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Realtors warn that if housing market collapses everyone could one day afford house

TORONTO - After a nearly 30% decline in value, realtors across Toronto are concerned that if the market continues to falter someday in the near future everyone could afford a house.
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At New York prison, Harvey Weinstein put in isolation after contracting virus

ALBANY — Oscar-winning movie producer Harvey Weinstein, now one of New York's most notorious prison inmates after being sentenced for sexual assault, has tested positive for the COVID-19 virus, according
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Harvey Weinstein got it in prison.

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Coronavirus: Ontario stockpiled 55 million N95 masks after SARS, officials checking usability | Globalnews.ca

Officials would only confirm the expiration of those masks but did not reveal how many are left in the stockpile that could potentially be deployed.
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Interesting.
 
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Richard White said:
Speaking of SARS..

Here's a blast from the past that I'm hoping we replicate this time around. Molson stepped up last time we had a major pandemic and it lead to one hell of a concert.

If you were there you won't forget it. If you worked at a furniture company in the area during the concert you won't forget it either.

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Tickets *only* $21.50? I remember just walking in for free.
 
Situation getting increasingly grim in New York:

www.bbc.com

Coronavirus: New York warns of major medical shortages in 10 days

New York's mayor issues a stark warning as the state struggles to slow the spread of coronavirus.
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The coronavirus outbreak in New York will get worse, with damage accelerated by shortages of key medical supplies, the city's mayor has said.

"We're about 10 days away from seeing widespread shortages," Bill de Blasio said on Sunday. "If we don't get more ventilators people will die."

New York state has become the epicentre of the outbreak in the US and accounts for almost half of the country's cases.

There are now 31,057 confirmed cases nationwide, with 390 deaths.

On Sunday, the state's Governor Andrew Cuomo said 15,168 people had tested positive for the virus., an increase of more than 4,000 from the previous day.
 
AirBNB businesses hurting due to COVID-19

From link.

A Nashville Airbnb hostess, forced to leave her property vacant amid the pandemic, will struggle to make ends meet.

This is the first time Sandy Brainard has turned guests away. "It goes against everything I pride myself as a host..." she said. "To be inviting and welcoming, and making it as easy as possible to come and enjoy our city."

She is the proud hostess of two Nashville Airbnbs. After a tornado tore through downtown, she opened her in-home short term rental to displaced victims. "Whatever we can do to help. When there's disaster, it's us hosts that bring people into our homes."

As the Covid-19 threat became increasingly apparent, she had to make the difficult decision to close her non-owner occupied Airbnb, indefinitely.

"It wasn't just my own welfare, it was my guests' welfare that I had to be concerned about." It is income she depends on. "There isn't enough money coming in for me to pay my bills. That's just the reality of it."

In a time of great uncertainty, Brainard remains optimistic. "I'm no different than anyone else. I have to adapt, accept whatever comes my way and try and do so gracefully and help as many people along the way as I can," she said. "It'll be OK.

Brainard is currently renting her in-home Airbnb at an affordable rate to a young couple in need.
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This 39-year-old New Orleans woman tested for coronavirus. She died before getting her results.

She tested for coronavirus, and her results were delayed. Five days later, she was dead in her kitchen.

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On March 10, Natasha Ott, 39, felt the beginnings of a cold coming on.

She had a slight fever. CrescentCare, the medical clinic where she worked, had only a handful of tests for the new strain of coronavirus on hand. She initially passed on the chance to take one, after being told she was low-risk for the serious disease.

When her symptoms didn't shake, she did take the test on Monday. By Thursday, she felt "something in her lungs," she told longtime partner Josh Anderson. But she still felt well enough by then to join Anderson as the pair walked her dog.

On Friday, Anderson found Ott dead in her kitchen.

Her test results have still not come back. The Orleans Parish Coroner's Office has not released a cause of death; state health officials have not said whether they believe it was a case of coronavirus.
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Anderson, 40, believes that's exactly what it was. What happened to his girlfriend, he said, should be a wake-up call for anyone who still believes COVID-19 isn't as deadly as experts have claimed.

Speaking in an interview Saturday, after his social media post recounting Ott's experience was shared hundreds of times, he said the dearth of tests shows how ill-equipped New Orleans is to handle a pandemic that has already claimed 16 lives and infected nearly 600 people across the state.
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"She could have gotten a test last Friday, but they only had five tests, and she didn’t want to use one of them," Anderson said.

Less than a week ago, he was one of those who believed younger, relatively healthy people like Ott and himself would be fine amid the outbreak.

"I believed that people should stay home, but I don’t think I fully understood what the consequences could be if they didn’t," he said.

Noel Twilbeck, the CEO of CrescentCare, confirmed on Saturday that Ott was an employee and that she had died, but he declined to say anything more, citing respect for her family.

Ott tested negative for the flu before being swabbed for COVID-19, Anderson said. Her symptoms — respiratory cold, fever and loss of appetite — persisted as she tried to take care of herself while waiting for the swab results, up until she died.

