Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #48

[Inthedetails]

Here in Blekinge a local industry making plastic banners for different kinds of events and exhibitions are now instead making long-sleeved plastic aprons for our hospitals. Rollup-Kungen

That's the kind of action I was hoping to see from the start. Glad to hear every example of manufacturing switching gears to pitch in.

jmo

 

[jjenny]

An article on how long CV lives on surfaces.

Brass and copper are very safe compared to everything else, silicon is pretty safe.

Human Coronavirus 229E Remains Infectious on Common Touch Surface Materials

Everything else still showed a few living bits of virus at 4 days, with 5 days being the point where the virus had finally declined to zero. Obviously, the first day was the worst.

Copper has anti-germ properties.
"All of these laboratory studies have been translated into the healthcare environment. Studies worldwide have shown that, with routine cleaning, when copper alloy is used on regularly touched surfaces in busy wards and intensive care units, there is up to a 90% reduction in the numbers of live bacteria on their surfaces. This includes bed rails, chair arms, call buttons, over-bed tables, IV poles, taps and door handles."
Copper is great at killing superbugs – so why don't hospitals use it?

 

[BayouBelle_LA]

Coronavirus: Pastor urges people to donate stimulus cheques to churches

Pastor Tony Spell, of the Life Tabernacle Church, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, posted a video to his YouTube channel, where he asked his subscribers to donate their cheques to churches and evangelists.

Member of Life Tabernacle Church dies of COVID-19, records say

An elderly member of Life Tabernacle Church in Central, La. has died of the novel coronavirus, according to a coroner’s report.

Tony Spell, the controversial pastor of that church, disputes the coroner’s findings, saying the man died of another medical condition.

“That is a lie,” Spell said of the coroner’s findings when reached by phone Thursday.

 

[katydid23]

ABC 20/20
JUST IN The first large-scale community test of 3,300 people in Santa Clara County found that 2.5 to 4.2% of those tested were positive for antibodies—a number suggesting a far higher past infection rate than the official count. https://abcn.ws/3bhpLFD

Alex Berenson

✔@AlexBerenson
https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1251170511557722115

The @stanford antibody testing is out - it estimates ~3% of people in Santa Clara County (CA) have been infected and recovered, 50-plus times the estimate of confirmed active cases. More evidence #SARSCoV2 is far more widespread and thus less dangerous than expected.



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[I'm Just Here]

[bbm]

that's a lot of big words
can you dumb it down for me?

Blood that is having a problem with clots. And not proven to be a symptom of a specific disease.

 

[katydid23]

The problem for many, is that with macular degeneration, the letters are not big enough to read. Problems of being deaf and blind.

And my 89 yr old mother can see the letters well enough--but she cannot process the words fast enough, to understand what the question is.

 

[Sundog]

Thank you for posting this.... Visuals are better for some to understand, so this needs to be a commercial or something. Although, they are very gross visuals.
I'm sure the first guy sneezing was glad to wipe his face

I've always taught to sneeze into elbow bc sneezing out is just nasty without this virus. Then when the dance came out, it was DAB it and children were were to do this!

Strategically speaking, this is an informative video that you can show if you have to go back to and distribute at work to your employer and colleagues so that they can get a good visual of how the virus droplets spread and linger in the air. Just in case they don't get it.

 

[Sundog]

DeWine is the governor of Ohio.

This may have already been posted, but I think Governor DeWine was referring to prison dorms. Colleges and universities in Ohio are closed now for students.

 

[MimosaMornings]

This Mom Taped A Sign On Her Kid's Back To Stop People From Judging Her In The Store
Oh wow, single mom of four. Guessing her other 3 are older and no longer at home.
How sad a child has to wear a sign like that.


“MaryAnn Fausey Resendez is a Texas-based mother of four – her youngest is 5 years old.

She had to take her 5-year-old daughter because there was no one home to watch her.”

 

[katydid23]

I am wiping my canned goods with chlorox wipes. However, pretty soon I am going to run out of chlorox wipes. And they are nowhere to be found.

I would save the Clorox wipes. You can clean canned good with hot water and soap.

 

[jjenny]

This may have already been posted, but I think Governor DeWine was referring to prison dorms. Colleges and universities in Ohio are closed now for students.

Usually people talk about prison cells, not prison dorms. Never heard anybody referring to prisons as dorms.

 

[Deleted member 158085]

My sister works at a plant that makes steel. Several other workers have tested positive and one died this week. She hasn’t been able to sleep. She asked for a temporary lay-off.

Another sibling who works elsewhere also asked for a lay-off when he felt the company wasn’t doing enough to protect them.

My other brother and I (sibs 3&4) have very different situations where we will be allowed (or in his case required) to wear masks and practice social distancing to the degree we can.

