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[Rob Randall]

I think you had a George Takei attack in the middle there.

[Victoria Watcher]

I would say life is too short to worry about some “long term effects” from a flu.

your diet or the air quality or your hearing after music and equipment noise over the past 30 years is a bigger deal. but most don’t worry about that now.

where is that damned vaccine?

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 28 June 2020 - 06:14 AM.

[Mike K.]

When we decide to seek medical advice from a middle-aged random white guy living on an island in the Pacific we’ll let you know.

Ziiiiiiiiing!

[amor de cosmos]

A closer look at people who tested positive for COVID-19 but never developed symptoms has found that such asymptomatic carriers have few to no detectable antibodies just weeks after infection, suggesting they may not develop lasting immunity.

There's growing evidence that a significant proportion of people who test positive for COVID-19 never show symptoms, although it's not clear what percentage of people that is and what role they play in spreading the disease.

A Chinese study published this week in Nature followed 37 people in Wanzhou District in China who did not show any outward signs of the disease, despite testing positive when their respiratory tracts were swabbed and being kept in hospital for observation.

Some key findings include:

• Levels of antibodies against COVID-19 were significantly lower in asymptomatic carriers than those with symptoms during active infection.
• Antibody levels also dropped off far more quickly in people who never showed symptoms, and 40 per cent of them had no detectable antibodies eight weeks after recovery, compared with 13 per cent of symptomatic patients.
• Those with asymptomatic infections tested positive for an average of five days longer than people with symptomatic infections — 19 days compared with 14 days — suggesting that they were shedding the virus longer.

https://www.cbc.ca/n...id-19-1.5629172
https://www.nature.c...1591-020-0965-6

Mosquitoes, flies unlikely to spread COVID-19: Health expert
http://www.ecns.cn/n...xc0872565.shtml
 

BEIJING: China National Biotec Group (CNBG) said on Sunday (Jun 28) that early human test results for a coronavirus vaccine candidate suggested it could be safe and effective, the second vaccine candidate from the firm to show encouraging results in a clinical trial.

The experimental shot, developed by a Beijing-based unit of CNBG, has induced high-level antibodies in all the inoculated participants in a Phase 1/2 clinical trial involving 1,120 healthy people, according to preliminary data of the trial, CNBG said in a posting on the social media platform WeChat, without disclosing specific readings.

Chinese companies and researchers have been allowed to test eight vaccine candidates in humans at home and abroad, making China a major front-runner in the race to develop a shot against the virus that has killed nearly 500,000 people globally.

https://www.channeln...n-test-12878358
 

China imposed a strict lockdown on nearly half a million people near the capital to contain a fresh coronavirus outbreak on Sunday, as authorities warned it was soon to "relax" over the new cluster of cases.

After China largely brought the virus under control, hundreds have been infected in Beijing and cases have emerged in neighbouring Hebei province.

Health officials said Sunday that Anxin county—about 150 kilometres (90 miles) from Beijing—will be "fully enclosed and controlled", the same strict measures imposed at the height of the pandemic in the city of Wuhan earlier this year.

Now, only one person from each family will be allowed to go out once a day to purchase necessities such as food and medicine, the county's epidemic prevention task force said in a statement.

Earlier the county had been subject to some travel restrictions, but now individuals are only allowed to leave their homes to seek medical treatment, the notice said.

https://medicalxpres...us-cluster.html

Beijing has launched a citywide screening for COVID-19 in hair and beauty salons and found no infected cases so far, the municipal government said Saturday
http://www.ecns.cn/n...xc0872562.shtml

Total profits of Chinese industrial firms in May went up 6 percent to 582.3 billion yuan ($82 billion), marking the first year-on-year increase since the start of the coronavirus pandemic
https://sputniknews....emic---reports/

India registered its biggest surge in coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours with 19,906 new patients on Sunday, said the Health Ministry
https://www.aa.com.t...9-cases/1892425

Situation in Aleppo deteriorates with Covid, economic embargo
https://www.laprensa...onomic-embargo/

Sri Lanka lifts coronavirus lockdown, says 'no community spread'
https://www.rappler....avirus-lockdown

South Africa on Saturday reported 7,210 COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, the highest daily surge since the disease broke out in early March
http://www.ecns.cn/n...xc0872735.shtml

Tokyo reports highest daily tally of COVID-19 cases since state of emergency lifted
http://www.ecns.cn/n...xc0872649.shtml

