Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #41

[Amonet]

The number of people already infected by the mystery virus emerging in China is far greater than official figures suggest, scientists have told the BBC.

There have been 41 laboratory-confirmed cases of the new virus, but UK experts estimate the figure is closer to 1,700.

New virus in China ‘will have infected hundreds'

Up to 4,500 patients in China may have caught the same strain of coronavirus that has killed two people, scientists fear.

Health officials in Wuhan – the city at the heart of the outbreak which started in December – confirmed four new cases today, taking the total to 48.

But Imperial College London researchers say this may be the 'tip of the iceberg' after analysing flights out of the city.

Experts say the fact three Chinese tourists have tested positive for the virus outside Wuhan indicates the disease toll may be higher than reported.

Scientists fear up to 4,500 Chinese patients may have caught the new coronavirus | Daily Mail Online

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Case details for US and Canada:
COVID-19/Coronavirus Real Time Updates With Credible Sources in US and Canada | 1Point3Acres

Case details for the entire world:
Coronavirus Update (Live): 206,893 Cases and 8,272 Deaths from COVID-19 Virus Outbreak - Worldometer

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[Sillybilly]

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[tricia]

Hey Everyone,

If you want to quote what the president or anyone in his administrations who give information on what they are doing to contain the virus that is absolutely fine.
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OK, not begging now.

I am so impressed with our members posting much-needed info and members helping each other. I swear I sit here and cry happy tears at how incredible you are with this pandemic.

Please join me tonight on Websleuths Live on YouTube at 10:00 PM Eastern. CLICK HERE to join us live. We have a great chat room going on. and I want to personally invite you all to join us. One main rule. If you a jerk in chat or if you start making inflammatory comments about politics or whatever you will be kicked out. Then you will be forced to listen to Donny Osmonds "Puppy Love" for 30 days. So please behave.
See you tonight.
Love,
Tricia
PS. I actually love Donny Osmond. Very talented, a great businessman and fantastic human being, but, Puppy Love is painful. LOL

 

[tricia]

Hey Everyone,

We are putting together a forum for the virus. If you have any ideas for the categories to be included in the forum please send me a private message. Here is what I am thinking so far:
Each state will have its own thread. We will ask everyone to put in information about their state.
A general discussion where this thread and the past threads will be located.
A media thread of course.
Debunking all the kooky crap out there discussion.
Daily count of how many cases are being reported and how many deaths. We would have other countries included. This would be a no discussion thread too.
I have a few more ideas but I am open to anything.
Thanks.
Tricia

Let me clear something up. We will all be together on this thread discussing just like we are now. The other categories will be added so you all can access certain pieces of info more quickly.

 

[CocoChanel]

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[Sillybilly]

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[dixiegirl1035]

ABC News
@ABC
President Trump has reversed his call to reopen businesses by Easter and now says he will extend the nation's coronavirus social distancing guidelines to April 30. https://abcn.ws/2yiQwe8

 

[dixiegirl1035]

Recent Tweet from @bno Newsroom
Coronavirus timeline: -
January 19: 100 cases -
January 24: 1,000 cases -
February 12: 50,000 cases -
March 6: 100,000 cases -
March 18: 200,000 cases -
March 21: 300,000 cases -
March 24: 400,000 cases -
March 26: 500,000 cases -
March 28: 600,000 cases -
March 29: 700,000 cases

 

[zecats]

The coronavirus death toll in New York passed the 1,000 mark on Sunday evening, a bleak indication that the state’s fight against the virus will require even bolder efforts. The news comes after Gov. Andrew Cuomo recorded 237 new deaths from the virus in New York overnight, the biggest 24-hour increase on record. “I don’t think there’s any way to look at those numbers without seeing thousands of people pass away,” Cuomo said.

On Sunday, Mount Sinai Hospital and Samaritan’s Purse, a Christian humanitarian aid organization, began setting up an emergency field hospital in Central Park to accommodate the expected surge in coronavirus patients. The hospital tents will have 68 beds and 10 intensive care beds. New York has at least 59,513 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, with 33,768 of them in New York City.

Across the nation, 143,055 people have now been infected, according to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University as of Monday morning, and 2,513 people have lost their lives to the disease.

Central Park Gets Emergency Field Hospital as New York State Deaths Pass 1,000

 

[jjenny]

I knew from the start we were given very bad advice to not wear masks. If they were concerned about general public competing with medical professionals for masks, they could have advised from the start for general public to wear homemade cotton masks. This virus is clearly not just transmitted by touching contaminated surfaces, so washing your hands all day long is only going to go so far.
I don't think anybody should be going out without wearing mask of some sort. And I feel for the poor store clerks, from reading, some stores don't even allow them to wear their own masks.

 

[Starry Night]

CDC: Japanese Data Show Indoor Coronavirus Transmission 18.7 Times Likelier, as Garcetti Moves L.A. Homeless to Rec Centers

"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently published a paper reporting that Japanese data showed that coronavirus transmission was nearly 20 times more likely indoors than outdoors.

L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti is moving hundreds of homeless people into recreation centers in residential areas — a policy that is receiving increasing scrutiny and criticism from residents and the media."

(here is the CDC paper)

Identifying and Interrupting Superspreading Events—Implications for Control of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2

 

[margarita25]

Food safety, nutrition, and wellness during COVID-19

 

[Sundog]

CDC: Japanese Data Show Indoor Coronavirus Transmission 18.7 Times Likelier, as Garcetti Moves L.A. Homeless to Rec Centers

"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently published a paper reporting that Japanese data showed that coronavirus transmission was nearly 20 times more likely indoors than outdoors.

L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti is moving hundreds of homeless people into recreation centers in residential areas — a policy that is receiving increasing scrutiny and criticism from residents and the media."

