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BY BRYAN MANABAT – BRYAN – VARIETY NEWS STAFF 17 MARCH 2020LOCAL

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THE federal government has denied the allegations of Alyssa Jade Nunez who has sued the U.S. government, the U.S. Department of the Interior, the National Park Service, and the Pacific-West Region of the National Park Service for negligence.

Nunez said she suffered injuries when she tripped over one of the wires in a grassy area of American Memorial Park in Garapan where she and her family had just attended an event in 2018.

Nunez said the fall fractured the elbow of her right arm and she wants the District Court for the NMI to hold the defendants liable to pay her damages in an amount to be proven at trial.

In answer to the complaint, the park, represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Mikel W. Schwab said the

defendants “admit that [the National Park Service or] NPS did not remove the cables in-between the low cement posts located on the grass between Micro Beach Road and the stage for the event. [The] defendants [also] admit that NPS did not put up any warning signs in the immediate vicinity of those cables, ward off the entire area adjacent to those cables, install any temporary lighting in the immediate vicinity of those cables, or place an employee in the vicinity of those cables.”

But the defendants deny the remaining allegations, Schwab said.

Represented by attorney David Banes, Nunez stated that the incident happened in May 2018 when the Marianas Visitors Authority and the Pacific-West Region Division of the National Park Service jointly organized and hosted the 20th Annual Taste of the Marianas International Food Festival & Beer Garden at American Memorial Park.

She said between the grassy area and the stage of the event, there were wires extending between low cement posts that were about 1 to 2 feet above the ground.

Those wires and the low cement posts had been put up by the National Park Service and the Pacific-West Region Division long before the event, the complaint also stated.

Nunez said NPS and division employees knew or should have known that those wires presented a significant tripping hazard to park visitors, especially when it was dark because the grassy area is poorly lit in the evening.

Banes said there were no signs to warn people of the tripping hazard created by the wires, or ward off the entire surrounding area to prevent people from walking across where the wires were.

On May 19, 2018, Nunez went to attend the event with her family members. Nunez and her family arrived at the park and parked their car in the grassy area between the back of the stage and the northern boundary of Coral Tree Avenue.

After attending the event, Nunez and her family members walked toward the grassy area to get back to their vehicle. While walking, Nunez said she tripped over one of the wires and fell forward.

As a result, she added, she fractured her right elbow.

Her lawyer said the range of motion of Nunez’s arm is likely to be permanently reduced as a result of her injuries.

Banes added that Nunez had to travel to the Philippines to undergo surgery and later underwent physical therapy.

Nunez is claiming damages in the amount of $500,000.

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Matansa Football Club, left, and Kanoa players battle for the ball during their co-ed U12 division game in the 2020 NMIFA Spring Youth League early this month at the NMI Soccer Training Center in Koblerville. The league is on hold until further notice due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)

Pacific Hardware’s Alex Ocampo, third left, tries to hang on to the ball, as he is hounded by Napa’s Ivan Devero, right, and Kelvin Fitial, second left, during an earlier game in the One Pacific caging, which has suspended its matches at the Civic Center Court indefinitely. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)
From a busy season into no competition, indefinitely.

Announcements on the suspension of sports tournaments and activities on island were made one after another in response to the COVID-19 crisis, which has already hit neighboring Guam.

Tagaman Triathlon was first on the list of postponed events, as Triathlon Association of the CNMI president Ricky Castro made the announcement a few hours after Guam confirmed it has three COVID-19 cases late afternoon last Sunday. Tagaman was originally slated for this Saturday and the new schedule has yet to be discussed.

Also set for this weekend is the playoff round of the 2019-2020 Public School System Interscholastic Boys Middle School Volleyball League, but the competition is halted, as all activities under the PSS Athletics Program have been canceled until further notice.

“In an effort to mitigate the dangers associated with the COVID-19, all PSS Athletic Programs are canceled until further notice,” program director Nick Gross said.

Also called off was the meeting this week for the All Schools Track and Field Championship, which is scheduled to kick off its qualifying events later this month.

The 2020 Northern Marianas College Foundation Golf Tournament set for this Saturday at the Laolao Bay Golf & Resort was suspended, too.

“We want to ensure the health and safety of our community during this time, and part of that means preventing big gatherings and canceling large scale events,” NMC interim president Frankie Eliptico said. “We’d like to thank our golfers and sponsors for their understanding and continued support for the college.”

Meanwhile, Northern Mariana Islands Football Association, which oversees the 2020 NMIFA Spring Youth League, 2020 Dove Women’s Spring League, and 2020 Spring Men’s M-League, has suspended matches in all three competitions and other activities since last night.

“Due to COVID-19 pandemic concerns, the Northern Mariana Islands Football Association is suspending all leagues and other soccer related activities including the national team program training until further notice,” NMIFA said in a press statement.

The decision was made in compliance with the directives of the CNMI government and the local and federal agencies involved in the effort to prevent the spread of the virus and ensure the safety of the islands’ residents.

Gov. Ralph DLG Torres, last Sunday evening, ordered the closure of government offices and non-essential government functions until further notice, while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging people to cancel or postpone events that draw crowds, including sports competitions, to contain the virus.

Besides the regular matches in the three various leagues, NMIFA is also suspending its soccer programs for schools (P.E. Support, Interscholastic Soccer League, and Junior Soccer Academy Training).

Other sports events/competitions that are suspended indefinitely are the JP Hero Run, One Pacific Promotional Basketball League 2020, and Bridge Capital Tennis Classic, while Saipan Swim Club’s practice sessions are also on hold.

Trench Tech Gym and Trench Tech Purebred Jiujitsu Academy are closed, too according to owner and founder Cuki Alvarez.

“We must be pro active and look out for the best interest and safety of our members, staff, and most especially our family. Preventative measures are your first line of defense,” Alvarez said.

