Category: Life & Death
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more snake oil
Trump, selling a new kind of snake oil at tonight’s press briefing: The other thing that we bought a tremendous amount of is the hydroxychloroquine, hydroxychloroquine, which I think, as you know, it’s a great malaria drug; it’s worked unbelievably; it’s a powerful drug on malaria and there are signs that it works on this,… Read.
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snake oil
Trump, selling snake oil at yesterday’s press briefing: Last Saturday the FDA also gave emergency authorization for hydroxychloroquine and, the hydroxychloroquine is a, I hope it’s going to be a very important answer; we’re having some very good things happening with it, and we’re going to be distributing it through the strategic national stockpile; it’s… Read.
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jhu update 9
From the Johns Hopkins live map, updated at 6:26 am: There were 1,216,422 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the world and 65,711 deaths. In the U.S. there were 312,245 confirmed cases, twenty-six percent of the world’s total and 33,787 more than this time yesterday. The U.S. accounted for 8,503 deaths from COVID-19, thirteen percent of… Read.
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jhu update 8
From the Johns Hopkins live map, updated at 5:52 am: There were 1,131,713 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the world and 59,884 deaths. In the U.S. there were 278,458 confirmed cases, twenty-five percent of the world’s total and 32,885 more than this time yesterday. The U.S. accounted for 7,159 deaths from COVID-19, twelve percent of… Read.
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jhu update 7
From the Johns Hopkins live map, updated at 5:02 am: There were 1,026,974 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the world and 53,975 deaths. In the U.S. there were 245,573 confirmed cases, twenty-four percent of the world’s total and 28,851 more than this time yesterday. The U.S. accounted for 6,058 deaths from COVID-19, more than eleven… Read.
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jhu update 6
From the Johns Hopkins live map, updated at 5:21 pm: There were 1,011,490 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the world and 52,863 deaths. In the U.S. there were 242,182 confirmed cases, more than one-quarter of the world’s total and 28,810 more than this time yesterday. The U.S. accounted for 5,850 deaths from COVID-19, about eleven… Read.
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jhu update 5
From the Johns Hopkins live map, updated at 4:21 am: There were 941,949 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the world and 47,522 deaths. In the U.S. there were 216,722 confirmed cases, almost one-quarter of the world’s total and 27,089 more than this time yesterday. The U.S. accounted for 5,137 deaths from COVID-19, about eleven percent… Read.
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jhu update 4
From the Johns Hopkins live map, updated at 5:05 pm: There were 932,605 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the world and 46,809 deaths. In the U.S. there were 213,372 confirmed cases, almost one-quarter of the world’s total and 29,189 more than this time yesterday. The U.S. accounted for 4,757 deaths from COVID-19, about ten percent… Read.
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jhu update 3
From the Johns Hopkins live map, updated at 5:14 am: There were 873,767 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the world and 43,288 deaths. In the U.S. there were 189,633 confirmed cases, almost one-quarter of the world’s total and 25,223 more than this time yesterday. The U.S. accounted for 4,081 deaths from COVID-19, about nine percent… Read.
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12 hrs later
It’s twelve hours since the last time I checked the Johns Hopkins live map; let’s see how the world’s doing. (This info comes from the update at 5:05 this afternoon.) There were 855,007 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the world and 41,654 deaths. In the U.S. there were 184,183 confirmed cases, almost one-quarter of the… Read.
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