See? Under Trump the rest of the world is looking up to America again pic.twitter.com/zezOMELhf9
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) May 7, 2020
“As bad as this has been, it’s just the beginning.”
The former head of the CDC says the coronavirus pandemic could go on for "many months and possibly many years” and predicts at least 100,000 deaths in the U.S. by the end of May pic.twitter.com/5ooTEayEs9
— Bloomberg QuickTake (@QuickTake) May 9, 2020
U.S. CDC reports 1,248,040 coronavirus cases, 75,477 deaths https://t.co/ZuaohZTWDQ pic.twitter.com/RMSpVAvM64
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 9, 2020
FDA approves first at-home saliva collection test for #coronavirus. Rutgers' RUCDR Infinite Biologics received an emergency-use authorization for a test that will allow people to collect their own saliva at home & send to a lab for results https://t.co/1r5lgtXQwC pic.twitter.com/wNk3dbYyHl
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) May 8, 2020
CNN/3
Small outbreaks can be controlled, w/immediate, brief lockdowns, social distancing. But for the next few years, until global immunization is executed, governance of #COVID19 responses will be extremely challenging, & economic fallout will be excruciating: The new normal.— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) May 8, 2020
Cover story on the global race to develop a #coronavirus vaccine. Story explores messenger-RNA, DNA, recombinant vaccines and more. By @DelthiaRicks https://t.co/LEVLdJ73YT pic.twitter.com/FYzemkLWAD
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) May 9, 2020
Heartland(tm) America…
Iowa now has had more confirmed COVID cases than South Korea.
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) May 8, 2020
And a very different curve. pic.twitter.com/dtJIylZssp
— Kedron Bardwell (@KedronBardwell) May 8, 2020
Iowa population: 3 Million
South Korea population: 51 MillionPence praises Iowa's 'success story' as infections climbhttps://t.co/3DfC2PQR9s
— Denise Shearin ?? (@DeniseShearin) May 8, 2020
New York City urged to shut down 80 live animal markets amid fresh pandemic fears https://t.co/oimilyHrCr
Dozens of live animal markets are dotted across the five boroughs and many operate out of storefronts in close proximity to homes, schools and parks pic.twitter.com/EDqYe2QKbg— Svein T veitdal (@tveitdal) May 8, 2020
Fifty years ago, when I was growing up in the Bronx, we didn’t have ‘wet markets’ in our neighborhood… so some of the nice Jewish ladies on the block made weekly trips downtown to get a really fresh chicken for the big Sabbath meal. I suspect, even now, most of NYC’s ‘wet markets’ are family-run butcher shops that supply fresh-killed poultry (and possibly in season, such as for Easter, lambs/goat) to a roster of known customers. I assume similar operations exist in any city large enough to support one or more kosher (or halal) butcher shops — and let’s not forget the trendy ‘organic’ outlets doing the same for paleo eaters & nose-to-tail-cuisine devotees. But, of course, it’s extremely easy for interested parties to stigmatize such operations as filthy dens of animal abuse that exist because ‘foreigners’ (including Orthodox Jews and Chinatown residents) don’t care if they contaminate decent (white) Real Americans…
… The Department of Agriculture and Markets, which oversees smaller live animal facilities, says that live bird markets in New York are different than the wet markets of China and mainly deal in domestic poultry.
However, animal welfare campaigners and public health officials point out that risks of infectious disease still exist…
Not to argue against shutting down these operations, at least during the current emergency, but let’s not allow their existence to become another talking point for the racists & xenophobes to attack ‘those people’ (while defending the known massive hot-spot instigators like Tyson and Smithfield as ‘essential American resources’).
Union opposes reopening U.S. meat plants as more workers die https://t.co/BwPJDF41D3 pic.twitter.com/qKwMQzd7oy
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 9, 2020
Why your steak is safe despite the abattoir coronavirus clusterhttps://t.co/T5goonNrq7
— ɪᴀɴ ᴍ. ᴍᴀᴄᴋᴀʏ, ᴘʜᴅ ?????? (@MackayIM) May 7, 2020
China reports one new coronavirus case, 15 asymptomatic cases https://t.co/POvOtFJJ3h pic.twitter.com/OdXGxV4Sju
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 9, 2020
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