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You are here: Home / Healthcare / COVID-19 Coronavirus / COVID-19 Coronavirus Update: Wednesday / Thursday, June 3-4

COVID-19 Coronavirus Update: Wednesday / Thursday, June 3-4

by Anne Laurie|  June 4, 20204:51 am| 15 Comments

This post is in: COVID-19 Coronavirus, Foreign Affairs

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And let's remember that the police are increasing covid risk by:
* using tear gas
* herding demonstrators into tight spaces
* putting people in crowded jails

— Mark D. Levine (@MarkLevineNYC) June 3, 2020

A good summation of where we are and where we've been with coronavirus ~6 months into its emergence into humans. https://t.co/vV9c663zfX

— Dr. Tara C. Smith (@aetiology) June 3, 2020

So…about that pandemic that's still going on. #COVID19 patients who are currently in the ICU were not infected at BLM protests. They were infected several weeks ago, right around the time that many of these states began reopening. https://t.co/gRLE90UNKf

— Dr. Angela Rasmussen (@angie_rasmussen) June 3, 2020

The US reported +1,083 new coronavirus deaths today, bringing the total to 109,142. pic.twitter.com/qmcEko0n03

— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) June 4, 2020

National study highlights wide-ranging emotional impact of #COVID19 pandemic https://t.co/DszDG9WaGh via @medical_xpress

— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) June 3, 2020

Together we flattened the curve. We changed the course of this virus and we did it by standing together. #NYTough pic.twitter.com/Hajk2HE5aq

— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) June 3, 2020

The problem with being muzzled: The CDC waited ‘its entire existence for this moment.’ What went wrong? Denialism and buffoonery in the White House https://t.co/iq1p3uhzNf

— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) June 4, 2020

Sweden's top virus scientist now says the country could have battled the coronavirus pandemic better. Sweden avoided a lockdown but ended up with thousands more dead than its Nordic neighbors. https://t.co/HDn9qYoy2J

— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) June 3, 2020

Italy reopens its borders to boost its slammed tourism industry but many European nations think the move comes too soon for a continent where 175,000 have died in the coronavirus pandemic. https://t.co/lDvVrYv7Bd

— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) June 3, 2020

Lockdown prompts surge in Germans seeking help for alcoholismhttps://t.co/IBv7cldaVe

📸 Christof Stache pic.twitter.com/po3xbYVHVW

— AFP news agency (@AFP) June 4, 2020

Coronavirus: Would a new Irish government lift lockdown faster? https://t.co/2oOg4ZA2Aw

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) June 4, 2020

“People like me have been abandoned, left to struggle alone.” Voices from St Petersburg on the economic pain from the pandemic & on disillusionment with President Putin. Camera/edit @mattgodtv Producer @BBCWillVernon @BBCNews @BBCWorld pic.twitter.com/hdOfLtOuCw

— Steve Rosenberg (@BBCSteveR) June 4, 2020


Japan's 'mosh pit' trains spark fear of new coronavirus cases https://t.co/0N80vuZfuO pic.twitter.com/6TOG2ZlBKf

— Reuters (@Reuters) June 4, 2020

Japan's $2.2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package has come under fire from hard-hit restaurant owners for channelling funds for items like wagyu beef, melons and tourism rather than accelerating help for firms with burning cash needs https://t.co/wpJfliEfRo pic.twitter.com/kEY6s227wO

— Reuters (@Reuters) June 4, 2020

India coronavirus: Recession looms as economy reopens https://t.co/A7GrcrqiL3

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) June 3, 2020

The Taliban boasted of their readiness to fight the #coronavirus when it first reached Afghanistan, but now the insurgents are struggling to curb its spread in their strongholdshttps://t.co/KYsCmXXnKh

📸 Official figures show Afghanistan has more than 17,000 confirmed cases pic.twitter.com/5DumJhP4fV

— AFP news agency (@AFP) June 4, 2020

#UPDATE Brazil reports a record 1,349 #coronavirus deaths in a 24-hour period, as the pandemic continues to take a grim toll on Latin America's hardest-hit country.

The figure brings the total toll in Brazil to 32,548, but experts say the real numbers are probably much higher pic.twitter.com/Buo4IzM0hY

— AFP news agency (@AFP) June 4, 2020

The global race for a #coronavirus vaccine could lead to this generation’s Sputnik moment. Competition has taken on huge political dimensions that echo the jockeying for technological dominance during the Cold War https://t.co/YcsaBgMzw6

— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) June 3, 2020

The Red Cross and the UN urged countries to avoid trying to secure future immunisation jabs against the coronavirus for their populations only, calling for a true "people's vaccine" https://t.co/U43QehIcJl

— AFP news agency (@AFP) June 3, 2020

Dutch, French, Germans and Italians form #coronavirus vaccine alliance. The 4 are Europe's largest economies. They're jointly exploring initiatives & in discussion with various pharmaceutical companies, the Dutch Health Ministry announced https://t.co/dMJkWXdhrK pic.twitter.com/vJH3U8mNuL

— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) June 4, 2020

Brazil to help test the UK's Oxford #COVID19 candidate vaccine. Brazil is the worst-hit country in South America for #coronavirus infections https://t.co/jKKe88TXaD pic.twitter.com/Hwjbp5oSr5

— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) June 3, 2020

The malaria drug hydroxychloroquine failed to prevent COVID-19 in a large rigorous test of health workers. https://t.co/9NPq4rDrZ1

— AP Health & Science (@APHealthScience) June 3, 2020

Men tend to get sicker from the novel #coronavirus than women, data has shown. Now, scientists investigating how the virus does its deadly work have zeroed in on a possible reason. https://t.co/QH9DLInF7D @pulitzercenter

