Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #30

[PingTheRouter]

@PingTheRouter and any other Australians, here is a good site.

CoviD2019-Australia

Victoria has tested 10000 less than qld and 20000 less than nsw

well i hope that is a good thing for my home state of victoria

 

[margarita25]

Young suburban mother documents coronavirus treatment

“Davis started having chills, headaches, fever and eventually couldn’t breathe. She ended up at the University of Chicago Hospital where she recorded a Facebook Live inside while in isolation.

“It does make you look at life a little bit differently,” she said. “It did hurt to see people joke about it, corona this, corona that."

The Facebook Live has over one-million views.

The Hazel Crest resident had no health issues and traveled to New Orleans in late February.

[...]

“The results were sent to the CDC and came back positive. Still, doctors tell her it’s a mystery of how she got coronavirus.”

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Retired nurse from Chicago’s South Side state’s first COVID-19 death
1 day ago

 

[gngr~snap]

Heartbreaking reading the posts from Liberty Square Church in Cartersville Ga!

Coronavirus: Member of Liberty Square choir dies; fourth victim in Georgia. Today: Floyd, Rome commissions ‘to declare a public health state of emergency.’ Also: 197 ‘positive’ cases in the state, up 35% in a day. Local hospital reports. | Hometown Headlines
Several people from the choir who are very sick!
Liberty Square Choir

 

[margarita25]

Chicago aquarium releases penguins after it closes due to coronavirus
Mar. 17, 2020

“After Chicago's Shedd Aquarium was forced to close amid the coronavirus pandemic, staff decided to let a few waddling residents out of their enclosures for a field trip.”

 

[margarita25]

3 more patients die of coronavirus in Georgia, bringing death toll to 4
Updated: March 18, 2020 - 5:37 PM

“Three more people have died of the coronavirus in Georgia, hospital officials confirmed Wednesday.”

[...]

““The Emory Healthcare community is saddened to learn of the first death of one of our patients with confirmed COVID-19 despite the heroic efforts of our physicians, nurses and care team,” Emory said in a statement. “For this patient’s family, this is an incredibly sad day.””


[...]

“Two more people died at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany, officials confirm.

The Georgia Department of Public Health announced Wednesday that the patients were a 42-year-old woman and a 69-year-old woman who both had preexisting medical conditions.”

[...]

“He said COVID-19 is putting a strain on the southwest Georgia hospital.

“We’ve gone through now six months of supplies. What normally takes us six months to use, we’ve done that in seven days,” Steiner said.

Steiner said the hospital has just over a one-day supply of isolation gowns and less than four days left of masks for his staff.”

 

[zecats]

All of NJ was bound to experience spread, but the county asked visitors to stay away from the Jersey Shore for the time being. A visitor brought the first case here.

COURT HOUSE - Cape May County Department of Health is reporting that a 30-year-old man from New York City tested positive at a local health care facility for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) while visiting Cape May County.

According to a March 18 county release, this information is a reminder that out-of-state visitors should stay home and not travel to the county during this pandemic outbreak.

Now is not the time to travel, but to remain vigilant in following recommendations for social distancing and isolation.

County Announces First COVID-19 Case, a Visitor from New York

 

[gregjrichards]

Italy's fleet of the dead: Military trucks transport scores of coronavirus victims' coffins to be cremated

Military trucks transport Italian coronavirus victims' coffins to be cremated | Daily Mail Online

This distressing photo is why everyone should do what they are told to do to prevent speading the virus and potentially making other people seriously ill or dead.

 

[Really?]

Welp.......it happened. ....a 30 yo man from ny is in hospital here in Cape May Co.......no idea what town or towns he visited here. Our 3 mayors on this 5 mile island ( the wildwoods) are seriously wanting to close the bridges. Heck, I wanted that weeks ago!!

I’m still expecting our numbers to go up since people have been coming in from other places. Sheeeeeeesh.

 

[astheworldfallsdown]

Government to pass emergency laws, locations of Irish cases revealed: Today's Covid-19 main points

(Ireland)

THE DÁIL IS set to meet again today to pass emergency legislation to help combat the Covid-19 outbreak.

A limited number of TDs will attend a sitting of the Dáil from 2pm to debate measures which will remove waiting time for social welfare allowances, as well as outlining powers that would allow those suspected of being infected with the illness to be detained.

It follows last night’s announcement of a further 74 cases of the novel coronavirus in the Republic of Ireland, another daily record, which brought to 366 the total number of cases here.

Ten new cases were also announced in the North, bringing the total number there to 62.

