COVID-19 Update for Thursday, April 2 , 2020

Several curated videos and links to articles are posted below to allow you to follow the course of humanity's response to this global pandemic.

ABOVE THE FOLD

If Most Of Your Coronavirus Tests Come Back Positive, You're Not Testing Enough [LINK]

Mission Health Stands Up Triage Tents at Local Hospitals to Prepare for COVID-19 Tents Next Step in Emergency Planning Protocols [LINK]

Vietnam Imposes Hefty Fines for Going Maskless [LINK]

Prosecutors: Engineer deliberately ran train off tracks in attempt to smash the USNS Mercy [LINK]

Wuhan Doctor Who ‘Discovered’ Coronavirus Is Now Missing, Feared Dead [LINK]

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COVID-19 Update for April 2nd



The CDC website [LINK] reports 1,584 people in North Carolina are infected and that the infections are widespread, the NCDHHS website [LINK] also reports 1,584 cases, 204 hospitalized and 10 deaths in the state. The Johns Hopkins Dashboard [LINK] reports 1,768 people infected and 16 deaths.

Resources for Reliable Information about the Corona Virus (COVID-19) [LINK]

VIDEO BRIEFINGS

World Health Organization

White House Coronavirus Task Force



North Carolina

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GOOD NEWS

Professional Bagpiper Serenades San Francisco During Coronavirus Pandemic



Episode 987: The Race To Make Ventilators [LINK]

Dolly Parton donates $1m to finding a cure for deadly illness [LINK]

Williamsburg Landlord Mario Salerno Waives Rent for Hundreds of Tenants Due to Coronavirus [LINK]

Kansas City's WWI Museum is avoiding layoffs by giving employees thousands of pages from its archives to digitize [LINK]

LinkedIn’s making its recruitment tools free to those fighting the coronavirus pandemic [LINK]

THE FALLEN

Those We’ve Lost: This series tells the stories of people who have died of the coronavirus. [LINK]

Buncombe's first coronavirus victim: loving family man, lifelong worker [LINK]


REGIONAL COVID-19 NEWS

When experts predict North Carolina will flatten COVID-19 curve



Highlands Town Board discusses police checkpoints and mandatory 14-day quarantine [LINK]

Tennessee nurses pray on medical center’s helipad [LINK]

First Macon County Resident Tests Positive for COVID-19 [LINK]

Cherokee County reports first coronavirus death [LINK]

Buncombe yet to receive federal medical supplies [LINK]

NC Wildlife: Do Your Part - Comply With COVID-19 Restrictions [LINK]



GENERAL ARTICLES

Chicago ER doctor explains why coronavirus pandemic "scares" him


Global coronavirus infections near million mark after 'near exponential growth' [LINK]

Coronavirus is the No. 3 cause of death in the U.S., after heart disease and cancer [LINK]

Kentucky puts ankle monitors on coronavirus patients who break quarantine [LINK]


Schwarzenegger: 'Shortsighted' for California to defund pandemic stockpile he built [LINK]

(VIDEO) Update from Dr John Campbell


Infection and symptoms


Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer declares state of disaster due to coronavirus (COVID-19) [LINK]

New York City needs 3.3 million N95 masks and 400 ventilators by Sunday, Mayor de Blasio says [LINK]

Coronavirus Pandemic Update 47: Searching for Immunity Boosters & Possible Lessons From Spanish Flu




NYC Covid19 LockDown Aerial 4K




Economic Impact

Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas Planning to Postpone Festival [LINK]

Biltmore Estate furloughs 2,200 workers [LINK]


BAD PEOPLE

HOA Threatens Nurse With $1,000 in Fines For Parking 'Quarantine' RV In Her Driveway [LINK]

As California stops releasing data about health workers’ coronavirus infections, nurses cry foul [LINK]

COVID-19 crisis: Pakistan authorities sell relief materials, meant for poor, to retail stores in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir [Conflict Zone] [LINK]


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COVID-19 Update Archive

April 2020

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Published at 5:00am on Thursday, April 2, 2020