“After years of wanting to thoroughly clean my house but lacking the time, this week I discovered that wasn’t the reason.”
– Julius Caesar
Monday, May 11th, 2020
https://www.theweek.com/articles/913411/dark-decade-ahead
South Dakota Sioux tribe won’t remove coronavirus checkpoints The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe in South Dakota set up checkpoints in order to monitor and track the coronavirus, and on Sunday, Chairman Harold Frazier told CNN the tribe must keep them up as they are the “best tool we have right now” to prevent the spread of COVID-19. “We want to ensure that people coming from hot spots or highly infected areas, we ask them to go around our land,” Frazier said. The nearest critical care facility is three hours away, Frazier said, and the checkpoints are necessary due to “the lack of resources we have medically.” Gov. Kristi Noem (R) has said the checkpoints need to come down, and her policy director sent a letter to the tribe on Friday saying they are illegal and “interfere with regulating traffic on U.S. and state highways.” Source: CNN
Fauci to testify remotely before Senate committee Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, will testify remotely on Tuesday before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. Fauci, who last testified before Congress in March, will discuss the coronavirus pandemic. He will be virtually joined by Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn; and Assistant Secretary for Health Brett Giroir. The senators, their staff members, and the witnesses will “appear by video conference due to these unusual circumstances,” the committee’s chairman, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), said in a statement on Sunday. Alexander is now self-quarantining at his home in Tennessee, after a staffer tested positive for coronavirus on Sunday. Source: CBS News
Global coronavirus infections top 4 million The global number of confirmed coronavirus infections has surpassed four million, Johns Hopkins University calculates, with more than 1.3 million of those cases in the United States. There have been nearly 280,000 confirmed deaths worldwide, including more than 79,000 in the U.S. Many experts believe both the number of infections and deaths are undercounted since testing has fallen short in many countries, though there are efforts underway to change that. In New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) announced that 22 new testing sites are open, while encouraging residents to obtain tests even if they’re not exhibiting symptoms, which would help get a true sense of the pandemic’s scale. Source: Johns Hopkins University
South Korean president warns of second wave After the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Sunday reported 34 new coronavirus infections — the country’s highest daily rise since April 9 — President Moon Jae-in warned about the risk of a second wave of COVID-19 later this year. Moon said the new cluster, which emerged after a man who eventually tested positive visited multiple recently reopened night clubs in Seoul, shows how quickly the disease can spread. South Korea has drawn praise for how it has largely curbed the outbreak, but the latest development shows how difficult reopening can be, and Seoul’s bars and clubs were quickly ordered shut once again. “It’s not over until it’s over,” Moon said. Source: Reuters
A physical altercation between Indian and Chinese soldiers near the Naku La sector in Sikkim, India leaves eleven wounded in total. (BBC)
Iranian government spokesman Ali Rabiei says that Iran is prepared for a full prisoner exchange with the United States but that the American authorities had not yet responded. The swap could include Iranian university professor Sirous Asgari who is in U.S. custody and Michael R. White, a U.S. Navy veteran in Iranian custody. (Al Jazeera)
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