Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #67

[Reasonable & Just]

I think you're totally right. We'll see what the damage is when I go cancel now. I never appreciated how important it is for courts to be open until all this disruption occurred. I hope Atlanta gets back on a good course.

No damage to my wallet. While it would have hurt if I couldn't get refunds, it is small potatoes compared to the risks other people would have taken in order for me to conduct my business.

 

[ZoriahNZ]

7000 people in Florida hospitalized with covid-19.

7,000 Floridians hospitalized with COVID-19; state finally releases data by county

 

[Bravo]

Family is at it again...sisters lake home is packed full. We have a huge family, by the way, so what I am seeing from afar..is little by little her and her husband let their guard down..now the house has even more family members eating take out tonight inside, folks sleeping over, one sil just came up from visiting her daughter in MD. They have all been visiting my dad in the hospital (he's been discharged), let's see..there are 8 extended family members, two flown in from Florida, one flown in from Dallas..hanging out there tonight...It's worrisome.

I dear. So sorry to read this. I'm sure it is a worry for you.

 

[Warwick1991]

Just FYI. Like several others on WS, I bought KN95 masks at Menards online. From what I could tell, they were OK. I bought 2 boxes, and as I used them, decided to replenish. I ordered a box of 50 of what was shown on Menard’s website as the same item, but the quality of what just arrived yesterday was much lower and similar in thickness to the 3 ply blue disposable surgical masks that many wear. They’re very thin and have no testing document or KN95 label stamped in. I am quite disappointed and will be looking for another source for masks.

Here in Florida, I’m getting more and more anxious. As far as leadership is concerned, our governor doesn’t seem to care at all about the citizens of our state...

 

[Bravo]

Be safe Warwick. You know how to do this.

 

[beatrixpotter]

Good news, in my opinion.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/g...ld-wages-in-next-stimulus-bill-mnuchin-says-2

Goodbye, extra $600: Unemployment benefits won’t exceed former wages in next stimulus bill, Treasury’s Mnuchin says

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Thursday that the Trump administration wants to cap enhanced unemployment benefits in the next coronavirus package to make sure workers do not get benefits amounting to more than their former wages.

Under the coronavirus bill enacted in March, workers, to encourage compliance with stay-at-home orders, received as much as $600 per week in addition to their regular unemployment benefits, which critics say encouraged the jobless to not look for work.
...

Enormous numbers and types of jobs were essentially wiped out with people being asked to stay home and all the restaurants and stores closing. How were all those people really supposed to go just find other jobs?

 

[margarita25]

L.A. teachers union calls for campuses to stay closed in fall, distance learning to resume Aug. 18 | KTLA

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OC districts unmoved by Trump’s threat to ‘cut off’ funding for schools that don’t reopen classrooms – Orange County Register

 

[tmar]

Australia approves 'wonder drug' Remdesivir as the first COVID-19 treatment to be used on severe cases of the deadly illness

Australia approves 'wonder drug' Remdesivir as the first COVID-19 treatment to be used on severe cases of the deadly illness

Charlie Coë For Daily Mail Australia and Reuters

9 hrs ago
...
US wonder drug Remdesivir has been given the go-ahead to become the first approved treatment for COVID-19 in Australia.
The drug - the only major treatment globally to receive approval to treat the novel coronavirus since the pandemic began - has been given provisional approval to use in hospitalised patients with severe cases of the deadly respiratory disease.
The Therapeutic Goods Administration said in a statement Remdesivir would reduce strain on the Australian health care system and help patients in hospital recover more quickly.

'Remdesivir offers the potential to reduce the strain on Australia's health care system,' the national therapeutic goods regulator said in a statement.

'Remdesivir will not be available to Australians unless they are severely unwell, requiring oxygen or high level support to breathe, and in hospital care.

'While this is a major milestone in Australia's struggle against the pandemic, it is important to emphasise that the product has not been shown to prevent coronavirus infection or relieve milder cases of infection.'

 

[Deleted member 158085]

Trump does not trust nor follow the advice of experts such as Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease specialist.

The President has not attended a meeting of his coronavirus task force in months and recently its sessions have been held outside the White House, including on Wednesday at the headquarters of the Department of Education. Fauci was told to participate in the meeting remotely by videoconference, preventing him from participating in a midday task force press briefing.

The President has complained to aides in meetings for months that Fauci's television appearances -- which have been sharply curtailed by the White House -- often seem to contradict his own message.

Trump now in open dispute with health officials as virus rages

Gee, I’m torn. Should I listen to politicians or scientists and doctors?

How this is even a question for anyone is beyond me.

 

[Tillicum]

Just FYI. Like several others on WS, I bought KN95 masks at Menards online. From what I could tell, they were OK. I bought 2 boxes, and as I used them, decided to replenish. I ordered a box of 50 of what was shown on Menard’s website as the same item, but the quality of what just arrived yesterday was much lower and similar in thickness to the 3 ply blue disposable surgical masks that many wear. They’re very thin and have no testing document or KN95 label stamped in. I am quite disappointed and will be looking for another source for masks.

Here in Florida, I’m getting more and more anxious. As far as leadership is concerned, our governor doesn’t seem to care at all about the citizens of our state...

We were gonna get the box of 50 but decided to go with 2 boxes of 10 since we knew for sure what we would be getting. I'm relieved for us but so sorry for you. They are so expensive.

 

[Tillicum]

Enormous numbers and types of jobs were essentially wiped out with people being asked to stay home and all the restaurants and stores closing. How were all those people really supposed to go just find other jobs?

I know several people who were offered good, safe jobs but they declined because they were making 600 on top of the regular unemployment. But I also think there are many who haven't been able to find work.

