Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #84

[CharlestonGal]

Aww ... CG. It is so hard for people this year.

Maybe go to the holiday thread and see if there are any ideas there?
There must be some safe way to be socially distanced together. It won't be the same, nothing will be the same until this pandemic is under control, but something is better than nothing.

Holiday and Winter Alternatives for Social Distancing Gatherings

One of the biggest things, according to this article, is increasing the ventilation indoors. As well as social distancing, mask wearing, hand hygiene, and not touching.

COVID: How to be safe indoors during Thanksgiving, Christmas, winter

Thanks for the support and kind words, Aussie. I truly appreciate it.

 

[CharlestonGal]

I was always rather introverted, although I didn't know it at the time, having never experienced big crowds, etc (except at Disneyland, I guess).

For me, autopsies made a difference as well. It's sobering. Anatomy class with corpses (just normal dead people who had donated bodies) was also...sobering.

But in the end, after I turned about 25 (still mystified by parties), I realized that I was an introvert. I do admire extroverts so much, but at another level, I do not understand the general partying (especially events with 100-500 or more jammed into one venue).

We do have to be alert to the needs of the younger people and send them the right messages - but it's hard, because most of them will not have a severe course. I can see why they are still partying.

Yeah, autopsies were a turning point in my life. So many times I saw the bodies on the slab thinking, "Oh, if only you had not done <insert random risk taking activity> you'd be alive and well and living life." It makes you think, for sure. And makes you worry about your kids 24/7. That rotation changed my outlook forever.

Flirting with and risking covid permanently ends people's lives, or the lives of others. It's just abstract numbers in the media, of course, but seeing it dead on a slab in front of you really brings it home.

 

[Trino]

Am I the only one who is just finding this out? News Oct 18, 2020. Other stories say she died on the tarmac before the plane took off. But...

A 30-year-old woman from Garland who died “on an interstate flight” was among three COVID-19 deaths reported Sunday by Dallas County.

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/coronavirus/article246541628.html

 

[CharlestonGal]

Am I the only one who is just finding this out? News Oct 18, 2020. Other stories say she died on the tarmac before the plane took off. But...

A 30-year-old woman from Garland who died “on an interstate flight” was among three COVID-19 deaths reported Sunday by Dallas County.

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/coronavirus/article246541628.html

I saw this earlier, but was nearing power posting territory. It escapes me completely that someone so close to dying of covid was at an airport, much less on a flight. Details are still sketchy about exactly how that happened. She should have been at a hospital, not an airport. jmo

 

[SouthAussie]

Am I the only one who is just finding this out? News Oct 18, 2020. Other stories say she died on the tarmac before the plane took off. But...

A 30-year-old woman from Garland who died “on an interstate flight” was among three COVID-19 deaths reported Sunday by Dallas County.

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/coronavirus/article246541628.html

A bit more detail in this article ... it happened in July on a flight from AZ (where she contracted the virus) to TX. But she has only now been added to the TX state covid records.

She was ill and having trouble breathing while the plane was on the tarmac in AZ, then passed away. Unknown if she knew she had the virus.

COVID-19 updates: Garland woman in her 30s died of coronavirus during July flight in Arizona, Dallas County officials say | wfaa.com

 

[mickey2942]

'Until the enemy passes' — COVID-19 tears through Northern Cheyenne reservation

 

[CharlestonGal]

An absolutely scathing and eviscerating analysis of the US response to covid from the New England Journal of Medicine.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2029812?query=featured_coronavirus

 

[mickey2942]

A bit more detail in this article ... it happened in July on a flight from AZ (where she contracted the virus) to TX. But she has only now been added to the TX state covid records.

She was ill and having trouble breathing while the plane was on the tarmac in AZ, then passed away. Unknown if she knew she had the virus.

COVID-19 updates: Garland woman in her 30s died of coronavirus during July flight in Arizona, Dallas County officials say | wfaa.com

This is more common than people think. Even people who get off of isolation after Covid, may be dealing with the underlying organ damage after Covid, that they don't realize.

This isn't "the flu". Some folks, have ongoing complications.

 

[margarita25]

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[CharlestonGal]

A bit more detail in this article ... it happened in July on a flight from AZ (where she contracted the virus) to TX. But she has only now been added to the TX state covid records.

She was ill and having trouble breathing while the plane was on the tarmac in AZ, then passed away. Unknown if she knew she had the virus.

COVID-19 updates: Garland woman in her 30s died of coronavirus during July flight in Arizona, Dallas County officials say | wfaa.com

How on earth do you even board a plane so sick you literally die on the tarmac before the plane even takes off??? How does that even happen???

"We don't know a whole lot," Jenkins said. "We may not know if she was aware she was sick. Contact took place in Arizona." The flight was headed from Arizona to Texas, Jenkins said.

