Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #46

[firebird]

This is a privately owned hospital?

Jacobi Medical Center - Wikipedia

Jacobi Medical Center (NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi) is a municipal hospital operated by NYC Health + Hospitals in affiliation with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

 

[LadyL]

Ryan Struyk on Twitter

Ryan Struyk on Twitter
.@NYGovCuomo: "We'll also do an executive order today which directs employers to provide essential workers with a cloth or surgical face mask to their employees when they are interacting with the public. They should provide those masks cost free."
4:52 PM - 12 Apr 2020

that's nice but where do they expect employers to source those masks from??

 

[Cool Cats]

that's nice but where do they expect employers to source those masks from??

$$ That is the million dollar question for today $$$$$$$$$$

 

[otto]

Jacobi Medical Center - Wikipedia

Jacobi Medical Center (NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi) is a municipal hospital operated by NYC Health + Hospitals in affiliation with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

It sounds like this is not a private hospital, and the quality of care is poor. Are most of the hospitals in NY privately owned? I'm curious about quality of care in gov't versus privately owned hospitals.

For example, in Canada the best hospitals are connected with a university, but all hospitals are gov't owned and provide quality care. Some have fewer resources, which is why university related hospital is better.

 

[Ragnarok]

Visual representation of what happens in an infected COVID-19 lung.

Visualizing What COVID-19 Does to Your Body

 

[firebird]

It sounds like this is not a private hospital, and the quality of care is poor. Are most of the hospitals in NY privately owned? I'm curious about quality of care in gov't versus privately owned hospitals.

For example, in Canada the best hospitals are connected with a university, but all hospitals are gov't owned and provide quality care. Some have fewer resources, which is why university related hospital is better.

I have no idea about ownership overall, but I do know that the vast majority of hospitals in the NY metro area are notoriously horrible, with a few well known exceptions like Sloan Kettering and NYU. I would never ever ever go to a random ER in a borough if I could go elsewhere. Especially, the Bronx. I wouldn't even drive through the Bronx. And I'm not exaggerating.

 

[gngr~snap]

I'm worried about my DDs wedding mid-October. 200+ Alabama. I just cant see it happening . Not with so many people. It breaks my heart. My DD has been planning this wedding forever .

I hope & pray for both our DDs big day.

My son and his daughter are planning a September 20th wedding.
I feel your pain.
Moo

 

[MajorHoople]

A New York police sergeant made a surprising discovery when he pulled over a speeding car just before midnight on the Staten Island Expressway: a woman in the middle of giving birth.

Sgt. Anthony Delmonte, a former EMT and paramedic, sprung into action after seeing the newborn's head crowning.

"When I saw the crowning I said, 'This is happening now,'" Delmonte told ABC News.

The woman and her husband, who was driving, were heading eastbound on the expressway trying to make it to the hospital late Thursday.

"They were not gonna wait until they got to the hospital," Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said Friday in a daily briefing on Twitter. "At least the baby wasn't gonna wait."

The commissioner said the baby was safely delivered in the car.

"You could hear the doctors and nurses cry out at the sight of a newborn baby."

"Cheering to have something good to root for in this time," he said, referring to the novel coronavirus pandemic that has claimed the lives of at least 97,200 in the world and at least 16,703 people in the United States. "In every dark day, there's always light."

NYPD sergeant pulls over speeding car, finds woman giving birth on way to hospital

These days, it's probably safer to give birth in a car than in a NYC hospital.

 

[firebird]

In New Jersey.

Do you know which hospital? I'm from NJ and have worked at a hospital there. Plus, as we know, it's a very small state so I'm generally familiar with most of the hospitals at least in North Jersey. I'm a little surprised to hear this because they're mostly very good.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Officials also claimed that seven people over the age of 100 had been discharged from Wuhan hospitals after recovering from COVID-19.

The number of new cases appears to have stabilised in China while skyrocketing in the US and Europe, but the official figures from China have been brought under scrutiny.

At least 2,571 people have died due to COVID-19 in Wuhan, around 80 per cent of China's official death toll.

Many suspect there were more victims in the early weeks who died without being tested.

A Washington Post report recently suggested the death toll in Wuhan alone could be as high as 42,000 — 16 times the official total — an estimate based upon a large increase in the number of bodies delivered to crematoriums.

Wuhan also has at least 50,008 of the mainland's 81,907 confirmed cases.
Reopened Wuhan says severe coronavirus cases down to 93 from peak of 10,000

 

[otto]

These days, it's probably safer to give birth in a car than in a NYC hospital.

How accessible are midwives in NY? In Canada, each province has its own rules regarding midwives. There are a limited number of courses of care that are paid by the government, so not everyone who is able to, and who wants to, birth at home has the option.

 

[otto]

Officials also claimed that seven people over the age of 100 had been discharged from Wuhan hospitals after recovering from COVID-19.

The number of new cases appears to have stabilised in China while skyrocketing in the US and Europe, but the official figures from China have been brought under scrutiny.

At least 2,571 people have died due to COVID-19 in Wuhan, around 80 per cent of China's official death toll.

Many suspect there were more victims in the early weeks who died without being tested.

A Washington Post report recently suggested the death toll in Wuhan alone could be as high as 42,000 — 16 times the official total — an estimate based upon a large increase in the number of bodies delivered to crematoriums.

