Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #37

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Woman accused of 'twisted prank' in grocery store charged

Police say Cirko went into the Gerrity's store along the San Souci Parkway near Nanticoke Wednesday afternoon where workers say she intentionally coughed on racks of fresh produce, bakery items, and the meat case.

According to arrest papers, Cirko said "I have the virus, now you are all going to get sick," before coughing on the food displays.

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The loss is estimated at more than $35,000, including organic produce, bakery items, and meats, as well as employees sanitizing the shelves.
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[Gardenista]

I don't think it was the same drugs, but it is still insane to think fish antibiotics will cure Covid 19. Labels said Penicillin, Amoxicillin, Keflex. Generic.
I told her it was dangerous, and whatever she does don't give them to anybody else either. I think she believed me. I told her people died.

I read that some antibiotics reduce inflammation, so that's why they are used in COVID patients.

 

[Deleted member 158085]

I don't think we'll see "normalcy" for a very long time

 

[Trudie]

Doctors Are Warning Of A Potential Connection Between Vaping And Coronavirus Complications

 

[10ofRods]

idk but my dad is dying right now in hospital and no one is allowed to be with him, not even my mom

((hugs)) It is like war.

 

[10ofRods]

Zipped out to Walgreens at lunch to get a few things including rocket fuel (Mountain Dew) was surprised they had TP and paper towels in stock so I grabbed one of each even though they were limiting 2 per customer.

Reading posts about digital entertainment, libraries and studying. It could be that I do a lot of silent film research online using digital archives that I tend to take that for granted.

For those of you with children learning another language, or if you're a college student learning another language, try Europeana Newspapers for practice reading:

Europeana Newspapers – A Gateway to European Newspapers Online

I'm having my students watch things with the sound off. (They are having a hard time keeping the sound off). But when they do, their eyes are open to a whole new dimension!

 

[Boston Corbett]

Scott Gottlieb, MD
@ScottGottliebMD
Resident Fellow@AEI
. Partner@NEA
. Contributor@CNBC
. 23rd Commissioner of the@US_FDA
· 2017 to 2019.
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1h

I’m worried about emerging situations in New Orleans, Dallas, Atlanta, Miami, Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia, among others. In China no province outside Hubei ever had more than 1,500 cases. In U.S. 11 states already hit that total. Our epidemic is likely to be national in scope.

 

[Lilibet]

One person is a Doctor. The other isn't.

One person is charged with leading this country and instilling some sense of hope, while the other is a scientifically trained medical professional. Two different animals.

In any medical situation, not just this one, instilling hope not based on scientifically based fact is false hope.
JMO

 

[Trudie]

i have to clarify a statement in this article-- Wayne County is not outside of
Detroit-- it is a county that includes Detroit and some other suburbs of Detroit..

Wayne county & Detroit have separate health departments,
I think that is what the author meant. Moo

 

[Sundog]

I do find it interesting that the esteemed doctor spends a lot of time on CNN. I think he is a saint working tirelessly to get information out to the American public in a factual, unbiased way.

I think that both Dr.Birx and Dr.Fauci try to go on every show or network they can, both committed to reaching as many people as possible with their message, working tirelessly and both must be exhausted.

 

[gngr~snap]

Or related to poor health practices in general. We all know someone that must constantly see their doctor, looking for cure de jour, yet fail to do what their doctor suggests.
As far as smoking, I’m curious if germs on ashtrays transfer to cig’/hand to mouth.......disgusting. Moo

Lots of lip touching going on! The lighter probably never gets cleaned either.
Good point!
Moo

 

[Reasonable & Just]

This is a good article.

"India banned exports of a malaria drug backed by U.S. President Donald Trump amid a run on supplies globally, even as preliminary findings emerge that the medication isn’t better than regular care in the treatment of the coronavirus."

Now think about what we have heard said about this drug.

India's current leadership is...interesting. So I'm not too surprised. JMO.

 

[Henry2326]

meanwhile, in Florida (not under a Stay-at-Home order):

And in South Miami, in a neighborhood surrounded by retirement homes, the president of a community hospital took out a $380,000 loan on his own house to secure the delivery of 1,000 test kits a week for the next few months.

Coronavirus tests in Florida are scarce. Could it be next epicenter?

Watch what they do, not what the say...
The President of a hospital did this.....what an extraordinary person....IMO

 

[zecats]

In any medical situation, not just this one, instilling hope not based on scientifically based fact is false hope.
JMO

Sir Winston Churchill agrees.

“There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.”

— Winston Churchill

 

[dixiegirl1035]

Behrooz Hassani-M @behrooz_hm
In Italy ~650K people die every year, on avg ~1800 per day. Yesterday ~700 people died due to #COVID19 which is ~40% of avg daily death, for Spain that number is ~55%!

 

[Trudie]

At the casinos in Indiana & MI, I know smoking is still allowed. Some people smoke non-stop, while spinning their fave slot. Some wil put cig’ in ashtray & have a sip of his drink, then pick cig’ up, after it was in a dirty ashtray.
Sounds risky, imo.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

It was reported earlier that doctors were writing these prescriptions for their own families.

States Say Some Doctors Stockpile Trial Coronavirus Drugs, for Themselves

Same article if above link has paywall.
States say doctors are stockpiling trial coronavirus drugs — for themselves

This makes me very upset. I was concerned when I read states were speeding up the medical licensure process. It might sound like a good idea but beware! Physicians are every single bit as human and flawed as the rest of us. So many physician sanctions I’ve seen involve fraud, drugs, greed, sex and moral turpitude. Abuse of Power.
"First do no harm" - Hippocratic Oath

eta:http://www.fsmb.org/siteassets/advocacy/pdf/fsmb-letter-to-vicepresident-pence.pdf

 

[margarita25]

Forgive me for asking, but who is Dr. Birks? Is he going by local numbers? Is he looking at places like Connecticut and New York/New Jersey?

Experts here in California (Stanford, UC San Francisco, UCLA, USC, UC Irvine) say that we're flattening the curve - but that we still have a massive storm ahead, with a predicted 2000 people dead in Santa Clara County alone.

Absolute must watch 1 minute clip moo / certainly no Doc Tedros or Dr. Mike. Not even close JMO.

ETA:
Frankly I’m still recovering from this

ETA2:
DEBACLE, moo.

 

[gregjrichards]

'When you have a situation when the cases today compared to tomorrow is increased dramatically and then the next day is increased dramatically, that's no time to pull back,' he said.

'That's when you have to hunker down, nail down, mitigate, mitigate, mitigate, get the people taken care of,' Fauci continued. 'You have to go with the data.'

US coronavirus: Dr Fauci throws cold water on Trump's proposal to reopen the economy by Easter | Daily Mail Online

 

[JDG]

Does anyone know if Tamiflu injections (stale dated from H1N1 times) could be helpful for COVID19??

Bit of a long shot, I know, but if altered, it should just be less potent, no??

My GP let it slip that he had purchased tamiflu for his family, as his children were young.

I remember telling him that I wasn't about to die from H1N1 for want of a prescription.

Think I have three shots of it tucked away in a drawer. Could it be useful now, even if past its date?