Kim Jong-un resurfaces After 3 Weeks of Health Rumors
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Posted:May 2, 2020 4:43 pm
Last Updated:May 4, 2020 12:54 pm 159580 Views
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The North Korean leader was said to have visited a factory on Friday, after a series of unsubstantiated news reports suggested that he was gravely ill.
Photo attached: North Korea’s state news agency on Saturday, May 2nd released this photo of Kim Jong-un, which it said was taken Friday, May 1st, at a fertilizer plant. His sister, Kim Yo-jong, is in the background.
Trump says he's 'glad to see' Kim Jong Un 'is back, and well!' Trump retweeted North Korean state media photos of Kim attending a ribbon cutting ceremony at the Sunchon Phosphatic Fertilizer Factory.
"I, for one, am glad to see he is back, and well!" Trump wrote.
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Viral Humor and Before vs After pictures
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Posted:Apr 25, 2020 3:25 pm
Last Updated:May 20, 2020 10:57 pm 163416 Views
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Due to the Coronavirus pandemic spreading through the world, many governments order people to stay home to prevent spread the disease. When people staying at home, the air pollution got much improved and showing the before and after lockdown drastic differences. Please compare
Photo 5: The India Gate War Memorial, New Delhi, India
The India Gate war memorial in New Delhi, India, is pictured on October 17, 2019 (above) and on April 8, 2020 after a 21-day nationwide lockdown (below). Reuters reports that New Delhi is having "the longest spell of clean air on record."
Photo 6: Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California is known for notorious smog and traffic. But the view on the bottom shows the San Gabriel Mountains on April 14, 2020. According to Business Insider, the improvement in air pollution is likely a result of fewer planes and cars on the roads.
Photo 7: New Delhi, India
The top photograph of New Delhi, India was on November 8, 2018 and the bottom one was taken on April 8, 2020. The staggering difference may be attributed to the world’s largest lockdown in the country of 1.3 billion people. All factories, markets, shops, and places of worship are now closed, most public transport suspended, and construction work halted as India asks its citizens to stay home and practice social distancing.
Photo 8: Milan, Italy
Milan was named Europe's most polluted city in 2008 and smog remains a recurring problem. But after the air pollution dropped significantly during the lockdown, the city announced an ambitious scheme to reduce car use after the quarantine ends. The bottom photograph of Milan was taken on April 17, 2020, while the top one was taken only four months ago.
Photo 9: The Grand Canal, Venice, Italy
The Grand Canal in Venice, Italy is seen here pictured on January 6, 2018 (top). But after the lockdown, new photos emerged of the canals looking crystal clear. The city's mayor told CNN that this was due to "less traffic on the canals, allowing the sediment to stay at the bottom." The bottom picture was taken on April 17, 2020.
Photo 10: North Jakarta, Indonesia
Jakarta is known as one of the smoggiest cities in the world. But the same wreckage of a wooden boat pictured on July 26, 2018 and April 16, 2020 shows a night-and-day difference.
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My best stock performance is Amazon
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Posted:Apr 19, 2020 6:20 pm
Last Updated:Apr 23, 2020 1:13 pm 161886 Views
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Amazon is the largest online retailer company in USA. I've shopped at Amazon too. It is continence to order merchandises on internet. Amazon has "Cloud" memory to remember what items I prefer, analyze consumer's preference.
My first entry was in Oct 20'18 before I went to Italy for 36 daus. I bought low prices. If you want to know WHY, it was because the RSI (Risk Strength Index) below 30. I sold small portion when RSI reached over 70, and bought back small portion when RSI under 30.
At one highest holding I have 560 shares of Amazon. It was very painful holding, when this stock went "side way", from August 20'19 to Dec 20'19. I didn't buy or sell and wondering why investors don't like this stock. Held 560 shares of Amazon is a lot of money. On Feb. 11, 20'20, it went all-time high of $2,185.95. I sold 400 shares (each time 40 shares, sold 10 times). By that time, my pressure got released because I only had 160 shares with big profits.
