Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Emergency #5

[Henry2326]

If this were a movie it would get slammed for the implausibility of it. “It’s ridiculous!”

You really can’t make this stuff up.

I watched Contagion last weekend. Other than the millions that die in 30 days, you can see similar things playing out from that storyline. Epidemics are more similar than we realize.

 

[Medstudies]

Sorry I know this is repetitive:

Americans with coronavirus were flown home over CDC objections: report
More than a dozen Americans who had tested positive for coronavirus and were flown home alongside others without the virus were transported despite objections from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), The Washington Post reported on Thursday.

The 14 Americans who tested positive were among more than 300 who arrived back in the United States earlier this week after being evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan, which has been the center of scrutiny over a coronavirus outbreak on board.

When those individuals tested positive for the virus, U.S. officials had to make a choice as to whether to let them fly home alongside the other passengers.

The State Department and some Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officials decided to allow it while the CDC objected, warning of the risk of the disease spreading on the plane, the Post reported.

*edit to add: the passengers tested positive before boarding

 

[JerseyGirl]

I'm still looking, but found this:

The other treatment centers are located in Boston; New York City; Baltimore; Atlanta; Minneapolis; Galveston, Texas; Omaha, Nebraska; Denver; and Los Angeles.

Why was Sacred Heart chosen as a site for four coronavirus patients?

Could be these hospitals:

Found two of the 10 hospitals in Atlanta and New York:

Atlanta
At Northside Hospital, the staff said if a patient has any clinical symptoms and has recently traveled from Wuhan, or if they have been in close contact with a person who is under investigation for the virus, they will be masked and taken directly to an airborne isolation room, where they will remain while in the hospital.

New York
Staff at NYU Langone Health in New York City has designated the new virus as a “level 1” priority. NYU is also preparing for a level 2 or 3 scenario, where there is transmission in the city and it begins to impact hospital operations.

Hospitals across the US prepare for coronavirus outbreak to become global pandemic

 

[gregjrichards]

If this were a movie it would get slammed for the implausibility of it. “It’s ridiculous!”

You really can’t make this stuff up.

I’m just waiting for Hollywood to announce a Disaster on The Diamond Princess movie. Quarantined cruise passengers and crew waiting to be evacuated by their governments fight for survival as a deadly virus sweeps throughout the ship.

 

[Medstudies]

Thank you for taking the time to find the source document. Was indeed misleading that plastic area is a specialized containment area. Shame shame shame on them.

Right? And thank you ( and everyone here) for all you are posting!

anyway...
This really bothers me:

why did they go to that extreme effort to get that box on the plane? Display it for the press - And then not use it?

 

[Henry2326]

Could be these hospitals:

Found two of the 10 hospitals in Atlanta and New York:

Atlanta
At Northside Hospital, the staff said if a patient has any clinical symptoms and has recently traveled from Wuhan, or if they have been in close contact with a person who is under investigation for the virus, they will be masked and taken directly to an airborne isolation room, where they will remain while in the hospital.

New York
Staff at NYU Langone Health in New York City has designated the new virus as a “level 1” priority. NYU is also preparing for a level 2 or 3 scenario, where there is transmission in the city and it begins to impact hospital operations.

Hospitals across the US prepare for coronavirus outbreak to become global pandemic

The big one is Emory in Atlanta. They have the infectious disease department that works with CDC. Family member works for Grady EMS. The problem in Atlanta right now is limited resources. Grady Hospital had a water main break on the 6th floor about 4 months ago. So the other hospitals have taken the overload. The system is maxed out most days. They have temporary triage now at Grady......Hopefully someone is scurrying around coming up with a plan, and hopefully its the CDC.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Iran’s health ministry reportedly confirmed the coronavirus had spread to several cities nationwide, before adding the flu-like virus might exist in all of them.

“Based on existing reports, the spread of the coronavirus started in Qom and with attention to people’s travels has now reached several cities in the country, including Tehran, Babol, Arak, Isfahan, Rasht, and other cities. And it is possible that it exists in all cities in Iran,” Health Ministry official Minou Mohrez said Friday.

It comes after the Islamic Republic confirmed 18 total cases on Friday, and four patients have died.

Coronavirus live updates: Coca-Cola takes an earnings hit, Iran confirms more cases

 

[dixiegirl1035]

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UPDATE: Lebanon's first case of coronavirus is a woman who recently flew from Iran - AlJadeed
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4-year-old girl falls to her death in Hong Kong after being left home alone over fears of coronavirus - HK01

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Iran's health ministry: "Based on existing reports, the spread of coronavirus started in Qom [and] has now reached several cities ... including Tehran, Babol, Arak, Isfahan, Rasht and other cities and it's possible that it exists in all cities in Iran" - Reuters[/URL]

 

[Medstudies]

I’m just waiting for Hollywood to announce a Disaster on The Diamond Princess movie. Quarantined cruise passengers and crew waiting to be evacuated by their governments fight for survival as a deadly virus sweeps throughout the ship.

Oh. My. Gosh. Yea. That’s going to happen

Bets on who will do it (first)?

 

[JerseyGirl]

Chinese city says discharged virus patient tested positive after 10 days

A coronavirus patient who was discharged less than two weeks ago has tested positive for the virus. The patient was discharged on Feb. 10 after meeting requirements from China’s virus diagnosis protocol, and went home for a 14-day quarantine. The hospital said it received the patient on Wednesday for further treatment.

