Tom Dempsey, a retired NFL kicker long known for a 63-yard field goal he kicked in 1970, died Saturday night in Louisiana after a bout with coronavirus, according to reports. He was 73. Dempsey contracted the virus in March while a resident of the Lambeth House retirement home in New Orleans, where at least 15 patients have died after being stricken with the virus, NOLA com reported. As of early Sunday, Louisiana had more than 12,400 confirmed cases of the virus, ranking No. 5 among U.S. states. The New Orleans area has recorded 153 deaths. 🗿#RIP
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Kenyan police fire tear gas into crowded market to enforce coronavirus rules. #Quarantine
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WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT! Meanwhile, in India ... #Quarantine
Shocking graphs have revealed the United States is still 11 days away from its coronavirus peak when it is predicted 2,644 people will die in 24 hours across the nation. The stark new model - created by researchers from the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics - also shows the country is also 10 days from its peak resource use, when 262,092 hospital beds will be needed.That is 87,674 less than the number of beds the U.S. has to its disposal, the predictions show. A staggering 39,727 ICU beds will be required; the estimated shortage of these will be 19,863, it adds. Researchers also warn 100,000 Americans will die by August 4. Previous White House predictions have put the figure between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths in the US if the nation continues on its trajectory and current social distancing guidelines are maintained. The University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics's model details a grim state-by-state breakdown of when hospitals will be overwhelmed and how many will die.
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An alligator was seen confidently walking onto a sidewalk at Barefoot Landing in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Clifford Sosis shot video of the alligator strolling around the outdoor shopping area on Wednesday, which is usually busy with shoppers. Despite South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster not issuing a state-wide stay-at-home, residents seem to be pretty clear from public spaces.
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Jerome Adams, the U.S. Surgeon General, said Sunday the next two weeks will be the 'hardest and saddest' of most Americans' lives as the deaths from coronavirus are expected to peak next Thursday. 'This is going to be the hardest and the saddest week of most Americans' lives, quite frankly,' Adams told Fox News Sunday. 'This is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment, our 9/11 moment – only it's not going to be localized, it's going to be happening all over the country. And I want America to understand that,' he continued in his warning to Americans. He reiterated his point during an interview with NBC's Meet the Press Sunday morning, claiming coronavirus will be the defining moment for this generation and 'hardest moment for many Americans in their entire lives.'
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Meanwhile, in Brazil ... #Quarantine
The captain relieved of command of the USS Theodore Roosevelt after warning of an outbreak of the coronavirus on his ship has tested positive for the virus, a U.S. defense official told Fox News on Sunday. The Navy ousted Capt. Brett Crozier, 50, after he authored a letter warning that the outbreak of the sometimes-deadly virus had created a dire situation on the carrier. The letter ended up in the hands of a San Francisco Chronicle reporter who first reported its contents last week. Crozier had started showing COVID-19 symptoms before he was removed from the warship last Thursday, The New York Times first reported, citing two Naval Academy classmates of Crozier's close to him and his family. Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly ordered Crozier to step down, citing a failure to follow the Navy's chain of command. He accused Crozier of inciting “panic” with the letter.
The former leader of America's largest neo-Nazi group says he's turned over a new leaf, but not everyone is convinced. Jeff Schoep, 46, led the white supremacy group the National Socialist Movement for over two decades until he stepped down from his role and revealed in the fall that is now speaking out publicly on the dangers of extremism. Schoep played a part in the Charlottesville rally in 2017 and is now a defendant in a lawsuit involving the white nationalist rally that left one counterprotestor dead. But while Schoep believes he's had a revelation to now do good, critics believe that his new lifestyle is just a ruse to avoid being found legally liable in the case. Schoep is among more than two dozen defendants accused of planning and carrying out violence at the 2017 Charlottesville white nationalist rally. And Schoep isn't the only defendant denouncing his claim to the racist movement.
New video shows the moment when a Venezuelan naval vessel and German cruise ship collide, which causes the warship to sink because the liner had a reinforced hull for crashing through ice. A seaman aboard the patrol boat Naiguata is seen at the beginning of the footage firing an AK-47 at the RGCS Resolute from Germany last Monday, in heavily edited footage released by the Venezuelan government. The warship, in the choppy footage, is seen at one point facing the cruise ship head on. The footage moments later then shows the Resolute impacting the Naiguata from the side, causing severe damage to the warship as it begins to take on water. The cruise ship's owner has alleged the Venezuelans were the aggressor in an attempt to illegally seize the liner in international waters and that all 44 crew members aboard the patrol vessel were rescued after the ship sunk.
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President Donald Trump stopped Dr. Tony Fauci from answering a question about the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine in treating the coronavirus as he tried to push a more hopeful message about the pandemic. Trump has promoted use of the drug to help coronavirus, after unproven evidence in other countries that it might help. He has even said he'd consider taking hydroxychloroquine himself. But when reporters tried to get the opinion of Dr Fauci - who has previously warned against seeing the malaria medication as a wonder drug - Trump stepped in and stopped the question. The president started his daily press briefing on a hopeful note, saying there was a 'light at the end of the tunnel' in the coming days - a marked contrast to his surgeon general who warned earlier Sunday that 'the hardest and the saddest week of most Americans' lives' was coming up in the battle against the coronavirus.
Authorities in New Orleans are to start accepting patients with coronavirus from today after setting up a temporary field hospital at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in the city. It's the same site where thousands of Hurricane Katrina refugees gathered in 2005. The temporary hospital which has room for up to two thousand people. So far 1,000 have been set up but another thousand can be erected should the need arise. The center is expected to handle an overflow of patients from the city's other hospitals. The Big Easy has been hit hard by the virus. Many of those contracting the disease already have poor health with well over a third of New Orleans residents suffering from both high blood pressure and obesity.