OT: Coronavirus

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@Skodin said:
1 million now, so to be a million more.

Defense Production Act will ensure this gets worse, get back to the slaughterhouse trump says.  

amazing how badly this admin can fuck up the easiest of government powers

Nobody needs to take this bait or they will be done in this thread as well.

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A librarian with time on their hands...

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Dr. Anthony Fauci: United States 'Not Ready' for Sports to Return Amid COVID-19Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Tuesday that it isn't yet the right time for sports to return to action in the United States amid the coronavirus pandemic.

In an interview with James Wagner and Ken Belson of the New York Times, Fauci said: "I would love to be able to have all sports back. But as a health official and a physician and a scientist, I have to say, right now, when you look at the country, we're not ready for that yet."
All major American sports leagues have been shut down in terms of athletic competition since March because of COVID-19. The NBA, NHL, MLS, NASCAR, PGA Tour, ATP and WTA all suspended their seasons, while MLB has yet to start its 2020 regular season.
Fauci also cautioned against moving too quickly: "What we need to do is get it, as a country and as individual locations, under control. That sometimes takes longer than you would like, and if we let our desire to prematurely get back to normal, we can only get ourselves right back in the same hole we were in a few weeks ago."
According to CNN, there have been over 1 million confirmed cases of coronavirus in the United States and over 58,000 deaths.
Some states that haven't been hit as hard by COVID-19 are working toward ending stay-at-home orders and reopening businesses, but that won't be immediately possible in states with high coronavirus numbers, such as New York and California.
Holding sporting events and other large gatherings with thousands of fans in attendance would create a high-risk situation without a COVID-19 vaccine in place.
Sports leagues could look to mitigate the risk by holding games without fans in attendance. Fauci said it is "possible" at some point that leagues could gradually transition from no fans to a full allotment of fans in attendance, but he added that it's "no guarantee."
When sports do eventually resume, Fauci stressed the importance of players' getting tested regularly for the coronavirus. He also offered some level of support for the idea of quarantining players in hotels, testing them and playing games in front of no fans as a starting option.
While Fauci is open to ideas that would result in sports' resuming, he also believes some leagues may need to not hold a season until the risk is significantly lower:
"I don't want to make this conversation sound like it's going to be an easy thing. We may not be able to pull this off. We're going to have to see: Is it doable? Do we have the capability of doing it safely? Because safety, for the players and for the fans, trumps everything. If you can't guarantee safety, then unfortunately you're going to have to bite the bullet and say, 'We may have to go without this sport for this season.'"
As the calendar heads toward May, both the NBA and NHL are in danger of not being able to finish their 2019-20 seasons. MLB could be in danger, although it still has the benefit of time in terms of scheduling a shortened season.
While those leagues have no concrete plans in place yet, NASCAR and the PGA Tour do.
NASCAR announced that it plans to run races without fans at Darlington and Charlotte beginning in May. Meanwhile, the PGA Tour released a revised schedulein which golfers return to action in mid-June.

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Dr. Anthony Fauci: United States 'Not Ready' for Sports to Return Amid COVID-19Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Tuesday that it isn't yet the right time for sports to return to action in the United States amid the coronavirus pandemic.

In an interview with James Wagner and Ken Belson of the New York Times, Fauci said: "I would love to be able to have all sports back. But as a health official and a physician and a scientist, I have to say, right now, when you look at the country, we're not ready for that yet."
All major American sports leagues have been shut down in terms of athletic competition since March because of COVID-19. The NBA, NHL, MLS, NASCAR, PGA Tour, ATP and WTA all suspended their seasons, while MLB has yet to start its 2020 regular season.
Fauci also cautioned against moving too quickly: "What we need to do is get it, as a country and as individual locations, under control. That sometimes takes longer than you would like, and if we let our desire to prematurely get back to normal, we can only get ourselves right back in the same hole we were in a few weeks ago."
According to CNN, there have been over 1 million confirmed cases of coronavirus in the United States and over 58,000 deaths.
Some states that haven't been hit as hard by COVID-19 are working toward ending stay-at-home orders and reopening businesses, but that won't be immediately possible in states with high coronavirus numbers, such as New York and California.
Holding sporting events and other large gatherings with thousands of fans in attendance would create a high-risk situation without a COVID-19 vaccine in place.
Sports leagues could look to mitigate the risk by holding games without fans in attendance. Fauci said it is "possible" at some point that leagues could gradually transition from no fans to a full allotment of fans in attendance, but he added that it's "no guarantee."
When sports do eventually resume, Fauci stressed the importance of players' getting tested regularly for the coronavirus. He also offered some level of support for the idea of quarantining players in hotels, testing them and playing games in front of no fans as a starting option.
While Fauci is open to ideas that would result in sports' resuming, he also believes some leagues may need to not hold a season until the risk is significantly lower:
"I don't want to make this conversation sound like it's going to be an easy thing. We may not be able to pull this off. We're going to have to see: Is it doable? Do we have the capability of doing it safely? Because safety, for the players and for the fans, trumps everything. If you can't guarantee safety, then unfortunately you're going to have to bite the bullet and say, 'We may have to go without this sport for this season.'"
As the calendar heads toward May, both the NBA and NHL are in danger of not being able to finish their 2019-20 seasons. MLB could be in danger, although it still has the benefit of time in terms of scheduling a shortened season.
While those leagues have no concrete plans in place yet, NASCAR and the PGA Tour do.
NASCAR announced that it plans to run races without fans at Darlington and Charlotte beginning in May. Meanwhile, the PGA Tour released a revised schedulein which golfers return to action in mid-June.

well no shit to having fans in attendance,  but just getting the games going would be a start. 

I think we need to slowly ease back into things,  have teams start holding practices again to see if they can even be together as a team let alone 2 teams around each other.   I have my doubts that even a soft restart is going to go very well,  but if nothing is tried we will never know.

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Fauci expresses optimism about 'significant, positive' data from a trial of the possible Covid-19 treatment remdesivir

(CNN) — Patients with advanced Covid-19 who received the experimental drug remdesivir recovered faster than similar patients who received placebo, according to preliminary trial data, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said Wednesday. 
"The data shows that remdesivir has a clear-cut, significant, positive effect in diminishing the time to recovery," said the institute's director, Dr. Anthony Fauci.
About 1,090 people participated in the trial internationally, Fauci said, calling it "the first truly high-powered randomized placebo controlled trial."
Preliminary data show remdesivir has improved recovery time for coronavirus patients from 15 to 11 days.
"Although a 31% improvement doesn't seem like a knockout 100%, it is very important proof of concept," Fauci said, "because what it has proven is that a drug can block this virus."
He said the results are "opening the door to the fact that we now have the capability of treating" coronavirus. Fauci also said the US Food and Drug Administration is working with Gilead Sciences, the maker of remdesivir, to make the drug available to those who need it.

The FDA has not yet approved any drugs for the treatment of the coronavirus, but is trying to increase the availability of remdesivir.
"As part of the FDA's commitment to expediting the development and availability of potential COVID-19 treatments, the agency has been engaged in sustained and ongoing discussions with Gilead Sciences regarding making remdesivir available to patients as quickly as possible, as appropriate," FDA spokesman Michael Felberbaum said in statement. 
The World Health Organization said it's too early to comment on the remdesivir trial results released on Wednesday. 
"Typically, you don't have one study that will come out that will be a game changer," said Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO's technical lead for the coronavirus response.
She said the agency generally pulls together evidence from several studies before reviewing and critiquing the evidence. 
"It can sometimes take a number of publications to determine (what) the ultimate impact of a drug is," said Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO's health emergencies program.

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