- PoliticsYahoo News
Trump now says if 100,000 Americans die from coronavirus he will have done 'a very good job'
The president repeatedly cited a projection that as many as 2.2 million people would have died if the administration had “done nothing” to mitigate COVID-19’s spread.
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A New Chinese Miracle and too Much Optimism in Europe
The phrase “Chinese miracle” this year finds a new meaning. First of all, in recent weeks, it is commendable how quickly the Politburo recognized the danger of the situation in Wuhan and managed to contain its spreading across the country.
- BusinessAmerican City Business Journals
'He lived life in full throttle': Seattle aerospace pioneer Joe Clark dies hours after final flight
Seattle aerospace pioneer Joe Clark took his single-engine GameBird aerobatic airplane for a thrilling ride on Monday morning in sunny Southern California. Clark, a co-founder of Aviation Partners who made a fortune perfecting and selling blended winglets later installed on more than 9,000 corporate and Boeing passenger jets around the world and co-founder of Horizon Air before selling it to Alaska Airlines in the 1980s. The multi-millionaire Seattle entrepreneur and philanthropist's sudden passing at his home in Palm Springs after what appears to be a final flight has shocked employees, friends and business associates.
- HealthNetDoctor
How does coronavirus spread? Here are 3 surprising ways
On average, each person with coronavirus passes on the disease to two other people. Here's how.
- WorldNational Review
Wuhan Residents Dismiss Official Coronavirus Death Toll: ‘The Incinerators Have Been Working Around the Clock’
Wuhan residents are increasingly skeptical of the Chinese Communist Party’s reported coronavirus death count of approximately 2,500 deaths in the city to date, with most people believing the actual number is at least 40,000."Maybe the authorities are gradually releasing the real figures, intentionally or unintentionally, so that people will gradually come to accept the reality," a Wuhan resident, who gave only his surname Mao, told Radio Free Asia.A city source added that, based on the aggregation of funeral and cremation numbers, authorities likely know the real number and are keeping it under wraps."Every funeral home reports data on cremations directly to the authorities twice daily," the source said. "This means that each funeral home only knows how many cremations it has conducted, but not the situation at the other funeral homes."The city began lifting its lockdown on Saturday after two months of mandatory shutdown, with a complete lift of restrictions set for April 8. Funeral homes in Wuhan have been handing out the cremated remains to families every day, but rumors began circulating after one funeral home received two shipments of 5,000 urns over the course of two days, according to photos reported by Chinese media outlet Caixin, which were later censored.Reports of the funeral’s crematoriums working nonstop also raised questions."It can't be right … because the incinerators have been working round the clock, so how can so few people have died?" a man surnamed Zhang told RFA.Wuhan residents said the government was paying families 3,000 yuan for "funeral allowances" in exchange for silence."There have been a lot of funerals in the past few days, and the authorities are handing out 3,000 yuan in hush money to families who get their loved ones' remains laid to rest ahead of Qing Ming," Wuhan resident Chen Yaohui said, in a reference to the traditional grave tending festival on April 5.“During the epidemic, they transferred cremation workers from around China to Wuhan keep cremate bodies around the clock," he added.China has used state propaganda in an attempt to avoid blame for the spreading of COVID-19, despite reports showing how the government suppressed initial reports of human-to-human transmission and gagged Wuhan labs that discovered the novel virus resembled the deadly SARS virus of 2002-2003.
- WorldYahoo News UK
Coronavirus: North Korea claims to have no cases, but what is really happening?
North Korea banned tourists and quarantined thousands of people in its efforts to fight coronavirus.
- EntertainmentReuters
Italy may be on wrong path in fighting coronavirus contagion: scientist
Italy's measures to halt coronavirus contagion do not seem to be working and it should change its strategy by setting up centers to separate people with suspected symptoms from their families, a prominent Italian scientist said on Monday. Italy, which has suffered the world's highest death toll from coronavirus, has been in nationwide lockdown for about three weeks, but in the last three days new infections have continued at between 5,000 and 6,000 per day. Andrea Crisanti, professor of microbiology at Padua University, said in an interview with Radio Capital that many of these new cases are probably people who are being infected by fellow family members at home.
