As data from New York begins to show a flattening of the growth curve the stock markets surge. Fox News reports: “The number of new cases over the weekend in New York City, the U.S.’s epicenter for the virus, rose by 30.4 percent versus last week, down from a 46.1 percent jump the week prior … The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up more than 1,100 points, or 5.5 percent, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite were higher by 5.4 percent and 5.3 percent, respectively.”
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Dr. Anthony Fauci told a briefing at the White House that the data coming out of New York is beginning to show signs of a slowing of the spread of the virus.
“Everybody who knows me knows that I am very conservative about making projections, but those are the kind of good signs that you look for,” Fauci said, adding, “That’s the first thing you see when you start to see the turnaround.”
However Dr. Fauci warned the public that caution must continue and that the outbreak was still not over.
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The British PM Boris Johnson was admitted to hospital yesterday with persistent symptoms of Covid-19. This evening it has been announced he has been moved to intensive care.
A statement from No. 10 Downing Street said, :
“The prime minister has been under the care of doctors at St Thomas’ Hospital, in London, after being admitted with persistent symptoms of coronavirus.
“Over the course of [Monday] afternoon, the condition of the prime minister has worsened and, on the advice of his medical team, he has been moved to the intensive care unit at the hospital.”
It continued: “The PM is receiving excellent care, and thanks all NHS staff for their hard work and dedication.”
The Prime Minister’s pregnant finance is also suffering mild symptoms of the disease.
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Michael Atkinson, the Intelligence Community Inspector General, will leave his post in 30 days after being fired by the President. Atkinson shared the whistleblowers complaint with Congress which led to the impeachment of Trump.
The Daily Wire reports:
Atkinson determined a vague whistleblower complaint about Trump making a “promise” to a world leader was of “urgent concern” and sent the complaint to congress. Then-Acting Direct of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire, however, said he was not required by law to turn the complaint over to congressional Democrats, who were looking for anything they could use to impeach Trump.
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CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin has tested positive for Covid-19. She made the announcement via instagram.
“I’ve tested positive for coronavirus. I am OKAY. It came on suddenly yesterday afternoon,” Brooke wrote.
Brooke’s colleague Chris Cuomo also tested positive.
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Gov. Baker has announced a state wide tracking program for Covid-19 patients. It will involve a collaboration between the state and the non-profit Partners In Health.
“There is tracing happening now, but this program that we’re talking about today is a much more robust, targeted approach that we have, to be highly effective at slowing the spread of this highly infectious disease,” Baker said in a news conference. “It’s going to be a big part of our ongoing effort to manage and fight our way through COVID-19.”
It is hoped by tracing patients’ recent behaviour they will be able to track potential contacts and thus halt the spread of the disease.
“The call center will get contact information for as many people as possible, that they have come in contact with, and potentially exposed,” Baker said. “People will be contacted and informed, so that they can stay healthy, isolate when appropriate, and prevent further spread.”
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China has this week been appointed to the U.N. Human Rights Council. The appointment means that China will be part of the body that decides who investigates abuses in human rights.
This is despite a catalogue of human rights abuses by the Chinese authorities. And at a time when the Chinese is showing itself to be more authoritarian.
Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, which monitors the UN Human Rights Council and has championed the rights of victims in China, stated, “Allowing China’s oppressive and inhumane regime to choose the world investigators on freedom of speech, arbitrary detention and enforced disappearances is like making a pyromaniac into the town fire chief. It’s absurd and immoral for the UN to allow China’s oppressive government a key role in selecting officials who shape international human rights standards and report on violations worldwide.”
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Experts in infectious disease control are using location data from Facebook users to help track the Covid 19 outbreak.
Facebook and the universities using the data have dealt with privacy concerns by aggregating the data several times over.
The studies hope to show the success of policies to get people to stay home.
The data can also show “if at first people stop moving but then begin to travel further once fatigue sets in,” said Caroline Buckee, an epidemiologist at Harvard’s School of Public Health who is among those leading the network.
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George Soros and groups supported by him are pushing for more mail-in voting the coming elections. Democrats tied to have mail in voting promoted in their Coronavirus Bill. However this, and other proposals were rejected by the President.
“The things they had in there were crazy,” Trump said. “They had things – levels of voting that, if you ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.”
Republicans have long rejected the moved to more mail in voting, as it is harder to authenticate making it more susceptible to voter fraud.
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Rev. Franklin Graham has been attacked by LGBT groups in New York. The evangelist’s organisation Samaritan’s Purse has organised teams of Christian volunteers to help with Coronavirus relief work in the city.
Samaritan’s Purse has set up a 68 bed field hospital in Central Park staffed by professional medical staff to help with the Covid-19 outbreak.
However the LGBT campaign “No Time for Nonsense” has accused the organisation of putting lives at risk by recruiting medial staff who believe in a biblical view of marriage.
The group have said that Graham’s organisation would turn LGBT individuals away who are suffering from the virus. However Franklin Graham has responded to these attacks by saying:
“We do not make distinctions about an individual’s religion, race, sexual orientation, or economic status. We certainly do not discriminate, and we have a decades-long track record that confirms just that,” Graham stated.
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The Coronavirus curve in Italy appears to finally be flattening. The country went into lockdown on March 9th and has battled to gain control of the outbreak. However the data is finally showing a flattening of the growth curve.
However officials do not believe Italy has reached its peak. Lockdown is due to end April 13th, but the gradual return to normality is not expected until May 16th.
We expect that we could reach the peak these coming days. We are not in a descending phase, but the growth is slowing down.” said Silvio Brusaferro, president of the National Institute of Health.
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Some mainstream media news networks have decided to stop airing the President’s daily Coronavirus briefings.
CNN and MSNBC have made the decision to stop airing the briefings, as they felt they sounded too much like Trump campaign rallies.
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Shortly after it became clear Coronavirus was spreading between nations in February, Google issued a ban on most non-governmental advertising about Covid-19.
This has caused anger from democrats as they said it stopped them from running ads criticising President Trump’s response to the crisis.
Google are now revisiting this ban, and are expected to shortly issue more guidelines on the issue.
“We’re in the middle of the defining event of this election and potentially a generation,” said Mark Jablonowski, the chief technology officer and managing partner of DSPolitical, a top digital ad firm that works with Democratic campaigns and progressive causes.
“To not allow political candidates to mention or discuss COVID-19 is something that has the potential to dramatically bolster Trump’s and Republicans’ chances of reelection,” he said.
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