Thursday, June 11, 2020

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FAUCI SAYS “WORST NIGHTMARE” PANDEMIC IS WORSE THAN HE EVER FEARED "OH MY GOODNESS," HE LAMENTED. "WHERE IS IT GOING TO END? .........  “In a period of four months, it has devastated the whole world,” Fauci said. “And it isn’t over yet.” ..........  It’s that rapid spread that surprised Fauci the most ....... Prior to the pandemic, Fauci would have expected an efficiently-spread disease to overtake the planet over the course of six months to a full year. .......... “Where is it going to end? We’re still at the beginning of really understanding.”   

DATA SUGGESTS THE PANDEMIC COULD BE COMING BACK WITH A VENGEANCE "SADLY AND QUIETLY, THE PANDEMIC IS ROARING BACK TO LIFE."  

SOME PEOPLE ARE HAVING HORRIFIC COVID SYMPTOMS FOR MONTHS "IT IS MILD RELATIVE TO DYING IN A HOSPITAL, BUT THIS VIRUS HAS RUINED MY LIFE."  ........   Thousands of COVID-19 patients, now calling themselves “long-haulers,” are reporting that they are experiencing symptoms including coughs, chest pain, and aching joints for months at a time — instead of the typical several weeks it takes to recover ...........  “Even reading a book is challenging and exhausting.” ..............  “I don’t think people are aware of the middle ground, where it knocks you off your feet for weeks, and you neither die nor have a mild case” ...........  Physicians are also puzzled by a myriad of other symptoms including hallucinations and short-term memory loss experienced by long-term sufferers. The trend only underlines just how much more we still have to learn about the deadly virus.

 
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Second U.S. Virus Wave Emerges With Texas Hitting Record  Texas on Wednesday reported 2,504 new coronavirus cases, the highest one-day total since the pandemic emerged. A month into its reopening, Florida this week reported 8,553 new cases -- the most of any seven-day period. California’s hospitalizations are at their highest since May 13 and have risen in nine of the past 10 days. ..........  In Georgia, where hair salons, tattoo parlors and gyms have been operating for a month and a half, case numbers have plateaued, flummoxing experts. ...........  Arizona “sticks out like a sore thumb in terms of a major problem” ........  “Within Phoenix, we’ve been more relaxed than I’ve seen in some of the other parts of the country,” White said, with some people disregarding advice to wear masks and maintain six feet of distance from others. “People are coming together in environments where social distancing is challenging.” ...........  Mobile-phone data show activity by residents is rebounding toward pre-Covid levels ........  That could reflect a perception that the virus wasn’t “ever a big threat” .........  “go to Venice and see the crowds, and you’ll understand why I have concerns.” ............ Experts are steeling for autumn, when changes in weather and back-to-school plans could have damaging repercussions.  

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.”

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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 Day 