Ethiopian monk said to be 114 years old survives coronavirus
https://medicalxpres...oronavirus.html

At least 397 more people tested positive for coronavirus on Saturday, with the infection rate jumping to highest since the peak of the epidemic in Israel
https://www.ynetnews...ticle/Sk9xthHAL

Colombia reports record daily increase in new coronavirus cases
Another 4,149 coronavirus cases have been recorded in Colombia, the country’s Ministry of Health and Welfare reported
https://tass.com/society/1172433

'A new man': Bangladeshi who was critically ill with COVID-19 discharged from hospital after nearly 5 months
https://www.channeln...gapore-12877772

Indonesia is reopening for business even with record high COVID-19 infections
https://www.channeln...-cases-12873668

الصحة تعلن تسجيل 2140 إصابة جديدة بفيروس كورونا
(2140 new cases in Iraq)
https://www.almaalom...0/06/28/482239/

A sharp rise in coronavirus has been reported in the West Bank. According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, 67 new COVID-19 cases were reported on Saturday, 33 of them in the Bethlehem district
https://sputniknews....us-cases-surge/

A global fundraising meeting on Saturday (Jun 27) raised €6.15 billion (US$6.9 billion ) from the United States, the European Commission and numerous countries to fight COVID-19
https://www.channeln...illion-12877118
 

Myanmar is imposing a 15-day extension of its virus measures and directives until July 15 to prevent the spread of the pandemic from inbound travelers and within the country.

The restrictions include a temporary suspension of international flights, a ban on issuing all visas and visa-exemption services, as well as a three-week quarantine for Myanmar nationals returning home by relief flights and across borders, according to a statement Saturday by the Central Committee on Covid-19 Control. On Sunday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the temporary ban on foreigners’ entry will be extended to July 31.

A nightly 12 a.m. to 4 a.m. curfew remains in place, along with the ban of gatherings of more than five people, according to the Central Committee on Covid-19 Control, which is led by de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Exceptions are made for funerals and work-related matters.

*snip*

As of June 28, Myanmar confirmed 296 cases of coronavirus including 216 recoveries and six casualties, according to the Ministry of Health and Sports.

https://www.bloomber...covid-19-spread
 

As coronavirus continues its sweep across the world, a number of countries including Afghanistan and Yemen which are already riddled with war may see an escalation of violence, a war reporter said.

BBC war reporter Lyse Doucet told the Observer that she fears “a terrifying mix of violence and the virus” will hit countries such as Yemen, Afghanistan and Somalia, where Covid-19 has yet to have reached its peak.

“Conflict will also be magnified and multiplied by impoverishment, starvation and despair…Expect a hot summer,” Doucet went on to say.

The economic cost of the virus, which has plummeted employment levels in countries across the world and the Middle East, will be vast.

“There aren’t enough resources [in the developing world] to either test or treat – and because of corruption, the wealthy will get the resources that do exist.”

Doucet’s words echo across the region; a toxic mix of job cuts and an economic downturn due in part to the global financial crisis brought about by Covid-19 made Tunisians take to the streets in protest.

https://english.alar...lence-and-virus
 

MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) – The Philippines is leading in the rise of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in the entire Western Pacific region, data from the World Health Organization (WHO) showed.

From June 16 to June 27, COVID-19 cases in the Philippines jumped 8,143, placing it ahead of 22 countries in the region.

It was trailed with a big gap by Singapore, which registered 2,351 case, also China, which recorded 302.

The Philippines has the third most number of COVID-19 cases in the region as of June 27, with 34,803 cases, following only China with 83,500 cases and Singapore with 43,246 cases.

Both China and Singapore have been aggressively testing its population for the virus, while the Philippines still struggles to expand its testing capacity.

https://www.rappler....western-pacific

Family lawyers tell BuzzFeed News that many separated parents are using the pandemic as an excuse to try to place further restrictions on their exes, including social distancing contracts and other changes to custody agreements
https://www.buzzfeed...divorce-parents
 

A homeless Canadian with a drug addiction, Luc Laplante has lost three friends—Dave, Emily and Pat—to opioid overdoses in the last three months of the coronavirus pandemic.

Partly to blame, he said, is a government emergency program that put temptation in the way of users by giving them a sudden cash infusion with few questions asked.

"People have been applying for the government COVID-19 aid, using it to binge on drugs and overdosing," he said, just hours after surviving a dangerously high dose of fentanyl himself.

It left him with a painful reminder: he fell while high, suffering a bloody scrape along the right side of his face.

