Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #38

[Lmustang89]

Are we going to have a White House update today?

www.cnn.com has them you can watch.

 

[margarita25]

So I have an immediate family member, who is currently helping to treat CV patients. There are three frontline medical workers in my family who are on the front as we speak. One of my best friends is also a respiratory therapist.

My family member is elderly and has cancer. He knows that when and if he gets CV he is a gonner. Not only that, but he certainly won’t be first in line for a ventilator, etc.

He’s treating patients anyway.

 

[Trudie]

That describes us, but I don't feel frightened by the building's common doorknob, stair railing, etc. I know I have some denial but am washing hands often. At the same time, we can't change where we live.
What does scare me is thinking about the schools, restaurants, etc. opening again.

Tysm. I was only asking due to my curiosity. Strangers make me paranoid.

 

[Simply Southern]

From your link: Earlier Friday, The New York Times reported that GM and Ventec Life Systems, with which it is partnering to build such supplies, wanted more than $1 billion, including hundreds of millions upfront to GM to retool a car parts plant in Kokomo, Indiana, to make the ventilators.

This is ridiculous. These ventilators sell for 1500. Each!!

These are home ventilators for extremely stable patients.

They will not work in a critical care environment. Someone in the WH needs to step up and tell T the truth!!!

Moo....

 

[margarita25]

CALIFORNIA

NEW: All Los Angeles County beaches closing to the public immediately because the crowds there last weekend "were unacceptable," county supervisor says.
"We cannot risk another sunny weekend with crowds at the beach spreading this virus." Coronavirus live updates: Italy’s death toll climbs over 9,000

ABC News on Twitter

yeah no comment

 

[MyBelle]

I did see parts of a live presser from Mass Governor yesterday and he was quite upset. Ventilators, masks, PPE...all confirmed as ordered by his state keep getting rerouted to other areas that outbid him and he never receives what is needed. It's pretty darn ridiculous that corporations are still in this to make a buck, and that regulations haven't been set.

This is why we need the Defense Production Act. Federal government refuses to enact it.

What is the Defense Production Act? - CNNPolitics

Trump has enacted it because of GM's attempt at price-gouging for ventilators and dragging out the contract process.

'GM was wasting time': Trump invokes DPA to force GM to make ventilators
President Donald Trump today invoked the Defense Production Act, directing General Motors to produce ventilators needed for the coronavirus outbreak, hours after lashing out at the automaker on Twitter, and following weeks of increasingly loud pleas from governors and mayors to put the powerful statute into use.


“Today, I signed a Presidential Memorandum directing the Secretary of Health and Human Services to use any and all authority available under the Defense Production Act to require General Motors to accept, perform, and prioritize Federal contracts for ventilators,” Trump said in a statement from the White House. “Our negotiations with GM regarding its ability to supply ventilators have been productive, but our fight against the virus is too urgent to allow the give-and-take of the contracting process to continue to run its normal course. GM was wasting time. Today’s action will help ensure the quick production of ventilators that will save American lives.”

 

[cass523]

www.cnn.com has them you can watch.

Also, WH briefing coming on soon on channel MSNBC

 

[pocketaccent]

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[Trudie]

A basketball town without hoops? Louisville removes rims at parks to slow coronavirus
'It's a big f***ing deal': A Kentucky mayor's blunt coronavirus message

Earlier this week, Mayor Greg Fischer closed all metro park playgrounds, basketball courts and soccer, baseball and football fields, adding that he had hoped the step wouldn't be necessary.

But on Thursday, Fischer said city officials have continued to get reports of "people who are still acting like this is not a crisis." He showed a photo of several teens playing basketball together.

There are too many people, of too many ages and too many demographics "thinking it's still OK to gather in groups in our parks," he said.

"I would love to be out playing hoops right now," he added. "... But we cannot do it."

Now, even social distance-appropriate activities like shooting hoops alone or playing "horse" from a distance won't be possible.


Bill Hollander@BillHollander
https://twitter.com/BillHollander/status/1243200418362150913

Basketball rims removed and playground swings tied up at Louisville’s Seneca Park this morning. The best thing we can all do to keep safe and get things reopened is to practice social distancing. No social gatherings and six feet apart at all times. #TogetherKy #TeamKentucky


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(I’m pissed so many feel rules don’t apply and spoil things for all!)

 

[nhmemorymaker]

#BREAKING: @HALcruises confirms 4 passengers aboard a #Florida-bound ship have died. Holland America says almost 150 more people have flu-like symptoms. 2 tested positive for #COVID19 #coronavirus @10NewsWTSP
4 passengers dead on Holland America cruise ship headed to Florida
Angelina Salcedo on Twitter

The Zaandam ship has been anchored off the coast of Panama awaiting permission to travel through the Panama Canal on its way back to Florida.