Coronavirus live updates: Coca-Cola takes an earnings hit, Iran confirms more cases

 

[Medstudies]

Iran’s health ministry reportedly confirmed the coronavirus had spread to several cities nationwide, before adding the flu-like virus might exist in all of them.

“Based on existing reports, the spread of the coronavirus started in Qom and with attention to people’s travels has now reached several cities in the country, including Tehran, Babol, Arak, Isfahan, Rasht, and other cities. And it is possible that it exists in all cities in Iran,” Health Ministry official Minou Mohrez said Friday.

It comes after the Islamic Republic confirmed 18 total cases on Friday, and four patients have died.

Coronavirus live updates: Coca-Cola takes an earnings hit, Iran confirms more cases

That was fast. But I again give them credit for transparency

 

[Henry2326]

Right? And thank you ( and everyone here) for all you are posting!

anyway...
This really bothers me:

why did they go to that extreme effort to get that box on the plane? Display it for the press - And then not use it?

Here are selfies in the link at post #622. You can see the isolation unit....if it was in China, they would all be fired.....

 

[JerseyGirl]

Coronavirus: Diamond Princess repatriation flight to UK is delayed

More than 70 British nationals who have been quarantined onboard the Diamond Princess were due to fly home on Friday but will now leave the cruise ship on Friday night, and the flight will depart in the early hours of Saturday, local time.

The passengers are due to land at the Boscombe Down military base near Salisbury in Wiltshire.

Although given the all-clear in Japan, those on Friday’s evacuation flight will be taken straight to Arrowe Park hospital in Wirral for 14 days of quarantine.

The four Britons onboard the Diamond Princess who have tested positive will not be on the flight.

Meanwhile, Britons in Cambodia who left another cruise ship, the Westerdam, and who have been cleared for travel, are being assisted by the Foreign Office to make their way home. The group are receiving health advice and being helped with commercial flight bookings. All have tested negative after one case was diagnosed on board. The number of Britons in the group has not been disclosed, and it is unclear whether some have already come back to the UK.

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Why are they putting Westerdam passengers on commercial flights, just because they tested negative?!? I would expect quarantining anyone on that ship for at least 14 days is a safe bet.

 

[dotr]

Feb 21 2020
Who is most at risk of contracting coronavirus?
''There have been a number of deaths from the coronavirus among doctors who are young and, as far as we know, otherwise healthy.

Does this reframe who we thought was at risk?
According to Dr Bharat Pankhania, an expert on communicable disease control at the University of Exeter Medical School, it is not surprising that some young, healthy people die after contracting the virus, noting the risk of infection and even death is not zero for any demographic.

“All of us are at risk, and hence the superlative efforts at keeping containment in place, and keeping the virus from circulating as much as we can do,” he said.

David Heymann, professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, agreed. “This is a new disease in humans, so no-one has immunity– health workers, like everyone else, don’t have immunity,” he said.

Are some people more at risk?
Heymann said that who succumbs to the infection and who shrugs it off is often down to individual differences in the body’s response to the virus.

Some groups have a greater risk than others. “At the moment it appears that people who are at greater risk are the elderly and probably the very young,” said Pankhania.

But, he added, “you cannot have that only the elderly and the very young will die, it is part of the natural history of such infections that we will get deaths across the age ranges … The same pathophysiology can happen in the young as in the old.”

Are doctors more at risk of infection than non-medical staff?
In short, yes. “It is not surprising that fellow clinical colleagues have got infected and some have died,” said Pankhania, noting that medical professionals were in a special situation as they had multiple potential exposures to infection.''

 

[Henry2326]

Wow.....I'm not sure where he's getting his info.....(head stuck in the sand)
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St. Louis Fed President James Bullard said. In an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Bullard pushed back on the likelihood of a cut, saying current policy seems right considering the pace of the record-breaking U.S. economic expansion. “There’s a high probability that the coronavirus will blow over as other viruses have, be a temporary shock and everything will come back. But there’s a low probability that this could get much worse,” he said.

Coronavirus live updates: Coca-Cola takes an earnings hit, Iran confirms more cases

 

[Deleted member 158085]

Well this is interesting. I was scrolling through Facebook this morning and this popped up.

 

[dixiegirl1035]

The big one is Emory in Atlanta. They have the infectious disease department that works with CDC. Family member works for Grady EMS. The problem in Atlanta right now is limited resources. Grady Hospital had a water main break on the 6th floor about 4 months ago. So the other hospitals have taken the overload. The system is maxed out most days. They have temporary triage now at Grady......Hopefully someone is scurrying around coming up with a plan, and hopefully its the CDC.

If it hits and goes wild in US, there aren't enough resources anywhere MOO.

 

[Medstudies]

Here are selfies in the link at post #622. You can see the isolation unit....if it was in China, they would all be fired.....

Wow, Thanks!

and you know it! Or sanctioned. Or detained...

 

[dixiegirl1035]

Well this is interesting. I was scrolling through Facebook this morning and this popped up.
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I got the same thing this am. As the WHO said, they were working with google and Facebook.

 

[dixiegirl1035]

10 am Eastern start today in case folks want to open a new tab to hold open. (30 minutes from now)