The corona pandemic is raging in the United States. Over a million are infected. Now the drug Remdesivir has received special approval for the coronavirus. The situation in the United States.
- The United States is most affected by the Sars-CoV-2 * coronavirus
- US President Donald Trump * draws attention to himself with crude statements
- According to his own statements, Donald Trump has evidence that Corona comes from a laboratory in China
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+++ 12.22 p.m .: The US drug agency has issued an emergency authorization to the antiviral agent remdesivir . As President Donald Trump announced in the White House, thanks to the special approval , doctors could now treat their coronavirus patients with remdesivir, outside of previous clinical trials.
The National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) published the preliminary results of a study on Wednesday (April 29, 2020) in which 1,063 Covid-19 patients in the USA , Europe and Asia had participated. As a result, taking Remdesivir reduced the recovery time of patients with the lung disease Covid-19 by up to 30 percent.
Corona crisis in the USA: Dr. Anthony Fauci optimistic at Remdesivir
No clear findings have yet been gained on the influence on the death rate. The drug has an effect, but complete therapy is not remdesivir, emphasized Anthony Fauci , head of the NIAID.
Remdesivir is an experimental drug that has not previously been approved as a drug in either the United States or Germany. The drug was originally developed for use against Ebola.
Corona in the USA: 65,000 deaths - but further protests in California
Update from 02.05.2020, 8.28 a.m .: The protests against the measures to limit the corona pandemic in the USA are expanding . In California , thousands of people have demonstrated for an easing of restrictions.
Demonstrations have been held in at least eleven cities in the most populous U.S. state, including the capital, Sacramento, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego. The demonstrators, equipped with " Trump 2020 " signs, also criticized the decision by democratic governor Gavin Newsom to close the state's beaches.
In Sacramento, numerous arrests are said to have occurred after a demonstration by supporters of US President Donald Trump . A local radio station reports. The police temporarily took 33 people into custody because they did not follow the instructions given by the police and did not comply with the distance rules applicable due to the corona crisis .
PROTESTERS ARRESTED
Several people were taken into custody during a demonstration at Capitol protesting California's stay-at-home order
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The United States is the country hardest hit by Covid-19 in the world. Over 65,000 people are said to have died as a result of the lung disease. More than 1.1 million people have been infected with the Sars-CoV-2 pathogen.
Armed Corona Protest - Trump Speaks Of “Very Good People”
Update, 4:00 p.m .: The armed demonstrators against the measures against the corona crisis in Michigan can rely on the support of Donald Trump . In a tweet, the US president described the demonstrators as "very good people who are very angry".
Instead of appealing to reluctance, Trump preferred to address Gretchen Whitmer. The Michigan governor should "give in a little to put out the fire."
The Governor of Michigan should give a little, and put out the fire. These are very good people, but they are angry. They want their lives back again, safely! See them, talk to them, make a deal.
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 1, 2020The tweet is strongly reminiscent of Donald Trump's comment on the protests by neo-Nazis in Charleston. At that time, the US president had spoken of "very fine people" who were chanting through the streets with torches and "Jews will not replace us".
Protest against corona measures in the United States: armed protesters in Michigan.
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Update, 3:15 p.m .: Michigan's governor Gretchen Whitmer has not been deterred by the armed demonstrators in front of the parliament or by the republican majority in parliament from prolonging the state of emergency.
The Republicans had previously denied Whitmer's plan to extend the emergency. In a statement, the democratic governor announced a number of other measures against the spread of the corona virus . " Covid-19 is an enemy that has killed more Michigan people than the Vietnam War," said Whitmer.
Corona in the US: Armed protesters invade Michigan parliament
Update, 12:15 p.m .: During a demonstration against the restrictions in the corona crisis , heavily armed demonstrators stormed the parliament building in Lansing, the capital of the state of Michigan . Several hundred people entered the building's entrance area. Police forces stood in the way of the demonstrators, preventing and stopping them.
Donald Trump had recently sparked protests against the state's far-reaching corona measures . The US President encouraged the demonstrators on Twitter by saying, "Free Michigan!"
Multiple armed gunmen storm Michigan's State House, State police are protecting @GovWhitmer and blocking the gunmen from gaining access to the house floor.
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The enemy of Trump supporters in Michigan is the democratic governor Gretchen Whitmer and her policy in the corona pandemic . According to several US media, it was not in the building at the time of the demonstration.
Corona crisis in the USA: Donald Trump is looking for the culprit - over 60,000 dead
First message from May 1st, 2020: USA - No other country is more affected by the coronavirus pandemic than the USA . With over a million infected, the United States has about a third of all Covid 19 cases worldwide. According to data from the US John Hopkins University (as of May 1, 2020), more than 63,000 people have already died from the consequences of the lung disease - more American deaths than the Vietnam War had claimed.
Corona in the USA: Undertakers in New York cannot keep up with work
The metropolis of New York remains the most affected . Over 18,000 people in the metropolis died of Covid 19 disease . The peak of the outbreak appears to be over, but there are still many problems.
Dozens of bodies were found in several vans near a funeral home in New York. The undertaker rented the vehicles because, given the large number of deaths in the coronavirus pandemic, there was no more space in their own rooms. "I ran out of space. The corpses are coming out to our ears, ”he told The New York Times.
Coronavirus in the States: US President Trump with crude tips and theses
Donald Trump meanwhile draws attention with remarkable theses and crude tips. According to him, he has indications that the corona pandemic may have originated in a Chinese research laboratory.
When asked by a journalist if he had seen information that would give him "a high degree of confidence" in this regard, Donald Trump said in the White House: "Yes, I did." Trump's comment in a statement announced that no evidence had yet been found on the laboratory theory.
Corona virus in the US: poisoning after Trump's proposal
Days earlier, Donald Trump encouraged researchers in the fight against Corona to test injecting disinfectants directly into people. Trump told the White House in front of journalists that it would be "interesting" to investigate. At a press conference immediately before, a government expert had stated that bleaching and disinfectants quickly killed the Sars-CoV-2 pathogen, for example on dry metallic surfaces such as a door handle.
As a result of Trump's statements, the Illinois Poison Control Center saw an increase in emergency calls. In the days after Trump's statements, there was a "significant increase" in calls to cleaning agents compared to the same period last year, said director of the health department, Ngozi Ezike. For example, had been gargling with a mixture of bleach and mouthwash, "in an attempt to the coronavirus to kill". Ezike strongly warned against taking household cleaners.
Corona in the US: 30 million unemployed - Trump tweets about "fake news" and left-wing radicals
The situation on the labor market in the USA also deteriorated dramatically in the Corona crisis . The forecasts are bleak. Since the escalation of the coronavirus pandemic , more than 30 million people have been unemployed. The number of initial applications for unemployment benefits in the week up to and including April 25 totaled 3.8 million, as the US Department of Labor announced on Thursday (April 30, 2020).
In the five weeks before, 26.4 million people had lost their jobs - more than ever before in such a short time. The new total number of unemployed has been 30.2 million since mid-March
We can't let the Fake News, and their partner, the Radical Left, Do Nothing Democrats, get away with stealing the Election. They tried that in 2016. How did that work out?
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 30, 2020Trump meanwhile cheerfully tweets about his favorite topics in the Corona crisis: "Fake News" and alleged left-wing radicals.
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