Coronavirus COVID-19 *Global Health Emergency* #13

[Ray_of_hope]

Costco posted blowout February sales as customers began to stockpile goods in response to the coronavirus outbreak Costco’s February Sales Boosted by Surge in Virus-Fueled Demand

There will be lots of babies in 9 months too.

 

[otto]

Hospital employees are stealing sanitizer and face masks at BC hospitals. Infected Iranians are sharing the virus in BC. Increase in cases expected tomorrow.

 

[SandyQLS]

I don't know why the CDC wants people to have two weeks of water on hand? FYI Your water heater has 20-40 gallons of clean potable drinking water.

They should tell you to have a full tank of gasoline. They should tell you to have some cash on hand.

I am not scared of getting sick, but I have deep concerns about infrastructure impairment, sick and quarantined truckers, firemen, healthcare workers, police, bus drivers... We could have shortages, looting, lockdowns and curfews. I expect all the major population centers will eventually have an outbreak. JMO

 

[JerseyGirl]

About to start.. just started. Sally is negative today, David is positive today. (Both were positive yesterday)

Geez are they flip flopping back and forth with their results?

Did he ever discuss medical bills and if the UK government is paying everything?

 

[Henry2326]

#BREAKING: Eight new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in B.C., health officials say. B.C. identifies 8 new COVID-19 infections, including a 'community case'

 

[margarita25]

Sorry I’m going to have to skip a million posts for now. I tried, I really did.

Harris County reports first two cases of the Coronavirus COVID-19; one patient is Rice University employee

“HOUSTON - A man and a woman from the unincorporated area of northwest Harris County, outside the City of Houston, have tested positive for the 2019 Novel Coronavirus COVID-19.

Harris County Public Health made the announcement Thursday afternoon, confirming the county's first two confirmed cases of COVID-19.

The tests have been verified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”

 

[SAMS]

Just had family return from Italy, landed in Atlanta. They had their temperatures taken in Rome before boarding, but nothing upon arrival home. Not even a single question about where they had traveled in Italy. Nada. #coronavirus



Joshua Frank on Twitter

 

[Hatfield]

Did you try TrueValue/ACE/similar hardware store? Maybe people won't be onto them yet. I myself got a bumper crop from Costco/Amazon the last time there were sales, but those are currently tense areas to try to locate the same.

Good tip about hardware stores and the like. I found some masks about a week ago at the local hardware store. I will have to start to think outside the box like that for supplies now.

 

[SandyQLS]

COLORADO reports first case of coronavirus -- a man in his 30s visiting Summit County. State-level test was positive, being sent to CDC to confirm.
jack healy on Twitter

A patient at St. Anthony Summit Medical Center in Frisco is being tested for coronavirus, according to a representative with the hospital.

The patient, who has a recent history of travel to Italy, came into the hospital’s emergency department Wednesday afternoon with a possible respiratory illness, according to a statement from hospital spokesman Brent Boyer.
St. Anthony Summit Medical Center patient being tested for coronavirus

Finally. I have actually been waiting for it, surprised it took this long for CO and also NV.

 

[SAMS]

BREAKING: A CenturyLink Field employee who worked at the Feb. 22 Seattle Dragons game has tested positive for COVID-19 Coronavirus. King County officials say the risk to the public is LOW. As of now, Seattle sports will go on as scheduled. #Q13FOX

Bhavisha Patel on Twitter

 

[Tillicum]

Ohio to use ‘disease detectives’ if coronavirus spreads into state

Acton described the work of these disease detectives as taking a “very elaborate, very detailed look” at everyone with whom a person may have come into contact, including contact made in public spaces like malls and movie theatres.

“That is the information we will always share with people who came into contact,” Acton said. “You will know if you came into contact with someone, and we will also let you know if there was some general exposure, some place like a movie theatre.”

 

[SAMS]

BNO Newsroom on Twitter

Germany's Morgenpost is reporting that, based on figures from the health minister, the number of coronavirus cases has risen to 545, which would be a sharp increase from 400 about 9 hours ago. No official confirmation so far.

 

[dixiegirl1035]

Geez are they flip flopping back and forth with their results?

Did he ever discuss medical bills and if the UK government is paying everything?

Yes, he discuss its it often. He says that he has great insurance through his insurer from the United Kingdom. He travels a lot and it covers everything. Folks in the beginning wanted to offer him money to cover it and he said no and then explain to such.

At one point he said he had princess or someone else covering also, but he has since gone back to insurance discussions so I'm not sure of the specifics. Just what I heard.

flip-flopping, yes. He has stated in many of his last YouTube's that the test is only 70% accurate. That is why they need to have multiple tasks

 

[Tadpole12]

I was looking at the Rest Of The World/cases outside China chart on the Johns Hopkins map portal earlier, and yes...I would say in 40 days the US could easily have 250,000 to a million cases. The potential seems to be there.

They say that Washtington state could have 600 to 1500 cases right now. I think it's possible that the rest of the US also has that many. With a 5-day doubling rate that gives 3000-6000-12000-24000-48000-96000-202,000-404,000-808,000 for a simple 40-day projection. What happens in terms of actions taken by cities, states, and individuals could bring that down. Alternatively, the Johns Hopkins chart for non-China cases seems at the moment to be showing a 4-day doubling rate, so the 500,000 to a million cases after 8 weeks could be realistic. But hopefully actions taken during this time can keep that number to the lower predictions?

One thing that's going to help to reduce the doubling rate and the R0 is going to be more in depth testing, especially for patients entering and admitted into hospital. Getting infected patients into isolation/quarantine areas will hopefully reduce infection rates in healthcare staff and other sick patients, and reducing the cases spread to already sick and vulnerable patients in hospitals will help to keep the death rates down.

Yes, a 4 day doubling rate.
Testing kits will have a great effect once testing begins en masse.

 

[SAMS]

I just landed at JFK after reporting on #coronavirus in Milan and Lombardy —the epicenter of Italy’s outbreak— for
@vicenews
. I walked right through US customs. They didn’t ask me where in Italy I went or if I came into contact with sick people. They didn’t ask me anything.

Julia Lindau on Twitter

 

[SAMS]

Governor Larry Hogan on Twitter


The state’s Public Health Laboratory in Baltimore has confirmed the first three positive cases of novel coronavirus in Maryland. The patients, who contracted the virus while traveling overseas, are in good condition.

 

[dixiegirl1035]

Just had family return from Italy, landed in Atlanta. They had their temperatures taken in Rome before boarding, but nothing upon arrival home. Not even a single question about where they had traveled in Italy. Nada. #coronavirus



Joshua Frank on Twitter

I wish I knew exact dates to compare if I looked it up I could I guess, but the two sisters that came back from Italy and flu and a Tampa call the CDC from New York City when they had a plane change. The CDC told them to fly on. They also came back positive after they had landed

 

[ZsaZsa]

Good tip about hardware stores and the like. I found some masks about a week ago at the local hardware store. I will have to start to think outside the box like that for supplies now.

There are lots of masks for sale on ebay.

 

[Henry2326]

Seven people have been diagnosed with the deadly coronavirus in what’s becoming the Australian epicentre of the infection – Sydney.
Australia’s epicentre of deadly virus

 

[otto]

Alberta has first confirmed virus case.