Local, National And World Covid19 Stories - April 14, 2020
- 1.92M confirmed worldwide cases, 120K deaths, 450K recoveries ~1.35M open cases, numbers via Johns Hopkins subject to nations’ transparency and testing bandwidth
- 582K confirmed US cases, 23.6K deaths, 43.7K recoveries 515K open cases. 2.93M tested with 92.8K hospitalizations.
- 25,635K confirmed Michigan cases, 1,697 deaths, 24K open cases
- Special thanks to DetroitYES IT Manager Nicolas B for creating this update list and those above.
DETROIT+WINDSOR METRO + MICHIGAN & CANADA
- DETROIT: Photos show bodies piled up and stored in vacant rooms at Detroit hospital
- DETROIT: Ford to begin producing respirators for health-care workers at Michigan plant
- DETROIT: Ford is using airbag material to make reusable hospital gowns for Covid-19 responders
- Detroit focusing on nursing home testing, expects major budget shortfall
- Michigan Strip clubs want piece of coronavirus aid, sue feds over restriction
- Greenhouses unable to sell in Michigan under extended order: "The month of May brings in 80% of the greenhouse’s business"
- Michigan offers to buy back liquor from bars, restaurants
- Ontario plans to extend state of emergency by 28 days
USA + CANADA
- For the first time in US history, every state is under a disaster declaration simultaneously
- US approaching peak of ‘active’ COVID-19 cases, strain on medical resources, new modeling shows
- Multiple states report coronavirus infection rate higher than some of hardest-hit countries
- 25 percent of Americans knows someone who has contracted coronavirus
- potus claims 'total' power to lift virus lockdown says he, not governors will decide when the economy opens… meanwhile governors on East and West coasts form pacts to decide when to reopen economies
- New York, New Jersey and other Northeastern states form coronavirus working group to decide when to ease restrictions
- Washington, Oregon and California announce Western States Pact, agreement on a shared vision for reopening their economies and controlling COVID-19 into the future.
- first Saliva Test for Coronavirus Gets Emergency FDA Approval
- Pentagon awards $415 million contract for units to decontaminate N95 masks
- Anti-malarial drug touted by POTUS was subject of CIA warning to employees
- Death penalty states urged to release stockpiled drugs [sedatives which are in short supply] for Covid-19 patients
- Fauci walks back coronavirus comments that sparked fears of his firing [potus lashed out at Anthony Fauci amid criticism of slow coronavirus response.. ‘If Covid-19 mitigation efforts started earlier, you could have saved lives’]
- Fauci Defends POTUS, Who Says He Has No Plans to Dismiss Him
- New York state virus death toll surpasses 10,000
- Deaths from heart attacks have surged in New York City, likely underestimating covid-19 deaths
- 21 teachers among 50 NYC education employees dead of coronavirus
- New York City is in danger of running out of swabs for COVID-19 tests and is urging medical providers to continue testing only patients who are gravely ill
- Bodies of coronavirus victims in New York City may be stored at ex-military fort as morgue near overflow
- Governor Cuomo Says ‘Worst Is Over’ if N.Y. Stays the Course: Live Updates
- NJ Will Be First US State to Offer Drive-Thru Saliva Test
- Los Angeles models show 95% of residents will be infected if stay-at-home order is dropped now
- Los Angeles schools won't give any students failing grade during pandemic.
- California orders insurance premium refunds during outbreak
- Large-scale COVID-19 antibody testing study launched in California
- LA County records lowest new coronavirus-case total in almost 3 weeks
- South Dakota’s governor resisted ordering people to stay home. Now it has one of the nation’s largest coronavirus hot spots.