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Wednesday, June 10, 2020

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‘I have never felt so helpless’: Front-line workers confront loss Doctors, nurses and first responders grapple with the enormity of what they’ve witnessed during the pandemic’s first wave .......    As he stood in his spacesuit of protective gear, holding his phone in front of the woman’s face so her daughter might see her one last time, Ayoub was indignant that this is what death had become during the coronavirus pandemic. ...........  Doctors, nurses and emergency medical technicians are supposed to be the superheroes of the pandemic. They are immortalized in graffiti, songs belted out from balcony windows and tributes erected from Times Square to the Eiffel Tower. But despite the accolades, many confide that the past months have left them feeling lost, alone, unable to sleep. They second-guess their decisions, experience panic attacks, worry constantly about their patients, their families and themselves, and feel tremendous anxiety about how and when this might end. .............   The unfathomable loss of more than 100,000 Americans within a matter of weeks — many in isolation, without family or friends — has inflicted a level of trauma few anticipated when they signed up for these jobs. ...............   She quoted her as describing a scene “like Armageddon” and saying, “We can’t keep up.” .........  Ayoub said he was not surprised when a quarter of his classmates in the residency program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai revealed in a survey they had thought about suicide. .........  “A lot of people were angry at the whole situation and the system,” he added. “How it all happened. How we weren’t prepared. The lack of support.” ..........  Counselors seeing health-care workers describe symptoms of burnout, PTSD and “moral injury” — the effect of hundreds of decisions made each day on the fly and amid the chaos, creating conflict between deeply held beliefs and options considered inadequate or downright wrong. ...........  struggled with helping her elderly patients sick with covid-19 decide whether to stay home and die surrounded by family — or go to the hospital where they would get treatment but still possibly die, in that case, almost certainly alone ...............  In some medical centers, the ratio of deaths to discharges was as high as 9 to 1 among the critically ill on ventilators. ......... Nurses placed empty white shoes in front of the White House to protest lost colleagues who they contend became ill and died as a result of inadequate protective equipment. ..... Ten nurses were suspended at Providence Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif., after they refused to enter a coronavirus patient’s room without N95 masks. ............   colleagues lived in cars, stayed at hotels or sent family members to live with relatives to avoid infecting loved ones. ......  A study of 1,257 doctors and nurses in China during that country’s coronavirus peak found that half reported depression, 45 percent anxiety and 34 percent insomnia. Another, looking at 1,400 health-care workers in Italy and published in JAMA Network Open, found half showed signs of post-traumatic stress, a quarter depression and 20 percent anxiety. In both China and Italy, young women were most likely to be affected. ............  the mental, emotional and physical burdens borne by health-care workers have been overwhelming. Witnessing the pain and death of so many other human beings, Hinrichsen said, reminds you of your own suffering and pain and brings home the reality that you, too, will die. .................  “It’s something that is hard to take straight on,” he said. “Like looking at the sun. You know it’s there and glance at it. But you don’t stare at it for hours at a time, day after day. That’s what working during the virus has been like for some.” ............  H e heard about one funeral home where police found dozens of decomposing bodies in a trailer, and he was furious..........  “PTSD is no joke.” .........   Looking out his window one day, seeing blue skies and feeling the sun, he could think only of crowds at the park, less than six feet apart, respiratory secretions flying. “This weekend is gorgeous,” he said. “It’s going to be horrible.” .........  “Certain moments trigger something that makes me really sad,” Holsbeke said. “I can be at home and be totally fine, and at bedtime, all of a sudden, sobs and anxiety kick in.” ........  had been screening patients for the coronavirus when he found out he had become infected. About a week after his diagnosis, Plaza was so short of breath he had trouble finishing sentences. .........  In one particularly brutal 10-day period, Audrey Chun lost seven patients — some of whom she had treated for decades. As a doctor in the geriatrics department of Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, she was used to death, but this was different. ...........   “Everything was happening so quickly,” he said. “Everyone was dying so quickly. We had to go from one death to another and the next. I was imagining it happening to my family and being in a situation like that.” .........  He  thought of the 50-something woman who had so many people who loved her but who died alone. .......  “In the back of my mind I kept thinking it’s all coming back — and probably worse than the first time.”  




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The reinvention of Ed Miliband Labour’s former leader is back and still convinced it’s time for capitalism to change. Can he make an impact? ..........   “Reforming capitalism is tough and there is big resistance to it,” he says. “But I think the mood has changed.” ...........  while the financial crash was an insufficient trigger for fundamental change, the social angst exposed by Brexit and the fragility of a global system laid bare by the coronavirus crisis have transformed the political landscape. He is convinced that Britain is now ready to embrace his vision of an active state working in “partnership” with the private sector and driving a green revolution. “The notion that the state just gets out of the way and that will then make for success — that has been buried by this crisis,” he says. “We’ve seen the state and business working together necessarily.” ...............   He was widely portrayed as a hapless figure apparently unable to eat a bacon sandwich and whose idea of a good stunt was to carve a series of pledges on to a 9ft slab of lime, gleefully dubbed the “EdStone” by the media. ..........   “Now people see him as someone who is up for a laugh, who can make a joke. He’s got good, intelligent ideas and has a wealth of knowledge and experience.” ...........   As Labour headed deeper into its ideological — and electorally barren — comfort zone, Miliband went off to see friends in Australia, growing a beard and reflecting on his failure..........  Corbyn famously responded to his decisive election defeat last year by claiming he had “won the argument” .........  a soft-left agenda promising to take on economic “predators”, to rein in privatised monopolies and to undertake some limited redistribution. ..........  something remarkable happened. “The public discovered I had a personality,” he smiles, his hands pushing deep into his slightly greying hair. ........   Miliband launched the Reasons to be Cheerful podcast, an affable look at political ideas, on which he owns a made-up dog called “Chutney”, and even burst into a rendition of “We All Stand Together” by Paul McCartney & The Frog Chorus. According to Miliband, the podcast pulls in 60,000-80,000 listeners a week.  ............ Miliband sounds relieved that the public eventually got to see another side of him. The demands of leading Labour had, he says tactfully, put him “in a certain space with a certain persona, which can be problematic”. ................    the fag end of the New Labour era, as the party’s 13-year dominance of British politics came to an end, when he succeeded Gordon Brown on September 25 2010. On a day of agonising drama, he unexpectedly beat his elder brother David Miliband, the former foreign secretary, to take the party crown.............  some on the Blairite wing of the Labour party, who saw David as their continuity candidate, have never forgiven Ed, who was regarded as very much the junior of the two siblings in both age and experience. “He was perhaps the most ill-suited, miscast, frightened, unskilled, lacking-in-judgment leader in Labour’s history,” says one former Labour minister............    . . . and I think — just like my leadership was an issue in 2015 — so Jeremy’s was in 2019.” ............. there were “real doubts about the deliverability of what we were saying”. ..........    he believes that Covid-19 could be the trigger for a green revolution in the UK. “This crisis supercharges things and underlines the need for us to go faster. We need to put young people back to work. What people can do, in terms of green energy and nature, is an absolute core of that in my view.” ..........    He argues that the cumulative effect of the 2008 financial crash, the public dissatisfaction with the status quo expressed in the 2016 Brexit referendum, and the convulsions caused by Covid-19 make profound reform unavoidable, and says the state has a key role to play. He cites the example of retraining laid-off Rolls-Royce aircraft engine-makers: “They could be incredibly useful to the future of our renewables industry.” ............  I wouldn’t recommend losing an election but one of the virtues for me was that it allowed me to be a proper father and husband. ..........  five years of “incredibly damaging factionalism”. “Most people say, ‘Let’s bury our differences,’” he adds. “We’re good at burying our similarities.” ........  Peter Mandelson, a leading Blairite, fears that Labour may be about to make a huge strategic mistake. “People can see the difference between emergency measures and normal times,” he says. “We would be fooling ourselves if we thought the country, as a result of the Covid experience, is now ready for some ideological project to usher in state control of the economy.”   