Roselyn Monroyo | Reporter
Roselyn Monroyo is the sports reporter of Saipan Tribune. She has been covering sports competitions for more than two decades. She is a basketball fan and learned to write baseball and football stories when she came to Saipan in 2005.
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● GHS/OCD website: https://ghs.guam.gov/coronavirus-covid-19

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March 11, 2020, 6:07 p.m. ET
Senator Elizabeth Warren, whose endorsement became highly coveted in the Democratic presidential race after she dropped out last week, is unlikely to endorse her ideological ally Senator Bernie Sanders, according to several people close to her, even though Mr. Sanders is looking for political lifelines as he struggles against former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.

Ms. Warren is expected to withhold her endorsement from Mr. Sanders as well as Mr. Biden at this point, choosing to let the primary play out rather than seek to change its course, according to several people familiar with Ms. Warren’s thinking who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss her considerations.

Even before Mr. Sanders lost four states in Tuesday’s primaries, dealing a huge blow to his presidential hopes, Ms. Warren was reluctant to support him, these people said. The spirited presidential campaign caused some rifts between the two liberals, including their clash in January over whether Mr. Sanders once told her that a woman couldn’t be elected president in 2020, an episode that deeply troubled her. Her camp also viewed Mr. Sanders’s electoral standing as fading in recent weeks, raising doubts about whether an endorsement would be a lost cause.

Ms. Warren has spoken to Mr. Biden once since Super Tuesday but multiple times to Mr. Sanders, as she and her team have fielded overtures from Sanders supporters seeking to coax her to his aid.

Some of the Vermont senator’s prominent online supporters have clamored for Ms. Warren to get behind his campaign, given how closely the two politicians are aligned on policy matters.

But Mr. Sanders’s highest-profile surrogate, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, said she understood Ms. Warren’s hesitation, and suggested it was a teachable moment for the left.

“I always want to see us come together as a progressive wing,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said. “I think that’s important and where we draw strength from. But at the same time, I come from the lens of an organizer, and if someone doesn’t do what you want, you don’t blame them — you ask why. And you don’t demand that answer of that person — you reflect. And that reflection is where you can grow.”

The lopsided results on Tuesday, when Mr. Sanders lost every county in Michigan, Missouri and Mississippi, further hardened Ms. Warren’s decision, according to a person close to the Massachusetts senator.

Those close to Ms. Warren say her foremost reason for not endorsing Mr. Sanders is simple: Since her exit from the race, his path to victory has looked unlikely. They doubt that Ms. Warren, even as the most prominent former candidate to have not backed another primary contender so far, could reverse Mr. Sanders’s fortunes at this point, and fear that she risks squandering valuable political capital if she tries to do so and fails.

It was also not clear what difference Ms. Warren might have made in addressing Mr. Sanders’s glaring vulnerability with black voters, with whom Ms. Warren had shown little sway herself.

Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, who endorsed Ms. Warren in her personal capacity, was among those who spoke with Ms. Warren after Super Tuesday.

“It made tremendous sense for her to stay on the sidelines so she could play the role of unifier,” said Ms. Weingarten, who declined to discuss her private conversation with Ms. Warren.

Brian Fallon, who worked for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and is now a progressive strategist, was doubtful that Ms. Warren’s backing would have significantly helped Mr. Sanders and said it might not have “sat well with the coalition she ended the race with,” which was dominated by college-educated white women.

“Why would she want to make her endorsement seem less powerful by giving it to somebody on a downward trajectory?” Mr. Fallon asked.

Four years ago, Ms. Warren stayed neutral in the Democratic primary between Mr. Sanders and Mrs. Clinton, and during the general election she used her influence among liberals to push Mrs. Clinton to make more left-leaning personnel choices in her transition team. “That was the template that she designed in 2016,” Mr. Fallon said. “Wait back, hold until the nomination is settled and then be very practical and hard-boiled about what your asks are.”

Most of the progressive groups and individual leaders that backed Ms. Warren do plan to support Mr. Sanders in some form, including the Working Families Party and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, which emailed its members encouraging them to support Mr. Sanders before the Michigan primary.

About 30 former staff members of Ms. Warren’s signed an open letter supporting Mr. Sanders. One former staff member tweeted that Ms. Warren’s unwillingness to support Mr. Sanders made her “really sad.”

Ms. Warren and Mr. Sanders have never been completely aligned as politicians, however, even if they broadly agree on the ills of unfettered capitalism and the need for major change within the Democratic Party. More than labels — Mr. Sanders identifies as a democratic socialist while Ms. Warren is a self-described capitalist — the two differ in political styles and tactics, which has become apparent in their presidential bids.

Ms. Warren has made a priority of forging a cordial tone with Democratic Party leaders, including a political program that sought to persuade even the most staunch moderates of her platform, often in one-on-one phone calls. Mr. Sanders has embraced the call of a political revolution, a far cry from the “unity candidate” message that Ms. Warren adopted before early nominating contests like Iowa and New Hampshire.

Adam Jentleson, who is close to Ms. Warren’s team and served as a deputy chief of staff to Harry Reid, the former Senate majority leader, said Ms. Warren and Mr. Sanders could be separated by one thing: their approach to the Democratic Party.

“Being president is about policy but it’s also about leadership and your approach to people, and that’s a big area in which they differ,” Mr. Jentleson said. “She values the Democratic Party. She thinks it has flaws but is overall a force for good. She doesn’t want to be on board with efforts to villainize or alienate many people who were the lifeblood of the party.”

However, the current distance between Ms. Warren and Mr. Sanders is also the result of a primary that tested their relationship in new ways. In January, reports surfaced that Mr. Sanders allegedly told Ms. Warren in a private 2018 meeting that a woman couldn’t win the presidency in 2020 — and he vehemently denied it, leading to a sharp post-debate exchange.

The next month, some of Mr. Sanders’s supporters lodged online attacks against female leaders in the Nevada culinary union who had declined to endorse him. Both instances extended past personal slights for Ms. Warren, according to those who were familiar with her thinking, and modeled what she viewed as inadequate leadership and poor coalition building.

