Key Trump ally expresses concern

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By: Jamie Dupree
Cox Washington Bureau
Published: March 7, 2020 2:07 PM EST

... said Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) ... "We are all worried about our families. I get lots of phone calls from family members, from friends, from citizens, they want more information so they can make a good decision," the Florida Republican added ...

As the Vice President was in Fort Lauderdale, President Trump was not far up the road at one of his golf courses ...

"We’re prepared. We are, really, very highly prepared for anything," the President told reporters ...

"He straight up lied - said everyone can get tested when, in fact, almost no one can," said Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) ...

https://www.krmg.com/blog/jamie-dupree/key-trump-ally-expresses-concerns-over-coronavirus-response/LJRpQWeVPZ78mN11jWzJoM/

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1. Cuomo declares state of emergency

March 7, 2020 | 12:34pm | Updated
By Eileen AJ Connelly

Gov. Cuomo declared a state of emergency Saturday to deal with the worsening coronavirus crisis, as the number of cases jumped to 11 in the Big Apple — including one in Queens — and 76 across New York.

Saturday’s numbers more than doubled the cases in the city, which stood at five on Friday, the governor said at a noon press conference. There were 21 new cases outside the city, from 44 the day before, he said ...

https://nypost.com/2020/03/07/cuomo-declares-state-of-emergency-as-new-york-state-coronavirus-cases-soar-to-76/

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2. Melania defends work on White House tennis pavilion

By Kate Bennett and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN
Updated 12:31 PM ET, Sat March 7, 2020

(CNN)First lady Melania Trump is defending her work on the new White House tennis pavilion after a tweet she posted was roundly criticized as tone deaf amid the coronavirus outbreak.

"I encourage everyone who chooses to be negative (and) question my work at the ⁦‪@WhiteHouse⁩ to take time and contribute something good (and) productive in their own communities," Trump tweeted Saturday.

Melania Trump has been silent on coronavirus, which has spread to 28 states, though one of the three pillars of her "Be Best" initiative is "health and well-being of children" ...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/07/politics/melania-trump-defends-tennis-pavilion-coronavirus/index.html

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3. Coronavirus Cases In Oregon Double

by OPB Staff OPB March 7, 2020 9:20 a.m. | Updated: March 7, 2020 11:26 a.m. | Portland, Ore.

UPDATE (March 7, 10:07 a.m. PT) — The number of presumptive positive cases of novel coronavirus in Oregon has more than doubled, according to the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) ...

... testing limitations may conceal how fast the virus is spreading in Oregon.

The Oregon Health Authority is currently limiting testing to patients who have severe pneumonia requiring hospitalization and to people who have had contact with confirmed coronavirus cases.

They just don’t have enough tests to check everyone. That means, until more testing happens, there’s no real way of knowing how far the disease has spread in Oregon ...

https://www.opb.org/news/article/coronavirus-oregon-cases-clark-county-washington/

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9. Thanks for posting two people

Who have it in are in my county, wish they would have said which city, really doesn’t make you want to shop.

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4. Florida reports first deaths on East Coast

MARCH 7, 2020 / 2:47 PM / CBS NEWS

... Florida health officials announced late Friday that two people who tested positive for coronavirus have died – the first deaths on the East Coast linked to the virus. The Florida Department of Health said the two people had traveled overseas, but did not say specifically where they had traveled.

Seven people in the state have tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, according to the health department.

The number of cases worldwide continues to climb. According to data compiled by Johns Hopkins, there have been more than 102,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19. More than 57,000 people have recovered, and more than 3,400 people have died ...

https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/coronavirus-outbreak-death-toll-us-infections-latest-news-updates-2020-03-07/

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5. Spanish town faces police lockdown

Sam Jones in Madrid
Sat 7 Mar 2020 11.56 EST
Last modified on Sat 7 Mar 2020 12.02 EST

Police have been deployed to lock down entire blocks of a neighbourhood in Haro, a small town in northern Spain, after dozens of cases of coronavirus were traced back to a funeral held in the nearby Basque country two weeks ago.

