Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #37

[Auntie Cipation]

My thought about parents who have no option but to bring their kids into stores with them -- if I had a big retail store, here's what I think I would try:

designate a few parking spaces all next to each other, and have one employee whose job it is to stand outside near those vehicles to keep an eye on children waiting inside. Cell phone contact can keep them in touch with parent shopping inside if something happens.

This doesn't address ALL situations (such as fearful children who won't stay in the car or who might harm themselves or others, or parents without cell phones) -- but it would drastically reduce the numbers of kids needing to come inside public places. And while it may not be 100% safe it seems like the drastically lesser of multiple evils at this point.

 

[Yesiamapirate]

Just a thought, cooking to 142f kills this virus. If you buy takeout and are concerned, to be extra safe, reheat meal in microwave or oven.

Good suggestion. That really does solve that issue. And Kali, I know what you are going through and the importance of carry out business. I also know that working people, families and others depend on having restaurants open to carry out. As I said, I always share the restaurant posts and keep my fears to myself on their pages. I support them in that way. And I am working my way though ordering from my favorite little place. I can reheat. I can do this!!!

 

[Henry2326]

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

 

[Trudie]

Since police announced they are not responding to misdemeanor calls (in a lot of towns) maybe they can deliver items? Idk.

My thought about parents who have no option but to bring their kids into stores with them -- if I had a big retail store, here's what I think I would try:

designate a few parking spaces all next to each other, and have one employee whose job it is to stand outside near those vehicles to keep an eye on children waiting inside. Cell phone contact can keep them in touch with parent shopping inside if something happens.

This doesn't address ALL situations (such as fearful children who won't stay in the car or who might harm themselves or others, or parents without cell phones) -- but it would drastically reduce the numbers of kids needing to come inside public places. And while it may not be 100% safe it seems like the drastically lesser of multiple evils at this point.

 

[Boston Corbett]

Nashville coronavirus testing sites stuck in limbo because they don't have any tests (Tennessean)

 

[Henry2326]

SOUTH CAROLINA

During this COVID-19 outbreak, a new study has South Carolina ranked 14th in worst hospital capacity.
New Study finds South Carolina is ranked 14th in worst hospital capacity

ABC News 4 on Twitter

 

[amandab]

AND IT STARTS ALL OVER AGAIN...

Wuhan Reports First New Covid-19 Case in Five Days
#COVID19 Wuhan Reports First New Covid-19 Case in Five Days - Caixin Global
ɪᴀɴ ᴍ ᴍᴀᴄᴋᴀʏ, ᴘʜᴅ on Twitter

THIS is what I was afraid of. Once people come out of quarantine, they start a fresh round of infections.

Similar to how the Spanish Flu hit hard in the spring of 1918, and then again in the fall.

 

[Trudie]

Guns and viruses: Why Michigan gun and ammo sales are exploding

 

[SA55]

GEORGIA

LISTEN TO AUDIO OF CALL FOR RECOMMENDATION TO SHELTER IN PLACE...


YAY you're back

 

[Trudie]

THIS is what I was afraid of. Once people come out of quarantine, they start a fresh round of infections.

Similar to how the Spanish Flu hit hard in the spring of 1918, and then again in the fall.

I expect multiple resurgences, Jmo, not an epidemiologist.
Actually, each time we go out, we are to begin our 14 day quarantine anew, correct?
I’m grateful I hang with cowboys that rarely go out other than the farm supply stores. They have cattle herds of 800+, they pretty much always live in isolation.
Moo

 

[Auntie Cipation]

Since police announced they are not responding to misdemeanor calls (in a lot of towns) maybe they can deliver items? Idk.

In the little town of Alturas, California, public transit is nearly nonexistent. What they have is essentially a shuttle service that goes around town, and once or twice a week goes to and from the nearest cities for people who must travel and don't have or want to use personal vehicles.

There are no confirmed COVID-19 cases in the county yet. But the nearby cities do, so the shuttle service has suspended their inter-city service to protect their drivers. So just the other day they announced they are now delivering groceries and prescriptions to local residents instead.

ETA: linky Sage Stage | Modoc County, California : NOTICE TO ALL PASSENGERS

 

[KALI]

The number lined up outside that hospital is mind blowing.

'People are dying and we can't look after them': ER doctor risks her job to film coronavirus victims inside an overstretched NYC hospital - as dozens of new patients line up outside

ER doctor films coronavirus crisis inside Elmhurst Hospital in Queens | Daily Mail Online

#StayHomeSaveLives

 

[jjenny]

For how long should one microwave their take out food?

 

[Lilibet]

idk but my dad is dying right now in hospital and no one is allowed to be with him, not even my mom

I am heartbroken for your dad and mom and you and family @LadyL. I’m so sorry. Words fail me.

 

[Yesiamapirate]

Yesterday we took a drive out to the Bay. Sat and looked out at the water. Noted a fellow enter a porta john. Was in there for about ten min. Came out. No kind of hand wipe/sanitizer used. Took out his phone and scrolled thru. Lit up a smoke and got in his car

Well let me tell you. Mr Pirate and I went for a drive to my favorite state campground. It is closed to camping but the roads are open to drive. Very secluded and wooded, we were the only car in the place, no staff either. They do have porta johns but no way. I went in the woods. Shhhhh don’t tell!!!

 

[LaborDayRN]

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

These stats are very sobering....and quite upsetting to me...

 

[Herat]

The number lined up outside that hospital is mind blowing.

So that is exactly what you DON"T want to do: Have a co-mingling of really sick, mildy sick, not sick, and people just wanting testing all mixed up in the same intake.

Most hospitals that can, have a separate screening unit from their ER so that those who are not sick, or mildly sick can get proper screening and kept out of the ER. It is imperative to keep those who do not need hospital care away from the intake ER staff and other sick people in the ER that don't have COVID-19 problems.

We still don't have the capacity for mass population testing, so it's also important not to be doing unwarranted screening when you need to save it for your sick patients and those healthcare workers who have exposures.

And especially those that just want a test, but don't actually have any exposure, any symptoms or signs, and really just need to be sent home with appropriate information.

 

[Baciagalupo]

This is ridiculous...my paramedic husband has been issued 1 N95....gotta make it last.....ATLANTA

Health workers in US hospitals are reusing surgical masks for a week or two. Reusing N95s. Figuring out ways to try to clean N95s without destroying them.
They need the masks. I'll do my part by practising physical distancing.

Helen Branswell on Twitter

That's crazy. My best friend is an ICU nurse here in Germany and she uses about 5 masks a day since they are contaminated after each visit with an infected patient. They might as well don't use any masks at all.

 

[gregjrichards]

One week until hell: Australia's hospitals could be swamped and run out of ICU beds within seven DAYS, experts say

Australia could run out of ICU beds, hospitals could be overwhelmed in seven DAYS, experts say | Daily Mail Online

#StayHomeSaveLives

 

[Sundog]

White House news conference today at 5 p.m. Eastern. President to report on G20 teleconference meeting this morning, and noon conference call with 50 U.S. governors.