#5 - Wuhan (Novel) Corona Virus -looming pandemy of deadly pneumonia? - Pandemy ongoing!

Pence today promoted treatment with plasma for Covid-19. Will the media suddenly become very concerned about possible side effects from plasma? Will they accuse Pence of peddling false hope? https://t.co/DwPc376lq7

— Hydroxychloroquine News (@niro60487270) April 16, 2020

NBC cautions that plasma is "not a magic bullet." This is true. Technically it is more like millions of microscopic guided missiles programed by the immune system to detonate each and every SARS-CoV-2 virus. https://t.co/tcRrt7p299

— Hydroxychloroquine News (@niro60487270) April 16, 2020

Covid-19 patient was in a coma for eight days, he was treated with plasma and is now off the ventilator and making jokes. He is making a rapid recovery.https://t.co/tp2TtGE3z0

— Hydroxychloroquine News (@niro60487270) April 16, 2020

“People were getting hungry and angry,” Shah said.

Someone had to act, he decided, and he asked a couple of friends to pitch in.
A local school, shuttered by the virus, offered their premises as headquarters.

Kenya’s Asian community - officially recognised three years ago as the nation’s 44th tribe - rallied round.
They brought cheques or truckloads of food or vegetables planted for export and now marooned by the lack of flights.
The operation has been going daily for three weeks.

Inspired by Mother Teresa, Kenyan safari operator feeds 24,000 families
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-kenya-aid/inspired-by-mother-teresa-kenyan-safari-operator-feeds-24000-families-idUSKCN21Y1IE

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Safari operator Pankaj Shah would normally be showing tourists around the beauty spots of his native Kenya.
Instead, he is spearheading a volunteer effort to feed thousands of families


Although Shah has never run any kind of aid operation before, he has a guiding spirit: Mother Teresa,
whom he said he met more than three decades ago in Nairobi.

A wheel spun off the Roman Catholic nun’s ancient pickup truck and hit his new Mercedes, he said.

The accident brought an unlikely friendship between a “young, wild” businessman and the world famous missionary who cared for the poor.
He volunteered with her for three months, he said, and adopted a baby girl from one of her orphanages.

“I think about what she would do,” he says, after the coronavirus hit. “That’s the inspiration for the rest of my life.”


He is asking wealthy Kenyans to donate 4,000 Kenya shillings each ($40) to fund the hampers - about the cost of two pizzas and a bottle of wine, he points out.

“I just need half the rich people here to care enough to fund a hamper,” he says impatiently.

His phone buzzes with community leaders, imams, church leaders and chiefs asking for help.
Shah tests potential partners with a small distribution - say 100 boxes - and scales up if they handle it well.

Last week he sent two lorryloads of food to a distribution in the Deep Sea slum, where residents presented orange tokens
and had their fingers inked before carting away the boxes and bags of vegetables.
Volunteers helped pregnant women and those with babies.

Profit over people, cost over care: America's broken healthcare exposed by virus
http://archive.is/BNgfl
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/16/profit-over-people-cost-over-care-americas-broken-healthcare-exposed-by-virus

NEW: After an anonymous tip, 17 bodies were found at a nursing home overwhelmed by the virus.
There have been 68 recent deaths of people at the facility in a small NJ town.https://t.co/yNI67Llsko

— Cliff Levy (@cliffordlevy) April 16, 2020

Universal PCR and symptom assessment at homeless shelter in Boston.

36.0% were positive.

99% of positives were afebrile.

83% of positives were completely asymptomatic.

"universal PCR testing, rather than a symptom triggered approach, may be..better"https://t.co/I0OucSgotz

— Richard H. Ebright (@R_H_Ebright) April 15, 2020

afebrile (no fever)

Johns Hopkins University: About 5,000 new deaths recorded in the United States and about 30,000 cases of corona within 24 hours

— Y.N.M.S (@ynms79797979) April 16, 2020

https://t.co/VJLGk2lZAs

— AS-Source News (@ASBreakingNews) April 16, 2020

Republican Representative Trey Hollingsworth from Indiana, who told a radio station in Indianapolis that letting more people die would be the lesser of two evils.
He suggested that policymakers should put on their “big boy and big girl pants” and do what is necessary.
He said that the American government should pick preserving “way of life as Americans” over the loss of American lives.

Dear @RepTrey: I checked with my wife. She’s not willing to die of #COVID19, gasping for breath. I also checked with my parents and brother. They don’t want to die either. I asked some friends too. They don’t want to die. Have you asked your family and friends about your idea? https://t.co/EpkdZ994Gd

— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) April 15, 2020

Thousands in Michigan protested stay-at-home orders, many waving pro-Trump slogans or carrying assault rifles. Michigan has one of fastest-growing U.S. #COVID19 rates and at least 1,900 deaths.

The gridlock of cars blocked off hospitals and trapped at least one ambulance. pic.twitter.com/8z3ajNRKok

— AJ+ (@ajplus) April 16, 2020