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Coronavirus: Dettol and Lysol maker warns against injections after Trump comments
A leading global disinfectant maker has been forced to warn consumers against injecting or drinking its products after Donald Trump asked if it could help treat the coronavirus.
Reckitt Benckiser (RB, RB.L), the maker of UK cleaning brand Dettol and US brand Lysol, issued the stark advice to consumers on Friday, saying it had a responsibility to help with “myth-busting.”
“As a global leader in health and hygiene products, we must be clear that under no circumstance should our disinfectant products be administered into the human body,” it said in a statement on its website.
The London-listed firm’s statement came after the US president said it would be “interesting” for researchers to check if inserting disinfectant into patients’ bodies could help, calling it “almost a cleaning.”
The comments have been widely dismissed by scientists and sparked ridicule. Robert Reich, a US public policy professor and former labour minister, tweeted: “Trump's briefings are actively endangering the public's health. Boycott the propaganda. Listen to the experts. And please don't drink disinfectant.”
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A leading global disinfectant maker has been forced to warn consumers against injecting or drinking its products after Donald Trump asked if it could help treat the coronavirus.
Reckitt Benckiser (RB, RB.L), the maker of UK cleaning brand Dettol and US brand Lysol, issued the stark advice to consumers on Friday, saying it had a responsibility to help with “myth-busting.”
“As a global leader in health and hygiene products, we must be clear that under no circumstance should our disinfectant products be administered into the human body,” it said in a statement on its website.
The London-listed firm’s statement came after the US president said it would be “interesting” for researchers to check if inserting disinfectant into patients’ bodies could help, calling it “almost a cleaning.”
The comments have been widely dismissed by scientists and sparked ridicule. Robert Reich, a US public policy professor and former labour minister, tweeted: “Trump's briefings are actively endangering the public's health. Boycott the propaganda. Listen to the experts. And please don't drink disinfectant.”
Coronavirus: Dettol and Lysol maker warns against injections after Trump comments
Reckitt-Benckiser (RB) said it was 'myth-busting' after being asked whether disinfectants could treat the coronavirus.
AlbertC
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Georgia is reopening hair salons, gyms and bowling alleys despite a rise in coronavirus deaths statewide
Updated 9:13 AM ET, Fri April 24, 2020
Undeterred by a barrage of criticism, Georgia state officials moved ahead Friday with plans to allow some nonessential businesses to reopen, even as coronavirus deaths increase statewide.
Gov. Brian Kemp, a first-term Republican, was one of the last state leaders to issue a stay-at-home order, effective April 3, to combat the spread of Covid-19.
This week, Kemp became one of the nation's first governors to ease those restrictions after he allowed businesses such as gyms, barber shops, hair salons, tattoo parlors and bowling alleys to reopen.
His decision has pit him against mayors from cities including Atlanta, Augusta and Savannah, as well as advice rooted in a data model often cited by the White House.
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Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has called Kemp's decision perplexing for a state battling a virus that's killed nearly 900 residents and sickened about 22,000 others. Nationwide, the death toll is approaching 50,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
Bottoms said Friday morning that she expects some people will not heed pleas for social distancing.
"They will go into hair salons and go and get manicures and pedicures as if it's business as usual," Bottoms told CNN's John Berman. "And then what I expect is that in a couple of weeks we will see our numbers continue to rise in this state."
"Nothing has changed," she said, urging residents of her city to stay home. "People are still getting infected. People are still dying."
www.cnn.com
Updated 9:13 AM ET, Fri April 24, 2020
Undeterred by a barrage of criticism, Georgia state officials moved ahead Friday with plans to allow some nonessential businesses to reopen, even as coronavirus deaths increase statewide.
Gov. Brian Kemp, a first-term Republican, was one of the last state leaders to issue a stay-at-home order, effective April 3, to combat the spread of Covid-19.
This week, Kemp became one of the nation's first governors to ease those restrictions after he allowed businesses such as gyms, barber shops, hair salons, tattoo parlors and bowling alleys to reopen.
His decision has pit him against mayors from cities including Atlanta, Augusta and Savannah, as well as advice rooted in a data model often cited by the White House.
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Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has called Kemp's decision perplexing for a state battling a virus that's killed nearly 900 residents and sickened about 22,000 others. Nationwide, the death toll is approaching 50,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
Bottoms said Friday morning that she expects some people will not heed pleas for social distancing.
"They will go into hair salons and go and get manicures and pedicures as if it's business as usual," Bottoms told CNN's John Berman. "And then what I expect is that in a couple of weeks we will see our numbers continue to rise in this state."
"Nothing has changed," she said, urging residents of her city to stay home. "People are still getting infected. People are still dying."
Georgia business owners are conflicted as the state reopens hair salons, gyms and bowling alleys
Hair stylists at Salon Gloss in Woodstock, Georgia, wore masks and gloves on Friday, maintaining distance by using every other work station and keeping a supply of hand sanitizer nearby. Their customers also donned masks and gloves, while another employee disinfected a countertop.