 

[gitana1]

Post-Covid Syndrome in children (London)

35 kids at one hospital is a significant number. 21 were diagnosed as in shock upon presentation in the hospital. That's shocking and I've never heard of the flu doing that. 7 required mechanical ventilation. 2 had to be placed in hyperbaric oxygen chambers.

All 35 children underwent chest X-ray due to fever, sepsis or features of multisystem inflammation. Nineteen X-rays were abnormal, the most common finding being that of bronchial wall thickening

Those changes in the bronchial wall deserve more study and may or may not be reversible.

Flu sometimes causes a febrile seizure in kids under 5, but there are rarely any lasting damages from febrile seizures. CoVid can cause seizures too, so in that way it's similar flu.

But the way it attacks epithelial cells/blood veins throughout the body is quite another thing, perhaps with very long term consequences - like most parents, I do not want my (adult) kids to get it - and I don't want my very healthy grandchildren to get it, either.

I don't want anyone to get CoVid.

No. It’s a lottery no one wants to win.

 

[margarita25]

City of Los Angeles will pay $2,000 toward your rent — here’s how to apply – Daily News

 

[Trino]

Enormous numbers and types of jobs were essentially wiped out with people being asked to stay home and all the restaurants and stores closing. How were all those people really supposed to go just find other jobs?

My brother's step-daughter and her husband WERE associated with Broadway plays. They have been told to find other employment. 99.9% certain Broadway and/or off-Broadway will not be returning in the near future. They have not been trained/educated in skills other than acting and producing. Lots of luck.

 

[SoCalDavidS]

“And what are we trying to do [is] we're trying to manage the economic aspect, the absolute emotional and mental and physical aspects of everything and manage the risk as best we possibly can. At the end of the day, all we're doing is trying to get ourselves to the vaccine. That's all we're doing.”“

Genius! Where can we get a guy like this?

 

[CharlestonGal]

My brother's step-daughter and her husband WERE associated with Broadway plays. They have been told to find other employment. 99.9% certain Broadway and/or off-Broadway will not be returning in the near future. They have not been trained/educated in skills other than acting and producing. Lots of luck.

I think most of them become waiters/waitresses. Though at this point, that's probably out as well.

Covid ripples for all. So preventable.

 

[margarita25]

Gov. Kemp suggests Mayor Bottoms enforce state restrictions amid reopening rollback

 

[gitana1]

https://nypost.com/2020/07/10/covid-19-victims-had-extensive-blood-clots-doctor/

Autopsies found blood clots in “almost every organ” of coronavirus victims, according to a top New York City pathologist, who called the results “dramatic.”

Post-Covid Syndrome in children (London)

35 kids at one hospital is a significant number. 21 were diagnosed as in shock upon presentation in the hospital. That's shocking and I've never heard of the flu doing that. 7 required mechanical ventilation. 2 had to be placed in hyperbaric oxygen chambers.

All 35 children underwent chest X-ray due to fever, sepsis or features of multisystem inflammation. Nineteen X-rays were abnormal, the most common finding being that of bronchial wall thickening

Those changes in the bronchial wall deserve more study and may or may not be reversible.

Flu sometimes causes a febrile seizure in kids under 5, but there are rarely any lasting damages from febrile seizures. CoVid can cause seizures too, so in that way it's similar flu.

But the way it attacks epithelial cells/blood veins throughout the body is quite another thing, perhaps with very long term consequences - like most parents, I do not want my (adult) kids to get it - and I don't want my very healthy grandchildren to get it, either.

I don't want anyone to get CoVid.

This was similar, actually, to the 1918 flu pandemic. It turned people dark blue and purple and black from cyanosis:

Camp Devens was a nightmare of rasping blue death. Lines of men clutching blankets stood outside the hospital in the rain. Inside, cots overflowed into hallways and onto porches. Many patients had the deadly hue of cyanosis, a blue so deep that many observers misjudged this for the return of “black death.” In the morgue, Welch and Cole had to step over and around piles of corpses to observe an autopsy.

Cole later recalled: “When the chest was opened and the blue swollen lungs were removed and opened, and Dr. Welch saw the wet, foamy surfaces with real consolidation, he turned and said, ‘This must be some new kind of infection or plague,’ and he was quite excited and obviously very nervous..
The Blue Death -- Flu Epidemic of 1918

But of course that one ravaged healthy, young people.

 

[Reasonable & Just]

My brother's step-daughter and her husband WERE associated with Broadway plays. They have been told to find other employment. 99.9% certain Broadway and/or off-Broadway will not be returning in the near future. They have not been trained/educated in skills other than acting and producing. Lots of luck.

I wish them the best. Once upon a time, the New Deal supported artists while they documented and shaped our culture. I look at the success and $$$ from Hamilton and such, and hope that things will get better for them someday soon.

 

[gitana1]

More pleas and threats by TX governor. Pointless posturing, IMO. His people know he won't actually do it.

Gov. Greg Abbott warns if spread of COVID-19 doesn’t slow, “the next step would have to be a lockdown”

In three live television appearances Friday afternoon, Abbott acknowledged that his mask order — that Texans in counties with more than 20 cases wear masks in public — was neither popular nor convenient, but said it was important for everyone to join in the effort. His plea to Texans comes as nearly 80 Texas counties have opted out of the order order, while others are refusing to enforce it.

“It’s disappointing,” Abbott told CBS Tyler of government entities who defy his mandate.

“I realize that a murderer or rapist or robber is far more serious to concentrate on. However, I know this also: If we do not all join together and unite in this one cause for a short period of time of adopting the masks, it will lead to the necessity of having to close Texas back down,” he said. “That should be the last thing that any government wants.”

As of Thursday afternoon, 2,918 Texas had died of COVID-19. The state also reported nearly another 10,000 new cases of the disease.

What would happen, then if he left those counties to their own devices? No state COVID aid.