— News from Science (@NewsfromScience) June 3, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic may have scared other patients away from the ER: Visits dropped during the height of the U.S. outbreak.https://t.co/hVIdWibCTn

— AP Health & Science (@APHealthScience) June 3, 2020

Small, tourist-dependent towns are trying to strike a balance between safety and economic survival as they enter a make-or-break summer upended by the coronavirus. https://t.co/t5pwzyXoWP

— The Associated Press (@AP) June 3, 2020

The French, like many others emerging from stay-at-home orders, are switching to bicycles to avoid crowded buses and trains pic.twitter.com/1itgoci0rr

— Reuters (@Reuters) June 4, 2020

Tokyo 2020 officials are looking at ways to scale back next year's postponed Olympics, the city's governor said Thursday, amid reports the opening ceremony could be streamlined and spectator numbers cut https://t.co/XPXzkNCqFK @AFP @AFP_Sport pic.twitter.com/yhDS3eJi6i

— AFP Tokyo (@AFPTokyo) June 4, 2020

From thermal body scanners to crowd monitoring: Are fans willing to give up more personal privacy to attend sporting events when they return?

⁰⁰Full story by @DaveCampbellAP: https://t.co/HDlN8ldZ1V pic.twitter.com/Fw41e3l8Sg

— AP Sports (@AP_Sports) June 3, 2020

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  1. 1.

    Benw

    June 4, 2020 at 5:45 am

    I have personally seen that cops are pulling non-violent protestors facemasks down or off while arresting them. The police are the problem here.

  2. 2.

    Amir Khalid

    June 4, 2020 at 5:49 am

    Malaysia’s daily numbers: 277 new cases: 275 local infections comprising four Malaysians and 271 non-Malaysians; two imported infections. 270 of the non-Malaysians are illegal immigrants already quarantined in the Bukit Jalil detention centre in KL; the exception is from a construction-site cluster in KL. Total 8,247 cases. Other than the Bukit Jalil centre, daily new cases from local infection is down to single digits, notes DG of Health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

    28 more patients recovered, total 6,559 recovered or 79.5% of all cases. Of 1,573 active cases, six are in ICU including two on ventilators. No deaths for the 13th day in a row, total is still 115 deaths. Infection fatality rate 1.39%, case fatality rate 1.72%.

  3. 3.

    Balconesfault

    June 4, 2020 at 5:52 am

    Wednesday/Thursday?

  4. 4.

    Amir Khalid

    June 4, 2020 at 6:01 am

    @Benw:

    Why are the cops arresting non-violent protestors?

  5. 5.

    terben

    June 4, 2020 at 6:02 am

    From the Australian Dept of Health:

    ‘As at 3:00pm on 4 June 2020, a total of 7,240 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Australia, including 102 deaths and 6,664 have been reported as recovered from COVID-19.

    • Over the past week, there has been an average of 13 new cases reported each day. Of the newly reported cases, the majority have been from Victoria.
    • To date, over 1,546,000 tests have been conducted nationally. Of those tests conducted 0.5% have been positive.’

    11 new cases today with 24 recoveries. In my state, the last case has recovered. Australia has 24 cases in hospital, 4 in ICU and 2 on ventilators.

  6. 6.

    Shalimar

    June 4, 2020 at 6:03 am

    @Balconesfault: Overnight.  Shs puts it together Wednesday from news that day, schedules it to post early Thursday.   They’re all labeled this way.

  7. 7.

    Shalimar

    June 4, 2020 at 6:05 am

    @Amir Khalid: Because they can?  One thing you learn living in the country with the largest prison population in the world is that cops are very arbitrary.  Whefher you get a warning or prison for 10 years frequently depends on their mood.  And they’re not in a good mood right now.

  8. 8.

    NotMax

    June 4, 2020 at 6:06 am

    @Shalimar

    It’s since been corrected but read Tuesday/Wednesday when it first showed up.

  9. 9.

    Benw

    June 4, 2020 at 6:18 am

    @Amir Khalid: Second to Shalimar: I can’t tell you why. The protests are non-violent. But the cops in the US are firing gas, pepper balls and rubbers bullets into non-violent protests. Then pulling off the masks of the civilians they arrest. The police are the problem.

  10. 10.

    Amir Khalid

    June 4, 2020 at 6:26 am

    @Amir Khalid:

    Forgot to mention: the new cases number is the highest reported for one day since the outbreak of the pandemic. But again, 270 of the 277 are confined to one place: an illegal immigrant detention centre. Infection in the community has come down to a single-digit daily number.

  11. 11.

    Balconesfault

    June 4, 2020 at 6:41 am

    As sports return it will be interesting to see who gets off “the juice” because the risk of artificially enhanced androgen levels becomes much more immediate.

  12. 12.

    debbie

    June 4, 2020 at 7:37 am

    Monster or machine? Definitely monster. Just look at this photo from NASA’s Picture of the Day.

  13. 13.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    June 4, 2020 at 7:39 am

    @Balconesfault: Sports, hell, think of the cops.

  14. 14.

    laura

    June 4, 2020 at 9:33 am

    @Amir Khalid: because they are an affront to those who believe power and subjugation are their reason for being, because the nonviolent are easy targets for arrest and because they exploit what they view as weakness, because the real lesson is power without accountability.

  15. 15.

    LongHairedWeirdo

    June 4, 2020 at 4:28 pm

    @Amir Khalid: one way to help stop protests is to make protesting be more costly and inconvenient, so mass arrests, lots of “OMG we’re SO afraid, here’s more pepper spray!”, and rubber bullets, etc. are used in the hopes of making more and more people unwilling to protest.

    Trouble is, since people are protesting the police abusing their power, it doesn’t strike me as a sound tactic.

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