Towered
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Well he's obviously a narcissist. That's one major disorder right there. Very likely that he's a sociopath too, given his clearly displayed history of lack of empathy, complete aversion to taking responsibility for any errors, and consistent, pathological lying.
W. K. Lis
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Coronavirus: Dettol and Lysol maker warns against injections after Trump comments
A leading global disinfectant maker has been forced to warn consumers against injecting or drinking its products after Donald Trump asked if it could help treat the coronavirus.
Reckitt Benckiser (RB, RB.L), the maker of UK cleaning brand Dettol and US brand Lysol, issued the stark advice to consumers on Friday, saying it had a responsibility to help with “myth-busting.”
“As a global leader in health and hygiene products, we must be clear that under no circumstance should our disinfectant products be administered into the human body,” it said in a statement on its website.
The London-listed firm’s statement came after the US president said it would be “interesting” for researchers to check if inserting disinfectant into patients’ bodies could help, calling it “almost a cleaning.”
The comments have been widely dismissed by scientists and sparked ridicule. Robert Reich, a US public policy professor and former labour minister, tweeted: “Trump's briefings are actively endangering the public's health. Boycott the propaganda. Listen to the experts. And please don't drink disinfectant.”
Coronavirus: Dettol and Lysol maker warns against injections after Trump comments
Reckitt-Benckiser (RB) said it was 'myth-busting' after being asked whether disinfectants could treat the coronavirus.
From link.
Johnny Au
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It is time Fulton and DeKalb counties (Atlanta is mostly in Fulton County with a small part in DeKalb County) split from Georgia and become its own state. Given that Atlanta is the current capital of Georgia, Kemp can choose a new capital of Georgia, one that consistently votes Republican, just like much of the state outside both Fulton and DeKalb counties.Georgia is reopening hair salons, gyms and bowling alleys despite a rise in coronavirus deaths statewide
Updated 9:13 AM ET, Fri April 24, 2020
Undeterred by a barrage of criticism, Georgia state officials moved ahead Friday with plans to allow some nonessential businesses to reopen, even as coronavirus deaths increase statewide.
Gov. Brian Kemp, a first-term Republican, was one of the last state leaders to issue a stay-at-home order, effective April 3, to combat the spread of Covid-19.
This week, Kemp became one of the nation's first governors to ease those restrictions after he allowed businesses such as gyms, barber shops, hair salons, tattoo parlors and bowling alleys to reopen.
His decision has pit him against mayors from cities including Atlanta, Augusta and Savannah, as well as advice rooted in a data model often cited by the White House.
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Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has called Kemp's decision perplexing for a state battling a virus that's killed nearly 900 residents and sickened about 22,000 others. Nationwide, the death toll is approaching 50,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
Bottoms said Friday morning that she expects some people will not heed pleas for social distancing.
"They will go into hair salons and go and get manicures and pedicures as if it's business as usual," Bottoms told CNN's John Berman. "And then what I expect is that in a couple of weeks we will see our numbers continue to rise in this state."
"Nothing has changed," she said, urging residents of her city to stay home. "People are still getting infected. People are still dying."
Georgia business owners are conflicted as the state reopens hair salons, gyms and bowling alleys
Hair stylists at Salon Gloss in Woodstock, Georgia, wore masks and gloves on Friday, maintaining distance by using every other work station and keeping a supply of hand sanitizer nearby. Their customers also donned masks and gloves, while another employee disinfected a countertop.
Atlanta needs to be able to control its own destiny.
AlbertC
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LIBERATE ATLANTA!!! ?
AlbertC
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Trump owes tens of millions to the Bank of China — and the loan is due soon
04/24/2020 04:30 AM EDT
Donald Trump is warning “China will own the United States” if Joe Biden is elected president.
But Trump himself is tens of millions of dollars in debt to China: In 2012, his real estate partner refinanced one of Trump’s most prized New York buildings for almost $1 billion. The debt includes $211 million from the state-owned Bank of China — its first loan of this kind in the U.S. — which matures in the middle of what could be Trump’s second term, financial records show.
Steps from Trump Tower in Manhattan, the 43-story 1290 Avenue of the Americas skyscraper spans an entire city block. Trump owns a 30 percent stake in the property valued at more than $1 billion, making it one of the priciest addresses in his portfolio, according to his financial disclosures.
Trump’s ownership of the building received a smattering of attention before and after his 2016 campaign. But the arrangement with the Bank of China — and its impending due date in 2022 — has gone largely unnoticed.
www.politico.com
04/24/2020 04:30 AM EDT
Donald Trump is warning “China will own the United States” if Joe Biden is elected president.
