Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #38

[JerseyGirl]

Stocks drop as U.S. tops world in coronavirus cases

Stocks fell on Friday as the U.S. claimed the unwelcome position of being the nation with the most coronavirus infections. The decline ended a three-day rally fueled by optimism that the $2 trillion stimulus package would offset some of the economic damage from the coronavirus pandemic.

Coronavirus updates: New York seeks more hospitals as COVID-19 death toll mounts

 

[KALI]

This is so horrible. What on earth happened? I know they're saying the didn't catch it at work, but I don't believe that for a minute.

Boston coronavirus: More than 150 employees at 4 hospitals have tested positive - CNN

 

[Teche]

Gov. Edwards said Louisiana is getting 100 ventilators next week. The state needs thousands.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Why the CEO of Comcast and his family gifted $5M for computers to help Philly kids learn during coronavirus school closures

When Comcast CEO Brian Roberts read that Superintendent William R. Hite Jr. had said the school system would need to purchase millions of dollars worth of technology to make large-scale learning during the pandemic possible for Philadelphia’s children Roberts, his wife Aileen and their three adult children began talking about the possibility of covering some of the cost.

On Thursday, the family gifted $5 million to the Fund for the Philadelphia School District, the school system’s charitable arm, to help pay for 50,000 Chromebooks for students in the Philadelphia school district.

Temple will let Philly use Liacouras Center for coronavirus hospital overflow; N.J. death toll surpasses 100

 

[otto]

This link is good for individual state stats - based on the assumption that the peak is much sooner than in any other place in the world, and will occur in mid-April.

IHME | COVID-19 Projections

 

[astheworldfallsdown]

Coronavirus lockdown: Government updates guidance for exercising outdoors - telling people to 'stay local'

Coronavirus lockdown: Government updates guidance for exercising outdoors - telling people to 'stay local'
Members of the public have been accused of flouting the rules during Britain's coronavirus lockdown.

Anyone exercising outside their home should "stay local" and "not travel unnecessarily", according to updated government guidance.

Members of the public have been criticised for flooding green spaces and beauty spots amid the coronavirus pandemic.


Last weekend, Snowdonia National Park said it had experienced its "busiest visitor day in living memory", while many also headed to second homes and campervans in the Scottish Highlands.

 

[astheworldfallsdown]

Coronavirus: Temporary mortuary for up to 12,000 bodies being built at Birmingham Airport

A temporary mortuary site that will be able to hold up to 12,000 bodies is being built at Birmingham Airport in preparation for an expected rise in coronavirus deaths.

It comes as NHS chief executive Sir Simon Stevens confirmed Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre and Manchester's Central Convention Centre are set to be converted into temporary hospitals.


London's ExCel centre is already being turned into a temporary hospital due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

[branmuffin]

It depends how you live this: for sure you can stop for gas and snacks, but do only what you reslly need to, dont start looking and thinking, go alone inside, dont take the whole family, dont wait, just go, tell what you want, buy and leave

I agree, but these types of regulations should be based on the worst possible behavior of returning residents, not those who follow the rules. When I first read the regulation it mentioned that citizens returning on commercial transport would be required to isolate in the city they arrived and the federal government would pay for food and accommodation for 14 days.

We have a place in Gulport Florida (didn't go this year, rented it out) and have kept in contact with people who chose to stay till April 30. They are panicking now and changing their plans. These are people who usually drive at a leisurely pace and take at least 2 nights hotel stays to make their way back home. I worry that these people once across the border will follow their usual routine and stay at friends' homes in Toronto on the way back to Peterborough/Barrie/Sudbury.

 

[303gmf]

One of those testing positive in Colorado is my nieces' one year old baby girl, who is hospitalized. Her father also has tested positive, but he is not hospitalized.

Tragic!
So worried about my young grandkids, one pair has mom that is a nurse, other pair a retail garden center.
Please keep up updated on progress

 

[JerseyGirl]

Gov. Edwards said Louisiana is getting 100 ventilators next week. The state needs thousands.

