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UK – Intensive care for coronavirus limited to those “reasonably certain” to survive

  
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UK Telegraph on a statement from a major NHS London trust has conceded

  • A department head at Imperial College Healthcare
  • Intensive care for coronavirus patients is now being limited to those “reasonably certain” to survive
  • because so many serious cases require a fortnight on the machines
Tele is gated, but if you can access, link 

This dreadful development comes as not surprise. ‘Triage’ conditions have been in place across Europe, China and elsewhere.

UK Telegraph on a statement from a major NHS London trust has conceded

US President Trump no longer pushing the US economy to reopen by Easter

  
Analysis, Economy
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I noted this already but its worth a separate post.

At this briefing to the press:
Says he is extending the government on dealing with virus outbreak to April 30
These are the social distancing and related guiltiness.
What this means is that Easter is no longer Trump’s target for reopening the US economy:
  • “that was aspirational’.
  • “We will be extending our guidelines to April 30 to slow the spread. On Tuesday, we will be finalizing these plans and providing a summary of our findings.”
  • “We can expect that by June 1 we will be well on our way to recovery.”
Says Easter expected to be the peak period of infection.

At least eight strains of the coronavirus are making their way around the globe

  
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Check this out for more, a snippet from the piece:

  • While researchers caution they’re only seeing the tip of the iceberg, the tiny differences between the virus strains suggest shelter-in-place orders are working in some areas and that no one strain of the virus is more deadly than another. 
  • They also say it does not appear the strains will grow more lethal as they evolve. 
  • “The virus mutates so slowly that the virus strains are fundamentally very similar to each other,” said Charles Chiu, a professor of medicine and infectious disease at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine.
Check this out for more, a snippet from the piece: 

WSJ on “promising drug combination” to treat coronavirus, and the “new data supporting this treatment”

  
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The Wall Street Journal on Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin.

Physicians are using two drugs in combination
  • hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin
to treat patients with advanced Covid-19 symptoms
Kansas City area physicians … continue to treat many patients, and some have shown improvement. Major medical centers including the University of Washington and Mass General have added hydroxychloroquine to treatment options. So here’s an update, a response to some questions that have come up, and suggestions based on the latest information.
Here is the link to the article for more info – its far too detailed to go into here.

Coronavirus – Chief financial officer of Jefferies Group dies

  
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Jefferies LLC is a US multinational independent investment bank and financial services company.

  • The firm is headquartered in New York City.
A company statement says its chief financial officer Peregrine “Peg” Broadbent has died from “coronavirus complications”
The virus is cutting a swathe through New York, deaths in the city are nearing (if not above as I post) 1000.
Jefferies LLC is a US multinational independent investment bank and financial services company.
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