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Smart thermometer company reports fewer fevers reported nationwide

Ronald Bailey
Reason
Tue, 31 Mar 2020 00:34 UTC
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© Kinsa Health
Social distancing and stay-at-home orders are working to slow and blunt the ongoing coronavirus pandemic according to fever trend data aggregated by remote health monitoring company Kinsa Health. Kinsa has sold more than one million of its bluetooth-linked digital thermometers and their users upload their body temperature data to the company's centralized database. The company's stated mission is to "stop the spread of contagious illness through earlier detection and earlier response." Data from its users' thermometers have enabled the company to track the spread of flu in real time and forecast where it is headed in three to four weeks.

The company has now devised a way to track the spread of the coronavirus pandemic by focusing on atypical fevers associated with COVID-19. The company is able to generate a U.S. Health Weather Map that tracks these atypical fever trends around the country. The New York Times reports that as of Monday morning, fevers were down in three-quarters of the country from their peak levels on March 17. In hard-hit New York City, Kinsa data show that the number of fevers is trending downward, which correlates with the good news that the COVID-19 hospitalization doubling rate in that city has dropped from two days to four days.
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Coronavirus testing kits heading to the UK found to be contaminated with Covid-19 1 day ago

Brash, Harawira
MSN News
Thu, 02 Apr 2020 00:56 UTC
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Testing kits which were headed to the UK have been found to be contaminated with coronavirus.

The Government has said that it aims to boost the rate of tests to 25,000 every day by the end of April at the latest and has asked private companies to help drive up test production.

But one production firm, Luxembourg-based manufacturer Eurofins, told UK labs on Monday that deliveries would be delayed as core parts had been contaminated with coronavirus, the Telegraph reported.
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Migrant protests take place in Sweden's Gothenburg despite coronavirus gathering ban


RT
Wed, 01 Apr 2020 00:29 UTC
A tent for testing and receiving potential coronavirus COVID-19 patients
© AFP / Jonathan NackstrandA tent for testing and receiving potential coronavirus COVID-19 patients is pictured at Karolisnka Hospital in Solna, Sweden on March 31, 2020
Sweden has banned gatherings of more than 50 people in a bid to tackle the coronavirus spread. The seemingly strict ban, however, was immediately put under a stress test and apparently failed it.

The ban came into force on Sunday and those who violate it are facing fines or a jail term of up to six months.

The restriction, however, has had little to no effect on migrants and pro-migrant activists, who have been protesting in the city of Gothenburg for weeks already.
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While you're terrified of Covid-19, some climate alarmists are overjoyed because, for them, fear is... an OPPORTUNITY

Frank Furedi
RT
Wed, 01 Apr 2020 00:17 UTC
Climate Strike protestor
© Getty Images / Matthew HorwoodClimate Strike protestor
Many hardline environmentalists are overjoyed at the atmosphere of fear that Covid-19 has created; for them, it is an instrument for realising the dream of a society that runs according to climate alarmists' dogma.

"Some believe the pandemic is a once-in-a-generation chance to remake society and build a better future," argues one advocate of climate alarmism.

So, in case you thought that Covid-19 is a global pandemic of catastrophic proportions, think again!
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Prosecutors: Engineer deliberately ran train off tracks in attempt to smash the USNS Mercy


ABC7.com
Thu, 02 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
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An engineer deliberately ran a train off the tracks at high speed near the Port of Los Angeles in an attempt to crash into and damage the USNS Mercy hospital ship, prosecutors say.

The Pacific Harbor Line train derailed Tuesday, running through the end of the track and crashing through barriers, finally coming to rest about 250 yards from the docked naval ship.

Federal prosecutors allege train engineer Eduardo Moreno, 44, of San Pedro intended to hit the ship, saying he thought it was "suspicious" and did not believe "the ship is what they say it's for.'"
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Show us your papers! Germany to issue coronavirus 'immunity certificates' to indicate who can 're-enter society'

Lydia Smith
Newsweek
Tue, 31 Mar 2020 09:35 UTC
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German researchers are planning to introduce coronavirus "immunity certificates" to indicate who has recovered from the virus and is ready to re-enter society.

The documents are part of a research project being conducted at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Braunschweig, which will conduct blood tests among the general public for antibodies produced against the virus.

The antibodies will show which of the participants have had the virus and have recovered, according to a report by the German magazine Der Spiegel. Around 100,000 people will be tested at a time, and certificates issued to those found positive.

The testing could start in April if researchers are given the green light.

"You could give immune people something similar to a vaccination certificate that could allow them exceptions from limits on their activities," Helmholtz Institute epidemiologist Gerard Krause told Der Spiegel.

