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Video contradicts government assertion of overrun wards.. A woman in the UK was arrested by police after she filmed a video inside an almost completely empty hospital and posted it online. The clip shows the woman walking through virtually empty corridors and filming empty wards at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. “This is a disgrace…it is so dead…all the people in our country desperately waiting for treatment, cancer treatment heart disease, honestly this is making me so angry,” she states as she films a row of empty waiting chairs. The woman expressed shock at how quiet the hospital was, saying she expected...

Why jack up the numbers? Because they are, in reality, much lower? And they need bigger numbers to maintain totalitarian control. This is the biggest, most destructive hoax in world history. Doctors are doing their own research in hopes of getting more accurate information By: JTN, May 8, 2020: Frontline COVID-19 doctors this week have gone public saying they feel pressured to show COVID-19 as cause-of-death on certificates of patients suspected of having the virus when they also have had underlying medical conditions. Dr. Jonathan Fishbein, a clinical researcher, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institute...

May 6, every person in Denver ages 3 and older will need to wear a face mask visiting or waiting in line at commercial businesses, bus stops and health care facilities ... Denver Mayor Michael Hancock said in a statement. “The virus isn’t going away any time soon ... violating the mandatory order, although those out of compliance could face up to a $999 fine. ... drivers and operators of any public transportation must wear a face covering while driving or operating the vehicle, regardless of whether they are transporting passengers ... order was issued Friday through the Denver Department...

A new NBC News/WSJ poll also shows how the past month has changed Americans’ attitudes about the coronavirus. In March, 53 percent of voters said they’re worried that someone in their immediate family would catch the disease. Now it’s 73 percent. Also in March, a combined 26 percent said the coronavirus has changed their day-to-day life in a “very” or “fairly” major way. Now it’s 77 percent.

This post is to help physicians, thought leaders and public officials understand and weigh the risks and benefits of extended lockdowns versus more measured and earlier return to work measures. 1..We have already flattened the curve This is with the likely over reporting of death. 2. Economic collapse and unemployment are destroying families Each day the shutdown continues, we are losing approximately one million jobs 3. We have not saturated the health care system 4... Suicide may kill almost as many people as COVID-19 this year. 5...The mortality was likely overestimated The IHME model, as well as Dr. Fauci have...

The hastily built field hospital set up by the Army in Seattle's pro football stadium is shutting down without ever seeing a patient, so the service can shift resources where they're more urgently needed, Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee said. Medical equipment at the CenturyLink Field Event Center is being returned to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for use elsewhere, but the governor cautioned against reading too much into the move. "Don't let this decision give you the impression that we are out of the woods," Inslee said in a statement Wednesday. "We have to keep our guard up and...

The USNS Comfort and the Javits Convention Center are still sitting mostly empty despite being set up in New York City to treat coronavirus patients while emergency rooms across the city overflow with patients. The 1,000-bed Comfort and 2,500-bed Javits Center were set up by the federal government and military to alleviate the strain on New York's hospitals at the height of the pandemic. But immediately, hospital executives expressed frustration and outrage at the red tape that was stopping them from actually contributing to the crisis. The first problem was that neither was willing to take COVID-19 patients. The Comfort...

Even as hospitals and governors raise the alarm about a shortage of ventilators, some critical care physicians are questioning the widespread use of the breathing machines for Covid-19 patients, saying that large numbers of patients could instead be treated with less intensive respiratory support. If the iconoclasts are right, putting coronavirus patients on ventilators could be of little benefit to many and even harmful to some. What’s driving this reassessment is a baffling observation about Covid-19: Many patients have blood oxygen levels so low they should be dead. But they’re not gasping for air, their hearts aren’t racing, and their...

COVID-19 projections assuming full social distancing through May 2020

Last week, Boston Medical Center announced it was furloughing 700 employees, 10 percent of its workforce. After Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear ordered the suspension of “elective” surgeries, Appalachian Region Healthcare, the largest hospital chain in eastern Kentucky, laid off 500 employees. Nurse anesthetists are being laid off in Pennsylvania and in other states, even though they are critical to intubating COVID-19 patients. Hundreds of health care workers in Huntington, West Virginia, were laid off, even though there are barely any COVID-19 patients in the state’s hospitals. Family practice physicians and specialists are seeing their practices disintegrate. According to a HealthLandscape...

