Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #52

[Henry2326]

French professional soccer, rugby and other league sports will not be allowed to return before September, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said on Tuesday, in comments that appeared to call an end to their 2019-20 seasons.

The French football league is expected to decide in May on exactly how to end the Ligue 1 season, which currently has Paris St Germain leading Olympique Marseille by 12 points. The 2020-2021 season had been due to begin in August.

"The 2019-2020 season of professional sports, especially that of football, will not be able to resume," Philippe told parliament when announcing plans to end the national lockdown that has been in place since March 17.

French soccer, other sports will not resume before September: PM

 

[TMAN2014]

https://www.fema.gov/media-library-...5258/final__defense_production_act_091030.pdf

production act

 

[katydid23]

Total confirmed cases per million, or in general, are not the same for Canada and the USA. Death rate is at 5.5% in both countries.

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the US has a much denser population. We have many more dense urban centers than Canada does.

In our less dense states, that are closer to the living situations like Canada has, our statistics are quite similar.

Compare California to Canada, which have roughly same population and statistics match pretty well.

 

[LadyL]

Walker's plague doctor outfit 'terrifying kids'

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Image captionThe sight of the individual out walking in a plague doctor outfit has provoked mixed reactions
Police have said they are keen to trace a person who has been walking around a village dressed as a 17th Century plague doctor.

Residents of Hellesdon, near Norwich, have been both "terrified" and amused by the individual dressed in a black cloak, hat, and pointed beak-like mask.

Doctors treating those with the Black Death believed the mask acted as a filter against the disease.

Police said they would like to give the individual some "words of advice".

It is thought the person has been dressing this way for about two weeks for their daily walk, with a photograph posted on a village social media page attracting many different points of view.

yeah that's kind of creepy

 

[LadyL]

Time to be a vegetarian.

vegan's even better!

 

[rodneymullenmg]

yeah that's kind of creepy

IMO a good reminder.
Like when the grim reaper went to the beaches

 

[katydid23]

The United States, for example, has far more Covid-19 deaths than any other country - as of 20 April, a total of over 40,000 deaths.

But the US has a population of 330 million people.

If you take the five largest countries in Western Europe - the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain - their combined population is roughly 320 million.

And the total number of registered coronavirus deaths from those five countries, as of 20 April, was over 85,000 - more than twice that of the US.

So, individual statistics don't tell the full story.
Can you compare different countries?

THANK YOU for posting that article, tresir

I am tired of reading over and over about how the US has 'the most deaths' and how rotten and horrible we are....

We have a huge population,335 million, spread over a huge swath of land, and we have total freedom to move around from state to state so of course we have a battle on our hands.

But I think we are doing a pretty good job overall. Our biggest hotspots were explainable. NYC obviously is a big problem with the density and mass transit and all of the international travellers.

And New Orleans, with the very bad luck of the Mardi Gras right at the start of the virus spread.

And the NorthWest had very bad luck with senior retirement homes, which tragically created a lot of deaths.

But most of our states have managed to handle things pretty well and we are united in getting through this together.

 

[LadyL]

I wonder what this means - that the chickens would otherwise live out their natural lives?

"Two million chickens at plants in Delaware and Maryland are likely to be euthanized because chicken processing plants are short-staffed."
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Report: Trump to order meat plants to stay open during pandemic

no they would be slaughtered once they reach the unnatural goal weight/size which is achieved via antibiotics and other drugs

 

[LadyL]

IMO a good reminder.
Like when the grim reaper went to the beaches

I didn't see that! gonna google

 

[rodneymullenmg]

I didn't see that! gonna google

https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/national/coronavirus/florida-lawyer-dressing-up-as-grim-reaper-to-warn-beachgoers-to-keep-their-distance

 

[katydid23]

'Reopen North Carolina' rally planned despite leader testing positive for coronavirus

“Describing herself as “an asymptomatic COVID19 positive patient,” Whitlock claimed she has been “forced” to self-isolate and, therefore, was “imprisoned in my home.”

“Whitlock is expected to participate in the protest this Tuesday after completing quarantine.”

