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The coronavirus COVID-19 is affecting 210 countries and territories around the world and 2 international conveyances. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in the USA:  1,035,765. COVID-19 deaths in the USA:  59,266  Tyson Foods idles its largest pork plant after Iowa outbreak Tyson Foods suspended operations Wednesday at an Iowa plant that is critical to the nation’s pork supply but had been blamed for fueling a massive coronavirus outbreak in the community. The company said the indefinite closure of the Waterloo, Iowa, plant would deny a vital market to hog farmers and further disrupt the nation’s meat supply. Tyson had kept the facility, its largest pork plant, open in recent days over the objections of local officials. The plant can process 19,500 hogs per day, accounting for nearly 4% of U.S. pork processing capacity, according to the National Pork Board.  Two cats in New York test positive for coronavirus Two cats in New York have been infecte...

The coronavirus COVID-19 is affecting 210 countries and territories around the world and 2 international conveyances. Confirmed USA cases are:  710,021 Deaths in the USA are:  37,158 N.Y.C. Death Toll Soars Past 10,000 in Revised Virus Count  New York City, already a world epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, sharply increased its death toll by more than 3,700 victims on Tuesday, after officials said they were now including people who had never tested positive for the virus but were presumed to have died of it. The new figures, released by the city’s Health Department, drove up the number of people killed in New York City to more than 10,000, and appeared to increase the overall United States death count by 17 percent to more than 26,000.

The coronavirus COVID-19 is affecting 210 countries and territories around the world and 2 international conveyances.  Confirmed cases in the USA are: 677,570. Deaths in the USA are: 34,617.   They jumped a lot from yesterday due to a change in allowing probably COVID-19 deaths as being counted as COVID-19 deaths. Personal note:  I was very fatigued on Sunday, April 12th.  Spent most of the day laying around. I have had diarrhea since Tuesday evening.  It was bad last night but has died down after this morning.  Today I have only eaten two slices of keto toast.  In the afternoon, I noticed that my heart rate was higher than normal while resting and moving around. Another 5 million people filed jobless claims last week, bringing total to almost 22 million in one month 

The coronavirus COVID-19 is affecting 210 countries and territories around the world and 2 international conveyances. Confirmed cases in the USA are: 644,089 Deaths in the USA are: 28,529 California:  Stay-at-home order will be extended to May 15 in Ventura County  CDC: 90% of Coronavirus Hospitalized Patients Have Underlying Conditions Nearly 90 percent of U.S. coronavirus patients who have been hospitalized have underlying health problems, or comorbidities, reports the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), released Wednesday, focuses on hospitalization rates and characteristics of patients hospitalized with confirmed coronavirus disease, or COVID-19. CDC reports among 1,482 patients from 14 states who were hospitalized with COVID-19 in March, 74.5 percent were 50 years of age or older, and 54.4 percent were male. State Department cables warned of safety issues at Wuhan lab stu...

The coronavirus COVID-19 is affecting 210 countries and territories around the world and 2 international conveyances. Confirmed cases in the USA are:  586,941 Deaths in the USA are:  23,640 All 50 states under disaster declaration for first time in US history All 50 states are under a major disaster declaration for the first time in U.S. history, after President Trump approved Wyoming’s declaration Saturday. Within 22 days, Trump declared a major emergency in all 50 states and most territories through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The final disaster declaration occurred on the same day U.S. surpassed Italy to become the country with the most deaths from the virus. Trump approved the first major disaster declaration for coronavirus in New York on March 20, followed two days later by Washington and California, the early hot spots of the virus. New York has become the hardest-hit state, recording 188,694 positive cases and 9,385 deaths from ...

The coronavirus COVID-19 is affecting 209 countries and territories around the world and 2 international conveyances. Confirmed cases in the USA are:  468,566 Deaths in the USA are: 16,691 Some doctors moving away from ventilators for virus patients Generally speaking, 40% to 50% of patients with severe respiratory distress die while on ventilators, experts say. But 80% or more of coronavirus patients placed on the machines in New York City have died, state and city officials say. Higher-than-normal death rates also have been reported elsewhere in the U.S., said Dr. Albert Rizzo, the American Lung Association’s chief medical officer. Similar reports have emerged from China and the United Kingdom. One U.K. report put the figure at 66%. A very small study in Wuhan, the Chinese city where the disease first emerged, said 86% died. The reason is not clear. It may have to do with what kind of shape the patients were in before they were infected. Or it ...

The coronavirus COVID-19 is affecting 209 countries and territories around the world and 2 international conveyances. Confirmed cases in the USA are: 434,062. Deaths in the USA are:  14,774. Gov. Murphy extends N.J.'s coronavirus public-health emergency for 30 days. State of emergency remains in effect. Intelligence report warned of coronavirus crisis as early as November: Sources  As far back as late November, U.S. intelligence officials were warning that a contagion was sweeping through China’s Wuhan region, changing the patterns of life and business and posing a threat to the population, according to four sources briefed on the secret reporting. Concerns about what is now known to be the novel coronavirus pandemic were detailed in a November intelligence report by the military's National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI), according to two officials familiar with the document’s contents. The report was the result of analysis of wire and com...