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Post by Admin on Apr 12, 2020 7:51:26 GMT -7
Covid 19 News for Sunday April 12th, 2020
Montana reports 377 COVID-19 cases (Saturday, 4-11-2020)
Only 1 new case in Gallatin County since Friday morning KBZK reports:
"According to the Montana Response COVID-19 tracking map, Montana confirms 377 cases of COVID-19 as of Saturday morning.
On Friday, the state reported 365 cases.
Gallatin County now reports 135 cases, more than any other county in the state, reporting 1 new case overnight.
The state reports that 8,581 tests have been completed, with 169 people recovering from the virus.
There have been three deaths in Toole County, and one each in Lincoln County, Madison County, and Missoula County.
There have now been 46 hospitalizations of COVID-19 patients in Montana; 21 of those are considered "active hospitalizations."
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Post by Admin on Apr 12, 2020 7:59:27 GMT -7
Most extreme measures during coronavirus lockdown, state by state Fox News reports:
"The coronavirus pandemic has changed the way people live, but it has also started to change the way officials handle a crisis.
The changes that Americans face are the most sweeping and wide-scale since WWII. While most states have embraced more obvious tactics such as state-wide lockdowns, some have gone a step further.
Here are a selection of some of the more extreme measures governments have taken to help combat the pandemic.
Kentucky, Mississippi cops ticket church attendees to force additional quarantines
On Friday, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear warned that anyone attending a church service would have to quarantine for an additional 14 days.
Knowing that not everyone might adhere to his warning, Beshear has ordered police to go through church parking lots and write down the license plate numbers for any of the attendees. Police will then provide the information to health departments, which will enforce quarantines."
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Post by Admin on Apr 12, 2020 8:02:03 GMT -7
Coronavirus: Trump has declared major disaster in all 50 states at once, first time in history Fox News reports:
"President Trump issued a major disaster declaration for Wyoming on Saturday, meaning that there is now such a declaration within all 50 states due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
It is the first time a president has ever declared a major disaster in all 50 states at once, according to Deputy Press Secretary Judd Deere.
The move comes as confirmed cases of the coronavirus reached at least 519,453 as of Saturday afternoon. At least 20,071 people have died in the U.S. due to the disease, a death toll surpassing the one in hard-hit Italy -- and a figure that has doubled, from 10,000 to more than 20,000, in just five days. Worldwide, confirmed cases have surpassed 1.75 million, and more than 100,000 people have died."
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Post by Admin on Apr 12, 2020 8:06:45 GMT -7
The Surveillance State Thrives During the Pandemic
Can we take government officials at their word that they'll eventually abandon their new powers? Reason.com reports:
"From cellphone tracking to drone eyes in the sky, perused health records, and GPS ankle bracelets, an epidemic of surveillance-state measures is spreading across the world. It's all done in the name of battling the spread of COVID-19, of course, since every crisis is used to justify incursions into our liberty. But long after the virus has done its worst and moved on, we're likely to be stuck with these invasions of our privacy—unless we push back, hard.
The rationales for surveillance are easy to understand, within certain limits. Public health authorities battling the pandemic want to know who is spreading the virus, which people they may have infected, and the movements of those potentially carrying the bug."
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Post by Admin on Apr 12, 2020 8:11:59 GMT -7
Wikipedie: The Spanish flu, also known as the 1918 flu pandemic... The Spanish flu, also known as the 1918 flu pandemic, was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic. Lasting from January 1918 to December 1920, it infected 500 million people – about a quarter of the world's population at the time. The death toll is estimated to have been anywhere from 17 million to 50 million, and possibly as high as 100 million, making it one of the deadliest pandemics in human history.[2]
To maintain morale, World War I censors minimized early reports of illness and mortality in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and the United States. Newspapers were free to report the epidemic's effects in neutral Spain, such as the grave illness of King Alfonso XIII, and these stories created a false impression of Spain as especially hard hit. This gave rise to the name Spanish flu. Historical and epidemiological data are inadequate to identify with certainty the pandemic's geographic origin, with varying views as to its location.
