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2 hours ago, ULIZOS said:
It's one of those well-intentioned comments with a poor delivery. Here we go with people nit-picking the Democratic candidate, like the horrible evil email scandal that nobody to this day truly knows why it was a scandal, while Trump pisses on Russian hookers, grabs women by the pussies, bans muslims, calls my people rapists, etc., etc., etc
Totally
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Queen Debi has spoken
I think Spain and Italy will recover before the United States does because, almost all the time, they ordered the entire country to be closed while here we have a government that is not really doing anything. Some states have already opened bowling alleys. Right now we really need a bowling alley, it’s just great … “he said sarcastically.
“I’m really nervous because I know that in the US we are not going to end well. And (the coronavirus) will continue to circulate because we have not closed borders between states, people will continue to travel … I don’t know when we will see the end of this situation” , the actress regretted.
Mazar (New York, 1964), who said he was already feeling well and in strong spirits after testing positive for COVID-19 in March, now brings to the United States. “Arde Madrid”, a successful and prestigious Spanish series created by Paco León, which can be seen from tomorrow on the MHz CHOICE platform, and where the actress brings to life a myth of the likes of Ava Gardner.
Last week ET interview via Daily Fail
I live in New York and you can't get tested here anymore,' the Entourage beauty said. 'Tests are not available even though they say they are, they're not. They won't be giving me a COVID test. I don't have any symptoms.'
She added that she's been consuming 'immune boosters like zinc and oregano oil' in her battle back to health, and has also used 'medicine that they were using a lot in China to help people recover.'
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17 minutes ago, karbatal said:
It's clear that some pharma will get incredibly rich and USA is the country where pharma is more powerful, in detriment of public health. Let's wait for the vaccine being made in the USA and be ready for a multimillion spending from all countries once it's available.
But of course it would be sp great if it was found in some other country
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14 minutes ago, Raider of the lost Ark said:
And so does Iboprufen. (okay only minimal with fever, but still). In fact there are tons of medication that do exactly that. Are they going to test those as well. Why are they hyping Hydroxyclorochine that much? Because the orange clown in White House is on a marketing campaign. BTW I do not for a second believe he is taking it. And it's a perfect situation (as long as he doesn't catch Covid-19). He can run around and claim there is no harm in taking Hydroxychloroquine.
What astounds me is that the UK is going ahead with those trials despite the fact that everyone from the FDA to the international media have slammed Trump over his claims about this anti malaria drug. I don't get it, so many contradictions between scientists, public health experts and medical associations themselves
Meanwhile drug company AstraZeneca has announced it can manufacture a billion doses of a potential, supposedly imminent vaccine just for the UK and the US.
Apparently they have a deal with the Oxford University team already. Bizarre. So much confusion
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https://www.bbc.com/news/health-52737169
A trial to see whether two anti-malarial drugs could prevent Covid-19 has begun in Brighton and Oxford.
Chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine or a placebo will be given to more than 40,000 healthcare workers from Europe, Africa, Asia and South America.
All the participants are staff who are in contact with Covid-19 patients.
US President Donald Trump was criticised this week after he said he had been taking hydroxychloroquine, despite warnings it might be unsafe .
The first UK participants in the global trial are being enrolled on Thursday at the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals and the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.
They will be given either hydroxychloroquine or a placebo for three months. At sites in Asia, participants will be given chloroquine or a placebo.
These are the first of a planned 25 UK sites, with results expected by the end of the year.
The trial is open to anyone delivering direct care to coronavirus patients in the UK, as long as they have not been diagnosed with Covid-19.
It will test whether the drugs can prevent healthcare workers exposed to the virus from contracting it.
Beneficial or harmful
One of the study's leaders, Prof Nicholas White at the University of Oxford said: "We really do not know if chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine are beneficial or harmful against Covid-19."
But, he said, a randomised controlled trial such as this one, where neither the participant nor the researchers know who has been given the drug or a placebo, was the best way to find out.
"A widely available, safe and effective vaccine may be a long way off," said Prof Martin Llewelyn from Brighton and Sussex Medical School, who is also leading the study.
"If drugs as well-tolerated as chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine could reduce the chances of catching Covid-19, this would be incredibly valuable."
The drugs can reduce fever and inflammation and are used as both a prevention and a treatment for malaria.
Hydroxychloroquine regulates the body's immune response and is also used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and Lupus - an inflammatory disease caused by an overactive immune system.
Lupus charities in the UK and US have raised concerns that demand for the drug associated with coronavirus could threaten the supply for patients who already rely on it.
The drug gained attention after US President Donald Trump suggested it may be beneficial, and this week said he was taking hydroxychloroquine to ward off coronavirus.
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To pass, it needs backing from all 27 capitals, and Austria's leader has already said that he, along with the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden, will offer only loans, not grants.
