Time for turning off the Trump style politics as to the "spread" of COVID 19. Here is proof of mutations of COVID 19. Trump ignorance kills
There is dumb, dumber and dumber and this is the cause belle as to what Trump style versions of denial of COVID 19 are leading us to . The report down below is the canary in the coal mine, and this notice will be followed up by the latest Trump brain fart as to COVID 19, and then concluding with official tallies as to COVID 19 infections globally as listed per region and per country
What this means is that we will have by December 2020 a global death toll of a minimum of say 30 million, world wide. The antics of Trump and Carlson are no longer funny
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Southeast Asia Detects Mutated Virus Strain Sweeping the World
By Yudith Ho and Claire Jiao
August 16, 2020, 8:27 PM EDT Updated on August 17, 2020, 6:00 AM EDT
- Virus mutation detected in cases in Malaysia and Philippines
- The strain is the predominant variant in Europe and the U.S.
In this article
Southeast Asia is facing a strain of the new coronavirus that the Philippines, which faces the region’s largest outbreak, is studying to see whether the mutation makes it more infectious.
The strain, earlier seen in other parts of the world and called D614G, was found in a Malaysian cluster of 45 cases that started from someone who returned from India and breached his 14-day home quarantine. The Philippines detected the strain among random Covid-19 samples in the largest city of its capital region.
The mutation “is said to have a higher possibility of transmission or infectiousness, but we still don’t have enough solid evidence to say that that will happen,” Philippines’ Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said in a virtual briefing on Monday.
WATCH: A mutation of the coronavirus discovered in Southeast Asia isn’t seen as more deadly, Johns Hopkins University says.Source: Bloomberg)
Fauci Says New Mutation May Speed the Spread of Coronavirus
The strain has been found in many other countries and has become the predominant variant in Europe and the U.S., with the World Health Organization saying there’s no evidence the strain leads to a more severe disease. The mutation has also been detected in recent outbreaks in China.
There’s no evidence from the epidemiology that the mutation is considerably more infectious than other strains, said Benjamin Cowling, head of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of Hong Kong. “It’s more commonly identified now than it was in the past, which suggests that it might have some kind of competitive advantage over other strains of Covid-19,” he said.
As Southeast Asian countries take various steps to prevent a resurgence while reopening limited travel, they struggle with people breaching quarantine rules after returning from overseas as well as false negative test results at borders.
The man who returned from India had tested negative when he arrived in Malaysia. He has since been sentenced to five months in prison and fined for breaching quarantine.
People’s Cooperation
“People need to be wary and take greater precautions because this strain has now been found in Malaysia,” the country’s Director-General of Health Noor Hisham Abdullah wrote in a Facebook post, saying the strain can make it 10 times more infectious without citing a study. “The people’s cooperation is very needed so that we can together break the chain of infection from any mutation.”
The strain “might be a little bit more contagious. We haven’t yet got enough evidence to evaluate that, but there’s no evidence that it’s a lot more contagious,” University of Hong Kong’s Cowling said.
Noor Hisham warned that the strain could mean existing studies on vaccines may be incomplete or ineffective against the mutation. That’s even as a paper published in Cell Press said the mutation is unlikely to have a major impact on the efficacy of vaccines currently being developed.
While Malaysia has largely managed to prevent a resurgence of the virus seen elsewhere in the world, the number of new cases found in the country has been picking up. The country reported 26 new cases on Saturday, the most since July 28.
Confirmed cases in the Philippines have surged 76% from the end of July to a total of 164,474 as of Monday. It overtook Indonesia more than a week ago to become the country with the largest outbreak in Southeast Asia.
— With assistance by Clarissa Batino, and Jason Gale
(Updates throughout with strain found in the Philippines.)
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Here is the non funny Brainfart by Carlson , the pillow guy, and Trump buying it
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Ben Carson and the MyPillow guy have cooked up a phony new coronavirus cure – and Donald Trump is buying it
Bill Palmer | 11:06 pm EDT August 16, 2020
Ben Carson has a history of hawking phony miracle cures for cancer. MyPillow founder Mike Lindell has a history of hawking a plain old pillow that he claims is some kind of miracle pillow. So perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that they’ve teamed up to hawk a phony coronavirus miracle cure, which they’re now pitching to Donald Trump.
In an article that feels straight out of the Onion, but is instead coming from very real news outlet Axios, it turns out Ben Carson and the MyPillow guy really are pushing an oleander dietary supplement as a cure for coronavirus, despite no evidence whatsoever that it can do any such thing. It turns out they’ve basically got Trump on board with it. But some folks in the Trump regime are so alarmed by it, they’re leaking the story to the media in the hope of stopping the whole thing before it can get off the ground.
Two things stand out here. First, this means that Mike Lindell isn’t just a guy who sells crappy overpriced pillows on cable news and stands way too close to Donald Trump. Instead, Lindell is the kind of dangerous con artist who’s using his relationship with Donald Trump to try to con Americans into buying into a fake cure for a deadly pandemic, which means Lindell is extremely dangerous. Second, Donald Trump clearly had so little interest in Ben Carson’s past as a medical doctor, he put him in charge of HUD instead making him Surgeon General. But now Carson is having no problem getting Trump to buy into his medical quackery. It’s the latest sign that Trump’s mind has deteriorated to the point that everyone around him – even the half braindead Carson – is able to steer Trump in whatever direction they want.
