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Hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial drug
President Trump encouraged as a treatment for covid-19 patients, is
not only ineffective but significantly increases the risk of death
for some, new evidence suggests.
“Alarmed by a growing cache of data linking the anti-malaria
drug to serious cardiac problems, some drug safety
experts are now calling for even more forceful action by the
government to discourage its use,” The Post reported. Read
about how some of those experts
are calling for the Food and Drug Administration to revoke the
emergency authorization it granted for use of the drug during Trump's
sales pitches.
But hydroxychloroquine has already become a cure-all in the
minds of some Americans who hoarded it. This week an
anti-quarantine protester in Long Island pursued a local news
reporter trying to keep his distance. “I’ve
got hydroxychloroquine, I’m fine!” the man said.
Trump has stopped talking about hydroxychloroquine and moved
on to promoting a White House effort to invent, test and manufacture
coronavirus vaccines for hundreds of millions of people by January.
The president unveiled his “Operation Warp Speed” program on Friday,
but scientists are skeptical it can deliver so quickly, when vaccines
typically take years to make. “The
leading candidates in the U.S. effort so far are an experiment in
every sense of the word, drawing on exciting new technologies that
have never before been used in an approved vaccine,” The Post
reported.
In somewhat more encouraging scientific news, new research
from Harvard and MIT suggests that warm, humid summer weather will
slow the virus's spread. But it won't halt it — “even
in summer, most people live their lives indoors,”
The Post's health desk noted in a story on the findings — and any
summertime decline in infections could be followed by a resurgence in
the fall.
Many states attempting to reopen their economies have no
“circuit breakers” in their plans — no benchmarks
that would require them to reimpose restrictions if infections spike.
That's already proving problematic in Texas, which reported its
highest single-day death toll two weeks after it began to reopen. Read
our story to see which states lack contingency plans.
Other
important news
Read
the federal government's threadbare guidance document for schools and
day-care programs considering reopening. “It’s not what the CDC
had intended to issue,” we wrote, “but it’s what the White House
allowed.”
After managing to quash its outbreak with a remarkably low death
toll, New
Zealand is beginning to emerge from a 46-day lockdown.
Black activists are
distributing masks and hand sanitizer in communities across the
country where government has fallen short.
House Democrats on Friday passed a massive new round of stimulus
funding that would direct $3 trillion into every corner of the
economy. But
the bill is strongly opposed by Republicans.
The 118-year-old department store chain J.C. Penney filed for
bankruptcy on Friday, becoming
the latest retail giant to go under during the pandemic.
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“How is the pandemic affecting populations of slum
[residents] across the world?”
— Kitty S. in New Mexico
So far, the novel coronavirus has spread widely through wealthy
countries in Europe and North America but spared much of the
developing world, where poor infrastructure and crowded neighborhoods
make people especially vulnerable to infection.
Epidemiologists fear that is about the change.
“In three to six weeks, Europe and America will continue in the
throes of this — but there is no doubt the center will move to places
like Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro and Monrovia,” Ashish Jha,
director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, told The Post in
late March. “We need to be very worried.”
We're already seeing signs of spread in poverty and
violence-stricken Haiti, where a man who lives in a house made of
wood and sheet metal told The Post this week: “We do not have a
health center in our neighborhood. We do not know which hospital
receives people who are sick with corona. For cholera, we knew where
to go, but now no.”
In
the same story, the co-director of Haiti's presidential
commission on the novel coronavirus said people are threatening to
burn down the homes of those suspected of having the disease. “This
epidemic is a tinderbox in the process of burning and will explode in
the coming weeks,” he said.
And as we mentioned in yesterday's newsletter, the
pandemic's economic consequences are devastating the world's poor
— even in places where the virus hasn't widely spread.
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Today’s top reads
Find more stories, analysis and op-eds about the outbreak on
our coronavirus
page, including:
- Former president
Barack Obama was scheduled to deliver commencement speeches to
HBCU and high school students
- Seven small nations
that could provide examples to more powerful countries on how to
fight the pandemic
- What you need to know
about debt relief on student loans
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Coronavirus pushes a man to a food pantry line for
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