Addicts and outreach workers say several factors have contributed to a surge in overdoses during the pandemic: physical isolation amid lockdowns, reduced access to addiction services such as safe injection sites, and shifts in health care resources from serving addicts to treating COVID-related illnesses.

https://medicalxpres...-overdoses.html

A California Man Said 28 Members Of His Family Tested Positive For The Coronavirus
https://www.buzzfeed...virus-28-people

Florida on Saturday hit a new daily coronavirus case record of nearly 10,000—a dramatic setback that several other states are also experiencing as economic reopenings clash with public health realities
https://medicalxpres...virus-case.html

Over 40 percent of US COVID-19 deaths are linked to nursing homes: NYT
https://thehill.com/...rsing-homes-nyt

Microsoft to permanently close all physical stores amid COVID-19
http://www.ecns.cn/b...xc0872721.shtml

Pence trips to Arizona and Florida postponed by Trump campaign over COVID-19 fears
https://www.rawstory...covid-19-fears/

As TX Spike Grows Dire, Gohmert Says He Won’t Wear A Mask Unless He Gets COVID
https://talkingpoint...vid-texas-spike

[todd]

When we decide to seek medical advice from a middle-aged random white guy living on an island in the Pacific we’ll let you know.
Ziiiiiiiiing!

This is my experience at most walk-in clinics.

[Mike K.]

I’m not taking about pot shops.

[todd]

I’m not taking about pot shops.

Do they have cannabis infused hand sanitizer yet?

[todd]

“Why Cannabis Hand Sanitizer Actually Makes Sense“: https://www.heylocan...lly-makes-sense

“a cannabis infused topical for clean and vibrant feeling hands”


Could you get a contact high from shaking hands?

Edited by todd, 28 June 2020 - 11:46 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

He was then reacting to a report by the Canadian Institute for Health Information, which found that 81 per cent of all COVID-19 deaths in the country had been recorded in long-term care centres.

That ranks Canada among the worst of all OECD countries, where the average is 42 per cent.



https://nationalpost...2-4eddb8fcc547/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 28 June 2020 - 02:31 PM.

[Mike K.]

One of my first jobs was working for CIHI!

[G-Man]

How's that Canada / California comparison going, haven't seen it posted in a couple of weeks...

[Victoria Watcher]

How's that Canada / California comparison going, haven't seen it posted in a couple of weeks...

 

people told me to stop posting after i pointed out that montreal was the third most infected area in the entire world.

 

but we are at 226 deaths per million.  california is just 150.

 

https://www.worldome...fo/coronavirus/

 

so while they now have more than twice as many cases as we do their people are not dying.  probably because #1)  most US healthcare is better than Canadian and #2) we let 80% of our deaths happen in our care homes without taking much action  #3)  California testing frequency is 35% better than ours.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 29 June 2020 - 07:49 AM.

[G-Man]

Lets check back in 14 days.

[spanky123]

so while they now have more than twice as many cases as we do their people are not dying.  probably because #1)  most US healthcare is better than Canadian and #2) we let 80% of our deaths happen in our care homes without taking much action.

 

The US is doing exactly what we suggested we do. Young, healthy people are being infected in the summer while immune systems are at their highest and emergency wards are least busy. Lots of people infected but very few are getting seriously ill and the medical system is coping.  Keep this going until the end of summer and we may 30%+ immunity rates in the US compared to < 1% in Canada. We will then see who is in better shape come the fall when the second wave hits.

[Greg]

I think we can stop pretending that the US is doing as well as Canada in dealing with COVID-19, even including Montreal.

 

 

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[Mike K.]

Isn't that because of the healthcare expert-sanctioned rioting, protesting and mass gathering events throughout June?

[Greg]

Hard to see how that could have helped. Although I think there is a growing consensus that outside contact and passing contact aren't as big of an issue as crowding indoors.

[Mike K.]

Right, and I think that's been widely known for some time, but all bets are off then you have thousands of people clustered inches apart at protests and gatherings. The conditions are perfect for disease contraction.

 

You have to think that these people will have shared port-a-potties at these events (where provided), taken public transit to the gatherings, etc. You had organizers supplying food and water, you had organizers providing protest materials, etc. Lots of sharing of items in general in an environment like that.