Wuhan also has at least 50,008 of the mainland's 81,907 confirmed cases.
Reopened Wuhan says severe coronavirus cases down to 93 from peak of 10,000

That's believable. There were reports that the crematoriums were burning 24/7 for a couple of weeks. That does not correlate with the low death rate. Someone posted an interesting link to the reduced number of cell phones in use in the area after the numbers were brought under control.

I suspect that we are still receiving false numbers.

 

[firebird]

How accessible are midwives in NY? In Canada, each province has its own rules regarding midwives. There are a limited number of courses of care that are paid by the government, so not everyone who is able to, and who wants to, birth at home has the option.

I didn't think it was a big thing there, and I found this. I worked in NYC when my peers were having kids and I don't know one single person who used a mid-wife or birthing center in Manhatten.

Why New York Lags So Far Behind on Natural Childbirth

eta: the rest of the state may be vastly different.

 

[kpalma71580]

@firebird

It was Riverview in South Jersey. I think he drove to the nearest one from his home.

I'm originally from North Jersey and love Hackensack, which I think Riverview is now owned by, so I was surprised of what he went through. There are so many great hospitals in NJ. I am now in Warren County of NJ and now go to the Lehigh Valley in PA.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

“There are limited data out of China and Europe showing that this appears to be the response pattern followed with this virus," said Thomas Montine, professor and chair of pathology at the School of Medicine. "No one has had this long enough to know how long after infection the antibodies persist."

The test, which takes two to three days for results, was launched on April 6 at Stanford Health Care. Stanford Health Care is able to test 500 samples per day, according to the statement.

"It's essential to have the right tools to understand the biology of the novel coronavirus," said Lloyd Minor, dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine. "This test takes us one step closer to answering the many public health questions about COVID-19."

"Serological testing gives us a more comprehensive view of what's happening in an individual who is infected, or has been infected, with the virus," agreed Montine.

"That approach could be very important in this period when we don't have vaccines or other definitive therapies," said Montine. "We thought this was an urgent medical need, and the usual supply chains were unreliable, so we decided to build our own."
Stanford Medicine detecting antibodies against coronavirus in plasma: research

 

[otto]

I didn't think it was a big thing there, and I found this. I worked in NYC when my peers were having kids and I don't know one single person who used a mid-wife or birthing center in Manhatten.

Why New York Lags So Far Behind on Natural Childbirth

eta: the rest of the state may be vastly different.

Midwifery arrived late in Canada compared to other Commonwealth countries, and some provinces are still slow to act. My daughter is a midwife in Canada. Very few students are accepted into the program, carefully screened before admission - like medicine. They deliver at home and in hospital, liaise with specialists when additional care is needed.

I hope that pregnant women are especially careful to avoid contact with infected people. It's much safer today to birth at home than in a hospital. Maybe the pandemic will inspire more states/provinces to move forward with low risk women birthing with a midwife at home - unless otherwise is required.

 

[kpalma71580]

This is a real story. Yes, scares me too, but glad you shared it. It'll help me stay strong staying home and wearing my masks if I venture out.

It's another Hydroxychloroquine success story. So happy he survived.

Long drug name shrunk down by me.

My aunt, uncle, and cousin were all successfully treated with hydroxychloroquine also. My aunt and uncle are close to being 70 and also developed phenomnia from covid. They are doing awesome right now after they started the meds. Thank God.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

This is a tool that we utilize to fight off this crisis,” said Carlos Encinas, chief science officer at BioLab Sciences in Scottsdale.

“The rapid serological test for COVID-19,” he said. “You prick your finger and you put a drop of blood in the cassette and it tells you if your body has shown antibodies against the COVID-19.”

“This test is going to measure if the patient has been exposed or has been infected with the virus,” said Encinas.

“It’s going to help unclog the system,” he said. “So not everyone is going to have to go to the molecular more expensive test.”

“We’re forecast for, in the next months… in the millions,” he said.

“My wife is a physician and every day that she goes out to the clinic… our hearts go out to her,” said Encinas. “She is under tremendous stress because she fears that at any point, she’s going to come home and bring it to us.”

“To help not only her, but other of her coworkers to do the same,” he said.

BioLab Sciences has already started distributing the test devices to healthcare agencies, hospitals, and outpatient facilities across the U.S. The test is already being used throughout Europe and Asia. It’s still pending review by the FDA here in the U.S, but the agency did issue guidance to allow the rapid antibody tests under emergency-use authorization.
Scottsdale-based biotech company announces rapid COVID-19 test kits

 

[firebird]

@firebird

It was Riverview in South Jersey. I think he drove to the nearest one from his home.

I'm originally from North Jersey and love Hackensack, which I think Riverview is now owned by, so I was surprised of what he went through. There are so many great hospitals in NJ. I am now in Warren County of NJ and now go to the Lehigh Valley in PA.

Yeah, I don't know that one. I kind of know the area, though, and am a little suprised. Lots of pricy real estate in the surrounding area. Little Silver and Rumson come to mind. Suprised they would put up with that! My college boyfriend grew up in Middletown.

I worked at Morristown and so did my mom.

 

[Curious Me]

Time means nothing to me after a month inside except the rare hour for food or Rx.

China and Wuhan's numbers mean nothing to me yet. I'm counting on "the math and numbers people here" to tell me the real truth. I'd probably believe over 42,000. Numbers can make me cry.