Ms. Weingarten said she looked back at the January episode between Ms. Warren and Mr. Sanders as a crucial juncture in their relationship.

“There were a lot of really nasty emojis and tweets and other vituperative and misogynistic comments directed toward Elizabeth, and that was a moment Bernie could have stood really clearly and said, ‘Enough!’” Ms. Weingarten said. “I’m a pretty tough broad and it affected me. And I don’t get affected by this much anymore.”

“The candidates have a role at that moment to step up and provide moral authority,” she added. “People took note.”

“There was a sense of PTSD,” Ms. Weingarten said, harking back to the 2016 primary campaign against Mrs. Clinton.

Did it affect Ms. Warren?

“You can’t discount what happened over the last few months,” Ms. Weingarten said. “Let me just leave it at that.”

Read More on the 2020 Race:
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Astead W. Herndon is a national political reporter based in New York. He was previously a Washington-based political reporter and a City Hall reporter for The Boston Globe. @AsteadWesley

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Italy 24,747 +3,590 1,809 +368 2,335 20,603 1,672 409.3
Iran 13,938 +1,209 724 +113 4,590 8,624 165.9
S. Korea 8,236 +150 75 +3 1,137 7,024 59 160.6
Spain 7,845 +1,454 292 +96 517 7,036 272 167.8
Germany 5,813 +1,214 11 +2 46 5,756 2 69.4
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Senegal 24 2 22 1.4
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Guinea 1 1 0.1
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UK: “As many as 80% of the population are expected to be infected with Covid-19 in the next 12 months, and up to 15% (7.9 million people) may require hospitalization” a secret Public Health England (PHE) briefing for senior NHS officials, seen by the Guardian, reveals

– “A year is entirely plausible. But that figure isn’t well appreciated or understood […] I think it will dip in the summer, towards the end of June, and come back in November, in the way that usual seasonal flu does. I think it will be around forever, but become less severe over time, as immunity builds up,” commented Paul Hunter, an expert in epidemiology
696 new cases in the United States
– All New York City schools will shut down immediately and stay closed for at least 1 month All hospitals will be required to cancel elective surgeries

– Illinois: all bars and restaurants to close to dine-in customers through March 30

– Ohio: all bars and restaurants will close Sunday at 9 p.m. indefinitely ‘This is a once in a lifetime pandemic’ said Gov. Mike DeWine

New deaths include:

– at least 3 new deaths in New York: a 79-year-old woman, a 78-year-old man, and a 53-year-old woman with diabetes and heart disease

– 2 new deaths in King County (WA)

– Death of a female in her 50s in New Jersey

– First death in Oregon: a 70-year-old man in Portland who had tested positive just four days ago and reportedly had other health problems.

New cases include:

– First case in Howard County (MD). County Executive Calvin Ball has declared a state of emergency and announced that The Mall in Columbia and other commercial gathering places will be closed for at least a week

– 32 new cases in King County (WA)

– 2 new cases in Schenectady County (NY), which declares State of Emergency

– First 2 cases in Putnam (NY)

– FIrst case in San Bernardino County (CA): a woman who recently returned from London

– 6 new cases in Suffolk Country (New York)

– 9 new cases in North Carolina, just one day after adding 8. Total now reaches 32

– 4 new cases in Indiana, including the first in Hamilton County. Marion County’s case total has doubled since Saturday from 3 to 6

– 39 new cases and 1 new death in Florida: a 77-year-old from Lee County is the fourth Florida resident to die after testing positive for coronavirus

– 2 new cases in Hawaii (on Maui and Oahu). Details have emerged regarding the latest 2 cases in Kauai: a couple who had traveled from Indiana arriving in Maui on March 2. Shortly after their arrival, one of the visitors developed a fever, shortness of breath and cough and went to an urgent care facility. On March 7, the second visitor also developed symptoms and went to urgent care. A day later, both of the visitors flew to Kauai, staying at the Kauai Marriott, and on March 9, one of the visitors visited again an urgent care facility. Finally, on March 12, the two informed health care workers that they had close contact with an individual who had tested positive for coronavirus. 2 health care workers in Maui and 1 in Kauai are now in self-isolation because they were not wearing protective equipment

– 9 new cases in Utah (Salt Lake County) First case of community spread identified

– 8 new cases in Michigan

– First case in San Luis Obispo County (California): a person over the age of 65 with underlying health conditions who exhibited a fever, cough, and shortness of breath

– 1 new case in Missouri: a person in their 20s who had traveled to Austria

– 2 emergency room doctors (in NJ and WA) are in critical condition after treating patients with COVID-19, according to reports

54 new cases in Canada including:
– 17 new cases in Alberta (3 in Edmonton and 14 in Calgary, with 2 believed to be community spread cases), bringing the total to 56. Alberta is closing all kindergarten-to-Grade-12 schools and daycares in the province

– First case in Kelowna (BC): a passenger on a flight from Vancouver to Kelowna

– 4 in New Brunswick

– 3 in Nova Scotia, all travel-related

– 39 in Ontario marking the biggest single-day increase: 14 in Toronto, 5 in Peel, 5 in Ottawa, 3 in Hamilton, 3 in York Region, 2 in Waterloo, 2 in Durham, 2 in Simcoe-Muskoka, 1 in Niagara, 1 in Haliburton-Kawartha-Pineridge and 1 "pending."