President Trump said Tuesday night he'd like to see the entire U.S. economy reopen with a "big bang," but acknowledged it will be difficult to manage as certain parts of the country grapple with outbreaks. "I'd love to open with a big bang, one beautiful country and just open," Trump said on Sean Hannity's Fox News show. "We're looking at two concepts. We're looking at the concept where you open up sections and we're also looking at the concept where you open up everything," Trump added. Trump cited New York, New Jersey and Louisiana as areas that may struggle to...

Yesterday I wrote about how the official daily coronavirus death count in New York State had plateaued at 600 or so even though the IHME model projected 700+, with deaths expected to approach 900 per day at the peak. What explains the difference? Were the assumptions behind the model, which were based on China’s dubious early data, simply too pessimistic? Had social distancing by New Yorkers been more effective than anticipated in flattening the curve? Could be both, of course.There’s another possibility. There were reports last week that the official COVID-19 death toll in Italy and Spain didn’t fully...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Every day, grocery workers are restocking toilet paper, eggs, produce and canned goods as fast as the items fly off the shelves. They disinfect keypads, freezer handles and checkout counters as hundreds of people weave around them, sometimes standing too close for comfort amid the coronavirus pandemic. Some work for hours behind clear plastic barriers installed at checkout counters, bulwarks against sudden sneezes or coughs that can propel germs. They aren’t doctors or nurses, yet they have been praised for their dedication by Pope Francis, former U.S. President Barack Obama and countless people on social media,...

Major supermarket chains are beginning to report their first coronavirus-related employee deaths, leading to store closures and increasing anxiety among grocery workers as the pandemic intensifies across the country. A Trader Joe’s worker in Scarsdale, N.Y., a greeter at a Giant store in Largo, Md., and two Walmart employees from the same Chicago-area store have died of covid-19, the disease the novel coronavirus causes, in recent days, the companies confirmed Monday. Though more than 40 states have ordered nonessential businesses to close and told residents to stay home to stem the spread of the virus, supermarkets are among the retailers...

We have pad [sic], and continue to pay, a huge economic price for it, but new data from an unexpected source gives compelling evidence that social distancing is working against COVID-19, as well as a surprising providing a possible dividend.

As the CPP virus swipes through the United States, much attention has been paid to the situation in large cities. That’s not, however, where the rate of infection has been the highest. The epidemic has been the most concentrated in three suburbs around New York City as well as in New Orleans. While New York City has the highest number of confirmed cases, over 57,000, when counted per capita, the worst hit is Rockland County, a neighboring suburb of some 325,000 on the west side of the Hudson River. More than one in 67 Rockland residents has tested positive, a...

USA: More videos by citizen journalists show that in hospitals described by US media as “war zones“ it is in fact still very quiet.

Breitbart News compared projections of the number of regular hospital beds needed to treat coronavirus patients made in the Friday, April 3 iteration of the IHME model for nine states to the actual number of cumulative hospitalizations (a number that includes current regular bed hospitalizations, current ICU hospitalizations, previously hospitalized and released patients, and previously hospitalized and deceased patients) reported by the respective health departments in those states as of Thursday, April 2. These numbers, however, actually understate the degree to which the IHME model overestimates the number of hospital beds currently needed for coronavirus patients because the numerator–cumulative hospitalizations–includes...

After all kinds of complaining that his state of New York needs ventilators, oh so many ventilators because there aren’t nearly enough in New York, has refused help from Remington when they offered to send ventilators to New York. But as we previously reported the Democrats in New York not up to the task of handling the Coronavirus threat. Now there are some conservative commentators who questioned how busy American hospitals actually are. On Twitter, photos and video clips purporting to show nearly empty hospital parking lots. More of t he same on a YouTube “citizen reporters” video. https://twitter.com/toddstarnes/status/1243302444970520578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1243302444970520578&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fconservativeus.com%2Ftruth-or-fiction-citizen-reporters-go-out-and-record-videos-about-allegedly-empty-hospitals-in-coronavirus-epicenter%2F Todd...

(Sweden has twice the population) What is the situation in Sweden? On April 2nd, Sweden had 5,466 reported cases of Covid-19 patients, 559 people in intensive care and 282 deaths. As of now, on average, 53 out of every 10,000 people are infected. People showing symptoms are on average 61 years old. Over 60% of the deceased are older than 80 years old. By way of comparison, Denmark and Norway, two neighbouring countries and both in lockdown, recorded 3,672 and 5,253 reported cases of illness, and 123 and 54 deaths respectively. We are starting to see shifts in the dynamics...