Apr 182020
 
Debt Rattle April 18 2020

Edward Hopper Cat boat 1922   • Antibody Study Suggests Coronavirus Far More Widespread Than Thought (G.) • No Evidence COVID-19 Survivors Have Immunity – WHO (Sky) • Double Warning Over Antibody Tests (BBC) • Existing Drugs ‘May Prove Effective On Coronavirus Before Vaccine Comes’ (SCMP) • Emirates First Airline To Conduct On-Site Rapid COVID-19 Tests (Em.) • US Seeks Access To Wuhan Virology Lab, Trump Questions China Death Toll (SCMP) • US, China and WHO Are All Keen To

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Apr 172020
 
Debt Rattle April 17 2020

Dorothea Lange American River camp, Sacramento, CA. Destitute family. 5 children, aged 2 to 17 years 1936   • China Didn’t Warn Public Of Likely Pandemic For 6 Key Days (AP) • US Alerted Israel, NATO To Disease Outbreak In China In November (ToI ) • Wuhan Death Toll Up By 50% As 1,290 ‘Delayed & Omitted’ Fatalities Added (RT) • Men Are Much More Likely To Die From Coronavirus. Why? (G.) • France Summons Chinese Envoy Over Criticism Of

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Apr 162020
 
Debt Rattle April 16 2020

Dorothea Lange Richmond, California 1942   • Coronavirus Testing Hits Dramatic Slowdown In US (Pol.) • Antibody Tests For Coronavirus Can Miss The Mark (NPR) • The Coronavirus Is Particularly Unkind To Those Who Are Obese (LAT) • New York Taps Mckinsey To Develop ‘Trump-Proof’ Economic Reopening Plan (R.) • New Zealand PM: Many Restrictions To Be Kept In Place When Lockdown Ends (R.) • Investors Are Underestimating The Economic Shock The World Is Facing (AEP) • Trump Threatens To

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Apr 152020
 
The Only Man Who Has A Clue

Henri Cartier-Bresson A visitor to the Forbidden City, Beijing 1948   Today, I’m going to try to show you how and why we know that in the case of a pandemic like the one we’re in, surrounded by doubts and uncertainties, there are still a series of measures that we can and, more importantly, must take. But also, how these measures are hardly ever taken, and if they are, not in the correct fashion. This has to date led us

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Apr 152020
 
Debt Rattle April 15 2020

Harris&Ewing National Press Club Building newssstand, Washington DC 1940   • First, The People Die; Then, The Stories (Rusty Guinn) • Trump Announces ‘Halt’ In US Funding To WHO Amid Pandemic (USAT) • WHO Urges China To Close ‘Dangerous’ Wet Market As Stalls In Wuhan Reopen (Ind.) • COVID19 Twice As Contagious As Previously Thought – Los Alamos Lab (SCMP) • New Coronavirus Outbreak Hotspots Emerging Across US (SCMP) • Universal Screening for COVID19 in NY Women Admitted for Delivery

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Apr 142020
 
Debt Rattle April 14 2020

John M. Fox Garcia Grande newsstand, New York 1946   • Getting A Coronavirus Test In Wuhan: Fast, Cheap And Easy (R.) • South Korea Confirms 111 Cases Of Coronavirus Reinfection (KT) • How Coronavirus Almost Brought Down The Global Financial System (Tooze) • US Coronavirus Death Toll Tops 23,000 (R.) • New York, California, Other States Plan For Reopening As Crisis Eases (R.) • 30 Union Members Die, Rest Risk Their Lives So Americans Can Eat Meat (HuffPo) •

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Apr 132020
 
Debt Rattle April 13 2020

John M. Fox WCBS studios, 49 East 52nd Street, NYC 1948   • Obesity The Single Biggest Factor In New York COVID19 Hospitalizations (ZDN) • Coronavirus Spreads At Least 13 Feet, Travels On Shoes: CDC (NYP) • Fauci: US Given Wrong Information About Virus “Right From The Beginning” (JTN) • 102-Year-Old NY Woman Beats COVID-19 With Hydroxychloroquine (CBS) • New Zealand Preparing To End Lockdown (Metro) • America Should Be Ready For 18 Months Of Shutdowns – Fed’s Neel Kashkari

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Apr 122020
 
Debt Rattle April 12 2020

Helen Levitt New York 1939   • DOJ Threatens Action Against Pandemic Crackdowns On Religious Ceremonies (JTN) • Can Trump Reopen The Economy On May 1? Not Really (LATimes) • California Gov. Newsom Praises Trump Admin’s COVID19 Relief Efforts (JTN) • Hundreds Of US Meat Workers Have Tested Positive For Coronavirus (LATimes) • New York Hospital Approved To Use COVID-19 Experimental Treatment (JTN) • EU Borders May Close Till September Due To US COVID-19 Threat (F.) • China Chasing Coronavirus

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Apr 112020
 
Debt Rattle April 11 2020

Dorothea Lange Six tenant farmers without farms, Hardeman County, Texas 1937   • 115-Year-Old Supreme Court Opinion Could Determine Rights In A Pandemic (CNN) • Fauci: Immunity Cards Option For US, Antibody Tests To Come Next Week (Hill) • Fauci: World Health Organization Boss ‘Really An Outstanding Person’ (JTN) • New York Gov. Cuomo Tells Giuliani Coronavirus Modeling ‘100% Wrong’ (JTN) • Democrats Want To Drop Joe Biden For Andrew Cuomo – Poll (NYP) • New York Gov. Cuomo Joins

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Apr 102020
 
Debt Rattle April 10  2020

Edward Hopper Burly Cobb’s House, South Truro 1930-33   • Doctors Alarmed After Some COVID19 Patients Test Positive After Recovering (RT) • Doctors Say Ventilators Are Overused For COVID19 (Stat) • Pay Cuts, Furloughs, Layoffs For Doctors, Nurses, Healthcare Workers (BI) • New York Has More Cases Than Any Country (BBC) • Trump: Widespread Testing ‘Would Never Happen’, Not Needed To Reopen US (NW) • UK Gov’t: Keep Economy Running, We Will All Get COVID-19 Anyway (Nafeez Ahmed) • Ex-IMF

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