Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #46

[otto]

I've posted this L and S type mutation graphic a few times, always with the link embedded in the graphic. Here it is with a clickable link beneath the graphic. The doi takes people to the abstract and link to full pdf.

Source:
National Science Review
On the origin and continuing evolution of SARS-CoV-2
Tang et al
Published: 03 March 2020

"Haplotype analysis of SARS-CoV-2 viruses. The haplotype networks of SARS-CoV-2 viruses. Blue represents the L type, and red is the S type. The orange arrow indicates that the L type evolved from the S type. Note that in this study, we marked each sample with a unique ID that starting with the geological location, followed by the date the virus was isolated (see Table S1 for details). Each ID did not contain information of the patient's race or ethnicity."

https://watermark.silverchair.com/n...p-Kgl-MdoXs3gXNZRG7gdCYdF6AP2RRJTqr_3fRWXwZXQ

 

[BHughes]

LOUISIANA 4/11

20,014 CasesReported*
806 Deaths Reported
2,067 Patients in hospital
470 of those on ventilators
5,326 Tests Completed by State Lab
Commercial Tests Completed
91,589

64 of 64
Parishes with Reported Cases

Friday 4/10
19,253 cases reported
755 deaths reported
63 of 64 parishes

Coronavirus (COVID-19) | Department of Health | State of Louisiana

 

[NuttMegg]

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Starts at about 12:40

 

[Sillybilly]

Thing is, was PNEUMONIC plague carried by rats? I know it was blown through the air. SEPTICIMIC(sp) got in the blood, although by air or rats I do not know. BUBONIC was carried by flea bites off of rats. People on the second story/floor were luckier 'cause rats couldn't climb stairs.

My computer has gone a bit "off" so I have a hard job copying "sites". It's easy to look up.

Rats can climb stairs and walls. I suggest people on the second stories were simply luckier because there were more rats finding what they wanted on the ground than there were rats who chose the more labour intensive job of climbing.

 

[Lmustang89]

I agree, this concerns me, too. But I think that that they want to make sure that people can visit relatives in border states like Indiana and Ohio, but if so they should say that. There are also people who work in an adjacent state but live in Michigan, and they have their medical care providers in another adjacent state. I wish they had authorized only those trips, as it sounds like you can just drive to Indiana or Ohio for any reason. MOO.

**Yes (I live in MI). I work in Detroit and it is a common scene at the Tunnel to Canada before and after work, the streets are backed up with those going back and forth. Alot of people from Toledo come back and forth to MI

 

[dotr]

Toilet roll cakes keep Finnish baker in business
''HELSINKI — A quick-thinking Helsinki bakery has saved itself from financial ruin due to the new coronavirus pandemic by creating a cake that looks like a toilet roll.

The dismayed staff at the Ronttosrouva bakery found all their orders cancelled last month, at the same time as panicked consumers began to hoard toilet roll. This sparked the idea of a toilet roll cake made of oat batter, passion fruit mousse and covered with white fondant.
“For us it’s a game changer and I am relieved because I know all my employees are safe for months now,” she said.''

Cakes that look exactly like rolls of toilet paper are displayed at Ronttosrouva bakery, as the spread of the coronavirus continues, in Helsinki, Finland, April 7, 2020. Attila Cser / REUTERS''

 

[Trident]

Rats can climb stairs and walls. I suggest people on the second stories were simply luckier because there were more rats finding what they wanted on the ground than there were rats who chose the more labour intensive job of climbing.

Suggestions are always good, not always accurate, but good. Is there a link to this bit of info?

 

[AStartoSteerBy]

I received a call from the pharmacy that my eye drops can't be refilled at this point as they are out of stock. First time ever, could be timing or maybe using it with the trials? It's for glaucoma, Timolol Maleate. I've had the laser surgery about 5 years ago and this just helps with the slowly rising pressure.

• Bausch Health had dorzolamide and timolol ophthalmic solution on shortage due to manufacturing delays. (as of March 23rd)
• Here's the information on the shortage.
  Dorzolamide 2% and Timolol 0.5% Ophthalmic Solution Drug Shortage Notice - Drugs.com

So sorry you can't get your eye drops! Unfortunately, for years various medicines and even normal saline have had supply shortages. Medication supply chains are unfortunately very vulnerable.

Be sure to call your healthcare prescriber to let them know you can't get the drops refilled. There are substitutions available if your healthcare provider deems it necessary. Increased intraocular pressure (IOP) over time can cause permanent blindness. However, blindness is generally quite preventable with monitoring by a professional and a variety of drops. Definitely, communicate with your provider about the shortage.

Moo..NOT medical advice.

