Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #37

[Hatfield]

For how long should one microwave their take out food?

I can kind of answer as I have always reheated food that I bring home in "to go" orders.

It started for me when I went to Kentucky Fried Chicken one time and the chicken was not as fully cooked to my liking, so with anything like Fried Chicken and most other meats, what I do is just put it in a baking sheet and put in oven at 375 F and use a meat thermometor to make sure the meat inside gets to about 160 F or higher and then its done for me and should kill off most food born illnesses and I suspect it will kill off the virus as well (i hope..LOL).

A microwave can be used similarly so long as you are able to check the meat temperature inside or just know the right time for how long to keep microwave on.

It gets more tricky with other food items like an order of fries on the side. I have found I first microwave the main course and then put the fries in separately at the end because they dont take nearly as long to get really hot.

If things come out steaming hot and also very hot in middle, then I feel that is about right.
A rule of thumb i use is it should be so hot that I have to wait for it to cool a little before eating it.

The meat thermometer we have is a cheap metal one that has the guage on the outside and mine has good markings for different meats so it gives me a good general rule of thumb for different types of meat.

Hope this helps.

 

[Trudie]

Toyota extends shutdown to April 20

 

[Henry2326]

GEORGIA

TONIGHT: We’ve teamed up with the other Atlanta TV stations to bring YOU the Governor’s Statewide Town Hall. State leaders will talk about the state’s response to coronavirus and answer questions. Watch it LIVE on Channel 2 at 8 p.m.: Georgia Unites: Atlanta TV Stations to air town hall with Gov. Kemp WSB-TV on Twitter
WSB-TV on Twitter

 

[badgersmythe]

Broke my heart too. My little grandson is not quite a year old, but he will always be special needs, totally dependent on others. His life has already been so hard.

I don't know whether to share this article with my daughter or not.

All we can do is keep them as safe and protected as we possibly can so we are never in this heartbreaking situation.

 

[CoverMeCagney]

Oh wow. I opened the front door just now as I saw on FB that people were all going to give a round of applause at 8pm from their doorsteps, for all the NHS workers and critical staff.

I cannot believe how many people were out!! It's made me cry. So grateful to all these amazing workers and so good to know my little piece of the world feels the same, you could hear the clapping, cheering and whistles from all around.

Amazing.

Clap For NHS Workers: When Is The 'Clap For Our Carers' It And What Time? - Capital

 

[Trudie]

Ky. sees spike of COVID-19 patients in their 20s this week
Ky. sees spike of COVID-19 patients in their 20s this week
And while the numbers are close, women still outnumber men when it comes to confirmed cases.

People in their 60s remain the biggest age group with COVID-19, but if you break down those numbers more, you'll see an interesting development.

This week, the number of people in their 20s with COVID-19 rose to 29, that's a 2,800% increase.

 

[Simply Southern]

VENTILATORS

If half of Californians fall sick with COVID-19 and 2% need ventilators, the state would need 390,000. Even if those cases were spread out over the next year, the state could still require 20,000 ventilators at once.
There are only 9,500. Who lives and who dies? With ventilators limited amid coronavirus, doctors might face hard choices

Across the U.S., there could be as many as 31 patients requiring ventilation for every machine available, according to an article published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine. The shortage could be just as severe in California.

In Los Angeles County, there are 833 ventilators across the county’s 70 public and private hospitals. The county department that runs the four local public hospitals is working to acquire an additional 313.

Soumya on Twitter

Where does that leave the rest of us?

National Stockpile had 16k, 4k to NY, unknown to Washington and others.

There is no way, I see the demand can be met. Choices will be made on who lives and dies. We will see this shortly.

Yes, manufacturers are stepping up and inventing new ones. It will take a week or two at best to test and meet minimum or reduced guidelines, fast tracked FDA.

These are LIFE Support devices and we must insure they have the needed capability with all alarm function. Patient needs, trigger alarms, quite a feat to design.

After/during approval, factories reconfigured, employees trained and an intense QA team. More weeks.

I don't see new vents beginning produced within the next 6 to 10 weeks. We need them today and most of all next week.

Moo...

 

[otto]

The US will likely pass China by the end of the day.

Coronavirus Update (Live): 523,549 Cases and 23,633 Deaths from COVID-19 Virus Outbreak - Worldometer

 

[Henry2326]

CONFIRMED CASES....the curve has not flattened yet
US on a very bad trajectory....as well as other European Countries.

Jeremy THANK YOU HEALTH HEROES Konyndyk on Twitter

 

[The Night Watchman]

From the article, Ferguson believes that half the UK population already has Covid. What's not clear then, is why the test results are not lining up with this number.

I posted this because the Imperial College is incredibly well respected and U.S. government policy has been based on it. I think we have to take this revision just as serious.

As far as testing, are they testing the general public and getting an asymptomatic rate? I don't know.

 

[CeeCeeCat]

Oh wow. I opened the front door just now as I saw on FB that people were all going to give a round of applause at 8pm from their doorsteps, for all the NHS workers and critical staff.

I cannot believe how many people were out!! It's made me cry. So grateful to all these amazing workers and so good to know my little piece of the world feels the same, you could hear the clapping, cheering and whistles from all around.

Amazing.


