Coronavirus COVID-19 *Global Health Emergency* #15

[Henry2326]

Read it. No need to go back. The concern clearly stated was for confidentiality of the student to prevent future bullying & ostracism. The headline reporting implied negligence on the part of district staff. Dishonest reporting, as I said.

They should have closed the school and withheld details as other schools have done....IMO

 

[Auntie Cipation]

BREAKING NEWS: Elk Grove Unified School District cancels classes for all schools after a family tests positive for #coronavirus. This comes after an internal email surfaced showing school leaders knew a relative was exposed to an infected person & kept that info CONFIDENTIAL. Marlei Martinez on Twitter
Marlei Martinez on Twitter
That’s a misleading headline. They had to keep confidential or violate HIPPA & district policy. Makes school leaders look negligent which is not honest reporting. I hate these inflammatory reports just trying to win the most clicks. It’s no different than charging $200 for a bottle of hand sanitizer imho.

School officials are not bound by HIPAA -- only medical professionals are.

I'm not commenting on whether they did or didn't have good reason to refrain from making info public, just that it's not HIPAA that binds them.

 

[Henry2326]

Mitigation steps are critical to keep the healthcare system from becoming overwhelmed by a surge in cases. We must slow spread. Once the system is overwhelmed the fatality rate can rise sharply as we saw in Wuhan. #COVID19
Scott Gottlieb, MD on Twitter

 

[PingTheRouter]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ESh0hvfUUAAw_XJ?format=jpg&name=small
Toilet paper crisis: Two hour queues in Australia

things getting out of hand in Australia this was 5:55am 5 minutes before shop opened for toilet paper this morning WOW, photo is from twitter i wasn't there but iv never seen anything like this besides a new phone coming out

 

[Inthedetails]

I think it is helpful to do some things that help you feel like you have some control. We know about washing our hands, isolating as much as possible, trying not to touch your face...
What are some of the things you are doing that other people may not think about?
I am taking elderberry(so yummy!), zinc, Trying to get exercise every day and soak up vitamin D when the sun is out. I eat something green, orange and red every day. Not skittles!

Good idea!

We have a motto in my family:
"Food is your friend." It's a variation on Food is Good Medicine.

In fact, most of what we're doing (beyond the hand washing, not facing touching habits) are:
* Eat healthy and with pleasure
* Drink plenty of water
* Get fresh air (inside too, with cracked-open windows)
* Move body - keep the blood flowing (doesn't need to be a rigorous workout - just move)
* Sleep

Kinda boring and basic.

jmo

 

[OhioBlues]

This Twitter Thread explains the risks etc because of how fast the virus spreads.


"I think most people aren’t aware of the risk of systemic healthcare failure due to #COVID19 because they simply haven’t run the numbers yet. Let’s talk math. 1/n"

Liz Specht on Twitter

 

[zecats]

Good idea!

We have a motto in my family:
"Food is your friend." It's a variation on Food is Good Medicine.

In fact, most of what we're doing (beyond the hand washing, not facing touching habits) are:
* Eat healthy and with pleasure
* Drink plenty of water
* Get fresh air (inside too, with cracked-open windows)
* Move body - keep the blood flowing (doesn't need to be a rigorous workout - just move)
* Sleep

Kinda boring and basic.

jmo

To bed an hour earlier tonight to get yourselves ready for Daylight Savings Time (in almost all states - not AZ, HI and parts of IN, as I recall).

 

[margarita25]

'I'm not urging calm," Cuomo stated. "I'm urging reality. I'm urging a factual response as opposed to an emotional response... that people understand the information and not the hype.'

I wish the headline would quote the whole statement. I watched his whole press conference. It was nice to hear a smart, fact-based, competent, empathetic (it's worry for the elderly and immuno-compromised that "keep him up at night") person talk about what he/his administration is doing <modsnip>
IMO.

I agree. I wish they would have quoted the full statement. I didn’t realize when I posted the article that that was the case, I should’ve looked more closely. My bad for posting that crappy link. Usually I watch every PC and carefully listen to each quote and it’s context, but have gotten horribly behind here and was racing to catch up. Sorry about that crappy article!! Looking for full speech/better resource. It’s likely upstream.

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ETA / Governor’s website, full quotes for reference:

MARCH 6, 2020
Albany, NY
At Novel Coronavirus Briefing, Governor Cuomo Confirms 11 Additional Cases - Bringing Statewide Total to 33

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ETA2: It seems I bolded that crappy headline too lol, but not because of the part about “not urging calm”, but rather to emphasize the second part of the headline about the Uber driver walking into the hospital and potentially exposing the staff...

 

[mickey2942]

BREAKING: Italian Prime Minister Conte signs decree putting Lombardy and 14 provinces, including Milan, on lockdown to stop the spread of coronavirus

BNO Newsroom on Twitter

Italian regions now on lockdown:
- Lombardy Region
- Venice
- Modena
- Parma
- Piacenza
- Reggio Emilia
- Rimini
- Pesaro and Urbino
- Alessandria
- Asti
- Novara
- Verbano-Cusio-Ossola
- Vercelli
- Padua
- Treviso
BNO Newsroom on Twitter

Interesting. I wonder if this could happen in the United States.

 

[Deleted member 158085]

To bed an hour earlier tonight to get yourselves ready for Daylight Savings Time (in almost all states - not AZ, HI and parts of IN, as I recall).

Carp! Is that tonight?

 

[zecats]

Carp! Is that tonight?

Yes Ma'am.

 

[whitelilac]

Carp! Is that tonight?

Well, look at it this way...it's one less hour to worry

 

[Lilibet]

Interesting. I wonder if this could happen in the United States.

Well, it would be interesting, that’s for sure! I wonder how folks would react...and I hope we don’t have to find out!

 

[JudgeJoe]

They should have closed the school and withheld details as other schools have done....IMO

Perhaps. But to be clear, my post did not address what action the school should have taken. My issue is with the misleading headline during a concerning public health issue.

 

[whitelilac]

This Twitter Thread explains the risks etc because of how fast the virus spreads.


"I think most people aren’t aware of the risk of systemic healthcare failure due to #COVID19 because they simply haven’t run the numbers yet. Let’s talk math. 1/n"

Liz Specht on Twitter

Yes, I posted that earlier......worth reading the whole discussion...it's very much on point.

 

[Midgie2]

Interesting. I wonder if this could happen in the United States.

I’m wondering this also, (a lockdown like Italy).

 

[firebird]

School officials are not bound by HIPAA -- only medical professionals are.

I'm not commenting on whether they did or didn't have good reason to refrain from making info public, just that it's not HIPAA that binds them.

Schools are bound by FERPA. Which is just as bad, if not worse.

 

[zecats]

BREAKING: Vermont reports first case of coronavirus Tracking coronavirus: Map, data and timeline

Hope you get some sleep soon. It's an hour later (technically now, literally will be in 3 hours). Or are you really a robot?

 

[LadyL]

The vast minority of people will not need to be hospitalized. So the only way it's going to overrun healthcare is due to unnecessary trips to healthcare and/or quarantining of healthcare workers.

both are already happening

 

[firebird]

both are already happening

Agreed. Sadly. That's what I'm talking about.