| Florida man whose 'game changer' coronavirus treatment was touted by Trump is a believer, but warns: Don't try this at home Posted: 26 Mar 2020 06:44 AM PDT  Despite warnings from experts that existing evidence of hydroxychloroquine's effect on coronavirus symptoms is limited and largely anecdotal, President Trump's promotion of the prospective treatment has prompted stockpiling and fatally misinformed attempts to self-medicate.
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| Cruise-ship workers say they have so much sex that their ships are like college dorms Posted: 27 Mar 2020 07:37 AM PDT  Sex among cruise ship workers is pervasive, current and former cruise ship employees told Business Insider.
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| China Supplied Faulty Coronavirus Test Kits to Spain, Czech Republic Posted: 26 Mar 2020 09:23 AM PDT  The majority of rapid test coronavirus test kits supplied by China to Spain and the Czech Republic are faulty, local news outlets reported.Up to 80 percent of the 150,000 portable, quick coronavirus test kits China delivered to the Czech Republic earlier this month were faulty, according to local Czech news site Expats.cz. The tests can produce a result in 10 or 15 minutes but are usually less accurate than other tests. Because of the high error rate, the country will continue to rely on conventional laboratory tests, of which they perform about 900 a day.The country's Health Ministry paid $546,000 for 100,000 of the test kits, while the Interior Ministry paid for the other 50,000.Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Jan Hamacek downplayed the discovery that many of the tests were faulty, blaming it on a possible wrong methodology and saying the kits can still be used "when the disease has been around for some time," or when "someone returns after quarantine after fourteen days.""In my opinion, this is not about some scandalous revelation that it is not working," Hamacek said.Meanwhile, Spain, which has more than 56,000 infected people and more than 4,000 coronavirus deaths, the second-highest number of fatalities in the world after Italy, found that the rapid coronavirus test kits it purchased from Chinese company Bioeasy only correctly identified 30 percent of virus cases, according to Spanish newspaper El Pais.The director Spain's Center for Health Alerts and Emergencies, Fernando Simón, said Spain tested 9,000 of the test kits and will return them based on their high error rate.Studies performed on the tests which discovered the high error rate caused the Spanish Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology to recommend officially that the tests not be used.The Chinese embassy in Spain claimed the Bioeasy products are not included in the products China has been supplying to countries where the virus has broken out.
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| In shadow of coronavirus, Congress contemplates 'one of the biggest rule changes in the last century' Posted: 26 Mar 2020 03:43 PM PDT  The pandemic has left multiple members of Congress in quarantine and led to restrictions on movement that could prevent the House from voting.
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| Iran urges U.S. to free Iranian prisoners amid coronavirus Posted: 27 Mar 2020 02:56 AM PDT  The Tehran government on Friday urged the United States to release Iranians held in U.S. jails on sanctions-related issues due to fears about the coronavirus epidemic. The death toll in Iran from the coronavirus meanwhile rose Zarif to 2,378 on Friday, a jump of 144. Iran is one the worst hit countries in the world.
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| 'She just had a cough': Teen's COVID-19 death shakes France Posted: 27 Mar 2020 07:07 AM PDT  A week ago, 16-year-old Julie came down with a slight cough. On Wednesday, she became France's youngest COVID-19 fatality, shaking a nation hit by a spiralling health crisis. "We'll never know why," the girl's mother Sabine told AFP late Thursday after France's national health director gave the latest grim toll from the outbreak, now at nearly 1,700 deaths.
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| Has Joe Biden wrapped up the Democratic presidential contest? Will the November election be canceled? Posted: 27 Mar 2020 09:13 AM PDT  The COVID-19 pandemic has the country's politics in turmoil. Answers to those questions and more.
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| Editorial: A 'postponed' abortion? Yeah, that's called having the baby Posted: 27 Mar 2020 03:00 AM PDT  Some states are using the coronavirus pandemic as an excuse to cut off abortion access. That's unacceptable.
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| Custodian with coronavirus symptoms accuses Harvard of neglect Posted: 26 Mar 2020 07:24 PM PDT  Doris Reina-Landaverde said she ran out of masks to use while cleaning and was told by the university that they didn't have any more.
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| A massive stockpile of 39 million N95 masks is being sold to American hospitals and local governments — about 27 million more than the US emergency stockpile Posted: 27 Mar 2020 05:14 AM PDT  The Service Employees International Union said in a statement Thursday, circulating on Twitter, that it had found 39 million masks for hospitals.
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| A Cruise Ship With At Least 77 People with Flu-Like Symptoms on Board is Heading to Florida Posted: 26 Mar 2020 10:26 AM PDT  Cruise line Holland America said that at least 30 guests and 47 crew on the Zaandam reported to the ship's medical center with influenza-like symptoms.
