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| Where Is Jared? | ||
Weeks after Jared Kushner was appointed to the coronavirus task force, the presidents son-in-law is nowhere to be seen.  | ||
| Donald Trump tries to calm mounting alarm over food shortages | ||
President Donald Trump on Tuesday tried to calm mounting fears of a food crisis by telling Americans 'there is no shortage of meat.'
The country's largest meat companies - including Smithfield Foods Inc , Cargill Inc , JBS USA and Tyson Foods Inc - have halted operations at about 20 slaughterhouses and processing plants in North America since April after workers became ill with the coronavirus, sparking fears of a meat shortage. The president took to twitter to try and calm concerns, retweeting a post from The Counter, a nonprofit that examines the nation's food supply. 'First, there is no shortage of meat destined for the grocery store shelf. It might take stores longer than usual to restock certain products, due to supply chain disruptions. But we have many millions of pounds of meat in cold storage across the nation,' it read.
President Donald Trump tried to calm mounting fears of a food crisis by telling Americans 'there is no shortage of meat.'
President Trump retweeted a message about the country's meat supply
The pork industry has been hit especially hard by the coronavirus as meat processing plants have closed throughout the country
The USDA reported last week there is 921 million pounds of chicken in storage and 467 million pounds of boneless beef, including hamburger, roasts and steaks.The demand for meat has gone up under stay-at-home orders with more Americans cooking instead of eating out. But before much of that meat could be sold at grocery stores it would need to be recut and repackaged, as restaurants buy in greater bulk than an individual at a market. Even if there is no shortage of meat, prices are expect to rise and selection is expected to decrease as companies warn that grocery shelves may take longer to fill. The Agriculture said last week beef prices are expect to rise 1% to 2% this year, poultry as much as 1.5% and pork between by from 2% and 3%. More than 5,000 meat and food processing workers have been infected by the coronavirus and 13 have died, the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union said last week. Meanwhile, live stock farmers are facing difficult choices. With meat processing plants unable to take animals, the farmers are considering having piglets aborted and euthanizing animals as they run out of space to house them. The pork industry typically slaughters around 510,000 pigs daily for bacon, hams and sausage. But, because of the coronavirus, plants that handle one-fifth of the daily total, or 105,000 pigs a day, have closed - leading to a backup on farms and raising the prospect of having to euthanize them and then render or bury the carcasses, The Wall Street Journal reported. Share this articleShare200 shares Unlike cattle, which can be housed outside in fields, hogs are fattened up inside temperature-controlled buildings. If they stay too long, they get big and injure themselves. Mature animals have to be moved out before the sows who were impregnated before the pandemic give birth. 'We have nowhere to go with the pigs,' Iowa farmer Al Van Beek told Reuters. 'What are we going to do?' The president's reassurance also comes as the chairman of Tyson Foods warned Sunday that 'the food supply chain' is breaking after coronavirus outbreaks forced the closure of their plants. John Tyson said 'millions of pounds of meat' will fail to reach stores and there will be a 'limited supply of our products available in grocery stores' until they are able to reopen facilities currently closed. Tyson Foods announced last week that it was shuttering two pork processing plants, including its largest in the United States, to contain the spread of the coronavirus. 'We have a responsibility to feed our country. It is as essential as healthcare. This is a challenge that should not be ignored. Our plants must remain operational so that we can supply food to our families in America,' John Tyson said. 'This is a delicate balance because Tyson Foods places team member safety as our top priority.'
Tyson Foods, the largest U.S. meat supplier, said it will indefinitely suspend operations at its largest pork plant in Waterloo, Iowa, pictured, after operating at reduced capacity
ATyson Foods Inc unit said on Thursday it will temporarily halt production at a beef facility in Pasco, Washington, pictured, adding to the meat processing plant the company has had to shutter as it tests workers for COVID-19
Tyson also closed a pork processing facility in Logansport, Indiana, pictured, while its more than 2,200 workers at the plant undergo testing for COVID-19
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John Tyson, pictured, has warned that 'the food supply chain' is breaking
The company also temporarily closed a beef processing plant in Pasco, Washington.The closures are limiting the amount of meat the United States can produce during the outbreak and adding stress on farmers who are losing markets for their pigs. Lockdowns that aim to stop the spread of the coronavirus have also prevented farmers around the globe from delivering food products to consumers. Millions of laborers cannot get to fields for harvesting and planting, and there are too few truckers to keep goods moving. Tyson's statement, in the form of an advert in a number of newspapers on Sunday, came after workers at plants argued they were not being protected by their employer. Employers have struggled to contain the virus in meatpacking plants, where workers toil side by side on production lines and often share crowded locker rooms, cafeterias and rides to work. One Tyson worker at the plant in Waterloo told CNN he called HR amid concerns coronavirus was at the facility. Ernest Latiker said: 'I was scared for me and my family. They told me I was safe and they told me that everything was ok. 'They told me I have a better chance of catching the coronavirus going out to Walmart than at Tyson, if you come to work you're safe. 'I wanted to believe to them and I needed the money at the same time so I went to work.'
