Coronavirus COVID-19 *Global Health Emergency* #18

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More than 250 quarantined cruise ship passengers headed to Dobbins Air Reserve Base tonight: More than 250 quarantined cruise ship passengers headed to Dobbins Air Reserve Base tonight WSB-TV on Twitter

What about the rest of the passengers? Are they free to return home and resume normal life?

 

[gngr~snap]

More than 250 quarantined cruise ship passengers headed to Dobbins Air Reserve Base tonight: More than 250 quarantined cruise ship passengers headed to Dobbins Air Reserve Base tonight WSB-TV on Twitter

My gosh. Marietta was only allowed an additional 75 total test for coronavirus!
Wow.
Randi Sanders on Twitter

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

MSNBC: Awaiting White House COVID-19 Task Force news conference at 5:30PM (EDT).

 

[SeattleStew]

Go Huskies!
@UWVirology
performed #SARSCoV2 #CoronavirusUSA #HCoV19 testing for over 750 people on March 9 with about 8% positive. Many samples come to us from other parts of the US. Our team is glad we can help these areas starting to be affected.
@UWMedicine

 

[galiuro1]

"...the health department is now working with 10 long-term care centers" where either a resident or employee has tested positive." #KingCounty #WashingtonState #coronavirus
COVID19 on Twitter

I live in a city (and a state) with a lot of retirees and a whole mess of 'assisted living' and nursing homes and yet not a squeak out of them about any cases...if you don't test we're in the clear, what a bleepin crock...

 

[Trudie]

virus in Kentucky: Berea College is canceling classes
www.courier-journal.com › story › news › 2020/03/10 › coronavirus-u...

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

What about the rest of the passengers? Are they free to return home and resume normal life?

Confusing reports on this. Originally, only the 19 passengers and 2 crew members were going to be quarantined for at least 14 days. Passengers were to be transferred to previously-arranged facility while crew members would be quarantined on the ship. A couple who disembarked Grand Princess this afternoon were interviewed on MSNBC and indicated that they thought they were also going to be quarantined but didn't know where or for how long. They do not have symptoms but were told that they might be quarantined and would be tested. Disembarkation seems to be a painstaking process and is going very slowly. It seems that some people were almost ready to get off the ship and were told to return to their staterooms. Sounds very disorganized, to say the least.

 

[SeattleStew]

I knew we were being lied to!

Same! I made it in big print, because I want to shout it from the rooftops. Maybe I'll do it again:

“Our advice is to wear a face mask all the way (through the bus ride),” they wrote in the paper, which found that those on-board the bus who did wear a face mask did not become infected.

 

[rodneymullenmg]

Nero fiddled as the city burned

 

[happyday]

Oh my gosh, thank you Sanjay Gupta! He’s on CNN right now saying it doesn’t make sense to close all of these colleges with this disease. I don’t see it on the website right now but I’ll keep looking. These university closings are getting out of hand IMO.

He’s saying music festivals make sense, but closing universities is very disruptive and college kids are not largely affected by this. I think we’re going to have a whole generation of extremely resentful people if their whole lives, plans and goals are completely halted. This is what happens when we have no real leadership—a plan that makes SENSE for this particular virus. Schools, organizations, companies are just winging it and guessing on what to do. MOO

 

[Hatfield]

I knew we were being lied to!

ikr
When I wore my cheap paper mask while spray painting something last summer.
Without it on, I smelled paint
With it on, it doesnt smell like paint hardly at all so long as a tight seal around the face.

2+2=4
I dont need a research paper after seeing how they work to reduce paint fumes.

 

[Trudie]

KY’s gov’ gave our afternoon update. We tested 20 today, the most tests yet for one day, 18 negative, 2 positive. Then he went on to say some negatives might be positive due to asymptomatic persons. They won’t reveal where anyone in isolation lives, which I think is really odd. If one county has 100 in isolation, that would be useful info, I think. It would at least put everyone on alert that the potential for community spread is greater in said county.
We were also told if we feel well but have a cough “do not go to your doctor.”
It really is a confusing situation when we hear “practice good hygiene & live your life.” But the same person advises against being in large groups, traveling, etc.

 

[Pi Thoughts]

A top Chinese doctor who has been treating seriously ill coronavirus patients in Wuhan believes hypertension may increase your changes of dying from the virus.

Du Bin is the director of Peking Union Medical College Hospital’s intensive care unit and was among a group of Chinese physicians sent to the virus epicentre to treat coronavirus cases two months ago.

In a group of 170 patients which died from COVID-19 in January nearly half had hypertension — a “very high ratio”, Dr Bin told Bloomberg.

“From what I was told by other doctors and the data I can see myself, among all the underlying diseases, hypertension is a key dangerous factor,” Dr Bin said.
‘Dangerous’ factor that makes virus fatal

Just quoting myself.

What is hypertension? Is it the same as high blood pressure or more severe?

 

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Confusing reports on this. Originally, only the 19 passengers and 2 crew members were going to be quarantined for at least 14 days. Passengers were to be transferred to previously-arranged facility while crew members would be quarantined on the ship. A couple who disembarked Grand Princess this afternoon were interviewed on MSNBC and indicated that they thought they were also going to be quarantined but didn't know where or for how long. They do not have symptoms but were told that they might be quarantined and would be tested. Disembarkation seems to be a painstaking process and is going very slowly. It seems that some people were almost ready to get off the ship and were told to return to their staterooms. Sounds very disorganized, to say the least.

All Canadian passengers from the ship are in 14 day quarantine. Several of the positive cases in Alberta are cruise ship passengers who were in the community for a few days before developing symptoms.

 

[PingTheRouter]

looks like everything has gone to crap this morning in Australia

116 cases and the entire news site news.com.au has gone red alert and put up a huge banner about convid-19 now

 

[margarita25]

Harrison County KY (where WMT worker was infected) has 2 new cases. So five there, all five linked but in dif’ ways......

Link please

 

[margarita25]

Johnstown woman is Larimer County’s first confirmed case of COVID-19 – Loveland Reporter-Herald

“The patient is a woman in her 50s who has been diagnosed with pneumonia, according to the health department. The department and local health agencies are working to contact any people who may have been in close contact with her.

In a Monday evening news release, the Larimer County Department of Health and Environment said that the woman is a resident of the Larimer County portion of Johnstown.“

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Denver cancels St. Patrick’s Day Parade over COVID-19 concerns
3 hours ago

“DENVER — Mayor Michael Hancock has canceled the St. Patrick’s Day Parade due to the on-going situation surrounding COVID-19, according to a Tuesday news release.”

 

[happyday]

Go Huskies!
@UWVirology
performed #SARSCoV2 #CoronavirusUSA #HCoV19 testing for over 750 people on March 9 with about 8% positive. Many samples come to us from other parts of the US. Our team is glad we can help these areas starting to be affected.
@UWMedicine

They’ve been rock stars at UW since the beginning of this!

 

[anneg]

Just quoting myself.

What is hypertension? Is it the same as high blood pressure or more severe?

Same thing.