Spain has so far confirmed 430 cases of the virus – 60 of which originated among people who attended a funeral service in the Basque city of Vitoria-Gasteiz, according to Spain’s National Microbiology Centre.

Thirty-nine of those 60 cases are in the neighbouring La Rioja region, according the local government, with most of them concentrated in the towns of Haro and Casalarreina. About another 25 cases are reported to have been confirmed in the Basque country ...

xhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/07/spanish-town-faces-police-lockdown-to-contain-coronavirus

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6. You would think those who live at The Villages would be more concerned.

But they love Trump and they love Fox news. They're being their lives on Trump telling the truth.

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7. White House falsely claims coronavirus contained in US

By Daniel Dale, CNN
Updated 10:25 AM ET, Sat March 7, 2020

... Experts say the US has not come close to containing the coronavirus. They also say the small number of tests conducted in the United States so far has prevented the government from getting an accurate picture of how widespread the virus truly is.

"In the US it is the opposite of contained," said Harvard University epidemiology professor Marc Lipsitch, director of Harvard's Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics. "It is spreading so efficiently in so many places that it may be difficult to stop."

"In my scientific opinion and based on the available information, the situation is not contained," said Aubree Gordon, associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Michigan.

"As many states in the US report an increasing number of cases, I do not believe it would be accurate to say that COVID-19 is contained globally or in the US," said Jennifer Horney, professor and founding director of the epidemiology program at the University of Delaware ...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/07/politics/fact-check-white-house-coronavirus-contained/index.html

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8. More worried about Coronavirus numbers or coronavirus patients?

Philip Bump
March 7, 2020 at 9:08 a.m. EST

... Trump can live with patients with coronavirus staying on a cruise ship with uninfected passengers. Whether those patients or future patients can live with that decision is entirely the point.

... Trump is as — or more — concerned about the political fallout of the growing number of coronavirus cases in the United States as he is about how those cases should be handled ...

His preoccupation with that number, how many cases of coronavirus there are in the country, has been apparent since his first news conference on the subject on Feb. 26. Then, too, he focused on a number that was demonstrably too low ...

Trump has repeatedly downplayed the spread of the disease ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/07/which-is-trump-more-worried-about-coronavirus-numbers-or-coronavirus-patients/

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10. Amtrak cancels nonstop Acela service between Washington and New York

Luz Lazo
March 7, 2020 at 7:00 a.m. EST

Amtrak is canceling its Acela nonstop service between Washington and New York amid the global coronavirus outbreak that has hurt travel demand.

“We are closely monitoring the coronavirus and are taking action based on guidance from public health experts,” the company said.

The nonstop Acela service, which launched last fall, will be suspended starting Tuesday through May 26. The company cited reduced demand for train service as concerns rise about the spread of the novel coronavirus in the United States ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2020/03/07/amtrak-cancels-nonstop-acela-service-between-washington-new-york-amid-coronavirus-crisis/

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11. Posted this early this morning

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213054476

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12. South by Southwest festival cancelled

7 March 2020

One of America's most famous music festivals, South by Southwest, has been cancelled due to coronavirus fears.

Organisers of the annual event in Austin, Texas, said they had no choice but to call it off for the first time in its 34-year history ...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51778423

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13. Starbucks employee diagnosed with the coronavirus in Seattle

(CNN) A Starbucks employee in downtown Seattle tested positive for the coronavirus, leading to the store's closure for a deep cleaning, the company said ...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/07/health/washington-state-starbucks-coronavirus/index.html

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14. 16 deaths from COVID-19 in Washington

by Karina Mazhukhina & KOMO News Staff
Saturday, March 7th 2020

SEATTLE — Another death from coronavirus in King County was reported Saturday, bringing the total to 16 in Washington state. So far, at least 103 have tested positive for COVID-19 in the state.