Most influenza outbreaks disproportionately kill the very young and the very old, with a higher survival rate for those in between, but the Spanish flu pandemic resulted in a higher than expected mortality rate for young adults.[3] Scientists offer several possible explanations for the high mortality rate of the 1918 influenza pandemic. Some analyses have shown the virus to be particularly deadly because it triggers a cytokine storm, which ravages the stronger immune system of young adults.[4] In contrast, a 2007 analysis of medical journals from the period of the pandemic found that the viral infection was no more aggressive than previous influenza strains.[5][6] Instead, malnourishment, overcrowded medical camps and hospitals, and poor hygiene promoted bacterial superinfection. This superinfection killed most of the victims, typically after a somewhat prolonged death bed.[7][8]
The Spanish flu was the first of two pandemics caused by the H1N1 influenza virus; the second was the swine flu in 2009.
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Post by Admin on Apr 12, 2020 8:14:30 GMT -7
Empty pews, empty collection baskets: coronavirus hits U.S. church finances Reuters reports:
"St. Anselm Roman Catholic Church in New York's Brooklyn borough is used to limping along, month after month, at a budget deficit of several thousand dollars a week.
But the church that sits in the city that is the epicenter of the U.S. coronavirus pandemic could always count on Easter. Last year, its Easter pew collection brought in $11,651. That was more than twice an average Sunday and, coupled with the church's online Easter donations of $2,500, enough to cover its weekly operating expenses of $13,000, according to church records.
Like most churches around the United States, St. Anselm's will be closed on Sunday, its members unable to gather and its priests unable to meet with them as the nation endures its worst public-health crisis in a century.
But just as American churches have been unable to meet their members' spiritual needs -- perhaps most painfully represented in the absence of public funerals for the thousands who have died -- they also have faced their own unmet needs in the form of untouched collection baskets.
"We are in uncharted waters, financially," said John Quaglione, a St. Anselm's parishioner who is also a spokesman for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn. "There will be some serious conversations and some strong conversations with the parishes and the economic folks to help get us through this."
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Post by Admin on Apr 12, 2020 8:18:15 GMT -7
This Pandemic Will Lead to Social Revolutions, Really? Yahoo and Bloomberg News reports:
"(Bloomberg Opinion) -- The most misleading cliche about the coronavirus is that it treats us all the same. It doesn’t, neither medically nor economically, socially or psychologically. In particular, Covid-19 exacerbates preexisting conditions of inequality wherever it arrives. Before long, this will cause social turmoil, up to and including uprisings and revolutions.
Social unrest had already been increasing around the world before SARS-CoV-2 began its journey. According to one count, there have been about 100 large anti-government protests since 2017, from the gilets jaunes riots in a rich country like France to demonstrations against strongmen in poor countries such as Sudan and Bolivia. About 20 of these uprisings toppled leaders, while several were suppressed by brutal crackdowns and many others went back to simmering until the next outbreak."
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Post by Admin on Apr 12, 2020 8:21:31 GMT -7
Truckers Delivering Essential Goods Struggle to Find Bathrooms, Rest Stops Breitbart News reports:
"The coronavirus is adding stress to truckers delivering essential goods throughout the U.S. as they struggle to find bathrooms and rest stops to grab a bite to eat and take a nap.
“It’s been especially hard if you can’t find a place to park,” Angie Baum, who drives with her husband, Larry, told KTVI. “A lot of the truck stops are limiting the number of trucks that come in.”
The Baums, who hail from Belleville, Illinois, chronicle their journey as married truck drivers on a Facebook page called “Married 2 The Road.”
“We’re out on the road a lot more,” Angie said. “We’re out about six days a week right now. We’re home for usually about a day, day and a half.”
Many truck stops are closed to anything except filling up for fuel, and signs hanging from locked doors say that “no coffee or water” or “no bathrooms” are available.
“A cup of coffee keeps me energized, and taking a shower makes me feel like a human out here instead of like a dog,” said Jim Allison of Ironton, Missouri, as he was driving out of Chicago.
