Trump claims he is now immune to the coronavirus and unable to spread it. Twitter labels his post misleading. he received cutting-edge combination treatment: remdesivir, an antiviral medication; dexamethasone, a steroid only recently shown to reduce death rates in severe cases; and an experimental cocktail of monoclonal antibodies, designed to turn back the virus shortly after infection.
Across much of Europe, the virus is running wild again. “This time is different,” he said, “as we are now going into the colder, darker winter months.”
In Nepal, where hospital beds are few, thousands of Covid-19 patients just stay home — until they can’t. Coronavirus infections have surpassed 100,000, about a third of which are currently active. ........ Cases in Nepal are increasing sharply, with a record 5,008 new infections recorded on Saturday. The Health Ministry counts fewer than 400 patients in intensive care, but even that has left I.C.U.s overflowing. Frontline doctors have also been infected, raising fears that health institutions’ staffing will be hollowed out. ............ To avoid system collapse, the government has asked Covid-19 patients to stay in home isolation — with the possibility of imprisonment if they venture outside — and to go to hospitals only if their condition turns critical. Almost 16,000 infected patients are in home isolation .............. But by the time infected people become seriously ill, it may be too late. ................. some patients had died in ambulances while searching for I.C.U. beds, others in home isolation, and still others while waiting for I.C.U. beds in isolation wards. More than 600 people have died in Nepal since the pandemic began, a relatively low death rate but one that is likely to rise since the explosion in cases was so recent. ................. darker days are yet to come.”
Despite derision from Senate Republicans, the White House hasn’t given up trying to make a relief deal. skeptical Senate Republicans would follow President Trump’s lead if Ms. Pelosi and Steven Mnuchin, the treasury secretary, could reach a deal. ......... “Republicans want to do it — we’re having a hard time with Nancy Pelosi,” Mr. Trump said on Sunday, speaking on Fox News. “We’re ready to go. We’re all ready to go. We can’t get Nancy Pelosi to sign the documents.” It was unclear what documents he was referring to. ............... repurpose funds from the lapsed Paycheck Protection Program as negotiations continued
The Northeast Held the Virus in Check. Now Cases Are Inching Up Again. The Northeast, devastated by the coronavirus in the spring and held up as a model of infection control by summer, is now seeing early signs of a second wave. ............ and much of the Northeast had successfully tamped down transmission of the virus with physical distancing and masking, as much of Europe had done. “The point is, once you let up on the brake, then eventually, slowly, it comes back” ............. Some 2,800 people are in a hospital in the region, accounting for 8 percent of the hospitalizations nationwide. Those figures are tiny compared with the spring, when tens of thousands of people in the Northeast were hospitalized on any given day, and morgues were running out of body bags. ............. “Places like New York and other states in the Northeast could have more of the classic second wave phenomenon” ............ “Pretty much everybody expects things to get somewhat worse.” .......... The air turned suddenly chilly in the past few weeks ........... the virus seems to have inexplicably spread all around the county. ............. a city that has the largest school district in the country.
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