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US has overtaken China with the most known cases of Covid-19
US - 81,943
China - 81,285
Italy - 80,589
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Harold and Maude scene: Glorious Birds
I think this is such a great clip to draw inspiration from during this uncertain time. If you watch carefully you will see the numbers on Maude's arm indicating she survived the Holocaust. Her talking about Dreyfus being in jail on Devil's Island seeing the "glorious birds" seems to metaphorically parallel her time in the Holocaust. Even in the most horrific circumstances she found beauty and meaning in the world around her. Her mind was still free to see beauty just like the birds are free to fly. That was her lesson to the world.
There are still so many glorious birds to look for each day as we make our way through the uncertainty.
Roubini on Coronavirus: 'This idea we're going to restart everything soon ... is totally nuts'
What This Chart Actually Means for COVID-19
This website models different outcomes for Covid-19 in each state
Click on your state on the map.
https://covidactnow.org/
Tough Measures to Stem the Coronavirus Outbreak Could Be in Place for 18 Months, Scientists Say
BY CIARA NUGENT MARCH 17, 2020 TIME
The U.K. government ramped up its response to COVID-19 Monday, asking citizens to cut all unnecessary contact with other people, after a British research team warned its earlier strategy would lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths. But those researchers also gave a troubling warning for countries around the world implementing lockdown measures: in order to be effective, they would need to last 12 to 18 months.
On Monday evening, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced what many saw as an abrupt shift in his governments strategy for combating the new coronavirus. Where before authorities told Brits to continue living more or less as normal and to self-isolate for a week if they displayed symptoms, the entire population is now asked to stop seeing friends and family, avoid public spaces like pubs and restaurants, and self-isolate for 14 days if anyone in their home has a cough or a fever. A member of the White House task force also cited modeling by British researchers, apparently the Imperial report, as the U.S. announced a strengthening of its own social distancing rules on Monday.
Though the measures stop short of the obligatory quarantine imposed in Italy, France and Spain, Johnsons announcement brought the U.K. closer in line with the international coronavirus response after a week in which the country seemed to be opting for a unique strategy. On Friday, the governments chief scientific adviser said that by not immediately introducing restrictions on travel and socializing, the virus would be allowed to circulate among healthier members of the population; its impact would be reduced by isolating those with symptoms, allowing the British population to develop some herd immunity. That sparked a backlash from some immunologists and epidemiologists, who argued the strategy would have severe consequences.
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Those concerns were born out in new modeling on different social distancing approaches in both the U.K. and the U.S., published Monday by Londons Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team, which advises the British government. In both countries, the scientists found that the kinds of limited social distancing that the U.K. had been implementing a mitigation approach would exceed health care systems maximum capacities many times over. In the U.K., roughly 250,000 people would die from the virus. In the U.S., the figure would be between 1.1 and 1.2 million.
More: https://time.com/5804555/coronavirus-lockdown-uk/?fbclid=IwAR3NFfRUO-bnnAHbsPCh3cTr46UaSsfsRg2Fp607I0ECeLU7ErJWLcXWR5U
Could Trump delay November election? Not without inviting 'President Pelosi'
WASHINGTON Voters are unnerved. Confusion is growing throughout the country as the coronavirus outbreak moves states to postpone primaries and change voting procedures in the midst of a presidential election year. It is all leading to a lot of speculation sometimes uninformed about what could happen in November if this virus is still spreading.
Are there any guarantees the election will actually happen if congregating in public places, like polling stations, is still a risk come fall? Can voters be confident President Donald Trump cant exploit this crisis to avoid facing them if he fears defeat?
The short answer is yes. While government officials have the authority to reschedule voting for the parties primaries, that flexibility does not exist for the general election. It is all but certain to happen as planned. The question is whether states reeling from the pandemic will be prepared to accommodate everyone who wants to cast ballots.
More: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/could-trump-delay-november-election-not-without-inviting-president-pelosi/ar-BB11kK5a?ocid=sf2
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