With then Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn addressing supporters in Doncaster in May 2016, before the EU referendum. Many party members still blame Miliband for the ‘one member, one vote’ change he brought in while leader, which helped the rank outsider Corbyn succeed him

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What the World Could Teach America About Policing Examples abound of reforms that are seen as “radical” in the United States..........   At the turn of the 21st century, Georgia was one of the most corrupt places on Earth. Bribery in the country, which lies in the Caucasus and shares a border with Russia, was rampant, and its police force, which was both a beneficiary and an enforcer of the system, was widely distrusted. So endemic was the issue that when a new government came to power in 2004, it determined that the country’s police force was too corrupt to be fixed. So its leaders decided to abolish the force entirely, sacking about 30,000 officers. Then it began the three-year process of hiring a smaller, better trained—and, crucially, corruption-free—police force to replace it. .............  focus more on community policing, which included an emphasis on de-escalation and using tools such as guns and handcuffs only as a last resort............... In Germany, for example, police recruits are required to spend two and a half to four years in basic training to become an officer, with the option to pursue the equivalent of a bachelor’s or master’s degree in policing. Basic training in the U.S., by comparison, can take as little as 21 weeks (or 33.5 weeks, with field training). The less time recruits have to train, the less time is afforded for guidance on crisis intervention or de-escalation. “If you only have 21 weeks of classroom training, naturally you’re going to emphasize survival” ............  This level of restraint isn’t unique to Germany—it’s a Europe-wide standard. In some European countries, the rules are stricter still: Police in Finland and Norway, for example, require that officers seek permission before shooting anyone, where possible. In Spain, police must provide verbal cautions and warning shots before resorting to deadly force. Even in circumstances where weapons aren’t used, police officers in Europe tend to be more restricted in what they can do. Chokeholds of the kind used to immobilize, and ultimately kill, Floyd are forbidden in much of Europe. .............. Part of the reason that police in Europe are loath to use lethal force is because in most scenarios, they don’t have to. Compared with the U.S., which claims 40 percent of the world’s firearms, gun ownership in most European countries is relatively rare. In Germany, “officers, with few exceptions in big cities, don’t have to expect that they will meet people who will shoot at them,” Kersten said. Indeed, a number of police officers in countries such as Britain, Ireland, and Norway aren’t armed at all. ..........  unlike many other similar countries, the American law-enforcement system is largely decentralized. The majority of the approximately 18,000 law-enforcement agencies across the U.S. are run at the city or county level, employing anywhere from one to 30,000 officers. The hyperlocalized nature of the system means that the standards and practices these agencies employ can vary widely. Unlike England and Wales, whose 43 police agencies are subject to the scrutiny of Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary, an independent body, American policing has no federal oversight authority. ............. the establishment of a National College of Policing ......... a registry of dismissed officers to ensure that those who are fired aren’t simply rehired elsewhere. ........... “The complexities of police administration and institutional design requires serious attention that is not going to happen with a presidential candidate,” Sherman continued, “but could and should happen at the gubernatorial level.”


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Tuesday, June 09, 2020

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Lt. Zack James of the Camden County Metro Police Department marches along with demonstrators in Camden.

