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Boris's probably is. Mine's

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 14 Mar 2020 20:40:00 +0000

Boris's probably is, after cocking it up first. Most are trying to bend the distribution curve down early rather than too late (and most artlemt exactly early) to slow the exponential bend and that impact on hospitals and other emergency resources. The Dutch were too complacent, thought you couldn't transmit w/o showing signs - yesterday they went up 155 to 959, a 25% increase.

TEN PAGES OF OBITS in today’s

artappraiser — Sat, 14 Mar 2020 20:05:26 +0000

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TEN PAGES OF OBITS in today’s local paper from #Bergamo, a wealthy bedroom community of Milan, on par w/ Greenwich, CT. Bergamo’s good ICUs are now pushed to the brink, doing wartime triage, deciding who can be saved. This is real, guys. #COVID19 https://t.co/RJDSvpiygQ
— Rachel Donadio (@RachelDonadio) March 14, 2020

PM of France: Starting at

artappraiser — Sat, 14 Mar 2020 20:00:59 +0000

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PM of France: Starting at midnight tonight all restaurants, bars, retail stores, cinemas, gathering places CLOSED. Food stores & pharmacies open. Because # of people on respirators is rising dramatically. #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/4Y3QmfojTF
— Rachel Donadio (@RachelDonadio) March 14, 2020

is a macho thing?

artappraiser — Sat, 14 Mar 2020 19:48:34 +0000

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is a macho thing?

They're just trying to one up

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 14 Mar 2020 19:06:44 +0000

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They're just trying to one up the neighbors. Even Boris is getting serious. I own the bloody city, it's incredible.

Spain goes into (near) total

artappraiser — Sat, 14 Mar 2020 18:41:29 +0000

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Spain goes into (near) total lockdown. All movement outside of food shopping or medical care or direct travel to/from work prohibited. All law enforcement (Spain has regional autonomous gendarmeries) under central control. Military prepped for deployment.https://t.co/VKHsEiP2R9
— Antonio García Martínez (@antoniogm) March 14, 2020

Say what you will about Spain and siestas and flamenco and whatnot, but it's intriguing how you push a little, and the old Hispanic authoritarianism that made Spain Europe's youngest democracy comes out in a flash.

Can't imagine the US government even trying this.
— Antonio García Martínez (@antoniogm) March 14, 2020

“Don't believe the numbers

artappraiser — Sat, 14 Mar 2020 18:31:37 +0000

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“Don't believe the numbers you see... I think we have between 50,000 and half a million cases right now walking around in the United States,” Dr. Marty Makary, a medical professor at Johns Hopkins University. #CoronaVirusUpdates https://t.co/ZKnMgo2PQF
— Richard Hine (@richardhine) March 14, 2020

Capitalism done right:

artappraiser — Sat, 14 Mar 2020 18:26:04 +0000

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Capitalism done right:

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We can absorb hourly staff for a limited period of time, & will honor their current pay rates.
— Glen's Garden Market (@GlensGardenMkt) March 14, 2020

CDC & FDA paying attention to

artappraiser — Sat, 14 Mar 2020 18:21:41 +0000

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CDC & FDA paying attention to this excerpt, I hope:

Italian doctors in at least two hospitals treating COVID-19 cases have started using a drug normally prescribed for people with chronic inflammatory auto-immune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis.

Dr. Paolo Ascierto, director of the immunology clinic at the Pascale Institute in Naples, told Italian state TV on Saturday that of the first six ICU patients treated with the drug, three showed significant improvement of their lung inflammation judging by CT scans. One of the six died shortly after the drug was administered.

Ascierto stressed that the drug fights the lung inflammation from pneumonia in coronavirus patients but doesn’t act on the virus itself. Italy’s government pharmaceutical regulator, AIFA, is allowing the drug to be used for compassionate purposes, since it is only officially approved in the country for use in auto-immune diseases.

At Spallanzani Hospital in Rome, which is treating COVID-19 infections in that city, and neighboring towns, Dr. Francesco Vaia said on Sunday said six patients who are seriously ill with the coronavirus are also being treated there with the drug.

Wall St. will, you can be sure.

Italian officials say new

artappraiser — Sat, 14 Mar 2020 18:16:52 +0000

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Italian officials say new virus cases jumped 20% to more than 21,000 in one day. https://t.co/GCyG8683jZ
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 14, 2020