Then the entire stock market nosedived due to coronavirus spreading. I got money to buy more Amazon, when I saw its RSI was below 30. I think when people stuck at home can't go out to buy merchandises, they will go online shopping. Some Mutual Fund managers said Amazon hires 1,000 more employees to work, that was when Amazon fly higher sharply for 4 consecutive days. Yes, I sold my Amazon little by little till $2,300 but sold out all my holding before it reached $2,461. I am afraid the economy won't be as good as before virus spreading and people will short of money to buy stuffs online. I sold all my Amazon holding. If it went up or down is not my business anymore. I already took more than 1/4 million profits on Amazon.
AMZN 2 years chart. You can see RSI (14) 72.77 which is over 70, so I sold.
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My worst stock was Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG). I bought at $400, it plunged to $247.51. I cut loss and lost lot of money. I delete it from my watching stock. One day I saw Chipotle went up to over $760. I was mad and started to short it plus buy put option. OMG, it went up to $940.28. I cut loss when it was $860. I double loss on this stock. I once again deleted this CMG forever.
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Trump confronts two Chinese reporters
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Posted:Apr 18, 2020 3:53 pm
Last Updated:Apr 20, 2020 12:54 pm 156609 Views
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President Trump confronted a female Phoenix TV reporter on April 6, 20'20, who said the station was independently owned and Hong Kong-based.
When the female reporter said "Do you want to cooperate with Chinese ambassador, Cui Tiankai (崔天凯) to fight coronavirus. Trump said "this sounds more like a statement than a question".
Trump asked her "Where are you from?" "Whom you work with?" She answered "from Hong Kong" and "Hong Kong Phoenix TV station based in Hong Kong".
Phoenix TV Hong Kong is part of the Communist Chinese government propaganda machine. Yep, she's working for China, a communist works for CCP. Trump has caught her on the spot. .
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A Taiwanese national who works for a Chinese state-run agency is facing a stiff fine after he posed as a reporter from a Taiwanese media outlet when asking U.S. President Donald Trump a question at the White House.
During a White House press conference on April 9, a reporter began to ask a question on behalf of foreign media, but Trump cut him off and asked him "where are you from?" In response, the reporter, who was later identified as Chang Ching-yi (張經義), said, "I am from Taiwan," to which Trump simply said, "Good."
However, local Taiwanese media outlets quickly pointed out that although the man was born in Taiwan, he currently works for Shanghai Media Group, which is a state-owned mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Many Taiwanese citizens were furious at Chang, suggesting that he is a traitor with comments such as "He doesn't dare reveal he has taken CCP money and instead mentions Taiwan."
At a press conference on Thursday (April 16), Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Deputy Minister and Spokesman Chiu Chui-cheng (邱垂正) said that because Chang is a Taiwanese citizen but works directly for a propaganda arm of the CCP, he has violated the Act Governing Relations between the People of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area, reported Liberty Times. Specifically, Chiu said that Chang had breached Article 33, paragraph 2, which prohibits citizens from engaging in "Any cooperative activity involving political nature with any individual, juristic person, organization, or other institution of the Mainland Area."
Chiu said that Chang could be subject to a fine of between NT$100,000 (US$3,300) and NT$500,000. He said the authorities will investigate the incident and deal with it in accordance with the law as soon as possible.
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Trump says WHO ignored Taiwanese email citing coronavirus transmission
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Posted:Apr 18, 2020 2:34 pm
Last Updated:Apr 18, 2020 4:52 pm 155585 Views
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U.S. President Trump's twitted on Friday, April 17,
Donald J. Trump✔
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Why did the W.H.O. Ignore an email from Taiwanese health officials in late December alerting them to the possibility that CoronaVirus could be transmitted between humans? Why did the W.H.O. make several claims about the CoronaVirus that ere either inaccurate or misleading....