Jenkins said the county got information in August that a Texan from Dallas County died in Arizona but didn't have a cause of death, and just got word within the last few days that the death was from COVID-19. Jenkins said he does not have information on what airline the woman was traveling with.

The judge added the woman died while the plane was on the tarmac awaiting takeoff. He said the woman was "ill and having trouble breathing." Jenkins said it was unclear if it was known at the time that the woman had COVID-19.

 

[SouthAussie]

An absolutely scathing and eviscerating analysis of the US response to covid from the New England Journal of Medicine.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2029812?query=featured_coronavirus

Oh boy.

"While the absolute numbers of tests have increased substantially, the more useful metric is the number of tests performed per infected person, a rate that puts us far down the international list, below such places as Kazakhstan, Zimbabwe, and Ethiopia"

"..... while most of the world has opened up to some extent, the United States still suffers from disease rates that have prevented many businesses from reopening, with a resultant loss of hundreds of billions of dollars and millions of jobs."

 

[SouthAussie]

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It is so good to hear that "most Americans look to Dr Fauci" because once all Americans look to Dr Fauci, virus control may truly commence.

IMO

 

[CharlestonGal]

Oh boy.

"While the absolute numbers of tests have increased substantially, the more useful metric is the number of tests performed per infected person, a rate that puts us far down the international list, below such places as Kazakhstan, Zimbabwe, and Ethiopia"

"..... while most of the world has opened up to some extent, the United States still suffers from disease rates that have prevented many businesses from reopening, with a resultant loss of hundreds of billions of dollars and millions of jobs."

It brings me back to David's post:

Courtesy of Worldometers.Com, here are the 7 World Countries with Populations Over 200 Million, followed by their current Covid Deaths Per Million.

1. China (3)
2. India (83)
3. U.S. (677)
4. Indonesia (46)
5. Pakistan (30)
6. Brazil (722)
7. Nigeria (5)

I am completely aghast that any American finds this remotely acceptable. Yet, they do. Without so much as a blink. Catastrophic failure is apparently okay, for reasons I cannot begin to fathom. jmo

 

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[OhioBlues]

John Hopkins University does offer a free 'on-line' class for contact tracing. I felt better about the pandemic situation after I completed the class.

Here's how you can get free certification in COVID-19 contact tracing from Johns Hopkins University

 

[SouthAussie]

Anika is just 14 years old .....!


Anika Chebrolu, a 14-year-old from Frisco, Texas, has just won the 2020 3M Young Scientist Challenge and a A$35,230 prize for a discovery that could provide a potential therapy to COVID-19.

Anika's winning invention uses in-silico methodology to discover a lead molecule that can selectively bind to the spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Anika said she was inspired to find potential cures to viruses after learning about the 1918 flu pandemic and finding out how many people die every year in the United States despite annual vaccinations and anti-influenza drugs on the market.

"Her work was comprehensive and examined numerous databases. She also developed an understanding of the innovation process and is a masterful communicator. Her willingness to use her time and talent to help make the world a better place gives us all hope."

Teen's discovery could lead to a cure for COVID-19

 

[Sprockett7701]

I often think of my younger years along with the cliche, "there but for the grace of God go I."

Me too Trino...I made some incredibly irresponsible decisions in my youth...

 

[JerseyGirl]

Poland to convert stadium into its first coronavirus field hospital

The Polish government has begun converting the Narodowy stadium in Warsaw into the country’s first field hospital for Covid-19 patients.

The hospital will be set up in the stadium’s conference rooms and will have an initial capacity for 500 Covid-19 patients. Capacity could be expanded to a maximum of 1,000 beds.

Poland reported 132 deaths from Covid-19 on Friday -- its highest daily death toll since the pandemic began. The country has now registered 175,766 cases and 3,573 deaths in total.

 

[CocoChanel]

Anika is just 14 years old .....!


Anika Chebrolu, a 14-year-old from Frisco, Texas, has just won the 2020 3M Young Scientist Challenge and a A$35,230 prize for a discovery that could provide a potential therapy to COVID-19.

Anika's winning invention uses in-silico methodology to discover a lead molecule that can selectively bind to the spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Anika said she was inspired to find potential cures to viruses after learning about the 1918 flu pandemic and finding out how many people die every year in the United States despite annual vaccinations and anti-influenza drugs on the market.

"Her work was comprehensive and examined numerous databases. She also developed an understanding of the innovation process and is a masterful communicator. Her willingness to use her time and talent to help make the world a better place gives us all hope."

Teen's discovery could lead to a cure for COVID-19

A bit more about this young genius!
Texas 14-year-old wins $25,000 for developing potential COVID-19 treatment

 

[Bravo]

Trudeau and Trump are worlds apart on the Canada-U.S. border closure