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Episode 47 offers a counterpoint to the optimism which is infecting the West and leading to dangerously premature conclusions. New reporting from Spain suggests a death told double or triple what was officially recorded from Covid, more people in Korea are testing as reinfected, and we look at the suggestion hypoxia, a lack of oxygen, might be part of the problem resulting from the virus potentially interacting with hemoglobin, or red blood cells. As promised, economics are considered as detail after detail shows how we're seeing the decoupling of finance from the real world of goods and services as we show food lines lengthen, grocery workers die, warehouses hampered, and worries grow. Gold rising as stocks do the same hint at the fundamental disconnect. We close with another glance into China where they are trying to internationalize internet kill switches as they claim zero infections in their military and charge Italy to get back the masks a more generous people once donated to the CCP. From health to economics to geopolitics, the evidence makes clear this is only the beginning of what Covid hath wrought upon us.
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Spanish Courts find death toll far exceeds Covid case reporting suggesting many additional virus related deaths as most likely culprit: https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/4218938/0/enterramientos-coronavirus-castilla-la-mancha-casi-triplican-cifras-oficiales/
51 cases of "reinfection" lead to more questions from South Korea: https://www.the-sun.com/news/645016/fears-coronavirus-hide-cells-reactivate-recovered-patients-test-positive/
A theory that suggests hypoxia might be affecting Covid patients with viral bonding to iron depriving body of oxygen leading to respiratory failure: http://web.archive.org/web/20200405061401/https://medium.com/@agaiziunas/covid-19-had-us-all-fooled-but-now-we-might-have-finally-found-its-secret-91182386efcb
Former Fed Chair Yellen expects massive economic GDP decline and unemployment spike: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/06/janet-yellen-says-second-quarter-gdp-could-decline-by-30percent-and-unemployment-is-already-at-12percent-13percent.html
Commodity trading continues to fall threatening historic lows as predictor of future trouble: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/market-bottom-or-very-tough-times-ahead-heres-what-one-chart-watcher-is-keeping-his-eye-on-2020-04-03
Florida food bank sees 600% rise in demand: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8193153/Miles-long-row-cars-waits-outside-Florida-food-bank-demand-produce-surges-600-cent.html
Meat production plants shutting down in several states: https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-hits-meat-plants-as-some-workers-get-sick-others-stay-home-11586196511
Grocery workers dying from coronavirus exposure: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/grocery-workers-are-beginning-to-die-of-coronavirus/ar-BB12eFSF
Amazon warehouses facing more worker unrest as coronavirus toll grows: https://nypost.com/2020/04/06/amazon-faces-another-staten-island-warehouse-strike/
Gold price rising steadily: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/gold-rises-aims-for-highest-close-in-nearly-a-month-ahead-of-whats-expected-to-be-a-week-of-difficult-coronavirus-news-2020-04-06
Up to 1/6 of NYPD calling off as burglaries rise in NYC: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8188535/Law-order-fears-NYC-nearly-10-000-NYPD-FDNY-members-sick-city.html
China claims zero infections in its military: https://www.voanews.com/science-health/coronavirus-outbreak/china-claims-zero-infections-its-military?amp
Sailors unhappy with US Navy response to their safety: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/sailors-slam-navy-for-virus-response-on-ships-naval-base-san-diego/ar-BB12e8uf
China using Huawei and new 5G networks to introduce internet "Shut Up Command" for centralized control as standard feature: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/chinas-new-ip-proposal-to-replace-tcp-ip-has-a-built-in-shut-up-command-for-censorship/
China charges Italy for the masks Italians donated to them one month prior: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8193197/China-forces-Italy-BUY-masks-coronavirus-supplies-donated-Beijing.html
CCP endorses social media conspiracy theory that blames US Army for infecting their country: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxe9yq/the-chinese-government-has-convinced-its-citizens-that-the-us-army-brought-coronavirus-to-wuhan
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For Episode 46, we reset and take a look at the current situation. Good news about flattening curves in Spain, Italy, and elsewhere conceals that we are at the beginning of a long story. We look at the modeling from US and the many missteps along the way as we ask if we're really turning the corner, using the South as having many examples of how the modeling that presumes distancing does not reflect the on the ground reality. Then, we ask about the adaptability of the coronavirus, noting how it jumps species, closing with stories about mutations and recombination in this class allowing for greater transmissibility.