He needs to put out bids and/or beg corporations in his state to help, as other states are being outbid by each other. Too bad we do not have federal oversight, besides, the government believes the governors are lying about their figures/needs.

 

[Starry Night]

https://www.lawandtheworkplace.com/files/2020/03/Federal-Leave-Bill.pdf
Families First Coronavirus Response Act: Employer Paid Leave Requirements | U.S. Department of Labor

I need help with a definition/interpretation of DIVISION C—EMERGENCY FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE EX-10EXPANSION ACT 11SEC. 3101. SHORT TITLE. 12This Act may be cited as ‘‘Emergency Family and 13Medical Leave Expansion Act’’ 'of Federal Family First Coronavirus Response Act. SEC. 3102. AMENDMENTS TO THE FAMILY AND MEDICAL 15LEAVE ACT OF 1993.

Specifically: 29 •HR 6201 EH‘‘(B) EMPLOYERTHRESHOLD.—Section 1101(4)(A)(i) shall be applied by substituting ‘fewer than 500 employees’ for ‘50 or more em-ployees for each working day during each of 20 4or more calendar workweeks in the current or 5preceding calendar year’.

Does this mean the Act only applies to Employers of fewer than 500 employees? That is the way I am understanding it.

I am trying to determine if a certain family member can take leave under this Act which becomes effective April 2nd, to care for her toddler child whose daycare has been closed due to the Coronavirus Emergency. The family member work has more than 500 employees.
I do have a lawyer friend I can ask but maybe someone here can help. This Act is going to help a lot of parents with their work/daycare situations. Thanks in advance and don't want to bother anyone with it so not a big deal.

 

[Rosegold68]

Tragic!
So worried about my young grandkids, one pair has mom that is a nurse, other pair a retail garden center.
Please keep up updated on progress

are garden centres still open?? in uk they are closed

 

[MsArk]

Without my merciful nurses’ care in several dire health circumstances throughout my life ~ I absolutely would not be alive on this earth today. I think it’s possible I may have given up at one point if not for my nurses’ genuine authenticity and compassion. Most doctors are spectacular. Keeping it real, nurses are our true angels on earth. Their hands-on patient care is overwhelming to both our bodies and our spirits as they lift us up.

“It is not how much we do – it is how much love we put into the doing.” – Mother Teresa​

Wigan, England
Lucy, a mental health nurse at the North West Boroughs NHS Trust, was heading home from Wigan Infirmary after a 12-hour shift when the crash happened.

After the crash in Wigan, the 73-year-old told Lucy he had no family he was still in contact with and had not eaten for up to ten days because he was self-isolating during the coronavirus crisis.

Lucy said: "I could see he was veering onto the wrong side of the road and then, as we passed, the front end of his car hit the side of mine.

"I wasn't hurt, only shocked. I turned the car round and thought that he had pulled over too, but actually he was driving very slowly. "I followed and he came to a stop. As I approached the car I could see that he was an elderly man."

"He was in poor shape. He was also struggling to speak and breathe. He grabbed my arms and I leaned in to him and he said 'I'm sorry but I think I have coronavirus'.

"He had gone out in his car to get some food and essentials, as he knew he would die without them."

Paramedics arrived and took the man to hospital with Lucy following in her car.
She stayed there for several hours while he underwent various tests including one which showed that his lungs were only working at 50 per cent capacity.

Lucy, from Atherton in Lancashire, is now self-isolating for the next fortnight which has meant her mum, brother and his girlfriend have had to move out of the family home.

Simon Barber, Chief Executive at North West Boroughs Healthcare, said: "Lucy's story is absolutely fantastic. It brought a tear to my eye.

"I and the rest of North West Boroughs Healthcare are so very proud of Lucy's quick-thinking and selfless actions to help someone in need. "She is everything we could possibly want our staff to be and is a shining example of true NHS compassion in these difficult times. What a superstar."
Nurse finds elderly man who hadn't eaten for 10 days in coronavirus self-isolation as he had no friends or family

My heart just broke. Thank heavens for the angel nurse.

