Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #40

[Shadow205]

I asked before, who approved this ship to dock in Florida if local government didn't even know this? Hmmmm.....

Who did make the decision?

 

[NuttMegg]

SCOTT GOTTLIEB

I’ll be releasing later today with expert thought leaders a detailed plan for how we transition between population based mitigation now being employed in many cities to case based interventions and other tactics as chains of epidemic spread are hopefully broken in mid/late April Scott Gottlieb, MD on Twitter

Staying at home is what we need to be doing now. But as we get through April, and chains of epidemic transmission are hopefully broken through our current mitigation steps, we can start to transition to different approaches that gradually rely more on case based interventions.

April will be hard month but we'll get through it. This will end. We need to stick with current strategies. We can look toward May as month when we carefully transition to new posture. For now focus must be on supporting healthcare systems, preserving life, ending epidemic spread.

Scott Gottlieb, MD on Twitter

Thanks for finding these informative Twitter accounts, like this one and from Andy Slavitt last night. Most health professionals are not invited to press conferences and have no platform. It's really important to hear from others who are not on the stage, so we can inform ourselves.

 

[Henry2326]

FLORIDA

As the state’s coronavirus death toll reached 56 on Saturday, with 4,038 cases, Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered that people from the New York area driving into Florida on Interstate 95 be screened at a checkpoint.

At the new I-95 checkpoint, which DeSantis announced Saturday, officials will instruct drivers to self-quarantine for 14 days and collect their contact information, similar to a roadblock put in place Friday on I-10 in the Panhandle. Increased airport screening has proved effective, DeSantis said, resulting in one ill passenger on a flight from New York to Jacksonville being intercepted and sent to a hospital.

On Friday, he asked law enforcement to stop drivers from Louisiana near the border to tell them to quarantine for two weeks, while he also put a two-week hold on new vacation rentals.

Florida coronavirus update for Saturday: U.S. death toll passes 2,000; state cases pass 4,000; drivers from NY area to be screened

 

[10ofRods]

Has this been posted? Very Interesting article...

The U.S. Tried to Build a New Fleet of Ventilators. The Mission Failed.
As the coronavirus spreads, the collapse of the project helps explain America’s acute shortage.

The U.S. Tried to Build a New Fleet of Ventilators. The Mission Failed.

Thirteen years ago, a group of U.S. public health officials came up with a plan to address what they regarded as one of the medical system’s crucial vulnerabilities: a shortage of ventilators.

The breathing-assistance machines tended to be bulky, expensive and limited in number. The plan was to build a large fleet of inexpensive portable devices to deploy in a flu pandemic or another crisis.

Money was budgeted. A federal contract was signed. Work got underway.

And then things suddenly veered off course. A multibillion-dollar maker of medical devices bought the small California company that had been hired to design the new machines. The project ultimately produced zero ventilators.

That failure delayed the development of an affordable ventilator by at least half a decade, depriving hospitals, states and the federal government of the ability to stock up. The federal government started over with another company in 2014, whose ventilator was approved only last year and whose products have not yet been delivered.


Today, with the coronavirus ravaging America’s health care system, the nation’s emergency-response stockpile is still waiting on its first shipment. The scarcity of ventilators has become an emergency, forcing doctors to make life-or-death decisions about who gets to breathe and who does not.


Federal officials decided to re-evaluate their strategy for the next public health emergency. They considered vaccines, antiviral drugs, protective gear and ventilators, the last line of defense for patients suffering respiratory failure. The federal government’s Strategic National Stockpile had full-service ventilators in its warehouses, but not in the quantities that would be needed to combat a major pandemic.

The company that did this (purchased and shut down a ventilator manufacturing company) is trending on Twitter. #Covidien

This, combined with the news that we shipped a lot of our PPE to China in February doesn't make for uplifting Sunday morning reading.

 

[dixiegirl1035]

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[Sundog]

Governor DeWine of Ohio and FDA's response, limiting Batelle's production related to sterilizing masks to 10,000 a day, when they could use this technology to sterilize many more in Ohio and provide this to other states as well.

DeWine: FDA Limiting Use of Battelle Tech is 'Reckless' - Business Journal Daily

 

[CeeCeeCat]

Henry, you are a Godsend to this thread! Thanks so much for sharing as you have been here since the beginning to share scientific information in addition to MSM ( MSM... know from cases here on WS the difference when we look at the evidence, vs. bloviation from defense or mis information from MSM, yet when we have the science, we can correctly interpret what MSM is saying).

Thanks to all here that share scientific links so we can see the "evidence" vs. interpretations from MSM.

Please post what Dr. Gottlieb says when it's posted. TIA

Seconded. I really want to thank @Henry2326 @margarita25 @gregjrichards @PommyMommy - and I hope I’ve not missed anyone - for everything you do for us here to keep us updated and informed, THANK YOU!

 

[Henry2326]

JOSHUA WEITZ, PROFESSOR GA TECH

"Updated near-term epidemic risk assessment for GA, including multiple scenarios for social distancing.
Despite uncertainties in any projection, a key message is that estimates suggest new hospital bed/ICU intake to double every 3-4 days for the next 10 days. Joshua Weitz on Twitter

Joshua Weitz on Twitter

A takeaway is that social distancing matters, particularly when it is sustained. This also suggests that other approaches to test at scale will be needed to complement transmission reduction.

