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A Pandemic-Weary World Looked

artappraiser — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 16:47:46 +0000

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A Pandemic-Weary World Looked to 2021 for Hope. It’s Off to a Bad Start.

Around the globe, people who held on in hopes that 2021 would banish a year of horror are struggling with the reality of challenges still to come.

By Jason Horowitz from Rome for NYTimes.com, Jan. 6

One-day record deaths in U.S.

artappraiser — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 16:01:56 +0000

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One-day record deaths in U.S. from Covid yesterday, hope people enjoyed that holiday visiting and shopping-

The United States reported 3,775 new Covid-19 deaths on Tuesday -- a record-high since the pandemic began, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
— David P Gelles (@gelles) January 6, 2021

7) Now how does the new B117

artappraiser — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:46:24 +0000

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7) Now how does the new B117 variant change public health measures? What used to work for Australia and Canada will no longer work anymore. Only aggressive New Zealand and Austria 1st wave restrictions would now be able to stop the more transmissible B117 strain. pic.twitter.com/S2FKXF8g1n
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) January 6, 2021

The new variant is believed

artappraiser — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 22:58:25 +0000

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The new variant is believed to be 70 percent more contagious. https://t.co/2scbnLNs2r
— RobbReport (@RobbReport) January 5, 2021

A stark illustration of

artappraiser — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 11:42:05 +0000

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A stark illustration of Germany's second covid wave, which killed more people in December than March-November combined. pic.twitter.com/thojyeQGzb
— Tom Nuttall (@tom_nuttall) January 5, 2021

Also worrying: Germany's largest association of testing labs reports a rapid climb in the covid positivity rate, from 9% to 16% within a month. pic.twitter.com/HWbrOPumBU
— Tom Nuttall (@tom_nuttall) January 5, 2021

(he is Berlin bureau chief, the Economist)

Boris Johnson introduces

artappraiser — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 11:35:20 +0000

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Boris Johnson introduces national lockdown across England

In a televised address, the prime minister announced a third new lockdown across England. Earlier, the UK's chief medical officers moved the COVID-19 alert level to level 5 - the highest possible - on the day when the UK announced more than 58,000 cases

What's happening:

- Johnson announced a third lockdown for England

- Shielding will begin again

- People asked to stay at home in most circumstances

- All schools will be shut, exams will not go ahead as planned

Stay at home. Protect the NHS. Save lives. pic.twitter.com/j4aMTZgtY7
— UK Prime Minister (@10DowningStreet) January 4, 2021

STUNNING FOOTAGE—“All

artappraiser — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 11:28:26 +0000

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STUNNING FOOTAGE—“All coronavirus patients in an ICU in Egypt died after oxygen supply failed”—the oxygen level almost below 2% & neither enough pressure nor enough oxygen. Footage from El Husseineya Central Hospital in Ash Sharqia province. #COVID19
https://t.co/4zXWhRG3P0 pic.twitter.com/znWPm7ePAw
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) January 5, 2021

2) The Director of the hospital, Dr Muhammad Sami Al-Najjar, spoke claiming that the situation was normal. He denied that there was a lack of O2, claiming patients had died from natural causes, from old age or other chronic diseases.

(So the ICU deaths did happen it sounds like)
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) January 5, 2021

3) Al Jazeera confirms the story. “Egyptian prosecutors opened an investigation into the deaths on Sunday of **at least four** coronavirus patients at a public Egyptian hospital”https://t.co/eVQ4854vp8
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) January 5, 2021

4) The cameraman's aunt, Fatima Al-Sayed Mohamed Ibrahim, 66, was among the patients being treated at the quarantine centre.

Unconfirmed reports he was being detained.
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) January 5, 2021

5) Egypt's Heath Minister Hala Zayed claimed that the patients didn't die due to lack of oxygen.

The Governor of Ash Sharqia, Dr Mamdouh Gorab, said four patients, rather than the whole ward, died.
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) January 5, 2021

6) Article says, “Also trending was a picture of a nurse wearing her full scrubs, sitting on the floor in the corner of the unit, in shock at what was happening.”

Reports have stated that the nurse was fined for "not working during hard times."
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) January 5, 2021

7) “The hospital director and doctors were being questioned, according to an official at the public prosecutor’s office in Cairo who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to brief the media.”
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) January 5, 2021

8) “The four dead were two women in their 60s and two men, 76 and 44 years old, according to a local news outlet.”
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) January 5, 2021

9) Regarding the nurse—supposedly she was punished for being curled up in the corner. Can’t imagine the trauma. pic.twitter.com/ojJAkxXHOL
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) January 5, 2021

A shortfall of clinicians is

artappraiser — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 10:45:40 +0000

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A shortfall of clinicians is becoming an insurmountable barrier in the fight against COVID-19, @DhruvKhullar writes. https://t.co/vAef7EmKBk
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) January 3, 2021

Jesus Christ! https://t.co

artappraiser — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 10:03:50 +0000

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Jesus Christ! https://t.co/C6WfuF72fh
— Debra Messing (@DebraMessing) January 5, 2021

Some eight million people

artappraiser — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 08:19:13 +0000

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Some eight million people live in the Bay Area; just more than 2,600 have died of COVID-19. Roughly the same number of people live in New York City, where there have been more than 25,000 deaths. What lessons can we learn from the region’s response? https://t.co/ysiBPZoERa
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) January 4, 2021

Spent much of the pandemic trying to figure out the Bay Area’s COVID response and how luck, history, and infrastructure factor in. Took me to one of the country’s largest nursing homes in SF, which, by historical accident, is run by the county govt. https://t.co/dfUG6jvidC
— kang (@jaycaspiankang) January 4, 2021