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Boris Johnson admitted to hospital for Covid treatment: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8191027/Coronavirus-hit-Boris-Johnson-hospital-amid-UK-crisis.html
Europe sees numbers begin to fall in response to social measures: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/06/europes-coronavirus-numbers-offer-hope-as-us-enters-peak-of-terrible-pandemic
An inside look at the Federal Response to this date: https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/The-U-S-was-beset-by-denial-and-dysfunction-as-15179067.php
Coronavirus peak in US projected in 11 days: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8189153/Coronavirus-peak-death-rate-strike-U-S-11-days-2-644-people-die-24-hours.html
University of Washington modeling site: https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections
Spared initially, the American South may suffer badly before much longer: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/03/coronavirus-rural-south-164225
How Americans are underestimated the duration of the Covid pandemic: https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/03/americans-are-underestimating-how-long-coronavirus-disruptions-will-last-health-experts-say/
At least 8 strains of the coronavirus have been identified: https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/medical-advances/491056-at-least-8-strains-of-the-coronavirus-have-been
Nextstrain mapping of the various Covid genomes reported: https://nextstrain.org/narratives/ncov/sit-rep/2020-04-03?n=15
Tiger infected at the Bronx Zoo: https://time.com/5815939/tiger-bronx-zoo-positive-coronavirus/
Recombination, Reservoirs, and the Modular Spike: Mechanisms of Coronavirus Cross-Species Transmission: https://jvi.asm.org/content/84/7/3134
The Coronavirus Nucleocapsid Protein Is Dynamically Associated with the Replication-Transcription Complexes: https://jvi.asm.org/content/84/21/11575
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Episode 45 delves deeply into China, their response, and the evolving competition with the United States. We start by looking at Latin America coming into crisis, promising a rising death toll and infection in countries from Mexico to Chile, peeking at Ecuador here. We see nearly 7 million Americans now out of work as backdrop. From there, we see the CIA reporting now that the CCP fudged the numbers. China is friendly to some with new propaganda outlets and offers of masks to Italy and the UK, but won't even allow Taiwan to get near the WHO as they buzz them with war planes. We look at the doctrine, how China continues to spend to gain influence, what 5G allows for standards and surveillance and ask as America gets sicker and withdraws, including with two aircraft carriers, what will China do? Whether by chance or choice, the opportunities for the dragon seem to be rising in this year of the rat.
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Guayaquil, Ecuador hit terribly with death count exceeding bureaucratic capacity: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-04-01/coronavirus-in-guayaquil-ecuador-bodies-in-the-streets
Mexico looks to be in major trouble due to poor policy start and extreme health care shortfall: https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/02/coronavirus-is-about-to-explode-in-mexico-its-time-to-secure-the-border/
6.6 million Americans file for unemployment last week: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-covid-weekly-initial-jobless-claims-march-28-165758189.html
Next virus hot-spots will be Michigan, Indiana, and Connecticut according to Dr. Birx: https://www.msn.com/en-us/finance/markets/next-virus-e2-80-98hot-spots-e2-80-99-seen-as-michigan-connecticut-indiana/ar-BB125NEr
China threatening pharmaceutical drug exports: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/mar/17/china-threatens-restrict-critical-drug-exports-us/
CIA claims CCP lied about Chinese numbers from Wuhan: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/us/politics/cia-coronavirus-china.html
Hong Kong paper talking about US losing influence in propaganda war: https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3077776/trump-losing-coronavirus-blame-game-china-and-its-costing-american
Chinese strategic doctrine of "Three Warfares" applied - public opinion, legal, and psychological in service of total information war: https://warontherocks.com/2018/01/chinas-three-warfares-perspective/
Chinese media create far greater media presence in West during Covid outbreak: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/03/china-steps-up-western-media-campaign-over-coronavirus-crisis
China commits to Belt and Road Initiative of major foreign infrastructure investment amidst coronavirus: https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Belt-and-Road/China-faces-Belt-and-Road-course-correction-after-coronavirus
The geopolitical and national security implications of 5G and why China was winning in framing over the US: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/5g-where-china-and-west-finally-diverge/604309/
China bullying Taiwan during pandemic: https://nypost.com/2020/04/01/why-is-china-bullying-taiwan-in-the-middle-of-the-global-pandemic/
USS Roosevelt aircraft carrier commander relieved of duty as outbreak consumes two vessels: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/02/politics/uss-roosevelt-commander-relieved/index.html
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Here in Episode 44, we look more deeply into the two to three times normal death rate of people who are passing beyond annual averages in Lombardy of whom only a third are being attributed to Covid. A new study suggests ferrets and cats may carry the coronavirus, including the possibility cats exhale the virus. Even with more ventilators coming online, shortages in doctors, drugs, and oxygen represent new problems, as nurses are more actively protesting being asked to work absent PPE. Canada says to expect this until July, at best, as the Netherlands starts studying when herd immunity may come. Food banks are seeing 40x their usage in Orange County, CA and we have only seen one in a thousand, if that, exposed as the crisis deepens.