New Orleans health care professionals have complained about similar long turnarounds for results as well as the paltry number of test kits provided to the state by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The situation forced them to turn away sick people who didn’t qualify for what until recently was a fairly high bar for a test. At first, only recent travelers with fever and respiratory trouble that required hospitalization could be swabbed, although the government has since allowed doctors to use more of their own discretion.

But private testing has finally started to ramp up, and with that should come far more tests and shorter wait times for test results. “What we are really hoping for is to have a much faster turnaround than what we have seen so far,” Dr. Robert Hart, Ochsner’s chief medical officer, said Wednesday.

A negative flu test, coupled with other COVID-19-like symptoms that can’t otherwise be explained, should ideally prompt a test or a CT scan that can shine light on the situation, other doctors have said.

New Orleans will open two drive-thru testing sites on Sunday to anyone with symptoms, thanks to a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services pilot program, officials said Saturday. Those sites opened for the first time on Friday, but only to front-line workers who were symptomatic. Jefferson Parish on Saturday opened a third site to all comers with symptoms.

Crews at the Jefferson Parish site will perform 250 tests a day, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., officials said, and the New Orleans sites will do the same number. People should expect their results via a phone call within three to five days.

That rapid result eluded Ott.

Other than giardia, an intestinal infection she contracted while working in Togo for the Peace Corps, Ott was “in decent health,” a relative, Emily Coalson Stamets, wrote in a public social media post.

Stamets called Ott “one of the smartest people I know.”

Retired nurse Christiane Geisler, who worked with Ott, a social worker, at CrescentCare, said in an interview that she “never said 'no' to a client in need.”

Ott texted Anderson regularly in the days before her death, he said. She complained of feeling unwell and feverish; she drank "medicinal whiskey" to try to feel better. Things seemed to be getting better on Thursday; after walking her dog, Zola, she and Anderson made plans to watch Netflix on Friday night.

When she didn’t answer his calls that day, he went to her home, where he found her body on the floor.

If a loved one is showing symptoms, "you need to check with that person … not every day, but every hour,” Anderson said. “And at any point, if they say anything about their lungs, you need to get them to the hospital.”

Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
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Russia sending help to Italy:

'From Russia with Love': Putin sends aid to Italy to fight virus

MOSCOW — The Russian army on Sunday began flying medical help to Italy to help it battle the new coronavirus after receiving an order from President Vladimir…
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MOSCOW — The Russian army on Sunday began flying medical help to Italy to help it battle the new coronavirus after receiving an order from President Vladimir Putin, a goodwill gesture that Moscow labeled “From Russia with Love.”

Giant Il-76 military planes began taking off from an airbase in the Moscow region after Putin spoke to Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Saturday and agreements were later reached between respective defense ministers.

The Kremlin said Putin had expressed his support for Italy’s leaders and people in the extremely difficult situation they were facing and had heeded an Italian request for help.
 
AlbertC said:
Situation getting increasingly grim in New York:

www.bbc.com

Coronavirus: New York warns of major medical shortages in 10 days

New York's mayor issues a stark warning as the state struggles to slow the spread of coronavirus.
www.bbc.com www.bbc.com

The coronavirus outbreak in New York will get worse, with damage accelerated by shortages of key medical supplies, the city's mayor has said.

"We're about 10 days away from seeing widespread shortages," Bill de Blasio said on Sunday. "If we don't get more ventilators people will die."

New York state has become the epicentre of the outbreak in the US and accounts for almost half of the country's cases.

There are now 31,057 confirmed cases nationwide, with 390 deaths.

On Sunday, the state's Governor Andrew Cuomo said 15,168 people had tested positive for the virus., an increase of more than 4,000 from the previous day.
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I fully expect the NYSE, Nasdaq and S&P 500 to tank this week... tank so bad that trading is halted for the good of the country. If NYC goes down so do the markets.

NYC is the focal point of the US and Global markets. If there is a major disaster in NYC you will cause markets not only in the US but the rest of the world to collapse.

Call me what you will but the heart of global commerce is the US Stock Exchange if it is in trouble so is the rest of the world.
 
So, whatever the IOC does, Canada is out of the Olympics, if held at the originally scheduled time.

We're pulling out.

Olympics-Team Canada says it won't participate in Games in summer 2020

The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) and Paralympic Committee (CPC) said on Sunday that Team Canada would not be participating in the Olympic and Paralympic…
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Richard White said:
I fully expect the NYSE, Nasdaq and S&P 500 to tank this week... tank so bad that trading is halted for the good of the country. If NYC goes down so do the markets.

NYC is the focal point of the US and Global markets. If there is a major disaster in NYC you will cause markets not only in the US but the rest of the world to collapse.

Call me what you will but the heart of global commerce is the US Stock Exchange if it is in trouble so is the rest of the world.
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I'm not calling you anything.

I am, however, asking you to calm down.

Companies will not cease to exist anytime this week.

Its entirely possible, maybe even probable, they will decline further, possibly a fair bit further.

Not really knowable, but an entirely reasonable supposition.

The ultra-rich have no desire to go broke, nor lose control of their businesses, so expect, that things will be managed in some fashion.

That's not to suggest there won't be pain, or perhaps more accurately, more pain.

We will, as a species get through this. Chin up.
 
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