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It will depend on the wattage of your computer & other appliances, and where you live.from http://www.energysavers.gov/your_home/appliances/index.cfm/mytopic=10040Typical Wattages of Various AppliancesHere are some examples of the range of nameplate wattages for various household appliances:Aquarium = 50–1210 WattsClock radio = 10Coffee maker = 900–1200Clothes washer = 350–500Clothes dryer = 1800–5000Dishwasher = 1200–2400 (using the drying feature greatly increases energy consumption)Dehumidifier = 785Electric blanket- Single/Double = 60 / 100FansCeiling = 65–175Window = 55–250Furnace = 750Whole house = 240–750Hair dryer = 1200–1875Heater (portable) = 750–1500Clothes iron = 1000–1800Microwave oven = 750–1100Personal computerCPU - awake / asleep = 120 / 30 or lessMonitor - awake / asleep = 150 / 30 or lessLaptop = 50Radio (stereo) = 70–400Refrigerator (frost-free, 16 cubic feet) = 725Televisions (color)19" = 65–11027" = 11336" = 13353"-61" Projection = 170Flat screen = 120Toaster = 800–1400Toaster oven = 1225VCR/DVD = 17–21 / 20–25Vacuum cleaner = 1000–1440Water heater (40 gallon) = 4500–5500Water pump (deep well) = 250–1100Water bed (with heater, no cover) = 120–380And here is grams of CO2 per kwh of electricity by state (US avg = 632 gCO2/kWh):Alabama 679Alaska 227Arizona 597Arkansas 464California 330Colorado 858Connecticut 424Delaware 520District of Columbia 518Florida 601Georgia 679Hawaii 697Idaho 411Illinois 701Indiana 701Iowa 831Kansas 894Kentucky 689Louisiana 464Maine 424Maryland 520Massachusetts 424Michigan 713Minnesota 831Mississippi 679Missouri 835Montana 411Nebraska 831Nevada 411New Hampshire 424New Jersey 520New Mexico 597New York 467North Carolina 518North Dakota 831Ohio 701Oklahoma 755Oregon 411Pennsylvania 520Rhode Island 424South Carolina 518South Dakota 831Tennessee 689Texas 603Utah 411Vermont 424Virginia 518Washington 411West Virginia 701Wisconsin 837Wyoming 411This is not perfect carbon intensity data, there are certainly assumptions that factor into producing state average but it can at least give you an idea of the range and relative "dirtiness" of energy across states.It's best to manage your overall electricity consumption (or even better, to look at your whole carbon footprint). I of course recommend our CoolClimate carbon footprint calculator http://coolclimate.berkeley.edu/uscalc, which is backed by a peer-reviewed paper published this year in the Environmental Science & Technology journal.Citation: Jones, Kammen "Quantifying Carbon Footprint Reduction Opportunities for U.S. Households and Communities" ES&T, 2011, 45 (9), pp 4088–4095 DOI: 10.1021/es102221hSupporting online materials (publicly available): https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0BwI9ptFQU1QiM2IzNWE0YTQtNjY4NS00MzM5LWFkZDUtOWNkY2NkNTMxOTM4&hl=en_USJournal article summary (UC Berkeley press release): http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/04/13/when-it-comes-to-carbon-footprints-location-and-lifestyle-matter/

In the United States, we do not have orphanages. We have foster care, where children live with families. The closest we come are group homes, which is where teenagers sometimes live due to a shortage of foster parents or because the youth have complex mental health issues that make them hard to place.The state pays the fosrer parents an alottment and provides health coverage. In addition, some places offer special rates or priorities for foster children. They also get coats, clothes, Christmas toys, etc as part of being foster kids.There are frequent lawsuits brought against states because they pay so little to foster families.The state-by-state breakdown is not from an official site, so may not be totally accurate or out-of-date, but you get a general idea. Getting Paid to Be a Foster Parent: State-By-State Monthly GuideAlabama: $490Alaska: $720Arizona: $828Arkansas; $480California: $657Colorado: $475Connecticut: $835Delaware: $580D.C.: $880Florida: $484Georgia: $479Hawaii: $590Idaho: $382Illinois: $424Indiana: Each county sets an individual scale; there is no statewide rate. Foster parents can negotiate with their county director.Iowa: $585Kansas: $640Kentucky: $618Louisiana: $620Maine: $598Maryland: $760Massachusetts: $595Michigan: $474Minnesota: $640Mississippi: $418Missouri: $321Montana: $485Nebraska: $345Nevada: $620New Hampshire: $483New Jersey: $518New Mexico: $495New York: Each of 58 local districts is allowed to set its own rates. The state only determines the maximum amounts it will reimburse to the local districts; there is no minimum. Maximum state aid rates for Metro/Upstate are $560 (average).North Carolina: $432North Dakota: $390Ohio: Each county sets its own minimum and maximum Ohio: Each county sets its own minimum and maximum per diem (day) rates, which range from $10.00 to $118.00 per day.Oklahoma; $540Oregon: $415Pennsylvania: Varies for all areas.Rhode Island: $510South Carolina: $420South Dakota: $489Tennessee: $660Texas: $690Utah: $495Vermont: $610Virginia: $430Washington: $470West Virginia: $505The state does not pay for college. It is still possible to get financial aid, and there are scholarships available specifically for foster children,. There are also programs to help with housing and job training. They vary dramatically state-by-state. For the most part, however, foster kids are on their own once they reach age 18.

(I’m not sure why but my answer has been deleted, collapsed several times after I first published this in March. I hope to present the early facts in a chronological order.If you appreciate my effort at providing factual reporting on this pandemic please share it)Chronology is important to retain a logical sense of this crisis. I noticed people are passing out misinformation - half-truths - about this virus. For example, they say that China covered up the crisis in January. To an extent, that might be true. There was some reports that indicated that Chinese doctors were aware of this virus in December and they were not allowed to discuss the threat of this publicly. This does not seem to be a “cover up” but more due to bureaucratic procedure. Tests had to be performed to determine if this was a novel virus, and whether it was infectious.If you dig deeper and examine the facts dispassionately, you will note that the Chinese medical authorities confirmed that this new virus could pass human to human transmission on January 20th, 2020. So to say, the Chinese govt covered this up in January is false.To understand this pandemic and make sense of it, you have got to view this in a chronological time order.The virus is novel - i.e., it is new. No one has seen anything like it. No one has immunity to it. The last time humanity experienced something as ferocious as this was 100 years ago during the “Spanish flu” pandemic (which probably originated from Kansas, America). It killed more people than the Great War.Thankfully, as of April 2020, this new virus is not as deadly. Most people who catch it will survive. Children