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Susceptibility of various animals to Covid: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.30.015347v1
WSJ study of Italian death rates suggests many more deaths from both Covid and lack of access to medical care for other conditions: https://www.wsj.com/articles/italys-coronavirus-death-toll-is-far-higher-than-reported-11585767179
Shortages of key ventilator drugs and staffing issues lessen ventilator efficacy, could cause major problems in the future: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/potential-coronavirus-shortages-focus-ventilator-operators-critical-drugs/story?id=69907976
Oxygen shortages for ventilators at NYC hosptials: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/hospitals-facing-oxygen-shortage-amid-coronavirus-crisis/story?id=69915446
Chicago Hospital bans nurses from wearing PPE: https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/03/31/hospital-is-not-allowing-nurse-to-wear-masks-in-thick-of-covid-19-pandemic-furious-nurse-says/
National Nurses United protesting PPE shortages, reporting on massive shortfalls: https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/rns-15-hca-hospitals-protest-lack-covid-19-preparedness
UK rethinking mask effectiveness as more options for aerosolization change assessment: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52126735
Best case scenario sees Covid response going until at least July in Canada: https://nationalpost.com/news/best-case-scenario-covid-19-measures-expected-to-last-until-july-government-document-says
Netherlands starts study to assess path to herd immunity over next year: https://nltimes.nl/2020/03/31/netherlands-launches-study-determine-covid-19-herd-immunity
Visual represenation of the CARES Act: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-anatomy-of-the-2-trillion-covid-19-stimulus-bill/
NY lawmakers considering shutting down Amazon warehouses after more workers sick and complaining of unsafe health conditions: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/01/ny-lawmakers-unions-ask-bezos-to-close-amazon-warehouses-hit-by-coronavirus.html
Vermont orders box stores to only sell essential goods: https://www.wcax.com/content/news/Vermont-orders-big-box-stores-to-stop-in-person-sales-of-nonessential-items-569263991.html
Food lines at Anaheim food banks as post Disney economy there sees 92% local unemployment amid tourism busy: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8176555/Lines-stretch-California-food-banks-near-Disneyland-closure.html
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Episode 43 starts with a troubling case of a woman from Detroit who suffered acute hemorrhagic necrotizing encephalopathy - or a bleeding brain - apparently related to Covid and the cytokine storm problem. We look at a study from Los Angeles that showed only 5% of the suspected influenza patients had Covid, meaning both coronavirus spread is in the community there but also still likely has many more people to reach foreshadowing a longer interval. That's bad news for doctors being silenced and fired for talking about a lack of PPE leading to situations like Boston and Spain where mass staff infection is becoming common. In NY, the situation is seeing mass graves being predug by prisoners. All this is happening as we see people under extreme psychological and economic stress and with a leadership vacuum in taking the fight to the virus promising instability and wilder days ahead.