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| Don’t Worry, America, Jared Kushner Is Going to Save You From COVID-19 Posted: 26 Mar 2020 01:05 AM PDT  Wednesday, during the latest installment of his daily briefings that have become must-see TV, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he spoke with Jared Kushner. You know Kushner—the president's son-in-law. The president's son-in-law is a member of the president's COVID-19 taskforce, but he is not a doctor or an elected official. In fact, Jared has no experience handling pandemics, or any medical background whatsoever. Jared Kushner doesn't know about science or medicine but Cuomo must appeal to him for help from the federal government.And that's not the only place the president's son-in-law has popped up the last few days. One of the biggest questions we've all been puzzling over is, why won't the president invoke the wartime Defense Production Act to force companies to make ventilators? He "signed two executive orders citing provisions of the Defense Production Act" but then refused to use those provisions. Later it was revealed that Trump refused to use the wartime law "reportedly after corporations successfully lobbied his top adviser and son-in-law, Jared Kushner." Meanwhile, Cuomo holds continual pressers that have the same refrain again and again: "We need the federal help, and we need the federal help now."Trump to New York: You've Been Mean to Me, Drop DeadAs the pandemic fills New York City's morgues, the president has decided to bring in the very best and smartest people. For Donald Trump, that's his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. And it just makes sense, since Jared has already brought peace to the Middle East and innovated America within an inch of its life with his office of American innovation. Now it's time for the young slumlord to once again fail upwards. This time, hundreds of thousands of American lives are at stake, but I mean, Jared did go to Harvard (via a $2.5 million donation), so…First, Jared explained to his father-in-law that the media was making too much of the whole pandemic thing. "Mr. Kushner's early involvement with dealing with the virus was in advising the president that the media's coverage exaggerated the threat," according to The New York Times. Sounds like Kushner agreed with Lou Dobbs—you know, Fox Business Channel's Lou Dobbs, who's in quarantine right now because he was exposed to liberal hoax COVID-19.But wait, there's more. It turns out that Jared is as good at handling a pandemic as he is at Middle East peace. First, he asked his brother's wife's dad for advice on handling the outbreak. Dr Kurt Kloss (father of model Karlie) wrote on Facebook, "If you were in charge of Federal response to the Pandemic what would your recommendation be. Please only serious responses. I have direct channel to person now in charge at White House and have been asked for recommendations." I mean it makes sense, since he's a doctor and Facebook is a highly regarded and peer-reviewed medical journal.Then Jared got going on what he does best, innovation. You'll recall that error-filled Oval Office address, followed by the error-filled Rose Garden address, and the promise, as the Times reported, that "Google had developed a coronavirus testing website that did not exist. Mr. Kushner was deeply involved in both efforts, and had sold his father-in-law on the website as a smart concept." This fiasco ended with Dr Deborah Birx holding a large poster board of a Google testing site that doesn't exist. But that was a week ago. Since that innovation, we learn that Trump has pivoted to an Easter society-restart date. and Jared may have had his hand in that too. As Vanity Fair reported, "Jared is bringing conspiracy theories to Trump about potential treatments," leading Trump to think he can ignore the person who actually knows about pandemics and public health, Dr. Anthony Fauci.But Jared's not the only one in the Trump family hoping to use the pandemic to grow their brand. Ivanka is trying her hand at being a coronavirus lifestyle influencer. When she came into contact with the Australian minister Peter Dutton and was sent home to isolate, Ivanka then suggested a faux -out with her children: "Staying home today w/ kids? Plan living room camp out!" she suggested on Tuesday, alongside a photo, taken a few years ago, of her hanging out with the children in a tent made out of sheets. Plan a menu & 'pack' sandwiches, salads (S'mores optional)! A fun activity that also brings family together for a meal!" The irony is that Ivanka's dad is famous for putting immigrant children in tent cities in the hopes of owning the libs. But Ivanka's COVID-influencer lifestyle seems to have ended. She tested negative (there seem to be unlimited COVID-19 tests for the royal family) and is back at work in the White House doing whatever it is she does.One might find the fact that one in 1,000 people in the New York City metro area are infected with COVID-19 terrifying. But not me. No, I have confidence that the president's son-in-law will handle this with his usual competence. I mean, we have peace in the Middle East now so... Wait, we don't? Oh well then. I would say we're all in a lot of trouble. But if we survive, just think about how good this will be for the Trump brand and for Ivanka's 2024 run. If we don't die, that is. Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Cases in Italy's Lombardy rise by some 2,500 on Thursday, data 'not good': official Posted: 26 Mar 2020 06:08 AM PDT  The number of coronavirus cases in the in the northern region of Lombardy, which includes Italy's financial capital Milan, increased by some 2,500 on Thursday, regional governor Attilio Fontana said. The number of cases in the region, which has borne the brunt of Italy's contagion, increased by some 1,643 to roughly 32,346 on Wednesday.
