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Laura PourMeADrink
Laura PourMeADrink's Journal
Laura PourMeADrink's Journal
February 28, 2020
Coronavirus live updates:
Added:
California, Oregon confirm 2 more coronavirus diagnoses from community spread
9:39 p.m. 3rd community spread case identified
6:31 p.m. New case reported in Santa Clara, California
5 p.m. Pence warns threat remains 'low
4:01 p.m. ET -- School closings a possibility, health secretary says
3:24 p.m. ET -- Amazon tells employees not to travel
2:51 p.m. ET -- New COVID-19 case confirmed in Solano County, California
1:19 p.m. ET -- Local health departments to have diagnostic tests by next week
12:15 p.m. ET -- United Airlines cuts service to Asia
Noon ET -- Stock markets continue to plunge
11:49 a.m. ET -- Gov. Cuomo: Positive test in New York 'virtually inevitable'
11:18 a.m. ET -- WHO raises global risk from 'high' to 'very high'
9:45 a.m. ET -- Two more Diamond Princess cruise ship deaths
Updated: Live coronavirus virus update site. Here's what happened today
https://abcnews.go.com/International/fda-reports-1st-drug-shortage-due-coronavirus-outbreak/story?id=69276490Coronavirus live updates:
Added:
California, Oregon confirm 2 more coronavirus diagnoses from community spread
9:39 p.m. 3rd community spread case identified
6:31 p.m. New case reported in Santa Clara, California
5 p.m. Pence warns threat remains 'low
4:01 p.m. ET -- School closings a possibility, health secretary says
3:24 p.m. ET -- Amazon tells employees not to travel
2:51 p.m. ET -- New COVID-19 case confirmed in Solano County, California
1:19 p.m. ET -- Local health departments to have diagnostic tests by next week
12:15 p.m. ET -- United Airlines cuts service to Asia
Noon ET -- Stock markets continue to plunge
11:49 a.m. ET -- Gov. Cuomo: Positive test in New York 'virtually inevitable'
11:18 a.m. ET -- WHO raises global risk from 'high' to 'very high'
9:45 a.m. ET -- Two more Diamond Princess cruise ship deaths
February 28, 2020
February 28, 2020 - 03:33 PM EST
Wisconsin appeals court overturns order to purge more than 200,000 voters from rolls
A Wisconsin court of appeals handed Democrats a win on Friday by overturning a ruling that sought to purge up to 209,000 people from voter registration rolls.
The ruling gives a boost to Democrats in a state that's poised to play a decisive role in the 2020 presidential race. President Trump won Wisconsin by fewer than 23,000 votes in 2016.
Court overturns order to purge 200,000 voters in Wisconsin!
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/485190-wisconsin-court-overturns-plan-to-purge-more-than-200000-voters-fromFebruary 28, 2020 - 03:33 PM EST
Wisconsin appeals court overturns order to purge more than 200,000 voters from rolls
A Wisconsin court of appeals handed Democrats a win on Friday by overturning a ruling that sought to purge up to 209,000 people from voter registration rolls.
The ruling gives a boost to Democrats in a state that's poised to play a decisive role in the 2020 presidential race. President Trump won Wisconsin by fewer than 23,000 votes in 2016.
February 28, 2020
Explainer: Coronavirus reappears in discharged patients, raising questions in containment fight
David Stanway, Kate Kelland
SHANGHAI/LONDON (Reuters) - A growing number of discharged coronavirus patients in China and elsewhere are testing positive after recovering, sometimes weeks after being allowed to leave the hospital, which could make the epidemic harder to eradicate.
On Wednesday, the Osaka prefectural government in Japan said a woman working as a tour-bus guide had tested positive for the coronavirus for a second time. This followed reports in China that discharged patients throughout the country were testing positive after their release from the hospital.
An official at China’s National Health Commission said on Friday that such patients have not been found to be infectious.
Experts say there are several ways discharged patients could fall ill with the virus again. Convalescing patients might not build up enough antibodies to develop immunity to SARS-CoV-2, and are being infected again. The virus also could be “biphasic”, meaning it lies dormant before creating new symptoms.
But some of the first cases of “reinfection” in China have been attributed to testing discrepancies.
Reuters: Evidence of coronavirus reinfection.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-reinfection-explainer-idUSKCN20M124Explainer: Coronavirus reappears in discharged patients, raising questions in containment fight
David Stanway, Kate Kelland
SHANGHAI/LONDON (Reuters) - A growing number of discharged coronavirus patients in China and elsewhere are testing positive after recovering, sometimes weeks after being allowed to leave the hospital, which could make the epidemic harder to eradicate.
On Wednesday, the Osaka prefectural government in Japan said a woman working as a tour-bus guide had tested positive for the coronavirus for a second time. This followed reports in China that discharged patients throughout the country were testing positive after their release from the hospital.
An official at China’s National Health Commission said on Friday that such patients have not been found to be infectious.
Experts say there are several ways discharged patients could fall ill with the virus again. Convalescing patients might not build up enough antibodies to develop immunity to SARS-CoV-2, and are being infected again. The virus also could be “biphasic”, meaning it lies dormant before creating new symptoms.
But some of the first cases of “reinfection” in China have been attributed to testing discrepancies.
February 28, 2020
Are you sure he doesn't drink? Two hours ago ..