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Covid-19 associated Acute Hemorrhagic Necrotizing Encephalopathy: CT and MRI Features: https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.2020201187
SARS-CoV-2/Influenza Study from LA: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2764137
Hospitals seek to silence doctors under threat of dismissal throughout US: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-31/hospitals-tell-doctors-they-ll-be-fired-if-they-talk-to-press
Boston seeing major infection in hospital staff: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/03/30/824170756/four-boston-hospitals-report-significant-numbers-of-employees-have-the-coronavir
Spain also suffering major struggles to keep medical staff in the fight: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/spain-tightens-restrictions-week-lockdown-begins-200330191539568.html
US emergency medical supply dwindling: https://news.trust.org/item/20200401004741-7rc0u
Rikers Island prisoners digging future tombs on NYC island for pandemic victims: https://theintercept.com/2020/03/31/rikers-island-coronavirus-mass-graves/
Red Cross warns of impending civil unrest in West: https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-03-27/pandemic-could-spark-unrest-among-wests-urban-poor-red-cross-aid-agency
The losers of the stimulus package: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/30/heres-who-wont-qualify-for-beefed-up-coronavirus-unemployment-relief.html
Consumers worldwide shift habits into survival mode: https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3077901/coronavirus-china-us-consumer-behaviour-radically-altered
Bay Area stay at home order extended to May 3: https://patch.com/california/martinez/bay-area-coronavirus-stay-home-order-extended-what-know
Challenges in West Australia: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-01/coronavirus-wa-cases-fall-as-wa-begins-to-flatten-the-curve/12107326
Cascading effects of food supply issues: http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/supplies-are-starting-to-get-really-tight-nationwide-as-food-distribution-systems-break-down
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We seek the ultimate questions in Episode 42 as some of your inquiries are answered with the latest research. We look at how not just cases, but deaths are likely being under reported especially as places with taxed medical systems make the decision to exclude high risk low survivability patients, substantiated by proving fatality numbers versus annual averages and Covid official casualty counts that are substantially beneath this discrepancy. We learn that infants seem not to carry the coronavirus, although most had antibodies. Japanese researchers show how microparticles could spread Covid in many more places with video that will astound. In light of this, we see Austria's decision to mandate masks outside as sensible, as those places without protection get ill more quickly. On the economic front, we see strikes and worker unrest building at Amazon, Whole Foods, in meatpacking and agriculture. Tenants are planning not to pay, and Sicilians working under the table are now stealing their groceries. Tensions build as the government response helps some but not all, and with restrictions likely until June as promoted in Virginia, the future will be a challenge. Lastly, Brazil prepares as they see the virus is mutating there and a long fight is ahead.
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Death rate not counting many people dying at home in Italy and elsewhere: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2020/03/30/italys-true-death-rate-warning-britons-want-call-covid-19-lockdown/
Anitbodies in infants with mothers who have Covid: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2763854
Japanese research reveals microdroplets produced by breath and conversation aerosolize the virus: https://bgr.com/2020/03/30/coronavirus-update-new-research-suggests-we-should-be-wearing-masks/
Austria requires masks for all outside actions, reduces spread by 3/4: https://www.ft.com/content/f68f3063-5024-4654-9389-bcc7ee1efd8e
Amazon warehouse employee organizes strike for unsafe working conditions: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/29/amazon-workers-in-staten-island-plan-strike-over-coronavirus-safety.html
Amazon employee who organized strike fired for causing "unsafe" work conditions: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/amazon-fires-staten-island-worker-who-organized-walk-out-protest-over-lack-of-coronavirus-protections/2352118/
Whole Foods plans strike starting today over safety and pay: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dmeka/whole-foods-employees-are-staging-a-nationwide-sick-out
Meat handlers regularly practice in unsafe conditions with Covid suspected individuals still working at many facilities: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/food-workers-meat-coronavirus-sick
Rent strike movement rising nationally: https://apnews.com/1bd0dccae3f84e380af62b3dd91ee26e
Civil unrest quickly building in Sicily as food scarcity becomes issue: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/italy-risks-losing-grip-in-south-with-fears-of-looting-and-riots/ar-BB11V5A1
Review of the CARES Act passed by Congress: https://www.forbes.com/sites/leonlabrecque/2020/03/29/the-cares-act-has-passed-here-are-the-highlights/#36b024cf68cd
New Jersey rationing access to pharmaceuticals: https://www.insidernj.com/press-release/prevent-drug-shortages-ag-grewal-imposes-emergency-statewide-restrictions-certain-prescription-medications/
Virginia shut down until June 10th: https://www.governor.virginia.gov/newsroom/all-releases/2020/march/headline-855702-en.html
Brazil prepares and already sees mutation in Covid as virus adapts to tropical environment: https://www.brasilwire.com/coronavirus-has-already-mutated-in-brasil-an-interview-with-margareth-dalcomo/
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We begin our eighth week of coronavirus coverage with Episode 41 as we look to answer questions. Exploring the confused immune response and cytokine storm effects may explain why certain people get more ill including critically so, offering new avenues for medical intervention. We discuss the high mortality rate and the problems of ventilators. Countries around the globe push back the timeframe as we see an unusually high unattributed number of dead people emerge from Wuhan questioning those numbers one urn at a time. Italy sees the curve flatten but the pressure continue as some looting happens in Sicily. New York has food banks under pressure as new hospitals arise. But what is happening in NYC is spreading throughout America as we look at both small towns and a Midwestern city in Detroit to show just how fast Covid takes root once in a given area.