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| China threatens to strike back after Taiwan deal Posted: 27 Mar 2020 06:37 AM PDT  China has denounced a U.S. act that increases American support for Taiwan internationally.
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| Spain’s Death Toll Passes China’s While Stimulus Moves Pile Up Posted: 25 Mar 2020 12:19 PM PDT |
| In Iran, false belief a poison fights virus kills hundreds Posted: 27 Mar 2020 09:35 AM PDT  Standing over the still body of an intubated 5-year-old boy wearing nothing but a plastic diaper, an Iranian health care worker in a hazmat suit and mask begged the public for just one thing: Stop drinking industrial alcohol over fears about the new coronavirus. The boy, now blind after his parents gave him toxic methanol in the mistaken belief it protects against the virus, is just one of hundreds of victims of an epidemic inside the pandemic now gripping Iran. Iranian media report nearly 300 people have been killed and more than 1,000 sickened so far by ingesting methanol across the Islamic Republic, where drinking alcohol is banned and where those who do rely on bootleggers.
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| Catholics allowed to eat meat on Lenten Fridays Posted: 27 Mar 2020 09:18 AM PDT  Some bishops this year are telling parishioners that they've sacrificed enough as the coronavirus pandemic denies people of gatherings, outside entertainment and everyday conveniences.
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| Letters to the Editor: The obvious vice presidential pick for Joe Biden is Michelle Obama Posted: 26 Mar 2020 03:00 AM PDT  The former first lady is admired by liberals and conservatives. Putting her on the ticket would make defeating Trump easy.
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| Israel's Gantz angers supporters with move toward unity government Posted: 27 Mar 2020 02:18 AM PDT  Israel appeared headed for a unity government on Friday after opposition leader Benny Gantz moved toward an agreement with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, disappointing voters who had hoped to bring down the right-wing premier. Gantz was elected parliamentary speaker on Thursday with support from Netanyahu's Likud and allied parties, angering many of his own partners over the possibility he could form an alliance with a leader who is under criminal indictment. Gantz cited the coronavirus epidemic as the reason for his decision.
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| Sudden spike in new Tokyo virus cases brings dire warning for Japan Posted: 25 Mar 2020 06:53 PM PDT  Tokyo governor asks neighboring regions to help her lock down a region home to about 40 million people, as experts warn "rampant" infections "highly likely" in Japan.
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| U.S. warship passes through the sensitive Taiwan Strait amid heightened tensions Posted: 26 Mar 2020 06:44 AM PDT  A U.S. warship passed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Wednesday, the U.S. and Taiwan militaries said, following heightened tensions between China and Taiwan that have seen Taiwanese air force jets scramble to intercept Chinese fighters.
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| Iran's army sets up hospital in capital as virus toll climbs Posted: 27 Mar 2020 12:29 AM PDT  Iran announced another 144 deaths from the coronavirus on Friday and said thousands more were in critical condition as the military completed work on a 2,000-bed field hospital in an exhibition center in the capital. Iran has reported nearly 2,400 deaths among more than 32,000 cases. In Yemen, meanwhile, the U.S. Agency for International Development began scaling back aid efforts in areas controlled by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels over their resistance to allowing measures that ensure aid goes to those who most need it.
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| 5.0 magnitude earthquake rattles West Texas: 'Like the vibration of a train, but bigger' Posted: 26 Mar 2020 12:43 PM PDT  A 5.0 magnitude earthquake rattled West Texas on Thursday. Residents of El Paso, about 175 miles west of the reported epicenter, felt the quake.
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| United Auto Workers union confirms the death of third Fiat Chrysler plant worker due to COVID-19 Posted: 26 Mar 2020 02:16 PM PDT  The United Auto Workers union announced that an FCA worker died from COVID-19 on Wednesday, marking the third FCA employee to die from the disease.
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| An award-winning teacher with 12 years of experience explains why she isn’t homeschooling her kids during the coronavirus pandemic Posted: 25 Mar 2020 12:31 PM PDT  A middle school educator said she's not homeschooling her kids while schools are closed due to the coronavirus pandemic because it's too stressful.
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| Biden blindsides Trump’s Florida ally Posted: 25 Mar 2020 04:54 PM PDT  He singled out Gov. Ron DeSantis for harsh criticism over his coronavirus response.