– 3 in Manitoba, a man in his 70s, a woman in her 70s who had recently traveled and a woman in her 50s

– 11 in Québec

1159 new cases in Spain
47 new cases in the Philippines. Today’s deaths:
– a 56-year-old Filipino male who died Sunday night of acute respiratory distress syndrome and reportedly had preexisting asthma

– an 86-year-old American male with travel history from the US and South Korea

– a 40-year-old Filipino male who had no history of travel and no history of exposure prior to the onset of symptoms

– a 64-year-old Filipino male with chronic renal disease who had a history of travel to Greenhills

1 new case in Puerto Rico
3 new cases in Lithuania: all traveled abroad
48 new cases in Czechia
11 new cases in Argentina: a 4-year-old boy from Resistencia who contracted the disease from a relative who tested positive after returning from one of the countries at risk
113 new cases in Norway
27 new cases in Iceland
21 new cases in San Marino
1 new case in Turkey: 7 new cases are from Europe, 3 new cases from the USA, and 2 new cases are relatives of the first case
1 new case in Cameroon: a 34-year-old Cameroonian citizen who arrived from Belgium through Paris. Yesterday, the third case confirmed in the country was a Cameroonian citizen from Italy who arrived on March 7 through Paris. Health Ministry urged passengers of the flights related to the cases to urgently call a dedicated number and quarantine for 14 days
1 new case in Rwanda
36 new cases in Poland
5 new cases in Ecuador
17 new cases in Egypt
13 new cases in Luxembourg, restaurants and cafes close
342 new cases in the United Kingdom. "Getting through this is going to be a national effort. Every single person in this country is going to be affected" said UK’s Health Secretary Matt Hancock, adding that soon every Briton over the age of 70 will be asked to remain at home for up to 4 months and have groceries and vital medication delivered. Wartime-like measures will ask carmakers to produce medical equipment and turn hotels into hospitals
12 new cases in Cyprus
4 new cases in Costa Rica. Ministry of Health announces closure of all bars, clubs, and casinos
838 new cases in France
147 new cases in Sweden
17 new cases in Saudi Arabia
18 new cases in India
5 new cases in Peru
39 new cases in Ireland
11 new cases in Mexico
9 new cases in Iraq: all in the Sulaymaniyah province and connected to each other
12 new cases in Slovakia. State of Emergency declared. All retail stores except food, drugstores, pharmacies, newspapers, post offices, banks, gas stations, and pet food stores will be closed for 14 days. Only necessary surgery will be performed in hospitals. Restaurants will only deliver
2 new cases in Seychelles
924 new cases in Germany
14 new cases in South Africa. President Ramaphosa declares a “National State of Disaster”: a ban is imposed on travel from and to Iran, South Korea, United Kingdom, USA, Germany, Italy and China. In addition to schools being closed and gatherings of more than 100 people prohibited:
– all travellers who have entered South Africa from high-risk countries since mid-February will be required to present themselves for testing

– travellers from medium-risk countries (such as Portugal, Hong Kong and Singapore) will be required to undergo high intensity screening

“Never before in the history of our democracy has our country been confronted with such a severe situation” – President Cyril Ramaphosa

2 new cases in Tunisia: 2 idividuals who had returned from France
3497 new cases in Italy
11 new cases in Serbia
36 new cases in Estonia
70 new cases in Japan
17 new cases in Qatar
12 new cases in Armenia
18 new cases in Chile
50 new cases in Israel: the total number of cases in Israel is now 213, including 18 healthcare workers. The Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic security service, confirmed that it was examining the use of its technological capabilities to fight coronavirus. Netanyahu described the virus as an “invisible enemy that must be located." "In all my years as prime minister I have avoided using these means among the civilian public but there is no choice,” Netanyahu said.
38 new cases in Greece: a 53-year-old man who had been hospitalized for several days
3 new cases in Bosnia and Herzegovina
4 new cases in Sri Lanka: 7 people who had returned from Italy and a 45-year old man who had been in Germany with a previously confirmed case
10 new cases in China, Hong Kong SAR
2 new cases in Kazakhstan including a woman in her 60s whose husband had been previously confirmed positive, and a man in his 20s that had arrived from Seoul
10 new cases in Bulgaria
6 new cases in Moldova including a child. Three are imported cases and 8 are community transmitted cases
28 new cases in Romania
5 new cases in Georgia
9 new cases in Vietnam: a 33-year-old Latvian tourist, a 35-year-old German and a 30-year-old Englishman
151 new cases in Austria
1 new case in Oman: one who had traveled to Italy
8 new cases in Colombia
1 new case in Réunion
14 new cases in Russia
12 new cases in Singapore
40 new cases in Slovenia
7 new cases in Croatia
5 new cases in Pakistan
11 new cases in Hungary
155 new cases in the Netherlands
1st case in Congo: a person who had returned from France
2 new cases in Bahrain
49 new cases in Australia: a 90-year-old woman in Sydney and a 77-year-old woman from Noosaville who passed away after traveling to Sydney by plane
236 new cases in Switzerland
32 new cases in Denmark: an 81-year-old patient
57 new cases in Portugal
4 new cases in Azerbaijan
3 new cases in Brunei Darussalam: Bruneians are barred from traveling out of the country as a measure to contain the importation of new COVID-19 cases into Brunei.
Permission for traveling is only applicable for urgent matters
11 new cases in Morocco
5 new cases in Albania: 2 of the cases are doctors
1365 new cases in Iran
6 new cases in Malta
13 new cases in Algeria: an 84-year-old woman
16 new cases in Lebanon
41 new cases in Malaysia
130 new cases in Belgium
1 new case in Maldives: a foreign national from Anantara Dhigu, and 2 persons from the Island Safari boat
7 new cases in Faeroe Islands
70 new cases in Finland. Tracking numbers is no longer meaningful, because not all of those who have symptoms can be tested, said Asko Järvinen, chief of HUS Infectious Diseases
1s case in the Central African Republic: a 74-year-old Italian who had recently been in Milan
1 new case in Côte d’Ivoire
First 3 cases in Guam: 2 people who had traveled to Guam from Manila, and 1 person with no recent travel history, in their 60s
9 new cases in Latvia
3 new cases in Taiwan
4 new cases in Kuwait
7 new cases in Thailand
27 new cases in Indonesia
4 new cases in Afghanistan
107 new cases in South Korea
20 new cases, 10 new deaths (all in Hubei) and 1,370 new discharges occurred in China on March 14, as reported by the National Health Commission (NHC) of China
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On February 2, a death in the Philippines marked the first death occurring outside of China. It was a 44-year-old Chinese man from Wuhan who was admitted to the hospital on Jan. 25 with fever, cough, and sore throat, developed severe pneumonia but in the last few days “was stable and showed signs of improvement; however, the condition of the patient deteriorated within his last 24 hours resulting in his demise." reported the Philippine Department of Health.
On February 2, China shut down another major city as it closed roads and restricted the movement of residents in Wenzhou, a city with a population of 9 million that is located 800 km away from Wuhan, in Hubei province. The Zhejiang province, where Wenzhou is located, has the highest number of confirmed cases outside the Hubei province.
On February 1, the 8th case in the United States was reported (a male in his 20s, in Boston, MA).
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On January 30, the novel coronavirus total case count surpassed that for SARS (which affected 8,096 people worldwide).
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On January 30 CDC confirmed the first US case of human to human transmission[17].
Germany, Japan, Vietnam and the United States have reported cases in patients who didn’t personally visit China, but contracted the virus from someone else who had visited Wuhan, China[15]. These cases of human to human transmission are the most worrisome, according to the WHO[16].
Wuhan (the city where the virus originated) is the largest city in Central China, with a population of over 11 million people. The city, on January 23, shut down transport links. Following Wuhan lock down, the city of Huanggang was also placed in quarantine, and the city of Ezhou closed its train stations. This means than 18 million people have been placed in isolation. The World Health Organization (WHO) said cutting off a city as large as Wuhan is "unprecedented in public health history."[12] and praised China for its incredible commitment to isolate the virus and minimize the spread to other countries.
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The attack rate or transmissibility (how rapidly the disease spreads) of a virus is indicated by its reproductive number (Ro, pronounced R-nought or r-zero), which represents the average number of people to which a single infected person will transmit the virus.