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UNION IN NAME ONLY?
The pandemic has derailed the recovery of the EU's most indebted countries. Italy's debt is shooting towards 170% of national output, Greece is losing gains wrung from years of belt-tightening and, across the south, a collapse in tourism threatens millions of jobs.
Surely the moment for the Union to live up to its name.
But members' initial slowness to share medical equipment, and readiness to close their borders, seemed to demonstrate Brussels' irrelevance when national interests are at stake.
Divisions erupted at an all-night videoconference of EU leaders on March 27 as fiscally conservative northern countries resisted pressure from a "Club Med" group to raise a splurge of mutual EU debt to tackle the effects of the pandemic.
Finance ministers agreed on April 9 to an EU-wide rescue plan worth half a trillion euros, but it was too little to fund long-term recovery, and the feud festered on. Berlin insisted any recovery plan must consist of short-term, repayable loans.
Then Merkel and Macron began talking.
"Merkel became increasingly aware that it was making Europe look really bad," said an EU official familiar with Macron and Merkel's consultations with the Commission.
Just when it seemed that this latest in a series of traumas, from sovereign debt crisis to a chaotic wave of migration to Brexit, could finally tear the bloc apart, the deal hints that the two founder members can still provide the EU's steady core.
It may also boost Macron's standing and his vision of more integration as Merkel ends her long tenure.
The Commission, which presents its own proposal on May 27, warmly welcomed the initiative, but the deal is not yet done.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - It took a courtroom of scarlet-robed judges to spur Angela Merkel to make one of her boldest moves in 15 years as German chancellor: propose huge cash handouts to the European Union's weaker economies.
Merkel was already worried about the future of the Union after the coronavirus pandemic struck Europe in February, triggering a wave of deaths and crippling lockdowns.
But it was Germany's own Constitutional Court that tipped her hand, sources said. Its bombshell ruling on May 5 challenged the EU's reliance on European Central Bank (ECB) money-printing to keep its weaker members' economies afloat - and the EU's governance.
Until then, Merkel had opposed a proposal by French President Emmanuel Macron for a Recovery Fund that would, for the first time, bind all 27 member states to raise debt jointly.
"Initially they were on quite different positions," said one senior diplomat. "They reviewed the risk of a split in the EU. But then the Constitutional Court decision came and Merkel ... said: 'It's up to us, the governments'."
A series of video calls between Merkel and Macron led to a plan for the European Commission, the EU executive, to borrow 500 billion euros ($550 billion) as common debt and transfer it to the regions and industries hit hardest.
It would be a top-up to the EU's 2021-2027 budget, already close to 1 trillion euros.
Diplomats in Brussels, Paris and Berlin familiar with the discussions said Merkel had dropped Germany's long-held opposition to mutualising debt to fund other member states - when it became clear the EU itself was in peril.
The court ruling in effect put the onus on EU governments themselves to fund any fiscal response.
European leaders agree that, if they fail to rescue economies now in freefall, they risk something worse than the debt crisis 10 years ago - which exposed faultlines, fanned euroscepticism and almost blew up the eurozone.
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5 hours ago, FreeMySoul said:
It's horrifying to think that school leaders who are suppose to protect children put them in such danger. I'm a kindergarten teacher in NJ and I'm grateful we are closed for the remainder of the school year. We have been told that we will re-open in September, but that seems to be quite unlikely considering all the children who have become ill with a covid like syndrome. I work in an area that became a hot spot so it would be a big risk to re-open without major changes in effect.
I couldn't agree more with you
Here in Italy it's been decided three months ago that all schools and universities wouldn't reopen till after the summer. I mean, what would anyone prove by setting a June date when society is not out of the sanitary woods yet? It's utterly idiotic and juvenile. Same with the fake vaccine announcements when in reality there's nothing concrete yet
How can a five or six year old understand social distancing is beyond me.
These people don't give a fuck about public health despite their incompetent, lying and overpaid public health task forces. They are scrambling because they're only thinking about the financial and economic outlook, failing to realise that it's much worse to have two emergencies at the same time rather than dealing with the major issue first but dealing with it thoroughly and properly
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11 hours ago, karbatal said:
But not Eton
Their kids are more valuable, apparently
Of course
Rather transparent
The shambolic way the Johnson government has been handling all of this from the start is scary and pathetic at the same time. There are no words. They are trying to impress people with the furloughing scheme extended till October, yet major companies such as Ryanair, British Airways and Rolls Royce in Derby have already announced thousands of job cuts
What they should have done was to impose an Italian/Spanish/French style lockdown from early March, rather than filling their mouths with "listening to the science" (which science?), "herd immunity" and nonsense like that. Then the care homes issue ...
