or will the coronavirus so severely cripple the economy that the depression it produces will kill the Trump presidency?
Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie framed the issue thus: “Politically, nothing else matters. … I have never seen a time when an opponent is more irrelevant. And that’s not an insult to Vice President Biden.
“But in the end, the American people are going to decide, has the president of the United States stood up to this crisis, and done right by them and protected their lives and their property, or hasn’t he?”
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