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Dr. Ya-Chi Ho diagram for how immune suppression happens: https://twitter.com/HoLabHIV/status/1244409779667206145/photo/1
Microbiology of lungs study of immune response against Covid: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.23.20026690v1
Analysis of immune suppression from SARS in mice: https://www.cell.com/cell-host-microbe/fulltext/S1931-3128(16)30006-3
India moving forward with antiviral drug testing and production: https://telanganatoday.com/anti-viral-drug-in-making-to-tackle-covid-19/amp
FDA approves hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine for use: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/29/fda-emergency-authorization-anti-malaria-drug-155095
Steep mortality rate from early cases in ICU questions effectiveness of interventions: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8164079/Mortality-rate-coronavirus-patients-intensive-care-close-50-shock-report-reveals.html
Russian population profile for Covid trends somewhat younger: https://www.rt.com/russia/484428-moscow-coronavirus-younger-patients/
UK lockdown to last until at least June: https://metro.co.uk/2020/03/29/uks-coronavirus-lockdown-must-last-june-warns-government-adviser-12472832/
26,000 extra urns beyond what was reported from either Covid or would be projected naturally are delivered in Wuhan: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/wuhan-covid-19-deaths-may-be-in-tens-of-thousands-data-on-cremations-show/ar-BB11T0Vb
Italy keeps waiting for peak that never seems to come: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/we-are-now-experiencing-the-aftershock-as-italys-death-toll-exceeds-10000-italians-wait-for-the-coronavirus-surge-to-finally-peak-2020-03-30
People without income taking food in Sicily: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/29/italy-sets-aside-400m-for-food-vouchers-as-social-unrest-mounts
NYC food aid entities are beginning to buckle: https://nypost.com/2020/03/29/coronavirus-nyc-food-pantries-facing-crisis-plead-for-state-city-aid/
New York continues case acceleration even as curve flattens slightly: https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3077553/coronavirus-tent-hospital-erected-central-park-new
How the coronavirus is affecting middle America: https://apnews.com/cb56e50250328b923776408386b3a82a
Virus task force overruled Trump's quarantine idea: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/29/trump-new-york-quarantine-mnuchin-coronavirus-153681
Michigan in focus, Detroit hit heavily with fast case growth: https://www.freep.com/in-depth/news/local/michigan/2020/03/28/michigan-coronavirus-surge-covid-19-case-count/2898574001/
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The fortieth episode looks at the second part of the health equation which is to delve into why the economic problem is so bad. After a quick review of drug shortages, an exploration of a different pathway by which the coronavirus is harming people, and a glance into Russia getting sick and Italy having dead whose numbers are rising sharply in one town without an attributed reason, we look at the pending policy bill. A pork-laden monstrosity that is conceived reactively as just another response in an unending line of new debts, it fails to solve the basic question of how to keep people whole and stop people from moving for a time sufficient to stamp out Covid. The rush to satisfy debt versus public health means a bill not so concerned with ventilators, PPE, and medical support as it is inadequate loans, heavy bureaucracies, and promising a bigger problem later for many people. We see 3.3 million Americans unemployed this week as the first harbinger of many more to come. Inability to pay rent, then to pay mortgages, and then to pay lenders comes forward as small businesses shutter. How does agriculture hold up especially with a severely at risk population for both spread and contamination in close quarters outside legal status still out there? Absent these answers, we see truckers avoiding NYC, people in northern Michigan telling city folks to stay home, and Texas now quarantining people coming from hot spots being quarantined or heavily fined and incarcerated. All this in a battle between finance, debt, and control, with economy, assets, and scarcity on the other side as people make rational health decisions toward safety, something our government seems to struggle on all sides to understand.