WHO’s estimated (on Jan. 23) Ro to be between 1.4 and 2.5. [13]

Other studies have estimated a Ro between 3.6 and 4.0, and between 2.24 to 3.58. [23].

Preliminary studies had estimated Ro to be between 1.5 and 3.5. [5][6][7]

An outbreak with a reproductive number of below 1 will gradually disappear.

For comparison, the Ro for the common flu is 1.3 and for SARS it was 2.0.

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The median age of cases detected outside of China is 45 years, ranging from 2 to 74 years.
71% of cases were male.
A study of 138 hospitalized patients with NCIP found that the median age was 56 years (interquartile range, 42-68; range, 22-92 years) and 75 (54.3%) were men.[25]

The WHO, in its Myth busters FAQs, addresses the question: "Does the new coronavirus affect older people, or are younger people also susceptible?" by answering that:

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Older people, and people with pre-existing medical conditions (such as asthma, diabetes, heart disease) appear to be more vulnerable to becoming severely ill with the virus.
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The patient who died in the Philippines on February 2, in what was the first death occurring outside of China, was a 44-year-old Chinese man from Wuhan who was admitted on Jan. 25 after experiencing fever, cough, and sore throat, before developing severe pneumonia. In the last few days, “the patient was stable and showed signs of improvement, however, the condition of the patient deteriorated within his last 24 hours resulting in his demise." according to the Philippine Department of Health.
Serious Cases of 30 year old patients in France
As of Jan. 29, according to French authorities, the conditions of the two earliest Paris cases had worsened and the patients were being treated in intensive care, according to French authorities. The patients have been described as a young couple aged 30 and 31 years old, both Chinese citizens from Wuhan who were asymptomatic when they arrived in Paris on January 18 [19].

Age and Sex of the first deaths as reported by the China National Health Commission (NHC)
The NHC reported the details of the first 17 deaths up to 24 pm on January 22, 2020. The deaths included 13 males and 4 females. The median age of the deaths was 75 (range 48-89) years.[21]

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The Black Sabbath singer also talks about going vegan.

During an appearance on Good Morning Britain, Ozzy Osbourne and his wife/manager Sharon talked about fame, regrets, going vegan, Greta Thunberg, politics, and more.

Ozzy has a new album out titled "Ordinary Man." You can check out a part of the conversation below (transcribed by UG):

Those who’ve never been fortunate enough to be a rock star, walking out to a stadium with 80,000 people going crazy, what is that like?
Ozzy: "When you go on stage and you’ve got that audience in your hand and you can feel that love and vibe, there are no drugs, there is no sex, there is no drink, nothing can come close to that feeling for me. "

What do you think about Meghan and Harry leaving Britain, leaving the royal family?
Sharon: "I am sad for Harry. I am very, very sad for Harry because for me, I don’t think that as a couple they gave it a really good shot because 18 months of marriage and trying to find your place within the Windsor family and within the public’s eye, 18 months isn’t enough."

Ozzy: "The thing is: if Harry and the lady are in love and they like what they’re doing, and they’re happy, fine, but they don’t have to stay anywhere."

Sharon: "He’s left his country and I feel very sad, I really do."

Ozzy: "What do you do there? He’s not gonna be king, he’s just gonna be Prince Harry."

Sharon: "Yeah, but he did a lot of good, he did a lot of those charities."

Jeremy Corbyn, he wanted to be family…
Sharon: "I loathe Jeremy Corbyn. I think that Jeremy is the devil, and I think his party… I loathe him."

What do you make of Boris Johnson?
Sharon: "He’s an eccentric. I don’t like what he’s trying to do with the press, doing the Trump thing, ‘You can come in, you can’t, you can.’ If he starts that, oh, it’s over."

This country, America, can it take four more years of Trump?
Ozzy: "When he wins – I’m sure he’s gonna win now, I don’t think there’s anybody else to get there."

Sharon: "All I know is that he’s taken politics down to a level that I don’t think it should be at. I think that you should be able to debate on the subject, not take personal shots. He shoots from the hip, and the thing is he has done some good things, but as far as a representative, I would rather have Obama."

Ozzy: "He gets things, he gets everybody moving, whether you agree with him or not. I don’t understand politicians, they all should form one big huge rock band and see how they play."

