Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #69

[Reasonable & Just]

These nurses traveled to New York during the coronavirus peak. Now they are educating skeptics back home.

Nurses who battled virus in New York confront friends back home who say it’s a hoax

Nurses who traveled to New York City to help care for coronavirus patients as the city was going through its peak returned home, only to find skepticism of the virus from others.

“It made me feel terrible because at that point, I was scared for my own life, just being out there on the front lines, providing care for my patients and also just living day to day because we were all nervous. … So I had to educate my friends and let them know the virus is real and they have to stop doing what they were doing,” said Olumide “Peter” Kolade, a nurse from California.

Oklahoma nurse Courtney Sudduth said that she felt relief to finally get back home after seeing the virus cause so many deaths in New York. But now, she said she is taking care of Covid-19 patients in their 30s who are on ventilators. “When I came back here, there weren't people taking any precautions and people weren't social distancing. And now, for two weeks, we’ve had daily record number cases…and our hospitals are being overrun. Our ICUs are full,” she said.

Both nurses encourage people to not let up on washing their hands, social distancing and wearing masks.

“We have to be the change we’re looking for,” Kolade said. “…We have to forget about all these conspiracies.”

And these are from July 8 & 15. Complacency is dangerous. We have a responsibility to learn from our own failures and those in other areas.

 

[Reasonable & Just]

CNN's Jake Tapper on Cuomo and death rates in New York.

NY state has lost more than 32,000 lives to COVID-19. So while it's great that the numbers have gone down, it's perplexing to see crowing, Cuomo going on Fallon, etc. No other state has lost as many lives, not even close. New Jersey is next with 17,000+," Tapper began a Twitter thread. "Yes, this has been a major challenge for every leader, but New York's leaders do not have a success story to tell. It's been about missteps and late actions."

Referring to Cuomo's poster:

"There are no illustrations, however, of the more than 32,000 dead New Yorkers, the highest death toll by far of any state. No rendering on that poster of the criticism that Governor Cuomo ignored warnings, no depiction of the study that he could have saved thousands of lives had he and Mayor De Blasio acted sooner, no painting of his rescinded order that nursing homes take all infected patients in," the CNN anchor continued.

Jake Tapper tears into Cuomo for touting New York's COVID response: There are 'more than 32,000 dead New Yorkers'

ETA excerpts from MSM article

Yeah, people I know in NY feel the same. We don't tend to blindly adore our leaders - we praise what's good and we question what's not. That just seems wise, especially in a crisis, but also just standard for people who support democracy.

 

[gngr~snap]

Created by Ga Technical College.
A risk assessment tool for attending an event in any county based on the number of people expected to attend.

https://covid19risk.biosci.gatech.e...6CmsiXT9mhOxoKOp8VrUSz8jfxLNxK3EELttySw0UzswA

 

[Tate123]

I posted their death rates just a bit ago. Did you see them? They're really high.

While we were stopping travel from China we did not stop it from Europe and NY suffered tremendously because of that. Community spread had taken hold in the early stages causing the hospitals/nursing homes to become overwhelmed. Everything was new to us and we had to adjust at breakneck speed... on the fly if you will. We learned a lot. I'm absolutely amazed at how NY turned it around.

 

[oviedo]

I think I've figured it (huge spike in FL and other states) - while we had the stay at home orders in place we also had shortages -meat, toilet paper, Lysol, etc. When the stay at home lifted, without a mandatory mask order, people began venturing out but slowly IMO because we still couldn't get TP, Lysol, etc. - and boom - TP is available and everyone is running around like nothing is wrong any more. But when we couldn't get TP, people took it seriously. JMO
case in point - every day driving home I see the basketball courts full of men playing - no masks - sweating all over each other. FL is hopeless
IMO

 

[CharlestonGal]

Interesting read about the John Hopkins dashboard.

Johns Hopkins' Covid-19 map: Meet the team behind the leading resource - CNN

 

[JerseyGirl]

... case in point - every day driving home I see the basketball courts full of men playing - no masks - sweating all over each other. FL is hopeless
IMO

Cuomo would have ripped those basketball hoops off those courts in a blink of an eye!

((hugs to you in Florida))

 

[oviedo]

Cuomo would have ripped those basketball hoops off those courts in a blink of an eye!

