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Update April 26 : contradictions and self-expression, campaigning and false statements - with its daily press conferences Corona crisis has Donald Trump is is a lot of criticism. Is the spectacle suddenly over? The US President is apparently putting his corona briefings * to the test.
Corona crisis: Russia defends WHO against allegations from the United States
16:52 update: Russia is defending the World Health Organization against accusations from the United States , the UN agency is doing poorly in the corona crisis . "I think WHO is fulfilling its role as a leading and coordinating body," Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday according to Russian agencies. "Yes, it is not ideal. But nobody is perfect. ”If there is criticism of the authority, it has less to do with the WHO itself, Lavrov said. "In my opinion, these attacks are more likely to justify your own actions, which were too late and inadequate."
In the middle of the coronavirus pandemic , US President Donald Trump had stopped payments to WHO. The measure met with international criticism. Trump made the organization responsible for the large number of deaths in the crisis. The WHO's mismanagement and reliance on information from China has dramatically worsened the epidemic and spread it globally. Critics in the US also accuse Trump of looking for a scapegoat to distract him from his hesitation at the start of the corona crisis .
Corona in the USA: woman is in a coma - and is having a baby
Update at 1:11 p.m .: With Corona to the hospital, with a baby out again: That happened to an American who was admitted to a clinic in early April with severe Covid 19 symptoms . She had to be civil servant and even put in an artificial coma. While she was not aware of any of this, her daughter was born by emergency caesarean.
However, it must have been the most beautiful birthday of the 41-year-old Adriana Torres from New York : When she woke up, she had not only won her own agony against Corona , she was suddenly also a proud mother - as she was finally told. After a week she was finally allowed to see little Leah, but then it was "the best medicine I could get," Torres said happily to the New York Post.
Torres, a native of the United States , carried her daughter in her stomach for six months . Then she finally came to the clinic because of Covid-19 : “I was very, very sick when I came to the clinic. I had a strong cough, ”she reports:“ I could no longer breathe. ”The doctors wanted the baby to grow further in the mother's belly. But in the end the danger would have been too great for the mother and they would put her in an artificial coma. As a premature baby with less than 1.5 kilos, the doctors gave birth to the girl. To avoid infection, Torres could only hold her daughter in her arms with a plastic mask and no skin contact.
Corona crisis USA: respirators even harmful? US study suggests serious consequences
Update April 25, 2020: In the United States, there is increasing pressure to rejoin commandant Brett Crozier, who was fired for a coronavirus fire letter on board the aircraft carrier "USS Theodore Roosevelt". According to media reports, acting Marine Secretary James McPherson and Marine Operations Manager Admiral Michael Gilday were in favor of using Crozier as the aircraft carrier's captain again.
Congress has also called for Crozier to be reinstated: although his move to mention Corona cases on board in a fire letter was "drastic and not perfect," said Adam Smith, the chairman of the House of Representatives military committee. But the captain only did this to protect his crew. "In this time of crisis, Captain Crozier is exactly what our sailors need: a leader who inspires confidence," said the committee chairman.
Update from 12.10 p.m .: The number of corona infected people in New York is apparently much higher than previously thought: According to an investigation in the metropolis, one in five residents may have already been infected with the Sars-CoV-2 corona virus . A large-scale study found antibodies to the pathogen in 21 percent of New York City, said Governor Andrew Cuomo . It was almost 14 percent across the state.
That would mean that about 2.6 million people have been infected in the worst affected US state in recent months - in New York City alone it would have been 1.7 million people. Meanwhile, there is a shocking suspicion about the infection numbers in New York:
A new study from the United States leads to the assumption that the use of ventilators in the corona pandemic is harmful and not useful. According to Newsweek , almost 90 percent of Covid 19 patients in New York died between March 1 and April 4 - who were artificially ventilated. Twelve hospitals in Northwell Health, New York's largest health district, were evaluated for the study.
Do ventilators have a bad impact on corona patients?
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Another shocking fact: the death rate for people over 65 was 97.2 percent. The death rate for people between the ages of 18 and 65 was still 76.4 percent. Such as Focus Online describes arrive in the United States increasingly first alternative, invasive healing experiments used before an attempt is made with artificial ventilation of Covid-19 lung disease to master.
Update of April 24 : At his daily coronavirus press briefing in the White House, US President Donald Trump caused horror on Thursday - he excelled with highly idiosyncratic therapy ideas for the Sars-CoV-2 .
Corona in the USA: New York study finds antibodies in every fifth person
Update from 8:15 p.m .: In the US state of New York , which is particularly hard hit by the corona pandemic , according to the preliminary results of a first antibody study , around 14 percent of people have been infected with the novel virus so far . For the study, around 3,000 people who shop in 40 supermarkets in 19 counties were randomly selected and tested for antibodies, said Andrew Cuomo , governor of the state on the US east coast with around 19 million inhabitants, at his daily press conference on Thursday.