Sharon: "Oh, he’d try anything, Trump, if there is an audience."

What do you make of Greta Thunberg?
Sharon: "She’s amazing."

Ozzy: "She’s cool, but why do we have to go, ‘Oh, we’re listening now,’ when all the adults for ages have been going…"

Sharon: "I think because what she states is: ‘You’re all gonna die, but it’s affecting my generation,’ and I think the world needed that from somebody of her age because you know that she must have a huge army of people behind her."

Ozzy: "She didn’t sound like it comes from her. It’s too well put together for a young kid."

You dabbled with being a vegan for two weeks…
Ozzy: "No, half a day. [Laughs] ‘Oh, Ozzy’s vegan! Oh, he’s vegan!’ Get over it. I thought I might as well join the club but, ‘Ah, screw this, get me a bacon sandwich.’"

Ozzy, do you have any regrets about your life?
"We all have regrets. I regret not taking care of my parents more than I did… That thing I was with different women and whatever, I really regret that. The guy that I am now, forget the injury, I’m not that guy anymore, and Sharon always said this about me, I’ve always tried to better myself."

When you do finally leave this earth – god forbid, hope it’s a very long time to come – but when that comes, what would you like your epitaph to be?
Ozzy: "’Bats taste like shit’."

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AfroFox 150
a day ago · ❤ gold comment
Ozzy makes more sense than Sharon in this interview.
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devilsreject 10
20 hours ago
That’s really saying something about Sharon when Ozzy makes more sense, doesn’t it? Lol
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AfroFox 150
20 hours ago
Iv’e always thought of her as a closet conservative too. The antithesis of rock n roll.
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intwernet [a] 214
a day ago
Bats taste like shit.
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Eissari 1,880
20 hours ago
They do?
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Skullzy [a] 57
a day ago
Once again, like the alien thing, how is it that Ozzy is the most reasonably minded one out there?
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porterm1984 [pro] 30
a day ago
Because he’s so far above tribalism in politics due to his status and he’s too spaced out to fall for all the BS they are shoveling so he sees it for what it all is.
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sheridancaulin [pro] 10
22 hours ago
I never really had a thought about where Ozzy and Sharon must end up on the political spectrum, but I’m honestly not surprised to see a little evidence that they’re pretty middle-of-the-road. Ozzy doesn’t seem to care enough to lean much in either direction and Sharon just seems to have mobility between sides. It’s kind of nice to see considering that every other celebrity is either hard right or hard left.
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MusicVSgenres 10
15 hours ago
I think most sensible people are middle of the road. I would say I hold majority progressive views but am conservative on a couple of things. I do not choose the views which pander to one of the parties, I hold the view which makes sense for me then I see if any party is able to cater to that.
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tanman [a] 120
11 hours ago
I always kind of assumed Ozzy was left leaning because of the lyrics in Under the Sun. And I am only realizing now that I have never bothered to look into who wrote the lyrics…..
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rtlane28 [a] 61
12 hours ago
Sharon is clearly a liberal. Not sure how you can think she’s middle of the road but your assessment of Ozzy is pretty accurate in my opinion.
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sheridancaulin [pro] 10
12 hours ago
I think she sits in the middle mostly because of two comments. There’s not a lot to go by in here, but she seems to pick who she likes based on the person rather than the party. 1.) She said Trump has done some good things, she just preferred Obama. If we want to talk about hard leaning beliefs, most liberals wouldn’t treat the two in such a laissez-faire way. 2.) She loathes Jeremy Corbyn. Corbyn is a part of the Labour Party in the UK which is equivalent to the Democratic party in the US. The labor party often even leans into socialist beliefs, a la Bernie Sanders. So it’s a considerably far left liberal party, as well as all of the representatives in it. She didn’t say she quite liked Boris Johnson either, so that is another good clue that she tends to pick her preferred representatives on an individual basis rather than by party.
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King Bluesy 90
a day ago
Ozzy knows
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zack2k 90
22 hours ago
I’m going to put on my Tombstone: "Ozzy’s right, It needs more than Seasoning."
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JamesMc11 [pro] 190
a day ago
Amazing last words
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AndersVonBlack 330
a day ago
of course Sharon is a tory. boot
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creampuffwar2 [pro] 180
5 hours ago
I thought she was an Osborne
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leon_btd1 [pro] 2,730
23 hours ago
Why is Sharon a tory? Loathing Corbyn does not make her a tory.
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AndersVonBlack 330
23 hours ago
what about her suggests she isn’t a Tory? I doubt she’s green
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leon_btd1 [pro] 2,730
23 hours ago
She does not like Johnson either.
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creampuffwar2 [pro] 180
5 hours ago
Johnson is a dick.
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AndersVonBlack 330
22 hours ago
that’s irrelevant – no one likes Boris haha
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th3.k1dd.31 [pro] 100
19 hours ago
Johnson is the best thing to happen to GB in centuries.
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pakobtv 40
14 hours ago
The last person to enter parliament with honest intentions was Guy Fawkes, mate.
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Sikkii 20
12 hours ago
Well said.
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AndersVonBlack 330
19 hours ago
LOL k.
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soundsabbath [pro] 1,215
21 hours ago
Unfortunatly they do dude
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AndersVonBlack 330
20 hours ago
your probably right.. as shite as he is. oh well, lets put on some Sabbath and move on
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soundsabbath [pro] 1,215
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dsotm89 [pro] 180
16 hours ago
Bacon sandwich, light on the mustard
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th3.k1dd.31 [pro] 100
19 hours ago
Sharon is obviously unhinged. Crazy how Ozzy is the most sane person after all these years. His interviews show he’s still mentally sound.
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leadingbrande1 [pro] 772
14 hours ago
If you’d been married to Ozzy for 37 years, you’d be unhinged too.
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toxicwaltzer 140
22 hours ago
"She didn’t sound like it comes from her. It’s too well put together for a young kid." I don’t expect Ozzy to do everything on his own either. Does that tell anything on his relevance? Every group has a team and a face. Ozzy is the face and he has a team. Both Ozzy and Thunberg started on their own and gathered support. At this level of popularity, no one can do it alone, certainly not Ozzy, certainly not Thunberg. I don’t know what’s wrong about that.
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suicidehummer [a] 236
16 hours ago
It’s also a well-known fact that Greta started this by herself. She was sitting by herself of the streets of her hometown when she started this.
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DanTheHobbit 80
7 hours ago
Furthermore, who’s to say what young folks can and cannot accomplish? I’ve had teachers and professors who didn’t believe that I could write at the level I did until in-class essays and writing assignments proved them wrong. When I took the GRE in my senior year of uni, I ranked in the 95th percentile (the highest possible) for the writing portion. Greta backs up her beliefs with precocious articulation. Yes, that is rare, but it is not impossible. Having provided the world with evidence of her intellectual capacity, she rightfully garners respect. Detractors take snippets and criticize like utter children unable to digest the totality of her stances. That is nothing new, but many critics render her youth itself as suspect. Superfluous. Productive discourse involves genuine and critical analysis. Those who engage in that simply do not garner the same number of clicks when compared to half-wit talking heads eager to hear their own voices.
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fomalhaut.agrv [pro] 34
6 hours ago
You’re kinda mixing some rhetorical details with your point. An artist and a spokesperson aren’t the same. Could be both, of course, but there’s the artist dimension (professional in this case) and the personal dimension. Greta’s persuasion is political, so she’s putting her self on the media through formal discussion instead of aesthetic sensibilities that go further than logos. pd: sorry if my english is confusing btw.
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nincompoop [a] 141
19 hours ago
Sharon is such an NPC
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suicidehummer [a] 236
16 hours ago
I love the oblivious hypocrisy of parroting a buzzword somebody else made up to prove what an original thinker you are.
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nincompoop [a] 141
10 hours ago
shut up stupid idiot
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tanman [a] 120
11 hours ago
I like arguing with you about the Darkenss being a classic rock band, and I like agreeing with you on this.
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toastytone [pro] 340
20 hours ago
Bats taste like shit 😂
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TobusRex [a] 300
a day ago · ☭ communist rebel
Sick of Ozzie and his loser family, every damn one of them.
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danielcotton [a] 73
a day ago
This is such a weird thing to say.
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D.Phoenix 10
23 hours ago
Charming.
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RedDevil07 [a] 207
19 hours ago
Then why did you click on the article?
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APKD 40
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He clicked on the article to say this.
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Slap-happy 120
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It’s okay, I heard he doesn’t like you much, either.
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unjo88 60
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May you get an incurable case of erectile dysfunction and fart uncontrollably
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rory.bryson [pro] 10
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Ozzy is spot on with those responses.
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jivib28404 10
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NICE
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scrotypole 10
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cool
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MusicVSgenres 10
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Put your finger in me arse. I’m a 55 year old white man from Birmingham like Ozzy. Oh no what have I said, I must be dreaming. Am I going insane? What is happening here?
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scrotypole 10
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leadingbrande1 [pro] 772
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Ozzy for president!
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dennis.1960 [a] 297
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Cthulhu for President…why settle for the lesser evil?
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creampuffwar2 [pro] 180
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we’d still be settling for the lesser evil
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creampuffwar2 [pro] 180
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didn’t we already go through this? Ozzy still can’t be president.
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APKD 40
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His grave should say "thanks for making me famous post Malone" Hopefully his music will be as memorable as post Malone’s.
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Sikkii 20
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The guy is obviously being sarcastic.
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rtlane28 [a] 61
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I seriously doubt Post Malone will be relevant in 10 years let alone 50 years…..
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APKD 40
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pfft ya sure bud, how old is this ozzy guy 90? and people are just finding out about him now? LOL
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*Bob Daisley
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When 200,000 people took to the streets of Philadelphia, the Spanish flu of 1918 found a foothold.
TALE OF TWO CITIES
This chart of the 1918 Spanish flu shows why social distancing works
March 11, 2020

