Dinner on the highway between Kota in Rajasthan & Indore in Madhya Pradesh. Dhabas without food. Nights without moonshine. One man kindly agreed to make us roti & dal. We are grateful for the kindness of strangers as we hit our 39th day of reporting the Pandemic for @themojo_inpic.twitter.com/LYCYYJZj8v
The maker of disinfectants Lysol & Dettol has issued a press release telling people not to inject themselves with disinfectant after President Donald Trump suggested disinfectants and light could be injected into the human body to kill the coronavirus.https://t.co/fTfrH9ddgd
When you see The Trumpster suggesting that you swallow some Lysol, think Jonestown and that freak Jim Jones. We’re really in poisoned Kool-Aid ☠️ territory with this buffoon
Sorry to burst bubbles, but it’s hot and sunny all year round in Singapore and we’re still getting hammered by the coronavirus pandemic. The heat has not saved us.
Here is Dr. Birx's reaction when President Trump asks his science advisor to study using UV light on the human body and injecting disinfectant to fight the coronavirus. pic.twitter.com/MVno5X7JMA
One of the cultural consequences of Trumpism is the truly wild idea that Trump represents any form of acceptable masculinity. Thin skinned? Hot-tempered? Unfaithful? Draft-dodging? Ignorant? Impulsive? That's every dad's dream for his son. https://t.co/Ao57tMb2pf
Imagine being Dr Birx, one of the world’s leading experts in immunology, vaccine research and global health, having to sit through this shit. pic.twitter.com/yqgnSLOjHH
Digital transformation has been accelerated! We spoke with @livescaletv , @CanvassAI & @CleanCreative about their desire to help, the changes to their companies and their thoughts about fundraising in this uncertain new landscape.https://t.co/TVJKZKtyaR
Lysol parent company Reckitt Benckiser on proper usage of disinfecting products: "We must be clear that under no circumstance should our disinfectant products be administered into the human body (through injection, ingestion or any other route)." https://t.co/SrUmZvdYJFpic.twitter.com/zpNc1iFZPw
I call my mother on WhatsApp, but my father on Viber. My niece suggested a chat on Houseparty, so I and my nephews...
Posted by Manjushree Thapa on Thursday, April 23, 2020
Coronavirus City: 21% of New York City is infected. Random test.
Only a matter of time and the entire city will be...
Posted by R Benson Evans on Thursday, April 23, 2020
Outbreak began earlier in US California health officials identifying a fatality on Feb. 6 — weeks before the first death was thought to have occurred at a Washington nursing home. ..... Testing in New York City, meanwhile, indicated that one out of every five people had antibodies for the virus, meaning many times more people than previously thought were infected. .......... Midwestern meat processing plants and factories are experiencing a surge in coronavirus cases, even as cases moderate in coastal areas. ........ A second wave of coronavirus infections could overlap with the start of flu season next winter, increasing the burden on health care facilities
White-collar jobs not in the clear The job losses that began in the restaurant, hotel and factory sector are making their way into white-collar offices of America. Analysts and engineers — many who have never had to apply for unemployment assistance before — are getting laid off. Bloomberg reports companies originally in the clear have seen dwindling revenue and profits, "triggering a second round of job cuts or furloughs, with office workers taking a bigger hit this time." According to a recent Gallup poll, a record-high 25% of working Americans believe they are likely to be laid off in the next year.
In the aftermath of the coronavirus crisis, India could emerge as the power behind the global growth engine The Covid-19 pandemic has sparked a backlash against globalisation, which ignores its huge contribution to global GDP and poverty reduction ...... While China, with its dynamic supply chain, labour pool and support systems for manufacturing, powered global growth after the 2008 financial crisis, India could do the same for services
The world is waking up to the risks of relying on China for its critical medical supplies For the US and Europe, the coronavirus pandemic has highlighted China’s dominance in critical medical supplies. ......The reliance is now an issue of national security and geopolitical risk, with more countries seeing it as an imperative to decouple and diversify away from China
Australia wants international probe into coronavirus origins, prompting backlash from China Prime Minister Scott Morrison discussed an investigation during phone calls with other leaders overnight ....... ‘Certain Australian politicians are keen to parrot what those Americans have asserted and simply follow them in staging political attacks on China,’ embassy statement said
Why is an oil price plunge not being celebrated by China, the world’s biggest crude buyer? China relies on imports for over 70 per cent of its domestic oil consumption, but lower prices represent a big challenge for its own oil production and investments ....... Low prices also do not directly translate into cheaper petrol and fuel bills for consumers due to Beijing’s strict control of domestic energy prices
a public health strategy that recognises the growing threat from new animal viruses is linked to human economic expansion
and taps the combined expertise of livestock and wildlife veterinary surgeons, conservationists and ecologists, along with medical doctors and researchers, to tackle it. ........... reduce human destruction of forests, which is thought to have driven more virus-carrying bats into orchards ........ “People recognised the interconnection between what’s happening in the ecosystem – land use change, agriculture intensification, and climate changes at the time – and how those all occurred at the same time, and what arises from that is something that’s very explosive” ....... The One Health approach, based on
the idea that human, animal and environmental health are interrelated
, has gained traction in the past two decades ............. the approach demands that different fields of expertise and government departments work together, which can result in bottlenecks caused by politics and bureaucracy ........... recognising, managing and monitoring the risks that have caused infectious diseases to emerge from wildlife at an unprecedented rate in recent decades. .......... changes in how people use land, like forests being ploughed into farmland; suburbs and cities spreading into rural areas; the increasing scale of the livestock industry and a booming wildlife trade – activities that drive increased contact between people and animals. ............... a number of disease outbreaks that followed Nipah virus: West Nile virus in New York City, severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) in southeastern China, and avian flu across East and Southeast Asia. ....... the current pandemic, likely caused by contact between humans and animals through the wildlife trade, and these same issues of human, animal and environmental health are at play. ......... the sanitation and hygiene in so-called wet markets, where live and butchered wild animals and poultry are crammed next to each other, creating prime opportunity for the viruses they carry to combine, mutate and jump to people. ........ China’s massive animal breeding farms. .......
The coronavirus pandemic has triggered calls from scientists around the world to ban the trade of wildlife in wet markets.
............. these intersections between human, animal and environmental health ........ problems often arise at government levels when bureaucrats focus on protecting their own turf. ........ “What [One Health] requires is linkages between government departments, and they never like that – they each have their own budgets and different power structures,” Dirk Pfeiffer, a professor of One Health at Hong Kong’s City University, said.
“If you look around the world, you will see very few examples of integration.”
........... most countries had “inadequate mechanisms” in place for collaboration among animal health, public health and environment sectors. .........
Wild animals account for about 70 per cent of emerging infectious diseases in recent decades
............... as the world looks to prevent future pandemics, strategies must take into account not only human, environmental and animal health, but the economic and social factors that influence them ........ “planetary health”, a more recent concept stressing recognition of linkages between environmental change and public health ......... The impetus to change and better manage the human behaviour that drives this risk could be the “painful silver lining to the Covid-19 outbreak”, he said. “If we can’t change course now, given the circumstances we find ourselves in, I don’t know if we ever will.”
Coronavirus study points to vast number of cases under the radar in China Researchers in Hong Kong find that Covid-19 definitions make big differences to the pandemic’s bigger picture ...... Mainland China might have had four times as many infections as official total if broader criteria used, team says