Coronavirus COVID-19 *Global Health Emergency* #9

[Tadpole12]

Don't touch the peanuts, Gwyneth!

Lol, glutton for punishment indeed:

“When Beth Emhoff (Gwyneth Paltrow) returns to Minnesota from a Hong Kong business trip, she attributes the malaise she feels to jet lag. However, two days later, Beth is dead, and doctors tell her shocked husband (Matt Damon) that they have no idea what killed her. Soon, many others start to exhibit the same symptoms, and a global pandemic explodes. Doctors try to contain the lethal microbe, but society begins to collapse as a blogger (Jude Law) fans the flames of paranoia.”

 

[jjenny]

I have no idea. It's possible when worn correctly by experienced professionals they do help protect from COVID-19?

How hard is it to put a mask on? In China, a lot of people are wearing masks even when they are not sick. In US, it doesn't seem to be so. But if everybody decided to wear a mask, there will be a horrible mask shortage-there already is.

 

[Tadpole12]

Perth man becomes first Australian to die from coronavirus

78 year old Perth man died
His wife who is also diagnosed with the virus in recent days is in stable condition
Both contracted COVID-19 onboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship.

 

[whitelilac]

Fabulous resource (apologies if posted previously!) from Johns Hopkins - up to the second from all over the world - all cases, included recovered - maps and details:

Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by Johns Hopkins CSSE
Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS

Thank you for this. I see there's a case in my area (LA) that I've not seen mentioned on any local news. If you click the dots, info will be shown.

 

[LaborDayRN]

Fabulous resource (apologies if posted previously!) from Johns Hopkins - up to the second from all over the world - all cases, included recovered - maps and details:

Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by Johns Hopkins CSSE
Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS

It's very good. Someone posted the link way back at the beginning. Currently shows 70 confirmed cases in the U.S. I have a feeling that's about to change dramatically with the Washington state nursing home.

 

[dotr]

This ^^ is regarding healthcare workers. The masks help health-care workers because of they spend literally hours and hours, day after day, in the faces (or elsewhere) of sick people. Health-care workers also know how to handle and wear the masks properly. The masks are helpful prevention to healthcare workers.

The masks are not particularly helpful for a healthy person in the general public, who can keep away from other people and who might not wear the mask properly or handle it properly and who may touch their eyes etc anyway. The masks might make a healthy person feel protected without actually offering protection.

If a sick person wears a mask, that is useful in preventing the sick person from coughing or sneezing and spreading germs.

Myopinion and I know it's unlikely to sway people who want to wear masks. (Get a cute one!)

Well one thing LE may be concerned about is tracking criminals when everyone is wearing a face mask.imo.
While it is still cold and for as long as i can get away with it, happy to wear a big comfy scarf and pull it up over my mouth and nose when in crowds, and leather gloves which i like to wear until the weather turns warm, they are easy to slip off if i want to touch my face.

 

[Tillicum]

How hard is it to put a mask on? In China, a lot of people are wearing masks even when they are not sick. In US, it doesn't seem to be so. But if everybody decided to wear a mask, there will be a horrible mask shortage-there already is.

I would really like to know what percentage of those who've tested positive wore masks. Before they got sick.

 

[gregjrichards]

U.K Coronavirus News

A staff member at Willow Bank Infant School, in Reading, Berkshire, has tested positive for the virus. In an email sent to parents on Saturday night they were urged to stay calm and follow recommended hygiene procedures. The school, in the suburb of Woodley, is to be given a deep clean and will be closed for a few days amid growing fears there will be a wider outbreak.

Coronavirus latest news: Staff member at Reading infant school tests positive

I hope and pray the teacher recovers and no little children get ill or other teachers or parents.

 

[gitana1]

Higher death rate than the flu. We also have vaccines for flu and medications for flu. None for covid yet. Hopefully that will change soon.

Right. I mean this far it’s not a 1918 type virus but it’s problematic.

 

[gregjrichards]

Mainland China reported 573 new confirmed coronavirus cases on Feb. 29, up from 427 on the previous day, the country's health authority said on Sunday.

The number of deaths stood at 35, down from 47 on the previous day, bringing the total death toll in mainland China to 2,870.

Of the deaths, 34 were in Hubei province, the epicentre of the outbreak. The province also saw 570 of the new cases.

Coronavirus latest news: Staff member at Reading infant school tests positive

It is very worrying the number of cases is rising again in China. Thankfully the number of people dying has gone down.