By Michael J. Coren
Climate reporter

In 1918, the city of Philadelphia threw a parade that killed thousands of people. Ignoring warnings of influenza among soldiers preparing for World War I, the march to support the war effort drew 200,000 people who crammed together to watch the procession. Three days later, every bed in Philadelphia’s 31 hospitals was filled with sick and dying patients, infected by the Spanish flu.

By the end of the week, more than 4,500 were dead in an outbreak that would claim as many as 100 million people worldwide. By the time Philadelphia’s politicians closed down the city, it was too late.

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A different story played out in St. Louis, just 900 miles away. Within two days of detecting its first cases among civilians, the city closed schools, playgrounds, libraries, courtrooms, and even churches. Work shifts were staggered and streetcar ridership was strictly limited. Public gatherings of more than 20 people were banned.

The extreme measures—now known as social distancing, which is being called for by global health agencies to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus—kept per capita flu-related deaths in St. Louis to less than half of those in Philadelphia, according to a 2007 paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The concept of “flattening the curve” is now a textbook public health response to epidemics, including the spread of Covid-19. Once a virus can no longer be contained, the goal is to slow its spread. Exponential growth in infections leaves health care systems struggling to handle the surge. But with fewer people sick at once (and overall), services aren’t overwhelmed and deaths diminish. This buys time for doctors to treat the flood of patients and researchers to develop vaccines and antiviral therapies.

But it wasn’t always this way, says Richard Hatchett, a physician and head of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations in London, who co-authored the 2007 paper. Social distancing interventions were not always trusted, he wrote in an email; they were widely ignored during flu pandemics in 1957 and 1968. But in the 2000s, several papers including Hatchett’s reanalyzed Spanish flu data to show the efficacy of distancing measures—and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention later incorporated them into their outbreak guidance.

The key to effective social distancing, though, is timing.

