Donald Trump, the coronavirus Update Today
The latest on the pandemic
–According to Johns Hopkins data, the number of worldwide cases of coronavirus has reached 200,000.
-France, Spain and Italy are on lockdown; Americans have been told to limit gatherings to 10 people.
-Four members of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets have tested positive for the virus, including Kevin Durant.
-Once the hot spot for the virus, China has slowly started to return to normalcy as the number of domestic infections fall.
-The White House and members of Congress have proposed direct cash payments to Americans as people lose jobs and paychecks, but the Senate is yet to pass a smaller bill to fight the virus negotiated by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the White House.
Meet Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. coronavirus point man who helped save the world from AIDS
He knew at once that something was amiss. “Five young men, all active homosexuals, were treated for biopsy-confirmed Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia at three different hospitals in Los Angeles, California. Two of the patients died,” read the opening of the now infamous Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for June 5, 1981.
“I started to get goose pimples,” Dr. Anthony S. Fauci would later recall. Then a young epidemiologist with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which he now directs, Fauci grasped well before many of his peers that HIV/AIDS, which would kill all five of the men in Los Angeles, was going to kill many more. And even as many in the Reagan administration downplayed the disease as a “gay cancer” that did not deserve the attention of the medical establishment, Fauci understood with tragic clarity that HIV/AIDS was not going to discriminate over its victims.
