As researchers look at unequal mortality and discuss how policy decisions shape the different losses of the virus, we learn more every day about how the disaster of the covid-19 pandemic falls more on black people.

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I believe it was even sooner like back in November! My best friend's brother passed away first week in January from the flu and he had underlying issues. Hmmm...

"#Coronavirus: California announces earliest known US death" #Coronavirus

When was the earliest outbreak

WASHINGTON—Foreign students coming from Europe, along with some au pairs and family members of visa holders in the U.S., are exempt from the Trump administration’s various travel bans imposed during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a memo the State Department sent to Congress on Thursday.

The Trump administration has said that the array of travel and visa restrictions enacted since January were intended to slow the spread of the virus and block classes of foreign workers to open jobs for unemployed Americans. The restrictions affected China, Europe and Brazil, and people holding a range of visas, including the prized H-1B for high-skilled workers.

According to the memo, students in European countries who already have visas to study in the U.S., but were blocked by the March travel ban, will be able to come to the U.S. for classes in the fall. Students who can get a visa can also come.

“Granting [this exemption] will assist with the economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic and bolster key components of our trans-Atlantic relationship,” a State Department spokesman said in a statement in response to earlier questions about student visas. “We appreciate the transparency and concerted efforts of our European partners and allies to combat this pandemic and welcome the EU’s reciprocal action to allow key categories of essential travel to continue.”

The blanket exemption for these students provides certainty for tens of thousands of students from the U.K. to Italy and Kosovo who returned to their home countries when universities shut in the spring. These students were uncertain whether they could return in time for the fall semester if travel bans weren’t lifted.

The exemption doesn’t extend to students in China and Brazil, who face similar travel restrictions. It also doesn’t affect new students awaiting interviews at U.S. consulates for their visas. Many of these people can’t make appointments until the fall, after their semesters have already begun.

We should make a good judgment to prevent the spread of the epidemic

To strengthen confidence and overcome the epidemic situation requires the joint efforts of all mankind

We have the responsibility to fight the epidemic together, not to throw the pot. Such news should be read well

Don't blame each other. Big powers need responsibility，not to throw away the pot

Health and safety is the mainstream of my life. No matter where the epidemic first occurs, we should deal with it together.Some people say that before November last year, some people in the United States were infected with diseases. Is this true? Look at the symptoms they said, it should be unknown pneumonia

There are news reports that，Covid-19’s devastating toll on black and Latino Americans, in one chart.
Michal Zebede is a screenwriter and producer known for the social-justice news show ASPIREist. Shiza Shahid is the co-founder of the Malala Fund, a host on ASPIREist, a social entrepreneur, speaker and women’s rights advocate.
Correction appended, May 6, 2016.
We like to believe that here in the U.S. we are protected. We like to believe that the institutions that have been put in place to protect us run like well-oiled machines, precisely according to plan. But oftentimes, it’s the rigidity of these bureaucratic systems—and the failure to see beyond the narrow box of a singular job description—that can be most dangerous.
In the small town of Frederick, Md., just outside of Washington, D.C., a man named Randy White lost both his wife, Debra, and his 28-year-old daughter, Kristen, herself a mother of two, to cancer. Many households in his neighborhood have a similar story. According to the Kirsten Renee Foundation, there are now 1,300 documented cancer victims living within a one-mile radius.
Conducting investigative research for our new TV show ASPIREist, environmentalist Philippe Cousteau Jr. and producer Spencer Wilking traveled to Frederick to find out more.
This area of high cancer rates is adjacent to a U.S. military base called Fort Detrick. From 1943-1969, the fort was a center of the U.S. biological weapons program and performed research on chemicals including Agent Orange and anthrax, weaponized botulism and radioactive carbon.
According to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency, some of these substances were buried in a part of Fort Detrick called “Area B.” The lawsuit alleges that this contaminated the aquifer that feeds into the stream that runs through downtown Fredrick. In 2009 a report from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry foundcontaminants in the the groundwater but said exposure was not expected to cause health effects.
Devastated by the loss of his dearest ones, White became an activist. He hired scientists, conducted research and filed a class action lawsuit against the U.S. army—Erin Brockovich style. There is also a petition to the Secretary of the Army and Congress demanding that this toxic waste be cleaned up. The Army has denied links to cancer deaths and asked a judge to dismiss the lawsuits.
Under U.S. law, the task of fixing Frederick’s deadly cancer cluster falls under no one’s job description, at Fort Detrick or beyond. Although the army has acknowledged that the site is toxic, it has not acknowledged that this is a problem for the neighboring citizens. The Center for Disease Control has given Fort Detrick the highest biosafety level (level 4), meaning that the biological agents housed there are so dangerous, that the highest level of precautions are necessary to keep these agents contained.
The lives of the residents of Frederick have fallen through the cracks of our protective institutions. Hundreds of families have been destroyed. More than 14,000 have signed a petition to clean up the site. For White, this occupied every moment of his existence. “It’s changed my life so radically, sometimes I don’t even know who I am.”
Correction: The previous version of this article misstated the chemicals found near Fort Detrick. They include Agent Orange, anthrax, weaponized botulism and radioactive carbon.

Europe travel ban came too late to stop New York outbreak, CDC data confirms.https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/2020/07/17/cdc-europe-travel-ban-came-too-late-prevent-new-york-outbreak/5459172002/
This website news has been for a long time, is it true?