“I think the critical lesson from both the modeling and the historical work is that the benefits of multiple interventions are greatest if they are introduced early (before 1% of the population is infected) and maintained,” wrote Hatchett, who has also directed medical preparedness in the Obama White House. Distancing measures are less effective once more people have contracted the virus, especially in cases where the vast majority of people are not sick enough to need medical attention.

This outbreak is one of those cases. Only 19% of confirmed cases of Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, become severely or critically ill, reports the CDC. Those with mild symptoms (or none at all) may easily pass the virus on to vulnerable people, particularly those who are older or have pre-existing health conditions. “You can compare the outcomes in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan, which used such interventions aggressively from the very start, with what happened in Wuhan and what is happening now in Iran and Italy,” wrote Hatchett. “There is no reason to expect the virus to behave differently in Europe and the US than it has in Asia.”

China and Italy may have waited too long; both were forced to take drastic steps weeks after the first cases were discovered. China’s government locked down nearly 60 million people in Hubei province while restricting travel for hundreds of millions of others. Now Italy is banning public gatherings and imposing travel restrictions for 60 million citizens, a first for a modern democracy.

In the US, these restrictions are just beginning. New York state has closed large gathering spaces and deployed National Guard to disinfect buildings and deliver food in a “containment zone” in New Rochelle just north of New York City.

But social distancing doesn’t have to be draconian. South Korea has adopted a modern version of the St. Louis model; the country never locked its citizens down or quarantined entire cities, but has still managed to slow the spread of the new coronavirus. In recent days, new infections have leveled off thanks in part to thousands of free daily tests and a coordinated government effort that closed schools, canceled public events, and supported flexible working arrangements. “Without harming the principle of a transparent and open society,” South Korea’s Vice Health Minister Kim Gang-lip told journalists in the South China Morning Post, “we recommend a response system that blends voluntary public participation with creative applications of advanced technology.”

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USCIS to launch nationwide telework program amid coronavirus spread
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2 hours ago

More agencies are launching, expanding or loosening prior restrictions on telework, as COVID-19, the illness caused by the current strain of the coronavirus, reached a “pandemic” levels Wednesday.

The U.S. Customs and Immigration Services will implement a nationwide “remote work program,” the agency said in a March 9 letter to the American Federation of Government Employees.

Though USCIS’ telework announcement certainly coincides with growing concerns over COVID-19, the agency’s letter makes no mention of the coronavirus. The launch of a nationwide telework program stems from the agency’s collective bargaining agreements with AFGE, Judy McLaughlin, chief of USCIS’ Labor and Employee Relations Division, said.

“The agency is seeking to establish effective and efficient remote work arrangements to
support a more flexible and agile work environment without diminishing employee performance
or mission accomplishment,” McLaughlin’s letter reads. “The focus and purpose of this change is to establish protocols for effective and efficient remote work agreements as the agency moves toward building a more flexible work environment.”

USCIS management will determine who is eligible for telework, McLaughlin added.

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The agency gave no timeline for when it would implement such a telework program. USCIS did not respond to requests for comment.

As the coronavirus has spread, other agencies have continued to expand or loosen telework requirements in local federal facilities.

The Social Security Administration has reinstated telework and alternative work schedule conditions at select hearing and regional offices in Seattle, Washington, and New York, AFGE said in an email to Federal News Network.

Telework and alternative work schedules are back on at the SSA hearing offices in White Plains, New York, and Seattle. The same is true for several other SSA offices in Seattle, including the agency’s hearings operations regional office, the Office of General Counsel and Office of Quality Review, AFGE said.

The union said SSA hasn’t responded to its requests to reinstate telework at all SSA field and regional offices across the country. The agency implemented a wide variety of changes and cuts to its telework program earlier this month.

The Environmental Protection Agency’s New York division on Tuesday announced unscheduled telework and leave for employees at its New York City office, effective March 10 through March 23.

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“We feel this is a prudent action to protect our workforce from unnecessary risk, and to support our local partners in minimizing the spread of COVID-19,” Pete Lopez, the New York regional EPA administrator, said in a message to employees. “Unscheduled leave and unscheduled telework may be used in conjunction with other leave, as appropriate. We are also reviewing non-essential travel.”

The EPA’s New York City office is still open, and employees are welcome to continue commuting to work, Lopez said. Some EPA employees will be expected to report to the facility anyway to maintain the building and equipment.

“Please work with your supervisor regarding your specific circumstances,” Lopez said. “If you have a telework agreement in place but do not have your laptop and other materials necessary for telework with you, please come into the office to retrieve them and meet with your supervisor before beginning unscheduled telework.”

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is urging all employees to prepare for the possibility of telework but isn’t directing it at this time.

Employees who aren’t currently on a telework plan can fill out a temporary agreement, the FDIC said Tuesday in an email to employees, which the National Treasury Employees Union published.

“Supervisors have been authorized to be flexible in approving telework requests for employees, including requests from employees who might not otherwise be eligible to participate in telework under current FDIC policy,” the agency’s email reads.

At the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 74% of its workforce have telework agreements, David Wright, the NRC commissioner, told the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Wednesday.

“We’re actively engaged on that issue,” Wright said of his agency’s telework program.

When it comes to telework, Congress is attempting to put more guardrails in place around agency programs.

Sens. Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), along with Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), have introduced the Telework Metrics and Cost Savings Act. The bill would require agencies to set clear goals on telework participation and then report the cost-savings and other performance metrics.

Any widespread, across-the-board changes to agency telework programs must be justified to Congress.

The legislation already has a House companion, which Reps. Gerry Connolly and Jennifer Wexton (D-Va.) introduced last week.

“Thanks to years of implementation in the federal government, we know that telework increases productivity, boosts employee morale and saves taxpayer dollars,” Cardin said Wednesday in a statement. “Emergencies such as the coronavirus outbreak make it clear that workers also may need the option to work from home for safety purposes. We already have the technology to make expanded telework feasible. What we need is for federal agencies to move in the right direction, expanding telework options rather than contracting them.”

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