The situation has become serious enough that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's leading infectious disease expert, is urging colleges: If at all possible, do not send students home.
"It's the worst thing you could do," he said Wednesday on NBC's "TODAY" show. "When you send them home, particularly when you're dealing with a university where people come from multiple different locations, you could be seeding the different places with infection," said Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
On Monday, Dr. Deborah Birx, coordinator of the White House coronavirus task force, cautioned governors on a call that college students could become a source of outbreaks beyond campuses.
"Sending these individuals back home in their asymptomatic state to spread the virus in their hometown or among their vulnerable households could really re-create what we experienced over the June time frame in the South," Birx said, according to a source on the call.
After an almost six-month shutdown due to the covid-19 pandemic, The Batman went back into production this week. It then took only three days for things to shut down again. That’s when star Robert Pattinson tested positive for covid-19.
jlv said:I'm sure that's what they were thinking up in Maine, where the number of cases has been minuscule, when they decided to have a wedding reception on August 7 with 65 people. Unfortunately, one person was infected but didn't know, and now lots of people are.Oilpan4 said:If I wanted city problems I would live in the city.
From a week ago:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/19/metro/covid-19-outbreak-linked-aug-7-wedding-reception-maine/
Now it's up to 53 cases:
https://www.boston.com/news/coronavirus/2020/08/23/more-covid-cases-linked-to-maine-wedding-reception-totaling-53-cases-so-far
Imagine realizing that your wedding reception cost the life of one of your guests.
Now it's up to 147 linked cases and 3 deaths.cwerdna said:https://www.wabi.tv/2020/08/26/85-cases-of-covid-19-now-linked-to-millinocket-wedding-maine-cdc-says/ - now it's up to 85cwerdna said:Now the count's up to 60, including some at a jail.cwerdna said:I'm hitting a paywall on the 1st story but https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/08/24/905494669/53-coronavirus-cases-reportedly-linked-to-maine-wedding-reception points to https://www.pressherald.com/2020/08/22/maine-cdc-reports-32-cases-of-coronavirus-one-death/ and has some numbers that add up to 55, not 53.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-covid-outbreak-maine-jail-indoor-wedding-reception-millinocket/
https://www.mainepublic.org/post/maine-cdc-millinocket-wedding-covid-19-cases-spread-sparking-outbreaks-elsewhere
Oilpan4 said:Trumpvirus by its self is a joke and you people fell for what's going to turn out to be the greatest case of mass hysteria in world history.
As someone who was born in the US has only ever resided in the US (have traveled to many countries though), I too am SMH about this. It blows my mind that it seems like about 1/3 (or a bit more?) of the country supports him. He shouldn't have the support of even 2% of the US population/voting adults, yet somehow he has a lot more...webeleafowners said:Definetly hard to watch from abroad. But here he will always be known as the president representing unchecked violence, racism, hate, cronyism, complete incompetence and impunity. The biggest stunner up here is the widespread love and adoration for a president who represents these things. Lots of confused people shaking their heads up here right now.
We have lived about a quarter of our lives in the US. It’s hard to get a pulse on things when we are not actually there but from abroad it looks like this guy still has a ton of support. It’s definetly bewildering.
No disrespect meant to our American neighbours. The whole situation is just, well, foreign to us.
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