Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #37

[Herat]

I don't care what Trump decides or even what the Governor of my state decides, I'm going to continue to stay at home and stay safe until I see how this all shakes out. I will give it at least 3 weeks and see how it goes. I have a very uneasy feeling about the next few months even though there is no Covid 19 in my county or even in the neighboring counties. I'd rather be safe than sorry.

Yes.

If you look at the Italian statistics, there are still 600+ people a day dying.

In Italy 30 physicians and even more nurses have died from this virus.

This is a highly contagious pathogen with higher morbidity than prior epidemics, and a pathogen that has no specific medication at this time, and has a pathogenicity that requires high-level intensive care.

As we can't test everyone, every day, day after day, it's very difficult to see where the next "hotspot" will be, unless you look at areas that failed to curtail certain high-risk events:

Large cruise ships with long voyages

Travel from highly infected areas

Participation in large gatherings which by their nature had very close quarters or lots of physical contact.

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In my area at least two people sick enough to require hospitalization came across our southern border in the last month.

That border was only closed 6 days ago. How many other sick people came across in the weeks before?

 

[Really?]

See yous in the morning.....stay safe and stay home.

 

[jjenny]

Life after lockdown: has China really beaten coronavirus?



Life after lockdown: has China really beaten coronavirus?

That doesn't remind you of US? We aren't anywhere near flatlining yet, and yet we hear messages about everybody returning to work.

 

[Chelly]

Thank you - you helped me find her. Her name is misspelled even in MSM.

She's more politically motivated than Dr Fauci, bless him. I do not trust her, but I guess she'll have to do. I mean, she's mostly credible but her attitude is incomprehensibly optimistic to me. Placebo effect maybe.

Some states are going to go with Trump's advice and Dr Birx needs to be stern, the way doctors are when a patient needs to comply. Authority works in compliance, at least in medical settings, lots of research on that.

I think NY will do what is best for NYers (the next week is make or break for a true disaster in NYC) and other states will also protect their citizens, but we all know that some states will take the Open for Easter attitude. Business over health. From what I can tell, that's okay with a lot of people. Different nations are taking different policy attitudes as well.

If those universal DNR policies go into place, we may see a few people switching sides, but frankly, a lot of people are okay with the very elderly transitioning out of life. As for the collateral damage (people under 60 who end up dying for reasons unknown or because underlying conditions), well, that's just how it goes. (This is not my attitude and not the attitude of any medical professional either).

<modsnip> Dr. Fauci can not be bought and he does not require fame. He will speak facts. Listen to the words....IMO, IMO

 

[gregjrichards]

CNN town hall has just started about the virus Dr. Fauci will be on.

 

[Trudie]

Coronavirus Facts & Fears, 4th Town Hall on CNN now or you might find it online, Idk.

 

[Henry2326]

CALIFORNIA PENDING TESTS INCREASED TO 57,400 IN 24 HOURS FROM 48,600.

TOTAL TESTS COMPLETED IS 20,386.

The COVID Tracking Project

 

[cass523]

Blood Test for Coronavirus Immunity

Antibody tests won’t face the same bureaucratic hurdles diagnostic testing initially did. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration relaxed its rules last month, and body-fluid tests can proceed to market without full agency review and approval.

Several private companies have begun selling blood tests for COVID-19 antibodies outside the United States, including California-based Biomerica Inc (BMRA.O) and South Korean test maker Sugentech Inc (253840.KQ).

Biomerica said its test sells for less than $10 and the company already has orders from Europe and the Middle East. Chembio Diagnostics

Inc CMI.O of New York said it received a $4 million order from Brazil for its COVID-19 antibody test, and it plans a study of the test at several sites in the United States.

If testing goes forward on a wider scale, some public health experts and clinicians say healthcare workers and first responders should take priority.

Detecting immunity among doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers could spare them from quarantine and enable them to keep treating the growing surge of coronavirus patients, they say.

It could also bolster the ranks of first responders, police officers and other essential workers who have already been infected and have at least some period of protection from the virus, the experts say.

The Mayo Clinic MAYO.UL in Rochester, Minnesota, researchers are preparing to start a clinical trial in which patients who test positive for COVID-19 would have their blood collected at the time of diagnosis, and again 15 to 20 days after that in the patient’s home.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it is working on its own version of antibody tests, but it has not given a timetable. The agency has said extensive research is underway. One challenge for the CDC and other labs is to get enough blood samples from people who have already been infected to verify the antibody results.

The agency faced heavy criticism for sending a faulty diagnostic test to state and local labs early in the coronavirus epidemic and then taking weeks to fix it. The federal government is still trying to expand diagnostic testing capacity.

False positives are erroneous results that, in this case, could lead to a conclusion that someone has immunity when he or she does not.

“You are likely to have immunity for several months,” said Dr. Stanley Perlman, a professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of Iowa. “We just don’t know. This is an incredibly important question.”

