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World cases top 2 million: US deaths exceed 25,000: NC and local: We should remember that these totals, at least for the US, are low. New York City, already a world epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, sharply increased its death toll by more than 3,700 victims on Tuesday, after officials said they were now including people who had never tested positive for … Read More

World: US: NC and local: Today we’re learning that two years before the novel coronavirus pandemic upended the world, U.S. Embassy officials visited a Chinese research facility in the city of Wuhan several times and sent two official warnings back to Washington about inadequate safety at the lab, which was conducting risky studies on coronaviruses from bats. The cables have fueled discussions … Read More

World: US: NC and local: In my country, Forsyth, we had another death reported this morning, bringing the total to four. A new executive order will go into effect today that will require stricter social distancing guidelines for stores. It goes into effect Monday at 5 p.m. Under the new order, stores cannot exceed 20 percent of fire capacity or … Read More

I took the day off from reporting yesterday, so these numbers are going to show a significant jump. World: US: This week, Covid-19 passed heart disease and cancer as the leading cause of death per day in the United States. In this graph made by Dr. Maria Danilychev using data from Worldometer and the CDC, you can see that Covid-19 overtook heart disease sometime on … Read More

When certain folks all push the same angle — Trump, Giuliani, Solomon, et al — one may think immediately it’s a scam. Like the Ukraine quid pro quo scam on which the very same players worked together, singing from the same hymnal. The scam is more obvious because two of the people involved are promoting a pharmaceutical and they’re not medical doctors — they may … Read More

Max Boot calls Trump the worst president in all US history. Here’s why: By the time Donald Trump proclaimed himself a wartime president — and the coronavirus the enemy — the United States was already on course to see more of its people die than in the wars of Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq combined. The country has adopted an … Read More

I did not do an update yesterday: heavy fatigue. Yeah, I was concerned it was COVID-19 creeping up on me. But it was more likely a few nights of rough sleep. But in essence, nothing changed. The rates of COVID19 cases in the world and the U.S. grew exponentially. Here’s where we are now. Here’s some of the bullshit from … Read More

World as of this morning: And in the U.S., we have more cases than any other country: 636 in North Carolina (2 deaths); 17 in Forsyth County. Boris Johnson – England’s PM – has tested positive. Boris Johnson boasting about shaking hands with coronavirus patients. You could not make it up. Britain is about to learn the hard way this … Read More