Coronavirus - COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #25

[KALI]

It may take a very long time for Vegas to get it's groove back. Really going to hurt them. Here in so. California we have a lot of huge casinos. Several within 12 miles from my house. I rarely go, but, this is going to kill them too.

We have a number of musicians that play at our place. They've told us that they are receiving cancellations.

mickey2942 -For your first question - you've read for over a month here on this thread, so cannot give you more than I've read here also to answer that you've commented/asked before.

Also, on the second one, I think you may have a typo, yet didn't do a link to check it. I think you left off a 0? Link please?

"Convention cancellations and scaling back of leisure travel have thrown resort occupancy into a tailspin. Sources say that MGM Resorts’ MGM Grand and Park MGM are at around 10–20% and Wynn is hovering around 30%. Normal numbers at this time of year are 80–100%."

Las Vegas Starts Concert Cancellations, Pool Club Employee Coronavirus Being Investigated

 

[gregjrichards]

What makes you think they’re drinking it? They’re prob making hand sanitizer!

It is strange how it’s only Smirnoff they are panic buying, they aren’t panic buying other brands. Vodka doesn’t have enough alcohol in it to be effective as a hand sanitizer, so I hope they aren’t buying it for that reason.

 

[PommyMommy]

Scientists isolate coronavirus strain responsible for deadly Covid-19 outbreak
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Researchers from Sunnybrook Research Institute, McMaster University and the University of Toronto, all in Canada, isolated the virus from two specimens and then cultivated it in a secure containment facility.

This does not mean isolating people infected with the virus, but means scientists have successfully obtained a pure sample of the virus, which they have contained outside the human body and can then study.


The team said the lab-grown samples would help scientists in Canada and across the world develop better diagnostic testing, treatments and vaccines to fight the coronavirus.

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[JudgeJoe]

Taylor Swift Urges Fans to Stay Home Amid COVID-19 Outbreak
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“I love you so much and need to express my concern that things aren’t being taken seriously enough right now,” she wrote. “I’m seeing lots of get-togethers and hangs and parties still happening. This is the time to cancel plans, actually truly isolate as much as you can and don’t assume that because you don’t feel sick that you aren’t possibly passing something on to someone elderly or vulnerable to this.

“It’s a really scary time, but we need to make sacrifices right now,” she added.

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I’d be more impressed if she shared the ways she’s personally contributing to the containment of the virus rather than hearing a big-sister style pep talk of what we should all be doing. Jmo. Tom Hanks-big fan- was travelling, filming, hobknobbing & spreading germs. Celebrities. Can’t live with ‘em. Can’t avoid boredom without ‘em...

 

[cass523]

I'm very worried about @Steelslady as well. I wish she would check in.

I thought of @Steelslady a couple of days ago. I am glad you mentioned her. I noticed she has not been on any of the threads posting, that I have been on. I also hope she is ok.

 

[PommyMommy]

Arc of Trump's coronavirus comments defies reality on ground
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“It started out with really what can only be described as full-blown denial,” said Brian Ott, a communication studies professor at Texas Tech University who has done extensive research on the president’s social media rhetoric. “Then as the crisis spread and as it became a pandemic ... it just wasn’t viable rhetoric anymore because it wasn’t at all where the American public was at.”

Early on, the president downplayed the coronavirus as something similar to the seasonal flu — nothing that Americans should be overly concerned about and something that would quickly pass.

His optimistic public comments often didn’t match the reality on the ground or even how U.S. public health agencies were approaching the looming crisis behind the scenes.

In one of his first substantive public remarks on the virus, during a visit in late January to an auto parts manufacturer in Michigan, Trump acknowledged that the U.S. had seen a smattering of infections but predicted a “very good ending for it.”

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[JudgeJoe]

I thought of @Steelslady a couple of days ago. I am glad you mentioned her. I noticed she has not been on any of the threads posting, that I have been on. I also hope she is ok.

Oh no!

 

[katydid23]

Infuriating. Right? Oh and they got their results in 4 hours.