don’t seem to suffer too much. Thankfully, very few children have died from it. Most of the fatalities are people in their 80s. Many people who have the virus show little symptoms of it and require no serious medical treatment. And this may have confused people whether this was truly infectious.Unfortunately, this new virus occurred during winter in China, doctors who first saw patients would have assumed it was just a flu. And who could blame them?People who have it may show no symptoms for 14 days. It was also highly infectious. But because of the long incubation period, and the fact that some people showed no sign of infection - confused people.So here we go.Forbes/ ABC News:The White House’s National Security Council, the Pentagon’s Joint Staff and the Defense Intelligence Agency were all briefed on the impacts of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China, as early as late November, according to ABC News, citing four unnamed sources familiar with a classified intelligence report. The briefing, if true, adds to mounting evidence that the U.S. government could have acted much sooner to contain the virus.An intelligence report from the military’s National Center for Medical Intelligence in November, compiled through wire and computer interception and satellite imagery, reportedly concluded that an outbreak of the virus “could be a cataclysmic event.”ABC's sources also noted that the report was available for anyone with intelligence clearance and other community bulletins were being shared across the government around Thanksgiving, following the release of the report.Dec. 26th, four cases of unusual pneumonia were logged by a hospital in Wuhan.Dec. 27th, the treating doctor reported it to the local CDC in China.Dec 30th Ai Fen, director of Wuhan Central Hospital’s emergency department, told Chinese magazine People that a colleague sent her a diagnostic report in late December of a worrying infection that mirrored severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), according to the South China Morning Post.Ai shared a picture of the report on a WeChat group on December 30, and then its members circulated that photo more widely. Whistleblower Doctor - he was an eye doctor - Li Wenliang 34, who was silenced by Chinese officials and then died of the COVID-19 virus, was part of that group.Ai said she also gave hospital authorities a heads-up about the virus.I even grabbed our hospital respiratory department director, who happened to be passing my office, and told him that one of his patients was confirmed to have been infected with a SARS-like virus,” Ai said to People magazine.The next day, hospital leaders told Ai that Wuhan’s health commission had forbidden frontline medical workers from saying anything about the virus in a bid to avoid panic.Ai said she was also censured by a hospital official, who accused her of “spreading rumours,” the Post reported. She was ordered to not speak about it even to her husband and to inform her staff members that they were not permitted to publicly disclose any information about the illness.“My mind just went blank,” Ai told the magazine. “He wasn’t criticising me for not working hard … He made me feel that I alone had ruined the future of Wuhan. I was in despair.”One week later, a hospital nurse, Hu Ziwei, fell sick, Ai said.“How could I refrain from discussions with my medical colleagues knowing that a new and significant virus had emerged? I followed my intuition as a doctor so what mistakes did I make?” Ai wondered.Evidence of human-to-human transmissionIt has been widely reported that the coronavirus originated in a wet market in Wuhan, and Ai said initial patients were in some ways linked to the market. But, soon that trend changed, and more family clusters began to show up.“If there’s no people-to-people transmission, why did the patients continue to increase after the Huanan market was closed?” Ai said.Dec 31st, Wuhan Health Commission notified China CDC and the WHO. The WHO promptly alerted the world.On December 31 last year, China alerted WHO to several cases of unusual pneumonia in Wuhan, a port city of 11 million people in the central Hubei province. The virus was unknown.Several of those infected worked at the city's Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, which was shut down on January 1.As health experts worked to identify the virus amid growing alarm, the number of infections exceeded 40.On January 5, Chinese officials ruled out the possibility that this was a recurrence of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) virus - an illness that originated in China and killed more than 770 people worldwide in 2002-2003.January 8th NYT reported:Chinese researchers say they have identified a new virus behind an illness that has infected dozens of people across Asia, setting off fears in a region that was struck by a deadly epidemic 17 years ago.First US case of coronavirus reported in Washington State.There is no evidence that the new virus is readily spread by humans, which would make it particularly dangerous, and it has not been tied to any deaths. But health officials in China and elsewhere are watching it carefully to ensure that the outbreak does not develop into something more severe.Researchers in China have “initially identified” the new virus, a coronavirus, as the pathogen behind a mysterious pneumonia illness that infected 59 people in Wuhan city and caused a panic in the central Chinese region, the state broadcaster, China Central Television, said on Thursday. They detected this virus in 15 of the people who fell ill, the report said.January 7, Chinese officials announced they had identified a new virus, according to the WHO. The novel virus was named 2019-nCoV and was identified as belonging to the coronavirus family, which includes SARS and the common cold.Coronaviruses are common and spread through being close to an infected person and inhaling droplets generated when they cough or sneeze, or touching a surface where these droplets land and then touching one's face or nose.January 11, China announced its first deathfrom the virus, a 61-year-old man who had purchased goods from the seafood market. Treatment did not improve his symptoms after he was admitted to hospital and he died of heart failure on the evening of January 9.January 13, the WHO reported a case in Thailand, the first outside of China, in a woman who had arrived from Wuhan.January 16, Japan's health ministry reported a confirmed case in a man who had also visited Wuhan.January 17, as a second death was reported in Wuhan, health authorities in the US announced that three airports would start screening passengers arriving from the city.Authorities in the United States, Nepal, France, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Vietnam and Taiwan confirmed cases over the following days.January 19, BBC reports:The new Chinese virus which has already spread abroad "is still preventable and controllable", China National Health Commission warned, however, that close monitoring was needed given the source, transmission and mutation methods were unknown.On January 20, China reported a third death and more than 200 infections, with cases also reported outside Hubei province including in the capital Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen.January 20th, Zhong Nanshan, a respiratory expert and head of the national health commission team investigating the outbreak, confirmed that two cases of infection in China’s Guangdong province had been caused by human-to-human transmission and medical staff had been infected, China’s official Xinhua news agency said on Monday. (Guardian Jan20,2020)"Currently, it can be said it is affirmative that there is the phenomenon of human-to-human transmission," Zhong Nanshan, head of the National Health Commission, expert respiratory infections, interview with China's CCTV state broadcaster, January 20, 2020.Zhong said two people in Guangdong province, southern China caught the disease from family members who had visited Wuhan.Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore ramped up measures to block the spread of the virus, introducing mandatory screenings at airports of all arrivals from high-risk areas of China.January 20, Eric Feigl-Ding, a Harvard-affiliated public-health researcher who lives in Washington, D.C., read a paper about the new virus spreading out of Wuhan, China. The paper estimated that the virus’s contagiousness, which is captured in a variable called R0 was 3.8—meaning that every person who caught the disease would give it to almost 4 other people. The paper cautioned that there was “considerable uncertainty associated with the outbreak,” . Feigl-Ding said, “I read that 3.8 value and tweeted:“HOLY MOTHER OF GOD—the new coronavirus is a 3.8!! How bad is that reproductive R0 value? It is thermonuclear pandemic level bad—never seen an actual virality coefficient outside of Twitter in my entire career. I’m not exaggerating.”(In January 28, Alexis C. Madrigal, Atlantic online magazine, mocked Feigi-Ding - claiming he exaggerated the problem in an article entitled,“How to Misinform Yourself About the Coronavirus: Even if you avoid the conspiracy theories, tweeting through a global emergency is messy, context-free, and disorienting.”)January 21, Dr. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, appeared on television to reassure the public that the Wuhan coronavirus was not worth worrying about:GREG KELLY: Bottom line. We don’t have to worry about this one right?FAUCI: Well obviously we have to take it seriously and follow the things the CDC an DHS are doing but this is not a major threat to the people of the United States and this is not something that the citizens of the United States right now should be worried about.January 22, the death toll in China jumped to 17 with more than 550 infections. Many European airports stepped up checks on flights from Wuhan.Wuhan was placed under quarantine on January 23 as air and rail departures were suspended.The same measures were announced for two more cities in Hubei province: Xiantao and Chibi.Beijing cancelled events for the Lunar New Year, starting on January 25, while officials reported the first death outside Hubei.The WHO said later on January 23 that the outbreak did not yet constitute a public emergency of international concern and there was "no evidence" of the virus spreading between humans outside of China.January 22nd: Trump is asked about the coronavirus at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Days earlier the first case of the coronavirus was detected in the U.S., in a man who had returned to Seattle from a trip to China earlier in January.“No, not at all. We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control,” Trump told CNBC. “It’s going to be just fine.”By January 24, the death toll in China stood at 26, with the government reporting more than 830 infections.The number of cities under lockdown in Hubei rose to 13, affecting 41 million people.Shanghai Disneyland shut down and other cities announced the closure of entertainment venues. Beijing said a section of the Great Wall and other famous landmarks would also be closed.On January 25, travel restrictions were imposed on a further five cities in Hubei, taking the overall number of people affected to 56 million.Hong Kong meanwhile declared a virus emergency, cancelled Lunar New Year celebrations and restricted links to mainland China.On January 26, the death toll rose to 56, with almost 2,000 cases confirmed as travel restrictions were increased and Hong Kong closed its Disneyland and Ocean Park theme parks.New cases were confirmed in the US, Taiwan, Thailand, Japan and South Korea.As of January 27, the death toll in China rose to 106, with 100 in Hubei province, authorities reported. Another 4,515 people in China were reported to be infected. There were 2,714 confirmed cases in Hubei province, up from 1,423 the day before.January 27, in a live TV interview the Australian Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy said:We don't believe that there is any reason to cancel any public gatherings. There is no evidence of human to human transmission in Australia. Were there evidence of human to human transmission, that's a very different matter.QUESTION: The Chinese Health Commission is now saying that people can be contagious during the incubation period. Is that something that you accept and does it change your response at all?BRENDAN MURPHY: Again, the expert panels that met later today were not convinced of that at the moment. They were not convinced that evidence is being presented. It would be very unusual because this virus is similar to the SARS and MERS viruses and they were not infectious before symptoms. And the evidence that we've seen doesn't suggest there's clear proof of that. But we're urgently seeking urgent advice from the World Health Organization and international experts because if that were to be the case, it would have implications for how we do contact tracing.On January 30, the WHO, the WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION, DECLARED CORONA VIRUS A GLOBAL EMERGENCY as the death toll in China jumped to 170, with 7,711 cases reported in the country, where the virus had spread to all 31 provinces.India and the Philippines confirmed their first cases of the virus, with one infected patient in each country.January 30th: Trump addresses the coronavirus during a speech on trade in Michigan.“We think we have it very well under control,” Trump said. “We have very little problem in this country at this moment — five — and those people are all recuperating successfully. But we’re working very closely with China and other countries, and we think it’s going to have a very good ending for us.”