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Latest statistics: https://covid19info.live/
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Covid-19 news: http://covidreport.net/
Russia passes 1,000 cases: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/03/27/russias-coronavirus-cases-surpass-1000-in-biggest-one-day-jump-a69710
Bergamo Mayor reports on dead found at home without formal cause given: https://www.euronews.com/2020/03/21/italian-mayor-claims-the-true-death-toll-from-covid-19-likely-to-be-much-higher
Covid entering through C147 pathway study: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.14.988345v1
Additional documentation on alternatives to ACE-II pathway infection: https://sanchakblog.wordpress.com/2020/03/18/are-we-barking-up-the-wrong-tree-with-respect-to-ace2-does-sars-cov2-use-cd147-as-a-receptor-as-a-chinese-study-stated/
Ongoing list of drug shortages: https://www.ashp.org/Drug-Shortages/Current-Shortages/Drug-Shortages-List
Forbes report on unrelated spending barreled into the coronavirus stimulus: https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2020/03/26/is-there-wasteful-spending-in-the-coronavirus-stimulus-bill/#5f19b04e60ae
Corporate bailouts and insider trading expected features: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-white-collar/u-s-corporate-crisis-bailouts-may-prove-bonanza-for-insider-trading-new-study-warns-idUSKBN21D1AS
Bureau of Economic Analysis: US GDP by Industry: https://www.bea.gov/system/files/2020-01/gdpind319.pdf
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Workers by Industry: https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/employment-by-major-industry-sector.htm
3.3 million file unemployment claims last week: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/26/weekly-jobless-claims.html
Analysis of how high unemployment may rise and problems which may result: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/how-high-will-unemployment-go-weve-only-seen-the-start.html
Cascading problems of rent, mortgage, and lending with uncertain response: https://www.curbed.com/2020/3/24/21191545/coronavirus-stimulus-rent-housing-apartment
Small business in big trouble: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/small-businesses-face-nightmare-cash-crunch-coronavirus-pandemic/story?id=69779601
Migrant labor and what it means for health risks and food supply: https://www.eater.com/2020/3/26/21194074/coronavirus-risk-farm-workers-farmers
Truckers starting to avoid NYC: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-26/truckers-wary-of-new-york-deliveries-create-headache-for-grocers
Northern MI seeks Detroiters and others to stay away: https://www.bridgemi.com/quality-life/northern-michigan-downstate-residents-stay-home-during-coronavirus
Texas is putting mandatory self-quarantines with punishment on incoming travelers from most heavily hit regions: https://www.texastribune.org/2020/03/26/texas-orders-self-quarantine-air-travelers-new-york-and-new-orleans/
Episode 39 is the first part of an exploration about the dangers America faces and what we realistically should respect from this virus. After a quick update in which it appears reinfection is less likely as good news but mutation more aggressive as bad news, we go into the action in New York's hospitals where life and death scenes are playing out right now as supply is being overwhelmed. The stark relief comes into focus with two pieces by the New England Journal of Medicine that consider rationing of care, and ventilator protocols as what some will call triage and others will brand death panels because of our inaction. We see morgue capacity now in question, officers calling off sick, and doctor breaking down as garbage bags are being used to supplement PPE. This crisis may go on for many months, be a season event, and we look starkly at the potential of event that without much better action that seems improbable from not just policy makers, but our businesses and our people, where Americans are chancing a death toll into the millions by summer's end. Tomorrow's second part will go into the equally troubling economic and survival implications of a society entering plague with disparity, distrust, and despair.
