[OFF TOPIC] Coronavirus Pandemic

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Record day in  , 545 new cases and 13 more deaths. Total numbers are 9287 cases, 360 deaths and 1040 recoveries.

 

We are one week after Easter here, most of people ignored restrictions and spend those days in their big families, now we see consequences. In addition we have also two big outbreaks in nursing homes....

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21 minutes ago, rybak said:

Record day in  , 545 new cases and 13 more deaths. Total numbers are 9287 cases, 360 deaths and 1040 recoveries.

 

We are one week after Easter here, most of people ignored restrictions and spend those days in their big families, now we see consequences. In addition we have also two big outbreaks in nursing homes....

 

Nobody gives a fuck about nursing homes. They're at the bottom of the medical barrel. Geriatrics as a whole brings up the rear as well even though the European societies are getting older year by year. Not to mention the current pandemic is skewed at saving the younger lives anyway.

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 Turkey (86,306) officially passed  China (82,735) in number of cases.....

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11 hours ago, OlympicsFan said:

I don't think that what Slovakia did is all the extraordinary. I believe that Israel did something similar with some ultra-orthodox communities and all over Europe different hotspots (northern Italy, Heinsberg in Germany, some small city near Barcelona) have been "locked off" to contain the spread.

Yep it’s happened it helped but it has been done for 3 days but it has been done 

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Just found out how famous Dr Anthony Fauci is. He is indeed a very good doctor. Congratulations.

 

In the Spotlight – The doctors at the top: Truth-tellers and heartthrobs
 

As world leaders grapple with COVID-19 and people demand facts and reassurance, unlikely new stars emerged from the epidemic: public health officials.

 

From Anthony Fauci in the U.S. to New Zealand's Ashley Bloomfield and Noor Hisham Abdullah in Malaysia, these medical professionals have been calm and clear in doling out health advice devoid of politics for weeks, and gained a loyal following in the process.

 

A reassuring presence

 

China Global TV Network (CGTN) named three leading doctors in the fight to curb the spread of the Covid-19 virus worldwide. They are Malaysia’s Health director-general Dr. Noor Hisham, the US government’s infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci and New Zealand’s director-general of health Ashley Bloomfield.

 

Two months ago, hardly anybody knew who they were. Today, they have become household names and have been called heartthrobs, rockstars and national heroes on social media, print and TV – not what you'd expect for three men in suits who can be seen most days speaking from behind a lectern about facts and data. 

 

Fauci, 79, is the director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAD) while Bloomfield, 54, and Hisham, 56, are respectively directors-general of health in New Zealand's and Malaysia's health ministries.

 

None of them are cabinet ministers but all three have emerged as the face of their country's response to COVID-19.

 

In daily press briefings that have become must-watch TV, they have updated the public on new cases, calmly explained why lockdown measures are needed and patiently answered questions on how the virus can spread and when a vaccine might be ready.

 

Amid an unprecedented global pandemic and as governments worldwide have sometimes been slow to react, introducing confusing measures and sending contradictory messages, Fauci, Bloomfield and Hisham have become voices of reason and sources of calm and reassurance. 

 

Fauci is "the one guy you can trust," notes a Facebook fan page that has already garnered 75,000 members.

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Here is the picture of the famous doctor name Dr Anthony Fauci.

 

 

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Dr Anthony Fauci became famous after he has been named as one of the top 3 best doctors who have done a good job throughout the whole pandemic. This award is given to 3 doctors from 3 different countries and Dr. Anthony Fauci is one of them.

 

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/dr-anthony-fauci-trusted-voice-coronavirus-200330124431910.html

 

Excerpts from the article. The original article is very long and it is about 10 pages. I just put down the important points below.

 

Who is Dr Anthony Fauci, the US's trusted voice on coronavirus?

Dr Fauci is seen as a trustworthy voice, often correcting US President Donald Trump on the coronavirus crisis.

If Dr Anthony Fauci says it, Americans would be smart to listen. As the coronavirus has upended daily life across the globe, Fauci, the US director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has become the trusted voice in the United States in separating fact and fiction.

 

The fear and confusion of outbreaks are not new to Fauci, who, in more than 30 years has handled HIV, SARS, MERS, Ebola and even the nation's 2001 experience with bioterrorism - the anthrax attacks.

 

Fauci's political bosses - from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump - have let him do the explaining because he is frank and understandable, translating complex medical information into everyday language while neither exaggerating nor downplaying.