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Clap For NHS Workers: When Is The 'Clap For Our Carers' It And What Time? - Capital

Same here! I went out thinking well, if I’m the only one out there I’ll scoot back in fast - but all my neighbours had the lights on and were standing outside applauding. Cue immediate tears from me - not an unusual occurrence of late.
The recognition is so heartwarming.

 

[jjenny]

Other than my own family, this is my personal nightmare. I'm a Long-Term-Care Ombudsman; for those that aren't familiar with the term in this context, I'm a resident advocate for nursing homes and assisted living facilities, and in the State of Florida. We advocate for resident rights. Right now, in Florida, we can't visit the residents unless it's an end-of-life situation, though I'd be afraid to even then. We can work telephonically, if somebody needs help with something now, but we can't just go in and wander around talking to anybody who wants to talk back and keeping our eyes out for anything concerning that people may be unwilling or unable (think dementia) to tell us.

These are real people, some of whom don't have relatives to visit with them anyway. The lives they have led, the stories they can tell are so precious. I want so much to make sure all of "my" residents are okay. This is devastating.

Relatives can't visit either. So it really sucks. But alternative is worse.

 

[Henry2326]

Where does that leave the rest of us?

National Stockpile had 16k, 4k to NY, unknown to Washington and others.

There is no way, I see the demand can be met. Choices will be made on who lives and dies. We will see this shortly.

Yes, manufacturers are stepping up and inventing new ones. It will take a week or two at best to test and meet minimum or reduced guidelines, fast tracked FDA.

These are LIFE Support devices and we must insure they have the needed capability with all alarm function. Patient needs, trigger alarms, quite a feat to design.

After/during approval, factories reconfigured, employees trained and an intense QA team. More weeks.

I don't see new vents beginning produced within the next 6 to 10 weeks. We need them today and most of all next week.

Moo...

Yea, I was looking at all the counties in GA today that do NOT HAVE VENTILATORS.

 

[jjenny]

Ky. sees spike of COVID-19 patients in their 20s this week
Ky. sees spike of COVID-19 patients in their 20s this week
And while the numbers are close, women still outnumber men when it comes to confirmed cases.

People in their 60s remain the biggest age group with COVID-19, but if you break down those numbers more, you'll see an interesting development.

This week, the number of people in their 20s with COVID-19 rose to 29, that's a 2,800% increase.

Well, they might be going to coronavirus parties, don't you know? Joking aside, my guess is that a lot of 20 year olds suck at self isolation.

 

[The Night Watchman]

Based on what I'm seeing on twitter, no respectable scientist is commenting on this.

Neither is MSM.

Scientists may not comment because it doesn't fit the desired narrative, IMO. People are doing what needs to be done now by distancing and staying home, which slows the spread. That is good.

MSM media won't comment for their own reasons as well, IMO.

 

[Henry2326]

"Social distancing measures have only been in place for part of that time, and with far less consistency than in China.
Cases will continue to climb dramatically in many more areas and we will face a much larger task than China did.
We are still only on the front end of this."
Jeremy THANK YOU HEALTH HEROES Konyndyk on Twitter

 

[Hatfield]

Oh wow. I opened the front door just now as I saw on FB that people were all going to give a round of applause at 8pm from their doorsteps, for all the NHS workers and critical staff.

I cannot believe how many people were out!! It's made me cry. So grateful to all these amazing workers and so good to know my little piece of the world feels the same, you could hear the clapping, cheering and whistles from all around.

Amazing.


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Clap For NHS Workers: When Is The 'Clap For Our Carers' It And What Time? - Capital

This is wonderful and so nice to see the appreciation. I think it also helps the people who have been cooped up. It helps them to know they are not alone and we are all going through the same thing. It can give everyone the encouragement they need to continue their isolation efforts.

Thanks for sharing.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Oklahoma

“This is major for this state,” said Billingsley, the vice president of external affairs at the Oklahoma Center for Nonprofits. “We have to have an accurate census and we have to have people participating.”

In Oklahoma, the state receives about $1,675 per person in federal funding for 10 years. But in 2010, Oklahoma had the second-lowest participation, costing the state an estimated $1.8 billion in federal funding.

And entering this week, the state was 19% behind the national average.

“The whole idea in this census particularly is to have a serious early response rate, because the last thing we want is for our census to depend on the efforts of numerators who work for the census and go door-to-door,” Billingsley said. “That’s the least effective way to count our population.”

Deadlines have been extended until Aug. 14 for online, phone and mail responses. Assistance via phone will begin April 13 as well.

The more that it’s put off, the more chance that there could be inaccurate counts,” Billingsley said. “We just want people right now to get online and fill out their census, and also ask other people if they’ve filled out their census.”
Coronavirus in Oklahoma: Early census participation lacking

 

[Trudie]

With the nursing homes experiencing their own pandemic of sorts, hopefully everyone angry about lack of visitation understands. Moo obviously not only does a visitor risk contracting it but how many might he ultimately infect? Moo

Relatives can't visit either. So it really sucks. But alternative is worse.

 

[Henry2326]

Neither is MSM.

Scientists may not comment because it doesn't fit the desired narrative, IMO. People are doing what needs to be done now by distancing and staying home, which slows the spread. That is good.

MSM media won't comment for their own reasons as well, IMO.

I dont pay much attention to msm on this topic....I watch doctors....they want to save lives....I think that is their only narrative...in the end this only plays out with one result....either more or less deaths.....