Michelle Obama partners with

MTV for national virtual prom

Michelle Obama is helping to give students a prom.

Obama's nonpartisan organization, When We All Vote, and

MTV will host a virtual prom event for the class of 2020.
The event, announced on Thursday, is meant to boost the
spirits of the students whose proms and graduation
ceremonies have been canceled due to Covid-19 as well as
shine a light on registering and voting in the national election
in November.
MTV's Prom-athon is also being held in partnership with the
2020 Prom Challenge which Obama publicized in February by
sharing her own prom photo.

The event is scheduled to kick off on May 22 with an all-day,

on-air takeover on MTV featuring prom-themed throwback
movies and short-form original content highlighting the winning
schools and students.
At 9 p.m. EST a virtual prom party will live stream on MTV
YouTube and include surprise celebrity guest appearances and
live performances from major artists.
The event also serves to celebrate 20 winning high schools and
students who organized the most creative nonpartisan voter
registration efforts across the country.
Those winners were:

 Dobson High School - Mesa, Arizona

 Western School of Science & Technology - Phoenix
 Norte Vista High School - Riverside, California
 Compton Early College High School - Compton, California
 Community Charter Early College High School - Lake View
Terrace, California
 Thurgood Marshall Academy Public Charter High School -
Washington, DC
 Hialeah Gardens High School - Hialeah Gardens, Florida
 Meadowcreek High School - Norcross, Georgia
 TF North High School - Calumet City, Illinois
 Muchin College Prep - Chicago
 Communication and Media Arts High School - Detroit
 Cass Technical High School - Detroit
 John F. Kennedy High School - Winston-Salem, North
Carolina
 R.J. Reynolds High School - Winston-Salem, North Carolina
 Valley High School - Las Vegas
 STEM Academy at Showalter - Chester, Pennsylvania
 Abraham Lincoln High School - Philadelphia,
 Building 21 High School - Allentown, Pennsylvania
 Westbury High School - Houston
 Golda Meir High School - Milwaukee

The former first lady surprised the student leaders from the
schools Wednesday in a private Zoom call where they learned
about their wins and received congratulations for their efforts
and impact of their work.
According to a press release about the Prom-athon, four million
Americans are scheduled to turn 18 between now and the 2020
general election in November.

Summery
Because of the Corona Virus all the proms are cancelled. Students sitting sad at home
missing their prom. Michelle Obama thought that she could help and started a
online-prom. May 22th at 9p.m started the live streaming prom at YouTube. Famous
artists preformed.

Exclusive: Lack of immunity

means China is vulnerable to
another wave of coronavirus, top
adviser warns
China still faces the "big challenge" of a potential second wave of
Covid-19 infections, the country's top respiratory authority has warned,
with the lack of immunity among the community a serious concern as
the race to develop a vaccine continues.

Dr. Zhong Nanshan, the Chinese government's senior medical

adviser and the public face of the country's fight against Covid-19,
also confirmed in an exclusive interview with CNN on Saturday that
local authorities in Wuhan, the city where the novel coronavirus was
first reported in December, had suppressed key details about the
magnitude of the initial outbreak.
China has reported more than 82,000 coronavirus cases, with at
least 4,633 deaths, according to data from the country's National
Health Commission (NHC). The number of new infections surged
quickly in late January, prompting city lockdowns and nationwide
travel bans.
By early February, China was reporting as many as 3,887 fresh cases
a day. A month later, however, daily cases had dropped into the
double digits -- while in the US, the number of daily infections
skyrocketed, from 47 new cases on March 6 to 22,562 by the end of
the month.
Having now largely contained the virus, life in China is slowly
returning to normal. Lockdowns have eased and some schools and
factories have reopened across the country.
But Zhong said Chinese authorities should not be complacent, with the
danger of a second wave of infections looming large. Fresh clusters of
coronavirus cases have emerged across China in recent weeks,
in Wuhan as well as the northeastern provinces
of Heilongjiang and Jilin.

"The majority of ... Chinese at the moment are still susceptible of the
Covid-19 infection, because (of) a lack of immunity," Zhong said. "We are
facing (a) big challenge, it's not better than the foreign countries I think at
the moment."

