Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #44

DNA Solves
DNA Solves
DNA Solves

New Posts

Status
Not open for further replies.
momrids6 said:
Week 4 here. Can I help ?
Click to expand...
Thank you for the offer. Just adjusting to google class meets at various times and filling in for a colleague and getting students motivated to show up online. My Lab is still recovering from emergency surgery so I have not had the chance to get out my pjs all day. Tomorrow is a new day right?!
 
10ofRods said:
From my point of view, studies done in an early segment of the outbreak are not typical and not to be used as indicative of overall survival rates after intubation.

In the study you cited, about half of the people were discharged from the hospital (because they were admitted early in the game). It would be very, very different if you looked at New York.
Click to expand...
Have you got a link to some New York ICU figures? The article I posted was dated March.
 
Oregonmama said:
Checkin in... Today is day 1 of distance learning for my teens, not a fun experience.
Click to expand...

I bet not. What I find is working are really clear deadlines (I'm a teacher) which I then exempt students from, on a case by case basis (I am letting all of them do late work). SO many home variables for students.

Today, our 5 year old granddaughter had kindergarten on Zoom. 20 kids in the class, an amazing 12 showed up. Two (including my granddaughter) were so shy they refused to speak. One little boy bravely stepped up to do the read out loud segment.

I truly truly think that parents of homeschooled kids should focus on reading, world events, literature and small amounts of statistics. Granddaughter practiced the concept "exponential" with a bunch of tongue depressors we happen to have. I know that my college students could benefit from a similar exercise, because they only know what it means in theory and on paper - they can't visualize it.

I'm here to help if you want. Most teens can do many of these:

Free online courses you can finish in a day | Coursera

I recommend the Stanford course on health and nutrition, and also the one on research methods. They are not hard and they are very well done.

I wouldn't worry too much about following the school dictated curriculum just yet.
 
ilovewings said:
i just got the alohol wipes i ordered--they are small but tbey are 75% alcohol--
cannot find alcoho! or disinfectant wipes at any store-- and my package
contained a surprise. ---a. mask-- i am really happy about that!!!
Click to expand...
Nice. What kind of mask?
 
10ofRods said:
Amazon has a huge banner on their pages saying that certain supplies get shipped more quickly. They call it "things people need." We have had pretty good service. We've managed to get all our vitamins, and a bunch of other needed things as quickly as usual.

Of course, some things are out of stock.
Click to expand...
I saw that too. I ordered some of that hepa vacuum cleaner bags, and some down jacket repair tape. So they are sending the repair tape now, and the bags mid may. Man I'm having trouble with internet, grrrr. I don't want anyone in my house, much less repairmen.
 
Last edited:
10ofRods said:
I bet not. What I find is working are really clear deadlines (I'm a teacher) which I then exempt students from, on a case by case basis (I am letting all of them do late work). SO many home variables for students.

Today, our 5 year old granddaughter had kindergarten on Zoom. 20 kids in the class, an amazing 12 showed up. Two (including my granddaughter) were so shy they refused to speak. One little boy bravely stepped up to do the read out loud segment.

I truly truly think that parents of homeschooled kids should focus on reading, world events, literature and small amounts of statistics. Granddaughter practiced the concept "exponential" with a bunch of tongue depressors we happen to have. I know that my college students could benefit from a similar exercise, because they only know what it means in theory and on paper - they can't visualize it.

I'm here to help if you want. Most teens can do many of these:

Free online courses you can finish in a day | Coursera

I recommend the Stanford course on health and nutrition, and also the one on research methods. They are not hard and they are very well done.

I wouldn't worry too much about following the school dictated curriculum just yet.
Click to expand...

My Facebook feed was full of parents asking if it was 5 yet at 9am . LOL

I am not wot worried about my teens since they are both on honor roll but so many parents are struggling and only 5 teens out of 40 showed up to my google meet class. I see so much " I don't care" and I cringe at how many students will be lost academically in the Fall.
 
Sad

A newborn baby in Louisiana has died in after being born premature to a COVID-19 positive mother. The death is believed to be the first of its kind in the state, according to a local health official.

The baby's mother, who was not identified, was admitted to a Baton Rouge hospital and tested positive for COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus. The woman was placed on a ventilator and then went into premature labor, according to East Baton Rouge Parish coroner Beau Clark, M.D.

The baby did not survive "because of the extreme premature [birth]," according to Clark. Although there is no way to know for sure why this patient went in to premature labor, her doctor believes COVID-19 may have played a role.

"Had [the mother] not been COVID-19 positive, had not required ventilator support, had not had the shortness of breath, the hypoxia that is associated with the virus, likely she would not have gone into preterm labor and there would have been a different outcome," Clark said in a press conference Monday, adding that the baby "as of now has not tested positive for COVID-19."