Antibodies were found in 13.9 percent of those tested in the state of New York and even around 20 percent of those tested in the metropolis of the same name , meaning that they came into contact with the virus even if they never had symptoms of illness. According to Cuomo, this could mean that around 2.7 million people in New York State have survived an infection with the virus . However, Cuomo emphasized that the numbers are preliminary and based only on the relatively small test group of 3000 people, which also does not include those who do not currently leave the house.
The number of deaths from coronavirus infection in the US on Thursday was 438, the fourth day in a row, below the 500 mark. "This number continues to decrease - but not as quickly as we would like to see it", Cuomo said. The number of newly infected people has been around 1300 for days now. "That is stable, but it is not that great, we would like to see it reduce further."
Corona dispute between the USA and WHO: China responds and increases aid
Update of 2:47 pm: After the United States stopped making payments to the World Health Organization (WHO ), China announced an increase in its contribution . Beijing will provide WHO with another $ 30 million to fight the corona pandemic, in addition to the $ 20 million it has pledged, a foreign ministry spokesman said in the Chinese capital at a press conference.
The United States has had the most casualties from coronavirus.
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China wants to "support the global fight against Covid-19 and strengthen the health systems of developing countries". The payment was a sign of "support and trust in WHO," the spokesman added. The United States is the largest contributor to the WHO, but announced last week that it would cease payments . US President Donald Trump accuses WHO of "mismanagement" in the corona crisis and one-sidedness in favor of China. The US move had sparked global outrage.
Corona in the USA: Harvard pays back aid after Trump's criticism
Update April 23, 7:58: The Ivy League Harvard waived by harsh criticism of US President Donald Trump middle of the corona crisis to relief funds worth millions. As the world-famous college in the East Coast state of Massachusetts announced on Wednesday, it will inform the Washington Department of Education that it will not use the $ 8.6 million in funds raised .
The amount previously allocated to Harvard University comes from the more than $ 2 trillion corona relief package from the United States government . It provides nearly $ 31 billion in aid to schools and colleges. Trump then, however, unkindly asked the university to forego the aid. "I want Harvard to pay the money back, okay?" He said in the White House. "And if they don't, we'll do something else." The aid is meant for workers, "not for one of the richest institutions in the world."
Corona in the United States: New Corona fatalities in New York under 500 for three consecutive days
Update from April 22, 7.45 p.m .: There is said to be a "tracking army" in New York and other US states. The first advances in the fight against Covid-19 have already been made.
As New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced this Wednesday, the number of corona deaths per day was the third day in a row branded 500. Before the days reported the state nearly 800 deaths with coronavirus infection daily.
Cuomo also warned that if the curfews were gradually relaxed, the Corona cases would explode again. However, the exit restrictions are still in effect. That's why a woman from Munich leaves Essen in New York - her friends mark corpses *.
Corona in the USA: New York State wants "Tracking Army"
Update from 7.15 p.m .: Martial tones from the United States: In the fight against the corona crisis in the USA , the New York governor Andrew Cuomo wants to put together a "tracking army" - to keep the corona pandemic under control with thousands of helpers .
The goal: to track down all people who were personally in contact with people infected with corona in order to isolate them. The former New York Mayor and billionaire Michael Bloomberg will play a central role in this: "Michael Bloomberg will design the program, he will design the training," said Cuomo.
NEW: New York will launch a testing / tracing program in unison with CT and NJ.
Mayor @MikeBloomberg has volunteered to help us develop the program.
I thank him for taking this on with us - it will be expensive, challenging & require an army of tracers.
But it must be done.
Another detail: According to the governor, "investigators" are to be recruited from a pool of 35,000 medical students from the state and city of New York University.
Corona crisis in the US: Coronavirus deaths much earlier
Update from 11.12 a.m .: The first corona deaths in the United States occurred weeks before the official registration.
At the autopsy of two people who died on February 6 and 17, Covid-19 was detected, forensic medicine from Santa Clara said on Tuesday.
These people died at home at a time when the very limited tests could only be obtained from the CDC , the institute emphasized.
At that time, the CDC had only planned corona tests for people who had just been traveling and had seen a doctor because of Covid 19 symptoms.
Corona crisis in the USA: More than 2000 dead within 24 hours
April 22 update, 7:21 am: Within 24 hours , well over 2,000 coronavirus-related deaths have been reported in the United States again . Johns Hopkins University had 2751 deaths between Monday and Tuesday evening (local time) . Previously, the death toll had been below the 2000 mark for several days.
Because they are updated more regularly, data from US researchers tend to show higher levels than those from the World Health Organization (WHO). In some cases, however, the number of infections and deaths has recently been revised downwards. According to the university, a total of around 45,000 people have died in the United States as a result of the pandemic . In addition, more than 800,000 infections with the corona virus have been detected there.
According to data from researchers at Johns Hopkins University, around 2.56 million people worldwide are now infected with the virus. More than 177,000 people died.
Coronavirus in the USA: Quarantine in a luxurious second home - an option for many Americans
Update of April 21, 7.45 p.m .: As already observed in Europe, many wealthy and wealthy people prefer to spend the quarantine in a luxurious second home, even in the US corona crisis . The Spiegel reports .