(normal saline shortages from a few years ago)
FDA Drug Shortages
Normal Saline

 

[Ragnarok]

Minnesota nurse who answered NYC's call for help says coronavirus fight has been 'eye-opening'

 

[Lilibet]

Rats can climb stairs and walls. I suggest people on the second stories were simply luckier because there were more rats finding what they wanted on the ground than there were rats who chose the more labour intensive job of climbing.

That’s funny because I quickly read the original post as saying fleas can’t climb stairs! If ants can find their way to my third floor apartment, I figured fleas can hop up stairs.

 

[Deleted member 39678]

Suggestions are always good, not always accurate, but good. Is there a link to this bit of info?

How Well Do Rats Climb?
It turns out rats are amazing climbers. It’s one of the reasons this type of vermin has been able to migrate throughout the world. Rats were able to climb their way onto ships hundreds of years ago to hitch a ride to the New World. They can scale vertical walls with ease. They can scurry up trees in seconds. They can even run up drainpipes, electrical wires or cables better than any circus performer.

Researchers at the University of Nebraska have noted that rats can scale just about any type of wall, especially if it has texture. They’ve been known to run up:

Can Rats Climb? - Vulcan Termite & Pest Control

 

[otto]

Bubonic plague is alive and well in gophers:

"Parks Canada has closed off a Saskatchewan national park's remote prairie dog colony to the public after a rodent from the area tested positive for sylvatic plague — the same bacteria that causes the bubonic and pneumonic plagues in humans.

"In this case, the real risk for people is very low," Adriana Bacheschi, the acting superintendent for Park Canada's south Saskatchewan field unit, said Wednesday.

Plague aside, prairie dogs are already a threatened species in the province. (Parks Canada)
"The last time there was a case of a human infection in Canada was in 1939, and it was not fatal."
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/bacteria-bubonic-plague-kills-sask-prairie-dog-1.4213355

 

[Herat]

I'm reading where this virus is attacking red blood cells, causing them to release the iron within into the bloodstream. Iron inside of a red blood cell is good, free iron in the bloodstream is bad. It's causing inflammation in the lungs, the pneumonia is "chemical" in nature, it's not viral.

Sounds to me like a toxic chemical reaction is happening in the lung cells, where the iron is latching on and causing the inflammation.

To me, this explains why the ventilator (vent) therapy is not being very effective in most patients.

"It's complicated" as usual

Dr. Sehult's video defuses this theory, based on the pulmonary pathophysiology and laboratory data he sees in ICU Covid-19 patients.

Blood gases tested also don't seem to support the iron-free hemoglobin theory.

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As they say "It's complicated"

 

[MsMarple]

How Well Do Rats Climb?
It turns out rats are amazing climbers. It’s one of the reasons this type of vermin has been able to migrate throughout the world. Rats were able to climb their way onto ships hundreds of years ago to hitch a ride to the New World. They can scale vertical walls with ease. They can scurry up trees in seconds. They can even run up drainpipes, electrical wires or cables better than any circus performer.

Researchers at the University of Nebraska have noted that rats can scale just about any type of wall, especially if it has texture. They’ve been known to run up:

Can Rats Climb? - Vulcan Termite & Pest Control

Plus, rats are able to leap great distances and squeeze through impossibly small cracks so almost nothing stands in their way of setting up housekeeping wherever they please. They're kind of like Super Villains.
10 Amazing Facts about Rats - Rentokil Pest Control

 

[tresir2012]

There is nothing in the article about the Spanish government requiring any citizen to go back to work. And, maybe there would be more workers to eventually return to work, here, if the US government had invoked the DPA to get masks made, Oh, like 2-3 months ago. A simple mask from the government to help save lives of citizens, and health workers. This is beyond our national ability and expectations as citizens?

I posted a you tube Spanish update in an earlier post.

Also the post you were replying to said this

"The Spanish government will distribute roughly 10 million masks to workers returning to their jobs beginning this week when restrictions on some workplaces, such as construction sites, will be relaxed.

Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said the masks would be distributed at places like subway stations and other transport hubs by police officers or civil protection workers. Their use would be recommended but not required."

ATM the health workers and essential workers are more important than us gen pop. Do your shop workers have masks, face shields or plexiglas protection yet?

 

[Herat]

Bubonic plague is alive and well in gophers:

"Parks Canada has closed off a Saskatchewan national park's remote prairie dog colony to the public after a rodent from the area tested positive for sylvatic plague — the same bacteria that causes the bubonic and pneumonic plagues in humans.

"In this case, the real risk for people is very low," Adriana Bacheschi, the acting superintendent for Park Canada's south Saskatchewan field unit, said Wednesday.