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| Nigeria needs 120 bln naira for coronavirus battle, turns to private sector Posted: 27 Mar 2020 03:27 AM PDT  Nigeria has appealed to private companies to make voluntary contributions towards the 120 billion naira ($330 million) that the government says it needs to fight the coronavirus epidemic. "So far, the federal government has made giant strides in the fight but it is clear that the private sector needs to step in and support efforts already being made," Central Bank Governor Godwin Emefiele said. The crash in oil prices, which have fallen by nearly two- thirds this year due in large part to a coronavirus-induced demand collapse, has seriously battered Nigeria's finances.
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| Netanyahu rival voted in as speaker, paving way for unity government Posted: 26 Mar 2020 09:56 AM PDT  Benny Gantz's appointment leaves the door open to a unity government between his centrist Blue and White party and Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party.
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| Auschwitz: Women used different survival and sabotage strategies than men at Nazi death camp Posted: 27 Mar 2020 05:15 AM PDT  Nearly all the 1.3 million people sent to Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp in occupied Poland, were murdered – either sent to the gas chambers or worked to death. Life expectancy in many of these camps was between six weeks and three months. Over a million of the Auschwitz dead were Jews, and scholars have concluded that more than half of them were women.While male and female slave laborers in Auschwitz faced the same ultimate fate, my research on gender and the Holocaust finds that some of their behaviors and responses to captivity differed. Methods of sabotageGender has been long overlooked in Holocaust research. Writing in the late 1970s and early 1980s, early scholars such as Joan Ringelheim and Sybil Milton had to fight for their legitimacy in a field that insisted that separating stories of Jewish men and women under the Nazi regime was a blow to their joint fate or to Jewish solidarity.Today, however, the topic is being explored in depth, allowing us to better understand not only how Jews died during the Holocaust, but also how they lived.During the late 1980s, I conducted a study of Jewish men and women who had been part of Auschwitz's "Canada Commando," the forced labor detail responsible for sorting through the possessions inmates had brought with them to the camp and preparing those items for reshipment back to Germany for civilian use. Since the barracks were the only place in the camp where one could find almost unlimited food and clothing, this forced labor troop was named after Canada – a country seen as a symbol of wealth.Examining the behavior of the men and women of the Canada Commando, I noted an interesting difference. Among the items of clothing sorted there were fur coats. While both male and female prisoners in the Canada Commando tried to sabotage this work, acts punishable by death, their methods differed. Male prisoners would usually rip the lining and seams of the coat to shreds, keeping only the outer shell intact. At first use, the coat would come apart, leaving the German who wore it coatless in the winter.The few surviving women in the commando whom I interviewed did not use this tactic. Rather, they told me, they decided together to insert handwritten notes into the coat's pockets that read something along the lines of: "German women, know that you are wearing a coat that belonged to a woman who has been gassed to death in Auschwitz." The women, in other words, chose psychological sabotage. The men, physical. Coping with hungerOne of the most central experiences of all camp prisoners during the Holocaust was hunger. While both men and women suffered from hunger during incarceration, male and female prisoners used disparate coping methods.While men would regale each other with tales of the fantastic meals they would enjoy once liberated, women would often discuss how they had cooked they various dishes they loved before the war, from baking fluffy cakes to preparing traditional Jewish blintzes. Cara de Silva's 1996 book, "In Memory's Kitchen," movingly documents how this phenomenon played out among women prisoners in the Terezin camp. The differences between men's and women's coping methods may have derived from the gendered behavior in their lives before the war, in which men ate and women cooked – at least in the middle and lower classes. In the case of women, this may also have been a female socialization process meant to solve two dilemmas simultaneously: the psychological need to engage – at least verbally – with food, and the educational need to prepare the young girls in the camp for culinary and household tasks after the war. Under normal circumstances, mothers would have taught their daughters by example – not story. Motherhood under Nazi ruleVarious historical studies make mention of motherly sacrifices during the Holocaust, such as women who chose to accompany their children to death so that they would not be alone during their last moments on Earth. Some mothers, however, acted otherwise, as documented by the Polish non-Jewish Auschwitz survivor Tadeusz Borowsky in his book "This Way to the Gas Ladies and Gentlemen." During the "selections" at Auschwitz – when prisoners were sent either to live or die – prisoners arriving were usually divided by sex, with the elderly, mothers and small children being separated from men and older boys. The mothers with small children, along with the elderly, were automatically sent to death.Borowsky writes about a number of young mothers who hid from their children during the selection, in an attempt to buy themselves a few