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Taiwan and the WHO disagree on whether a Dec. 31 email referenced human-to-human transmission, which China and the WHO would not confirm for weeks.
The Taiwanese email said: “News resources today indicate that at least seven atypical pneumonia cases were reported in Wuhan, China… Their health authorities replied to the media that the cases were believed not to be SARS, however the samples are still under examination, and cases have been isolated for treatment.”
Globally the virus has infected more than 2.1 million people and killed at least 147,000.
The US has the world’s largest publicly recognized outbreak, with more than 670,000 cases and 33,000 deaths. At least 22 million Americans have lost their jobs following business closures to prevent spread of the virus.
White House coronavirus coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx said at a recent press briefing that Chinese data on infection numbers led experts to believe the virus was less contagious, leading to less early concern among health officials.
Taiwan, which took early preventive steps, including mass production of face masks, has just 395 cases, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
“The WHO’s reliance on China’s disclosures likely caused a 20-fold increase in cases worldwide, and it may be much more than that,” Trump said Tuesday.
The White House budget office has told federal agencies to redirect W.H.O. funds to groups that do similar work, indicating a 60-day suspension of WHO funding ordered by Trump will be permanent.
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The Best Coronavirus Responses, Women Leaders
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Posted:Apr 15, 2020 3:14 pm
Last Updated:Apr 26, 2020 6:16 pm 153362 Views
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Looking for examples of true leadership in a crisis? From Iceland Taiwan and from Germany New Zealand, women are stepping up show the world how manage a messy patch for our human family. Add in Finland, Iceland and Denmark, and this pandemic is revealing that women have what it takes when the heat rises in our Houses of State. Many will say these are small countries, or islands, or other exceptions. But Germany is large and leading, and the UK is an island with very different outcomes. These leaders are gifting us an attractive alternative way of wielding power. What are they teaching us?
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Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany, stood up early and calmly told her countrymen that this was a serious bug that would infect up to 70% of the population. “It’s serious,” she said, “take it seriously.” She did, so they did too. Testing began right from the get-go. Germany jumped right over the phases of denial, anger and disingenuousness we’ve seen elsewhere. The country’s numbers are far below its European neighbors, and there are signs it may be able to start loosening restrictions relatively soon.
Decisiveness (see the chart)
Among the first and the fastest responses was from Tsai Ing-wen in Taiwan. Back in January, at the first sign of a new illness, she introduced 4 measures block the spread without having resort the lockdowns that have become common elsewhere. She is now sending million face masks the U.S. and Europe. Tsai managed what CNN has called “among the world’s best” responses, keeping the epidemic under control, still reporting only six deaths.
Jacinda Ardern in New Zealand was early lockdown and crystal clear on the maximum level of alert she was putting the country under – and why. She imposed self-isolation on people entering New Zealand astonishingly early, when there were just 6 cases in the whole country, and banned foreigners entirely from entering soon after. Clarity and decisiveness are saving New Zealand from the storm. As of mid-April they have suffered only four deaths, and where other countries talk of lifting restrictions, Ardern is adding to them, making all returning New Zealanders quarantine in designated locations for days.
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Iceland, under the leadership of Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir, is offering free coronavirus testing all its citizens, and will become a key case study in the true spread and fatality rates of Covid-19. Most countries have limited testing people with active symptoms. Iceland is going whole hog. In proportion to its population the country has already screened five times as many people as South Korea has, and instituted a thorough tracking system that means they haven’t had to lock down or shut schools.
Sanna Marin became the world’s youngest head of state when she was elected last December in Finland. It took a millennial leader to spearhead using social media influencers as key agents in battling the coronavirus crisis. Recognizing that not everyone reads the press, they are inviting influencers of any age to spread fact-based information on managing the pandemic.