I feel like the first two are almost certainly going to get it when they go back to work.

 

[Tillicum]

Usually people talk about prison cells, not prison dorms. Never heard anybody referring to prisons as dorms.

I hadn't either but DeWine does.

 

[Sundog]

I thought it odd that as soon as social distancing started happening, Zoom was instantly the go-to platform to use. For those of us not familiar with these things, it seemed to come out of nowhere - and suddenly everyone was using it....schools, businesses, churches. Instantly!

I remember thinking I was so out of touch as I thought places would need a moment to catch their breath to figure out how to communicate in this new environment, but everyone seemed to jump on Zoom.

In hindsight, I wish everyone did take a breath for a moment. Sometimes that is the best approach - slow down, take time with decisions, don't go with the first option that looks easy.

I haven't used Zoom but I know my kids did at first for both school and group meetings. I think both have stopped.

jmo

We gave our faculty the option of which online resource they would to continue their spring classes. We notified our faculty on a Thursday while they were on spring break that we would go totally remote starting within one week. So faculty could use our university-based online learning tools or choose their own, we had to move over 4,000 class sections with over 1000 instructors online in less that one week. And some faculty chose Zoom as they were familiar with it. Our Instructional Technology department has been great at helping them move to other platforms, and we will be in better shape for our Summer Session online courses and in the fall, if need be, because of the lead time and experiences this spring semester.

 

[nhmemorymaker]

Governor DeWine, Ohio, on TV, noted the increase in prison covid cases. He indicated in a prison with a major outbreak, 39% of those that tested positive were totally asymptomatic.
Coronavirus: Marion prison becomes center of one of Ohio's largest outbreaks
ic.

 

[pocketaccent]

(This is a truly scary situation)

Coronavirus strikes California hospital workers hard, including 175 cases at UCLA

The coronavirus has infected California medical workers with much greater intensity than has been publicly revealed, including more than 175 cases at UCLA, according to records reviewed by The Times and a source with knowledge of the situation.

The virus has spread in UCLA’s outpatient clinics, geriatric and labor and delivery units, and in the pediatric intensive care unit, the source said.
...
“Because hospitals are not being forthcoming with the information on their employees, I am sure there are clusters that nobody even knows about,” said Steve Trossman, public affairs director of Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW), which represents nearly 100,000 healthcare workers. “That is just wrong for people not to know that their local hospital has an outbreak.”
...
Dr. Mark Ghaly, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s top public health advisor, said Thursday that the well-being of medical workers was “of the highest concern.” But he acknowledged that California does not comprehensively track possible outbreaks at hospitals and other medical facilities and that the state needs to do so.
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[katydid23]

I'm going nuts with my eyeglasses/sunglasses fogging up when wearing a mask. I haven't tried this technique yet, but will the next time I go out:

"Immediately before wearing a face mask, wash the spectacles with soapy water and shake off the excess. Then, let the spectacles air dry or gently dry off the lenses with a soft tissue before putting them back on. Now the spectacle lenses should not mist up when the face mask is worn.....Washing the spectacles with soapy water leaves behind a thin surfactant film that reduces this surface tension and causes the water molecules to spread out evenly into a transparent layer."

A simple method to prevent spectacle lenses misting up on wearing a face mask

Fantastic. I will have to try this.

I was walking through the grocery store with foggy glasses last week, made me feel like I was in a weird dream. Could barely see anything but didnt want to touch them or touch my face area with my latex gloves ....surreal feeling

 

[Tillicum]

https://nypost.com/2020/04/16/dogs-might-be-able-to-sniff-out-the-coronavirus/

“It’s very early stages,” says James Logan, head of LSHTM’s Department of Disease Control.

“We know diseases have odors — including respiratory diseases such as influenza — and that those odors are in fact quite distinct. There is a very, very good chance that Covid-19 has a specific odor, and if it does I am really confident that the dogs would be able to learn that smell and detect it.”

 

[LadyL]

I thought all viruses did that, though? At least in the dim mists of my memory, I remember somebody telling me that's why people seem to get sick with the same symptoms over and over again - once you get any virus, you're stuck with a little seed kernel of it, just awaiting to be reawakened from dormancy.

Also not a doctor; but I did feel like I was continually sick with the same thing over and over again through minimum high school and college. (Since then I've had allergy treatments; so might be a little muddier.)

ETA: Farmers are chartering planes to beat the coronavirus lockdown and save their crops - CNN

I was too
until I went vegan - no more illnesses like that

 

[MaryG12]

Looks like I will be working from home through the month of May - not a bad thing.

And for the first time since the inception of this pandemic, we are ordering takeout tonight.

Doing our part to support the economy in this time of need.