“Hopefully it won’t be as bad as some people think it could be,” he added.January 31, the number of confirmed cases in China jumped to 9,809. Russia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom confirmed their first cases of the virus.January 30, Australia Medical Ass. President, Dr Tony Bartone, in an interview“we have already instituted significant measures to ensure and protect the safety of the Australian public. … We don't need a 600-bed hospital. We just need somewhere where we can house, monitor, and isolate, with the same self-isolation practicalities that we're expecting everyone else to take part in if they have returned from Hubei in past 14 days.”On February 1, the death toll in China rose to 259, with 11,791 confirmed infections in the country, according to new figures released by the Chinese health authorities.New cases were confirmed in Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, Singapore, the US, the UAE and Vietnam.As of February 2, the first death outside China, of a Chinese man from Wuhan, was reported in the Philippines.The death toll in China rose to 304, with 14,380 infections reported.On February 3, China reported 57 new deaths, bringing its death toll to at least 361. The number of cases rose to 17,205 across the country.On February 4, China said the death toll rose to 425 people and the number of infected people stood at 20,438 in the mainland. Hong Kong also reported one death, bringing global deaths to 427. The first case was confirmed in Belgium in a person who was repatriated from Wuhan.On February 5, more flights evacuating US citizens returned from Wuhan and the WHO reaffirmed there was "no known effective treatment" for the coronavirus.Meanwhile, China reported 490 deaths and 24,324 cases of infection.On February 6, the death toll in mainland China rose to at least 563, with more than 28,000 cases confirmed.Meanwhile, authorities in Malaysia reported the country's first known human-to-human transmission and the number of people infected in Europe reached 30.On February 7, Li Wenliang, a doctor who was among the first to sound the alarm over the coronavirus, died. Hong Kong introduced prison sentences for anyone breaching quarantine rules.Mainland China confirmed the death toll had reached at least 636, with 31,161 cases of infection and Chinese researchers suggested the pangolin may have been one link in the chain of animal-human infections.On February 8, a US citizen died in Wuhan.A Japanese man in his 60s with a suspected coronavirus infection also died in hospital in Wuhan, Japan's foreign ministry said.The death toll in China reached 722, with 34,546 confirmed infections.On February 9, the death toll in China surpassed that of the 2002-03 SARS epidemic, with 811 deaths recorded and 37,198 infections.An investigative team led by experts from the WHO departed for China.As of February 10, China had 908 confirmed deaths and a total of 40,171 infections - 97 new deaths were reported following the deadliest day of the outbreak.President Xi Jinping appeared in public for the first time since the epidemic began, visiting a hospital in Beijing and urging confidence in the battle against the virus.February 10th: Trump says the coronavirus will be gone by the end of the spring while speaking with reporters in the White House.“Now, the virus that we’re talking about having to do — you know, a lot of people think that goes away in April with the heat, as the heat comes in. Typically, that will go away in April. We’re in great shape, though. We have 12 cases, 11 cases, and many of them are in good shape now.”Days later, Centers for Disease Control Director Robert Redfield estimates the “virus is probably with us beyond this season and beyond this year.”On February 11, the WHO announced that the new corona virus would be called "COVID-19".Meanwhile, deaths in China reached 1,016, with 42,638 infections recorded.As of February 12, there were 175 people infected on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship, docked at Yokohama, the Japanese health ministry said.The death toll in mainland China hit 1,113, with 44,653 infections recorded.On February 13, North Korea imposed a month-long quarantine on all foreign visitors and others suspected to have COVID-19, the official Korean Central News Agency said.The death toll in mainland China hit 1,300, with nearly 60,000 infections recorded. Meanwhile, Japan confirmed its first death from the virus.On February 14, Egypt became the first country in Africa to report a case and France reported Europe's first death from the virus.China reported 121 more deaths, bringing to the total number across the mainland to nearly 1,400.February 14th: President Trump says:, “There’s a theory that, in April, when it gets warm, historically, that has been able to kill the virus,” he said while speaking to the National Border Patrol Council. “So we don’t know yet. We’re not sure yet. But that’s around the corner.”February 15 - death toll in mainland China surge past 1,500, with 66,492 infections confirmed in mainland China.Elsewhere, the US prepared to evacuate its citizens from a cruise ship quarantined at a Japanese dock.February 16 : Australian Sky News host Paul Murray says the reason China hid its knowledge of the severity of coronavirus is because “it never wants to admit fault”.Meanwhile, a February 3 speech by Chinese President Xi Jinping, published by state media, indicated the government knew about the threat of the virus well before the public alarm was raised.On February 16, Taiwan recorded its first death of a taxi driver in his 60s due to the coronavirus.Authorities reported that 1,665 people had died in mainland China with 68,500 cases of infection reported.As of February 17, there were 1,770 deaths reported in mainland China and 70,548 cases.Japan confirmed 99 new cases of the virus on board the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship.February 17th The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will begin testing for Coronavirus in 5 major US cities for people who show up at clinics with flu-like symptoms but who test negative for the seasonal varieties. If that testing shows the virus has slipped into the country in places federal officials don't know about, "we've got a problem," Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told USA TODAY's Editorial Board Monday.Fauci advised Americans to skip the masks unless you are contagious, don't worry about catching anything from Chinese products and certainly don't avoid Chinese people or restaurants.The only people who need masks are those who are already infected to keep from exposing others. The masks sold at drugstores aren't even good enough to truly protect anyone. If you look at the masks that you buy in a drug store, the leakage around that doesn't really do much to protect you. People start saying, 'Should I start wearing a mask?' Now, in the United States, there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to wear a mask.Whenever you have the threat of a transmissible infection, there are varying degrees from understandable to outlandish extrapolations of fear. Another official said, “We want to reassure the public that at this time there is no evidence that food or food packaging have been associated