GENEVA — The head of the World Health Organization’s Europe office says a trend of decline in the rate of increase in new coronavirus cases does not mean it’s time to relax measures aimed to stop its spread.
GENEVA — The head of the World Health Organization’s Europe office says a trend of decline in the rate of increase in new coronavirus cases does not mean it’s time to relax measures aimed to stop its spread.
The WHO obviously didn’t consult Dr. Cadet Toadglans mit der Bone Spurs on this. That’s why he wants to defund them.
Hell, they probably didn’t even consider his April Easter soon-to-be trademarked miracle before issuing this warning.
Is it me or is she sounding more and more like a Trump toady every day?
And for fucks sake, what is it with the ridiculously expensive scarves all the time?
White House coronavirus official says they’re investigating when social distancing can be relaxed
From CNN’s Gisela Crespo
Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, speaks about the coronavirus at the White House, Tuesday, April 7. Alex Brandon/AP
Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, said officials are looking at areas in the United States where mitigation efforts seem to be working to determine if the social distancing guidelines currently in place could be relaxed at the end of April.
“We’re doing a series of clear investigations of what happened in Washington and L.A. and what does that mean and how you keep the number of cases down,” Birx said today during an appearance on ABC’s "Good Morning America.”
Birx also said officials expect to roll out an antibody test in the next 10 to 14 days “so we can really tell how many Americans were asymptomatic and infected.”
“This makes a big difference in really understanding who can go back to work and how they can go back to work, so all of those pieces need to come together over the next couple of weeks,” Birx told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.
She’s got the fever — Fashion Fever!
It’s to hide the shock collar that Q-Tip controls in the event she starts ever telling the truth…
With US death toll at 12,911…Covidiot-IMPeetus wants to reopen US Economy very soon and for Easter Service…an Easter Social Distancing Exemption…(you know like his favorite = tax exemptions)
Has WHO heard about this hence the warning?
Has to be April. He said April, the beginning of the month to be exact, but now he’s saying he just said April. Sometime. Maybe end of the month – which means mission accomplished has to be claimed before May. The Narcissist can never be wrong.
Same with hydroxychloroquin. Narcissist can’t be wrong about that either.
Everyone knows he should have ask Hannity!
So that 400K number reported means 4-8 million likely actual cases. At a weekly doubling rate we have until about the beginning of July until the whole world has it. (Yeah, sigmoid curves, social distancing blah blah. But those last few squares on the chessboard are a doozy.)
A warning that will not be heard or listened to by anyone in authority in the current administration…with apologies to Doctors Birx and Fauci. Sad to say, but I’m beginning to think those ‘experts’ are there as window dressing. After all, they’re not social scientists or an in-law.
Mother fucker…We can’t ease stay at home rules until we actually have aggressive testing!!! I can’t believe she said we could relax guidelines at the end of April.
ETTD
I wouldn’t sweat it (figuratively). The virus doesn’t listen to bluster, unsubstantiated cures, deadlines based on insufficient data, and the like. It just does its thing. It is Trump’s Waterloo, no doubt about it.
Does this warning apply to China which released Wuhan from lockdown today?
I have heard the projection of 60-70% of us catching it. Will that turn out? I have no way of knowing. About 25% of US population got the 1918 flu. Death rate 20% or so.
In what is absolute Trump comedy gold at today’s Trump rally in the White House press room Trump announced that he was going to put a block on funding of the WHO. A few minutes later a reporter ask if he really thought it was a good idea to block funding of the World Health Organization during a pandemic. He disputed he said he was going to put a block on funding. Another reporter mumbled “yes you did.”
Either 60-70% get it or we find a vaccine. The 1918 pandemic killed as many as 100,000,000 world wide or about 5% of the world’s population. More than died in WWI. The US’s numbers were about 675,000 dead with a high level of infection. What made the Spanish flu so bad is it hit young adults very, very hard. The Spanish flu didn’t kill as many people as it could have because it is thought to have mutated again to a less deadly strain. Over time an infectious disease will evolve into something less deadly to the host organism because of simple natural selection. The strain that doesn’t kill the host wins.
The strain that doesn’t kill the host before transmission.
(Well, yeah, eventually you run out of hosts, but viral evolution only sorta takes a long term view.)