The new death comes just a day after three people died at at EvergreenHealth Hospital, where now 12 deaths have occurred, hospital officials said. One earlier reported death occurred in a patient never hospitalized and the other was a death at Harborview last week that was later found to have been likely caused by COVID-19.

Of the 16 deaths reported, 14 are associated with Life Care Center In Kirkland.

A 67-year-old woman also tested positive for coronavirus in Kittitas County Saturday, according to the Kittitas County Public Health Department. The woman is in stable condition and is self-quarantined at home with her spouse ...

https://komonews.com/news/local/washington-reports-16-deaths-from-covid-19-as-officials-scramble-to-contain

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15. Pennsylvania sees first 2 cases

Posted at 5:51 AM

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania has confirmed its first two cases of the new coronavirus, one in Delaware County and one in Wayne County, and health officials hoped to track down people who had contact with them, Gov. Tom Wolf and state officials said Friday.

More positive tests for the virus, which causes the disease COVID-19, are expected in the coming days and weeks, state officials said.

The first two positive tests came back early Friday, and the two people are isolated in their homes, Wolf told a news conference at Pennsylvania Emergency Management Headquarters in Harrisburg. Afterward, the governor signed an emergency disaster declaration to grant state agencies more freedom to use resources to respond to the virus, the administration said ...

https://www.goerie.com/news/20200307/pennsylvania-sees-first-2-cases-of-coronavirus

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16. Coronavirus patients in MD traveled on Egyptian cruise, visited retirement community

Author: Saliqa Khan, Laura Wainman
Published: 9:27 AM EST March 6, 2020
Updated: 11:17 PM EST March 6, 2020

WASHINGTON — Three people in Maryland are confirmed to have tested positive for the coronavirus.

Gov. Larry Hogan declared a state of emergency after three Montgomery County residents tested positive for the coronavirus after traveling together on an MS A'Sara Egyptian cruise on the Nile River. Hogan said it appeared to be the same cruise ship that the World Health Organization announced had 12 workers placed in quarantine for 14 days, and is also linked to eight confirmed cases in Texas ...

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/coronavirus-update-montgomery-county-officials-to-provide-update-on-patients/65-991b6d67-c3b6-4cc6-81c7-57d351d83838

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17. Thanks for all of these! Best snapshot / collection I've seen on the virus.

We're still lacking a lot of information. Too bad we have a dysfunctional central government.

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18. I wonder why the US is getting such high death rates.

In Washington State it was as high as 33%...in a nursing home. It's 13% based on Florida figures.

I suspect it has more to do with the absolutely small number of tests that the Trump/Pence white house allows. At least we know if you die from coronavirus like symptoms they will test you.

Then there is this at the link:
"Vice President Mike Pence was visiting Florida on Saturday afternoon to meet with executives of the cruise ship industry, as the feds deal with several thousand people on a boat waiting off the coast of California, where 21 of 46 people tested were found to have the virus."

Not meeting with victims or their family. He's meeting with the poor, poor businesses who will suffer from the out of control spread of a poorly understood deadly virus. While Trump golfs and his Slovenian sex worker works on her new tennis court.

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19. US death toll at 17

By Morgan Winsor and Ella Torres
March 6, 2020, 10:55 PM

... The states reporting cases are Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin ...

There are now at least 98,192 confirmed cases of novel coronavirus in the world, with 2,873 being new cases in the past 24 hours, according to the World Health Organization ...

There are now 4,000 people in precautionary quarantine for novel coronavirus in New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced. Of those quarantines, 2,700 are in New York City ...

Switzerland reported 130 new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus on Friday, bringing the national total to 210, Swiss Federal Office of Public Health spokesperson Daniel Dauwalder told ABC News ..

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/coronavirus-live-updates-american-tourist-1st-confirmed-case/story?id=69429757