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Norway’s Prime Minister, Erna Solberg, had the innovative idea of using television to talk directly to her country’s . She was building on the short, 3-minute press conference that Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen had held a couple of days earlier. Solberg held a dedicated press conference where no adults were allowed. She responded to ’ questions from across the country, taking time to explain why it was OK to feel scared. The originality and obviousness of the idea takes one’s breath away. How many other simple, humane innovations would more female leadership unleash?
Generally, the empathy and care which all of these female leaders have communicated seems to come from an alternate universe than the one we have gotten used to. It’s like their arms are coming out of their videos to hold you close in a heart-felt and loving embrace. Who knew leaders could sound like this? Now we do.
Now, compare these leaders and stories with the strongmen using the crisis to accelerate a terrifying trifecta of authoritarianism: blame-“others”, capture-the-judiciary, demonize-the-journalists, and blanket their country in I-will-never-retire darkness (Trump, Bolsonaro, Obrador, Modi, Duterte, Orban, Putin, Netanyahu…).
There have been years of research timidly suggesting that women’s leadership styles might be different and beneficial. Instead, too many political organizations and companies are still working to get women to behave more like men if they want to lead or succeed. Yet these national leaders are case study sightings of the seven leadership traits men may want to learn from women.
It’s time we recognized it – and elected more of it.
Photo 3: Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen in conversation with CNN's Matt Rivers on February 18.
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Crowdfunded 'Taiwan can help' ad published in New York Times
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Posted:Apr 15, 2020 12:00 am
Last Updated:Apr 21, 2020 3:35 pm 149809 Views
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Taipei, April 14 (CNA) The New York Times published an advertisement funded by over 26,000 donors in a fundraising campaign with the aim of showing the world that Taiwan can help in the fight against the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
The full-page advertisement, initiated by a Taiwanese Youtuber and an award-winning designer, begins with the question "WHO can help?" followed by the answer: "Taiwan."
The bottom of the ad reads: "In a time of isolation, we choose solidarity. You are not alone. Taiwan is with you."
It also elaborates that Taiwan knows how to fight pandemics due to its experience in the battle against the SARS epidemic of 2003.
It also knows perfectly well how it feels to be isolated because it has been isolated from the World Health Organization (WHO ), the ad reads, referring to the fact that the country has been barred from attending the annual World Health Assembly (WHA), the decision-making body of the WHO, since 2017 due to pressure from China.
"That is why we are contributing to international efforts by sharing how we contained the outbreak, kept our schools and businesses open, and ensured masks for all," it reads.
It adds that the country has also been donating millions of surgical masks to support medical workers worldwide over the past weeks, as well as studying research along with global partners into advanced rapid testing and a vaccine for COVID-19.
"Who can isolate Taiwan? No one. Because we are here to help," it says, before concluding with the hashtags #TaiwanCanHelp #TaiwanIsHelping.
The ad was published in Tuesday's edition both online and in print.
It was funded by the crowdfunding campaign initiated by Taiwanese YouTube personality Ray Du (阿滴) and graphic designer Aaron Nieh (聶永真) April 10.
The campaign was launched after WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at a news conference on April 8 accused Taiwan of personal attacks and "racism," which drew Taiwan's ire, with the government rebutting the allegations as unfounded.
Nieh said in a Facebook post that the newspaper ad is a starting point for Taiwan to tell the world that it is offering helping hands to the world despite the smear campaign launched by the WHO head.
He did not say exactly how much funding the campaign managed to raise or how much the ad cost, saying only that half of the money was used to pay for the ad, while the rest will be used to purchase medical supplies to aid pandemic control efforts, both in Taiwan and in other countries.
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Trump announces U.S. will halt funding for WHO over coronavirus response
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Posted:Apr 13, 2020 8:00 pm
Last Updated:Mar 27, 2024 2:45 pm 140750 Views
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US president and supporters have accused organization of being biased towards China
Senior officials at the W.H.O. have pushed back at calls by Donald Trump to withhold funding from the organization, and by Trump’s supporters for the resignation of its head, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
“We are still in the acute phase of a pandemic, so now is not the time to cut back on funding,” Dr Hans Kluge, the WHO regional director for Europe, told a virtual briefing in response to a question about Trump’s remarks.