A popular destination: the Jackson Hole valley in the midwestern United States. Here, in the state of Wyoming, a particularly large number of holiday residences can be found, it is said. Teton County, where Jackson Hole is located, is said to be the richest county in the United States .
Popular second home for the rich in the United States: Jackson Hole in the state of Wyoming.
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Many landowners are said to have traveled here from the east coast (New York) and the west coast ( California ) in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic - which not every resident likes.
Corona in the USA: New York prisons are empty like they were not in 70 years
Update from April 21, 7:25 p.m .: Corona has countless side effects and / or symptoms worldwide. This is the case in New York , one of the epicentres in the coronavirus pandemic .
The prisons in the metropolis are as empty as they have been in more than 70 years, as Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Tuesday. The number of prisoners dropped to less than 4,000 last week - the lowest since the 1940s, he said.
The city of New York chose to release prisoners out of concern for their health and for increasing the spread of the coronavirus . Since mid-March, more than 2,000 inmates have been released, it was said.
Corona pandemic in New York: "There were just too many corpses"
First announcement of April 21: The situation in New York is getting worse: Bild TV now interviewed a "corpse worker" in the US metropolis.
"My job was to take care of the bodies in the refrigerated trucks, to record their location data, if necessary to confirm their names and to deliver the bodies to the undertakers," said the man in the report.
A New York hospital worker pushes a Covid-19 victim to a refrigerated container.
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The man worked with two others in one of two air-conditioned 20-ton trailers . Each trailer could therefore hold about 110 bodies - but that was not enough either. "There were just too many bodies. We had to install wooden shelves in the refrigerated truck. ”
New York City Subway Study: Corona Virus Key Spreading Tool
Meanwhile , Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) economist Jeffrey E. Harris is certain that New York's widespread subway system has been a major contributor to the virus. The world reports . In a current study, Harris analyzed the volume of traffic in local public transport and the infection numbers.
After discovering that the virus spread more slowly when subway use declined, he examined passenger development for individual neighborhoods . Because the use of local public transport did not decrease evenly in the US metropolis. His conclusion: the subway was not the main transmission vehicle, but was instrumental in the outbreak of the pandemic.
Corona in the USA: Showdown in New York? Trump receives Cuomo
Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump plans to welcome Andrew Cuomo , governor of the Coronavirus pandemic in New York State , Tuesday at the White House. Trump announced this during his daily briefing on the corona crisis * . On this occasion, he praised the progress in the state: "Many good things are happening in New York".
Corona in the USA: Trump disdusts Cuomo
Trump still attacked Cuomo on Friday. He should "go out and do his job," Trump tweeted. The governor responded with the succinct remark that if Trump "sits at home and watches TV, he should get up and go to work". Cuomo is a Democrat, Trump Republican.
Governor Cuomo should spend more time doing and less time complaining. Get out there and get the job done. Stop talking! We built you thousands of hospital beds that you didn't need or use, gave large numbers of fans that you should have had, and helped you with ....
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 17, 2020New York is the center of the pandemic in the United States, where more than a third of the country's approximately 42,000 casualties died. In New York, a rigorous curfew * applies until at least May 15 . Trump has repeatedly pushed for restrictions to be relaxed over the past few weeks because of the consequences for the US economy *. The decision is largely in the hands of the states.
Donald Trump on corona tests in the US: "We are getting better and better"
Trump has also rejected criticism of his government for lack of testing for the corona virus. "We are in very good shape when testing and we are getting better and better," he said at his daily press conference at the White House on Monday .
Trump criticized that some state governors had not understood which test capacities in private laboratories they had access to.
Corona crisis measures: WHO trumps Trump
The World Health Organization (WHO) , however, has rejected the US's harsh criticism of how to deal with the corona crisis. His organization pointed out the danger of the virus right from the start, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday. It did not withhold any information from the USA.
"From day one, we warned that this was a devil everyone should fight," said Tedros. He pointed out that seconded employees of the US government also worked at the UN headquarters in Geneva. This means that nothing is hidden from the USA: "There is no secret in the WHO."
Corona vaccine: UN member states with demands
Meanwhile, the 193 member states of the United Nations have called for "equal" access to future vaccines * against the novel coronavirus. A corresponding resolution was passed unanimously by the UN General Assembly in New York on Monday. This applies particularly to developing countries .
The resolution also highlights WHO's “crucial role” in the fight against coronavirus. Trump had blamed the UN sub-organization for severe “mismanagement” in the corona crisis and one-sidedness in favor of China, and had announced that US payments to WHO would stop .
Nevertheless, the current resolution of the UN General Assembly was also supported by the United States. It had brought Mexico. In contrast to those of the UN Security Council, resolutions of the General Assembly are not binding under international law.
The mask requirement is intended to curb the spread in front of Corona. However, there are also defective protective masks. There are warnings of numerous models from China.
Markus Söder meanwhile explains why further easing is unrealistic for the time being - in addition, the CSU boss speaks an unsparing truth.
A European study on mortality shows how the corona pandemic affects the death toll in different countries.
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