 

At 79, the government's top infectious disease expert is by age in the demographic group at high-risk for contracting COVID-19. But he is working round the clock and getting only a few hours of sleep. He is a little hoarse from all the talking about coronavirus, and he is spending hours speaking to news and entertainment personalities on television and the internet.

Yet, his vigour belies his age, and he credits it to exercise, including running.

 

Fauci became the Trump administration's go-to representative because US citizens trust him, according to polls. The top scientist has bluntly said that the coronavirus pandemic will get worse in the US and criticised the federal government on certain aspects of its response. 

 

Early life 

 

Fauci was born in Brooklyn, New York, on Christmas Eve, 1940, into an Italian-American family. President George W Bush, who, in 2008, awarded Fauci the

 

Presidential Medal of Freedom, noted that even as a boy he showed an independent streak: In a neighbourhood full of Brooklyn Dodgers fans, Fauci rooted for the Yankees.

 

Fauci became head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 1984, when the nation was in the throes of the AIDS crisis. He has recalled the huge frustration of caring for dying patients in the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) hospital with nothing to offer.

 

After hours, he would chat with then-Surgeon General C Everett Koop about what scientists were learning about AIDS, influencing Koop's famous 1986 report educating Americans about the disease.

 

In 1990, when AIDS activists swarmed the NIH to protest what they saw as government indifference, Fauci brought them to the table. Fast forward, and he helped to shape Trump's initiative to end HIV in the US.

 

Although he's spent his career in government, Fauci does not seem to have lost the human touch - and that may be part of the key to his success as a communicator.

 

During the 2014 Ebola outbreak, many Americans panicked when a US nurse was infected by a patient she was caring for, a traveller from West Africa. Ebola can cause deadly bleeding.

 

Fauci confronted those fears by setting a personal example. When the NIH hospital released that nurse, not only did he say she was not contagious, he gave her a hug before TV cameras to prove he was not worried.

 

Correcting Trump

 

Fast-forward six years, and Fauci is again at the forefront of scientists' efforts to dispel misinformation and explain the coronavirus pandemic, even when it means being at odds with the president. 

 

Fauci uses a metaphor from one of the fastest-moving sports to describe his strategy on the outbreak. "You skate not to where the puck is, but to where the puck is going to be," he told a House committee.

 

He has simultaneously advocated containment to try to keep the virus from spreading, mitigation to check its damage once it gets loose in a community, immediate efforts to increase testing, and short-term and long-term science to develop treatments and vaccines. He is hoping a dynamic response will put the nation where the puck ends up going.

 

"It's unpredictable," he said. "Testing now is not going to tell you how many cases you're going to have. What will tell you ... will be how you respond to it with containment and mitigation."

 

Fauci told CNN that the pandemic could ultimately kill between 100,000 and 200,000 people in the US should mitigation be unsuccessful. Those projections have since been lowered to under 100,000.

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11 hours ago, Monzanator said:

 

Nobody gives a fuck about nursing homes. They're at the bottom of the medical barrel. Geriatrics as a whole brings up the rear as well even though the European societies are getting older year by year. Not to mention the current pandemic is skewed at saving the younger lives anyway.

I so want to argue against this, yet, it’s horrifically true (when thought about at a social level). The model of how we treat those who need care in their old age needs to change.

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20 hours ago, Federer91 said:

Everyday on the briefings here, Slovakia is given as an example. 

 

"We are dealing with the situation very good. In Europe we have the second lowest number of deaths, only after Slovakia, which are the only who have handled the crisis better than us."

 

Well, that was possible few days ago. Now we dropped down after some our Roma slums and 2 entire retirement houses exploded. I think Bulgaria is clearly ahead now in Europe

 

Here it is Taipei who is daily given as an example (+ our big brother CZE we will follow everytime )

 

 

Btw, quite interesting is that in the previous days some international leaders called our political representatives to ask them about the corona crisis here and the handling. Few days ago our PM said that Mike Pompeo suddenly called him...I would never believe before that the guy even know that Slovakia exists... 

 

 

or our president announced that the pope himself called her and was interested about the handling of the whole situation. at the end she even got an audience in June in Vatican (not sure she is going to attend lol), then she had to invite him to Slovakia, apparently he answered positively  https://www.prezident.sk/article/prezidentka-sr-telefonovala-s-papezom-frantiskom/

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