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And here is the official tally of COVID 19 infections
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Situation by WHO Region
Americas
11,561,554 confirmed
Europe
3,754,649 confirmed
South-East Asia
3,103,018 confirmed
Eastern Mediterranean
1,737,027 confirmed
Africa
945,165 confirmed
Western Pacific
414,606 confirmed
Source:
World Health Organization
Data may be incomplete for the current day or week.
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Also a listing from John Hopkins University
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
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Cases by Country/Region/Sovereignty
5,404,500 US
3,340,197 Brazil
2,647,663 India
925,558 Russia
587,345 South Africa
535,946 Peru
522,162 Mexico
468,332 Colombia
385,946 Chile
345,450 Iran
342,813 Spain
320,345 United Kingdom
298,542 Saudi Arabia
294,569 Argentina
289,215 Pakistan
279,144 Bangladesh
255,980 France
253,915 Italy
249,309 Turkey
225,201 Germany
176,931 Iraq
164,474 Philippines
141,370 Indonesia
124,004 Canada
115,080 Qatar
103,033 Kazakhstan
101,542 Ecuador
100,344 Bolivia
96,475 Egypt
95,007 Ukraine
93,691 Israel
89,421 China
86,309 Dominican Republic
85,045 Sweden
83,226 Oman
81,940 Panama
78,323 Belgium
76,205 Kuwait
71,194 Romania
69,516 Belarus
64,950 Netherlands
64,312 United Arab Emirates
62,562 Guatemala
57,279 Poland
56,699 Japan
55,838 Singapore
54,102 Portugal
50,502 Honduras
49,068 Nigeria
46,835 Bahrain
42,653 Ghana
42,489 Morocco
41,991 Kyrgyzstan
41,701 Armenia
38,583 Algeria
38,252 Switzerland
37,596 Afghanistan
35,513 Uzbekistan
34,219 Azerbaijan
33,755 Venezuela
30,183 Moldova
30,120 Kenya
29,876 Ethiopia
29,682 Serbia
28,465 Costa Rica
27,257 Ireland
27,241 Nepal
23,559 Australia
23,534 Austria
22,912 El Salvador
20,012 Czechia
18,469 Cameroon
17,026 Cote d'Ivoire
16,534 West Bank and Gaza
16,127 Denmark
16,111 Bosnia and Herzegovina
15,515 Korea, South
14,365 Bulgaria
13,886 Madagascar
12,739 North Macedonia
12,410 Sudan
12,237 Senegal
11,275 Kosovo
10,005 Norway
9,791 Paraguay
9,676 Congo (Kinshasa)
9,343 Zambia
9,212 Malaysia
8,881 Lebanon
8,482 Guinea
8,225 Gabon
8,172 Libya
8,065 Tajikistan
7,879 Haiti
7,752 Finland
7,458 Luxembourg
7,380 Albania
7,075 Greece
6,701 Mauritania
6,656 Croatia
5,785 Maldives
5,369 Djibouti
5,261 Zimbabwe
5,072 Malawi
4,946 Hungary
4,821 Equatorial Guinea
4,652 Central African Republic
4,154 Namibia
4,115 Nicaragua
4,035 Montenegro
3,839 Eswatini
3,831 Congo (Brazzaville)
3,378 Thailand
3,316 Cuba
3,256 Somalia
3,179 Cabo Verde
3,016 Suriname
2,907 Slovakia
2,893 Sri Lanka
2,855 Mozambique
2,640 Mali
2,489 South Sudan
2,453 Rwanda
2,436 Lithuania
2,429 Slovenia
2,192 Estonia
2,117 Guinea-Bissau
2,107 Tunisia
2,063 Benin
2,014 Iceland
1,956 Sierra Leone
1,906 Angola
1,872 Gambia
1,869 Yemen
1,677 Syria
1,631 New Zealand
1,500 Uganda
1,440 Uruguay
1,378 Jordan
1,375 Malta
1,341 Georgia
1,339 Cyprus
1,323 Latvia
1,315 Bahamas
1,267 Burkina Faso
1,257 Liberia
1,214 Botswana
1,167 Niger
1,147 Togo
1,113 Jamaica
989 Andorra
976 Vietnam
956 Chad
903 Lesotho
885 Sao Tome and Principe
712 Diamond Princess
709 Guyana
699 San Marino
552 Trinidad and Tobago
509 Tanzania
484 Taiwan*
452 Belize
413 Burundi
405 Comoros
375 Burma
346 Mauritius
323 Papua New Guinea
298 Mongolia
285 Eritrea
273 Cambodia
151 Barbados
146 Monaco
142 Brunei
141 Bhutan
127 Seychelles
94 Liechtenstein
93 Antigua and Barbuda
57 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
28 Fiji
25 Saint Lucia
25 Timor-Leste
24 Grenada
22 Laos
18 Dominica
17 Saint Kitts and Nevis
12 Holy See
10 Western Sahara
9 MS Zaandam
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Globally, as of 10:48am CEST, 17 August 2020, there have been 21,516,760 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 766,663 deaths, reported to WHO.
LET THAT SINK IN
TRUMP IGNORANCE and clowning about this pandemic KILLS
Andrew Beckwith, PhD