Tyson Foods worker Ernest Latiker, pictured, said he called HR amid coronavirus concerns
Tyson's statement in the form of an advert in a number of newspapers on Sunday came after workers at plants argued they were not being protected by their employer
Spread of coronavirus closes meat plants
Some of the facilities that have shut or reduced production as coronavirus spreads:
JBS USA said it would indefinitely close a pork plant in Worthington, Minnesota, that processes 20,000 hogs a day. JBS closed a beef plant in Greeley, Colorado, until April 24. Smithfield Foods indefinitely shut a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, plant that produces about 4% to 5% of U.S. pork. Smithfield also shuttered two plants in Wisconsin and Missouri that process bacon and ham. Tyson Foods Inc closed a hog slaughterhouse in Columbus Junction, Iowa. It has since reopened National Beef Packing Co suspended cattle slaughtering at an Iowa Premium beef plant in Tama, Iowa National Beef said it suspended operations at a Dodge City, Kansas, beef plant for cleaning and to install stainless steel partitions Aurora Packing Company temporarily closed a beef plant in Aurora, Illinois JBS shut a beef plant in Souderton, Pennsylvania. It reopened on April 20 Cargill closed a plant in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, that produces meat for U.S. grocery stores The health department in Ogle County, Illinois, on April 17 ordered a Rochelle Foods plant owned by Hormel Foods Corp to close for two weeks Hormel-owned Alma Foods suspended production at a Kansas plant until May 4 Sanderson Farms Inc reduced chicken production to 1 million birds a week from 1.3 million at a plant in Moultrie, Georgia. 'It means the loss of a vital market outlet for farmers and further contributes to the disruption of the nation's pork supply.' After the closure of the Logansport facility, slaughterhouses that account for 19 per cent of pork production in the United States will be shut. And coronavirus-related staffing shortages at chicken processing plants will lead farms in Maryland and Delaware to destroy nearly two million chickens. The Baltimore Sun reported Friday that the plants are unable to keep pace with the number of birds that are ready for harvest. They had been placed into poultry houses as chicks several weeks ago. The chickens will not be processed for meat. The trade group the Delmarva Poultry Industry said that every poultry plant on the Delmarva Peninsula has struggled with a reduced worker attendance. The reasons include workers being sick with the coronavirus and people following guidance to stay home if sick. The Delmarva Peninsula includes parts of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. The trade group said that one unidentified company has become the first to do what's called 'depopulation.' The trade group said the company was unable to find other options, such as allowing another company to take the chickens. Delmarva Poultry Industry Inc said the chickens will killed 'using approved, humane methods'. The former Chief Veterinary Officer for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, John Clifford, said at the time of avian flu 'the fastest way and probably the most humane way to take care of this' was to 'shut off ventilation systems.' The trade group said that the extermination methods have been approved by the American Veterinary Medical Association for handling cases of infectious avian disease. | ||
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| Putin The Sixty Billions treats the Russian workers "like pigs" | ||
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| Senior FSB officer becomes the highest-ranked Russian official linked to investigation into MH17 | ||
A senior FSB officer has become the highest-ranked Russian official linked to the investigation into the MH17 jet tragedy.
Col. Gen. Andrei Burlaka, the FSB Border Service's chief of operational staff, has been named as the highest-ranking person of interest in the criminal investigation into the downing of the plane, by open-source intelligence site Bellingcat and Russia's The Insider news website. The 54-year-old, who is said to be fourth in the chain of command below Vladimir Putin, is alleged to have controlled the supply of weapons from Russia in to Ukraine around the time of the 2014 disaster. A separate investigation, published today by the BBCs Russian Service, said Burlaka had been in Rostov-on-Don, a Russian army hub near Ukraine's border, the day the passenger jet was shot down. So far, four men who international investigators believe are responsible for shooting down MH17 which led to the deaths of 298 people in 2014 have been named and charged with murder.
Col. Gen. Andrei Burlaka (pictured), the FSB Border Service's chief of operational staff, has been named as the highest-ranking person of interest in the criminal investigation into the downing of the plane
Dutch-led investigators last autumn appealed for witnesses to help identify a key figure known as 'Vladimir Ivanovich Burlaka' in intercepted calls between rebel commanders and Russian officials.A joint investigative report by Bellingcat and The Insider states that 'Vladimir Ivanovich' is Col. Gen. Andrei Ivanovich Burlaka, and claims that they were able to establish his identify by analysing phone records, travel data and through voice-comparison technology. 'Based on the call intercepts as a whole, it becomes clear that "Vladimir Ivanovich" played a critical role in the chain of command between ostensibly local militants and the Russian government,' Bellingcat reported. The report continued that Burlaka would have been in a prime position 'to supervise the movement of weapons from Russia to Ukraine and thus would have had to authorize the transfer of the Russian Buk missile launcher that shot the Malaysian airliner after crossing the border.' Russia has denied involvement in the downing of MH17 over eastern Ukraine.
Ukrainian rescue servicemen inspect part of the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 on July 20, 2014
The four men who international investigators believe are responsible for shooting down MH17 are Russians Igor Girkin, Sergey Dubinsky and Oleg Pulatov, and Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko, all of whom were fighting for Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine when the jet was hit by a missile over the territory in 2014.A trial of the four men was scheduled to start in March but has been suspended until June 8 to give defence lawyers more time to prepare. Dutch prosecutor Fred Westerbeke said that there are no plans to seek extradition, meaning the men will likely be tried in absentia. Barry Sweeney, the father of one of ten Britons who died on the jet, said: 'It's not going to bring anyone back, but if I found out why it happened, it would bring a bit of closure.' Meanwhile Moscow slammed the 'absolutely groundless accusations,' claiming the international community had frozen them out of investigations to discredit Russia.
Igor Girkin (left) and Sergey Dubinsky (right), both Russian ex-intelligence officers, were named by international investigators as two of the men responsible for shooting down MH17
Oleg Pulatov, a Russian ex-army officer, and Leonid Kharchenko, the Ukrainian commander of separatist rebels in the country's east, have also been identified
Prosecutors said Girkin was a former colonel in Russia's FSB intelligence agency who was the self-declared minister of defence in the separatist administration in eastern Ukraine.Dubinskiy was a former minister from the Russian military intelligence agency GRU, Pulatov was an ex-soldier in Russia's Spetznaz special forces unit and Kharchenko a Ukrainian separatist. Ukraine's top prosecutor has said the country will try to arrest Kharchenko and, if he is detained, will arrange for him to be tried via video-link. If he is found guilty, Ukraine will impose a sentence.
