Coronavirus COVID-19 *Global Health Emergency* #15

[Henry2326]

WMBF News
starting..
jmo

Thanks for the link.

Governor got out the way and let experts talk.
UMSC will teladoc free for anyone in SC. Go to their website and use promo code COVID19.

IMO....MUSC is about to be overrun....

 

[Henry2326]

Shanghai tightens airport checks as imported virus infections in China jump Shanghai tightens airport checks as imported virus infections in China jump

 

[Lilibet]

Also the cooperation in the obfuscation by some of the major media chains. Supporting hunches and non-facts is a dangerous agenda to broadcast to the general public. IMO

Yes, hunches and non facts should not be reported or should at least be strongly challenged. But there is a subset of society who only believe one person.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Chinese hotel used to observe virus contacts collapses, traps dozens

Beijing – A hotel used for medical observation of people who had contact with coronavirus patients collapsed in southeastern China on Saturday, trapping some 70 people, state media reported. There were no immediate reports of deaths.

At least 33 people were rescued from the wreckage of the Xinjia Express Hotel in Quanzhou, a city in Fujian province, the Communist Party newspaper People’s Daily and other outlets reported...

 

[Henry2326]

My point exactly.....

When China has 571 cases and 17 deaths they locked down 11 million people in Wuhan. The USA is currently at 340 and 14 deaths.
Andrew Leyden on Twitter

 

[Henry2326]

60 new coronavirus cases in the Netherlands, 188 total
h/t @EndGameWW3
LIVE - RIVM: nu 188 Nederlanders besmet

Steve Lookner on Twitter

 

[dixiegirl1035]

Coronavirus: Hotel used for quarantine collapses in China, trapping 70

The place was built 2 years ago and has already collapsed. I'm thinking there is much more to this story.....

 

[Herat]

THIS....

New epidemiological study of 25,000 #COVID19 cases reveals that infection control measures in Wuhan reduced infections by over 90%, reducing R0 to roughly 0.3. Remarkable and cause for hope that aggressive measures in the US can make a huge difference.
Evolving Epidemiology and Impact of Non-pharmaceutical Interventions on the Outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Wuhan, China https://t.co/DfnhS0nE4O

I think in a year or so we will see a parallel study of COVID-19 outcomes in China vs Iran and the differences in morbidity and mortality will be astonishing.

China's drastic infection control procedures did work and did show what can be done, albeit in a country with the ability to mandate and enforce absolute quarantine.

It also showed that for a certain number of weeks, there are not enough ICU beds or ventilators available for the epidemic, and that developing lower-level instant hospitals does help care for less severe cases and preserve ICU type resources

It also shows us that front-line healthcare workers ( apparently without high-risk features) have a very significant risk of severe infection and death and the highest level of personal protective equipment is necessary for their work.

China's experience has been decisive, organized, and extremely valuable to medical knowledge of this disease. The rest of the world is flailing and disorganized, even countries with quality high-level care like Japan and South Korea. It's not until South Korea actually began to adopt some of the drastic China lockdown-type practices that it began to get a handle on it.

 

[Herat]

The still don't even know how many tests they have. Everyone will just blame it on people not washing their hands. Victim blaming, the American way.

I believe I read yesterday that still fewer than 500 tests have been performed in the US,

 

[Henry2326]

GEORGIA

+++ We reported on the preliminary results yesterday for the 46yo Floyd County woman, who was put in isolation on her second* ER visit. Health officials told me about 2 dozen hospital staff members and the woman’s family are in home isolation.
Emilie Ikeda on Twitter

 

[FrostOwl]

Flu vaccine doesn't work very well. I know a bunch of people this year who were vaccinated and still got the flu. And you don't build immunity for long, or you wouldn't need to be vaccinated every year.

One reason why the flu vaccine doesn't work as well as other vaccines such as measles or smallpox, is that there are several different flu strains, and it's a virus that easily, and quickly, mutates, so the variant that was used in the vaccine isn't identical to the flu a couple of months later. We don't know yet if the CoViD-19 will easily mutate or not, so that you can get it several times.

 

[Herat]

This is a great visual if you would like to use it on your social media....

This is what we are faced with....

Wow Henry2326

You keep delivering QUALITY updates on this disease. You are a wonder!

 

[gitana1]

Flu vaccine doesn't work very well. I know a bunch of people this year who were vaccinated and still got the flu. And you don't build immunity for long, or you wouldn't need to be vaccinated every year.

The flu vaccine does work well. It has about a 50% average efficacy rate. That’s due in part to their guesstimates as to what strain will be prevalent. But there are hundreds. Yet they only vaccinate for a few strains.

However, a few things - one, you realize there are thousands of flu strains? There are four main types with various subgroups under those types. So:

“Flu vaccines are customized each year to protect against the strains researchers believe are most likely to circulate among humans that season. Every year, the vaccine contains:

• One influenza A virus (H1N1)
• One influenza A virus (H3N2)
• One or two influenza B viruses

The vaccine only protects you from the specific strains it contains. It doesn't contain C or D viruses, and it doesn't protect against other viral illnesses with similar symptoms, which often spread during flu season.”
How Many Different Types of Flu Are There?