Asked about Trump’s remarks at the WHO daily briefing in Geneva, Tedros declined to address the issue directly. “I don’t think that’s necessary,” he said. “We shouldn’t waste time pointing fingers. We need time to unite … Let’s unite … The worst is yet to come if we don’t rush to ensure unity.”
The row came as the US recorded its highest toll from the virus in a single day, with more than 1,800 coronavirus deaths. Trump and key Republican supporters and sympathetic media outlets have recently escalated a months-long campaign accusing the WHO of being biased towards China, and demanding a congressional investigation.
The latest flare-up, which appears designed to distract attention from Trump’s record during the outbreak, has fueled concerns among WHO insiders that the campaign could dangerously undermine confidence in the organizations advice at a crucial time.
Wuhan, the Chinese city at the centre of the outbreak, has begun to return to normal life, raising fears among some US rightwingers that China’s economic recovery could steal a march while the US is in the midst of its own outbreak.
Trump said the WHO had been “wrong about a lot of things” and threatened to put a hold on WHO funding. When asked if that was a good idea during a pandemic, Trump denied having made the threat and then said his officials would “look at it”.
“We’re going to investigate it, we’re going to look at it. But we will look at ending funding, yeah, because you know what, they called it wrong, and if you look back over the years even, everything seems to be very biased toward China.”
David Nabarro, the WHO’s special envoy for Covid-19, told the Guardian that while it was inevitable that “institutions, governments and individuals” would be held accountable for their handling of the coronavirus pandemic, that needed to take place after the crisis was over.
“The world is in the middle of an extraordinary and epic struggle against a virus that is completely new,” he said. “With something like this each decision that we make is closely examined – as it should be … But for now I would suggest we wait until the time the emergency subsides, when of course there will be inquiries, and individuals, governments and institutions are scrutinized.”
“We are trying to combine science and risk-assessment as we connect with the people who are making really tough decisions. They need to be able to trust us and have confidence in us.”
Senior African leaders came out strongly in support of the WHO.
Moussa Faki Mahamat, chair of the African Union Commission, which brings together 55 of the continent’s states, said on Twitter that he was surprised to learn of an anti-WHO campaign by the US and stressed the organization's support for Tedros.
A number of prominent figures associated with Trump have been involved in the campaign against the WHO, which has been criticized for its handling of major disease outbreaks in the past, including the 2014 Ebola outbreak in west Africa.
They include John Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser; the Florida Republican senator Rick Scott and the Republican congressman Guy Reschenthaler, who introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives on Tuesday calling for the US to defund the WHO unless Tedros resigns and the organization is investigated over its treatment of China during the pandemic.
The onslaught has been echoed on social media, sometimes with racially offensive imagery against the Ethiopian official. The criticism brings together a series of rightwing preoccupations including a distrust of UN bodies, pro-Taiwan activism, and a fear that China’s economy could recover before that of the US.
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蔡英文 Tsai Ing-wen (Taiwan's President)
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Posted:Apr 13, 2020 5:32 pm
Last Updated:Mar 27, 2024 12:13 pm 140111 Views
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針對台灣被指控在國際社會上發動種族歧視攻擊的言論，我要表達強烈的抗議。請大家把真相轉給世界各國的朋友。同時，我也歡迎網路上的朋友幫忙翻譯成各國語言，讓我們一起透過網路向世界說明台灣的立場：
I strongly protest the accusations today that Taiwan is instigating racist attacks in the international community. Taiwan has always opposed all forms of discrimination. For years, we have been excluded from international organizations, and we know better than anyone else what it feels like to be discriminated against and isolated.