Key point: there are many uncertainties, but we should be concerned that delays in imposing state-wide social distancing will have consequences in terms of overall epidemic spread and collective risk.
Full code/documentation:
jsweitz/covid-19-ga-summer-2020

Joshua Weitz on Twitter

 

[Trudie]

‘This virus is no joke’: Kentucky officials don’t wait for surge of coronavirus cases to tighten restrictions

 

[Bravo]

Canada turning to makeshift hospitals to house patients as COVID-19 pandemic stretches capacity

 

[CSIDreamer]

I asked before, who approved this ship to dock in Florida if local government didn't even know this? Hmmmm.....

Aren't they headed for Port Everglades?

Any decision by Broward County on whether to allow any passenger vessel to enter Port Everglades will be determined once more information is available in consultation with a Unified Command made up of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Florida Department of Health in Broward County, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Customs & Border Protection, Port Everglades Pilots Association, Broward Sheriff’s Office Departments of Law Enforcement and Fire Rescue, Broward County Emergency Management and the Broward County Port Everglades Department.

Fort Lauderdale Port - Official Port Everglades Site - Fort Lauderdale, Florida

 

[NuttMegg]

Well...I know, but I feel like the govs could reach some sort of "gentleman/woman's" agreement to post a few national guardspeople at points of exit/entry. If people are traveling for no good reason from an epicenter and causing angst in a neighboring state, there's some room for etiquette and cooperation amongst leaders, do I dare dream? Does it always have to come down to drama?

But then who decides what a "good reason" is?

 

[Trudie]

Stephen King’s Next Book ‘If It Bleeds’ Set for 2020 Release; Includes Four Brand New Novellas!

He’s releasing new books this week

 

[CoverMeCagney]

UK - Live government report now, not seen these two before.

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick
Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Jenny Harries

Coronavirus: All parts of UK 'on emergency footing' - minister - BBC News

 

[zecats]

Isn’t it ‘Cuomo Time’?

Looking forward to the next "Fireside Chat." MSNBC usually carries it. Bless this man, I can't imagine when he sleeps, yet he still makes time for pressers. JMO

 

[Trudie]

https://www.mdlinx.com/internal-medicine/article/6528
Top prepared states for COVID-19: Did your state make the cut?

 

[Shelby1]

Hello everyone!

Thanks for all of the kind words and support on the last thread. Today is already a better day because I didn't wake up to a car and people in my driveway. Haven't seen my husband yet--I slept in and he's outside--but I'm sure the temperature will still be a bit icy lol sigh. I stand behind what I said and if it helps just one person not get sick, then it's worth it. Daughter will never admit out loud that she agrees or learned from anything I said, but maybe she does on the inside. Anyway, I feel calmer.

Has anyone been watch Fox news this morning? They had a segment where they interviewed someone that was talking about the Chinese government lab. next to that market in Wuhan. I missed a bit of the interview but he really seemed like he believes that this virus came from that lab. I'm going to google and see what else I can find about that. Not that it matters now, I guess, but I'm curious.

 

[Reasonable & Just]

But then who decides what a "good reason" is?

Well, essential travel is defined in some areas - here's guidelines from Tasmania. And apparently you can plea for compassionate exemptions for family sickness or death, or any other reason. https://dpipwe.tas.gov.au/Documents/Tasmanian Border Restrictions.pdf

 

[Reasonable & Just]

Hello everyone!

Thanks for all of the kind words and support on the last thread. Today is already a better day because I didn't wake up to a car and people in my driveway. Haven't seen my husband yet--I slept in and he's outside--but I'm sure the temperature will still be a bit icy lol sigh. I stand behind what I said and if it helps just one person not get sick, then it's worth it. Daughter will never admit out loud that she agrees or learned from anything I said, but maybe she does on the inside. Anyway, I feel calmer.

Has anyone been watch Fox news this morning? They had a segment where they interviewed someone that was talking about the Chinese government lab. next to that market in Wuhan. I missed a bit of the interview but he really seemed like he believes that this virus came from that lab. I'm going to google and see what else I can find about that. Not that it matters now, I guess, but I'm curious.

"I love you". "No, really, I LOVE YOU" often works to thaw the ice in our home. JMO, and wishing you luck and hugs.

 

[cass523]

ABC This week

"As the White House's 15 days to slow the spread guidelines is set to expire Monday, former homeland security adviser@TomBossert says that Pres. Trump "has no choice but to extend this national blanket intervention order... we have to stay this course." (video)

- New hotspots, increase distancing orders
-Extend national blanket intervention order
-Evidence it's working, stay the course, societal cheating

This Week on Twitter

US has more than 120,000 confirmed cases, the most in the world
and hit that horrible 2000 death milestone.

Where would you say we are today in the cycle, has the curve been flattened at all in any places?

@DrJAshton on state of the COVID-19 outbreak: "What we're seeing today actually, probably represents something that happened 2 to 4 weeks ago, and if you think that way, we don't know what 2 to 4 weeks from now will look like."

"When you are dealing with an infectious disease outbreak, as Dr Tony Fauci has said, you're always behind..." (video)

This Week on Twitter

@RebeccaJarvis
on what might happen with the economy in the coming weeks: "The unemployment rate, which was 3.5% in February, is very likely to climb much higher in the coming weeks. If it were to climb to the worst-case scenarios, we would be looking at 20% unemployment." (video)

This Week on Twitter

"Effective at midnight China Standard Time on Saturday, March 28, 2020, China is temporarily suspending the entry of foreign nationals who hold a valid ordinary visa or residence permit.

The entry restrictions are part of a broader Chinese policy to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) into China from foreign countries.

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/after-flattening-covid-19-curve-china-says-no-to-foreigners-now