Two, the vaccines you get build up your immune system library so that if you are immunized for let’s say H1N1, the vaccine will offer some protection against the flu in years to come, even if it mutates.

Three, because flu viruses are so genetically similar, the vaccines offer some protection even against strains not in the vaccine. So if you get the flu the symptoms will be less severe, typically.

It works.

 

[Herat]

Italy to hire 20 thousand healthcare workers

... to bolster the health service and tackle coronavirus.

They intend to recruit 5,000 doctors, 5,000 social workers and 10,000 nurses.

Coronavirus updates live: First deaths outside west coast confirmed in Florida

Ermmmmm

I guess there go all the Cuban physicians...

 

[dixiegirl1035]

New COVID-19 Cases Identified in Georgia

Assume one case is the family already talked about here that had dad/son infected... and mom/daughter were at home...ergo new case is wife? Two other cases in metro area of Atlanta.

"For Immediate Release
Saturday, March 7, 2020

New COVID-19 Cases Identified in Georgia
Atlanta, GA – There have been further developments overnight regarding COVID-19 in Georgia. Governor Kemp and the Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) remind all Georgians that the overall risk of COVID-19 to the general public remains low and there is no evidence of community spread of COVID-19 in Georgia at this time.

Overnight Developments

DPH and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have confirmed three additional cases of COVID-19 in Georgia.

One individual is from Cobb County after recently returning from Italy and is isolated at home. The second individual is from Fulton County and is hospitalized. The source of this individual’s exposure is unclear at this time. Testing for these two cases was done solely by the CDC, prior to the Georgia Public Health Laboratory (GPHL) having the capacity to test for COVID-19.

CDC testing has confirmed the presumptive positive test for COVID-19 in a resident of Floyd County. The original testing was done by GPHL on March 5. The individual is hospitalized.

Additionally, DPH is awaiting confirmatory testing on a presumptive positive test for COVID-19 in a resident of Gwinnett County. The initial testing was completed by GPHL on March 6. The individual recently returned from Italy and was self-monitoring at home, and is now isolated at home......more at link

 

[JerseyGirl]

As virus outbreaks multiply, UN declines to declare pandemic

As cases of the coronavirus surge in Italy, Iran, South Korea, the U.S. and elsewhere, many scientists say it's plain that the world is in the grips of a pandemic — a serious global outbreak.

The World Health Organization has so far resisted describing the crisis as such, saying the word “pandemic” might spook the world further and lead some countries to lose hope of containing the virus.

“Unless we’re convinced it’s uncontrollable, why (would) we call it a pandemic?” WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.

The U.N. health agency has previously described a pandemic as a situation in which a new virus is causing “sustained community-level outbreaks” in at least two world regions.

Many experts say that threshold has long been met: The virus that was first identified in China is now spreading freely in four regions, it has reached every continent but Antarctica, and its advance seems unavoidable. The disease has managed to gain a foothold and multiply quickly even in countries with relatively strong public health systems.

On Friday, the virus hit a new milestone, infecting more than 100,000 people worldwide, far more than those sickened by SARS, MERS or Ebola in recent years.

Experts acknowledge that declaring a pandemic is politically fraught because it can rattle markets, lead to more drastic travel and trade restrictions and stigmatize people coming from affected regions. WHO was previously criticized for labeling the 2009 swine flu outbreak a pandemic. But experts said calling this crisis a pandemic could also spur countries to prepare for the virus's eventual arrival.

 

[Herat]

Australia's deputy chief medical officer Paul Kelly told reporters in Canberra on Saturday that health authorities were "learning things about the virus every day" and that it was now clear that the coronavirus had spread to some passengers through their meal trays.

"We've learned a lot from the Diamond Princess cruise ship," Professor Kelly said.

"Unfortunately, the evidence is fairly strong now that crew delivering food and the trays themselves of food that were infected prolonged and then increased the number of cases that were being found on that cruise ship."

Coronavirus: Australians trapped on second cruise

I knew it : FOMITES!!

This tells me all I need to know about airline tray tables

 

[enelram]

jersey girl-
two presumptive positive cases in Lee County, Fl. one female passed, other one still being treated. Both had returned from international travel.
Both treated at Gulf Coast Medical Center.
News conference at noon, ET. at medical center.
no other details given.

 

[dixiegirl1035]

Good morning.

I would like to know more about this if anyone knows:

“There is increased risk of transmission when performing any nasopharyngeal testing.”

iirc WHO and/or CDC have spoken to such. It requires the individual to take off any face mask and perhaps often a person coughs or breaths very very close to the health worker person taking the test who may not be "suited up". That's the jist when I heard of such. Sorry no reference, just MOO

 

[gitana1]

wow: Stanford is moving all classes online after a faculty member tested positive for COVID-19 Stanford University will move classes online due to coronavirus
Soumya on Twitter

These people are in denial....down the road??
meanwhile, USC is going to temporarily move classes online to test their capacity to do so if needed down the road Amid coronavirus concerns, USC will test online classes next week
Soumya on Twitter

And yet my mom’s professor is telling people they have to come to class even if sick. I’m so upset by that.