Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #69

[CharlestonGal]

An elderly man has died while waiting in line for a COVID-19 test in a clinic's parking lot in Utah.

The 71-year-old nursing home resident was brought by a driver and caretaker to be tested at the Intermountain Healthcare clinic in North Ogden on Sunday.

By the time the vehicle arrived at the front of the line of the drive-thru test site, the man was found "unresponsive, cold to the touch, and likely deceased."

"Testing center caregivers acted quickly and followed correct procedures by immediately calling 911, but EMS workers could not revive the individual," a statement from Intermountain said, reported KUTV.

It is not known at this time if the patient's death was related to COVID-19

https://www.newsweek.com/utah-coronavirus-man-dies-testing-line-1517877

Why is a nursing home having to drive their residents to a parking lot to wait in line for hours for a covid test? Does the nursing home not have covid tests???

 

[ilovewings]

Boston hospital worker study shows masks are effective in preventing spread of coronavirus - The Boston Globe

 

[musicaljoke]

Yep - we are a hot mess and getting worse everyday - the opening of schools is in a few weeks and I would be terrified to send my child in -
JMO

Children will be safe to go back to school, when hospitals reopen their doors to visitors.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Another one on the loose:

Florida Walmart shopper brandishes gun in apparent dispute over coronavirus masks

Florida authorities are looking for a man without a facial covering seen on security footage pointing a gun at another man's masked face, threatening to kill him inside a Walmart store over the weekend.

The man in the wheelchair appeared to be holding a red handkerchief partially over his mouth but his nose was still exposed. They were approached by another man, who was wearing a black mask and holding a young girl’s hand.

Amid an exchange, the maskless suspect flipped the man and child the middle finger, pulled out a handgun from his waistband, pointed the weapon toward the man and threatened his life, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported, citing the sheriff’s office.

The young girl tried to pull the man away from the suspect, and a fourth man – also wearing a mask – stepped in to intervene.

PBSO
@PBCountySheriff
You think you're big and bad because you pull out a gun? #PalmBeachCounty, we need your help to find this individual #wanted for Assault with a Firearm at a local @Walmart in Royal Palm Beach. He left the store in a white Chevy Equinox. This took place on July 12, 2020. RT

 

[CharlestonGal]

Children will be safe to go back to school, when hospitals reopen their doors to visitors.

Or they could just follow CDC guidelines and not open schools until there is a 14 day steady decline in cases. States/counties still have access to their own data even though CDC has been sidelined. Counties that don't meet the guidelines should not re-open until they do. jmo

 

[KALI]

This is how I wish our governor would handle our outbreaks in California. Precision, not 40 million in lockdown.

It's good to see an attempt at preparedness at the local level. Emergency plans being put into action. It's just a pity it's not happening at a federal level, in my opinion.

But I might just be biased, because the public health messaging, transparency, and actions taken by my country's government has been pretty consistent and based on scientific evidence for the most part.

An example of this is the public speech our Prime Minister made yesterday, when she was asked about what contingency plans are in place should an outbreak happen again in NZ.

Obviously we don't want to go into lockdown again, it would be a last resort. The focus would be on containing local clusters first.

Anyway, my point was that is nice to have a leader being fully communicative with the public about what the government plans to do to protect us.

Coronavirus: Alert levels localised, rather than nationwide lockdown, if Covid-19 community transmission re-emerges

 

[CharlestonGal]

Another one on the loose:

Florida Walmart shopper brandishes gun in apparent dispute over coronavirus masks

Florida authorities are looking for a man without a facial covering seen on security footage pointing a gun at another man's masked face, threatening to kill him inside a Walmart store over the weekend.

The man in the wheelchair appeared to be holding a red handkerchief partially over his mouth but his nose was still exposed. They were approached by another man, who was wearing a black mask and holding a young girl’s hand.

Amid an exchange, the maskless suspect flipped the man and child the middle finger, pulled out a handgun from his waistband, pointed the weapon toward the man and threatened his life, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported, citing the sheriff’s office.

The young girl tried to pull the man away from the suspect, and a fourth man – also wearing a mask – stepped in to intervene.

A smart criminal would have covered his face. With, oh, I don't know....a mask?

 

[tresir2012]

It's hard to believe that this can happen, but don't be naive. There is a reason why the CDC is being pushed aside, and it stinks.

moo

I know how the USG works TY. I worked for them for more than 20 years. I only see the HHS requesting info. What do you think is the reason?

 

[ilovewings]

Why is a nursing home having to drive their residents to a parking lot to wait in line for hours for a covid test? Does the nursing home not have covid tests???

OMG - what in God's name is going on in this country?

 

[CharlestonGal]

I know how the USG works TY. I worked for them for more than 20 years. I only see the HHS requesting info. What do you think is the reason?

We all know the reason. And it's off topic.

 

[JerseyGirl]

COVID-19 is far from contained and could rival 1918 flu pandemic that killed 50 million, experts warn

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the U.S. National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases, said that outbreak, which he called “the mother of all pandemics,” could be repeated if more is not done to contain it, during an online event with students from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, the Guardian reported.

Separately, John M. Barry, a health sciences professor at Tulane University in New Orleans and author of “The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History,” warned that mistakes made in dealing with the U.S. outbreak — a failure to fully shut down until the country had achieved a steep downward trend in cases; a failure to get widespread buy-in for public health measures; and a failure to establish robust testing, tracing and isolating — has allowed the virus to spread, threatening lives and further disrupting the economy.

