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President Trump outlines National Guard activations for New York, California and Washington
From CNN’s Jason Hoffman

President Donald Trump announced Sunday he has activated the National Guard in New York, California and Washington, the state’s hardest hit by the coronavirus outbreak.

Trump has already approved disaster declarations for New York and Washington and said the declaration for California should be approved soon.

The president announced that the missions will be federally funded but the governors of all three states “will be in command.”

President Trump said he has instructed the Federal Emergency Management Agency to supply:

Four federal medical stations with 1,000 beds for New York
Eight federal medical stations with 2,000 beds for California
Three federal medical stations and three smaller medical stations with 1,000 beds for Washington

Trump said the supplies should be in New York and California within the next 48 hours. He said two US Navy hospital ships will be activated, one on the West Coast and one on the East Coast.

After some discussion, the USNS Mercy will be sent to Los Angeles and not Washington state. The USNS Comfort is on the East Coast and will likely be sent to New York.

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I like this, perfume is better than breweries?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/as-coronavirus-surges-a-frantic-europe-scrambles-for-hospital-beds-ventilators-supplies/ar-BB11xWLG?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout

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@MWolf wrote
“Unless you are critically ill, behave as though you have COVID 19, and if you don’t think that you have it, behave as though everybody else has it.”
^ THIS!!!

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Kentucky isn’t calling it a stay-at-home, but that is how Kentucky.com describes it:

“Combined with other forced closures in the past week, the totality of Beshear’s actions equate to what many other governor’s have called a “stay-at-home” order, but Beshear has christened it a “healthy at home” initiative.”

Kentucky - 4.5 million – effective 8 p.m. Monday

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Clinical trial launched

A European clinical trial involving some 3,200 people has been launched to test four possible experimental coronavirus treatments, French public health research body Inserm has said.

Participants will have been hospitalised with coronavirus and are expected to be drawn from Belgium, the UK, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain and the Netherlands. (Guardian)

Launch of a European clinical trial against COVID-19
PRESS RELEASE | 22 MAR 2020 - 13H00 | BY INSERM PRESS OFFICE
IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION, INFECTIOLOGY AND MICROBIOLOGY

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A European clinical trial to evaluate four experimental treatments for COVID-19 starts today. Coordinated by Inserm as part of the Reacting consortium, this trial will include at least 800 French patients with severe forms of COVID-19.

A clinical trial, called Discovery and coordinated by Inserm as part of the Reacting consortium, starts today in France to test four experimental treatments against COVID-19. This is a European project, the French part of which is financed by the Ministries of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI) and Health and Solidarity (MSS). The European part is supported at least by COMBACTE, PREPARE and RECOVER. It is led by Florence Ader, infectiologist in the Infectious and Tropical Diseases Department of the Croix-Rousse Hospital of Lyon University Hospital and researcher at the CIRI International Research Centre in Infectiology (Inserm/CNRS / Claude Bernard University Lyon 1).

The objective is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of four experimental therapeutic strategies which, in light of latest scientific information, might be effective against COVID-19.

“We analysed data from the scientific literature on SARS and MERS coronaviruses and the first publications on SARS-COV2 from China in order to come up with a list of antiviral molecules to be tested: remdesivir, lopinavir and ritonavir in combination, the latter being administered with or without interferon beta and hydroxychloroquine. The list of these potential drugs is also based on the subset of experimental treatments classified as top priorities by the World Health Organization (WHO).

The great strength of this trial is its “adaptive” nature. This means that ineffective experimental treatments can very quickly be dropped and replaced by other molecules that emerge from research efforts. We will therefore be able to make changes in real time, in line with the most recent scientific data, in order to find the best treatment for our patients,” explains Florence Ader.

It is planned to include 3200 European patients from Belgium, France, Germany Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. In France, at least 800 hospitalized COVID-19 patients will be recruited in conventional medicine departments or in intensive care. “Five French hospitals will initially participate (Paris – Hôpital Bichat-AP-HP, Lille, Nantes, Strasbourg, Lyon) and then we will open other centres to reach at least 20 participating establishments. Our strategy of opening centres will follow the epidemiological situation of the epidemic with a priority for opening new sites in hospitals under high pressure”. Recruitment starts today.

“This trial is designed to be pragmatic and adaptive. Its aim is to analyze the efficacy and safety of treatment options for patients within a limited time frame. It is a resolutely proactive approach to develop tools against the disease,” she concludes.

This trial will also complement the data that will be collected as part of another international clinical trial that will soon begin under the auspices of the World Health Organization, called Solidarity.

For more information:

The DISCOVERY trial includes five treatment modalities:

standard of care
standard of care plus remdesivir
standard of care plus lopinavir and ritonavir,
standard of care plus lopinavir, ritonavir and interferon beta
standard of care plus hydroxy-chloroquine.
Allocation of patients to the various treatment modalities will be randomized, i.e. by random draw, but patients and physicians will know which treatment is used (this is called an open trial). The analysis of treatment efficacy and safety will be evaluated 15 days after inclusion of each patient.

https://presse.inserm.fr/en/launch-of-a-european-clinical-trial-against-covid-19/38737/

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I am glad to see President Trump moving on these military and federal hospitals. Hopefully they can be up and running shortly.