Plague aside, prairie dogs are already a threatened species in the province. (Parks Canada)
"The last time there was a case of a human infection in Canada was in 1939, and it was not fatal."
​

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/bacteria-bubonic-plague-kills-sask-prairie-dog-1.4213355

Zoonotic Plague ( Yersinia pestis bacteria) infections are widespread in the mountain west and high western deserts. Every year the high-elevation states have a sprinkling of human Yersinia pestis infections, usually in hunters, kids who hunt small mammals, etc. It doesn't seem to get to household pets. But can treaten endangered species, such as the Prairie Dog colonies

 

[NuttMegg]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/11/post-office-bailout-trump/
White House rejects bailout for U.S. Postal Service battered by coronavirus
"The Postal Service’s decades-long financial troubles have worsened dramatically as the volume of the kind of mail that pays the agency’s bills ― first-class and marketing mail ― withers during the pandemic. The USPS needs an infusion of money, and President Trump has blocked potential emergency funding for the agency that employs around 600,000 workers, repeating instead the false claim that higher rates for Internet shipping companies Amazon, FedEx and UPS would right the service’s budget.

Trump threatened to veto the $2.2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security, or Cares, Act if the legislation contained any money directed to bail out the postal agency, according to a senior Trump Administration official and congressional official."

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“We told them very clearly that the president was not going to sign the bill if [money for the Postal Service] was in it,” the Trump Administration official said. “I don’t know if we used the v-bomb, but the president was not going to sign it, and we told them that.”

Instead, Sens. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) added a last minute $10 billion Treasury Department loan to the Cares Act to keep the agency on firmer ground through the spring of 2020, according to a Democratic committee aide."
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Lawmakers originally agreed to a $13 billion direct grant the Postal Service would not have to repay. That effort was blocked by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin who warned such a move could blow up the relief bill. A committee aide said Mnuchin told lawmakers during negotiations: “You can have a loan or you can have nothing at all.”
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While the Trump Administration and Mnuchin pushed through private-sector bailouts in the Cares Act — $350 billion to the Small Business Administration loan program, $29 billion to passenger airlines and air cargo carriers, and economic incentives for the construction, energy and life sciences industries, among others — Mnuchin has signaled any postal relief funds in a “Phase IV” stimulus package under negotiation would amount to a poison pill."

 

[Herat]

NJ April 10th

Gov. Phil Murphy said Friday he will sign an executive order allowing some state prison inmates at risk of contracting COVID-19 to be placed on temporary home confinement or expedited parole.

“Under this order, certain low-risk inmates whose age or health status puts them at particular risk for COVID-19, who had been perhaps denied parole within the last year, or whose sentences are to expire within the next three months, may be placed — and I say ‘may be’ — on temporary home confinement or granted parole, if already eligible, through an expedited process,’’ Murphy said at his daily news briefing on the COVID-19 public health emergency.

“I want to stress that no one convicted of a serious crime, such as murder, sexual assault, among others, will be eligible for consideration,’’ the governor said.

Corrections officials will be setting up “a robust process’’ to determine whether each inmate who is potentially eligible for release under his order can be safely placed on home confinement and can be provided with necessary services, including medical services, and housing.

“No one who cannot meet these standards will be released,’’ Murphy said.

Inmates placed on home confinement still will be under the supervision of correctional staff, Murphy said.

Coronavirus NJ: Murphy calls for release of some inmates

March 27th

A Megan’s Law violator who murdered a 16-year-old girl 45 years ago, two convicted arsonists and a man who directed his 7-year-old daughter to perform oral sex on him are among Monmouth County Jail inmates who could go free under a court order designed to minimize COVID-19 outbreaks at county lockups.

Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni is fighting to keep those and six other jail inmates behind bars, after state Supreme Court Justice Stuart Rabner on Sunday signed an order calling for the release of certain county jail inmates.

Gramiccioni so far has secured orders preventing the release of seven other inmates who fall within the parameters of Rabner’s release order, according to Charles Webster, a spokesman for the prosecutor. But, the prosecutor’s challenges to the release of four other inmates were unsuccessful, and those inmates have been freed from the jail, Webster said.

Coronavirus NJ: Arsonists, pedophile and murderer-turned-Megan’s Law violator could go free

I'd be more afraid of the prisoners with drug charges being released. They will continue to use and to support their habit with relatively minor crimes - burglary, assault, theft, home and business break-ins, and shake downs of at risk family and friends .

For example, theft is a major problem in nursing home populations, so much so that the police are no longer called for the pilfering and overt theft going on.

 

[Herat]

The Bubonic Plague was also called The Black Death. It was carried by fleas on the rats.
Black Death - Wikipedia

There are various types of Yersinia pestis infections. We have effective antibiotics that treat the sporadic human cases we get.

Best to get your information about the plague bacillus from the CDC website.

This is a great article from the CDC website.

Public Health Media Library

 

[SaguaroSpirit]