with transmission and no reason to be concerned. Further, there is no evidence to support transmission of COVID-19 associated with imported goods, including food and drugs for humans and pets, and there have not been any cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. associated with imported goods."Do what we tell you to do all the time. Wash your hands as frequently as you can. Stay away from crowded places where people are coughing and sneezing. If, in fact you are coughing and sneezing, cover your cough. All the things that we say each year. That's the thing we should be doing right now. But the danger of getting coronavirus now is just minusculely low.Wash your hands as frequently as you can. Stay away from crowded places where people are coughing and sneezing. If in fact you are coughing and sneezing, cover your mouth. … You know, all the things that we say each year. Dr. Anthony Fauci, USAtoday 17–2–20February 18 saw China's daily infection figures drop below 2,000 for the first time since January, with the country's health commission reporting 72,436 infections on the mainland and 1,868 deaths.Meanwhile, Russia said it would ban entry for Chinese citizens from February 20.On February 19, Iran reported two deaths from the coronavirus, hours after confirming its first cases.China's daily infection figures drop below 2,000 for the second straight day, with the country's health commission reporting 74,185 infections on the mainland and 2,004 deaths.On February 20, South Korea reported its first death from the coronavirus.Meanwhile, China reported the death toll had risen to 2,118 while the total number of cases reached 74,576. The country's health commission reported daily infections dropped to the lowest in almost a month, a result of authorities only counting cases confirmed by genetic testing in Hubei.February 20, Professor Brendan Murphy, Chief Medical Officer of Australia: “there is no evidence whatsoever at the moment of community transmission from person to person in the general community in Australia. So people can go about their business. They don’t need to go around wearing masks. We’ve got a rule in the Health Department now that if anyone goes out to dinner, we go to the Chinese restaurants because there is no risk at all at the moment. (Health gov news: Interview with Alan Jones 2GB Radio)On February 21, South Korea reported its second death and 100 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total to 204. In mainland China, the death toll reached 2,236 as the confirmed cases of the infection rose above 75,400.Also, Israel reported its first confirmed case of the coronavirus after a woman who returned from a cruise ship tested positive.In Italy, the region of Lombardy reported the first local transmission of the virus with three new cases bringing the total in the country to six infections.On February 22, South Korea saw its largest spike in a single day with 229 new cases of the virus.Italy reported its first two deaths, while Iran confirmed a fifth death among 10 new infections. A sixth death was later confirmed, though it was not clear whether this case was included in the country's 28 confirmed cases.In mainland China, the number of new infections fell significantly with 397 cases reported.February 23 saw several countries close their borders with Iran as the number of infections and deaths in the country grew.In Italy, officials confirmed a third death, while local authorities brought the Venice Carnival to an early close and suspended sports events in an attempt to combat the spread of the virus in Europe's worst-hit country.On February 24, Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq, Afghanistan and Oman all reported their first cases of the virus. Meanwhile, the number of cases in South Korea ballooned to 833 cases with seven deaths.The death toll in China rose to 2,595 among 77,262 confirmed cases.A seventh death was reported in northern Italy.February 25: The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. We are in contact with everyone and all relevant countries. CDC & World Health have been working hard and very smart. Stock Market starting to look very good to me!February 25. Dr. Helen Y. Chu, an American infectious disease expert in Seattle, USA ordered her staff to begin testing for the novel corona virus without Federal government approval. They quickly found a victim who had not travelled outside of USA.It must have been here this entire time. It’s just everywhere already. Dr Helen Chu, Interview, New York Times, 10 March, 2020.When they reported their findings to the FDA, they were ordered to stop at once because of red-tape.On February 25, Iran's deputy health minister, who had a day earlier given a press briefing on the outbreak, confirmed that he had coronavirus. The country's official total reached 95 cases with 15 deaths.Meanwhile, China's reported cases continued to plateau, with 518 new infections and 71 new deaths confirmed. South Korea's confirmed cases rose to 977 while Italy's reached 229.On February 26, the global death toll neared 2,800 with a total of about 80,000 confirmed infection cases reported globally.February 26, Andrew Bolt: Australian Skynews journalist: So much fear about a virus that has so far called fewer than 3000 people which, yes, is very serious, but then every year related flu viruses kill up 650,000 around the world without causing a bit of panic. (By late March, Bolt is calling for sanctions on China and accusing China of a cover-up)Norway, Romania, Greece, Georgia, Pakistan, North Macedonia and Brazil all detected their first cases of the coronavirus.February 26th: During a press briefing at the White House, Trump claims that positive cases will soon begin to decrease.“We’re going to be pretty soon at only five people,” he said. “And we could be at just one or two people over the next short period of time. So we’ve had very good luck.”“I think every aspect of our society should be prepared,” he added later. “I don’t think it’s going to come to that, especially with the fact that we’re going down, not up. We’re going very substantially down, not up.”On February 27, Estonia, Denmark, Northen Ireland and the Netherlands reported their first coronavirus cases. The number of infections passed 82,000 worldwide, including more than 2,800 deaths.Italy has seen a spike in infections which jumped to 650, while 3 more people died with the tally of deaths now at 17.Meanwhile in the US, the administration is considering invoking the Defense Production Act which would grant President Donald Trump the power to expand industrial production of key materials or products for national security.February 27th: President Donald Trump, in a televised meeting at the White House says: “It’s going to disappear. One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear.”On February 28, Lithuania and Wales reported their first coronavirus cases, with Netherlands and Georgia reporting their secondFebruary 28th: During a rally in South Carolina, Trump