"They didn't like to tell the truth"

Zhong is known as the "SARS hero" in China for combating the severe
acute respiratory syndrome epidemic in 2003. This time around, he has led
the country's coronavirus response -- especially in the critical early stages
of the outbreak.

On January 20, it was Zhong who confirmed on state broadcaster CCTV

that the coronavirus can be transmitted between people, after Wuhan
health authorities had maintained for weeks that there was no clear
evidence for human-to-human transmission, and that the outbreak was
"preventable and controllable."

Heading a team of experts dispatched by the NHC to investigate the initial

outbreak, Zhong visited Wuhan on January 18. He said that upon his
arrival, he received many calls from doctors and former students, warning
him that the situation was much worse than the official reports had
claimed.

"The local authorities, they didn't like to tell the truth at that time," Zhong
said.

"At the very beginning they kept silent, and then I said probably we have (a
larger) number of people being infected."

Zhong said he became suspicious when the number of officially reported

cases in Wuhan remained at 41 for more than 10 days -- despite infections
emerging overseas.

"I didn't believe that result, so I (kept) asking and then, you have to give
me the real number," he said. "I suppose they are very reluctant to answer
my question."

In Beijing two days later, on January 20, he was told the total
number of cases in Wuhan was now 198, with three people killed
and 13 medical workers infected.
In a meeting with central government officials, including Chinese
Premier Li Keqiang, that same day, he proposed to lock Wuhan down
to contain the virus' spread.
The move was unprecedented. The central government placed
Wuhan under lockdown on January 23, canceling all flights, trains
and buses in and out of the city, and blocking major highway
entrances.
The Wuhan lockdown was eventually lifted 76 days later.
In an interview with CCTV on January 27, Wuhan mayor Zhou
Xianwang admitted that his government did not disclose information
on the coronavirus to the public "in a timely fashion," saying, "as a
local government, we can only disclose information after being
authorized."
In February, China fired several senior officials amid widespread
criticism of the local authorities' handling of the outbreak. They
included the two officials in charge of the provincial health
commission, as well as the Chinese Communist Party chiefs of
Wuhan and Hubei province, according to China's state-run Xinhua
News Agency.
Lessons learned from SARS
While Zhong acknowledged that the number of infections were initially
under reported in Wuhan, he rejected accusations that China's official
statistics remained unreliable even after the central government took
control of the country's coronavirus response in late January.

With the number of coronavirus deaths surpassing 87,000 in the US,

President Donald Trump has publicly questioned the accuracy of China's
death toll.

But Zhong said the Chinese government had learned lessons from SARS 17
years ago, when it covered up "some of the outbreak... for two or three
months."

This time, he said, the central government announced that "all the cities,
all the government departments, should report the true number of diseases
-- so if you do not do that, you will be punished."

"So since ... the 23rd of January, I think all the data ... will be correct," he
added.

Zhong said he was surprised by the numbers of infections and

deaths in the US, adding that he felt some Western governments
didn't take the coronavirus threat seriously early in the outbreak.
"I think in some of the countries in Europe, or perhaps in the US, (the
governments) suppose this kind of disease... is more or less like
influenza, so that's wrong," he said.
Zhong also rejected the theory pushed by Trump and US Secretary
of State Mike Pompeo that the virus originated in a Wuhan
laboratory.
He said he had repeatedly asked Shi Zhengli, the lead virologist from
the Wuhan Institute of Virology at the center of the Trump
administration's accusations, about claims that the virus was
created in her lab and accidentally leaked.
"She said that's totally ridiculous, she had never been doing
anything like that," said Zhong, who called Shi a "good friend."
"She said based on their equipment and facilities and manpower...
they were unable to do anything, any kind of artificial virus at this
time."
Zhong said that in early February, China's disease control
authorities spent two weeks investigating Shi's lab for wrongdoing.
They didn't find anything, he added.
The pursuit of a vaccine
With thousands of new coronavirus cases still being reported around the
world every day -- and 300,000 dead since the pandemic began --
researchers are scrambling to develop a vaccine.