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1233218304271167489?s=20
February 27, 2020
President FakeJesus:. "What in the hell's going on? See on my screen that my market is crashing."
Mnuchin: "It's worries the pandemic will affect the world economy."
President FakeJesus: "Pandemic?? Huh? There are people sick? Do I care? Well people might blame ME?! Who can I blame?"
Kellyann: "Mikey, then you can blame him later!"
President FakeJesus: "Mike, get in here! Pronto."
Pence: "Yes Jesus, I mean Mr. President, Sir."
President FakeJesus: "Gonna put you in charge of something Mikey! We're gonna go on TV. I am going to stand right behind you so people think I am great and can see me on TV. I am going to act like I knew about it all and that I care. You are going to say more than once that I've been working very hard since minute one on this virus thing, ok?"
Pence:. "Sure my master, I mean Mr. President"
President FakeJesus: "Ok now scat! And get my hairdresser in here asap!"
Pres. FakeJesus: "Get in here Mnuchin and Kellyanne"!
Mnuchin: "Yes sir, busy, but what's up?"President FakeJesus:. "What in the hell's going on? See on my screen that my market is crashing."
Mnuchin: "It's worries the pandemic will affect the world economy."
President FakeJesus: "Pandemic?? Huh? There are people sick? Do I care? Well people might blame ME?! Who can I blame?"
Kellyann: "Mikey, then you can blame him later!"
President FakeJesus: "Mike, get in here! Pronto."
Pence: "Yes Jesus, I mean Mr. President, Sir."
President FakeJesus: "Gonna put you in charge of something Mikey! We're gonna go on TV. I am going to stand right behind you so people think I am great and can see me on TV. I am going to act like I knew about it all and that I care. You are going to say more than once that I've been working very hard since minute one on this virus thing, ok?"
Pence:. "Sure my master, I mean Mr. President"
President FakeJesus: "Ok now scat! And get my hairdresser in here asap!"
February 26, 2020
Good news for Warren...the right is scared of her. Even Coulter
https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/1232477909266231296?s=20
February 26, 2020
What the right thinks on debate or what they WANT you to think, whatever.
Drudge post debate poll.
**DRUDGE POLL** WHO WON DEM DEBATE IN CHARLESTON
SANDERS
29.84% (20,437 votes)
BLOOMBERG
19.39% (13,277 votes)
KLOBUCHAR
15.46% (10,585 votes)
BIDEN
11.55% (7,909 votes)
BUTTIGIEG
9.73% (6,667 votes)
STEYER
9.63% (6,594 votes)
WARREN
4.4% (3,017 votes)
Total Votes: 68,486
February 26, 2020
SUPER TUESDAY COMMITMENTS
Joe in Texas
PS. Time for all you "Undecideds" to commit.
February 25, 2020
CHICAGO (CBS) – Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel had a clear warning for Democrats: A primary victory for Bernie Sanders puts the whole future of the party at risk.
“His candidacy is built on a false premise, strategically and policy-wise,” Emanuel, who served in both Clinton and Obama administrations, said of the far left canidate on CBS This Morning.
Bernie Sanders view is, I don’t want these moderate and fickle voters. We just have to turn out our base,” Emanuel said. “His view is, forget the center, we just want to be left. And that’s never been tried.”
Emanuel pointed to six elections—the four presidential wins by Clinton and Obama and the two midterms in 2006 and 2018—in which a center left strategy and “big urban and suburban turnout” were the keys to victory.
Sanders, who has emerged as the front runner after early primaries, is “an ideological risk policy-wise. I don’t think there are 70 million waiting socialists to be woken, who don’t know they are socialists yet.”
He cited Illinois House districts, which are traditionally conservative but were flipped blue in 2018. None of those candidates has rushed to back Sanders. Similar seats nationwide are in jeopardy without a plan to reach moderate voters at the top of the ticket.
Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's Dire Warning: Bernie Sanders' Candidacy 'Built On False Premise"
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/02/24/former-chicago-mayor-rahm-emanuels-dire-warning-bernie-sanders-candicacy-built-on-false-premise/CHICAGO (CBS) – Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel had a clear warning for Democrats: A primary victory for Bernie Sanders puts the whole future of the party at risk.
“His candidacy is built on a false premise, strategically and policy-wise,” Emanuel, who served in both Clinton and Obama administrations, said of the far left canidate on CBS This Morning.
Bernie Sanders view is, I don’t want these moderate and fickle voters. We just have to turn out our base,” Emanuel said. “His view is, forget the center, we just want to be left. And that’s never been tried.”
Emanuel pointed to six elections—the four presidential wins by Clinton and Obama and the two midterms in 2006 and 2018—in which a center left strategy and “big urban and suburban turnout” were the keys to victory.
Sanders, who has emerged as the front runner after early primaries, is “an ideological risk policy-wise. I don’t think there are 70 million waiting socialists to be woken, who don’t know they are socialists yet.”
He cited Illinois House districts, which are traditionally conservative but were flipped blue in 2018. None of those candidates has rushed to back Sanders. Similar seats nationwide are in jeopardy without a plan to reach moderate voters at the top of the ticket.
February 25, 2020
?????
How can DU, in terms of whom we support be so different than national polls ?
If legit ??? That is, if no one manipulating results of OUR primaries, polls, and caucuses ( #$@&$), then..... Would love it if the Sanders supporters here would help the rest of us.
Help/Make us love him. For me, it's light years away, at this point
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