There needs to be a coordinated effort and leadership- someone needs to have the national stockpile ready - not just 1% of what is needed, for example - and that is lacking big time.
US Health and Human Services warns employees of malware in fake coronavirus map
From CNN
US Health and Human Services employees were warned yesterday of malware in a fake coronavirus mapping website, an HHS employee not authorized to speak on the record told CNN.
“A malicious website pretending to be a live map for coronavirus Covid-19 global cases by Johns Hopkins University is circulating on the Internet waiting for unwitting Internet users to visit the website,” an email to employees read.
The warning came in a department-wide correspondence that detailed the malware as an "information stealing program which can exfiltrate a variety of sense of data,” adding that anyone searching for coronavirus information on the internet could unwittingly click on the fake map.
“Our cybersecurity team is working with numerous stakeholders to ensure this map is taken offline,” the email read.
Late on Wednesday evening, US President Donald Trump announced in an address from the Oval Office that he was introducing a travel ban from Europe – not including the UK or non-Schengen Travel Area states – to the US.
The United States did not coordinate on the sweeping restriction aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus with European officials before Trump announced it, a European diplomat told Reuters.
The dollar slid on Thursday, after President Donald Trump disappointed markets with a coronavirus plan light on details, Reuters reports.
The greenback dropped 1% to 103.32 yen, fell as much as 0.6% to $1.1333 against the euro and lost 0.6% to the safe-haven Swiss franc, while stocks plunged.
Trump announced on Wednesday a ban on travellers from 26 European countries entering the United States for a month.
He unveiled economic steps to counter the virus but his address from the Oval Office was light on medical measures beyond assurances that “the virus has no chance against us”.
“The market was looking for more,” said Moh Siong Sim, currency strategist at the Bank of Singapore.
“A travel ban is part of the solution, but the more important parts are still missing. They are really the public health measures: Paid sick leave, free testing, free treatment,” he said.
Futures markets reacted swiftly. They are now pricing in the US Federal Reserve moving the lower end of its benchmark funding band to zero when it meets next week, if not before.
“The deflationary shock that we had assumed would trigger a US entry into the zero-yield world is turning out to be a combo of trade war, oil price war and Covid-19 virus,” J.P. Morgan’s long-term strategists Jan Loeys and Shiny Kundu said in a note.
“(There are) close to even odds now of an official US recession this year.” (Guardian)
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