Coronavirus - COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #24

[Henry2326]

THESE ARE DOCTORS....

Strongly agree with Dr. Andrew Marks at Columbia that we need to start setting up field hospitals right away. Our hospitals will be overrun in the next two weeks and we need to prepare additional capacity right now. #CoronaVirusUpdates Harrison Kalodimos, MD on Twitter
Harrison Kalodimos, MD on Twitter

STAY HOME, SAVE LIVES

 

[Really?]

True, people really need to watch the PBS American Experience Influenza 1918. There are many similarities and differences in our experience. But the importance of social distancing was duly noted by researchers when studying for current guidelines. The people of 1918 didn't stand a chance because the pathogen was a mysterious entity at that time. But now, we know better. Let's not let history repeat. Thanks.
Influenza 1918 | Season 10 Episode 5 | American Experience

Thanks, I’m watching it now.

 

[Henry2326]

CANADA

Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry has ordered that all gatherings of more than 250 people be cancelled. But she noted the virus doesn't seem to transmit as readily outdoors, so people don't need to stay holed up inside. "Go outside and play with your family." CBC British Columbia on Twitter

CBC British Columbia on Twitter

STAY HOME, SAVE LIVES

 

[Recidivist]

I am having the same problem with my cats.

Me too. Starting tonight I will be mixing the wet with the dry food and will limit their portions. I can already hear the protest meows.

 

[enelram]

True, but the large population of Florida that would fall into the "high-risk" catgory means healthcare facilities will be extremely stressed and overwhelmed should the virus take hold aggressively as it has in Itay or now, Spain.

Right now, I would consider Wisconsin a much safer place than Florida, IMHO

you're correct.
The numbers are still being stifled besides just
the few tests going on.
Community spread is pretty obvious as one watches the daily health dept. results.
Florida is much much worse than reports.
Stay home- Stay Safe.

 

[badgersmythe]

Spanish police use megaphones to tell people to stay indoors


Spanish police use megaphones to tell people to stay indoors or face £25,000 fines | Daily Mail Online

 

[mickey2942]

He Has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere to Sell Them

This guy is a glaring example of profiteering. I don't feel badly for him at all.

 

[Elley Mae]

The Trump administration has offered a German medical company “large sums of money” for exclusive access to a Covid-19 vaccine, German media have reported.

The German government is trying to fight off what it sees as an aggressive takeover bid by the US, the broadsheet Die Welt reports, citing German government circles.

The US president had offered the Tübingen-based biopharmaceutical company CureVac “large sums of money” to gain exclusive access to their work, wrote Die Welt.

According to an anonymous source quoted in the newspaper, Trump was doing everything to secure a vaccine against the coronavirus for the US, “but for the US only”.

Trump offers 'large sums' for exclusive access to coronavirus vaccine

Anonymous source? Sounds more like a trouble maker. Jmo

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Coronavirus Infects Wall Street — Can Biotech Stocks Ride To The Rescue?

Coronavirus Vaccine Hunt Sends Biotech Companies Scrambling To Treat Covid-19 | Investor's Business Daily


Moderna rival CureVac also plans to create a coronavirus vaccine using messenger RNA. The Boston-based company is privately held and — like Moderna — receives funding from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, an organization that develops vaccines to stop epidemics.

.......


On Tuesday, Ingmar Hoerr stood up from his seat at the head of CureVac’s board of directors meeting in Frankfurt, Germany and walked out the door.

For 18 years, Hoerr had led the company he founded, stewarding it even when investors rebuffed both him and his approach, before 2 years ago handing it off to Daniel Menichella, a longtime biotech business executive who could fuel the financial half of things. Now the world was facing a pandemic and CureVac might be able to build a vaccine and the board, Hoerr said, wanted someone who knew the science back in charge.

When he walked back in, he was no longer chairman and Menichella was no longer CEO. Hoerr had control again.

CureVac’s Ingmar Hoerr tells us why he returned to take on a pandemic; NGM loses a president

 

[Cubby]

I am coronavirused out. I am sick of umpteen emails from companies telling me how to wash my hands, how to cover my mouth when coughing or sneezing, and what they are doing to keep their stores clean. I practise these things and expect these things every day, coronavirus or not.

 

[momrids6]

This is becoming nanny state. Like the warnings on plastic bags about not putting them on ones head. Really ?

 

[Deleted member 263106]

Not to be ‘that’ person but if you need 100 rolls of toilet paper to last 2 weeks - maybe you should have seen a dr well before covid-19....

Sorry, really trying to get a giggle more than anything. I know everyone is stressed but really, what is everyone doing with toilet paper en mass? Making masks? I need the recipe ASAP if so...

 

[Tadpole12]

Well, my Saint Pat festivities will be on a smaller scale this year.
Not the dinner for 12 that we usually do. Just the family, 3.
Have the corned beef, and potats, couldn't find a regular cabbage,
so will use the chinese cabbage from the stack that remained in produce dept in my local, as the shelves were picked clean.
Won't make the bread pudding as afters, this year.

 

[Henry2326]

Austria bans gatherings of more than five people over coronavirus Austria bans gatherings of more than five people over coronavirus

The Independent on Twitter

STAY HOME, SAVE LIVES

 

[happyday]

This is becoming nanny state. Like the warnings on plastic bags about not putting them on ones head. Really ?

Or like the pharma commercials warning you not to take this drug if you have a known allergy to.....this drug.

 

[JerseyGirl]

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[Elley Mae]

This is becoming nanny state. Like the warnings on plastic bags about not putting them on ones head. Really ?

I still laugh about the label ( pic of baby w/ circle and line through it, on small fridge for daughter at college. Don’t put babies in fridge. WTH

 

[CoverMeCagney]

He Has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere to Sell Them

This guy is a glaring example of profiteering. I don't feel badly for him at all.

From that link:

"On March 1, the day after the first coronavirus death in the United States was announced, brothers Matt and Noah Colvin set out in a silver S.U.V. to pick up some hand sanitizer. Driving around Chattanooga, Tenn., they hit a Dollar Tree, then a Walmart, a Staples and a Home Depot. At each store, they cleaned out the shelves. Over the next three days, Noah Colvin took a 1,300-mile road trip across Tennessee and into Kentucky, filling a U-Haul truck with thousands of bottles of hand sanitizer and thousands of packs of antibacterial wipes.”

Selfish idiots. Glad they've been named and shamed. Perhaps they should get back in the car and hand them all out to hospitals and care homes as a starting point.

 

[MJPeony]

Or like the pharma commercials warning you not to take this drug if you have a known allergy to.....this drug.

Don’t forget you shouldn’t drink bleach to protect yourself from CV.

 

[Herat]

He Has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere to Sell Them

This guy is a glaring example of profiteering. I don't feel badly for him at all.

And there are nursing homes, group homes, and care centers that desperately need that sanitizer.

 

[momrids6]

Or like the pharma commercials warning you not to take this drug if you have a known allergy to.....this drug.

I simply do not understand why spring breakers, people who are going out, vacationing, etc. are being shamed and called selfish. “ they’re going to infect the high risk people” um, why are the high risk out ? And if you are high risk and allow your spring breaker or anyone for that matter into your home, you are the problem