Miami-Dade is a total crisis... they cannot let those ships in... what are they going to do ...

 

[LadyL]

why have all cruise ships not been grounded??

 

[MyBelle]

@MyBelle as I was putting my horse in his paddock, my neighbor drove up, he is elderly with a sickly wife. He had been to WMT to get her RX. He counted 63 kids, and he was NOT on the grocery side. 63? WTH?
He mentioned his concern to the pharm’ tech & she told him “we are trying to figure things out.” Since I’ve been out, I need to catch up on local news, but he told me Lexington mayor had tennis courts locked & basketball goals removed from city parks. Evidently she caught large groups of kids & adults gathered. What is wrong with our world? Moo
As soon as I get organized, I’m emailing WMT Corp’. I’ll get the precise time from my neighbor’s receipt and WMT can review their video tape. Moo

Go for it!! Speak for all of us, please. We've got a Walmart not far from us but we are avoiding it like the plague because it is way too crowded.

 

[Simply Southern]

Miami-Dade is a total crisis... they cannot let those ships in... what are they going to do ...

I thought he closed the borders.

Apparently the Governor of Floridians is to scared of th ecruise industry to say NO!

Moo...

 

[Simply Southern]

Miami-Dade is a total crisis... they cannot let those ships in... what are they going to do ...

What is the governor saying??

 

[astheworldfallsdown]

Taoiseach tells everyone in Ireland to stay at home for two weeks from midnight tonight, with only specific listed exemptions

TAOISEACH LEO VARADKAR has announced further restrictions from midnight tonight for a two-week period until Easter Sunday, 12 April.

Everybody in Ireland has been told to stay at home for two weeks, except essential workers travelling to work and other exceptions.

Exemptions include:

• To shop for food or household goods or collect a meal.
• For vital family healthcare reasons.
• To take physical exercise individually or with children from the family – Social family visits are prohibited.

People who do leave their homes for exercise will be required to stay within a 2km radius.

Shielding or cocooning will also be introduced for vulnerable groups.

The announcement comes after a further 302 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in the Republic of Ireland, bringing the total here to 2,121.

Varadkar said there was not much else the government could do to restrict movement but that gardaí do have powers to police the restrictions, however, he expressed hope they would be achieved with the “consent and co-operation” of the public.



“There is not much more we could do in terms of restrictive measure,” he said.

“The best way we can achieve this is by consent,” the Taoiseach said. “If people understand that that is going to be much more powerful than anything our gardaí can do – but they are available to police it if necessary”, he added.

 

[citygirl]

Lol, nurses don't "quit"!
If they were quitters, they'd have never made it through nursing school.
My class started out with 70.
1st night we got 7 HOURS of homework, only 40 showed up the next day. As time went on, bedpans, watching a 6 hour bowel surgery on a elderly woman who had an epidural and ativan, but was awake. She would wake up every now and then and ask if she was still alive.
Witnessing patients die and going to watch autopsies.
Being forced to take the stairs and never use an elevator unless with a patient and having to stand up whenever a doctor entered the nurses station, regardless of the number of chairs...
We graduated 18!
Moo
I'm retired now, but nurses rock!

Fabulous post.
Graduated 50 years ago.
OR instructor said ' nurses are never late and never make mistakes'. It was like God talking.
MOO.

 

[MyBelle]

This is ridiculous. These ventilators sell for 1500. Each!!

These are home ventilators for extremely stable patients.

They will not work in a critical care environment. Someone in the WH needs to step up and tell T the truth!!!

Moo....

It is ridiculous and I'm glad Trump stepped in. GM must have amnesia about their sweet little bailout a decade ago.

JMO

 

[Tadpole12]

Seems that women are stocking up on the feminine hygiene products.

Stockpiling Sanitary Products Could Send Women Into Period Poverty


Always (brand) - Wikipedia

Procter and Gamble plant, Belleville, Ontario.

 

[Trudie]

Go for it!! Speak for all of us, please. We've got a Walmart not far from us but we are avoiding it like the plague because it is way too crowded.

Do parents not realize their kid might kill a grocery clerk, janitor, pharmacist, or another shopper? If the parks are under lockdown, what makes someone think an enclosed store is an option?
Glad you can avoid. I don’t have much appetite, lol. My food will last.

 

[MyBelle]

Do parents not realize their kid might kill a grocery clerk, janitor, pharmacist, or another shopper? If the parks are under lockdown, what makes someone think an enclosed store is an option?
Glad you can avoid. I don’t have much appetite, lol. My food will last.

They need to mandate all children must ride in the cart or they won't be allowed. Again, it's common sense which is in incredibly short supply in some age groups.

JMO