OT Coronavirus: America in chaos, News and Updates. One million Americans dead and counting

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Texas is on the verge of Covid crisis: Houston's largest hospital's ICU is 97% full as daily cases surge to record highs and expert predicts 'herd immunity may be the only way to stop the virus'

• Texas Medical Center in Houston said 97% of its ICU beds are occupied, and its normal occupancy rate is 70% to 80%
• It has an emergency plan to increase the number of ICU beds from 1,462 to 2,649, but expect they will all fill up in just two weeks
• Coronavirus hospitalizations have doubled in Texas over the last month and tripled in the Greater Houston area
• A new model from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia predicted cases in Harris County will surge to 4,578 by July 18
• An infectious disease expert predicted the only way to stop the virus may be 'herd immunity' where enough people are infected so the virus can't spread

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Texas Medical Center in Houston said 97% of its ICU beds are occupied, and its normal occupancy rate is 70% to 80% and that it will run out of beds in two weeks (above)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/...s-Houstons-largest-hospitals-ICU-97-full.html

 

White House ordered NIH to cancel coronavirus research funding, Fauci says

The National Institutes of Health abruptly cut off funding to a long-standing, well-regarded research project on bat coronaviruses only after the White House specifically told it to do so, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Fauci made the revelation Tuesday at a Congressional hearing on the federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which is caused by a coronavirus that is genetically linked to those found in bats. Rep. Marc Veasey (D-Texas) asked Fauci why the NIH abruptly canceled funding for the project, which specifically worked to understand the risk of bat coronaviruses jumping to humans and causing devastating disease.

Fauci responded to Veasey saying: “It was cancelled because the NIH was told to cancel it.”

“And why were they told to cancel it?” Veasey pressed.

“I don’t know the reason, but we were told to cancel it,” Fauci said.

After the hearing, Fauci clarified to Politico that it was the White House that told the NIH to cancel the funding. An unnamed White House official told Politico that the White House did encourage the funding cut, but ultimately it was the Department of Health and Human Services—of which the NIH is a part—that made the final decision. An HHS spokesperson said only that the funding was cut because "the grantee was not in compliance with NIH's grant policy."

https://arstechnica.com/science/202...ncel-coronavirus-research-funding-fauci-says/

 

U.S. hits highest single day of new coronavirus cases with more than 45,500, breaking April record

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...rus-cases-36-358-n1232065?cid=ed_npd_bn_tw_bn

 

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