He infected teammates and other players as well. The jazz player Donavan Mitchell who was identified as positive from the test visited a high school in town the day before the game and Oklahoma’s Health department said no risk. Mistakenly. This is the kind of misinformation that is xxxx infuriating! Would also be the cause for the rant by the dr in the earlier video I shared.


Mid-Del school officials issue statement after Utah Jazz player who visited school tests positive for COVID-19
Officials from Mid-Del Schools have spoken with the state of Oklahoma’s epidemiologist and he has assured the district that the students and staff who were present at the shootaround with Utah Jazz Player Donovan Mitchell are not at risk for contamination of the Coronavirus.

Why is it infuriating that the state used half their daily tests to check on the Utah Jazz players?

I am not understanding why it is so upsetting?

I cannot think of a more urgent situation to get a handle on, immediAtely. NBA teams travel the country, crisscrossing each state, and attending games in huge stadiums, 2 or 3x a week.

They have the ability to infect hundreds of people on a daily basis.

I applaud the state for shutting down the NBA so quickly after testing the Utah Jazz.

 

[margarita25]

Let’s keep that positive energy going because we are going to need it now more than ever. Let’s not let any trolls divert. Let’s also help support our Moderators too by just hitting ignore and reporting the post. It’s as easy as that. Otherwise they have a bunch of clean up and it’s deflecting from the urgent situation at hand.
There is so much information coming out that it is hard enough as it is to keep up with all the reports, studies, etc. with out any trolling - now I’m weeding through pages of garbage. It’s sad that in all years at WS I’ve never had so many people on ignore.

I’m saying this so we can keep moving forward. Just hit ignore and report the post.

We need to be armed with all the information we can get and share support with each other.

We don’t have time for kiddy games.

This is not the time to start breaking down.

Night shift clocking in for the night. As I have every night since @Amonet started this thread.

 

[PommyMommy]

Asia urges vigilance to maintain hard-won infection drops
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China, where the virus was first detected in December, now accounts for less than half of the world’s 169,000 cases, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.

A shutdown of public gatherings and a quarantine of the hardest-hit central region has steadied China’s caseload as the virus spreads rapidly elsewhere. Most of the world’s 77,000 recovered patients are in China.

Formerly ubiquitous traffic began returning to Beijing. Office buildings, however, enforced strict screenings for fever, and most restaurants only offered take-out. Children usually snowed under with classes and homework found themselves glued to screens, shopping, chatting and watching video clips.

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Starting Monday, travelers arriving in Beijing from overseas will be quarantined for 14 days in designated facilities at their own expense. Previously, people without symptoms could self-quarantine at home.

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[margarita25]

Why is it infuriating that the state used half their daily tests to check on the Utah Jazz players?

I am not understanding why it is so upsetting?

I cannot think of a more urgent situation to get a handle on, immediAtely. NBA teams travel the country, crisscrossing each state, and attending games in huge stadiums, 2 or 3x a week.

They have the ability to infect hundreds of people on a daily basis.

I applaud the state for shutting down the NBA so quickly after testing the Utah Jazz.

Exactly.

 

[LotsaLatte]

Christmas Day was the day we found out we are going to be 1st time Grandparents. I have been shopping up a storm, all things baby. Last month helping with some prelim baby shower plans, planning the date as we are hosting the men's diaper party. Yes diaper party's are a thing now. I woke up every day with such excitement. Now it's concern. Of course gatherings can be planned for after birth. Concern for Mom and baby and of course all Family. Seems a dark cloud over head. How things can change so quickly.

Oh Bravo - I relate to this so much. We are expecting grandbaby number one in a few weeks - early May and this is just such a frightening thing now. It was so exciting and now it's just become so concerning, I just want to cry.

 

[afitzy]

NY - NYPD Transit Chief tests positive for COVID19:

NYPD transit chief Ed Delatorre who protects city's 5.6m subway riders falls ill | Daily Mail Online

 

[Simply Southern]

Two of my dear friends adult children are desperately trying to return to the US.