Perlman said many of the new antibody tests coming on the market now may be highly effective, but researchers want to see data to back that up.

U.S. companies, labs rush to produce blood test for coronavirus immunity

 

[katydid23]

Cuomo: Not sure if closing all businesses, keeping everyone home was 'the best public health strategy'

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday that his stay-at-home order for the entirety of New York State was “probably not the best public health strategy.”

In a press conference in Albany, Cuomo said the smartest way forward would be a public health strategy that complemented a “get-back-to-work strategy.”

“What we did was we closed everything down. That was our public health strategy. Just close everything, all businesses, old workers, young people, old people, short people, tall people,” said Cuomo. “Every school closed, everything.”


Cuomo stressed the need for both public health and economic growth. “We have to do both,” said the governor. “We’re working on it.”

 

[cody22]

LOL, Cody, you are my favorite poster of all time

...........Thank you..... Flattery will not get you any of my toilet paper, coffee, or cigarettes stash though...... You wouldn't happen to have Angelina Jolie's telephone number, would you ?........moo

 

[Deleted member 39678]

That doesn't remind you of US? We aren't anywhere near flatlining yet, and yet we hear messages about everybody returning to work.

Not really. I haven't heard an "all clear" from anyone yet.

 

[Chelly]

I am not worried. I am hiding behind this wall of toilet paper, coffee cans, and cigarette cartons in my backroom "mancave", readin yall's WS posts, and watching TV. I ain't coming out for nothing till this is all over........Yall stay home, please...........Thank you.........moo

Besides WS, what are you watching to keep you sane? Movies, series, etc., Please tell.

 

[gngr~snap]

Georgia Town Hall Meeting is on Fox 5 with Gov. Brian Kemp right now.
Don't know if I can watch...
I'm going to try!
He started off with sympathy for patients and the families of those who died and a thank you to all healthcare workers and other professionals.
Moo

 

[Trudie]

WAYNE COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH DIVISION DISCLOSES FIRST EXPOSURE SITE
WAYNE COUNTY - The Wayne County Public Health Division today announced AMC Fairlane 21 theaters in Dearborn as the county's first potential COVID-19 exposure site. Health officials are investigating one presumptive-positive COVID-19 case where the person attended a movie on March 10.

Individual details of the case:

· An adult female with no domestic or international travel history, and with no known contact with other presumptive-positive COVID-19 cases; the person is currently isolated.

· The potential exposure occurred between 6 PM to 10 PM on Tuesday, March 10;

· The exposure site is AMC Fairlane 21 theaters, 18900 Michigan Ave., Dearborn.

 

[Henry2326]

GEORGIA

Has tested 8,948 out of 10 million people.
No report of pending cases.

THAT TELLS YOU NOTHING.....

Georgia Department of Public Health COVID-19 Daily Status Report

 

[cass523]

RIYADH/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leaders of the Group of 20 major economies pledged on Thursday to inject over $5 trillion into the global economy to limit job and income losses from the coronavirus and “do whatever it takes to overcome the pandemic.”

The group said it was “injecting over $5 trillion into the global economy, as part of targeted fiscal policy, economic measures and guarantee schemes” to blunt economic fallout from the pandemic.

G20 leaders to inject $5 trillion into global economy to fight coronavirus

 

[gngr~snap]

Besides WS, what are you watching to keep you sane? Movies, series, etc., Please tell.

You didn't ask me, but I recommend
Ozark!
Netflix is supposed to air season 3 tomorrow. (I have no idea if you have watch it.)
I've been waiting forever!!!
Watch the internet crash! & I won't be able to watch!!
I had to rewatch season 1 and 2.
*probably because a lot of it was filmed near where I live.
Moo

 

[Chelly]

Is it a surprise we overtook China? I thought they are on the winding down part of the virus?

Depends on who you listen to.

 

[MsArk]

You didn't ask me, but I recommend
Ozark!
Netflix is supposed to air season 3 tomorrow. (I have no idea if you have watch it.)
I've been waiting forever!!!
Watch the internet crash! & I won't be able to watch!!
I had to rewatch season 1 and 2.
*probably because a lot of it was filmed near where I live.
Moo

I second that suggestion! Great series!

 

[Trudie]

Sustained transmission” of novel coronavirus is now evident in Lexington. That means local public health officials will no longer retroactively trace everyone who came into direct contact with an infected person, signaling a strain on already limited resources as public health officials respond to the county’s ballooning number of cases.

Sustained transmission refers to positive cases that “do not have any connection to previously known cases or have traveled outside the community,” Lexington-Fayette County Public Health Commissioner Dr. Kraig Humbaugh said Tuesday, barely two weeks after Lexington confirmed its first case.

“Because we are getting more cases, and each one has its own contacts, sometimes many, the department will be concentrating more on just the [confirmed] cases,” he said.
Read more here: https://www.kentucky.com/news/coronavirus/article241467326.html#storylink=cpy