(here is the CDC paper

Good article, that talks about the high spread of person-to-person transmission of coronavirus in healthcare settings, in church, cruise ships, and they even mention restaurants.

"Environmental factors [in trasmission] include population density and the availability and use of infection prevention and control measures in healthcare facilities. SARS and MERS had relatively low rates of person-to-person transmission but caused explosive outbreaks in healthcare settings (28). Rapid person-to-person transmission of COVID-19 appears likely to have occurred in healthcare settings, on a cruise ship, and in a church (3). In a study of 110 case-patients from 11 clusters in Japan, all clusters were associated with closed environments, including fitness centers, shared eating environments, and hospitals, the odds for transmission from a primary case-patient were 18.7 times higher than in open-air environments (H. Nishiura et al., unpub. data, External Link). SARS-CoV-2 is present in stool (33); ensuring cleanliness of toilets and other potentially contaminated surfaces is needed, and measures to prevent aerosolization from plumbing, as might have occurred in the Amoy Garden outbreak of SARS (24), might need to be implemented. Evidence of environmental contamination by SARS-CoV-2 through respiratory droplets and fecal shedding highlights the need for effective decontamination efforts and strict adherence to environmental hygiene, which are pertinent to prevention and control of transmission, including SSEs (34).

New CDC guidelines on the care of homeless populations caution against clearing encampments during the outbreak, and suggest that moving them to individual housing units, rather than common spaces, is preferable."

 

[Kensie]

Horrifying moment dead bodies are loaded into a refrigerated truck with a forklift | Daily Mail Online

Absolutely horrifying.

 

[Starry Night]

White House vows to start doling out emergency loans to small businesses this week
"Trump administration officials vow to launch a massive new loan program for small businesses by Friday in a frenetic effort to prevent them from laying off workers or going out of business as the coronavirus pandemic shuts down large segments of the economy.

The $2 trillion bipartisan financial-rescue package signed by President Trump two days ago includes $350 billion in desperately needed relief for small-company operators whose sales have plunged or whose businesses have been ordered closed. Many could fail if the widespread disruptions to the economy persist for more than a month."

 

[Starry Night]

I’m retired and claim Social Security — do I still get the $1,200 stimulus check?

"The checks, which are nontaxable, will be based on 2019 tax returns if they’ve already been filed (though the deadline has been delayed to July 15), and for those who have yet to send in their returns, 2018 figures. The checks are based on all income, which means retirees, Social Security and those who claim other benefits, such as Supplemental Security Income, are eligible. The government can use a beneficiary’s Social Security statements to calculate the check amount if a person did not file taxes — and send the check based on the information on file, according to AARP.

Certain cases may make it tricky for retirees to get the proper amount though, experts said. There are circumstances where retirees may have been working in 2018, or even 2019, and earning more than the income limits, but now are below those thresholds, said Jamie Hopkins, director of retirement research at Carson Group.

There are also instances where people may get more in their checks than they should have, such as for those who earned less in the previous year but more now. They will get to keep the full amount of the check, said Jeffrey Levine, director of advanced planning at Buckingham Wealth Partners."

 

[Starry Night]

Forbes article re National Doctors Day

On National Doctors’ Day, 15 Heroic First-Hand Stories From The Coronavirus Front Lines

"In 1990, the Federal government declared March 30 to be “National Doctors’ Day,” enshrining into law a day that had already been celebrated since 1933. Now more than ever, this is a moment worth observing, as physicians across the United States find themselves on the battlefield against the COVID-19 pandemic.

It’s in honor of this work that we’ve decided to turn the floor over to them. Reporters from our health team—Alex Knapp, Katie Jennings and Leah Rosenbaum—reached out to 15 doctors, ranging from pediatricians to pulmonologists to physicians, across the country, all of whom have leadership roles in their positions and are dealing with the pandemic in different ways. These are their stories."

 

[margarita25]

WARNING - VERY GRAPHIC IMO

Photo shows bodies lined up inside truck

“Inside a truck at an ambulance bay outside a New York City hospital, March 29. The image taken by a nurse has been altered to blur the names of the deceased.”

Coronavirus In New York: A Nurse's Harrowing Photo Of Reality For COVID-19 Victims

 

[dixiegirl1035]

I’m retired and claim Social Security — do I still get the $1,200 stimulus check?

"The checks, which are nontaxable, will be based on 2019 tax returns if they’ve already been filed (though the deadline has been delayed to July 15), and for those who have yet to send in their returns, 2018 figures. The checks are based on all income, which means retirees, Social Security and those who claim other benefits, such as Supplemental Security Income, are eligible. The government can use a beneficiary’s Social Security statements to calculate the check amount if a person did not file taxes — and send the check based on the information on file, according to AARP.

Certain cases may make it tricky for retirees to get the proper amount though, experts said. There are circumstances where retirees may have been working in 2018, or even 2019, and earning more than the income limits, but now are below those thresholds, said Jamie Hopkins, director of retirement research at Carson Group.

There are also instances where people may get more in their checks than they should have, such as for those who earned less in the previous year but more now. They will get to keep the full amount of the check, said Jeffrey Levine, director of advanced planning at Buckingham Wealth Partners."

This information is in DIRECT opposition to what I have understood. I have heard that you have to have EARNED income. In other words, this perhaps is misleading as they are talking about recent retirees who earned in the last year or so?

Can anyone explain which is correct as I think it's untrue that if you are retired and have no EARNED income you will get a check (the situation being.....for those who are living off retirement assests, and don't get a social security check, just pension and investments.... I did not think eligible. )

 

[Mimi in London]

Husband, 69, is accused of Britain's first self-isolation murder | Daily Mail Online

The ‘first’ Coronavirus-DV murders in the UK.

That we know of, that is.