[amor de cosmos]

https://www.boredpan...ent-rich-davis/

“The SARS-CoV-19 virus is a living example of viral simplicity complicated by extreme target complexity,” explains lead author Waldemar A. Turski, MD, PhD, Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Medical University in Lublin, Poland. “Direct activation of AhRs by CoVs may lead to diverse sets of phenotypic disease pictures, depending on time after infection, overall state of health, hormonal balance, age, gender, comorbidities, but also diet and environmental factors modulating AhRs.”

The authors demonstrate that CoVs are perfect viruses leaving nothing to chance and show how difficult it is to stop them after cell invasion. They describe how many of the features and symptoms of COVID-19 may be dependent on AhR activation, including thromboembolism, fibrosis, multiple organ injury, and brain damage. They also explore how environmental factors, such as urban dust and diesel fumes, may activate AhRs and make humans more prone to pathogens, including CoV. However, physical exercise plays a positive role in IDO1 function and downregulates AhRs.

The investigators hypothesize that when AhRs remain activated and clinical symptoms are mild, eliminating factors known to increase AhR activation or implementing factors known to suppress AhR activation should decrease the severity of infection. When the disease is fully established and symptoms are severe, IDO1 is believed to be continuously activated in addition to the CoV activation of AhRs. “Such a vicious cycle can only be efficiently interrupted by simultaneous downregulation of both AhR and IDO1. There is currently, however, no licensed medication specifically and simultaneously downregulating the activity of both AhR and IDO1,” notes co-author Les Turski, MD, PhD, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Bonn, Germany.

https://www.alphagal...y/ItemId/194546

On Monday, the MIT Press is announcing the launch of an open access journal that will publish reviews of preprints related to Covid-19, in an effort to quickly and authoritatively call out misinformation as well as highlight important, credible research
https://www.statnews...d-19-preprints/
 

Most antivirals in use today target parts of an invading virus itself. Unfortunately, SARS-CoV-2 – the virus that causes COVID-19 – has proven hard to kill. But viruses rely on cellular mechanisms in human cells to help them spread, so it should be possible to change an aspect of a person’s body to prevent that and slow down the virus enough to allow the immune system to fight the invader off.

I am a quantitative biologist, and my lab built a map of how the coronavirus uses human cells. We used that map to find already existing drugs that could be repurposed to fight COVID-19 and have been working with an international group of researchers called the QBI Coronavirus Research Group to see if the drugs we identified showed any promise. Many have.

For years, researchers have suspected that kinases – biological control switches that viruses use to take over cells – could be targeted to fight infections. Over the last few months, we built a second, more detailed map looking specifically for the kinases that the coronavirus is hijacking.

Using this map, we identified a few already existing cancer drugs which alter the function of the kinases that SARS-CoV-2 hijacks, and began testing them in coronavirus-infected cells. The results of these early tests are promising enough that we are working with some groups and have already begun human clinical trials.

https://theconversat...covid-19-139955

more about same project

Scientists have discovered that the virus behind Covid-19 causes the infected cells to grow stringy protruding branches — a highly unusual structure that allows the virus to attack several cells at once.

Researchers led by the University of California San Francisco have released the first ever close-up images of the spaghetti-like tentacles that were taken using an ultra-powerful electron microscope.

“There are long strings that poke holes in other cells and the virus passes through the tube from cell to cell,” said Professor Nevan Krogan, director of the Quantitative Biosciences Institute at UCSF who led the project. “Our hypothesis is that these speed up infection,” Prof Krogan said of the “nasty and sinister” branches.

The images taken by scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) laboratory in the US and University of Freiburg in Germany will be published in the medical journal Cell on Saturday.

https://www.ft.com/c...6d-73519b77aa7a

With little more than a week remaining before it returns to action, MLS announced Sunday that the league has 26 positive COVID-19 tests out of 668 taken among players and staff
https://www.cbc.ca/s...tests-1.5630835

California Prisons Are COVID Hotbeds Despite Billions Spent On Inmate Health
https://khn.org/news...-inmate-health/
 
Bars in Los Angeles ordered to close due to rebound of COVID-19 cases
http://www.ecns.cn/n...xc0873435.shtml

"This is a very, very serious situation and the window is closing for us to take action and get this under control," Health and Human Services secretary Alex Azar told CNN's Jake Tapper Sunday.
https://www.commondr...ing-get-disease

Democrats Won't Let Republicans Speak In Coronavirus Hearings If They Won’t Wear Masks
https://www.buzzfeed...-democratic-ban

US to buy 500,000 remdesivir coronavirus treatment courses at $2,340 each
https://www.cnet.com...s-at-2340-each/

For more than three days, Texas Medical Center hospitals had stopped publishing key data after an earlier update seemed to indicate its hospitals were reaching 100% base intensive care capacity
https://talkingpoint...u-capacity-data

Pence praises Texas governor for reopening that fueled massive surge in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations
https://www.rawstory...spitalizations/

Former Trump FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb on Monday warned that COVID-19 infections in the United States are accelerating at an alarming rate that could see as much as half the population infected with the disease by the end of the year
https://www.rawstory...he-end-of-2020/
 

As the deadly coronavirus takes U.S. lives, it’s also hurting hospitals.

