Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #47

[Ragnarok]

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I've always tried to err on the side of caution. We are retired so our lives haven't severely been impacted. Some minor issues but in general have no problem with the shutdown. Better safe than sorry IMO.

 

[Cool Cats]

Good news learn something new every day!

Emergency room doctor, near death with coronavirus, saved after experimental treatment

Dr. Ryan Padgett, a Seattle emergency room physician.

"...the doctors came to believe that it was not the disease itself killing him but his own immune system.

It had gone haywire and began to attack itself — a syndrome known as a "cytokine storm."

The immune system normally uses proteins called cytokines as weapons in fighting a disease. For unknown reasons in some COVID-19 patients, the immune system first fails to respond quickly enough and then floods the body with cytokines, destroying blood vessels and filling the lungs with fluid.

The doctors tried a drug called Actemra, which was designed to treat rheumatoid arthritis but also approved in 2017 to treat cytokine storms in cancer patients.

After four days on the immunosuppressive drug, supplemented by high-dose vitamin C and other therapies, doctors were able to take him off life support.

Four days later, they removed his breathing tube and he was able to FaceTime with his family.

Another case:

As Padgett got to know Dr. Youssef, Dr. Hartman and other team members, they told him about a 33-year-old woman — a mother of three — who was in the hospital as well, also having experienced a cytokine storm. He saw the team's excitement when they tried the approach on her, and she too recovered.... "

 

[Gardenista]

I don't see anything in the article suggesting he broke quarantine. He didn't have fever for 60 hours and believed he was getting over covid. Then fever returned.

Sorry about that. It was in an article I posted yesterday

https://nypost.com/2020/04/14/long-island-bicyclist-verbally-attacked-by-chris-cuomo-fires-back/

 

[MsBetsy]

I am sure that I would have had the virus by now, if there had not been a shutdown. That being said, what happens next? Everyone back to work? So I can get the virus next month?

Yes, I think that's a big part of the problem. We don't know what's going to happen in the coming months. The number of cases could level off for awhile and then start back up again.

I thinks it's too early to determine whether the government shutdown was effective or how bad the damage to the economy will be. They can make predictions but I'm not sure how they can know anything for sure.

Many people said that it wasn't likely that cities in the US would shutdown and there wouldn't be such drastic measures taken as they did in China, but here we are.

Imo

 

[epiphany]

I don't see anything in the article suggesting he broke quarantine. He didn't have fever for 60 hours and believed he was getting over covid. Then fever returned.

Guidelines are 72 hours without a fever & w/out using fever reducers. Cuomo went 60 hrs

 

[Sundog]

6 reasons Michigan has four times more coronavirus cases than Ohio

Good article explaining reasons why Michigan has such higher rate of COVID-19 than Ohio.

 

[BUF]

Coronavirus Ravages the Lungs. It Also Affects the Brain.

A patient in Japan had seizures. An airline worker ended up in a Detroit hospital, where doctors diagnosed her with a rare form of brain damage. Others reported auditory and visual hallucinations or losing their sense of smell and taste.

 

[dixiegirl1035]

10:30 am - Coronavirus outbreak: Bank of Canada to detail economic impact of COVID-19 | LIVE

Canada’s central bank will make an announcement on Wednesday at 10:30am ET on its key interest rate and detail the impact of COVID-19 on the national economy. Earlier on Wednesday, the Bank of Canada did announce it will keep the key interest rate at 0.25 per cent. At the same time, the central bank will also release its view of the economic impact from COVID-19 and outlook for the domestic economy a day after the International Monetary Fund predicted Canada’s economy to contract by 6.2 per cent this year.

 

[ilovewings]

It will get to you @KALI.

Here’s what this article says:

The money will appear automatically in your bank account if the IRS has your account information on file from previous years’ tax returns. If the IRS doesn’t already have your account information, or if you didn’t file taxes in 2018 or 2019, you can submit your information on this website.

When are stimulus checks being sent out? Here’s how to make sure you get yours

And this one:

The first checks were delivered via direct deposit on Friday and tens of millions will see them appear in their bank accounts by Wednesday, according to the Treasury Department.

Coronavirus stimulus checks: First payments going out from IRS

You can track your payment here.

Coronavirus stimulus checks: Taxpayers can now track payments

The Today show just reported about the meat shortage so for sure now we will have one IMO but maybe there will be TP and Lysol now
JMO
Meat producers are warning of potential food shortages. Here’s what you need to know

 

[ilovewings]

Perhaps we will have to eat a lot more fish!!!!

 

[BUF]

Perhaps we will have to eat a lot more fish!!!!

Fine with me. I love fish!

 

[otto]

CANADA
Judges release growing number accused of violent crimes due to COVID-19 fears

Judges release growing number accused of violent crimes due to COVID-19 fears

One is the accused getaway driver for a recent Toronto murder attempt. Another allegedly pistol-whipped and Tasered two in Ottawa over a drug debt. A third was allegedly involved in a Toronto strip mall shooting.

A growing number of suspects arrested on serious criminal charges have been ordered released from custody in recent weeks by judges concerned about the spread of COVID-19 in Canada’s prisons.

“These are extraordinary, dire times,” a judge wrote Monday in a decision ordering the release of a man accused of firing a bullet through his ex-girlfriend’s apartment window in Hamilton, Ont.

Although the courts have effectively shut down due to the pandemic, they have heard from detainees arguing they should be released from custody because of the new coronavirus.

A flurry of court decisions suggest that even those accused of violent crimes are winning release. As one judge wrote, the pandemic had “reordered the usual calculus.”

wow, someone living in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, I guess

Thank you! That sure was kept quiet.