The reconstructed wreckage of MH17 is presented to the media by Dutch investigators in 2015
Of the Russian suspects, Mr Westerbeke said 'in the short term we will ask Russia to hand the summons to the suspects' and will 'ask for Russia to cooperate again with legal help.'The developments come almost two years after the Dutch-led Joint Investigation Team concluded that the missile which shot down the plane came from a Russian military brigade based in Kursk. MH17 was on its way from from Amsterdam to the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur when it was brought down. Of those killed, 196 were Dutch and another 38 were Australian. Passengers from the UK, Canada, Malaysia, Germany, Belgium, Philippines and Indonesia also died. | ||
| Donald Trump's former Russian oligarch business partner says real estate empire is sinking | ||
Donald Trump's former Russian business partner is watching his business empire 'sink' due to the coronavirus shutdown.
Real estate and retail magnate Aras Agalarov, 64, hosted the 2013 Miss Universe pageant, then owned by Trump and NBC Universal, and the oligarch went on to have a walk-on part in the Mueller report. He has never spoken of his inside knowledge of Trump's visit to Russia which was the subject of lurid allegations by British ex-spy Christopher Steele. Agalarov - worth $1.7 billion before COVID-19 and seen as close to Vladimir Putin who awarded him a high honor - said his Crocus Group business was in trouble over the lockdown amid warnings there is worse to come as Russia will not hit its coronavirus peak until May 5-10. 'The story is, I'm sitting in this office like captain of a small boat, and watching it sink,' he told Russian media group RBC. 'And I can't do anything, it's impossible to influence it in any way.'
Russian real estate magnate Aras Agalarov, 64, (right) is Donald Trump's former business partner who hosted the 2013 Miss Universe pageant owned by Trump. Agalarov said his Crocus Group business is in trouble due to coronavirus shutdowns. Pictured with Donald Trump and his son Emin Agalarov (left)
Billionaire Agalarov pointed to lack of help from his friend President Vladimir Putin's government in getting his businesses out of a financial hole
His business of shopping malls (like the one above in Russia), exhibition facilities, an aquarium, restaurants, and fitness clubs employs 15,000 staff, but 2,000 are now in shutdown
His group employs 15,000 staff and all but all but 2,000 are now in shutdown.
Agalarov fears the worst is yet to come when Russia hits its coronavirus peak in May
'A ship of 15,000 people is just slowly sinking before the eyes of the captain of the ship, who cannot even pump out water, because they simply do not provide an opportunity,' he said, apparently referring to lack of help from Putin's government.The group manages over 1.5 million square meters of commercial real estate. His portfolio includes shopping malls, exhibition facilities, an aquarium, restaurants, and fitness clubs. Vladimir Putin today extended the Russian lockdown until May 11 as the country suffered its highest daily death toll of 72 and record rise in infections of 6,411. The Agalarov-owned Crocus Expo exhibition center near Moscow is to be used as one of two new emergency 1,500-bed coronavirus hospitals with infections on an upward curve. Agalarov's singer son and first vice president of Crocus Group, Emin Agalarov said: 'It's true. Indeed, such a task has been set for us. 'We are actively working on it now ... I'm not ready to give exact dates. 'But I can say that it will be very fast. I think this is a matter of several weeks.'
The Agalarov-owned Crocus Expo exhibition center near Moscow is to be used as one of two new emergency 1,500-bed coronavirus hospitals with infections on an upward curve.
The Agalarov's Expo center is being transformed into a COVID-19 hospital just as the country suffered its highest daily death toll of 72 and record rise in infections of 6,411
Agalarov and his son Emin he had more than 50 mentions in the Robert Mueller report following the investigation into Russian interference in the last presidential election.At the center of the inquiries was a meeting on June 9, 2016, which Emin, 40, set up at the behest of his father, using former publicist, Rob Goldstone. This involved a lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, seen as close to the Kremlin, other Russian officials, and senior members of Trumps's campaign, including Don Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort, since convicted of financial fraud. The year after the Moscow Miss Universe, Agalarov senior's real estate arm discussed a licensing deal for Trump in Moscow, but in the event nothing came of it. In Moscow there has been speculation that Agalarov senior holds 'kompromat' - compromising material on Trump. - from the 2013 visit. The US president once described the Agalarov's as 'the best family in Russia'.
'The story is, I'm sitting in this office like captain of a small boat, and watching it sink,' Agalarov (center) told Russian media group RBC of the damage the coronavirus shutdown is having on business
Agalarov, a pro-Putin billionaire, was the Russian backer for Miss Universe 2013 in Moscow and attempted to develop Trump Tower Moscow with the president
Emin, the Russian pop star and son of Aras Agalarov, was involved in the Mueller investigation for his role in organizing the notorious 2016 Trump Tower meeting
Another Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska with close links to Putin and complex relations with America has spoken out in support of Steve Bannon over his claims that the Chinese Communist Party was culpable in the spread of COVID-19.'Millions of victims of the virus around the world want to get an answer to the question of how was this possible and where this virus came from,' said the 52-year-old metals mogul. 'And they have the right to demand an investigation. What is happening in the world now is biological Chernobyl. 'Even Fox reporters are wondering how could it happen that with so many victims in Wuhan, the number of cases in Beijing is negligible compared to New York or Milan.' He said more people were coming round to the views of Bannon 'and they will agree that the UN, under its auspices, initiate a thorough investigation of this Wuhan Chernobyl'. His inflammatory language goes beyond what the Kremlin has said but the outburst is intriguing.
Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska spoke out in support of Steve Bannon over his claims that the Chinese Communist Party was culpable in the spread of COVID-19
Russian model and self proclaimed 'sex coach' Anastasia Vashukevich, 28, also known as Nastya Rybka, claimed secret recordings between Deripaska and Russian ex-deputy premier Sergei Prikhodko (right), showed a secret back channel between Putin's top henchmen and the Trump election campaign
Two months ago the Financial Times reported that the US Treasury believed Deripaska had laundered personal money for Putin.The Russian moneyman was sanctioned among two dozen others for Russia's 'malign activity around the globe.' Deripaska dismissed the claims as 'guesses, rumors and balderdash', and were denied by the Kremlin. Separately, Deripaska was embroiled in a 2016 scandal when his alleged ex-mistress recorded conversations on his yacht involving Russian ex-deputy premier Sergei Prikhodko, a close Putin lieutenant. Anastasia Vashukevich, 28, also known as Nastya Rybka, who has described herself as a 'sex coach', claimed the recordings showed a secret back channel between Putin's top henchmen and the Trump election campaign. Deripaska's associates included jailed Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign adviser, who had 'offered private briefings' to the Russian mogul. German Gref, head of Sberbank, today claimed Russia will not reach its coronavirus peak until the first or second week of May. | ||
| 'Are We Pigs?': Gazprom Pipeline Workers Protest Conditions Amid Coronavirus Outbreak | ||
Gas workers in Russia's Far East staged a mass rally to demand better working conditions and more transparency amid a reported coronavirus ... | ||
| " Are We Pigs?: Gazprom Pipeline Workers Protest Conditions Amid Coronavirus Outbreak | ||
Gas workers in Russias Far East staged a mass rally to demand better working conditions and more transparency amid a reported coronavirus outbreak at their gas field, local media reported Tuesday.
Footage from the Gazprom energy giants Chayanda field, which supplies China with natural gas through the recently launched Power of Siberia pipeline, showed laborers crowded outside their barracks in violation of social distancing guidelines. Authorities quarantined Chayanda in mid-April after at least seven workers tested positive for Covid-19, a figure that surpassed 50 by Tuesday.
Theyre feeding us animal feed. Were being held like pigs, are we pigs? the workers can be heard saying in a profanity-laced address, according to a video published by the Yakutia.info news website.
Wheres the quarantine? Where are the masks? Theres nothing! They drove us all into dorms, were carrying all kinds of infections, the workers continue. The Russian republic of Sakhas crisis center took samples from all 10,500 Chayanda field workers and is awaiting coronavirus test results, according to Yakutia.info. There are a lot of infected people, according to preliminary data, the crisis center was quoted as saying. In an open letter quoted by Yakutia.info, the workers complained of being kept in the dark about their results for almost a week (the tests were said to have been carried out last Wednesday, April 22) while living in cramped conditions. Avoiding physical contact is absolutely impossible in such living conditions. We eat from the same dishes, wash in communal baths and showers and change the same bed linens, they wrote. Together with these circumstances, the simple lack of information about peoples fates, about the fate of infected people, can lead to irreparable consequences. Sakha governor Aysen Nikolayev later vowed to return the workers to their home regions, where healthy workers will be placed in observation and infected patients hospitalized, the crisis center said. Federal officials have ordered the Emergency Situations Ministry to start constructing a field hospital near Chayanda on Thursday, Nikolayev added. Regional prosecutors said theyre inspecting compliance with health and labor codes at the gas field, the state-run TASS news agency reported. The republic of Sakha has reported 166 coronavirus cases as of Tuesday. Russias nationwide total rose to 93,558 that day, placing it eighth among the countries most-affected by the pandemic. | ||
| Coronavirus: Expert 'would not put money' on finding vaccine | ||
A leading scientist has said he would not put any money on an effective coronavirus vaccine being found any time soon.
But Prof Hugh Pennington said the virus could still be "seen off by Christmas" through social distancing, testing and contact tracing. And he played down fears of the country being hit by a second wave of Covid-19 cases once the lockdown is lifted. He also criticised the low number of tests that have been carried out. Prof Pennington, a microbiologist who has previously advised both the UK and Scottish governments, was giving evidence to a meeting of the Scottish Parliament's health committee by video link. And while he was "hopeful" that a vaccine would be found, he said he would "not be putting any money on it at this stage". Prof Pennington added: "There is already evidence suggesting that immunity against Covid-19 is not particularly strong after infection. "Many people don't really develop very much in the way of antibodies but they recover from the infection, which might suggest that traditional vaccines are not going to be particularly effective. "I think probably the best thing we can hope for is a vaccine or a set of vaccines which will be partially protective, and they may not work as well in the elderly because most vaccines don't. "So to put all our money on a vaccine as the way we can end the current crisis I think will be a mistake, because we may never get to that point." He also said the UK did not currently have the capacity to manufacture a vaccine in sufficient quantities, and the country would therefore "just have to put our order in". Despite this, he insisted that it could be possible to "see the virus off by Christmas" if the country "really blasts away" with its testing facilities. And he claimed it was "very unlikely" there could be a second wave of the virus, as this was an idea linked to influenza epidemics - which he said are "quite different". Prof Pennington said the ultimate goal should be to eradicate Covid-19, as had happened with diseases like Sars and smallpox. He said: "It's a reasonably optimistic position, in that there's no reason in my view why we shouldn't look at Sars as the model - a virus we managed to control and eradicate, unlike flu, which is a virus we've never managed to eradicate and which kills people every year. "I don't see any reason why we should be so pessimistic as to follow the flu model, when we know this virus is very different." He said the current lockdown had been successful, but mass testing could and should have been rolled out "faster and more effectively" across the UK "We don't have either a vaccine or antiviral drugs available for Covid-19, so prevention is the absolute paramount thing. The only way we know where the virus is is by testing. And we have a very good test. "We could have done a lot more to get that test rolling in many, many centres. We had the test, but we didn't use all the facilities available - not just in public health or NHS laboratories, but in research institutes and universities." And he said lessons must be learned for future virus outbreaks, as he warned: "There will be other pandemics." He said: "We have to do better on our pandemic planning, we need to have better stocks of PPE and better testing facilities - not necessarily running, but to deal with surge capacity. "We don't know when they will happen, we don't know how serious they will be, but if we don't spend the money to have the capacity to cope with them then we'll have the same issues we're having now with Covid-19." | ||
| Don't bet on coronavirus vaccine, scientist tells MSPs | ||
DON'T bet on a coronavirus vaccine to end the pandemic, a leading scientist has told MSPs. Microbiologist Professor Hugh Pennington urged ... | ||
| Dont bet on vaccine to protect us from Covid-19, says world health expert | World news | ||
Humanity will have to live with the threat of coronavirus for the foreseeable future and adapt accordingly because there is no guarantee that a vaccine can be successfully developed, one of the worlds leading experts on the disease has warned.