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UK residents have been told that “essential travel” does not include visits to second homes, camp sites, caravan parks, whether for isolation purposes or holidays and that they should remain in their primary residence.

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport updated its guidance to avoid non-essential travel in the UK, saying: “This guidance is for people planning to visit second homes or holiday premises during the coronavirus pandemic.

“Essential travel does not include visits to second homes, camp sites, caravan parks or similar, whether for isolation purposes or holidays. People should remain in their primary residence. Not taking these steps puts additional pressure on communities and services that are already at risk.”

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During the coronavirus pandemic, people should avoid travelling unless it is essential. This means you should avoid visiting holiday or second homes.

March 22, 2020
The update follows a wave of people travelling to rural and remote areas to self-isolate. The trend has been condemned by Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who underlined that it meant “extra pressure on essential services and on health services that are already more distant from people”. Similarly, Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price has said self-isolaters should be prohibited from travelling to rural parts of Wales during the crisis.

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“There are now five Republican senators in self-quarantine or isolation – Sens. Rand Paul (who has tested positive for coronavirus), Mike Lee, Mitt Romney, Cory Gardner and Rick Scott.
That means that the 53-47 GOP majority is now reduced to 48-47. A stimulus bill will need 60 votes to pass in the Senate, meaning it will have to have substantial bipartisan support to get to 60.”

The senate will figure out a way for them to vote remotely.

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Agreed. When you start knowing people personally who died, or when you start seeing your local convention center filled to the brim with beds full of sick people and not enough medical staff, you’ll likely stay in on your own.

Week 2 1/2 of staying inside here, and I assume every surface I touch outside of my apartment is covered in virus. Because it probably is. That’ll do it for me.

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Why is this gym even open in the first place! This is outrageous!

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Interesting that the Congress doesn’t seem as concerned about their personal safety with the coronavirus as much as many on here seem to be. Gym open? You’d think they have more information than the average person posting on here, right?

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Billions and billions! My money, your money! This is getting absurd. Fight this, worry about the money later…

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It will be interesting to see if they do.

For these types of packages, they normally shoot for a high number of votes, which could make their votes irrelevant. But there is no love lost between McConnell and Paul, my two senators, so it could be a tactic to silence Paul.

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The problem is, if the company goes out of business, or is forced to permanently downsize due to lack of others buying its products or services, the jobs are lost permanently, even if the company originally told the laid off employees that it will rehire them when there is work to do.

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It occurs to me that it is a shame that so many people in the United States have lost any feelings of religiosity. In times of incredible stress and panic, which as a species human beings have faced innumerable times, it must have been comforting and unifying to have a shared belief. Whether it is rational or not, the psychological benefits of such a shared belief should be pretty obvious.

Some shared culture around morality would be helpful too. You can easily discern all the invocations to morality in so many posts above (who is being “selfish”) while people of good faith can and do have very different conceptions of how to act. After literally decades of constant attacks on traditional notions of morality, there is little shared culture anymore. Simply put, half the country is not interested in being lectured on morality by the other half.

People should go back and listen to some of the speeches of FDR during the Depression and WW2. Constant invocation of God. None of that is possible today. I think that is a shame, and highlights one of the many fault lines that are going to make long term sacrifice so difficult in the current crisis (really, it will be impossible).

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Because it was dang near impossible to follow along via the press conference. Someone isn’t good at reading numbers aloud:

President Trump outlines aid to three major US coronavirus hot spots
From Nicky Robertson

President Donald Trump outlined on Sunday the aid being sent to New York, Washington and California, the three major hot spots of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States.

He announced federal medical stations that will be delivered within the next 48 hours:

Four large federal medical stations with 1,000 beds to New York
Eight large federal medical stations with 2,000 beds to California
Three large and four small federal medical stations with 1,000 beds total to Washington
Trump outlined the specific number of items being sent to New York and Washington.

Supplies sent to New York as of March 19:

186,416 N95 respirators
444,000 O-78 surgical masks
84,560 face shields
68,944 surgical masks
352 coveralls
245,486 gloves

Supplies sent to Washington as of “about 3 days ago:”

369,000 N-95 respirators
575,406 surgical masks
63,788 face shields
107,850 surgical gowns
240,376 gloves

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My condolences. :lol:

How come you’re not KYBro?

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In my opinion car companies gearing up to make ventilators is just propaganda theater that’s normal in ‘war time’ situations to rally the population.

Ventilators are needed 0-12 months out. Chinese factories that actually know how to make the medical grade equipment can and will provide them.

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KY, “Ohio’s bro” (and a reference to my gender), is my home state. Have also lived in Ohio, and still have many family and friends there.

And to think, just a short while ago, we had not a care in the world, and threads to talk about such. ?

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It’s not just people putting up. They are also losing jobs left and right. Bullard is saying 30% unemployment if this continues.