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You could close every store in America and just leave Walmarts open and we'll survive lol The lines on the other hand..

The country is not shut down lmao 17 states have some restrictions. The vice president said NY is the exception not the rule in terms of lifting restrictions. Why would people even wanna work when you're getting more money to sit at home and not catch the virus lol Why would they extend unemployment to 39 weeks if this is a short term issue?

It's funny because my in-laws who are a big supporter of an unnamed person thinks everything is on the way up lol That we just have this"magic pill" that will cure the world, everything will be back to normal in a couple weeks they say

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As of yesterday, not sure if these numbers are 24 hour intervals or what lol

After reading a few articles it's the governor who makes the call on when restrictions are lifted... What about state stay-at-home orders? States with stay-at-home orders made by their governors could continue those orders, regardless of whether Trump lifts the federal guidelines. As of Tuesday, at least 17 states have stay-at-home orders in place, and at least 10 others have some cities or counties that have issued their own orders. Each state has their own rules in place for how long the orders last. For example, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s stay-at-home order is set until April 6, while some governors have not given an exact date that the order will end. In addition to stay-at-home orders, several states have closed school for several weeks or even until the end of the school year, such as Virginia and Kansas. Those orders also could stay in place if Trump lifts the federal guidelines. "We are at war," DeWine said Sunday when announcing his executive order to have Ohioans stay home. "And in a time of war we have to make sacrifices. The country's public health law is a patchwork of responsibilities divided up between the federal and state governments, but typically states are in control of "police powers," according to Professor Glenn Cohen, faculty director for the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics at Harvard Law School. Some states even delegate those powers to individual localities. But if Trump decides to lift the federal guidance, states like California or New York that have issued stay-at-home orders "may decide to follow suit or not, but typically have significant discretion as to what to do," he said

$385 is the average Nationwide..

Looks like it BW, part of the agreed upon stimulus package.. It's also up to 39 weeks instead of 26.. Min wage workers only come home with like $350 a week lol The stimulus bill is giving a federally funded weekly pay boost to those who are unemployed. In addition to regular state unemployment insurance, individuals will receive an additional $600 per week for up to four months. In total, unemployed workers will receive 39 weeks of unemployment benefits, which will carry them through to the end of 2020. State unemployment benefits vary from state to state but averaged $385 a week nationwide in January. Adding the $600 boost included in the stimulus package would bring an average weekly unemployment check to $985, which exceeds the median weekly earnings of $936 in the fourth quarter. (Women had median weekly earnings of $843; men took home a median of $1,022.) Source

Don't forget about the unemployment package.. This is huge for people that lose their job at no fault of their own..My girl for example would bring home more if she was fully laid off for a couple months lol (CNN)In a historic expansion of unemployment insurance, the federal government would give jobless workers an extra $600 a week on top of their state benefits for four months as part of the $2 trillion stimulus deal lawmakers agreed to early Wednesday. "It has unemployment insurance on steroids," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday of the package. "But, and most importantly, the federal government will pay your salary, your full salary for now four months." While the extra money in the deal wouldn't fully replace the lost wages of some higher-paid workers, it would significantly add to everyone's regular state benefits, which range from $200 to $550 a week, on average, depending on the state. However, several Republican senators raised objections Wednesday to the jobless benefits provision, saying it would provide larger checks to unemployed workers than they would receive in wages. "This bill pays you more not to work than if you were working," said South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham. "You're literally incentivizing taking people out of the workforce at a time when we need critical infrastructure supplied with workers. If this is not a drafting error, then it's the worst idea I've seen in a long time."

In several hours on Tuesday, Dr. Ashley Bray performed chest compressions at Elmhurst Hospital Center on a woman in her 80s, a man in his 60s and a 38-year-old who reminded the doctor of her fiancé. All had tested positive for the coronavirus and had gone into cardiac arrest. All eventually died. Elmhurst, a 545-bed public hospital in Queens, has begun transferring patients not suffering from coronavirus to other hospitals as it moves toward becoming dedicated entirely to the outbreak. Doctors and nurses have struggled to make do with a few dozen ventilators. Calls over a loudspeaker of “Team 700,” the code for when a patient is on the verge of death, come several times a shift. Some have died inside the emergency room while waiting for a bed. A refrigerated truck has been stationed outside to hold the bodies of the dead. Over the past 24 hours, New York City’s public hospital system said in a statement, 13 people at Elmhurst had died. Continue reading

Updated county numbers. LAST UPDATE: MARCH 25, 2020 | 1:46PM Albany 152 Allegany 2 Broome 11 Cayuga 2 Chautauqua 1 Chemung 1 Chenango 3 Clinton 10 Columbia 12 Cortland 2 Delaware 5 Dutchess 153 Erie 122 Essex 4 Franklin 1 Fulton 1 Genesee 2 Greene 4 Hamilton 2 Herkimer 5 Jefferson 2 Livingston 3 Madison 7 Monroe 118 Montgomery 4 Nassau 3,285 Niagara 12 New York City 17,856 Oneida 9 Onondaga 65 Ontario 9 Orange 638 Oswego 2 Otsego 2 Putnam 84 Rensselaer 31 Rockland 968 Saratoga 64 Schenectady 55 Schoharie 2 St. Lawrence 1 Steuben 8 Suffolk 2,260 Sullivan 39 Tioga 1 Tompkins 16 Ulster 65 Warren 2 Washington 4 Wayne 7 Westchester 4,691 Wyoming 4 Total Number of Positive Cases 30,811

But if you’ve lost your job and qualify for unemployment benefits, this stimulus package gives you a bigger check. It’s expected to add $600 per week onto individual workers’ unemployment checks for the next four months.

