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(1) Coronavirus - 1 million sign petition calling for Moon Jae-in's impeachment
Over a million people have signed an online petition calling for President Moon Jae-in's impeachment. As of 1 p.m. Thursday, the petition ― posted on the president's office website ― had garnered 1,017,689 signatures, a twofold increase in a day, reflecting growing public disapproval of the President. The petition criticizes Moon for his poor handling of the widening public health disaster and adoption of what its writer claims is "ineffective" measures to curb domestic infections of coronavirus while ignoring voices calling for a comprehensive entry block of people from China, the outbreak's epicenter. "Looking at how President Moon handles the coronavirus crisis gives me the feeling that he is the President of China, not South Korea," the petition reads. "The primary role of the President is keeping citizens safe and doing everything to protect them. If he has this in mind, why doesn't he ban the entry of people coming from China? The government's measures to counter (the crisis) are ineffective and useless, and devoid of a fundamental countermeasure, which is an entry ban from ground-zero."
(2) About 40% of US adults are obese, government survey finds
About 4 in 10 American adults are obese, and nearly 1 in 10 is severely so, government researchers said Thursday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention findings come from a 2017-18 health survey that measures height and weight. More than 5,000 U.S. adults took part. The survey found that the obesity rate was 42% — higher than the 40% found in a similar 2015-16 study. The severe obesity rate was more than 9% in the new survey, up from the 8% figure in the previous one. Those increases aren’t considered statistically significant: The survey numbers are small enough that there’s a mathematical chance the rates didn’t truly rise.
(3) Officials seek to calm public as new US virus cases reported
The coronavirus may have been circulating for weeks undetected in Washington state, a preliminary finding that could mean hundreds of undiagnosed cases in the state that’s also home to the nation’s first confirmed infection and now the first death, researchers said Sunday after analyzing genetic samples of the pathogens. State and local authorities stepped up testing for the illness Sunday as the number of new cases grew nationwide, with new infections announced in Illinois, Rhode Island and Washington state. Authorities in the Seattle area said two more people had been diagnosed with the coronavirus, both men in their 60s who were in critical condition. Those cases brought the numbers in the Seattle area to six. Fifty more people in a nursing facility in Kirkland, Washington, are sick and being tested for the virus. Elsewhere, authorities announced on Sunday a third case in Illinois and Rhode Island’s first case as worried Americans swarmed stores to stock up on basic goods such as bottled water, canned foods and toilet paper. The hospitalized patient in Rhode Island is a woman in her 40s who had traveled to Italy earlier this month. As the fallout continued, Vice President Mike Pence and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar sought to reassure the American public that the federal government is working to make sure state and local authorities are able to test for coronavirus. Both said during a round of TV talk show appearances Sunday that thousands more kits to test for coronavirus had been distributed to state and local officials, with thousands more to come.
(4) Twitter preps ephemeral tweets, starts testing in Brazil
Twitter is starting to test tweets that disappear after 24 hours, although initially only in Brazil. The company says the ephemeral tweets, which it calls “fleets” because of their fleeting nature, are designed to allay the concerns of new users who might be turned off by the public and permanent nature of normal tweets. Fleets can’t be retweeted and they won’t have “likes.” People can respond to them, but the replies show up as direct messages to the original tweeter, not as a public response, turning any back-and-forth into a private conversation instead of a public discussion.
(5) Cellphone alerts helped Tennessee couple escape to basement
Billy Dyer’s cellphone blared out an emergency alert, then his wife Kathy’s phone followed, giving them just enough time to get downstairs and flip on a TV to check the news. Then the tornado hit. When the sun rose Tuesday morning, the Dyers emerged to find the walls around their corner bedroom gone. Their mattress was perched precariously on their bed’s headboard, with only sky all around. “Thank God we had enough time to get downstairs to the basement or we would probably not be here,” Dyer said. State emergency officials said 24 people died when fast-moving storms crossed Tennessee early Tuesday. Eighteen of them, including five pre-teen children, died in Putnam County, some 80 miles (130 kilometers) east of Nashville. Eighty-eight more were injured in the county.
(6) 2 Georgia coronavirus cases confirmed, linked to Italy trip
State officials announced that Georgia’s first coronavirus cases were confirmed Monday in two people in the same Atlanta area household, including a man who recently traveled to Italy. Gov. Brian Kemp told reporters at a late night news conference that both people have isolated themselves at their Fulton County home with other relatives. Health officials were working to identify others who had recent contact with them. “Georgians should remain calm,” said Kemp, who hours early had announced a state coronavirus task force. “We were ready for today.” Georgia became the 12th U.S. state to report confirmed coronavirus infections. Total U.S. cases have topped 100. Six people have died, all of them in Washington state. The illness, named COVID-19, is characterized by fever and coughing and, in serious cases, shortness of breath or pneumonia. Worldwide, the death toll has exceeded 3,000, with more than 89,000 total cases in about 70 countries. Health officials suspect the Georgia cases are tied to one of the confirmed patients’ recent trip to Milan, Italy. The man called his doctor after developing symptoms, and the doctor thought coronavirus might be the cause after hearing about his trip to Italy, said Dr. Kathleen Toomey, commissioner of the state Department of Public Health. The two people were tested and the federal Centers for Disease Control called Georgia officials with the positive results Monday.
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