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Global coronavirus deaths exceed quarter of a million: Reuters tally https://t.co/iKJR7fNvwI pic.twitter.com/tEcIBBEeDq
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 5, 2020
For the latest developments around the coronavirus outbreak, follow @Reuters Liveblog https://t.co/cEBwkoEQ5P pic.twitter.com/MSkVCuhFHm
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 5, 2020
A substantial majority of people around the world want their governments to prioritise saving lives over moves to restart economies being hammered by measures aimed at halting the spread of the new coronavirus: global survey https://t.co/GT0LF709BT pic.twitter.com/GDpMHMzP9i
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 5, 2020
Researchers in Paris say analysis of samples from 2 individuals hospitalized on Dec 2, 2019 shows they had #COVID19. Neither had traveled outside of France recently, & never to China. This pushes back the earliest non-Chinese case by well over a month.https://t.co/RT05BNb4yU
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) May 4, 2020
Speaking truth to power. “Based on the scientific evidence, he also doesn’t entertain an alternate theory—that someone found the coronavirus in the wild, brought it to a lab, and then it accidentally escaped.” https://t.co/0pHm0zd9ta
— Peter Daszak (@PeterDaszak) May 5, 2020
Internal Chinese report warns that Beijing faces a rising wave of hostility in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. Read the @Reuters exclusive: https://t.co/b5GSjmYtrH pic.twitter.com/LHCfsyshxY
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 5, 2020
More than a thousand Americans died EVERY DAY IN APRIL, totaling 53,000 deaths and marking the WORST single MONTH for public health in the nation's HISTORY ??
"This is on the level of the 1918 pandemic. It’s that bad. And it’s just beginning."https://t.co/WE1Mfbjsrc— Syzygus (@psalm7115) May 4, 2020
4% of the world’s population; 28% of the world’s Coronavirus deaths. What a mismanaged disaster. What a historic failure of government. Heartbreaking and enraging. #MAGA2020
— Dave Zirin (@EdgeofSports) May 3, 2020
the same people who are saying "it's just a new york problem!" are working hard to ignore the trends in the rest of the country https://t.co/3NA9xGmytk
— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) May 5, 2020
Extracts from a long, meaty thread:
There's a lot to say about newly released projections for #COVID19 in the USA. I'll be talking about it on @NewsHour tonight. But let's take a look at some of the stark, terrible new data and forecasts.
First, new infection rates will soar in May/June, hitting 3K/day.
MORE pic.twitter.com/ztkEbJAJEW— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) May 4, 2020
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While the underlying data & assumptions used by the groups aren't yet public, it seems that prior reckonings grossly underest'ed the scale of focused outbreaks in meatpacking, assisted living centers, prisons, & the likelihood of community #COVID19 spread frm those facilities.— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) May 4, 2020
Your regular reminder that even the strictest "lockdown" in the US right now looks like the Von Trapps prancing around the Alps compared to much of Europe. To keep in mind as US death numbers refuse to decline. https://t.co/93beIkiMcG
— Mig Greengard (@chessninja) May 4, 2020
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