Coronavirus widespread among Saudi royal family: Report

[KY_EnviroGuy]

Coronavirus widespread among Saudi royal family: Report
At least one high-ranking royal, as well as dozens of lower-level officials, have COVID-19, The New York Times reports.

Link: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/04/coronavirus-widespread-saudi-royal-family-report-200409070130026.html

Snips:

Dozens of members of the ruling Saudi royal family, as many as 150, have been infected with coronavirus in recent weeks, a news report said.

Saudi Prince Faisal bin Bandar bin Abdulaziz Al Saud - the governor of the capital Riyadh who is in his 70s - is in intensive care after contracting the virus, according to The New York Times, which cited hospital communications, doctors in the country and sources familiar with the family. King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) have retreated into isolation to avoid the outbreak.
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There are thousands of Saudi princes. Many travel regularly to Europe and some are believed to have contracted the virus abroad and brought it back to Saudi Arabia, the report said.

The kingdom of about 33 million people has reported 2,932 cases and 41 deaths. The country, home to Islam's holiest sites Mecca and Medina, banned the year-round Umrah pilgrimage and sealed off the areas in early March.

So, it is indeed true that COVID-19 virus particles are no respecter of men or money.......

[Cirque du So-What]

2. ...particles are no respecter of men or money.......

but those with money fare much better than those without.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

5. Sometimes that does not work our so well, though....

Ski vacation hot spot becomes virus ground zero in Idaho

Link: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/ski-vacation-hot-spot-becomes-virus-ground-zero-in-idaho

Excerpt:

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A scenic Idaho county known as a ski-vacation haven for celebrities and the wealthy has a new, more dubious distinction: It has one of the highest per-capita rates of confirmed coronavirus infections in America.

Numbers from Johns Hopkins University on Friday show that with more than 80 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, Blaine County has the highest rate of cases outside New York City and its surrounding counties.

The numbers themselves are far smaller in the Idaho region than in New York City but still dire for residents. At least 14 of the cases in the rural county of roughly 22,000 people involved health care workers, and at least two people have died from COVID-19.

Agree with you in general simply because they can afford the best of care, whether they can out run it or not.

KY............

[hatrack]

3. Gosh, that's . . . tragic . . .

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[Progressive dog]

4. It couldn't happen to more deserving people. nt

[Grokenstein]

6. How absolutely tragic

...that they'll get the best medical care money can buy, and quite likely have full recoveries.

[McCamy Taylor]

7. So that is where Jarrad Kushner is sending our ventilators a PPE

[superpatriotman]

8. Covid-19 started as a disease of the poor

Moved globally because of the rich.

And is killing mostly the poor.

The circle of death.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

9. Excellent insight in simple terms!

n/t...........

[lostnfound]

10. Bandar Bush is in the ICU?

He was close to W.