Now they talk about reopenings as if they'd made some gigantic effort to begin with when in fact it's the total opposite
If this is the same approach they're going to adopt over the finalisation of Brexit the UK is truly fucked sadly
And don't get me started on that Patel (an immigrant herself) immigration point-based system, ludicrous. There are no Englanders willing to do certain jobs anymore, but they are deaf, and it seems this pandemic has made them even more deaf
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19 hours ago, Butter9 said:
Major airlines like Qatar , Air Asia and even Thai Airways ' flight attendants will be wearing hazmat suits with goggles and masks .
Great
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3 hours ago, FreeMySoul said:
Schools in FRANCE said they made a TERRIBLE MISTAKE reopening their school system. FRENCH SCHOOLS SHUT BACK DOWN TODAY after COVID-19 infections in the children reach Epidemic proportions!
A cautionary tale for England
June the 1st
6 to 11 year olds
All wrong
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La Rinascente (literally Rebirth), Italy's oldest department store reopens to the public in Milan
2:40
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4 minutes ago, Butter9 said:
It feels like something you would see in a movie but the surreal part is that you are actually living it
IKR
Surreal indeed
In the end we're all going to pull through
I feel it
It's coming
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5 hours ago, Suedehead said:
Sounds good to me - other countries should follow suit but clearly that's not the aim for countries like the UK where I live!
It's terrible indeed
The UK government has just added lack of sense of taste and smell to the list of official symptoms related to COVID 19
Two months after the WHO enlisted them in their guidelines. Talk about swift response. I really feel sorry for the Brits about the shambolic way this Johnson Cabinet is dealing with the whole situation. Track and Trace is well below the government expectations and promises, opening primary schools in England as early as June the 1st, when a proper lockdown was never actually implemented to begin with and it started a full two weeks after most other European countries
The care home situation, unions and teachers/parents associations disagreeing with the government on the school front. Why are they treating the UK like some kind of second world country? It is the first democracy in Europe, historically speaking, and it's going to the pits
Stay Alert from Stay Home
What the hell does that even mean?
Encouraging going back to work but increasing the congestion charge in London up to £15 per day, public transport discouraged yet most people rely on it in London to get to work, understandably
Beauty spots asking people NOT to come ...
It seems the idiots in power are desperate to mindlessly privilege the economic outlook rather than dealing with the major problem first and foremost, and dealing with it for real
Thank God for sensible politicians like Mrs Sturgeon, @Kim is so right about her. She's the only one in British politics making sense through and through. Intelligent, competent, she's got it all and she will take no bullshit
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6 hours ago, Butter9 said:
We have reopened about 80 % of our country. Inbound / Outbound flights are still banned till end of June .
Malls ( except gym and cinema ) , Stores , restaurants as well as some offices have reopened . Schools remain close and students have to study online.
I went to the one of the malls for the first time in almost 3 months and everybody was wearing masks and face shields . All staffs at the malls
( in all stores ) are wearing masks and face shields as well as rubber gloves . I was wearing mask and disposable rubber gloves and no one bat an eyelid .
Tables at restaurants have clear partitions
separating the diners . Even if you go together as a couple you will have to sit behind your own partition on the same table.
A table of 4 will only have 2 seats available as per social distancing guideline. Bars and clubs are still close until further notices .
Sales of alcohol are banned in restaurants ( available to take home only ).
When you go into a restaurants, stores , malls you must check in / out with QR codes and you can submit reviews of whether or not the promises are following the government's
health / safety guidelines .
This is the new normal here
Amazing organisation
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2 hours ago, FreeMySoul said:
Sheer madness
So the FDA already said (upon his own previous remarks) about three weeks ago that it's dangerous and can cause strokes and he casually let it be known at some random press conference about something else that he's been taking it for the past two weeks, even though he's said to have repeatedly tested negative for the virus
There's no ending to the istrionics I guess. Poor crazy puppet
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55 minutes ago, karbatal said:
Ooooh Merkel and Macron will support President Ursula to create a EU financed fund for the economic Corona crisis. This is the best news ever. Now there's more support to fight those four countries still unable to accept that solidarity is the only way to recover.
Great
At last
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19 hours ago, Martin B. said:
Even the most dirty laundry in history would have no impact. from the moment you define that all that you don't like is fake news or conspiracy theories, you control the narrative with your base. For the last 4 years, this POS has violated absolutely all the rules and defied the laws of his country without any consequences.
Yes, it's really scary when you look at how much shit the clown has managed to get away with, unscathed. That's why I was hoping for a more progressive candidate, rather than the usual mild Dem candidate, this looks on its way to a 2016 deja-vu. The only thing that might convince the majority of Americans otherwise is the
terrible, ludicrous handling of the coronavirus energency
Then again you see people manifesting against the lockdown and you start having doubts about that too. I wonder about the impact that Obama's recent words will have on this. If it might sway sentiments or logic
2020 U.S. Election
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