alleges Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus, calling it “their new hoax.”February 29 saw South Korea report its highest daily number of confirmed cases yet, 813, bringing the country's total to 3,150 with 17 deaths. Iran also reported the number of its cases had jumped 388 cases to 593 in 24 hours, with the death toll reaching 43.Meanwhile, Qatar confirmed the first case in the country.February 29th: While speaking at the CPAC - Conservative Political Action Conference, Trump again claims his administration has the coronavirus under control:“I’ve gotten to know these professionals. They’re incredible,” Trump said. “And everything is under control. I mean, they’re very, very cool. They’ve done it, and they’ve done it well. Everything is really under control.”For nearly three months from January to early March - Pro-Trump news media, esp. Fox News had been downplaying the virus. They ignored the WHO warnings, kept on repeating that the virus is a Democrat hoax, just a flu and nothing to worry about during this period. They also ignored the warnings from China that it is a deadly virus and the fact that China was in lock down by the end of January. By mid to late March they were accusing China of a coverup. 60 Minutes did an “expose” on China claiming of a massive coverup. This will lead to a rise in xenophobia and racist attitudes towards China.March 2, 2020. Andrew Cuomo, Governor of NY State says, “Excuse our arrogance as New Yorkers — I speak for the mayor also on this one — we think we have the best health care system on the planet right here in New York. So, when you’re saying, what happened in other countries versus what happened here, we don’t even think it’s going to be as bad as it was in other countries. Andrew Cuomo, Governor New York State.Cuomo would come to regret his confident words by the next month when the death rate in NY increased exponentially a few weeks later.March 2, Saudi Arabia's health ministry announced its first coronavirus case. The victim travelled from Iran to the Gulf kingdom through Bahrain, the state-run Saudi Press Agency reported.Tunisia and Jordan also reported their first cases as the outbreak continues to spread in the Middle East.March 3, Boris Johnson, UK Prime Minister, "Our country remains extremely well prepared. We already have a fantastic NHS," the national public health service, "fantastic testing systems and fantastic surveillance of the spread of disease." Johnson later shook hands with Covid-19 patients at a hospitalOn March 3, Italy announced the death toll in the country reached 77, equalling the total deaths in Iran, which stand at 77.March 4th: In a live interview with FoxNews Sean Hannity, Trump calls the WHO’s estimate of the global death rate “false,” describes the coronavirus as “very mild,” and suggests that those infected can get better by “sitting around” and “going to work.”Trump spoke on live air to Hannity regardiing WHO statement that coronavirus death rate is 3.4%:Trump said, "I think the 3.4% number is really a false number. Now this is just my hunch, but based on a lot of conversations ... personally, I'd say the number is way under 1%."March 5Fox News journalist Sean Hannity said, “Since the beginning, all they’ve (Democrats) done is use the virus, politicize the virus to bludgeon President Trump… All the same people who have done the same thing for three straight years. ... Russia, Russia. Ukraine, Ukraine. And impeach, impeach. Now, corona, corona.”Even in early March, US media such as Fox News continue to downplay the seriousness of the Covid-19 virus and claim that opponents of President Trump were using it to attack him unfairly.March 6: Trump visits US CDC and says:Well, we’re prepared for anything. We’re prepared. We are, really, very highly prepared for anything. And in a short period of time — I mean, what they’ve done is very incredible. And I’ve seen what they’ve done back there. It’s really incredible. And, by the way, NIH, what they’ve done — I spent time over there — and I like this stuff.You know, my uncle was a great person. He was at MIT. He taught at MIT for, I think, like a record number of years. He was a great super genius. Dr. John Trump.I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it. Every one of these doctors said, “How do you know so much about this?” Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for President.But you know what? What they’ve done is very incredible. I understand that whole world. I love that world. I really do. I love that world. And they should be given tremendous credit. And the whole world is relying on us.You know, you hear about — like you’re saying about South Korea. South Korea is very much reliant on the information we’re giving them. And they’re reliant on the vaccines that we will come up with. Very soon, we’re going to come up. …Trump also took the time to take out his frustrations on a State Governor.So I told Mike not to be complimentary to the governor because that governor is a snake. Okay? Inslee. And I said, “If you’re nice to him, he’s — he will take advantage.” And I would have said “no.”Let me just tell you, we have a lot of problems with the governor and — the governor of Washington. That’s where you have many of your problems. Okay? So Mike may be happy with him, but I’m not. Okay?And he would say that naturally. And as I said last night at the town hall, if we came up with a cure today, and tomorrow everything is gone, and you went up to this governor — who is a, you know, not a good governor, by the way — if you went up to this governor, and you said to him, “How did Trump do?” –he’d say, “He did a terrible job.” It makes no difference. If we came up with it right now, and tomorrow everything ended, at 8 o’clock tomorrow morning — everything ended — he would say, “Trump did a horrible job.” Okay?Meanwhile, South Korea developed its own test kit and has tested more than 270,000 people, which amounts to more than 5200 tests per million inhabitants—more than any other country... The United States has so far carried out 74 tests per 1 million inhabitants, data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show.On March 7, the coronavirus had killed nearly 3,500 people and infected another 102,000 people across more than 90 countries.China's Health Commission reported 99 new cases, down from 143 cases the day before, with a total of 80,651 cases nationwide. Official data, meanwhile, showed China's exports plunging 17.2 percent in the first two months of the year after the outbreak brought much of the country to a halt.In Iran, one of the worst-hit countries with 4,747 reported cases and 124 deaths, recently-elected MP Fatemeh Rahbar died from the coronavirus.President Trump, March 7th: “No, I’m not concerned at all,” Trump said from Mar-a-Lago. “No, I’m not. No, we’ve done a great job.”On March 8, Saudi authorities locked down the eastern Qatif region in a bid to contain the fast-spreading virus. Riyadh also said it was suspending all schools and universities across