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Person infected with two different strains found in Iceland: https://grapevine.is/news/2020/03/24/patient-infected-with-two-strains-of-covid-19-in-iceland/
Reinfection from the same Covid strain does not occur in monkeys: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.13.990226v1
Hospital surge capacity all devoted to Covid in NYC: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/25/its-all-covid-new-york-medical-staff-brace-for-a-surge-of-coronavirus-patients
Harrowing scenes like an apocalypse from Queens Elmhurt Hospital: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/nyregion/nyc-coronavirus-hospitals.html
NEJM Ethical Guideline suggestions for rationing of care: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsb2005114
NEJM suggestion for ventilator limitation issues involving life and death: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2005689
Hospitals forced to consider risks of resuscitation amidst PPE and ventilator shortages: https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2020/03/25/hospitals-across-us-consider-universal-do-not-resuscitate-orders-for-coronavirus-patients/
NYC Hospitals use Vitamin C to bolster immune systems of patients: https://nypost.com/2020/03/24/new-york-hospitals-treating-coronavirus-patients-with-vitamin-c/
Uncoordinated NYPD health response leads to many officer outages: https://nypost.com/2020/03/25/sick-nypd-cop-sent-back-to-work-then-she-tested-positive-for-coronavirus/
Morgue capacity in question in NYC: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/25/dhs-briefing-nyc-morgues-near-capacity-148259
Fauci: Coronavirus could become seasonal fixture: https://news.yahoo.com/coronavirus-could-become-seasonal-top-us-scientist-001146451.html
Speculative piece on how the pandemic could play out: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/how-will-coronavirus-end/608719/
Episode 38 goes for a wider and deeper cut into the virus. We check in with New York where the hospital system is now under deep stress, in the quickly expanding Atlanta cluster, see LA cutting off power to those businesses who stay open, and we look into how China lost many cell phone users as another hint something worse happened. People flee from the cities to the country to cold receptions as countries begin shutting down trade and exports for their own domestic need. The military has begun ramping up support operations with hospitals and doctors incoming. Amidst all this, we look at DC disconnected with a so-called coronavirus support plan that basically promises 4% to the American people, 29% to corporate interests, and 67% to the banks who are being permitted to make unlimited loans with free money while we are told to work in these dangerous conditions. This widening gap between finance and economy, between currency and value, is at the heart of what might cause a situation worse than 1929 and as we see spot gold rise while gold contracts plummet, we look critically at what people say they are doing versus what they are actually doing as too many shift the emphasis from the virus and health to their own cynical ends.
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A single coronavirus patient can be responsible for infecting up to 59,000 others: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8149149/Expert-describes-one-coronavirus-patient-infect-59-000-others.html
Iceland sees 40 different mutations: https://nypost.com/2020/03/24/iceland-scientists-found-40-mutations-of-the-coronavirus-report-says/amp/#aoh=15851187026926
21 million Chinese cell phones cancelled in strange aberration: https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/03/24/21-million-chinese-cellphone-users-disappear-in-three-months-of-pandemic/
NYC ICU's under severe stress: https://apnews.com/b08afe589e0d6dae9469c8211157199c
Case toll rising quickly in Georgia: https://www.ajc.com/news/breaking-news/breaking-deaths-reported-georgia-coronavirus-cases-surpass/fP5W6Q4UhAyZz6CgRCyaeK/
Los Angeles shutting power and water to non-essential businesses to force compliance with stay at home order: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8146283/Angry-locals-St-Ives-Cornwall-scrawl-messages-beach-second-home-owners-remain-defiant.html
Multiple Amazon warehouses impacted by Covid: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/03/24/covid-19-hits-6-amazon-warehouse-employees-reports-say/2913396001/
Countries now starting to limit food exports: https://www.msn.com/en-us/finance/markets/countries-are-starting-to-hoard-food-threatening-global-trade/ar-BB11EY3M
India shuts down exports of hydroxychloroquine: https://news.rediff.com/commentary/2020/mar/25/covid19-govt-bans-export-of-antimalarial-drug/8d794e6dd647919c3c1858d8ecd67c2c
Nevada Governor takes drug away from doctors in political stunt: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/mar/24/steve-sisolak-nevada-governor-bans-malaria-drugs-c/
Pentagon expects 8-12 week crisis for coronavirus at minimum: https://news.yahoo.com/pentagon-sees-coronavirus-crisis-lasting-several-months-173422675.html
Army Corps of Engineers preparing to build field hospitals for Covid sufferers in US: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/03/23/army-corps-engineers-convert-hotels-dorms-hospital-units-amid-outbreak.html
$6 trillion dollars promised in government response, most to banks and corporations: https://www.nationalreview.com/news/coronavirus-relief-white-house-adviser-larry-kudlow-projects-aid-package-to-reach-roughly-6-trillion/
Federal Reserve puts reserve requirements to 0: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm
Gold market in major trouble due to inability to meet contracts and margin calls: https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/gold-market-breaking-down-gold-spreads-explode-lbma-warns-liquidity-problems
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