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Remdesivir: five Australian hospitals to receive experimental coronavirus drug
The American pharmaceutical company Gilead is finalizing the location of five hospitals in Australia to receive the much-requested experimental drug remvidiv Covid-19.
The only confirmed location is St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney, a major tertiary hospital and the center of many of New South Wales’s outbreak areas. A NSW Health spokeswoman confirmed that the health department “has engaged with Gilead to obtain access to the medication for Covid-19 patients.”
The news comes when the doctor reporting Covid-19’s response at the White House, immunologist Dr. Anthony Fauci, promoted preliminary findings from a joint study by Gilead and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases that suggested remdesivir could improve the recovery time of patients. His comments have revived global hope for the drug, with no treatments available for the virus.
British BAME Covid-19 death rate ‘more than double that of whites’
The death rate among British black Africans and British Pakistanis from coronaviruses in English hospitals is more than 2.5 times higher than that of the white population, according to a rigorous analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
The highly respected think tank also found that deaths of people of black Caribbean origin were 1.7 times higher than those of white Britons.
NHS England figures released last week showed that hospital deaths per 100,000 among Britons of black Caribbean descent were three times the equivalent number among the majority white British population. However, unlike the previous analysis, IFS research, released on Friday, strips away the role of age, gender and geography and shows that they don’t explain the disparities.
UK food banks face record demand in coronavirus crisis
The first two weeks of the coronavirus blockade triggered an unprecedented increase in the use of the food bank as the economy suffered and household incomes plummeted, data from hundreds of emergency food aid charities reveal. .
The Trussell Trust, the UK’s largest food bank network, said it experienced its peak period until the closure was announced on March 23, when it issued 50,000 food packages in the space of a week, almost the double its usual volume.
A similar image emerged from the Independent Food Aid Network (Ifan), which said its food banks recorded a 59% increase in demand for emergency food between February and March, 17 times more than in the same period of the year. previous.
Major US airlines will require passengers to cover their faces during flights
American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines said Thursday that they will soon require passengers to cover their faces during flights, following the example of JetBlue Airways, Reuters reports.
The move comes as small and large airlines consider how to comply with social distancing recommendations amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Most flights are nearly empty these days, air travel is down 95% from a year earlier, and the average domestic flight has 17 passengers, according to industry figures.
This week JetBlue became the first U.S. airline to announce that it will require passengers to wear face covers during flights, starting next week.
Wearing a face covering is not about protecting yourself, it’s about protecting those around you, said JetBlue President Joanna Geraghty. This is the new flight tag.
Earlier Thursday, Frontier Airlines said it would begin requiring masks on May 8. Delta and United announced that they would make the mandatory masks starting Monday.
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Thursday that the entire New York State public transportation system (which includes New York City and Long Island) would be disinfected every 24 hours.
He also said he would need an “army” of between 6,400 and 17,000 people to trace the contacts of people who tested positive for the new coronavirus as part of a strategy to limit outbreaks.
Cuomo said former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, in coordination with Johns Hopkins University, would oversee the recruitment and training of these “contact trackers” and make the program available to governments around the world. .
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Protesters, some armed, gather inside the Michigan state capitol
Hundreds of protesters, some armed, gathered Thursday at the Michigan state capitol as state lawmakers debated the Democratic governor’s request to extend his emergency powers to combat the coronavirus.
Crowds of protesters, some with rifles, attempted to enter the floor of the legislative chamber, and were detained by a line of state police and capitol staff, according to the video released by local journalists.
“Let us in! Let us in!” the protesters chanted as they stood shoulder to shoulder inside the state house. Few of them wore face masks.
Rod Meloni
(@RodMeloni)The protest is moving inside the Michigan Capitol. Crowd tries to reach Hoise’s flat. Many police sergeants and Michigan State House in the arms block the door. pic.twitter.com/4FNQpimP4W
Some of the protesters shouted anti-government slogans, including the comparison of Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer with Hitler.
Anna Liz Nichols
(@annaliznichols)I missed Hiel Whitmer’s singing pic.twitter.com/tb7rwAJMZD
Craig Mauger
(@CraigDMauger)A sign currently on the lawn: pic.twitter.com/sPqeCfVUQ0
A Democratic state legislator posted a photograph of men with rifles standing in a gallery yelling at lawmakers below. “Some of my colleagues who have bulletproof vests are wearing them,” said State Senator Dayna Polehanki, a Democrat, wrote on Twitter.
A spokeswoman for the Michigan Senate Minority Leader that at least one legislator was wearing a bulletproof vest.
The images of the protest provoked strong reactions from many Americans. A Black Lives Matter organizer commented on the striking difference between the reaction to unarmed black Americans protesting police violence and armed white Americans protesting public health measures.
Brittany Packnett Cunningham does not remix.
(@MsPackyetti)I want them to realize that when they called the black protesters “thugs” in Ferguson, we were armed with cardboard signs and cell phones.
If any of us had dared to be on the street, much less a government building, fully armed, this video would not exist.
Because we would all be dead. https://t.co/qNh4WK7FvN
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