Coronavirus COVID-19 *Global Health Emergency* #14

[Recidivist]

You have a hyena??

I asked her that once. She really does!

 

[Deleted member 158085]

You have a hyena??

Aha ha ha ha!

 

[SAMS]

I just talked to a guy who bought swim goggles to protect himself from the #Coronavirus

Shomari Stone on Twitter

 

[Henry2326]

The attached chart is a good way to mitigate. We haven't even started.....

NEW—How will country-based mitigation measures influence the course of the #COVID19 epidemic?
Comment from Roy M Anderson, Hans Heesterbeek, Don Klinkenberg & T Déirdre Hollingsworth https://t.co/Di8OMRR8rO The Lancet on Twitter

 

[dotr]

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A person on the tube in Hong Kong. The tubes are to keep people away from them.

Coronavirus LIVE: UK cases soar as second 'coronavirus death' investigated

May need one of those too!

Toronto man rode TTC, GO and MiWay before testing positive for COVID-19
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''Local health officials say a man who arrived in Toronto from Las Vegas late last month rode public transit in Mississauga and Toronto for three days before reporting to a hospital and testing positive for COVID-19, as no one at the time was aware he had returned from a region where the virus was already present.

Toronto Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Eileen de Villa said the man in his 40s landed in the city on Feb. 28, and rode the TTC, GO and MiWay to and from work on March 2, 3 and 4.

She said the man rode the subway from Bathurst to Islington stations on March 2 and 3 at about 8:50 a.m. both days, before transferring to the 108 Mississauga MiWay 108N express bus from Islington Station.
He returned home using the 27 Milton GO bus to Yorkdale TTC Station about 6:10 p.m., and then headed south on the subway to St. George Station by 6:45 p.m.

She said he also rode the 511 Bathurst Streetcar from Bathurst Station sometime on March 4, but said more details would follow.''

''The diagnosis of an Ontario resident with a travel history to Las Vegas suggests there is some spread of the virus in that city, but health officials there had only confirmed one case as of Thursday.


De Villa said officials only learned the man tested positive on Thursday night and were still tracing his contacts and movements in Las Vegas.''

 

[SAMS]

IndyStar on Twitter

Gov. Holcomb declared a public health emergency after officials confirmed the state's first coronavirus case.

 

[xtrain]

That’s nice to know. If the airline I booked my flight on did this AND instilled a policy of temperature checks and mandatory surgical masks for anyone with a cough or “allergies” (sneezing),I would keep my plans to fly.

That is what I'm doing. I felt somewhat comforted by the email. It's a domestic flight that I'm on and I've been looking SO forward to this trip! Keeping my fingers crossed that the event I'm attending will still go on as scheduled and that I'll still be able to fly when the time comes.

 

[Henry2326]

UPDATE: Switzerland has reported 123 new cases of coronavirus over the past day, raising the total to 210 cases and 1 dead Tracking coronavirus: Map, data and timeline

 

[SAMS]

David Blevins on Twitter

BREAK: Fourth case of #Coronavirus in Northern Ireland, bringing total on island to 17

 

[margarita25]

MSNBC on Twitter

“San Francisco Mayor London Breed on coronavirus: "We are in crisis mode ... we need equipment, we need protective gear, we need to set up stations for people to be quarantined. Right now, there is community spread."

This has a desperate and very urgent tone.

 

[JerseyGirl]

More than 63,000 travelers have been referred to CDC for screening, CBP says

The agency said in a statement Friday that from Feb. 2 to March 4 it had referred 62,864 travelers by air, 766 travelers by land and 113 travelers by sea for enhanced health screening. CBP processes more than one million people per day at U.S. ports of entry. It was not immediately clear what the enhanced screening entailed.

"If CBP observes individuals with symptoms of COVID-19, we will continue to work with the CDC to determine if a traveler is a possible public health risk by referring them to CDC for enhanced health screening," a spokesperson said in the statement. "In addition, CBP will continue to refer for enhanced health screening any traveler who has been anywhere in mainland China or Iran within 14 days of the traveler’s attempted entry to the United States."

Coronavirus updates live: 14 dead across U.S.; Trump signs $8.3B bill

 

[Deleted member 158085]

Current update on what I know about my friend’s testing is that the hospital took a sample and sent it to the CDC who will determine whether or not to test it. That’s why the US is still considered low-risk, IMO, because we don’t have the test kits to really know how many sick people have it.

 

[JerseyGirl]

How Russia is getting ready for a possible coronavirus outbreak

Moscow authorities have declared “high alert” following first confirmed cases of coronavirus in Russia’s capital.

Here are the steps Russia is taking:

• Self-isolation for travelers: A decree posted on mayor’s official website yesterday said that Russians who return from China, South Korea, Iran, France, Germany, Italy and Spain and other states “with an unfavorable coronavirus situation” should self-isolate for 14 days.
• Checks at work: Companies must check their employees’ temperature and facilitate sick leave if common cold symptoms are found, the decree said.
• Cleaning public transit hubs: The city is also working to prevent the virus from spreading in the metro, which transports around 8 million people daily. Authorities said all 269 metro stations are being disinfected daily, with staffers cleaning door knobs, handrails of stairs and escalators, buttons on the elevators and ticket vending machines.

