Post by t-bob on Apr 26, 2020 17:24:43 GMT -5
CoronaVirus update
The latest
The resumption of public life is poised to accelerate across wide areas of the country in the coming days and weeks — mostly in Republican-governed states and despite warnings from health experts as covid-19 cases in the United States near 1 million. You'll be able to eat out at a restaurant in Tennessee starting tomorrow, potentially congregate in an Idaho church next week and go shopping in Missouri next week. And the National Basketball Association is planning to reopen practice facilities in areas where restrictions have been relaxed.
But the governors issuing these orders are essentially “cross[ing] their fingers that the novel coronavirus doesn’t come roaring back,” we report. “We don’t have the resources in place to do the level of testing and contact tracing we need to make sure we’re monitoring this effectively,” an epidemiologist at Columbia University told The Post about reopenings. “We’re flying blind.”
White House coronavirus task force coordinator Deborah Birx said Sunday on NBC's “Meet the Press” that social distancing will continue through the summer, and the United States would need a “breakthrough” in antigen testing to be on a path toward normalcy. Her remarks appeared to contradict Vice President Pence's Friday comments that the epidemic would be mostly “behind us” by the end of May.
A study of data from 100 million cellphones found that millions of Americans are defying social distancing guidelines to make personal daily trips — a number that appears to have increased significantly in recent days, causing public health experts to worry about “quarantine fatigue.”
Fatigue or otherwise, the trend is manifesting around the world. More than 2 million people in Belarus celebrated the country's national day of civic labor without masks on Saturday. Saudi Arabia will ease lockdown measures for the holy month of Ramadan, and millions of children in Spain were allowed to go outside this weekend for the first time in 42 days.
A Post investigation revealed that employees of three of the country's largest meat processors worked in crowded plants without safety gear while the virus spread. The failures contributed to outbreaks that have killed at least 17 workers, sickened thousands, and led to more than a dozen plant shutdowns that now threaten the U.S. meat supply. “All they were worried about was making sure we were coming to work," Sonja Johnson, a former Smithfield worker at a packaging and distribution facility, told The Post. “If you’re not in a casket, they want you there.”
The latest
The resumption of public life is poised to accelerate across wide areas of the country in the coming days and weeks — mostly in Republican-governed states and despite warnings from health experts as covid-19 cases in the United States near 1 million. You'll be able to eat out at a restaurant in Tennessee starting tomorrow, potentially congregate in an Idaho church next week and go shopping in Missouri next week. And the National Basketball Association is planning to reopen practice facilities in areas where restrictions have been relaxed.
But the governors issuing these orders are essentially “cross[ing] their fingers that the novel coronavirus doesn’t come roaring back,” we report. “We don’t have the resources in place to do the level of testing and contact tracing we need to make sure we’re monitoring this effectively,” an epidemiologist at Columbia University told The Post about reopenings. “We’re flying blind.”
White House coronavirus task force coordinator Deborah Birx said Sunday on NBC's “Meet the Press” that social distancing will continue through the summer, and the United States would need a “breakthrough” in antigen testing to be on a path toward normalcy. Her remarks appeared to contradict Vice President Pence's Friday comments that the epidemic would be mostly “behind us” by the end of May.
A study of data from 100 million cellphones found that millions of Americans are defying social distancing guidelines to make personal daily trips — a number that appears to have increased significantly in recent days, causing public health experts to worry about “quarantine fatigue.”
Fatigue or otherwise, the trend is manifesting around the world. More than 2 million people in Belarus celebrated the country's national day of civic labor without masks on Saturday. Saudi Arabia will ease lockdown measures for the holy month of Ramadan, and millions of children in Spain were allowed to go outside this weekend for the first time in 42 days.
A Post investigation revealed that employees of three of the country's largest meat processors worked in crowded plants without safety gear while the virus spread. The failures contributed to outbreaks that have killed at least 17 workers, sickened thousands, and led to more than a dozen plant shutdowns that now threaten the U.S. meat supply. “All they were worried about was making sure we were coming to work," Sonja Johnson, a former Smithfield worker at a packaging and distribution facility, told The Post. “If you’re not in a casket, they want you there.”
