Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #41

[Love Never Fails]

SARS One was much more deadly.

Both are Beasts.

I actually read SARS-2 is three times more deadly. Some guy from CDC.

if I can just remember where I read it.

 

[BHughes]

Ball family still not certain if COVID-19 killed daughter

This is truly sad!
"On March 18, Amanda Lovern was tested for the novel coronavirus. The next day, she was dead.
"had been diagnosed a few years ago with an autoimmune disorder"

 

[jjenny]

SARS One was much more deadly.

Both are Beasts.

But much less infectious. Which is why it was managed to be contained.

 

[margarita25]

Please read this again and have some patience, thanks!

Hi @Darling136

I meant to say several threads back when you guys were referencing the Morrissey song “Everyday is like Sunday” - I was going to say it feels more like “Everyday is Halloween” by Ministry, all the masks and scariness!

 

[Sillybilly]

ADMIN NOTE:

Okay everybody, Tricia has given her sage advice and here's the solution.

Because there is a lot of crossover of information, members can continue making their posts in this general discussion thread, and IF that individual member feels it is also important/appropriate to post the same information in the thread for the individual state, they can post the information over to that thread as well.

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Thanks for your patience and understanding.

 

[Trudie]

Walmart will start taking employees' temperatures and let them wear masks - CNN

Perhaps this was posted elsewhere, idk

 

[musicaljoke]

Canada will need to improve its port infrastructure if it intends to export in large amounts to the rest of the world. Lots to think about. More truckers, more train cars, and possibly, more work on highway infrastructure too.

The Port of Vancouver, Canada, is the most diversified port in North America.


Cargo and terminals | Port of Vancouver

 

[Jax49]

I followed New York City 'deathcare' workers as they collected the bodies of people killed by the coronavirus, and saw a growing, chaotic, and risky battle

NEW YORK CITY — On a typical day, funeral director Patrick Marmo is responsible for about 40 bodies. By the end of Monday, he had 143.

Marmo, a Brooklyn native and a state-licensed embalmer of 30 years, is the founder and CEO of International Funeral Service of New York, a company based in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. It's one of the largest and best-equipped local providers of "deathcare": the term for services that handle the dead by removing and embalming corpses, arranging funerals, and coordinating burials and cremations.

But Marmo says New York City's coronavirus epidemic is straining his industry to a breaking point.

"I don't know how many more bodies I can take," Marmo told Business Insider. "No one in the New York City area possibly has enough equipment to care for human remains of this magnitude."

 

[Lilibet]

ADMIN NOTE:

Okay everybody, Tricia has given her sage advice and here's the solution.

Because there is a lot of crossover of information, members can continue making their posts in this general discussion thread, and IF that individual member feels it is also important/appropriate to post the same information in the thread for the individual state, they can post the information over to that thread as well.

Also, if any member feels a certain post in general discussion thread would be appropriate in the thread for the individual states, please Report on that post and WS staff will review it copy it over to the state specific thread.

This should resolve any concerns members have about missing out on both global information and information that is specific to their individual state.

If you have questions about the above, please do not post about it here; just PM me or any other Mod/Admin and we will try to clarify.

Thanks for your patience and understanding.

Whew! Thank you @Tricia and SB and mods. As someone said, this is a pandemic, and that goes beyond our individual borders. We’re in this together and need to stay together for the sake of our physical and mental health.
JMO

 

[Trudie]

Re: recent loss of appetite.
Anyone think maybe the urge to eat is diminished in order to avoid a trip to the store? Why eat today what you can eat tomorrow? Or, a fear of running out of food?

 

[margarita25]

ADMIN NOTE:

Okay everybody, Tricia has given her sage advice and here's the solution.

Because there is a lot of crossover of information, members can continue making their posts in this general discussion thread, and IF that individual member feels it is also important/appropriate to post the same information in the thread for the individual state, they can post the information over to that thread as well.

Also, if any member feels a certain post in general discussion thread would be appropriate in the thread for the individual states, please Report on that post and WS staff will review it copy it over to the state specific thread.

This should resolve any concerns members have about missing out on both global information and information that is specific to their individual state.

If you have questions about the above, please do not post about it here; just PM me or any other Mod/Admin and we will try to clarify.

Thanks for your patience and understanding.

You mean you don’t want to stay up all night long organizing posts?

Seriously, thank you. This is new for everyone like you said. And I applaud the attempts to have some kind of organization—Unfortunately this is just all too big imo, otherwise I would’ve requested to move in this direction ages ago.