In an op-ed in the New York Times, Barry noted how, during the 1918 flu, almost every city closed down most of its activity. If the U.S. had followed that course, it would be operating near 100% again by now, he wrote, Instead, as four former CDC heads wrote in a Tuesday op-ed in the Washington Post, the U.S. is home to a quarter of the world’s confirmed COVID-19 cases, despite accounting for just 4.4% of the global population.

 

[tresir2012]

The medical establishment is up in arms. The people on the street have likely not noticed and if they have, they likely do not understand the true implications. jmo

I'm not aware that the CDC currently collects PPE data does it?

 

[KALI]

Horribly sad. These poor people.

Coronavirus restrictions are trapping refugees into violence and persecution, report says

Global coronavirus restrictions are preventing people from fleeing violence or forcing them to take more dangerous routes, warned the International Rescue Committee in a new report.

Border tightening and movement restrictions are also leaving thousands stranded, or to return to dire conditions and places with ongoing humanitarian crises.

“In El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala, borders are completely closed,” the report said. “So many who want to flee from violence are instead ‘locked in’ to a pressure cooker with some of the highest pre-existing rates of urban and gang violence in the world.”

The report found:

• In some Latin American countries, gender-based violence has increased by more than 60%.
• In Malaysia, 20-50 Rohingya refugees starved to death while stranded at sea after being turned away from closed ports and borders.
• At the US-Mexico border, more than 20,000 asylum seekers are awaiting US immigration hearings in the wake of court closures.
• 21,000 migrants have been left stranded in the African region, as well as 1,500 migrants quarantined.

Tens of thousands of migrants have also had to return to dangerous conditions due to loss of work and increased risk of xenophobia or infection. That includes over 80,000 Venezuelans who have returned from Colombia since April, nearly 60,000 migrant workers who returned to Myanmar, and 298,000 people who returned to Afghanistan from Iran.

Many of these migrants are returning to communities of violence, and some have "very low levels of knowledge about Covid-19," said the report.

Venezuelan migrants attempting to return to their country due to the Covid-19 pandemic remain in makeshift camps at the Simon Bolivar International Bridge in Cucuta, Colombia, on July 7.

 

[tresir2012]

Why is a nursing home having to drive their residents to a parking lot to wait in line for hours for a covid test? Does the nursing home not have covid tests???

Not only that but where were his driver and caretaker at the time he died?

 

[ilovewings]

COVID-19 is far from contained and could rival 1918 flu pandemic that killed 50 million, experts warn

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the U.S. National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases, said that outbreak, which he called “the mother of all pandemics,” could be repeated if more is not done to contain it, during an online event with students from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, the Guardian reported.

Separately, John M. Barry, a health sciences professor at Tulane University in New Orleans and author of “The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History,” warned that mistakes made in dealing with the U.S. outbreak — a failure to fully shut down until the country had achieved a steep downward trend in cases; a failure to get widespread buy-in for public health measures; and a failure to establish robust testing, tracing and isolating — has allowed the virus to spread, threatening lives and further disrupting the economy.

In an op-ed in the New York Times, Barry noted how, during the 1918 flu, almost every city closed down most of its activity. If the U.S. had followed that course, it would be operating near 100% again by now, he wrote, Instead, as four former CDC heads wrote in a Tuesday op-ed in the Washington Post, the U.S. is home to a quarter of the world’s confirmed COVID-19 cases, despite accounting for just 4.4% of the global population.

I believe what Dr. Fauci says: i cannot see any way this is going to get under control without a vaccine

 

[gngr~snap]

Children will be safe to go back to school, when hospitals reopen their doors to visitors.

And we start having trials with a jury again.
Moo

 

[gngr~snap]

Not only that but where were his driver and caretaker at the time he died?

If he was found to be "cold" then they have some bigger issues!
Moo

 

[tresir2012]

We all know the reason. And it's off topic.

Well I will reserve comment until I see the CDC data disappear, which is apparently what the concern is.

 

[zecats]

Animals have it right?

Animals Use Social Distancing to Avoid Disease

"This kind of behavior is common because it helps social animals survive. Although living in groups makes it easier for animals to capture prey, stay warm and avoid predators, it also leads to outbreaks of contagious diseases. (Just ask any human parent with a child in day care.) This heightened risk has favored the evolution of behaviors that help animals avoid infection. Animals that social distance during an outbreak are the ones most likely to stay alive. That, in turn, increases their chances to produce offspring that also practice social distancing when confronted with disease. These actions are what disease ecologists such as ourselves term “behavioral immunity.” Wild animals do not have vaccines, but they can prevent disease by how they live and act."

 

[slowpoke]

Why is a nursing home having to drive their residents to a parking lot to wait in line for hours for a covid test? Does the nursing home not have covid tests???

Here’s more of the background on this man’s health and reason for getting tested.

The 71-year-old was being transported from this facility, Mountain View Health Services in Ogden, to Intermountain North Ogden Clinic for a COVID-19 test, as a part of a pre-surgical procedure needed by Intermountain.

According to the attorney for Mountain View, Janet Jensen, the 71-year-old needed a part of his leg amputated for vascular issues. Nurses took the 71-year-old’s vitals when he left the home and he was fine, according to Jensen. Mountain View staff then put the elderly man in the van with two nurses and brought him to the clinic around 10 AM Sunday for a scheduled COVID-19 test.

Man dies in line at Utah coronavirus testing site