Vincent van Gogh The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring 1884 (stolen yesterday) • Fauci Offers More Conservative Death Rate In Academic Article Than In Public Briefings (JTN) • Hospital Equipment Shortages Renew Spotlight On Supply Chain Middlemen (JTN) • US COVID19 Job Losses Could Be 47 Million, Unemployment May Hit 32% (CNBC) • Trump Rips Pelosi For Criticizing His Handling Of Coronavirus Pandemic (NYP) • Pelosi Aims To Move Fast On Next Rescue Package (Pol.) • Rachel Maddow’s
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Hasui Kawase Mimhae Pavilion, Kyongju, Korea 1940 Earlier today in the March 30 Automatic Earth Debt Rattle aggregator I promised to come back to this. I wrote: Dr. Fauci, Trump’s main medical/epidemic advisor, said yesterday that 200,000 Americans could die from COVID19. The same Fauci, as I quoted two days ago, recently changed his case fatality rate prediction from 1% to 0.1%. I had to let that sink in for a while, because if those 200,000 people represent that
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L.S. Lowry The mill, Pendlebury 1943 • Dr. Fauci Says 200,000 Americans Could Die From The Coronavirus (MW) • Trump: Keeping US COVID-19 Deaths To 100,000 Would Be A ‘Very Good Job’ (G.) • Coronavirus Patients In UK Intensive Care Have 50% Survival Rate (G.) • What We Still Need To Know (Stat) • FDA Gives Emergency Approval To Chloroquine, Hydroxychloroquine (Solomon) • FDA Greenlights COVID-19 Point-of-Care Test (Y!) • Trump In The Time Of COVID-19: Slashing Red Tape
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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Fifth Plague of Egypt 1800 Correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m under the impression that President Trump yesterday wanted to quarantine New York City but let himself get talked out of that by, among others, NY Governor Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo went as far as calling such a measure not merely “un-American”, he said it would be “preposterous” and “anti-American”. Obviously, Cuomo is not just of the belief, like most Americans, that a country
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Dorothea Lange Kern County, California 1938 • Trump Backs Off Threat Of Coronavirus Quarantine For NYC Area (NYP) • Florida Coronavirus Cases Are Growing Fast. Here’s What That Means. (TBT) • Rhode Island Door Knocks in Search of Fleeing New Yorkers (AP) • 700 N.J. Police Officers Have Tested Positive For Coronavirus (NJ.com) • More Than 500 Members Of The NYPD Have Coronavirus (NYP) • Italy PM Adopts New Measures To Help Coronavirus-Hit Economy (R.) • Home Confinement In
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Dorothea Lange White Angel Bread Line, San Francisco 1933 • US Coronavirus Cases Top 100,000, Doubling In Three Days (CNBC) • The UK’s Coronavirus Policy May Sound Scientific. It Isn’t (Taleb, Bar-Yam) • Up To 40 Million Lives Could Be Saved If Countries Act Quickly (Ind.) • Dr. Fauci: Coronavirus Death Rate Like Very Bad Flu (WND) • China Closes Borders, Claims Wuhan ‘Basically Blocked’ Coronavirus (SAC) • Countries Worldwide Roll Out Draconian Measures To Fight Covid-19 (RT) •
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• More People Are Dying Of COVID-19 In The US Than We Know (BF) • We Could Watch Entire Populations Vanish (IC) • Coronavirus Could Kill 81,000 In US, Subside In June – Washington U. (R.) • Hold The Line (M.) • China Promotes Bear Bile As Coronavirus Treatment (NatGeo) • Fed Balance Sheet Tops $5 Trillion For First Time (R.) • Broward Poll Workers Test Positive For COVID-19 (L10) • Moscow Laboratories Will Conduct 13,000 Tests For
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Rembrandt van Rijn Portrait of his father 1628-29 I was following the numbers all afternoon, because I knew this was going to be the day that the US would become the no. 1. The no. 1 loser, that is. Here’s some of what I wrote in the Automatic Earth Comments section as we went along: 500,000 global cases was at noon EDT. 3.5 hours later there were another 20,000. [..] At 12.38 pm the US was 6,300 cases behind
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• 1/4 of $2 Trillion Stimulus Bill Devoted to Useless Accounting Gimmick (Tankus) • At Least 13 Patients Die From Coronavirus In One Day At New York Hospital (CNN) • Worker At NYC Hospital Where Nurses Wear Trash Bags As Protection Dies (NYP) • UK Coronavirus Mass Home Testing To Be Made Available ‘Within Days’ (G.) • NHS Could Soon Exceed Capacity – Chief Medical Officer (Ind.) • How Did Spain Get Its Coronavirus Response So Wrong? (G.)
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Harris&Ewing Washington DC in April April 1924 • Coronavirus Stimulus Package To Exceed $6 Trillion – Kudlow (NYP) • US Senate Leaders Reach Deal With White House On $2tn Coronavirus Package (G.) • Share Buybacks, $4.6 Trillion Driver of Stock Market Bubble, Are Toast (WS) • White House Tells New Yorkers Who Leave State To Self Quarantine (USAT) • LA To Shut Off Water, Power For Non-Essential Businesses That Stay Open (GP) • United States Could Become Coronavirus Epicenter
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