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Coronavirus survey: Rich sheltered, poor shafted amid virus lockdown

Margaret Talev
Axios
Wed, 01 Apr 2020 10:46 UTC
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© Chart: Naema Ahmed/AxiosData: Axios/Ipsos survey. Margin of error ±2.8 points for full sample. Margin for subgroups ranges from ±5 to ±9 points.
The coronavirus is spreading a dangerous strain of inequality. Better-off Americans are still getting paid and are free to work from home, while the poor are either forced to risk going out to work or lose their jobs.

Driving the news: This sobering reality emerges from Week 3 of our Axios-Ipsos Coronavirus Index.
  • The survey finds Americans with less education and lower incomes far more likely either to have to keep showing up at their workplaces — putting themselves at greater daily risk of infection — or more likely to have seen their work dry up.
Why it matters: "It's a tale of two Americas," said Cliff Young, president of Ipsos U.S. Public Affairs.
  • "The rich and affluent have gone virtual. They've maintained their jobs through the virtual world," he said. "The working and the poor are more exposed."

Comment: While the wealthy will be insulated from the worst of the financial and emotional effects of this hysteria, the ensuing impact on the majority will be devastating. The PTB are preparing for the time when the masses finally realize that the panic and lockdown over the virus was completely unnecessary and are setting the stage to institute martial law - among other things. The question is - are there enough people who can see what is happening and have the strength and will to resist?

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Finer order of control: What's next - Mandatory coronavirus checkpoints?

mapi
MassPrivateI
Tue, 31 Mar 2020 00:00 UTC
New Jersey check point
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At present, National Guard coronavirus testing is voluntary; however, will that still be the case in a few weeks?

It was a mere four years ago when public outrage forced police in Missouri, Ohio and Colorado to stop intrusive DNA and drug checkpoints.
Currently, there are at least thirty-three different types of police checkpoints going on at any given time across the country.

In some states, police are actually setting up firewood, agriculture and fish and game checkpoints to name a few. With the outbreak of COVID-19, Americans could be facing new type of checkpoint across the country.

In Florida, state police are setting up checkpoints on Interstate 10 looking for Louisiana residents trying to enter the state. In Rhode Island police are stopping vehicles with New York state license plates and the National Guard is going door-to-door looking for New York City residents. The New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority has recently issued "travel papers" to all their employees.

My greatest fear is watching authorities use the public's fear of COVID-19 to create mandatory coronavirus checkpoints.
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Threats, attacks, break-ins: French union chief sounds alarm over spike in violence against pharmacy staff amid Covid-19


RT
Wed, 01 Apr 2020 12:27 UTC
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© Lucas Barioulet / AFPEmployees work in a hand sanitisers solution factory installed by a pharmacy in Paris, France. Paris. March 27, 2020.
Violent behavior against pharmacy workers has surged since strict quarantine was imposed in France in order to quell Covid-19, the country's pharmacist association chief has said.

"The situation has deteriorated. Isolation tends to exacerbate fear, anxiety and aggression," Carine Wolf-Thal, the head of France's National Chamber of Pharmacists told Le Parisien newspaper on Wednesday.

"Our system... shows a 50 to 60 percent increase in aggressive action [against pharmacists] since the beginning of the isolation regime compared to the same weeks last year. These actions include insults, threats, but also physical attacks and break-ins."

Comment: The government has itself to blame for whipping up the hysteria over a virus that is less harmful than the seasonal flu. And, chances are, this kind of blowback is only just beginning:

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SOTT Focus: Empty Hospitals? Where Are All The Coronavirus Patients?

D. Rodriguez
Sott.net
Wed, 01 Apr 2020 10:02 UTC
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Note the date. It's been 11 days, and people are wondering where they all are...
The hashtag #FilmYourHospital is currently trending on Twitter. With a third of the world's population currently 'on lockdown', some have begun coping with cabin fever by paying visits to their local hospitals to record some of the chaos they expected to see happening there - what with a deadly pandemic raging and all. The surprising thing, however, is that people are finding, for the most part unusually quiet, not busy, hospitals. Some even appear to be - forgive the pun - deathly quiet.

Now, it could be that the reason people are currently seeing empty or quiet hospitals is because Covid-19 cases (suspected and/or confirmed) are being directed - for now - to specific hospitals only. This would make sense from a epidemiological point of view: you'd want to 'contain' cases to as few 'hotspots' as possible because hospitals themselves quickly become strong sources of infection. Has anyone seen reports or directives issued about such an administrative move? I haven't yet. Most reports about hospital preparedness convey the impression that all medical facilities, in cities anyway, are expecting to be 'overrun any day now'.

In one of the first #FilmYourHospital videos published online, by German reporter Billy Six and titled in German 'Mediziner gegen Medien Es gibt keine gefährliche Corona Pandemie', he begins his tour of one of Berlin's busiest hospitals by claiming that he was directed there by administrators of another hospital who had told him the one he's filming from is "where they're sending the Covid-19 cases." But instead of finding medical staff frantically running about handling Covid-19 cases, as you'd expect, he found the hospital to be unusually quiet.
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