U.S. hospitals are predicted to lose more than $200 billion in revenue by June 30, according to a report by the American Hospital Association. The industry group estimates the total revenue hit from the pandemic at about $50 billion a month among health-care facilities since March.

Hundreds face bankruptcy, industry experts say.

“The worst is yet to come,” said Michael Topchik, executive director of The Chartis Center for Rural Health, a Chicago-based management-consulting firm. It found that 453 of the country’s 2,000 rural hospitals were in danger of closing and 216 were identified as “most vulnerable.”

“It’s no exaggeration to say the sky is falling,” he said. “We’re already starting to see major hot spots in rural areas in Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see this is bad.”

Rick Pollack, who heads the AHA and oversaw its study, said the virus has created an epic financial threat.

“America’s hospitals and health systems have stepped up in heroic and unprecedented ways to meet the challenges caused by Covid-19,” he said. “However, the fight against this virus has created the greatest financial crisis in history for hospitals and health systems.”

https://www.marketwa...june-2020-06-11
https://www.aha.org/...l-pressures-due

Florida orders bars to stop serving alcohol and some beaches to close for July Fourth as coronavirus cases continue to surge in the state
https://www.business...y-fourth-2020-6
 

By the most basic of measurements — rates of illness and death — the U.S. response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been catastrophic. So it seems inevitable that there will be an independent, bipartisan commission to evaluate the nation’s preparedness and response to the pandemic, in the style of the famous 9/11 commission empaneled in 2002. Already, many experts are calling for such a panel.

*snip*

STAT asked five reporters who have covered Covid-19 for nearly six months to lay out the 10 most important issues that a pandemic commission would undoubtedly seek to investigate. Below, a look at the decisions that defined the U.S. government’s coronavirus response and that, in retrospect, held thousands of lives in the balance:

The sidelining of the CDC

The politicization of evidence-based decision-making

Airport screening and restrictions on foreign travel

Guidance for Americans traveling overseas and boarding cruise ships

The testing debacle

The FDA’s decision to green-light an unproven drug

Oversight of the Strategic National Stockpile and distribution of personal protective equipment

The chaotic rollout of the first drug approved to treat Covid-19

The decision to reopen non-essential business

The reversal on guidance on whether to wear masks

https://www.statnews...t-should-start/

Iran reports record 162 COVID-19 single-day death toll
https://medicalxpres...death-toll.html

More than 90 health workers in Mozambique infected with COVID-19
http://www.ecns.cn/n...xc0873085.shtml

Vietnam economy unexpectedly expands, bucking global plunge
https://www.channeln...avirus-12881628

UAE residents and visitors need a Covid-negative test result to enter Abu Dhabi, authorities announced on Monday. They should have received the results in 48 hours prior to their visit.
https://www.khaleejt...enter-abu-dhabi
 

Until late May, Nepal was an outlier in South Asia and the world for its low number and slow rise of confirmed COVID cases. The country went into relatively strict lockdown on March 24 and cases remained under 1,000 up until May 28. However, cases have increased over 10-fold since then as tens of thousands of migrant workers began returning home from India, which eased its internal travel restrictions on June 1, and as Nepal began a phased reopening on June 15. Nepal’s case tally is over 12,000 today, although the death rate remains anomalously low — fewer than 30 people have died. This may be partly explained by the fact that, so far, most of the infected have been youth.

Although Nepal has been spared the worst health effects of the pandemic so far, public frustration with the government is growing. In mid-June, groups of middle-class youth took to the streets in Kathmandu and other cities to protest perceived government apathy, incompetence, and corruption. The urban and rural poor have yet to take part in protests in significant numbers, yet they are also experiencing rising levels of anxiety and frustration regarding the government’s healthcare and economic response to the pandemic. The coronavirus crisis has brought to the fore — and exacerbated — a number of the Nepali state’s long-standing weaknesses like corruption, poor service delivery, and a failure to provide employment opportunities for millions of citizens who instead migrate to the Middle East, Malaysia, and elsewhere for labor jobs — and who now, unemployed, are beginning to return home in droves. These problems pre-date the current Nepal Communist Party (NCP)-led government, but have continued unabated under it.