A Camden County officer plays basketball with a young resident.

This city disbanded its police department 7 years ago. Here's what happened next  Last week, Minneapolis officials confirmed they were considering a fairly rare course of action: disbanding the city police department. It's not the first locale to break up a department, but no cities as populous have ever attempted it. Minneapolis City Council members haven't specified what or who will replace it if the department disbands. Camden, New Jersey, may be the closest thing to a case study they can get............  The city, home to a population about 17% of Minneapolis' size, dissolved its police department in 2012 and replaced it with an entirely new one after corruption rendered the existing agency unfixable. Before its police reforms, Camden was routinely named one of the most violent cities in the US. ......... Now, seven years after the old department was booted (though around 100 officers were rehired), the city's crime has dropped by close to half. Officers host outdoor parties for residents and knock on doors to introduce themselves. It's a radically different Camden than it was even a decade ago. ............ new "community-oriented policing," which prizes partnership and problem-solving over violence and punishment. ........... When a new recruit joins the force, they're required to knock on the doors of homes in the neighborhood they're assigned to patrol, he said. They introduce themselves and ask neighbors what needs improving. .........  Training emphasizes deescalation ........... Whites are the minority in Camden, so Cappelli said the new department has hired more black and brown officers to serve black and brown residents. ..........   "We can't police our way out of social issues, unemployment, disproportionate health issues, economic challenges -- these are things that drive crime" ...........   "In essence, Camden remains a tale of two cities."

If You Want To Know What Disbanding The Police Looks Like, Look At Mexico

If You Want To Know What Disbanding The Police Looks Like, Look At Mexico The rise of vigilante groups in Mexico offers a hint of what happens when institutions fail and civil society collapses. America should be paying attention. ..........  What comes after the police have been abolished remains unclear. Protesters and politicians alike are hazy on details, preferring instead to talk about “reimagining public safety” and throwing around vague terms like “community policing.” ............ the county sheriff’s office or the state police—or perhaps even federal law enforcement—would step into the vacuum and the city would have almost no say in how it was policed or what policies county and state law enforcement agencies adopted. .............  an armed group would emerge and impose a monopoly on the use of force............  the autodefensas movement quickly went from being an organic uprising against a vicious cartel to a vigilante free-for-all. ........... As far as violence and corruption go, things are worse in Mexico now than they were when Mireles formed the first autodefensa group. ..........  the rise of self-defense militias in Mexico, no less than the rise of cartels, is a direct result of the collapse of civil authority. Absent a functioning state, militias are no more accountable to the general public than a drug cartel—and no more capable of resisting corruption than the local or federal police. ............  Make no mistake, “defund the police” doesn’t mean “reform the police.” It means take the money away, which means fewer police on the street—and in the case of Minneapolis, apparently no municipal police on the street. .......  The fabric of our civic life is fraying badly, and calls to abolish the police are a sign of that. ........  These arrangements, however well-intentioned, will fall prey to the same corruption and unaccountability as the forces they replace, especially if the underlying causes of societal decay are left to fester.


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Monday, June 08, 2020

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Amit Shah: On Corona, we may have fallen short (but) what did Oppn do? Apart from interviews, the Congress did nothing. ....... Modiji started Shramik trains on May 1. From all the camps, city buses and interstate buses were made to reach railway stations. State governments took on the expenditure. Railways gave them food and water. Whenever they exited railway stations, state governments took them inside quarantine centres, took them to their villages. Food and lodging was arranged, and they were given Rs 1,000-2,000… The states and the Centre have thought about this problem. And that is the reason 1.25 crore people have reached home safely .........  “Big countries have been destroyed in front of it (Covid-19).   

The leadership of Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s prime minister, has been praised for helping the country’s 5m people manage a strict lockdown

New Zealand eliminates transmission of coronavirus Jacinda Ardern says country has no active cases and will focus on reopening economy .............  “Unlike the rest of the world, not only have we protected New Zealanders’ health, we now have a head-start on our economic recovery”.......... “Even the gloomiest of epidemiologists are confident we’ve gotten rid of the virus now.” .........  she “did a little dance” when first told that the virus had effectively been eradicated ..........  New Zealand has won praise for its aggressive approach to the health crisis. The government introduced a strict lockdown that closed most businesses and schools, sharply limited people’s movements and quarantined people arriving from overseas. The country also benefited from its remote location. ............  New Zealand and Australia are discussing opening a “travel bubble” between the two countries by September. ...........  “We don’t have this focus on individual rights that you have in the US. There is a willingness to give up something for the greater good” ..... “Both Australia and New Zealand have really good healthcare systems. They have safety nets — with some holes — that don’t really exist in the US.”  



 
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