Coronavirus COVID-19 *Global Health Emergency* #11

[JerseyGirl]

Coronavirus live updates: US cases rise to 108, Fed cuts rates on outbreak risk

ETA: Either CNBC or Johns Hopkins does not know the abbreviation for Nebraska?!?

 

[JerseyGirl]

Ford bans all non-essential business travel

Ford Motor is banning all non-essential international and domestic business travel for employees due to the coronavirus outbreak. The automaker said Tuesday the increased travel restrictions will be in effect until March 27.

 

[Lamima]

Coronavirus live updates: US cases rise to 108, Fed cuts rates on outbreak risk

ETA: Either CNBC or Johns Hopkins does not know the abbreviation for Nebraska?!?

And now 9 deaths in WA.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Iran frees 54,000 prisoners to prevent coronavirus from spreading

The inmates were granted furlough — meaning they are supposed to return at some point — after testing negative for the virus, the BBC reported. The prisoners also had to post bail.

"Security prisoners" sentenced to more than five years will not be let out.

The jailed British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe may be freed soon, according to a British MP.

Tulip Siddiq cited the Iranian ambassador to the UK as saying that Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe "may be released on furlough today or tomorrow".

Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe was jailed for five years in 2016 after being convicted of espionage charges that she has denied. The UK has also insisted she is innocent.

Iran frees prisoners to combat coronavirus

 

[Henry2326]

Howard Forman

"I think people aren’t paying close enough attention. The majority of the response in China, in 30 provinces, was about case finding, contact tracing, and suspension of public gatherings — all common measures used anywhere in the world to manage [the spread of] diseases."
(((Howard Forman))) on Twitter

It can not be emphasized enough: If we don't look, we won't find. It doesn't mean that people are not dying of #COVID19 in the USA right now. It doesn't mean they aren't in our hospitals and our supermarkets. It just means that we haven't tested. #TESTVIRUSNOW

 

[Barnabas]

My best friends daughter and grandchildren live around Seattle. We are both very nervous.

 

[Henry2326]

“The goal is to sanitize all of the MTA's 6,400 subway cars and 5,700 buses every three days — and every station on a nightly basis — until the virus is contained.”
How... how frequently were they sanitized before? #COVID19 Coronavirus forces New York City subways, trains to clean up their act

 

[Barnabas]

My coworkers are tucking into leftover meeting food that a room full of people breathed on for 2 hours, and planning a potluck lunch for April. I am hunkered down with my Lysol just waiting for one of them to step in here.

 

[otto]

What is Level 4 in England?

Coronavirus declared a 'level 4 incident' by NHS England | Daily Mail Online

 

[SAMS]

Iran frees 54,000 prisoners to prevent coronavirus from spreading

The inmates were granted furlough — meaning they are supposed to return at some point — after testing negative for the virus, the BBC reported. The prisoners also had to post bail.

"Security prisoners" sentenced to more than five years will not be let out.

The jailed British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe may be freed soon, according to a British MP.

Tulip Siddiq cited the Iranian ambassador to the UK as saying that Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe "may be released on furlough today or tomorrow".

Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe was jailed for five years in 2016 after being convicted of espionage charges that she has denied. The UK has also insisted she is innocent.

Iran frees prisoners to combat coronavirus

Woah.

 

[Henry2326]

NEWS: Today we’ve launched our Coronavirus Action Plan - setting out our clear battle plan to research, contain, delay, and mitigate against #coronavirus in the UK.
Coronavirus action plan

 

[SAMS]

My coworkers are tucking into leftover meeting food that a room full of people breathed on for 2 hours, and planning a potluck lunch for April. I am hunkered down with my Lysol just waiting for one of them to step in here.

LOL OMG I’m literally lmao, this is so me right now. MOO

 

[Henry2326]

My best friends daughter and grandchildren live around Seattle. We are both very nervous.

As you should be.....take precautions....