Baby dies after mom with COVID-19 goes into premature labor: What we know about how susceptible infants are and how they’re treated
 
10ofRods said:
From my point of view, studies done in an early segment of the outbreak are not typical and not to be used as indicative of overall survival rates after intubation.

In the study you cited, about half of the people were discharged from the hospital (because they were admitted early in the game). It would be very, very different if you looked at New York.
Click to expand...
Have you got a link to some New York ICU figures? The article I posted was dated March. The following note is added at the end of the article.

"This article was amended on 30 March 2020. The headline and first paragraph referred to a 50% mortality/survival rate for coronavirus patients admitted to ICU. Calculations of case fatality rates are complex while an outbreak is ongoing and, although one method can be to divide the number of deaths by the number of deaths plus recovered patients (ie to look only at those patients for whom an outcome is known), its reliability depends on the extent to which the outcome for patients still in treatment can be assumed to be similar. The ICNARC report on which the article’s calculations were based is early data in the Covid-19 outbreak. As such, a small sample of 165 patients, which could be biased towards the most and least severe cases, may not be indicative of the outcome for all those admitted to critical care. The headline, introduction and later reference to death rates have been amended accordingly."
 
10ofRods said:
I hope people remember that by the time most people spike a fever, they've been shedding virus for up to 2 weeks...and will continue to do so throughout their acute phase, and for an unknown time afterward.

Watching beautiful Washington state carefully as they will provide much needed data on the uncharted territory of how to manage this, after the peak and plateau.
Click to expand...

Which is why we all need log books. We need to be writing down dates and times we leave our property. Where we went, even if on a walk. We need to be able to have a 2 week log should, God forbid, we test positive. Jmo
 
I read reports of chinese people getting rid of their pets (to put it nicely) for that reason, fear of them being spreaders. It might be true. For instance, we were told at first not wear masks (it won't help they said) so we would not stock pile them and first responders can have them. Now it turns out it is highly suggested to use them. Now if you take that same idea but with pets, I have read articles that stated pets cant spread it. They could have told us that because they didn't want to end up with a bunch dead animals or shelters being filled to the max. I am curious about this, I sound like a conspiracy theorist but I am actually not, I am going by the example of the masks. I would see on the news pictures of other countrys wearing them and I thought it weird that we were being told not to cause they don't help the spread. On another note, I don't drink but a little escapism would be nice. I will turn off the news for awhile I guess so have a drink for me for those of you who indulge.
One more thing, Boris Johnson kind of freaked me out because he is a big public figure it became realer for me today.
Jmo I will look for links to back up my rant
 
Just wanted to say from the UK, we deeply appreciate the prayers and kind words from everyone here and from your President for our Prime Minister. I'm sure I am not the only person in my country tonight finding it hard to stop the tears over him, Carrie, his family and unborn child. He brought our country together after a long period of frustration and there was a feeling of at last moving forward to better times, whatever your politics. Boris Johnson is a very likeable, human politician, funny and ultimately a kind person, I believe. Like so many leaders, this pandemic has taken a heavy toll on him, so much responsibility and so many lives at stake.

This is a very low point for us, so many personal tragedies playing out all over the world. Ultimately having our leader in such a perilous position, will shock people here into pulling together even more than we already are. I'm trying to focus on pictures of Boris, Carrie, and baby Johnson (with a shock of white-blond hair) in May or June.
 
RosalindaA said:
Just wanted to say from the UK, we deeply appreciate the prayers and kind words from everyone here and from your President for our Prime Minister. I'm sure I am not the only person in my country tonight finding it hard to stop the tears over him, Carrie, his family and unborn child. He brought our country together after a long period of frustration and there was a feeling of at last moving forward to better times, whatever your politics. Boris Johnson is a very likeable, human politician, funny and ultimately a kind person, I believe. Like so many leaders, this pandemic has taken a heavy toll on him, so much responsibility and so many lives at stake.

This is a very low point for us, so many personal tragedies playing out all over the world. Ultimately having our leader in such a perilous position, will shock people here into pulling together even more than we already are. I'm trying to focus on pictures of Boris, Carrie, and baby Johnson (with a shock of white-blond hair) in May or June.
Click to expand...

Praying he will recover- this is such an unpredictable disease. just when it seems a person is getting better, they deteriorate quickly.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

DNASolves

Who is Fairfield County Jane Doe (1993)?

Members online

... and 181 more.
Total: 435 (members: 182, guests: 253)

Online statistics

Members online
182
Guests online
253
Total visitors
435
Totals may include hidden visitors.

Forum statistics

Threads
608,863
Messages
18,246,621
Members
234,472
Latest member
Crime Girl
Back
Top