Here are today’s main Covid-19 points:

• 48 TDs will attend a sitting of the Dáil to pass emergency laws to help fight the spread of the coronavirus and impact of job losses.
• All government departments are set to meet from 9am to share information.
• Health officials have for the first time revealed a breakdown of where Covid-19 has struck in Ireland so far, and details about the age and gender of those affected.
• The HSE has said it has seen 30,000 people apply to work for the health service in the two days since a recruitment drive was launched.
• DUP leader Arlene Foster has said that a decision to close schools in the North from next week was not directed by Westminster.
• It is understood that supports for renters will not come in the form of access to the Housing Assistance Payment scheme, but from another form of rent assistance.
• Pregnant women who contract Covid-19 have been asked not to attend the National Maternity Hospital unless they are in need of urgent medical or obstetric care.
• RTÉ reports that the Department of Foreign Affairs has urged all Irish tourists in Spain to travel home by this Saturday.

 

[Defendress]

Chinese province of Wuhan reports NO new coronavirus cases


Chinese province of Wuhan reports NO new coronavirus cases for the first time | Daily Mail Online

Wonder if this is really the truth or not...

 

[zecats]

Good morning all. Here's a bittersweet reminder:

Spring Equinox 2020 in Northern Hemisphere will be at 11:49 PM
on Thursday, March 19.

All times are in Eastern Time.

 

[astheworldfallsdown]

Coronavirus in Scotland - decision due on exams - BBC News

Summary

1. Scotland's Education Secretary John Swinney will tell MSPs what his plan is for this year's exams.
2. His statement is due after it was decided that Scotland's schools would close on Friday as a response to the coronavirus pandemic.
3. In England it has already been announced that GCSE and A levels will not take place
4. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will answer questions at her weekly Q&A.

 

[Skigh]

Michel Barnier tests positive for coronavirus | Daily Mail Online

Michel Barnier tests positive for coronavirus: EU Brexit negotiator says 'I'm fine, morale is good' as he reveals he's infected

 

[Really?]

At least it is on philly news now for people to please please please not come down the shore......hope it works ..hhmm

 

[margarita25]

3 field hospitals being deployed in Florida to help with coronavirus pandemic
Updated 20 hours ago

“The Florida Division of Emergency Management said one field hospital is staged in Orlando and can be deployed to other areas if necessary. One field hospital is on its way to Ocala while another is going to Broward County.

FDEM Director Jared Moskowitz said he is working with the federal government to determine if there is capacity to add US Navy Mercy-Class ships at Florida ports. The National Guard is deployed in Broward County and is on stand-by to assist throughout the state if needed.

[...]

“Supplies are being delivered on a rolling basis and being distributed throughout the state 24 hours a day.”

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Per the above article, the supplies ordered include:

•five mobile intensive care units

•5,000 ventilators

• 5,000 hospital beds

•hundreds of thousands of gloves, •gowns, and hand sanitizer.

•500,000 collection kits and Personal Protective Equipment kits, including coveralls, gowns and goggles.

 

[Skigh]

London will get a 12-hour warning before lockdown: Police could guard supermarkets, helicopters scramble to airdrop rations and only ONE person allowed out at a time if crisis spirals in UK's coronavirus epicentre


London 'will get a 12-hour warning before lockdown' | Daily Mail Online

 

[gregjrichards]

Garment workers face destitution as Covid-19 closes factories

The fashion industry is facing calls to step in and protect the wages of the 40 million garment workers in their supply chains around the world who face destitution as factories close and orders dry up in the wake of the Covid-19 epidemic.

Many factories in garment-producing countries including Bangladesh, Cambodia and Vietnam are already closing due to a shortage of raw materials from China and declining orders from western clothing brands.

continued

Campaigners are demanding that brands take responsibility for the millions of workers in their supply chains who are likely to fall into crippling poverty as they lose their jobs and struggle to provide for their families.

Garment workers face destitution as Covid-19 closes factories

I feel so sorry for everyone who has/will lose their jobs and end up in serious financial hardship.

 

[zecats]

At least it is on philly news now for people to please please please not come down the shore......hope it works ..hhmm

I have a vacation home there. They don't even want us to come down.

I received a public service announcement from our management company to please refrain from coming to Cape May County Shore towns. Nothing is open. They are worried the medical facilities and the supply system will be overwhelmed .

I think as the weather gets warmer, it will become more of a problem.

 

[MadTing]

London will get a 12-hour warning before lockdown: Police could guard supermarkets, helicopters scramble to airdrop rations and only ONE person allowed out at a time if crisis spirals in UK's coronavirus epicentre


London 'will get a 12-hour warning before lockdown' | Daily Mail Online

This is seeming more and more surreal by the day, i am not sure this has even fully sank in to me yet.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Italy Is on Track to Surpass China's Coronavirus Death Toll