the country from Monday until further notice.March 8 In Italy, the government imposed a strict quarantine in the state of Lombardy and 14 other areas in the north, affecting a total of 16 million people. The decree imposing a lockdown for more than a quarter of Italy’s population was officially approved. Checkpoints are expected to appear at toll booths, stations and other points of entry to Lombardy. The number of deaths from coronavirus in Italy has risen from 233 on Saturday to 366, officials have said. The 57% increase is the steepest daily rise in fatalities since the outbreak came to light.The UK has announced its third death from the virus. He was a man in his 60s who had underlying health problems. Five more people have tested positive in Northern Ireland, bringing the UK total to 278. The UK Department of Health is now advising anyone who has returned from the lockdown areas in northern Italy to self-isolate for two weeks, even if they do not have coronavirus symptoms.Deaths from coronavirus in France rise from 11 to 19. French health officials have confirmed 1,126 cases of coronavirus.Israel declared on Sunday that it will close its border with Egypt, beginning 5pm local time. The Taba border crossing between Egypt’s Sinai region and the Israeli town of Eilat is a popular crossing point for tourists.Source: Guardian Newspaper March 8 - 9, 2020.On March 9, Iran released about 70,000 prisoners because of the coronavirus outbreak in the country, Iranian judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi said, without specifying if or when those released would need to return to jail.Germany reported its first two deaths, with at least 1,100 confirmed cases in the country.March 9th: Trump criticises Democrats for sounding the alarm “far beyond what the facts would warrant” before implying that the common flu is far worse, an argument he’s made on several occasions and which has been parroted by Fox News.Trump tweeted:The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything within its semi-considerable power (it used to be greater!) to inflame the CoronaVirus situation, far beyond what the facts would warrant. Surgeon General, “The risk is low to the average American.”andSo last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!over 295,000 people liked his statement.March 10, Both Iran and Italy recorded their highest death tolls in a single day. A total of 54 people died in Iran over a 24-hour period, while in Italy, 168 new fatalities were recorded from the coronavirus.Lebanon and Morocco reported their first deaths from the virus, while Democratic Republic of the Congo, Panama and Mongolia confirmed their first cases of infection.March 11, WHO declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, as Turkey, Ivory Coast, Honduras and Bolivia confirmed their first cases.In Qatar, infections jumped drastically from 24 to 262 in a single day.March 12, the global death toll surpassed 4,600 with infections exceeding 126,100 cases. China reported 15 new cases, its lowest number since the daily reporting on infections began seven weeks ago.March 13 Trump takes no responsibility at all for lack of tests in America.Asked Friday at his press conference by NBC News' Kristen Welker whether he should take responsibility for the failure to disseminate larger quantities of tests earlier, Trump declined. "I don't take responsibility at all," he said.March The Australian government entered a contract to buy 500,000 Covid-19 test kits from a company headed by a convicted rapist, which had no experience in medical diagnostics, failed to deliver shipments at a critical point in the pandemic. In March, a small, largely unknown Brisbane company, Promedical Equipment Pty Ltd, told the Australian government it could supply huge quantities of Covid-19 rapid antibody testing kits. Promedical’s chief executive, Neran De Silva was convicted of rape in 2018 and was a one-time business associate of the government services minister, Stuart Robert, through a cryotherapy treatment business. Promedical’s two shares were purchased for $2 by De Silva’s partner. Before the pandemic it sold cryogenic, massage therapy and erectile dysfunction machines.On March 15, Spain reported about 2,000 new coronavirus cases and more than 100 deaths over the last 24 hours. The new figures raise Spain's COVID-19 death toll to 288, with more than 7,700 people infected.Kazakhstan, the Phillipines and Austria announced tightened restrictions in a bid to contain the virus outbreak.March 16, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio ordered the city's bars, theatres and cinemas to close down, as the number of cases continued to rise in the US.On the same day, more cases were reported in Turkey and Pakistan, while Iran registered a total of 14,991 infections and 853 deaths.The Gulf region marked its first death due to coronavirus in Bahrain.In Africa, Somalia confirmed its first case of the new coronavirus.Two South American countries, Chile and Guatemala, announced they had closed their borders as part of measures aimed at containing the virus.On March 17, Italy reported 345 new coronavirus deaths in the country over the past 24 hours taking its total death toll to 2,503 - an increase of 16 percent. The total number of cases in Italy rose to 31,506 from a previous 27,980, up 12.6 percent - the slowest rate of increase since the contagion came to light on February 21.Turkey, meanwhile, reported its first death related to the pandemic, an 89-year-old person.On March 18, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison declared for the first time ever a "human biosecurity emergency" in the country.Morrison said the travel advisory had been upgraded to the highest level and told Australians: "Do not travel abroad, do not go overseas."Italy, meanwhile, recorded 475 new deaths, the highest one-day toll of any nation, taking its total to 2,978. The total number of infections in the country reached 35,713.For the first time since the start of the epidemic, no new domestic cases were reported in China.On March 19, Italy overtook China as the country with the most coronavirus-related deaths, registering 3,405 dead compared to 3,245 in China.The death toll in Spain soared by 209 to 767 fatalities from the previous day. A roughly 25 percent increase in infections was recorded, taking the country's total to 17,147.March 19: Australia NSW Health allowed passengers from the Ruby Princess to disembark in Sydney despite knowing that test results would be available within hours. The ship's senior doctor had emailed the NSW authorities regarding his concern that some of the passengers had COVID19 symptom -15 samples taken from sick passengers were being tested for COVID-19 and the results would be known on the same day as its March 19 arrival. But the NSW State decided the passengers were low risk and let them all disemark. NSW Health later claims that its Expert Panel declared that the passengers posed little risk.SkyNews Media in Australia switch from calling the pandemic “hysteria” to a “China coverup”.March 19: US politician, Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, “China is to blame, because the culture where people eat bats and snakes and dogs and things like that,” in a recent videotaped interview, defending Trump’s label. “These viruses are transmitted from the animal to the people, and that’s why China has been the source of a lot of these viruses, like sars, like mers, the swine flu.”