additional days or possible hours of life.If a German soldier found a small child alone at a "selection," Borowsky writes, he would take the child up and down the rows of prisoners while screaming, "This is how a mother abandons her child?" until he tracked down the hapless woman and condemned them both to the gas chambers. At first, the female Auschwitz survivors I've interviewed said they'd never heard of any such thing. Eventually, however, after I returned to the question several times via different topics, a few women admitted to hearing that a handful mothers who arrived in Auschwitz with small children did indeed try to hide to save their own lives.Historians are not judges. I do not mention the actions made in mortal fear to condemn these women but rather to contribute, 75 years later, to our understanding of Jewish life and death under Nazi terror. Doing requires relinquishing preconceived notions about both men and women, mapping out a broader canvas of the grim reality at Auschwitz. [You're smart and curious about the world. So are The Conversation's authors and editors. You can get our highlights each weekend.]This article is republished from The Conversation, a nonprofit news site dedicated to sharing ideas from academic experts.Read more: * How will generations that didn't experience the Holocaust remember it? * How women wage war – a short history of IS brides, Nazi guards and FARC insurgentsJudy Baumel-Schwartz does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
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| Deja vu: LA County sheriff closes gun shops again Posted: 26 Mar 2020 01:13 PM PDT  For the second time this week, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva has ordered gun shops to close, a move that challenges the county legal counsel's finding that the stores are essential businesses that should remain open during the coronavirus crisis. Los Angeles County, the nation's most populous with 10 million residents, enacted a stay-at-home order last week that required all nonessential businesses to close to slow the spread of the virus. On Tuesday, Villanueva ordered the shops closed.
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| Coronavirus: Man planning to bomb Missouri hospital killed, FBI says Posted: 26 Mar 2020 03:43 AM PDT  The suspect wanted to bomb a facility treating coronavirus cases to cause severe harm, the FBI says.
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| Billionaire Jeff Bezos says he spoke directly to WHO and hinted Amazon might deliver COVID-19 test kits globally Posted: 27 Mar 2020 03:32 AM PDT  Jeff Bezos suggested Amazon will start delivering COVID-19 testing kits, something it has already promised to do in the UK.
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| Coronavirus: Trump rows back on pledge to get US ‘back to work’ by Easter Posted: 25 Mar 2020 03:58 PM PDT  Donald Trump stepped back a bit from his pledge to get the entire country "back to work" by Easter, saying on Wednesday he might "do sections" at a time instead.The president on Tuesday raised the ire of Democrats and some public health experts by announcing during a Fox News broadcast from the White House Rose Garden that he wants the country "open for business" by 12 April. He began to hedge Tuesday evening during his daily coronavirus press briefing, floating the idea of opening states or entire regions first that are not as hard hit as places like New York City and Washington state.
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| Famously boisterous Nigerian mega-city Lagos adjusts to coronavirus lockdown Posted: 27 Mar 2020 08:23 AM PDT  Fear of the coronavirus has induced an extraordinary calm in Lagos, Nigeria's famously boisterous mega-city where streets known for miles of gridlock have emptied of traffic and eateries serving takeaways are almost the only shops open. The largest city in sub-Saharan Africa, with an estimated 20 million population, has been transformed by a week-long shutdown of public life imposed as part of efforts to stem the spread of the highly infectious disease in Nigeria. The lockdown order by Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu applies to all non-essential shops - those not selling food, water or medicine - in the sprawling market megalopolis near Nigeria's Atlantic Ocean coast.
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| As Florida coronavirus cases surge, spring breakers express regret Posted: 26 Mar 2020 03:28 AM PDT  Spring breakers are now expressing regret they went, but some say the government wasn't clear enough in its message to practice social distancing.
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| New Jersey’s Surging Infections on Track to Match New York’s Posted: 25 Mar 2020 04:02 PM PDT |
| Blood Plasma Treatment for Coronavirus Set to Get Its First Trial Run in New York Posted: 26 Mar 2020 04:30 AM PDT  Doctors are eager to start infusing sick coronavirus patients with plasma from people who have recovered from the disease
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| Louisiana Gov. Edwards pleads with residents to comply with social distancing guidelines Posted: 26 Mar 2020 01:55 PM PDT  At a press conference, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards pleaded with residents not to gather in groups, including at churches, to help stop the spread of the coronavirus.
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| The US government reportedly has a stockpile of 1.5 million expired N95 masks in storage as hospitals around the country face critical shortage Posted: 26 Mar 2020 07:40 PM PDT  Sources told The Washington Post that the masks are sitting in a CBP warehouse in Indiana and have not yet been shipped due to being expired.
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