 

[tresir2012]

I have been recording this in my diary.

UK cumulative deaths

W/e 22 Mar 281
W/e 29 Mar 1228
W/e 5 Apr 4934
W/e 12 Apr 10612
15 Apr 12868

First two weeks of lockdown the deaths doubled every 2/3 days, then it slowed to doubling every week as the lockdown took effect. Hopefully, it looks like it is slowing again, otherwise we will be on 20k deaths by this Sunday.

If we had no lockdown it could have looked like this (doubling every 2/3 days.)

W/e 22 Mar 281
W/e 29 Mar 1228
W/e 5 Apr 9600
W/e 12 Apr 36000
15 Apr 72000
17 Apr 144000

So lockdown has possibly saved 120k deaths in the UK IMO.

 

[Love Never Fails]

Good news to report!

The husband of a school acquaintance, in his early 60’s, was in New Orleans in mid March and shortly thereafter came down with Covid 19. He eventually was hospitalized and placed on a vent (20 days!) as well as dialysis.

My school friend has been giving updates on FB. She posted late yesterday afternoon that he was off the vent, breathing on his own! A brain MRI showed no damage. He was able to sit up and on the side of his bed, though still very weak, and following simple commands! From what I have read, it is almost unheard of to be able to survive after being ventilated that long.

Talk about an Easter miracle!

My daughter, aged 39 at that time, was diagnosed and in hospital in 2007 from Ecoli 157. She received dialysis of her kidneys and plasma foresis of her blood and was on a ventilator for TWO MONTHS. She awoke and to this day is doing fine. Miracles happen every day. And for all those who don’t make it, and there are many, we do hear of those who survive. Never give up and never stop praying for a loved one!

 

[jjenny]

Yes, I think that's a big part of the problem. We don't know what's going to happen in the coming months. The number of cases could level off for awhile and then start back up again.

I thinks it's too early to determine whether the government shutdown was effective or how bad the damage to the economy will be. They can make predictions but I'm not sure how they can know anything for sure.

Many people said that it wasn't likely that cities in the US would shutdown and there wouldn't be such drastic measures taken as they did in China, but here we are.

Imo

We are nowhere near China's level of shut down. They were actually shut down in their apartments, with food being brought to them. Anybody showing symptoms was removed from their apartment and put into quarantine somewhere. We still have people going to stores, etc. We don't remove people with symptoms from their homes, where they are able to infect their relatives with whom they supposed to be sheltering in place. Which is presumably why they managed to actually shut it down, and we are at over 500,000 cases.

 

[ilovewings]

okay i have to vent here- i think my husband is retarded. We are in Fort Myers for the winter. when we leave we need someone to check on our condo every month to make sure everything is ok. the lady that used to do it moved away. I am thinking we will leave sometime in May when the country opens up a bit. So my husband calls this guy who he wants to be the person to check our apartment. His plan
would be to bring the guy in the condo, show him around and give him the keys. I AM LIKE WHAT????? No you are not bringing aa stranger into our condo and no you are not getting close enough to him to give him the freaking keys- and i am screaming!!! i told him he can put the keys in an envelope and leave it on our front door.

I think my husband is dense. he apparently just doesn't get the seriousness of this virus. I told him perhaps he has a death wish but i don't and i don't want something stupid he does to cost me my life: we are both in our 70s but i have asthma and i am terrified. I have to make sure he washes his hands after he throws out the garbage and after we come back from shopping for groceries.

GRRRRRR--

Thanks for letting me vent! by the way you guys are great and I learn a lot from you!

 

[NuttMegg]

This breathing technique may help coronavirus patients feel better

 

[Really?]

okay i have to vent here- i think my husband is retarded. We are in Fort Myers for the winter. when we leave we need someone to check on our condo every month to make sure everything is ok. the lady that used to do it moved away. I am thinking we will leave sometime in May when the country opens up a bit. So my husband calls this guy who he wants to be the person to check our apartment. His plan
would be to bring the guy in the condo, show him around and give him the keys. I AM LIKE WHAT????? No you are not bringing aa stranger into our condo and no you are not getting close enough to him to give him the freaking keys- and i am screaming!!! i told him he can put the keys in an envelope and leave it on our front door.

I think my husband is dense. he apparently just doesn't get the seriousness of this virus. I told him perhaps he has a death wish but i don't and i don't want something stupid he does to cost me my life: we are both in our 70s but i have asthma and i am terrified. I have to make sure he washes his hands after he throws out the garbage and after we come back from shopping for groceries.

GRRRRRR--

Thanks for letting me vent! by the way you guys are great and I learn a lot from you!

Just curious as to why you need the condo checked on.
Do you know any neighbors who can call you if say electric goes out?

 

[drama_farmer]

Chris Cuomo broke quarantine the other day and now he's had a setback. <modsnip: unnecessary criticism>

Chris Cuomo reveals setback in his fight against coronavirus

I find it refreshing that he admits that he was cocky, and isn't afraid to blame himself. Wish I saw more of that in the world today. IMO
From your link:

"I got close. I got to 60 (hours). And I have to be honest, I got a little cocky," Cuomo said. "I started thinking about: 'Oh great, I can't wait. I want to get retested and then I'm gonna do this, and then I'm gonna do that.'

 

[bluedivergirl]

Just curious as to why you need the condo checked on.
Do you know any neighbors who can call you if say electric goes out?

It is a common practice in FL. A home watch person typically runs the dishwasher (seals dry out), flushes toilet, puts water in drains so trap doesn't evaporate (stinks to high heaven if it does). Makes sure the HVAC is functioning (FL humidity can lead to significant mold damage). They do other odds and ends, depending on the home.