Coronavirus COVID-19 *Global Health Emergency* #7

[Betty P]

@Betty P The guy who collapsed coughing in a U.K shopping centre was a sick prank

Coronavirus cougher' who collapsed in London's Canary Wharf exposed as sick hoax

Pranksters stage sick coronavirus hoax by collapsing in London's Canary Wharf

That's terrible. The video wasn't too clear, but the guy falling on the ground looked like a full grown adult, a little old to be pulling such a stupid stunt.

 

[gregjrichards]

omg no no no this is terrible news

It is indeed. I am absolutely dreading the potential news about cats and dogs from China. They honestly would have to kill me first before they got my cat Winston.

 

[MajorHoople]

We canceled a cruise that was booked for May, from Ireland to Iceland and back. With the rapidity of the spreading of the virus (has reached Northern Ireland already), I believe we made the correct decision. No regrets there.

I agree. You made a good choice.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

We canceled a cruise that was booked for May, from Ireland to Iceland and back. With the rapidity of the spreading of the virus (has reached Northern Ireland already), I believe we made the correct decision. No regrets there.

DH and I did our annual winter cruise in late January. I am glad to be home and will not be considering another cruise anytime soon. Having been on cruises with the dreaded Norovirus, I would not want to chance sailing with the threat of COVID-19. Glad to hear that you canceled your cruise, and, yest, you made the right decision.

 

[margarita25]

please dont compare to the flu!!

In today’s WHO PC I just referenced above, a reporter asks about this, about Trump’s comparison of the virus to the flu. Dr. Tedros says that these two viruses do share some commonalities as far as taking the same protective measures - washing your hands with soap and water, etc. So in that sense, he said that Trump was right.

He also mentioned “6 feet” distance..

 

[LaborDayRN]

I think this is the only Euro countries that have not reported?

Portugal, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia or Czech Rep

Luxembourg?

 

[cody22]

Luxembourg?

Liechenstein ????......moo

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

My local go-to news source will be doing daily updates on Coronavirus. I will continue to share.

Answering 3 popular questions about coronavirus outbreak

Dr. Frank McGeorge gets verified answers about coronavirus

 

[weepingangel]

Yah so to answer what my fears are. This. The stupidity. From this idiot
All the way up to the Pope and health officials apparently. Shaking hands and kissing babies while having FLU Symptoms? Really Were there no sensible adults to prevent this ?
And on and on. Community response. There will be lots of stupidity imo.
So yes that worries me mostly.

@Betty P The guy who collapsed coughing in a U.K shopping centre was a sick prank

Coronavirus cougher' who collapsed in London's Canary Wharf exposed as sick hoax

Pranksters stage sick coronavirus hoax by collapsing in London's Canary Wharf

 

[rodneymullenmg]

I glad Doctors are doing PC’s.
I think medical professionals should be the ones leading the fight against this.

 

[Betty P]

Apologies if this has already been posted

U.S. Health Workers Responding to Coronavirus Lacked Training and Protective Gear, Whistle-Blower Says

Staff members from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families were sent to Travis Air Force Base and March Air Reserve Base in late January and early February and were ordered to enter quarantined areas, including a hangar where coronavirus evacuees were being received, the complaint said. They were not provided safety-protocol training until five days into their assignment, said the whistle-blower, who is described as a senior leader at the health agency.

Without proper training or equipment, some of the exposed staff members moved freely around and off the bases, with at least one person staying in a nearby hotel and leaving California on a commercial flight. Many were unaware of the need to test their temperatures three times a day.

 

[SAMS]

HiddenLevers on Twitter


"Coronavirus and its global sweep stokes fear over facts. Experts say it's unlikely to produce 'apocalyptic scenario"

SAN FRANCISCO – Coronavirus is in the global spotlight, but a secondary character in this unfolding drama threatens to upstage the grim protagonist: fear.

Chalk that up to what it means to be human. Animals have a fight-or-flight response to real and present danger. We have that maddening ability to go a step beyond and imagine what isn’t there.

“Humans often can develop a robust and pathological fear of things that might not happen, to create realities that don’t exist,” says Elizabeth Phelps, Harvard University’s Pershing Square professor of human neuroscience. “So yes, of course you can overdo it.”