 

[dotr]

Coronavirus: Iran to mobilise 300,000 soldiers and volunteers as 23 MPs infected - latest news
Coronavirus: Iran to mobilise 300,000 soldiers and volunteers as 23 MPs infected - latest news
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country’s supreme leader, ordered its armed forces to assist health officials in combating the outbreak. “Whatever helps public health and prevents the spread of the disease is good and what helps to spread it is sin,” he said.

The government announced a death toll of 77 and a total of 2,336 confirmed cases in Iran, 835 more than the previous total. Experts fear the country’s high ratio of deaths to infections – about 3.3% – may mean the actual infection figure is far greater.

Two senior Iranian officials have already died from the virus and several more are infected. Semi-official news agencies on Tuesday reported that the head of the country’s emergency medical services, Pirhossein Kolivand, was now also ill.''

 

[Henry2326]

JUST IN: A person from Wake County, North Carolina has tested positive for novel coronavirus, according to the governor’s office. North Carolina identifies first case of coronavirus

The person, who had traveled to Washington state, is doing well and is in isolation at home, the governor’s office said.

Statement from North Carolina Governor Cooper on the state's first case of coronavirus. The patient had recently visited the long-term care facility at the center of the Washington outbreak. BNO Newsroom on Twitter

@ncdhhs person flew from Washington state back to NC. NCDHHS is checking with people who may have been on same flight.

 

[dixiegirl1035]

9% of COVID cases need intensive care.

This is precisely what may overwhelm the US healthcare system if this virus cannot be controlled in vulnerable populations.

The CDC and Federal Government need to get onto containment and preventive action in group homes for our high-risk population RIGHT NOW

With this high level of intensive care also goes high-risk exposure to vitally needed skilled healthcare professionals

There was another death of a physician reported in China. These are people extremely important to the care of critically ill individuals. !

This figure has been out for a month at least. In addition, those beds need to be in isolation areas, with respirators or ECHMO etc and skilled staff...not general wards. Big difference.

So now, when it hits their area, they realize what the numbers mean in reality.

This is why WHO is saying wake up!

Beds are now filled with flu folks now, so there is a need to delay the virus to get those beds open when it warms up. Even then not enough this summer to have that many beds. Contain and delay has been WHO's mantra. Contain now, don't skip that and move to mitigation (which one state already said was their focus).

NOTE: At the end of today's WHO presser, they said no presser tomorrow as they would all be in a team meeting. Next daily presser will be Thursday. FYI

 

[SAMS]

WCBD on Twitter

JUST IN: A person from Wake County, North Carolina has tested positive for novel coronavirus, according to the governor’s office.

 

[MyBelle]

Coronavirus live updates: US cases rise to 108, Fed cuts rates on outbreak risk

ETA: Either CNBC or Johns Hopkins does not know the abbreviation for Nebraska?!?

It's also a little misleading because all of the confirmed cases in Nebraska are evacuees from the cruise ship. So far none have died, some are now out of quarantine and getting sent home. More than half of the confirmed cases in the U.S. are from exposure overseas.

Here Are All the Known Coronavirus Cases in the U.S. (There Are Probably More.)
While coronavirus has been diagnosed on both coasts and in the Midwest, it has mostly been concentrated in just a handful of states.

Combined, California and Washington account for 61 of the cases. Those patients include a mix of people who contracted the illness locally, traveled in China or were passengers on the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which docked in Japan after an outbreak on board. Doctors in Nebraska, where there is a hospital unit specializing in biocontainment, have treated 13 coronavirus patients, all of them former Diamond Princess passengers.

Health officials in Arizona, Illinois, Florida, Georgia, New York, Oregon, Massachusetts and Rhode Island have all reported multiple cases of coronavirus. And individual patients, all of whom had a high-risk travel history, have been treated in New Hampshire, Utah and Wisconsin.

 

[Mimi in London]

What is Level 4 in England?

Coronavirus declared a 'level 4 incident' by NHS England | Daily Mail Online

I think Level 4 and Stage 4 are different things. The NHS has declared a level 4 emergency, and the Govt is at stage 1 of its 4-stage plan.

 

[cody22]

Idle musing - Another rainy day little nap for me + another 12 pages behind now on this thread........................."Woe is mooooooooooooooooooooooooo ! "