(The Senator erroneously blamed China. SARS came from Hong Kong, MERS - also known as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome came from the Middle East, and Swine Flu H1N1 came from the North American continent)On March 20, coronavirus-related deaths surged past 10,000 globally. The number of cases in Germany rose by 2,958 overnight to 13,957. Spain, meanwhile, said the death toll due to COVID-19 had risen to 1,002.In China, however, no new domestic cases were reported for a second consecutive day even as concerns remained about infected people flying into the country and importing a second wave of the disease.On March 21, Europe remains the epicentre of the coronavirus with Italy reporting 793 new fatalities, its biggest daily increase, bringing the total number of deaths to 4,825 amid 53,578 cases.Spain is the second worst-hit country in Europe with more than 21,000 infections and at least 1,000 deaths.To help each European country to contain the pandemic, the EU has taken the unprecedented step to suspend rules on public deficits, giving countries free rein to inject spending into the economy as needed.Meanwhile, the first two fatalities have been reported in Singapore.On March 22, the global death toll rose above 13,000 while the infection count surpassed 311,000. Governments around the world continued to lock down their countries, with the latest curfew coming into effect in India. The besieged Palestinian territory of Gaza registered its first two coronavirus cases.On March 23, Italy reported 602 new deaths, bringing the total to 6,077 with the tally of cases in the country rising to 63,928. Meanwhile, in the US, the number of cases surged past 35,000, with a death toll of 495, according to John Hopkins University data.March 23 Trump defends his use of the term “China virus” or “Chinese virus” instead of calling it corona virus or Covid-19."It would have been helpful if we knew about it earlier. … It comes from China."On March 24, Spain reported 6,600 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of infections to 39,673, while fatalities rose to 2,696 from 2,182 the previous day.Laos recorded its first two coronavirus cases.On March 25, the White House and Senate leaders of both parties struck an agreement on a sweeping $2 trillion measure to aid workers, businesses and a healthcare system strained by the rapidly spreading coronavirus outbreak.Meanwhile, India's 1.3 billion people joined the global lockdown, and Spain recorded more than 700 deaths over the previous 24 hours, surpassing China in the total death toll, making the country now second to only Italy.On March 26, the total number of coronavirus cases globally surpassed 500,000.Cases in Europe topped 250,000 - more than half of which were in Spain and hard-hit Italy. Spain recorded 655 new fatalities over 24 hours, while Italy's death toll rose by 712 to hit 8,215.Kenya, Kazakhstan and Honduras all reported their first deaths.On March 27, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced he had tested positive for the coronavirus."Over the last 24 hours I have developed mild symptoms and tested positive for coronavirus," Johnson said in a video posted on Twitter. "I am now self-isolating, but I will continue to lead the government's response via video-conference as we fight this virus."In Spain, meanwhile, the death toll rose to 4,858 after 769 people died over 24 hours, while South Africa recorded its first two deaths as a three-week nationwide lockdown came into force.On March 28, the number of cases worldwide surpassed 600,000, with more than 27,000 deaths.Spain's death toll meanwhile jumped to 5,690, with 832 deaths in the past 24 hours, according to the country's health ministry. In the US, the number of people infected with the virus hit more than 104,000, while deaths exceeded 1,700.Italy's death toll from the virus also shot past 10,000 with 889 new deaths, according to the country's civil protection service.On March 29, the US accounted for the highest number of coronavirus infections in the world, recording more than 124,000 cases. The death toll in the country surged past 2,000, more than double the figure two days ago.Spain's health ministry announced 838 new coronavirus deaths, marking the country's highest daily jump in fatalities and bringing its total to 6,528.On March 30 US President Donald Trump extended federal guidelines on social distancing until April 30 after a top health official warned between 100,000 to 200,000 people could die from coronavirus in the US.Trump also tweeted:“President Trump is a ratings hit. Since reviving the daily White House briefing Mr. Trump and his coronavirus updates have attracted an average audience of 8.5 million on cable news, roughly the viewership of the season finale of ‘The Bachelor.’ Numbers are continuing to rise...Meanwhile, France announced it would pay for hotel rooms for victims of domestic violence and open pop-up counselling centres after figures showed the number of abuse cases had soared during the first week of the lockdown.On March 31 the number of deaths in the US from coronavirus surpassed those reported by China, where the pandemic began in December, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University.There have been more than 3,600 deaths in the US from the virus, the Baltimore-based university reported, more than the 3,309 in China.In the hardest-hit countries in Europe, Italy reported the slowest daily rise in infections for two weeks, although the number of dead rose by 812. In Spain, an additional 800 deaths were reported.On April 1, the United Nations chief has warned the coronavirus pandemic presents the world with its "worst crisis" since World War II, with almost 922,000 people around the world having been diagnosed with the virus.The US death toll passing 4,300 as Spain, the United Kingdom and France reported their largest single-day increase in deaths to date.Meanwhile, China is due to release data showing the number of asyptomatic cases, data not previously released publicly.On April 2, Russia's coronavirus case tally jumped to 3,548 , a record daily increase of 771, according to Russia's crisis response centre.April 23, "(President Trump) He is so attentive to the scientific literature & the details & the data. I think his ability to analyze & integrate data that comes out of his long history in business has really been a real benefit” Dr. Deborah Birx, American physican and diplomat who specialises in HIV/AIDS, vaccine, and global health. 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