I want to take this opportunity to invite Director-General Tedros to visit Taiwan and experience for himself how committed the Taiwanese people are to engaging with and contributing to the world, even in the face of discrimination and isolation.
Taiwan’s selfless medical workers and volunteers can be found around the world. The Taiwanese people do not differentiate by skin color or language; all of us are brothers and sisters. We have never let our inability to join international organizations lessen our support for the international community.
Taiwan has poured all of its efforts into stopping the spread of COVID-19, and our achievements have received a great deal of attention from around the world. Despite being excluded from the WHO due to political manipulation, we have shouldered our responsibility as a member of the international community and taken the initiative to donate face masks and other supplies to medical workers in countries hit hardest by the coronavirus pandemic.
#TaiwanCanHelp, and the spirit of Taiwan is Helping has never been influenced by nationality or race.
Taiwan is dedicated to the values of freedom, democracy, diversity, and tolerance. We do not condone the use of racist remarks to attack those with different opinions. If Director-General Tedros could withstand pressure from China and come to Taiwan to see Taiwan’s efforts to fight COVID-19 for himself, he would be able to see that the Taiwanese people are the true victims of unfair treatment. I believe that the WHO will only truly be complete if Taiwan is included.
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Doctors and nurses need PPE, patients need ventilators
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Posted:Apr 13, 2020 3:22 pm
Last Updated:Apr 21, 2020 3:30 pm 129070 Views
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Even as the U.S. saw some of the highest daily death rates from COVID-19 last week, there were hopeful signs that the epidemic may be peaking in some places, including New York City. However, Health experts have warned about reopening the country too early. Antibody testing could be one indicator of immunity, but how long that immunity lasts is an open question.
Harvard medical students have used their free time to create a coronavirus curriculum. How the ventilator shortage could be compounded by a shortage of specialized doctors and nurses and shortage of PPE for Healthcare professionals.
Everyday New York state governor, Andrew Cuomo reports daily confirmed coronavirus cases and death toll around 700 daily in New York state. There are not enough PPE for doctors and nurses to protect them. PPE is difficult to put on and take-off when they need to use the toilets, layer and layer of PPE. But they don't have sufficient of N95 masks, gloves and protective gowns. Doctors reduce to drink water and have meals, so less often to use toilet. Doctors don't have time to eat or drink. I am very worried about my as a MD in New York.
Doctors have to make decision who to use the ventilator, who doesn't. Of course, doctors would like to save all the patients, but who is stronger and have better chance to live get the ventilator. Actually ventilators are not the cure or a treatment of coronavirus. Ventilator is just help patient to breath. Doctors are human and seeing patients died are heartbroken for them, but they need to get over the sad mood and take care the next patient. Do you know how their feeling? Doctors don't have time to cry and patient's family can't say good-bye to the patient even burial ceremony.
During the weekend, I read an article "Compassionate Use of Remdesivir for Patients with Severe Covid-19" posted on New England Journal of Medicine. Let me explain the abstract of that article. Among 53 patients whose data were analyzed, 22 were in the United States, 22 in Europe or Canada, and 9 in Japan. At baseline, 30 patients (57% ) were receiving mechanical ventilation and 4 (8% ) were receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. During a median follow-up of 18 days, 36 patients (68% ) had an improvement in oxygen-support class, including 17 of 30 patients (57% ) receiving mechanical ventilation who were extubated. A total of 25 patients (47% ) were discharged, and 7 patients (13% ) died; mortality was 18% (6 of 34) among patients receiving invasive ventilation and 5% (1 of 19) among those not receiving invasive ventilation.
Conclusions
In this cohort of patients hospitalized for severe Covid-19 who were treated with compassionate-use Remdesivir, clinical improvement was observed in 36 of 53 patients (68% ). Measurement of efficacy will require ongoing randomized, placebo-controlled trials of Remdesivir therapy. (Funded by Gilead Sciences.)
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