The stark message was delivered by David Nabarro, professor of global health at Imperial College, London, and an envoy for the World Health Organisation on Covid-19, as the number of UK hospital deaths from the virus passed 15,000. A further 888 people were reported on Saturday to have lost their lives a figure described by communities secretary Robert Jenrick as extremely sobering while the total number who have been infected increased by 5,525 to 114,217. The latest figures, which do not include deaths in care homes and in the community, put further pressure on the government amid continuing anger among NHS workers and unions over the lack personal protective equipment (PPE) for hospital and care home staff on the front line. In late March the governments health advisers said that if UK deaths from Coronavirus could be kept below 20,000 by the end of the pandemic, it would be a good result for country. But with an estimated 6,000 people having already died in care homes from Covid-19 a figure not included in Saturdays official tally the 20,000 figure is likely already to have been exceeded. In an interview with The Observer Nabarro said the public should not assume that a vaccine would definitely be developed soon and would have to adapt to the ongoing threat. You dont necessarily develop a vaccine that is safe and effective against every virus. Some viruses are very, very difficult when it comes to vaccine development - so for the foreseeable future, we are going to have to find ways to go about our lives with this virus as a constant threat. That means isolating those who show signs of the disease and also their contacts. Older people will have to be protected. In addition hospital capacity for dealing with cases will have to be ensured. That is going to be the new normal for us all. The comments came as the former UK health secretary Jeremy Hunt said the only way forward was for nations to support a new global health system that would mean far more international cooperation between governments on health issues. It would also require richer nations doing more to support the health systems of the worlds poorest countries. I think global health security is going to be on that small but critical list of topics like climate change that we can only solve in partnership with other countries, Hunt told The Observer. In a clear criticism of US President Donald Trump who announced last week he was putting on hold funding to the World Health Organisation (WHO) Hunt added: Surely the lesson of coronavirus is cure not killIt certainly does not mean cutting their funding (to the WHO). One of the big lessons from this will be that when it comes to health systems across the world, we are only as strong as the weakest link in the chain. Although China has rightly been criticised for covering up the virus in the early stages the situation would have been whole lot worse if this had started in Africa. International cooperation and supporting health care systems of the poorest countries has to be a top priority in terms of the lessons we need to learn. Nabarros message is the second grim warning to come from senior ranks of the WHO in the last three days. On Friday, Maria Van Kerkhove, head of WHOs emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, warned that there was no evidence that antibody tests now being developed would show if a person has immunity or is no longer at risk of becoming reinfected by the Covid-19 virus. On Saturday it emerged that doctors and nurses treating Covid-19 face shortages of protective full-length gowns for weeks to come, as anger mounts over failures to stockpile them. Gowns were not included in a stockpile list prepared for a potential flu pandemic. After The Guardian revealed new guidance from Public Health England which instructs healthcare workers to re-use disposable equipment, the GMB, which represents NHS and ambulance staff, said support was draining away from Health Secretary, Matt Hancock. Saffron Cordery, deputy chief executive of NHS Providers which represents many trusts, told the Observer: We are in a situation where we think this [issue] will last a couple of weeks, which probably does just take us to May. There is a shortage of gowns which is affecting some trusts, but not all. Some have none, and are using the alternatives. The government will attempt to gain control of the mounting PPE concerns by appointing Paul Deighton, chief executive of the London Olympics organising committee, to lead efforts to produce equipment in Britain. Ministers also announced another £1.6bn cash injection to local councils as they attempt to stem a spiralling crisis in social care that is pushing some care providers into the red. Some have been paying inflated prices for commercial protective equipment. | ||
| Don't bet on coronavirus vaccine, scientist tells MSPs | ||
DON'T bet on a coronavirus vaccine to end the pandemic, a leading scientist has told MSPs.
Microbiologist Professor Hugh Pennington urged authorities to "test, test, test" and said the killer virus could be "seen off by Christmas" by a combination of checks, social distancing and contact tracing.
Giving evidence to the Scottish Parliament's Health Committee, the Aberdeen University expert who has previously advised both the Scottish and UK governments said that while he is "hopeful" of a treatment, he will "not be putting any money on it at this stage".