But Trump himself is tens of millions of dollars in debt to China: In 2012, his real estate partner refinanced one of Trump’s most prized New York buildings for almost $1 billion. The debt includes $211 million from the state-owned Bank of China — its first loan of this kind in the U.S. — which matures in the middle of what could be Trump’s second term, financial records show.
Steps from Trump Tower in Manhattan, the 43-story 1290 Avenue of the Americas skyscraper spans an entire city block. Trump owns a 30 percent stake in the property valued at more than $1 billion, making it one of the priciest addresses in his portfolio, according to his financial disclosures.
Trump’s ownership of the building received a smattering of attention before and after his 2016 campaign. But the arrangement with the Bank of China — and its impending due date in 2022 — has gone largely unnoticed.
Trump owed tens of millions to Bank of China
The president's financial dealings with the state-owned bank complicate his attacks on Biden.
W. K. Lis
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One of the doctors leaving a Donald Trump news conference earlier this week.
AlbertC
Superstar
Rudy Giuliani doesn’t get how coronavirus works. Fox News showcased his misinformation anyway.
Apr 24, 2020, 12:00pm EDT
Thursday’s edition of Fox News’s Ingraham Angle featured egregious coronavirus misinformation, courtesy of President Donald Trump’s personal attorney.
Rudy Giuliani and Laura Ingraham teamed up to mock the idea of contact tracing — a surveillance tool experts broadly agree is key to getting the US coronavirus outbreak under control. (Contact tracing involves the strategic deployment of testing so anybody who comes in contact with a coronavirus can be tested and, if necessary, quarantined, hopefully nipping outbreaks in the bud.) Giuliani, however, thought it useful to compare Covid-19 to other potentially deadly, but non-infectious, maladies like cancer or heart disease.
After Ingraham brought up a $10.5 million contact tracing program Bloomberg Philanthropies and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) are working together on, Giuliani said, derisively, that “we should trace everybody for cancer, and heart disease, and obesity, and — I mean a lot of things kill you more than Covid-19, so we should be traced for all those things.”
www.vox.com
Apr 24, 2020, 12:00pm EDT
Thursday’s edition of Fox News’s Ingraham Angle featured egregious coronavirus misinformation, courtesy of President Donald Trump’s personal attorney.
Rudy Giuliani and Laura Ingraham teamed up to mock the idea of contact tracing — a surveillance tool experts broadly agree is key to getting the US coronavirus outbreak under control. (Contact tracing involves the strategic deployment of testing so anybody who comes in contact with a coronavirus can be tested and, if necessary, quarantined, hopefully nipping outbreaks in the bud.) Giuliani, however, thought it useful to compare Covid-19 to other potentially deadly, but non-infectious, maladies like cancer or heart disease.
After Ingraham brought up a $10.5 million contact tracing program Bloomberg Philanthropies and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) are working together on, Giuliani said, derisively, that “we should trace everybody for cancer, and heart disease, and obesity, and — I mean a lot of things kill you more than Covid-19, so we should be traced for all those things.”
Rudy Giuliani doesn’t get how coronavirus works. Fox News showcased his misinformation anyway.
Hours after President Trump mused about injecting disinfectant, his lawyer pushed misinformation of his own.
www.vox.com
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AlbertC
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Coronavirus: Trump 'can't imagine why' US disinfectant calls spiked
President Donald Trump has said he "can't imagine why" US hotline calls about disinfectant have risen after he suggested injecting the substance to treat coronavirus.
The governors of Michigan and Maryland on Sunday blamed the president for the spike in such calls.
www.bbc.com
President Donald Trump has said he "can't imagine why" US hotline calls about disinfectant have risen after he suggested injecting the substance to treat coronavirus.
The governors of Michigan and Maryland on Sunday blamed the president for the spike in such calls.
Coronavirus: Trump 'can't imagine why' US disinfectant calls spiked
The president says he takes no responsibility for a reported spike in calls to emergency hotlines.
www.bbc.com
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Coronavirus: Mike Pence flouts rule on masks at hospital
US Vice-President Mike Pence has visited a top US hospital without wearing a mask, despite the medical centre's own rules that visitors wear personal protective equipment.
Mr Pence appeared to be the only person present not in a facial covering at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.
In a deleted tweet, the clinic said the vice-president had been notified in advance of its policy requiring masks.
Mr Pence leads the White House coronavirus taskforce.
He defended his decision as necessary in order to meet with staff and patients.
www.bbc.com
US Vice-President Mike Pence has visited a top US hospital without wearing a mask, despite the medical centre's own rules that visitors wear personal protective equipment.
Mr Pence appeared to be the only person present not in a facial covering at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.
In a deleted tweet, the clinic said the vice-president had been notified in advance of its policy requiring masks.
Mr Pence leads the White House coronavirus taskforce.
He defended his decision as necessary in order to meet with staff and patients.
Coronavirus: Mike Pence flouts rule on masks at hospital
In a deleted tweet, the Mayo Clinic said the US vice-president had been told of their mask rules.
www.bbc.com