stupid headline as there was no need for them anyway. Laura Ingraham mentioned the number of people in ICU in California at present - something like 127 for the entire State!
Updated 16 Apr: Daily Mail: NONE of the 1,000 ventilators Tesla CEO Elon Musk promised have been delivered to California hospitals, Gov. Gavin Newsom says
•The billionaire initially called the coronavirus pandemic ‘dumb’
•California has since donated their own ventilators to other states
By Frances Mulraney
Despite the reported failure of Tesla to deliver ventilators, California has now begun to ship their own to other states in need, sending out hundreds of machines to New Jersey, New York and Illinois...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8221537/NONE-ventilators-Elon-Musk-promised-delivered-California-hospitals-Gov-Newsom-says.html
all FakeNewsMSM now pushing the following - note MARC LIPSITCH OF HARVARD T.H. CHAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH is one of the authors:
16 Apr: NBC: Reuters: Social distancing may remain in place until 2022, Harvard researchers say
“Intermittent distancing may be required into 2022 unless critical care capacity is increased substantially or a treatment or vaccine becomes available,” the Harvard researchers said in findings published Tuesday in the journal Science...
Dr. Rosemary Guerguerian, NBC News’ medical fellow, said that as with most mathematical models, the researchers’ predictions are based on assumptions we don’t yet know about the virus...
The study acknowledged that prolonged distancing would most likely have profoundly negative economic, social and educational consequences.
The study added that even in the case of “apparent elimination,” SARS-CoV-2 surveillance should still be maintained, as a resurgence in contagion may be possible as late as 2024. According to the findings, it is likely that COVID-19 could re-emerge every winter...
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/social-distancing-may-remain-place-until-2022-harvard-researchers-say-n1184396
14 Apr: Science: Projecting the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 through the postpandemic period
Authors: Stephen M. Kissler, Christine Tedijanto, Edward Goldstein, Yonatan H. Grad, Marc Lipsitch
Abstract:
Absent other interventions, a key metric for the success of social distancing is whether critical care capacities are exceeded. To avoid this, prolonged or intermittent social distancing may be necessary into 2022. Additional interventions, including expanded critical care capacity and an effective therapeutic, would improve the success of intermittent distancing and hasten the acquisition of herd immunity. Longitudinal serological studies are urgently needed to determine the extent and duration of immunity to SARS-CoV-2. Even in the event of apparent elimination, SARS-CoV-2 surveillance should be maintained since a resurgence in contagion could be possible as late as 2024...
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/04/14/science.abb5793
what the …?
15 Apr: LA Times: L.A. County reports 42 more coronavirus deaths, a new single-day high
By Hannah Fry, Taryn Luna, Rong-Gong Lin II, Maura Dolan; Times staff writers Marisa Gerber, Richard Winton, Colleen Shalby, Dakota Smith and Ben Welsh contributed to this report
“This is not the end, and it’s not even the beginning of the end, but perhaps the end of the beginning,” Anna Roth, director of Contra Costa Health Services, said Tuesday, quoting Winston Churchill’s comments after a victory in World War II in 1942. “Now is not the time for us to take a victory lap.”
Dr. Chris Farnitano, Contra Costa County’s health officer, went further. “It’s not even the end of the beginning. It’s still the beginning of the beginning in this crisis,” Farnitano told the county Board of Supervisors...
The latest number of those infected includes 28 people in the homeless community...
More than 2.3 million Californians filed for unemployment benefits in the last month as businesses closed due to state mandates, and the economy continues to unravel...
Despite his attempts to quell uncertainty, Newsom has not yet provided a timeline for when the state’s nearly 40 million people can expect to return to work — or move about freely. And to those struggling to make ends meet, that’s the question they want answered most...
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-15/this-is-not-the-end-officials-say-its-too-early-to-scale-back-coronavirus-restrictions