((hugs to you in Florida))

LOL - and our Gov would be slapping them back up and inviting his friends to play too. IMO

 

[ColyH]

Philadelphia has over 27,000 cases of the coronavirus. The city's positivity rate stands at about 5%. Nationally, the overall test-positivity rate is 9.5%.

People under the age of 30 have accounted for 40% of new cases in Philadelphia, as the Mayor announced that large public events will be banned through Feb. 28, 2021.

Banned events include parades, concerts, fairs and block parties. The ban does not apply to demonstrations and first amendment activities.

Coronavirus updates: 'We are headed in a terrible direction' says Nashville mayor as city breaks case record

Not sure what's more dangerous. The coronavirus or angry Philadelphia Eagles fans.

 

[JerseyGirl]

LOL - and our Gov would be slapping them back up and inviting his friends to play too. IMO

No problem! They can play with the NBA teams in Orlando! Oh, wait!

 

[CharlestonGal]

Oy.

As pandemic worsens, Miami Beach visitors party, residents mostly comply

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) - A few blocks from the Miami Beach Convention Center, where an emergency field hospital stands ready to treat a potential tidal wave of COVID-19 patients, it’s party-on along the resort city’s famed Ocean Drive.

In recent days, social media has shown maskless revelers dancing in the street, jammed into cars turned into ad hoc nightclubs, and crowding shoulder-to-shoulder, with drinks in both hands, in the outdoor seating areas of restaurants.

“It’s a tale of two cities,” said Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber. “Our residents are pretty compliant, but our visitors have been spotty and there are areas of the city where it feels like the only people there are those who don’t think there’s a virus.”

But a group of mask-and-bikini-clad vacationers from New York City said that was not enough to discourage them.

“We know there’s a pandemic going on but it’s not like you’re not going to live your life,” said Tamia Young, a 36-year-old postal worker visiting from Brooklyn with her mother and two daughters. “Everything is closed anyway, so it’s not like you can even enjoy Miami.”

 

[Tillicum]

Walmart will start requiring all customers to wear masks - CNN

Finally, and thank you. But we need to support all retail workers so they aren't enforcing this alone and protect them from those who do not care about anyone's safety and feel privileged enough to be violent about it.

Yes thank you! My son works inside a Walmart and it scares me to see how few customers wear masks. I would imagine many employees are breathing a sigh of relief. Good job Walmart.

 

[Gardenista]

Latest CDC numbers on the rate of deaths with COVID-19 per population as of July 14, 2020 set forth below. Note that the CDC reports counts for New York City and New York state aseparately, so data for New York State shows deaths for the State excluding data for NYC.

The rate for New York City continues to possibly be the worst death rate for any location in the world. New York City's death rate is:
about 10 times the death rate of Georgia--which was one of the first states to reopen;
more than 20 times the death rate of South Dakota--which never really closed;
more than 13 times the death rate in Florida;
more than 25 times the death rate in Texas; and
about 9 times the death rate in Arizona.

The greater NYC metro region including NJ, CT, MA, and RI continues to be way way out ahead of everywhere else in the country in deaths per population.

State/Territory Death Rate per 100,000
New York City* 277.9
New Jersey 174.7
Connecticut 122.3
Massachusetts 120.7
Rhode Island 93.1

District of Columbia 80.9
New York* 78.5
Louisiana 73.5
Michigan 63.3
Illinois 58.0
Maryland 55.2
Pennsylvania 54.1
Delaware 53.6

Mississippi 42.6
Indiana 41.3

Arizona 31.3
Colorado 30.3
Georgia 28.8
New Hampshire 28.8
Minnesota 27.6
New Mexico 26.2
Ohio 26.2
Iowa 23.9
Virginia 23.2
Alabama 23.0
Nevada 20.3
Florida 20.1
South Carolina 19.1
Washington 18.6
California 17.8
Missouri 17.7
Nebraska 14.9
North Carolina 14.5
Wisconsin 14.2
Kentucky 14.1
South Dakota 12.4
North Dakota 11.4
Texas 11.3
Oklahoma 11.2
Tennessee 11.1
Arkansas 10.7
Kansas 9.9
Vermont 8.9
Maine 8.5
Utah 7.0
Idaho 5.8
Oregon 5.7
Virgin Islands 5.7
West Virginia 5.4
Puerto Rico 5.3
Wyoming 3.6
N Mariana Isls 3.5
Guam 3.0
Montana 3.0
Alaska 2.3
Hawaii 1.5

CDC COVID Data Tracker

Wow the NE is so scary

 

[JerseyGirl]

Kevin Stitt 'pretty shocked' to be first governor to test positive for COVID-19

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt announced today in a news conference that he tested positive for Covid-19.