Thank you again for providing this forum for all of us.

I’m glad I can go back to my total A.D.D. posting now.

“NY...Japan...Chicago...Detroit....LA...Macau...New Orleans..Mexico...”

It’s like Huey Lewis over here...”DETROIT!”

 

[katydid23]

ADMIN NOTE:

Okay everybody, Tricia has given her sage advice and here's the solution.

Because there is a lot of crossover of information, members can continue making their posts in this general discussion thread, and IF that individual member feels it is also important/appropriate to post the same information in the thread for the individual state, they can post the information over to that thread as well.

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This should resolve any concerns members have about missing out on both global information and information that is specific to their individual state.

If you have questions about the above, please do not post about it here; just PM me or any other Mod/Admin and we will try to clarify.

Thanks for your patience and understanding.

 

[Gardenista]

Not sure if this was posted, but it was just published yesterday in the NEJM

Covid-19 in Critically Ill Patients in the Seattle Region — Case Series

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2004500

 

[epiphany]

I posted this in the NY/NJ thread as well. If not interested, scroll past:

NYC/NY
NJ

More updates from Tuesday:

• The daily number of new deaths has been increasing an average of 31 percent a day for the past week, and the death toll has tripled in four days.
  
  
• The statewide number of confirmed cases increased by 9,298 to 75,795, with 43,139 of the cases in New York City.
• The number of patients hospitalized passed 10,900, up 15 percent from yesterday. Of those, 2,710 are currently in intensive care rooms with ventilators.
  
  
• Gov. Philip D. Murphy of New Jersey announced 2,196 new virus cases, bringing the state’s total to 18, 696. There were 69 new fatalities, including two men in their 30s, bringing the total to 267.

Coronavirus Hits Governor Cuomo’s Family: Live Updates

 

[Tillicum]

Coronavirus droplets could travel 27 feet, warns MIT researcher

“Owing to the forward momentum of the cloud, pathogen-bearing droplets are propelled much farther than if they were emitted in isolation without a turbulent puff cloud trapping and carrying them forward,” she wrote. “Given various combinations of an individual patient’s physiology and environmental conditions, such as humidity and temperature, the gas cloud and its payload of pathogen-bearing droplets of all sizes can travel 23 to 27 feet (7-8 m).”

More at link

 

[nhmemorymaker]

I’m in Jackson county Oregon @nhmemorymaker. @Squinchy is in Humboldt county CA where I used to live. We had communicated previously on the thread so that’s why I didn’t name my county, but I should have for clarity.

Here is a link that will open to each county in a state. It isn’t always as up-to-date as local news, but it helps. It shows Sonoma county with 73 cases and 1 death. I think that may have been the first death in CA...an eternity ago. I hope your SIL is taking this seriously.

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

gotcha!! These two new sites of real-time data are really great, and no can keep up on Sonoma (quite honestly Northern california looks to be in pretty good shape so far)... re: these map sites been "pokin around the world"...some really interesting observations--like where there is so little or no virus... I could study these maps/changing data forever.

 

[Trudie]

I do too. IMO grocery stores should only be for online shop and curb side pick up. Close the dang stores!

I wish. Maybe a person in a hazmat suit could take orders from ppl that didn’t or could not order online, then text the order to an associate? Idk......
My local WMT has several elderly women working the registers, most working for WMT for years, I fear for them.
The last time I was in the store, I noticed a few missing, I hope they took time off, or quit.

 

[gregjrichards]

A Wuhan doctor that went public over the spread coronavirus has disappeared sparking concerns that she has been detained, reports suggest.

Dr Ai Fen said she faced 'unprecedented, extremely harsh reprimanded' by officials at Wuhan Central Hospital after she shared a picture of a patient report labelled 'SARS coronavirus'.

Wuhan doctor who went public over spread of coronavirus 'goes missing' | Daily Mail Online

#StayHomeSaveLives

 

[Gardenista]

Coronavirus pandemic could push health premiums up by 40 PER CENT, new study finds | Daily Mail Online

 

[margarita25]

Coronavirus Hits Governor Cuomo’s Family: Live Updates

• Another 332 people in New York have died, and Governor Cuomo’s brother has the virus.
• An Amazon warehouse worker on Staten Island was fired after leading a walkout.
• Reinforcements are arriving, Mayor de Blasio said.
• Nearly 1 in 30 city police officers have tested positive.
• The Central Park field hospital opens today.