Three US companies are already testing their vaccines on humans,

according to the World Health Organization. They're still in phase 1 or
phase 2 trials, which typically involve giving the vaccine to dozens or
hundreds of study subjects.

Zhong said three Chinese vaccines are under clinical trials in the country --
however a "perfect" solution was likely to be "years" away.

"We have to test again and again and again ... by using different kinds of
vaccines. It's too early to draw any conclusion which kind of vaccine is
available for this kind of coronavirus ... that's why I suggest that the final
approval of vaccine (will) take much longer," he said.

Summery

China is the country that first faced the Corona Virus. The country had suffered a lot. Lots of
people died or where in danger. When China found out that the Corona Virus could bring it over
from people to people, they locked Wuhan up. They lied about the number of sick people. And
had not told it to the outside world. Since 23th January registrate China all the exact numbers.
Since the beginning started China to make a vaccine.

'We remember life under lockdown –

without food': An insight into life on the
Channel Islands 75 years ago
Seventy-five years ago, on May 9, the population of the Channel Islands came to the
end of a five-year lockdown when the British Navy arrived to free them from the Nazi
occupying forces a day after Germany’s formal surrender at the end of the Second
World War. A major party had been planned for this year, but it will of course have to
happen online, as the islanders face a lockdown of a different kind. 
Nobody saw the occupation coming. In early 1940, these sunny British Isles were
promoting themselves as a wartime tourism destination, the perfect bucket-and-
spade beach holiday for those having to abandon annual holidays further afield. With
attractive pink granite cliffs strewn with wildflowers, golden sand beaches and
renowned local produce, the Channel Islands were a favoured destination for UK
holidaymakers in the 1930s. I have photographs of my paternal grandmother with her
stylish bob, leaning on the sea wall in front of Elizabeth Castle with my grandfather
(they enjoyed their holidays to Jersey so much that they encouraged my father to
move there with them in the 1960s, and it is where he met my mother, a Jersey girl). 

Islanders thought they might have a bomb or two dropped on them, but in that sunny
spring of 1940, nobody dreamt of an invasion. By early June, however, when the
German army had crossed the Seine, islanders began to panic – could an evacuation
be completed before the Germans arrived on the French coast? Jersey is just 40 miles
from the port city of Saint-Malo in Brittany.

“There was hysteria in the days before the Germans arrived,” says 99-year-old Bob Le
Sueur, who was 19 at the start of the occupation. “The British stiff upper lip somehow
seemed to have disappeared. A lot of people were jostling to get on the boats, not to
do their bit for the war effort but just running from danger.” The decision of whether
to go or stay was a difficult one and many, including Bob and my maternal
grandparents, decided to stay.

“It meant five years of being cooped up with no freedom to express yourself,” Bob
continues. “You couldn’t trust your closest friend because, if that person was arrested
and interrogated, they might give you away. It was a false kind of life that everyone
here had to live.”

If life was hard for residents, spare a thought for the thousands of Russian slaves used
as forced labour during the occupation. They were among the 12,000 or so prisoners-
of-war sent to Jersey to build the fortifications that litter the island, though other
nationalities were granted more privileges than the Russians. Bob played a major part
in assisting any Russians who escaped, and in 2013 was appointed MBE by the
Queen. 

“Now, 75 years later,” he observes wryly, “we are prisoners again.” 

Jersey is currently completely locked down, with no passenger services in and out of
the island by boat or plane and just one daily lifeline flight to Southampton. Anyone
who does arrive there is subject to 14 days of quarantine, while locals are allowed out
for a two-hour window each day to shop or exercise. “The difference is that we have
enough food,” says Bob. “During the occupation we were desperately hungry. All the
time, we thought of food. Children leaving school were two inches shorter than
normal at the end of the war.”

summery

Seventy-five years ago got the Channel Islands liberated by the British navy. The Nazi’s got the
islands conquered in 1940. They send Russian inmates to the islands to work. The inhabitants
couldn’t trust no one cause everything that you spill could work against you. They got locked
up at their island and couldn’t go anywhere. In this Corona lock down are some people re-
living that time all over again. (now is it not that worse but still the same idea) They have two
hours to go to the grocery stores and to go sport, nothing else.