Coronavirus: 1. The year’s defining issues are coming to a head.
Two days before the presidential election, the coronavirus is so widespread not even American health officials are able to keep up. The U.S. has recorded its worst week of known coronavirus infections with more than 500,000 new cases reported and a single-day record of 99,784 new cases on Friday, surpassing nine million total cases nationwide.
At least 1,200 counties — a full third of the country — qualify as a virus hot spot. Above, medics respond to a Covid-19 patient in Glen Burnie, Md.
Many people are coming to a frightening conclusion: They have no idea where the virus is spreading. As one public health expert put it: “It’s just kind of everywhere.”
Masks work. Really. In this animation, we show you just how effective a piece of fabric can be at warding off the virus.
And in Europe, Britain announced expansive new restrictions that effectively establish a national lockdown, joining France, Germany, Belgium and Ireland in shutting down large parts of their societies to try to keep their hospitals from being overwhelmed amid vast second-wave surges in coronavirus infections.
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Me: And if any of these so called Scientists or Doctors had listened to what I had to say about my salt water treatment for viruses, bearing in mind I am never sick and have not been for over 25 years, solely due to my salt water treatment, then I believe not one person had to die, but instead of that – here we are with all of you in a pandemic disaster of your Scientists and Doctor’s, know all’s, own making and if ever this passes, which I doubt, you will know who to blame right?