 

[Inthedetails]

How hard is it to put a mask on? In China, a lot of people are wearing masks even when they are not sick. In US, it doesn't seem to be so. But if everybody decided to wear a mask, there will be a horrible mask shortage-there already is.

From what I've read, people in the general public do manage to wear and handle masks improperly. There is a protocol to wearing them and how to handle them with your hands. For one thing, your hands need to be clean when you handle a mask And, people who don't know better wear the mask and still touch their face, their nose, their eyes, making the mask useless.

For the general public, the masks do stop the spread of germs when worn by someone who is sick and is coughing, sneezing. The masks protect the people around them.

jmopinion

 

[MimosaMornings]

I feel you 100%.

I don't blame my inlaws, but we had our Christmas with them a few days after Christmas day. I am a HUGE believer that if you are having people over to your house, you inform them if anyone is sick. They did not. And, to be fair, if they would have told me, I still would have gone. I got the flu. Holy hell it was awful --it even got into my eyes, like pink eye. I spent at least 12 nights on the couch--NOT sleeping because any laying down made me choke with the gunk that was in me. I could go on, but I will just say that I was miserable.

Anyway.

My lesson from this is--PLEASE if you are sick --even with a cold. STAY HOME!

Good luck with that! I used to work as a photographer and had a contract with a chain of children’s day cares.
Always had at least one makeup day built into the schedule for each facility.
Never failed - too sick to come to day care for the day but they brought them for pictures. Fever/runny noses/pinkeye/stomach bug. I gave it up because I was always sick.
Plus the pictures showed a sick child and the parents complained it was my fault.

 

[Lilibet]

How hard is it to put a mask on? In China, a lot of people are wearing masks even when they are not sick. In US, it doesn't seem to be so. But if everybody decided to wear a mask, there will be a horrible mask shortage-there already is.

I think there is a difference between the masks the Chinese are wearing (which do not protect them) and what we are talking about (N-95 masks) that health care workers would wear in particularly contagious environments where there is spray (like surgery). Even those aren’t perfect protection, especially if they don’t fit properly and seal against the face. The N-95 masks are the ones they don’t want the general public to stock up on and wear if they aren’t sick. I happen to have some we bought to filter out wildfire smoke, but I will save them to wear if absolutely necessary in my town...if COVID-19 arrives. The trouble is, as most of us know, sick people are all around us and some aren’t careful with their coughs and aren’t going to wear a mask. So if I were particularly vulnerable (other than being over 70), I would probably wear a mask as something better than nothing to protect myself. The N-95 masks do need to be changed out, so it would require more than one for each person.
JMO

 

[Henry2326]

#US Illinois Dept of Public Health (IDPH) & Cook County Department of Public Health (CCDPH) said the tests conducted resulted in presumptive positives #COVID19US
The positive test results will have to be confirmed by @CDCgov lab.
Person in Illinois tests positive for coronavirus

The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) and Cook County Department of Public Health (CCDPH) said the tests conducted in Illinois resulted in presumptive positives for COVID-19.
The positive test results will have to be confirmed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lab.

Person in Illinois tests positive for coronavirus | FOX 32 Chicago

 

[Henry2326]

“At a nursing facility in Kirkland, Wash, approximately 27 of the 108 residents and 25 of the 180 staff have some symptoms, health officials said during a teleconference with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”
First Covid-19 outbreak in a U.S. nursing home raises concerns via @statnews

First Covid-19 outbreak in a U.S. nursing home raises concerns

 

[Henry2326]

NEW: South Korea reports 376 new cases of coronavirus, raising total to 3,526 cases and 17 dead Tracking coronavirus: Map, data and timeline
BNO Newsroom on Twitter

 

[LaborDayRN]

Some info on the N95 respirator for the healthcare setting including fit tests and proper way to put on and remove the respirator.
https://www.medicalcenter.virginia.edu/occupational-health/forms/Respirator Fit Testing and Training

 

[Henry2326]

1/ One of the MOST critical systems responses for controlling #COVID19 as it spreads more will be making sure that young, healthy patients DO NOT go to emergency rooms if they have mild symptoms. They should call their doctors to discuss & likely self-isolate.
Abraar Karan MD, MPH, DTM&H on Twitter

 

[Henry2326]

NEW: Australia reports 1st death from coronavirus; patient was a 78-year-old former passenger of the Diamond Princess cruise ship Tracking coronavirus: Map, data and timeline
BNO Newsroom on Twitter

 

[Alathea]

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