 

[Tadpole12]

Amazon delivery driver deliberately spits on package in vile footage caught on Ring doorbell camera | Daily Mail Online

flashback, Chinese quarantine,
lady spits on paper towels in elevator.

 

[303gmf]

are garden centres still open?? in uk they are closed

Considered a necessary function here, people who want to grow their own food is the reason, they are using call in feature and employees take item out to cars but only as of Monday. Week prior had customers inside the door supposed to practice distancing but many older folks weren’t complying sadly

 

[afitzy]

NY: Non Essential Construction Closing

https://nypost.com/2020/03/27/cuomo-to-suspend-non-essential-construction-amid-coronavirus/

Wonder if the news will make it to Hartford CT where Gov. Lamont has been resisting this closure to protect powerful lobby interests.....

MA already has shut down construction.

 

[cody22]

Hope the tires weren't too painful...take care!

My billfold and I survived it..... I now have a safe smooooooth ride that can take me anywhere..... I am hiding in the house..............moo

 

[JerseyGirl]

are garden centres still open?? in uk they are closed

garden centers are consider essential in New Jersey.

Coronavirus can't stop spring from blooming: Garden centers are ready to help

 

[cass523]

The Timeline of a Viral Ticking Time Bomb

The story of the coronavirus pandemic is still being written. But at this early date, we can see all kinds of moments where different decisions could have lessened the severity of the outbreak we are currently enduring.

You have probably heard variations of: “Chinese authorities denied that the virus could be transferred from human to human until it was too late.”

What you have probably not heard is how emphatically, loudly, and repeatedly the Chinese government insisted human transmission was impossible, long after doctors in Wuhan had concluded human transmission was ongoing — and how the World Health Organization assented to that conclusion, despite the suspicions of other outside health experts.

Some point in late 2019: The coronavirus jumps from some animal species to a human being. The best guess at this point is that it happened at a Chinese “wet market.”

We can only wonder whether accurate and timely information from China would have altered the way the U.S. government, the American people, and the world prepared for the oncoming danger of infection.

December 6: According to a study in The Lancet, the symptom onset date of the first patient identified was “Dec 1, 2019 . . . 5 days after illness onset, his wife, a 53-year-old woman who had no known history of exposure to the market, also presented with pneumonia and was hospitalized in the isolation ward.” In other words, as early as the second week of December, Wuhan doctors were finding cases that indicated the virus was spreading from one human to another.

December 21: Wuhan doctors begin to notice a “cluster of pneumonia cases with an unknown cause.”

December 25: Chinese medical staff in two hospitals in Wuhan are suspected of contracting viral pneumonia and are quarantined. This is additional strong evidence of human-to-human transmission.

Sometime in “Late December”: Wuhan hospitals notice “an exponential increase” in the number of cases that cannot be linked back to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, according to the New England Journal of Medicine.

December 30: Dr. Li Wenliang sent a message to a group of other doctors warning them about a possible outbreak of an illness that resembled severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), urging them to take protective measures against infection.

Three weeks after doctors first started noticing the cases, China contacts the World Health Organization. (continues in link)

China's Coronavirus Coverup -- Devastating Lies | National Review

Is this poitical?

 

[mickey2942]

Today is the last day in Montana, before being "At Home", I went and saw my daughter. The level of emotion now, is really different. An absolute intensity, that was never there before.

There are lines at the bank. Right now, 15 cars in the drive up. Lots of police around, more than usual, and several military trucks on the highway.

I saw some nurses at a drive up test station, asked if they wanted coffee or something, it is chilly here. They are suited up in hazmat gear, and said they couldn't eat or drink. Next time I will drop off some gift cards for them.

The day isn't over, gotta go see some other people. Before I get to "Stay at Home" for 2 weeks.