Stating that the UK does not have the capacity to produce large quantities of a vaccine, he went on: "Probably the best thing we can hope for is a vaccine or a set of vaccines which will be partially protective, and they may not work as well in the elderly because most vaccines don't. "So to put all our money on a vaccine as the way we can end the current crisis I think will be a mistake because we may never get to that point." But Pennington said there is "no reason" why coronavirus may not be tackled by Christmas if authorities are "really blasting away" on testing. He said: "There is already evidence suggesting that immunity against Covid-19 is not particularly strong after infection. "Many people don't really develop very much in the way of antibodies but they recover from the infection, which might suggest that traditional vaccines are not going to be particularly effective." The scientist went on: "There's no reason in my view why we shouldn't look at Sars as the model, a virus we managed to control and eradicate, unlike flu, which is a virus we've never managed to eradicate and which kills people every year. "I don't see any reason why we should be so pessimistic as to follow the flu model, when we know this virus is very different." Pennington said a failure to employ more robust testing and tracing had been a "policy error", and, in a warning for the future, he said: "There will be other pandemics. "We have to do better on our pandemic planning, we need to have better stocks of PPE and better testing facilities - not necessarily running, but to deal with surge capacity. "We don't know when they will happen, we don't know how serious they will be, but if we don't spend the money to have the capacity to cope with them then we'll have the same issues we're having now with Covid-19." | ||
| Researchers caution on effects of coronavirus on male fertility | ||
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| 11:16 AM 4/28/2020 - The Perfect Bio-weapon for the Population Control: Coronavirus Could Cause Male Infertility | ||
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 Symptoms of the novel coronavirus explainedHere's a list of symptoms of the virus and precautions people can take in order to better protect themselves as the novel coronavirus continues to spread around the world.  106-year-old woman out of hospital after beating coronavirusA 106-year-old woman - believed to be Britain's oldest Covid-19 survivor - has left hospital after shaking off coronavirus and suspected pneumonia.  Respiratory therapist: Pandemic 'overwhelming'Chicago respiratory therapist Brady Scott says he feels overwhelmed by the coronavirus pandemic. Scott says so many people need breathing machines that simply haven't been manufactured yet. Virus provokes spike in demand for food pantriesThe coronavirus pandemic has provoked a spike in demand for food pantries in the U.S. Providers have seen people lining up hours before pantries open.  What Causes Infertility?Infertility can be a challenging and isolating experience, but there are many reasons why you aren't falling pregnant and causes of infertility as Obstetrician, Gynecologist, Infertility and IVF Specialist Dr Joseph Sgroi explains.  The new coronavirus: key terms explainedHere are some of the key terms surrounding the new coronavirus explained, as new words and phrases enter the mainstream and become conflated. How the novel coronavirus progresses from day to dayChinese scientists have identified a pattern of day-to-day symptoms typical of patients with coronavirus in a new study. As scientists unpack the new coronavirus day by day, we have come to know that it may cause gastrointestinal symptoms and, in some cases, even neurological problems. But what about its effect on the rest of the body specifically in terms of fertility and the urinary tract? New research published in Nature Reviews Urology suggests that there is evidence that Covid-19 has implications for the urogenital tract, something which should be considered when treating Covid-19. According to the paper, most patients with severe Covid-19 present with pneumonia-related symptoms, but some patients could develop serious urinary tract complications, including acute kidney injury (AKI), which requires continuous renal therapy. Male reproductive system also affectedBesides kidney health, the paper states that male reproductive systems are especially vulnerable to Covid-19 infection. This has to do with dramatic changes in the sex hormones that have been observed in some patients with Covid-19.This may lead to impaired function of the testes (gonadal function impairment). The mechanism of Covid-19 and the reproductive systemIt is already known that some viruses such as HIV, hepatitis B and C, mumps, EpsteinBarr and papilloma can cause viral orchitis, a condition where one, or both, of the male testes are inflamed. This condition may even lead to male infertility and testicular tumours.In the case of coronavirus, testes autopsies from six patients who died from SARS the virus which caused the 2003 outbreak showed viral orchitis. The researchers concluded that the new coronavirus may have the same effect. In the paper, they also refer to a previous study outcome where patients with Covid-19 showed dramatically decreased levels of testosterone in comparison to their healthy counterparts. According to them, this could be a sign that reproductive health is impaired. What Covid-19 patients (and their doctors) should knowThe researchers emphasised that those who are predisposed to kidney conditions are more at risk for Covid-19-related complications, and when they do contract the disease, health professionals should monitor their kidney health. In the case of young men contracting Covid-19 who wish to have children in the future, it is suggested they have a fertility consultation later to ensure that there is no impaired gonadal function.READ | Coronavirus hangs around even after symptoms subside READ | Mild coronavirus cases often appear with only gastro symptoms Image credit: Getty ImagesCompiled by Marelize Wilke | ||
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| Top E.R. Doctor Who Treated Coronavirus Patients Dies by Suicide - The New York Times | ||
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A top emergency room doctor at a Manhattan hospital that treated many coronavirus patients died by suicide on Sunday, her father and the police said.
Dr. Lorna M. Breen, the medical director of the emergency department at NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital, died in Charlottesville, Va., where she was staying with family, her father said in an interview.
Tyler Hawn, a spokesman for the Charlottesville Police Department, said in an email that officers on Sunday responded to a call seeking medical assistance.
The victim was taken to U.V.A. Hospital for treatment, but later succumbed to self-inflicted injuries, Mr. Hawn said.
Dr. Breens father, Dr. Philip C. Breen, said she had described devastating scenes of the toll the coronavirus took on patients.
She tried to do her job, and it killed her, he said.
The elder Dr. Breen said his daughter had contracted the coronavirus but had gone back to work after recuperating for about a week and a half. The hospital sent her home again, before her family intervened to bring her to Charlottesville, he said.
Dr. Breen, 49, did not have a history of mental illness, her father said. But he said that when he last spoke with her, she seemed detached, and he could tell something was wrong. She had described to him an onslaught of patients who were dying before they could even be taken out of ambulances.
She was truly in the trenches of the front line, he said.
He added: Make sure shes praised as a hero, because she was. Shes a casualty just as much as anyone else who has died.
In a statement, NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia used that language to describe her. Dr. Breen is a hero who brought the highest ideals of medicine to the challenging front lines of the emergency department, the statement said. Our focus today is to provide support to her family, friends and colleagues as they cope with this news during what is already an extraordinarily difficult time.
Dr. Angela Mills, head of emergency medical services for several NewYork-Presbyterian campuses, including Allen, sent an email to hospital staffers on Sunday night informing them of Dr. Breens death. The email, which was reviewed by The New York Times, did not mention a cause of death. Dr. Mills, who could not be reached for comment, said in the email that the hospital was deferring to the familys request for privacy.
A death presents us with many questions that we may not be able to answer, the email read.
Aside from work, Dr. Breen filled her time with friends, hobbies and sports, friends said. She was an avid member of a New York ski club and traveled regularly out west to ski and snowboard. She was also a deeply religious Christian who volunteered at a home for older people once a week, friends said. Once a year, she threw a large party on the roof deck of her Manhattan home.
She was very close with her sisters and mother, who lived in Virginia.
One colleague said he had spent dozens of hours talking to Dr. Breen not only about medicine but about their lives and the hobbies she enjoyed, which also included salsa dancing. She was a lively presence, outgoing and extroverted, at work events, the colleague said.
