Fauci Says Covid Pandemic His ‘Worst Nightmare,’ Far From Over The infection won’t “burn itself out with mere public health measures,” he said. “We’re going to need a vaccine for the entire world, billions and billions of doses.” ........... Moderna Inc.’s final-stage trial is expected to start in July, followed by a test of Oxford University and AstraZeneca PLC’s shot in August. Johnson & Johnson said in a statement that it has accelerated its schedule, with the first human trial now set to begin in the second half of July, instead of the previous schedule for starting trials in September. The trial will include 1,045 healthy adults and will be conducted in the U.S. and Belgium. .............. public health officials believe it may be possible to start vaccinating larger groups of people, including health-care workers, by early next year. ........... More than 130 vaccines are in development against the coronavirus
Delhi Overwhelmed by Covid-19 Cases After City Eases Lockdown India’s capital of 16 million people is set to be the latest city overwhelmed by Covid-19, and the worst may be yet to come. .......... bodies are piling up in hospital morgues and crematoriums. ........ Delhi is now expecting infections to soar to 550,000 by the end of July ........ India is in a precarious position, with its financial capital Mumbai and now its political capital wracked by the epidemic. It has dangerous implications for the country’s vast hinterland, where the medical infrastructure struggles to cope with basics like childbirth and fevers even in normal times. ............. “In these big cities there is at least some infrastructure and you are seeing some data. We will never get accurate data for the rest of the country” .......... “It’s a very bleak picture. There seems to be no comprehension of the dangers that lie ahead.” ........... “We are only testing 10% of those who are infected -- only the most severely infected and hospitalized people are being tested,” he said. “The medical infrastructure was already broken. Now we want to cross the pandemic on this sinking ship.” .......... “There were at least 35 people at the testing center while we were there,” said the 65-year-old, who teaches commerce at Delhi University. “I am positive that anyone who came there definitely went home infected. There was zero social distancing.” .............. Delhi had 29,943 infections as of Tuesday, a jump of more than 30% in just a week, while India is adding as many as 10,000 infections daily, of which Delhi accounts for more than 10%. India has so far reported 267,652 infections, the fifth highest tally in the world, just behind the U.K. ............ the government had changed protocols to make it difficult for citizens to get tested. ........... “The message from the government is clear,” said Bhatti. “Protect yourself if you can. The government has washed its hands off the crisis.”
Yesterday I walked around my neighborhood for a bit. Just within my immediate vicinity I saw multiple places entirely ignoring social distancing and mask requirements. It was like everyone in them thought everything was back to normal. If much of the US is the same, we're boned. https://t.co/QLCT8I3XEV
— Scott Santens🧢🤠 (@scottsantens) June 11, 2020
T 3559 - जो काम अब तक दूसरों पे छोड़ दिया करते थे , उन कामों को अब ख़ुद करके पता चल रहा है की , दूसरे कितना काम करते थे । 🙏
— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) June 10, 2020
Trump announces rallies in states where new infections are surging ....... OECD predicts global economy will contract by 6 to 7.6 percent this year, depending on virus’s trajectory .......... Pro golf is back, but without fans or fist bumps, ‘It’s going to be a little weird’ .......... Federal Reserve predicts slow recovery with unemployment at 9.3 percent by end of 2020 ............ Ohio lawmaker criticized after asking if ‘colored population’ more at risk of covid-19 because of hygiene ........... Arkansas loosens restrictions even as coronavirus cases spike ......... States wrestle with how to expand coronavirus testing, with little guidance from Trump administration ......... Coronavirus vaccine developers are chasing outbreaks before there aren’t enough infected people to test LONDON — The top teams rushing to develop coronavirus vaccines are alerting governments, health officials and shareholders that they may have a big problem: The outbreaks in their countries may be getting too small to quickly determine whether vaccines work. .............. Mnuchin loosens restrictions on small-business loans to ease forgiveness, but borrowers to remain secret .......... Brazil’s favelas, neglected by the government, organize their own coronavirus fight ...... Da Silva is one of 400 new “street presidents” in Paraisopolis, responsible for helping her neighbors in Sao Paulo’s largest slum secure food, aid and health care. ........... The program, created as cases in Latin America’s largest country began to explode, is one of many solutions the people of Brazil’s low-income favelas have found to bypass a divided government response to a worsening health crisis. Community leaders in some of the country’s hardest-hit neighborhoods are hiring their own ambulances, creating unemployment funds and even building independent databases to track cases and deaths. ........... Arizona tells hospitals to activate emergency plans amid another record high average of new cases ........... Starbucks lost $3 billion in latest quarter but says ‘most difficult period is now behind us’ ........... E.U. accuses China of targeting its societies with pandemic disinformation ............ E.U. headquarters in Brussels and European capitals have been struggling to navigate the tension between the United States and China, two rivals that are increasingly at odds with each other on a variety of security and diplomatic issues, including the pandemic response. .......... “We are clearly mentioning Russia and China,” she said. “If we have evidence, we should not shy away from naming and shaming.” ........ AMC plans to have almost all its movie theaters open by July .......... GOP expects to move its convention to Jacksonville after dispute with North Carolina over pandemic safeguards ........ Asylum applications in the E.U. dropped almost 86 percent between February and April ............ WHO urges Pakistan to return to lockdown as new infections explode ......... “Pakistan has been ranked among the top 10 countries around the globe in reporting the highest number of new cases.” ........... So far, 113,702 cases have been reported in Pakistan, but the number is probably much higher, as a quarter of those tested are found to be positive. ........ The letter recommended an intermittent, two-week-on, two-week-off lockdown to stem the tide of new infections. ............. the government was pursuing a “holistic strategy” in combating the virus and must consider the livelihoods of the two-thirds of the population that depend on daily incomes. The easing of restrictions has been accompanied by compulsory mask wearing and other procedures in public areas to prevent the spread of infection. ........ Air travel ‘highly correlated’ with spread of coronavirus, report claims .......... “The flow of air passengers across and within country borders has been a major contributor of the spread of the virus.” ............ Merkel, Macron and other E.U. leaders call for better pandemic response mechanism ........ Feds should not force price limits on drugmakers, Fauci tells biotech executives ........ Because the virus meets the four key conditions — it is new, easily transmissible, carried through the respiratory system and poses a serious risk of mortality — it has become the “worst nightmare” for the longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Other recent outbreaks he has worked on, including Ebola, HIV and SARS, were more finite and had a degree of containment that made it easier to stop the spread................. “This took about a month to go around the world,” he said of the coronavirus. “When is it going to end? We’re still at the beginning of it.” ....... The unexpected gift of stay-at-home orders: Time for kids to sleep and think and just be ........ our family found itself at home, together, with far fewer reasons to look at a clock or calendar reminder. ........ I wonder if we might be able to hold on to one thing that we’ve found in abundance during this quarantine: Time. Time for my kids to sleep, get bored, take walks, tinker with crafts and sit on the foot of my bed and talk. ........ Coronavirus hospitalizations rise sharply in several states following Memorial DayStudy suggests that routine face mask use by 50% or more of the population reduced COVID19 spread to an R of less than 1.0. Other studies have generated similar estimates. More widespread masking with higher quality masks could help mitigate a second wave. https://t.co/tIqQJfXNV8
— Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) June 10, 2020
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