The money from the coronavirus relief bill will be a lifeline for families who have lost their jobs or are unable to work due to the coronavirus.

Congress came to agreement early Wednesday morning on a massive $2 trillion stimulus package designed to help families and businesses get through the coronavirus pandemic.

I have plenty of money, who cares about anyone else, that's obviously how you think.

Anything"essential" will not close down according to the governor..

Grocery stores are shut down? That's news to me . Pharmacies are still open, so are liquor stores.

Yes, but not sure how often.. This was yesterday..

I read an article yesterday that said almost 1/4 of Italy is senior citizens which can explain somewhat the higher numbers.

These will change throughout the day.

Latest numbers which obviously change frequently.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear announced Tuesday 39 new coronavirus cases in the state, including one young adult who attended a "coronavirus party," apparently held to flout social distancing guidelines. "This is one that makes me mad, and it should make you mad," Beshear said of the case that occurred after the person attended a party of people in their 20s, who health officials say are as a group less vulnerable to COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

So it’s essentially come to this: President Trump is treating each of our 50 states as individual contestants on “The Apprentice” — pitting them against one another for scarce resources, daring them to duke it out — rather than mobilizing a unified national response to a pandemic. If that’s the case, this is the episode where New York loses. The coronavirus is whipping through the state, especially New York City, at a terrifying rate. We need personnel, ventilators and personal protective equipment, stat. But Trump’s response has been the same as President Gerald Ford’s in 1975, when our city, faltering on the brink of insolvency, begged Washington for help and was brutally rebuffed, a moment forever enshrined in The Daily News’s headline “FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD.” Now Trump is telling us the same. Literally Untold thousands will likely die absent federal intervention. And it needs to happen this instant — not just for the good of the city, but for the nation. The president needs to set a precedent in his hometown. On Tuesday morning, Gov. Andrew Cuomo opened his daily coronavirus briefing on a far more somber note than usual, noting that the number of cases was climbing at a faster rate than even the experts had predicted, doubling roughly every three days. “The apex is higher than we thought and the apex is sooner than we thought,” he said. “That is a bad combination of facts.” What it means, practically speaking: Our hospitals will soon be overwhelmed with Covid-19 patients. The governor has already said that the state is 30,000 ventilators short. The only way to acquire the volume we need — delivered at the speed we need — is through federal intervention, which means sending us the bulk of the ventilators from the strategic national stockpile, which has roughly 20,000, and deploying the Defense Production Act to force private manufacturers to make more. But that’s not what the president is doing. He refuses to use the Defense Production Act, fearing it’ll put an undue burden on business, and he’s keeping his federal stash under tight lock and key. On Tuesday morning, Cuomo confirmed that FEMA would be sending the state only 400 ventilators. (“What are we going to do with 400 ventilators when we need 30,000?” he asked.) Vice President Mike Pence later said he’d send New York 4,000 from the stockpile — a fine start, but nowhere near what New York needs. What is the president waiting for, and why is he hoarding — or let’s be charitable and say husbanding — his resources? Must the death toll in New York prove so calamitous he needs no further proof? Is he trying to make an example of his former home? “I will take personal responsibility for transporting the 20,000 ventilators anywhere in this country that they want, once we are past our apex,” Cuomo said. “But don’t leave them sitting in a stockpile, and say, ‘Well, we’re going to wait and see how we allocate them across the country.’ That’s not how this works.” It would be one thing if other states were in the same dire position as New York. But they aren’t. We have 10 times the number of cases as Washington and eight times that of California. New Yorkers are now locked in place, waiting for the wave to come. As of Tuesday night, Dr. Deborah Birx, the coordinator for the White House Coronavirus Task Force, recommends that New Yorkers self-quarantine if they leave the state. Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida is ordering anyone flying in from New York to self-quarantine for 14 days upon landing. I guess Trump likes the numbers where they are. I have news for him: They won’t stay that way. The idea that New York is an exception rather than a harbinger is madness. The rest of the country may regard New York as a black hole of need. But in fact the opposite has always been true; we’re forever sweeping more into the federal till than we receive in services. In 2018, according to the state comptroller’s office, we gave $26.6 billion more to Washington than we got back, ranking us dead last for federal benefits. Now, we finally have a native New Yorker in the White House to do something about this discrepancy. Instead, he’s the worst offender, and this time the consequences will be lethal. Part of me can’t help but wonder if Trump is just playing to his base, which views cities with suspicion, perhaps New York above all. We are multiculturalism personified — home of the United Nations, a place where 637 languages and dialects are spoken. A purée while the rest of the nation is vegetable soup, as Spalding Gray once lovingly said. Never mind that Trump is himself a creature of New York, just a different dimension of New York. Tabloid New York, real estate New York and (above all, and most ironically) global New York, which made possible his worldwide hotels, his construction projects made of Chinese steel, his loans from Deutsche Bank. It’s a New York he now disavows. A New York he now blames. But it was New York that made him a reality television star. And what reality television prizes more than anything, we’ve learned, is a Darwinian frame of mind. The contestants aren’t there to make friends. They’re there to destroy each other. They’re there to win. Only the best win. But this is not a game. Trump has no clue how to marshal the forces of federal government, which he stripped down to the studs. He has no unifying instincts at all. New York will be gasping for breath, and the other states will soon follow. Unless he takes action, now. Source

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