More on the virus

ferret wrote:Info for June 11th, 2020





And Tizapan is back in the action...

4:06 a.m.
White House reportedly eyeing Mexico as source of rising infections
The White House is contemplating a theory that legal cross-border travel from Mexico may be causing a recent rise in coronavirus infections, the Associated Press reported, instead of newly loosened restrictions on businesses and public life.

The idea came up during a meeting Thursday of the federal administration’s coronavirus task force, which has been working to identify similarities among new hot spots in the United States, according to the news agency.

The United States’ recent rise in coronavirus cases appears to be hitting the Southwest especially hard. Hospitals are nearing capacity in Arizona, and more patients are being hospitalized in Texas. But in states far from the border region, such as North Carolina, Hispanic populations have experienced a worrying uptick in infections, too.

As the pandemic rages in parts of Mexico, the task force is examining whether those outbreaks may be spreading through legal travel, the AP reported. President Trump has regularly scapegoated the United States’ southern neighbor.

While nonessential travel across the border remains prohibited and traffic is down substantially, commercial transport and agricultural workers are still allowed entry to the United States. Small community hospitals in Southern California have been flooded with Americans who live along the border and cross it regularly during normal conditions, The Washington Post’s Kevin Sieff has reported.

With outbreaks spreading in northern Mexican cities such as Tijuana, the Trump administration has been urging Mexican officials to reopen — or keep open — many of the assembly plants there that feed into U.S. manufacturing supply chains, even as workers fall ill.

More than 133,000 infections have been confirmed in Mexico, and nearly 16,000 people have died. Those figures are a fraction of the totals in the United States, but they nonetheless amount to the fourth-largest coronavirus outbreak in Latin America.

Jreboll wrote:Another one of the many screwups by WHO. They, along with Fauci and the surgeon general screwed up big time when they were advising everyone that they didn’t have to wear face masks. History will not look kindly at medical leaders who have directed the response to this pandemic.

Jreboll wrote:Another one of the many screwups by WHO. They, along with Fauci and the surgeon general screwed up big time when they were advising everyone that they didn’t have to wear face masks. History will not look kindly at medical leaders who have directed the response to this pandemic.

Jreboll wrote:This is april3. We had our first case in the southern tip of Texas in mid March, by that time it was all over the country. The cattle was out of the corral by the time they closed the gate.
Here’s what I was listening to on Jan 26.  Maybe you’ll get a different perspective on the timing of this and this is what our leaders knew and did nothing.
https://youtu.be/X2GZg1qzohY