- Austin Texas Extends ‘Stay Home Work Safe’ Order Through May 8
- Louisiana Lieutenant Governor: We had no idea coronavirus outbreak would be this bad
- Florida declares WWE an ‘essential business’ during coronavirus pandemic
- Florida police chief suspended for saying officer died from Covid-19 because he was gay
- CDC director: Agency sent guidance to Florida weeks before gov ordered some residents to stay at home
- Florida tops 21,000 coronavirus cases and nears 500 deaths statewide
- Lobbyists Descend On Washington Seeking Coronavirus Relief Money
- America should be ready for 18 months of shutdowns in ‘long, hard road’ ahead, warns the Fed’s Neel Kashkari
- Coronavirus crippling film industry, US box office headed for worst year since 1998
- Uber and Fiat Chrysler are begging you not to use their products during the crisis
- Half the nation’s Chinese restaurants have closed, study finds
- 'We are on the verge of a massive collapse': Ex-Energy Secretary Perry says COVID-19 will ravage oil industry
- 31% of Americans Can’t Pay the Rent: ‘It’s Only Going to Get Worse’
- Homeowners Seeking Mortgage Relief With U.S. Economy Shuttered
- North America meat plant workers falling ill, walking off jobs
- U.S. ‘Perilously Close’ to Meat Shortage After Major Plant Closes Over Coronavirus
- Former Agriculture Secretary: 'Cascading series of events' disrupting the US food chain
- Dumped milk, smashed eggs and plowed vegetables: Coronavirus pandemic leaves staggering amount of food waste as farmers who supplied restaurants, schools, industry struggle to divert their resources to the supermarket supply chains
- Foodservice distributors entering retail supply chain
- 'It feels like a war zone’: As more of them die, grocery workers increasingly fear showing up at work
- Amazon stops accepting new online grocery customers amid surging demand
- Canadian Rapid COVID-19 test kits approved for use
- Outrage as ‘anti-lockdown conspiracy theorists ignore coronavirus fears to stage public protest in Vancouver’
REST OF THE WORLD
- British PM has now tested negative for COVID-19
- Boris Johnson praises immigrant nurses who saved his life
- UK's chief scientific adviser says UK is starting to see the flattening of outbreak, but lifting lockdown too early would risk a 2nd wave and would be a "complete waste of everything everyone's done until now"
- UK lockdown could last at least another month
- UK Drug Dealers Are Dressing Up as Delivery Drivers, Joggers and Nurses to Sell Heroin During Lockdown
- France extends restrictions until May 11th, allowing people to wear masks systematically.
- Austria reopening thousands of shops in first loosening of lockdown
- Spain Has Overcome Peak of Virus Epidemic, Health Minister Says
- Spain begins to ease lockdown, allowing people in manufacturing, construction and some services to return to work, hundreds of thousands return...
- Putin Warns Russia To Prepare For 'Extraordinary' Virus Crisis
- Putin says Russia may need the army to help battle coronavirus
- South Korea, at one point the worst affected country outside China, is no longer in the top 20 by number of confirmed coronavirus cases. Yesterday, there were only 9 new domestic cases
- Japan to roll out contact detection app for coronavirus
- Small apartments make staying at home difficult in Japan.
- Japan gov't wary of nightlife workers leaving big cities, leading to new virus clusters
- Australian unemployment rate to double as virus hammers economy
- Mexico closes Minneapolis company’s Baja California plant for refusal to sell ventilators to Mexican hospitals
- Brazil likely has 12 times more coronavirus cases than official count, study finds
- Bolsonaro says Coronavirus is leaving Brazil and " Mass Unemployment"is Coming.
- Respirator ran on raspberry pi and commonly found parts being tested in Columbia.
- WHO Says COVID-19 Immunity Is An Unknown; Disease '10 Times Deadlier' Than 2009 Flu
- WHO Says 70 Vaccines in the Works, With Three Leading Candidates
- Loss of Smell and Taste Validated as COVID-19 Symptoms in Patients with High Recovery Rate
- Dark web market bans drug dealers selling fake Covid-19 vaccines
- Health expert warns live concerts won’t return until 2021 ‘at the earliest’
- Olympic athletes with 1 year doping bans intended to prevent them from competing in 2020 are now unexpectedly eligible to participate in the postponed Olympics
- John Conway, inventor of the Game of Life, has died of COVID-19