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https://thediplomat....epal-in-crisis/
 

The coronavirus crisis has caused a dramatic deterioration in the European public perception of the US, extensive new polling reveals.

More than 60% of respondents in Germany, France, Spain, Denmark and Portugal said they had lost trust in the United States as a global leader.

A report based on the survey’s findings argues that the shock of the pandemic has “traumatised” European citizens, leaving them feeling “alone and vulnerable”.

In almost every country surveyed, a majority of people said their perception of the US had deteriorated since the outbreak. Negative attitudes of the US were most marked in Denmark (71%) Portugal (70%), France (68%), Germany (65%) and Spain (64%). In France, 46% and in Germany 42% said their view of the US had worsened “a lot” during the pandemic.

In an analysis of the data, the policy experts Susi Dennison and Pawel Zerka say that trust in the US is “broken” as a result of its handling of the health crisis and that support for the transatlantic alliance has been “hollowed out”‘.

Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, warned in an interview with the Guardian on Friday that the world could no longer take it for granted that America still aspires to be a global leader. The survey suggests that public opinion is already conscious of the shift.

The report states: “Europeans’ trust in the US is gone. Many have been appalled by the [US’s] chaotic response to Covid-19; the lack of solidarity it showed with Europeans in the 12 March closure of its border to members of the Schengen area; and its lack of leadership in tackling the coronavirus crisis at the global level – or even engagement with the issue (beyond a war of words with the World Health Organization).”

https://www.theguard...during-pandemic

Chinese company unveils positive results of COVID-19 vaccines
http://www.ecns.cn/n...xc0873482.shtml

Chinese COVID-19 Vaccine Receives Approval for Military Use
https://sputniknews....r-military-use/

COVID-19 tests conducted in China three times higher than in U.S. since coronavirus outbreak
http://www.ecns.cn/n...xc0873323.shtml

obviously

China may emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic in better shape than the United States, U.S. media reported over the weekend, giving several reasons.

First, China has many fewer deaths, said the article written by Andy Serwer and Max Zahn with Yahoo Finance. According to the World Health Organization, about 4,600 people have died in China from the disease. Meanwhile, the tally of the United States has reached over 125,800 as of Monday.

As China was able to implement rigorous testing, quarantining and tracing, "the death gap will surely widen," said the report.

Secondly, China has supported not only fast-tracking medical research for vaccines and therapeutics, but also contact tracing, hospitals and equipment, said the report.

China has also promised to share its vaccines when they come out, said the article.

Addressing the opening of the World Health Assembly session via video link in May, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced concrete measures to boost the global fight against COVID-19, such as providing international aid and making the country's COVID-19 vaccine a global public good when available.

Thirdly, China's economy will recover faster than the United States', the report noted. Morgan Stanley economists expect China to be the only major economy to grow its gross domestic product in 2020, and the middle and upper-middle classes are expected to continue to grow very strongly over the next decade.

"The U.S. is on the economic ropes longer than China is," Mary E. Lovely, professor of economics at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, was quoted as saying.

http://www.ecns.cn/n...xc0873378.shtml
https://finance.yaho...-115030619.html

France says no link between origin of COVID-19, Wuhan lab
http://www.ecns.cn/n...xc0872994.shtml
 

Beijing has adopted mobile sampling vehicles to facilitate COVID-19 nucleic acid testing for residents, as the capital city is demanding large-scale sampling after more than 300 people were confirmed infected with COVID-19.

The first two Foton sampling vehicles to facilitate COVID-19 nucleic acid tests were put into operation in Beijing's Chaoyang and Xicheng districts on Sunday.

Each vehicle has four sampling points and each point is capable of testing 100 people within one hour. That means each vehicle can complete about 400 tests per hour and the two vehicles are able to test 10,000 to 20,000 people per day.

Despite scorching weather and storms in Beijing, the air-conditioned vehicles allow people to get tested at any time.

http://www.globaltim...t/1192918.shtml

[todd]

^ Depends upon the mask. In other tests it shows the droplets shoot out the side of some masks but in that test petri dishes are always in front of him. Also not a bacteria.

Edited by todd, 29 June 2020 - 10:38 AM.