Coronavirus: deaths in Italy pass 1,000 mark, 2,249 new cases

[bluewater]

Source: Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata (Italy)

[The Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata, ANSA; literally "Associated Press National Agency", is the leading wire service in Italy.]

The number of people to have died in Italy after contracting the coronavirus has now topped 1,000, at 1,016, 189 more than Wednesday, Emergency Commissioner and Civil Protection Chief Angelo Borrelli said Thursday.

Some 12,839 people currently have the coronavirus in Italy, 2,249 more than Wednesday, and 1,258 people have recovered from COVID-19, up 213, he said.

The total number people to have been infected in Italy, including those who have died and those who have recovered, has risen to 15,113.

Some 6,896 are infected in Lombardy (1,133 more than Wednesday), 1,758 in Emilia-Romagna (+170), 1,297 in Veneto (+357), 554 in Piedmont (+74), 570 in Marche (+109), 352 in Tuscany (+38), 172 in Lazio (+47), 174 in Campania (+25), 243 in Liguria (+62), 148 in Friuli Venezia Giulia (+38), 111 in Sicily (+30), 98 in Puglia (+27), 102 in Trentino (+28), 78 in Abruzzo (+41), 62 in Umbria (+18), 16 in Molise (+0), 39 in Sardinia (+2), 26 in Valle d'Aosta (+7), 32 in Calabria (+15), 103 in Alto Adige (+28), and 8 in Basilicata (+0).

As for the victims, there have been 744 in Lombardy (+127), 146 in Emilia Romagna, (+33), 32 in Veneto (+3), 26 in Piedmont (+5), 22 in Marche (+4), 5 in Tuscany (+4), 11 in Liguria (+3), one in Campania (+0), 9 in Lazio (+3), 8 in Friuli Venezia Giulia (+2), 5 in Puglia (+0), 2 in Abruzzo (+1), and one in Valle d'Aosta (+0). As for swabs, some 86,011 have ben taken, almost 60,000 of which in Lombardy, Veneto and Emilia Romagna.

Read more: http://www.ansa.it/english/news/2020/03/12/coronavirusdeaths-in-italy-pass-1000-mark-2249-new-cases_0b82054d-b597-4ed9-bc56-c6c691e34932.html

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This is happening in the most highly developed and technologically advanced area of Italy.

Please contact your members of Congress and Senators today. We need to take urgent and coherent steps to respond to the corona virus pandemic immediately. We can't allow ourselves to be lulled into a sense of complacency.

Trump is totally lost and out of his depth and unable to manage this crisis.

Congress must step up and step up now.

[jberryhill]

1. We need to get out ahead of this

But it does not appear we are going to do so.

There's just no political will at the federal level to take effective and rational action.

[bluewater]

2. Senate will delay recess, work on coronavirus bill next week: McConnell

Senate will delay recess, work on coronavirus bill next week: McConnell

The U.S. Senate will delay its recess and will work next week on a coronavirus relief bill, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Thursday.
McConnell, a Republican, also said in a Twitter post that he was glad talks between the Trump administration and the Democratic House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi were continuing.

“I hope Congress can pass bipartisan legislation to continue combating the coronavirus and keep our economy strong,” McConnell said.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-mcconnell-bill-idUSKBN20Z338

They WERE going to go into recess, but it seems reality has gotten thru at least a little bit.

Here's hoping they do something effective to address the coming spike in severely ill people that will be needing ICU level medical care.

[Midnightwalk]

3. How is this supposed to work again?

Oh yeah.

I'm just a bill
Yes I'm only a bill,
And I got as far as Capitol Hill.
Well, now I'm stuck in committee
And I'll sit here and wait
While a few key Congressmen discuss and debate
Whether they should let me be a law.
How I hope and pray that they will,
But today I am still just a bill.

Boy: Listen to those congressmen arguing! Is all that discussion and debate about you?

Bill: Yeah, I'm one of the lucky ones. Most bills never even get this far. I hope they decide to report on me favourably, otherwise I may die.

Boy: Die?

Bill: Yeah, die in committee. Oooh, but it looks like I'm gonna live! Now I go to the House of Representatives, and they vote on me.

Boy: If they vote yes, what happens?

Bill: Then I go to the Senate and the whole thing starts all over again.

Boy: Oh no!

Bill: Oh yes!

The next step is for the senate to pass something. Then the house and senate reconcile the two bills and pass that. Then the president signs or vetoes.

Sorry to keep repeating this, but this nonsense about the house has to negotiate with the president for the senate to get off its ass is infuriating.