Important, if depressing, summary:
Two months into the U.S. fight against the most severe pandemic to arise in the age of globalization, neither the health nor the economic war has been won. What did eight weeks and $3 trillion buy the U.S. in the fight against coronavirus? https://t.co/mUa008xQxT by @hpschneider pic.twitter.com/kYUyWFiR9b
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 18, 2020
Daily #COVID19 reports from @WHO are getting increasingly granular and detailed. This atlas depicts new #coronavirus cases — note the enormous difference between the USA & China.https://t.co/uOic2DcxBK pic.twitter.com/8UtCGCAiLf
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) May 17, 2020
U.S. CDC reports 1,467,065 coronavirus cases, 88,709 deaths https://t.co/jfDVoXzyEy pic.twitter.com/oL3s0n6319
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 18, 2020
In a carefully worded draft which does not single out China, the countries back Australia's calls for an “impartial, independent“ probe into the response to COVID-19 and its origin including how it spread from animals to humans. https://t.co/0Kz34U9pht
— The New Daily (@TheNewDailyAu) May 17, 2020
How are countries recovering?
1) Well: Germany, S Korea…Iran facing big second wave.
2) Slow: Italy, Spain and much slower France
3) Yet to show overall recovery: US, UK, Russia, Brazil and Russia…because their ACTIVE cases are still growing. pic.twitter.com/O6o0EGo0Ko— Prof Shamika Ravi (@ShamikaRavi) May 18, 2020
Restaurants, churches will reopen in Italy as part of a fresh wave of lockdown easing in Europe, but rising #coronavirus death tolls in Brazil, South Africa and other parts of the world show the worst is still to come in many countries https://t.co/pyawuoqzqD pic.twitter.com/YpXOnajYCZ
— AFP news agency (@AFP) May 18, 2020
India extends coronavirus lockdown by two weeks https://t.co/p28tZjyuTH
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) May 17, 2020
Japan is in a technical recession, and vulnerable to repercussions from the coronavirus pandemic given its dependence on trade with China — where the pandemic began — and the U.S., which has been hit hardest. https://t.co/byiden2pKy
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 18, 2020
#BREAKING Russia confirmed 8,926 new coronavirus infections Monday, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 290,678https://t.co/ZvFCqH8T4X
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) May 18, 2020
The Minister of Healthcare of Dagestan, Russia, said there are 700 deaths (including 40 health workers) attributed to "non-hospitalization pneumonia." The official COVID death count in Dagestan is 27.
"Non-hospitalization pneumonia" is how Russia fudges COVID numbers.— Slava Malamud (@SlavaMalamud) May 17, 2020
Coronavirus: European countries set to further ease lockdowns https://t.co/5RnKugk8IM
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) May 17, 2020
Stark warnings from two European leaders: The world has to adapt to living with this coronavirus because a vaccine won't be coming soon enough to save us. https://t.co/LaWM9lRjhg
— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) May 17, 2020
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