One is in Munich, Germany on a family farm with her father, husband and her two boys. They planned to live their for two years and soak up the love of their huge family. Friday was the last day of their mandatory quarantine from an excursion in Lombardy Italy. Now desperate to return to the US before the world locks down. Hopefully, they will arrive Tues and plan to quarantine at a family home in a rural setting. Two families are "doubling up" so they can isolate.

My second friend is moving in with her son, their daughter is returning from Spain. She will be in a rural area, isolated, mom and dad very nearby. I worry about her most. She will be alone, have no physical contact for 14 days or more. She just turned 19, living her dream of studying in Spain, it has to devastating.

Both friends are working diligently to prepare their homes, food, medical supplies, and sealing off areas that will not be used. They have packed up alot of kitchen items, remove a lot of "stuff" to minimize any possible contamination, should they be infected. They are creating a containment area within the home. The are preparing and freezing meals.

I am so hoping and praying they reach American soil and are able to enter the country. All are scared to death

This is a mean, evil, destructive virus mentally and physically.

Moo...

 

[gitana1]

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First of all, China isn’t going crazy with deaths due to draconian, severe measures that only an authoritarian, communist nation could do. Going to door to door in Hazmat suits, forcing people to have their temperatures taken and dragging them out of their homes, screaming, to be placed in quarantine hospitals and areas. That contained it.

We aren’t even close to the measures they employed and will not be. That should scare the poop out of everyone.

Second, the flu virus is uncontainable. This is not uncontainable. But we have zero immunity to it. No herd immunity at all.

 

[diggndeeperstill]

Why is it infuriating that the state used half their daily tests to check on the Utah Jazz players?

I am not understanding why it is so upsetting?

I cannot think of a more urgent situation to get a handle on, immediAtely. NBA teams travel the country, crisscrossing each state, and attending games in huge stadiums, 2 or 3x a week.

They have the ability to infect hundreds of people on a daily basis.

I applaud the state for shutting down the NBA so quickly after testing the Utah Jazz.

Agree with what you’ve said. I really should’ve expounded. I too am glad this event happened it seemed to start things in motion here in the USA.

What is upsetting is how so many are having problems getting tests, and results and the team got theirs in 4 hours. My understanding is also that the player that was originally tested , Gobert, was sick , tested and then traveled with team while waiting for results. Results came right before tip off and then caused both teams to need to be tested. Meanwhile, almost a week after the fact the process to get tested in Oklahoma is a bundle of confusion. (Source the video I linked earlier by Dr. Noel Williams)

 

[pocketaccent]

‘It’s going to be daunting’: U.K. considers herd-immunity approach — allowing more people to contract coronavirus

“Herd immunity.” In the absence of therapeutic treatments or a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, it suggests that there’s safety in numbers. Physicians say the reality is far more complex.

Patrick Vallance, the U.K.’s chief scientific adviser, said herd immunity is an option the government is exploring in its effort to grapple with the coronavirus-borne illness COVID-19. The aim would be to allow immunity to build up among members of the population who are least at risk of dying from COVID-19.
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His aim is to build up a herd immunity so more people are immune to this disease, thereby reducing the rate of transmission and protecting those who are most at risk of dying from COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.

 

[JudgeJoe]

@firebird, please cite official sources for your statements as nothing I have read from such sources substantiates any portion of your OP.

@PommyMommy just cited this info within the last 2 pages. The numbers over there are improving significantly. No one is implying they’re in the free & clear. Just way way better.

 

[PingTheRouter]

Coles makes dramatic move

one of our super markets and probably the more widespread one is going to be closing at 8pm from Wednesday to allow them to stock the shelves properly overnight

this is going to hit some people hard as they don't finish work until late and having access to shopping later at night allows them to do their shopping

this is going to be crazy

 

[gitana1]

What makes you think they’re drinking it? They’re prob making hand sanitizer!

My mom said she’s gargling with it.