 

[SAMS]

I glad Doctors are doing PC’s.
I think medical professionals should be the ones leading the fight against this.

Absolutely agree. MOO

 

[zecats]

European countries without confirmed cases.

I'm curious about Vatican City, since the Pope held mass there on Ash Wednesday. Boo to that.

 

[KALI]

Good. Let's hope they enforce this. No hundreds of thousands of sweaty people marching for days together, sounds like an excellent plan to me!

Drastic measures in the Middle East
Saudi Arabia banned foreigners from reaching the holy city of Mecca and the Kaaba, the cube-shaped structure the world's 1.8 billion Muslims pray toward five times a day. It also said travel was suspended to Prophet Muhammad's mosque in Medina.

Disease outbreaks have always been a concern on the hajj pilgrimage, with peopl travelling from all over the world to complete the walk which is compulsory for able-bodied Muslims.

Saudi Arabia has taken the measure as its neighbours deal with their own cases of coronavirus. Bahrain confirmed 33 cases as of Thursday morning, while Iran’s president insisted there were no immediate plans to quarantine cities as authorities try to get a handle on the spread of the virus in a country which has so far seen 19 deaths. There are also confirmed cases in neighbouring Oman, Iraq, Kuwait and the UAE.

COVID-19 latest: Stock markets suffer worst one-day drop since 2011

 

[SAMS]

Dan Hurlbut RN on Twitter


"Australian doctors warn of overwhelmed public health system in event of coronavirus pandemic"

 

[weepingangel]

And this worries me lots
Coronavirus live updates: Up to 100 health workers exposed to Solano County patient
and the whistle blower story about workers lacking training to deal with the situation (didn’t read the entire thing so moo)

and the economic day to day stuff. And the economic big stuff.

 

[LadyL]

It is indeed. I am absolutely dreading the potential news about cats and dogs from China. They honestly would have to kill me first before they got my cat Winston.

me too
my pets are family and just as important as human family members

 

[Windsorite]

The US has its first novel coronavirus-related drug shortage

From CNN Health’s Jen Christensen

The United States has its first novel coronavirus-related drug shortage, according to the US Food and Drug Administration.

The maker of an unnamed drug that has recently been added to the FDA Drug Shortages list told the agency that the shortage is due to the coronavirus.

On Tuesday, the FDA warned that these types of shortages could happen, and said it was monitoring the situation closely. The agency identified 20 drugs that either solely sourced their active pharmaceutical ingredients, or produced finished drug products, from or in China.

The unnamed company that notified the FDA about a shortage said the problem is the result of an issue with the manufacturing of an active pharmaceutical ingredient used in the drug.

Made in China: The US relies heavily on Chinese-made drug ingredients, medical devices and drugs that are used in humans and animals. As of 2018, China ranked second among countries that exported drugs and biologics to the US, and ranked first for medical devices, according to the FDA.

Obligation to report shortages: The agency said Tuesday it has been in touch with 180 manufacturers to remind them that the companies have a regulatory obligation to notify the FDA if they anticipate any disruption to drug supplies. The agency asked companies to evaluate their supply chains in light of the coronavirus outbreak.

The FDA said it is working with the manufacturer that was recently added to the shortages list to try and mitigate the problem.

“We will do everything possible to mitigate the shortage,” the agency said in a news release Thursday.

 

[Amonet]

So this is a bit odd IMO....

Travis Air Force Base is in Solano County.

They are saying the patient had no known exposure to someone with the virus.

So it’s coincidence this case is near Travis Air Force Base?

It should be easy enough to do the contact tracing from the individual to the Travis base?

But San Francisco airport would probably have a lot of travellers coming in from Asian nations? So it could be that someone came from Japan or South Korea, probably a day or two before the numbers of cases in S. Korea took off, and they had such mild symptoms that they didn't self-isolate (the advice when they flew in might well have still been to only self-isolate if one gets symptoms) and they spread it to someone, who spread it to a few more people, all having relatively normal flu symptoms, and then it gets to someone who has the more severe symptoms that lead to them being diagnosed. But there are so many steps between that person and the person who got off the plane, that there's no way to trace back to that person who got off the plane.

It is likely indicative of low-level community spread. But of course that's how it started in Hubei and Italy.

IMO the airport is a much more likely place for the index case to be found than the proper government/hospital quarantine/isolation facilities.