He said he was tested yesterday and that he feels fine other than being a little achy.

Stitt said he is quarantining at his home and isolating away from his family.

 

[CharlestonGal]

Kevin Stitt 'pretty shocked' to be first governor to test positive for COVID-19

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt announced today in a news conference that he tested positive for Covid-19.

He said he was tested yesterday and that he feels fine other than being a little achy.

Stitt said he is quarantining at his home and isolating away from his family.

I don't know why he would be shocked when over 60,000 people in the US are testing positive every single day. jmo

 

[tresir2012]

Further news about Banksy underground coronavirus "art".


Banksy Tube graffiti: Cleaners 'unaware it was by artist'

• 3 hours ago

Image copyrightBANKSY
Image captionBanksy spray painted his tag in the colours of a medical face mask
Cleaners did not know graffiti on a London Underground train was by world-renowned artist Banksy when they removed it, the BBC has been told.

The piece, If You Don't Mask, You Don't Get, was painted inside a Circle Line service carriage.

But by the time he unveiled the work on his Instagram account, it had been wiped away by Transport for London (TfL) cleaning crews.

A TfL source said: "It was treated like any other graffiti on the network."

"The job of the cleaners is to make sure the network is clean, especially given the current climate," they said.



Cleaners removed Banksy Tube art 'unknowingly'

 

[JerseyGirl]

I don't know why he would be shocked when over 60,000 people in the US are testing positive every single day. jmo

Hmmm, let's see, could it be because ...

He attended President Trump's rally in Tulsa last month, which the county's health department director said likely contributed to a surge in cases in the region.

Stitt led one of the most aggressive reopening plans out of any state and rarely wears masks in public, according to the AP.

He has also resisted a statewide mask mandate and said Wednesday after testing positive that he's still "not thinking about a mask mandate at all."

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt tests positive for coronavirus

 

[zecats]

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt tests positive for coronavirus

 

[tresir2012]

Oy.

As pandemic worsens, Miami Beach visitors party, residents mostly comply

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) - A few blocks from the Miami Beach Convention Center, where an emergency field hospital stands ready to treat a potential tidal wave of COVID-19 patients, it’s party-on along the resort city’s famed Ocean Drive.

In recent days, social media has shown maskless revelers dancing in the street, jammed into cars turned into ad hoc nightclubs, and crowding shoulder-to-shoulder, with drinks in both hands, in the outdoor seating areas of restaurants.

“It’s a tale of two cities,” said Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber. “Our residents are pretty compliant, but our visitors have been spotty and there are areas of the city where it feels like the only people there are those who don’t think there’s a virus.”

But a group of mask-and-bikini-clad vacationers from New York City said that was not enough to discourage them.

“We know there’s a pandemic going on but it’s not like you’re not going to live your life,” said Tamia Young, a 36-year-old postal worker visiting from Brooklyn with her mother and two daughters. “Everything is closed anyway, so it’s not like you can even enjoy Miami.”

So presumably they will have to quarantine when they return.

 

[CharlestonGal]

https://www.newsweek.com/fauci-covid-19-level-1918-spanish-flu-mother-all-pandemics-1517867

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government's top infectious disease expert, said on Tuesday we "can't deny the fact" that the COVID-19 pandemic could reach the level of the Spanish flu, which killed millions of people around the globe between 1918 and 1920.

The Spanish Flu—caused by an unusually deadly strain of influenza—was the most severe pandemic in modern history, infecting an estimated 500 million people, which amounted to about a third of the world's population at the time.

"If you look at the magnitude of the 1918 pandemic where anywhere from 50 to 75 to 100 million people globally died, that was the mother of all pandemics and truly historic. I hope we don't even approach that with [COVID-19] but it does have the makings of, the possibility of approaching that in seriousness," Fauci, who heads the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID,) said during a Georgetown University Global Health Initiative webinar, according to CNN.