Some people have stepped up to the plate to feed these truckers, like these volunteers in Danville, Virginia, who offered free food to truck drivers:"
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Post by Admin on Apr 12, 2020 8:25:17 GMT -7
It’s ‘People, People, People’ as Lines Stretch Across America The NY Times reports:
"Standing in line used to be an American pastime, whether it was lining up for Broadway shows, camping outside movie theaters before a Star Wars premiere or shivering outside big-box stores to be the first inside on Black Friday.
The coronavirus has changed all that. Now, millions of people across the country are risking their health to wait in tense, sometimes desperate, new lines for basic needs as the economic toll of the virus grips the country.
In cars and on foot, they are snapping on masks and waiting for hours to stock up on groceries, file for unemployment assistance, cast their ballots and pick up boxes of donated food. The lines stretch around blocks and clog two-lane highways."
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Post by Admin on Apr 12, 2020 8:30:10 GMT -7
Strong Arm Governor Whitmer order bans 'travel between residences,' with a few exceptions.
Order violates "Freedom of Assembly" Clause in the U.S. Constitution The Detroit Free Press reports:
"After Friday, Michigan residents will no longer be able to jump in the car — or cross the street — to visit friends and relatives inside the state, or to go to the cottage Up North, with limited exceptions.
That is one of the major changes in Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's "stay home" order, issued Thursday, which also extends the expiration of the order to May 1.
Until now, travel between two Michigan residences has been permitted.
Beginning Saturday morning, that will end, except for purposes such as caring for a relative, an elderly friend, or a pet, visiting a nursing home or similar facility, attending a funeral with no more than 10 people, or complying with a court order related to child custody.
“All public and private gatherings of any size are prohibited," Whitmer said at a news conference. "People can still leave the house for outdoor activities," and outdoor "recreational activities are still permitted as long as they’re taking place outside of six feet from anyone else.”
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Post by Admin on Apr 12, 2020 8:36:51 GMT -7
Rural Montana grocery stores facing supply chain difficulties KTVH reports:
"LINCOLN — At D&D Foodtown, a grocery store in Lincoln, some of the aisles still looked fairly full Friday afternoon. However, there were some obvious gaps.
“I actually got some toilet paper in Lincoln yesterday; there’s still some on the shelves today,” said owner Ron Arambarri. “Soups are a tough deal. Flour, bread – anything cheap, Maruchan noodles, things that people just need to get by for a quick dinner – they’re gone. People are coming in buying them as soon as they come off the truck.”
Since the start of the coronavirus emergency, grocery stores around Montana have faced challenges in keeping those types of items on their shelves. Smaller, independently-owned stores haven’t been immune.
Arambarri owns stores in Choteau, Fairfield and Stanford as well as Lincoln. He says it has been hard for the last three weeks to keep the most sought-after goods in stock."
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Post by Admin on Apr 12, 2020 8:50:38 GMT -7
FDA commissioner says US is 'very close to the peak' of coronavirus pandemic Fox News reports:
"Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn said Sunday that he believes that the United States is “very close to the peak” of the coronavirus pandemic, but cautioned that given the fast-moving nature of the contagion “we really have to take this day by day."
Hahn said that the models showing the apex of the country’s death rate on Sunday looked accurate, but managing the outbreak needs a “data-driven approach” and that officials need to deal with the crisis “day by day as the data come in.”
"The models do show that we are very close to the peak. So I think that information is accurate," Hahn said during an interview on ABC’s “This Week.” "This has been a really fast-moving outbreak, so we really have to take this day by day."
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Post by Admin on Apr 12, 2020 8:52:55 GMT -7
Fauci expresses 'cautious optimism,' says return to normal life could gradually begin 'next month' Fox News reports:
"Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, pointed to a glimmer of hope that came from a dark week where coronavirus death counts hit record highs, claiming that the numbers may hint at a promising future.
Fauci said that while the numbers of those who succumbed to COVID-19 rose drastically in recent days -- the U.S. hit 2,000 deaths and New York had its highest number of casualties in a single day -- new hospital cases were on the decline.
“At the same time that a place like the New York metropolitan area had a really terrible, terrible week of suffering and death, nonetheless the indications of that part of this machine that drives this outbreak is starting to level off," Fauci told CNN's "State of the Union."
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