NewYork-Presbyterian Allen is a 200-bed hospital at the northern tip of Manhattan that at times had as many as 170 patients with Covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus. As of April 7, there had been 59 patient deaths at the hospital, according to an internal document.
Dr. Lawrence A. Melniker, the vice chair for quality care at the NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, said that Dr. Breen was a well-respected and well-liked doctor in the NewYork-Presbyterian system, a network of hospitals that includes the Columbia University Irving Medical Center and the Weill Cornell Medical Center.
You dont get to a position like that at Allen without being very talented, he said.
Dr. Melniker said the coronavirus had presented unusual mental health challenges for emergency physicians throughout New York, the epicenter of the crisis in the United States.
Doctors are accustomed to responding to all sorts of grisly tragedies, he said. But rarely do they have to worry about getting sick themselves, or about infecting their colleagues, friends and family members.
And rarely do they have to treat their own co-workers.
Another colleague said that Dr. Breen was always looking out for others, making sure her doctors had protective equipment or whatever else they needed. Even when she was home recovering from Covid-19, she texted her co-workers to check in and see how they were doing, the colleague said. [If you are having thoughts of suicide, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 (TALK) or go to SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources for a list of additional resources. Heres what you can do when a loved one is severely depressed.] Benjamin Weiser and Joseph Goldstein contributed reporting. | ||
| SIPRI: Germany significantly increases military spending | World| Breaking news and perspectives from around the globe | DW | ||
Global military expenditure reached $1.9 trillion (1.7 trillion) in 2019, the highest annual sum in real terms since 1988. That sum marked an increase of 3.6% over 2018, the largest annual increase since 2010, according to the latest figures from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
In Germany, spending rose by 10% to $49.3 billion the largest defense budget increase among the world's top 15 states when it comes to military expenditures. Read more: SIPRI: Weapons boom shows no signs of slowing "There's been pressure on Germany to increase its military expenditure since before the Trump administration," said Max Mutschler from the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC), a peace and conflict research institute. "The impact of this pressure is now becoming clear. However, one has to say that expenditure is still well below the 2% mark." At a NATO summit in Wales in 2014, members agreed to meet a goal of spending at least 2% of their GDP on defense within the next decade. Last year, Germany's military expenditure amounted to 1.38% of its GDP. NATO flexes muscles in PolandNATO commitments aside, SIPRI researcher Diego Lopes da Silva also attributed the increase in Germany's defense budget to the geopolitical situation in Europe and the fact that, "Russia is once again being considered as more of a threat." In 2019, almost 4% of Russia's GDP went to military spending, amounting to $65.1 billion. Da Silva pointed out that Germany is not alone, and that many other NATO states are monitoring developments in Russia with a watchful eye.  Of the 15 countries in the world with the highest defense budgets, six are NATO members: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States. Their combined military expenditure makes up for almost half of the world's total figure. In 2019, the total military expenditure of NATO's 29 member states was some $1.04 trillion, a figure that didn't surprise Mutschler. "Military expenditure is based on worst-case scenarios," he told DW, explaining that while the public often perceives economic conflict between states to be in the foreground, the threat of military conflict remains very present in the background. "With regard to the tension between the US and China, we do not know if there will be an armed conflict or not. So the militaries in both countries are preparing for this eventuality, and they're very good when it comes to lobbying for more funds," he said. China displays its military strengthAccording to the SIPRI report, in 2019 the US was responsible for 38% of global military expenditure, totaling $732 billion. The increase over its 2018 budget alone amounted to the equivalent of Germany's total expenditure in 2019. Those funds went to cover some 16,000 extra military personnel, along with the modernization of its conventional weaponry and nuclear arsenal. But experts also see the increase as a response to China, which ranks in second place after the US when it comes to military spending. Beijing's budget contributed 14% of global military expenditure in 2019 and rose by more than 5% to $261 billion. China has been increasing its military expenditure steadily since 1994, but its budget has jumped by 85% since 2010. However, in terms of percentage of GDP, this has not changed considerably and almost always lies at 1.9%.  India surpasses Saudi Arabia On the Asian continent, the military expenditure of China's rival, nuclear power India, is also considerable, rising last year by almost 7% to $71.1 billion. "The tension with neighboring countries Pakistan and China are the main reasons that the Indian government has increased its expenditure so dramatically," said Siemon Wezeman, a senior researcher with SIPRI. For its part, Saudi Arabia lies well ahead of other Middle Eastern countries, spending $61.9 billion in 2019 though this was actually a 16% decrease in comparison with the previous year. The figure was a surprising development, according to the SIPRI report, considering the Saudi kingdom's ongoing military operations in Yemen and increasing tensions with Iran. German weapons for Saudi ArabiaMilitary expenditure in other countries pales by comparison to the global top spenders. South American states spent "only" $53 billion in 2019, and Brazil alone was responsible for half of that. Southeast Asian countries totaled around $41 billion, and the entire continent of Africa spent some $42 billion, though there were considerable fluctuations depending on the states. Uganda, for example, increased its budget by 52%, while Burkina Faso decreased its expenditure by 22%. The authors of the SIPRI report attributed the differences in expenditure to the current geopolitical situation in sub-Saharan Africa, and whether or not states are directly involved in a military conflict.