The measures could become stricter as the city confirms more cases. Several Russian outlets reported that Moscow authorities have drafted a plan of action in case of a massive outbreak, which involves a curfew and a lockdown.

Live updates: Coronavirus cases rise across the world - CNN

 

[Amonet]

This is actually a very sad moment for me, but welcome aboard @Amonet .....

I was really hoping this moment would be the other way around.

It took me a while to figure out what you were saying. I don't really feel that way about my own feelings...I hope I haven't been perceived as saying "nothing's going to happen" type thing. I haven't purposely tried to say anything about my longer-term predictions for how the virus might play out.

My main point has been to keep it in perspective and not to feel too much fear and panic, and also that even now there's more chance that a cough and fever are going to be caused by flu. It does appear that at some point that's going to switch to being the other way around, and it will be more likely to be Covid-19 than the flu.

I also hoped it wouldn't be this way. Earlier on I hoped it could be contained as SARS was, but that's looked unlikely for weeks. Now my hope is that people won't panic and live in fear through this, that governments will be able to introduce measures to mitigate, actions that can reduce the peak, support healthcare services to help as many people as possible, and to support the groups who are highest risk for serious/severe illness from this virus.

As they keep saying, most people are still likely to have something between a cold and a bad flu that you can deal with at home. Some people will experience a more severe illness, and some people are at what I consider a substantial risk of dying (even though most of the 80 yr olds in the study do survive!). I hope that as people, communities, and societies, we can do our best to support each other through this, and especially those higher-risk groups, but also those with loved ones who end up in hospital, and those who suffer financial difficulties.

I guess with the modeling in the post I just made above, that's a good thing that most countries do have some weeks before they get close to the peak, and that time can be used to try and do more to get hospitals ready for that peak.

Societal panic and being afraid of each other as if each individual we meet is the black death itself isn't going to help. So I will still say that we need balance in our reactions and responses as this goes on around us.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Current update on what I know about my friend’s testing is that the hospital took a sample and sent it to the CDC who will determine whether or not to test it. That’s why the US is still considered low-risk, IMO, because we don’t have the test kits to really know how many sick people have it.

Exactly. and it sounds like Indiana doesn't have their own testing labs and has to send tests to the CDC which takes days to get results.

 

[Henry2326]

IMO....NEXT HOT SPOT....

Three Boston residents who attended a company meeting in the city last week are presumed to have contracted the coronavirus, officials said Friday.

Boston Mayor Walsh said in a news conference the three residents had attended the meeting organized by biotech firm Biogen last week.

The presumed cases comprised of two women and a man, all in their 40s, said Marty Martinez, chief of health and human services. All were self-isolating at home, he said, adding that two were showing symptoms of the virus while the other was not.

Walsh said one of the non-Boston residents confirmed to have coronavirus was the 44-year-old man who Tennessee health officials this week announced as the state's first case of coronavirus.

That man had recently flown into Boston Logan International Airport on a round-trip flight from Nashville International Airport. Tennessee officials said he was asymptomatic while traveling.

Martinez said the Boston residents who were presumed cases had been in "close contact" with one of the confirmed cases. Health officials were looking for people who had been in direct contact with the presumed new cases.

Officials had also identified the room where the meeting took place and were taking measures to clean it, Martinez said.

Coronavirus in Boston, Massachusetts: Gov. Charlie Baker, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh to Provide Update on Preparedness and Planning

 

[x_files]

I get hay fever from ragweed and that's exactly what it feels like Fever , body aches, headache , chills, Sneezing, runny nose burning eyes, ETC
I not sure Ill know at all.

Watch your fever. If you have a high fever it's not an allergy, call your doctor ASAP.
That was the advice I was given. It starts suddenly with a HIGH fever, it comes on suddenly with no warning, no body aches or malaise and a dry cough follows with no congestion.
He describes his symptoms. I'm sure others may have had other experiences though.
Coronavirus patient explains what the illness feels like, conditions in quarantine

 

[Amonet]

And thank you so much @Amonet for starting this thread as the original poster who put it up for all of us at WS!

It's hard to believe I spent the first few days feeling like I was talking to myself in here! I thought back then, when I decided to start a thread as no one else had...how likely is this to be 'the' pandemic we've all been waiting for? Nahh, it'll blow over in a few weeks, I thought, but I figured it still deserved a thread.

I'm so grateful for all the excellent contributions from everyone, with information, links, thoughts, questions, etc. It's made me feel so proud to have been the one who started it off

 

[Henry2326]

I've heard the LA County is having a press conference at 12 PT...

Try this link to watch....

Live | KIRO-TV

 

[gregjrichards]

FRENCH CASES JUMP BY 190

France has just confirmed that it now has 613 cases, almost a third of which (190) have been discovered in the last 24 hours during the country's biggest jump to date.

Head of the public health service, Jerome Salomon confirmed that the death toll is still at nine, and that 39 people are in intensive care.

Coronavirus LIVE: UK cases soar as second 'coronavirus death' investigated