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trump administration and cdc now think it's a good idea that you wear those masks i told you to start wearing over a month ago


goddamn sheeple

Quote (Santara @ Apr 3 2020 08:01pm)

Looks like the curve is bending here in Minnesota. Today's new cases are 6% of the previous days' total cases. New York's is about 10%, Michigan and New Jersey are about 15%.

My mother has been stockpiling needles, threads, fabrics, and patterns all my life. She's now spending her days making face masks. I called her tonight, and she said she was busy making them for a veteran's home.

Quote (Thor123422 @ Apr 3 2020 08:17pm)

Awww

Thats so wholesome

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"From recent studies we know that the transmission from individuals without symptoms is playing a more significant role in the spread of the virus than previously understood,"

"I just don't want to do it myself."

"Sitting in the Oval Office... I somehow don't see it for myself."

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"You don't have to do it, I'm choosing not to do it, but some people may want to do it and that's OK. It may be good. Probably will."

"I just don't want to be doing [that], somehow sitting in the Oval Office behind that beautiful resolute desk, the great Resolute Desk."

"I think wearing a face mask as I greet presidents, prime ministers, dictators, kings, queens, I don't know somehow I don't see it for myself. I just don't. Maybe I'll change my mind."

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"You also have a situation where, in some states, FEMA allocated ventilators to the states, and you have instances where, in cities, they're running out. But the state still has a stockpile, and the notion of the federal stockpile was — it's supposed to be our stockpile. It's not supposed to be state stockpiles that they then use,"

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The Administration also requested that 3M cease exporting respirators that we currently manufacture in the United States to the Canadian and Latin American markets. There are, however, significant humanitarian implications of ceasing respirator supplies to healthcare workers in Canada and Latin America, where we are a critical supplier of respirators. In addition, ceasing all export of respirators produced in the United States would likely cause other countries to retaliate and do the same, as some have already done. If that were to occur, the net number of respirators being made available to the United States would actually decrease. That is the opposite of what we and the Administration, on behalf of the American people, both seek.

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The state received about a third of the 778,129 face masks it requested, just 110,240 of the 421,532 N95 respirator masks it sought, well fewer than half of the 330,540 requested gloves and none of the 100,000 testing swabs it hoped to acquire to test for the virus, according to Federal Emergency Management Agency documents released Thursday by the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform.

Maryland was the only state in its FEMA region — which also covers the surrounding states and the District of Columbia — to request body bags. The state sought 15,000 and hasn’t received any, according to the document.

As Maryland seeks to ramp up testing, Democratic U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland said it is significant that the state hasn’t received any of the 100,000 nasopharyngeal swabs it requested from federal supplies or the 50,000 viral transport units it sought. Transport media is a substance used for preserving a test sample on its way to a laboratory.

Maryland did receive 138 of 200 requested ventilators, the FEMA documents show.

Overall, the oversight committee said FEMA had distributed fewer than 10% of the N95 masks and less than 1% of gloves sought collectively by Maryland, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia.

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NEW DELHI, India — A couple in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh have named their newborn twins Corona and Covid.