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| A Book Examines Germanys Mass Suicides After World War II | ||
Promise Me Youll Shoot Yourself: The Mass Suicide of Ordinary Germans in 1945, by Florian Huber (Little, Brown Spark, 304 pp., $29.00)
What happened to Germany immediately after World War II? This question is often overshadowed by the liberation of the concentration camps and the onset of the Cold War. In Promise Me Youll Shoot Yourself: The Mass Suicide of Ordinary Germans in 1945, German historian Florian Huber sheds light on a darkly fascinating period. His book, which received its first American printing last month, offers a gripping account of the suicide epidemic that swept the Third Reich in its final days. Huber also provides a revealing look into the minds and souls of ordinary Germans forced to confront the reality of Nazism. Through diaries, memoirs, and public records, Huber follows ordinary Germans through the Reichs last days, which were, for many, the last days of their lives. We meet the elderly couples who hung themselves together, the fathers who shot their families before taking their own lives, and the mothers who marched to their fate in icy rivers, dragging their children behind them. After detailing these grim scenes, Huber looks back to 1926, tracing the rise of the Nazis and analyzing how ordinary Germans came under their spell. He shows how even those who joined the Nazi Party for reasons of expediency or youthful ignorance were corrupted by the Reichs twisted morality. Huber ultimately understates the significance of the German mass suicides. For him, Germans who killed themselves in 1945 did so either to avoid the fate that awaited them at the hands of the Allieslike the citizens fearful of the brutality of Russian soldiers, as was Hitler himselfor to escape the guilt that would overwhelm them once imminent defeat revived their dormant consciences. Whatever the reasons, the sheer number of Germans who chose to take their own lives is remarkable. As Huber notes, the Christian prohibition on suicide still held great power in Germany. In a sermon in March of that year, a Berlin vicar attempted to dissuade his congregantsmany of whom had confessed thoughts of suicidefrom ending their lives. Huber notes, however, that the power of this taboo faded against the backdrop of the physical, emotional, and mental horrors of Germanys downfall. As the Red Army advanced, social conventions . . . no longer seemed to apply, as suicide transformed from a sin to a last resort before total surrender [and] a consolation to the desperate. Attributing the suicides to a change in norms misses a subtle, yet crucial, point. To the extent that social norms changed, they did so as a result of the moral collapse that Nazism wrought in Germany. One influential explanation of this collapse was offered by Hannah Arendt, the German-Jewish political theorist. Huber relies on Arendts 1950 report The Aftermath of Nazi Rule to capture the inability or unwillingness of Germans who survived past 1945 to grapple with their countrys actions. But a key to understanding the German suicides may actually lie in Arendts controversial 1963 work, Eichmann In Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, where she explores the totality of the moral collapse ushered in by Nazism. She observes that just as the law in civilized countries assumes that the voice of conscience tells everybody Thou shalt not kill . . . so the law of Hitlers land demanded that the voice of conscience tell everybody: Thou shalt kill. Mass suicide sprang from a similar inversion of moral imperatives, one that transformed self-harm from a sin into a necessity. In a sense, it was the logical conclusion of the twisted morality that Arendt described: standing face-to-face with the abyss, thousands of Germans followed Nazisms commandment to killone last time. Promise Me Youll Shoot Yourself offers important historical insight for any theoretical analysis of Nazism. By cataloguing the self-inflicted carnage of 1945, Huber offers another way of understanding the human cost of political evil. Tim Rice is a writer and editor based in Washington.
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| 'A Complete Public Health Nightmare': 100+ Tyson Workers Near Pasco Test Positive For COVID-19 . News | ||
Health officials have tested more than 1,000 Tyson Fresh Meats plant workers for COVID-19 in Wallula, Washington, near Pasco. As of Friday afternoon, 111 have tested positive in the plant that slaughters and processes beef products.
Workers said they were concerned that they were still cutting meat a day after the company announced that it was taking a pause. After their shifts, workers lined up in the plants cafeteria to get tested for COVID-19. Health officials say theyre using phone translation services because about a dozen languages are spoken inside the plant. Walla Walla County health director Meghan DeBolt says workers work close together inside. Its just pretty much the perfect breeding ground for COVID-19 and a complete public health nightmare, DeBolt said. DeBolt says now workers will isolate at home while theyre waiting for test results. The plant has been the site of a growing number of cases over the past week, with Tyson saying it would implement more safety measures to address further inspections and avoid shutting down. Earlier this week, the central Washington fruit giant Stemilt said at least 36 workers had tested positive for COVID-19 around its field operation in the Wenatchee area. 9(MDAzMTY3NDM2MDEyMzYyODg4ODVhMjM5Ng001)) | ||
| CDC: Blacks comprise 30 percent of COVID-19 cases | New Orleans' Multicultural News Source | ||
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(BlackmansStreet.Today) Blacks comprised 30 percent of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. as of Saturday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported with little fanfare although Black-elected officials had been pushing for release of national demographic data concerning coronavirus infections and deaths among African Americans. The data comes with a big explanation. The numbers we hear and see on TV, read on the websites of the Johns Hopkins Center and the World Health Organization are markedly different from what the CDC has published. The CDC, reported on Saturday, April 18, the number of COVID-19 cases by race, explaining the figures are updated daily. The numbers include data from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Numbers reported on Saturday and Sunday are preliminary and not yet confirmed by the state and territorial health departments, the CDC said. The CDC does not know the exact number of COVID-19 illnesses, hospitalizations, and deaths for a variety of reasons. COVID-19 can cause mild illness, symptoms might not appear immediately, there are delays in reporting and testing, not everyone who is infected get tested or seeks medical care, and there may be differences in how states and territories confirm numbers in their jurisdictions. Of the 497,161 total COVID-19 cases as of April 18, Blacks accounted for 36,498, compared with whites who accounted for 77,235 cases. Asians accounted for 5,307 cases and Hispanics accounted for 20,244 cases. The data also includes Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander or 383 cases, Native Americans or Alaska Natives 765 cases By age group, Blacks under 18 accounted for 437 cases (28.5 percent), Blacks 18-44 accounted for 11,018 (31 percent), Blacks 45 to 64 accounted for 14,218 cases (33 percent), Blacks 65 to 74 accounted for 5,293 cases (34 percent) and Blacks 75 and older accounted for 4,601 cases (22.3 percent) and there 931 cases (20 percent) involving people whose age group is not known. The total figure comes to 36, 498 or 30 percent. This article originally published in the April 27, 2020 print edition of The Louisiana Weekly newspaper. |
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