ReOpen NC protesters again take to the streets demanding rollback of COVID-19 safety measures

This CovIDIOT is complaining because she was forced to quarantine when she was POSITIVE for the virus?????

 

[Lilibet]

Time to be a vegetarian.

I’m thinking the same thing and have been checking out vegetarian recipes. It would be easier than running out to stock up on meat to cram into my too-small freezer or buy an auxiliary freezer. Probably better for us too.

 

[katydid23]

does cooking meat kill any virus that might be spread by a worker?

YES.

 

[katydid23]

I’m thinking the same thing and have been checking out vegetarian recipes. It would be easier than running out to stock up on meat to cram into my too-small freezer or buy an auxiliary freezer. Probably better for us too.

That's what my husband is suggesting as well. We did fill up our small freezer on top of the fridge with meat already. But he is saying maybe it is time to go Vegetarian. our kids/grand kids are vegans already.

 

[cass523]

Forty different languages are spoken at the South Dakota pork processing plant that has become a coronavirus hot spot, but workers who showed symptoms were sent home with informational packets that were written only in English, federal investigators revealed Thursday.

That failure to communicate may be part of the reason why 783 workers at Smithfield Foods in Sioux Falls have tested positive and two have died from COVID-19, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a 15-page memo.

Language barriers helped turn Smithfield Foods meat plant into COVID-19 hotspot

Meat and Poultry Processing Workers and Employers
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

 

[Really?]

That's what my husband is suggesting as well. We did fill up our small freezer on top of the fridge with meat already. But he is saying maybe it is time to go Vegetarian. My kids are vegans already.

Beans are very versatile.

 

[Really?]

Bean salad
Bean soup
Bean burgers
Beans on toast
Bean chili
Tuscan style beans

 

[Curious Me]

The medical article about the blood clots scares me big time. Praying for Nick Cordero. He's only 41 and this virus hit him hard.

"The experts found the risks were so great that COVID-19 patients "may need to receive blood thinners, preventively, prophylactically," even before imaging tests are ordered, said Bikdeli."

Mysterious blood clots are COVID-19’s latest lethal surprise

"Autopsies have in fact shown some people's lungs filled with hundreds of microclots.

The arrival of a new mystery however helps solve a slightly older one.

Cecilia Mirant-Borde, an intensive care doctor at a military veterans hospital in Manhattan, told AFP that lungs filled with microclots helped explain why ventilators work poorly for patients with low blood oxygen.

Earlier in the pandemic doctors were treating these patients according to protocols developed for acute respiratory distress syndrome, sometimes known as "wet lung."

But in some cases, "it's not because the lungs are occupied with water" -- rather, it's that the microclotting is blocking circulation and blood is leaving the lungs with less oxygen than it should."

Nick Cordero won't be removed from a ventilator after developing fever

 

[MsArk]

Pug in North Carolina tests positive for coronavirus, may be first for dog in U.S.

Pug in North Carolina tests positive for coronavirus, may be first for dog in U.S.

 

[CSIDreamer]

The medical article about the blood clots scares me big time. Praying for Nick Cordero. He's only 41 and this virus hit him hard.

"The experts found the risks were so great that COVID-19 patients "may need to receive blood thinners, preventively, prophylactically," even before imaging tests are ordered, said Bikdeli."

Mysterious blood clots are COVID-19’s latest lethal surprise

"Autopsies have in fact shown some people's lungs filled with hundreds of microclots.

The arrival of a new mystery however helps solve a slightly older one.

Cecilia Mirant-Borde, an intensive care doctor at a military veterans hospital in Manhattan, told AFP that lungs filled with microclots helped explain why ventilators work poorly for patients with low blood oxygen.

Earlier in the pandemic doctors were treating these patients according to protocols developed for acute respiratory distress syndrome, sometimes known as "wet lung."

But in some cases, "it's not because the lungs are occupied with water" -- rather, it's that the microclotting is blocking circulation and blood is leaving the lungs with less oxygen than it should."

Nick Cordero won't be removed from a ventilator after developing fever

Goodness, he's been through the mill. I knew about the amputation, but not the pacemaker.