Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #89

[Fireflize]

Moderna COVID Vaccine Wins Decisive Recommendation From FDA Panel

 

[dixiegirl1035]

Oh, snap!
I've been watching Flight
Radar today.
I noticed several life flights to Grady. Now I know why.
Total diversion due to COVID patients.
EXACTLY 21 days after Thanksgiving.
Nope. Not leaving my house until January!!!

MOO
BREAKING: Grady Hospital hit with influx of patients, placed on total diversion

There was a website posted here last week that was going to be updated weekly as the United States government is now releasing publicly the capacity of hospitals. Grady was on the list last week at 100% capacity. I guess it should have been updated today, but the link is on my computer and I'll have to look for it tomorrow if I remember.

It's a Regional level 1 Trauma Center that needs to keep some capacity for level one trauma!

 

[gngr~snap]

There was a website posted here last week that was going to be updated weekly as the United States government is now releasing publicly the capacity of hospitals. Grady was on the list last week at 100% capacity. I guess it should have been updated today, but the link is on my computer and I'll have to look for it tomorrow if I remember.

It's a Regional level 1 Trauma Center that needs to keep some capacity for level one trauma!

That's why the stay at home for Christmas makes sense.
In the past 24 hours there have been 3 wrecks near me with entrapment.
I'm about 25 miles north of Atlanta.
I don't know where they air lifted the last guy, but the chopper flew North.
Erlanger maybe?
I thought huh? Why aren't they going to Grady?
I'm really glad I cooked Thanksgiving dinner spread
and just dropped it off to my dad and mother in law.
It was all the familiar food, the recipes they gave us years ago.. They loved it, but we didn't stay.
MOO
Yep.
They were from Kentucky I guess. Passenger taken to Chattanooga, not Grady.
Off for sure!!
Northwest Georgia Scanner

 

[anneg]

my take on VT is that it really does not have any urban areas- it is pretty rural. The capitol city and Burlington are still pretty small. Other northern states such as ME, NH, have a few large cities. VT has quarantine requirements too.

Yes--my grandson flying home to Vermont tonight (arriving in BTV shortly) will have to quarantine. He had a negative Covid test before leaving California and will have another test in a week, and if it is negative (probably won't find out until Dec 28), he can end the 2-week quarantine early.

 

[MsArk]

A nurse fainted at a Thursday press conference after receiving the coronavirus vaccine at a Tennessee hospital.

About 17 minutes after receiving the Pfizer-made vaccine against COVD-19, she started feeling dizzy, apologized and fell over before she was caught by doctors standing behind her.

It’s common for me,” she said.

Nurse faints at press conference after getting COVID vaccine

 

[MimosaMornings]

Leslie Odom Jr. Is 'Quarantining' from Pregnant Wife and Daughter After Ellen Show Appearance — People

“We’re getting our tests every day for the next 10 days, and quarantining from each other," Odom said.”

Huh? Daily tests? For 10 days?
Rapid tests?
Why not quarantine for 14 days and then test?

 

[gngr~snap]

A nurse fainted at a Thursday press conference after receiving the coronavirus vaccine at a Tennessee hospital.

About 17 minutes after receiving the Pfizer-made vaccine against COVD-19, she started feeling dizzy, apologized and fell over before she was caught by doctors standing behind her.

It’s common for me,” she said.

Nurse faints at press conference after getting COVID vaccine

Vasovagal syncope...
It happens. More often in my experience with men! Lol
MOO

 

[10ofRods]

There was a website posted here last week that was going to be updated weekly as the United States government is now releasing publicly the capacity of hospitals. Grady was on the list last week at 100% capacity. I guess it should have been updated today, but the link is on my computer and I'll have to look for it tomorrow if I remember.

It's a Regional level 1 Trauma Center that needs to keep some capacity for level one trauma!

But they can't, if they have to triage patients according to medical need/seriousness of case. Regional centers in California are similarly challenged right now.

The federal figures are not as up to date as the local figures, as people get admitted (and are discharged) throughout the day and many places only update official figures 3-5 times a week.

Leslie Odom Jr. Is 'Quarantining' from Pregnant Wife and Daughter After Ellen Show Appearance — People

“We’re getting our tests every day for the next 10 days, and quarantining from each other," Odom said.”

Huh? Daily tests? For 10 days?
Rapid tests?
Why not quarantine for 14 days and then test?

The reason would be to know ASAP that you had COVID so that you could get a fancy medicine that is only used early on - and if you have access to it.

Various ways to get access.

But I would want to know when a test showed that I had active COVID, and I'd be counting days out from that in order to assess my own symptoms. I'd definitely be camping on my doctor's (virtual) door if I got a positive test result. There are various drugs I believe would be help in managing my own personal health if I got COVID.

 

[gngr~snap]

There was a website posted here last week that was going to be updated weekly as the United States government is now releasing publicly the capacity of hospitals. Grady was on the list last week at 100% capacity. I guess it should have been updated today, but the link is on my computer and I'll have to look for it tomorrow if I remember.

It's a Regional level 1 Trauma Center that needs to keep some capacity for level one trauma!

Georgia Coordinating Center

 

[SouthAussie]

NSW's 17 cases are now 28 cases. Doesn't take long, does it?

The virus strain has been identified as a US strain. May have come from the driver who transported transiting airline staff.

They say the transiting staff are careful, but I wonder what that means. Do they get to Australia and say "Masks off, no covid here"? They are supposed to wear their masks at all times and stay in their hotel rooms until they board their departing flight.

Sydney COVID outbreak extends to 28 after 10 new cases discovered overnight

 

[SouthAussie]

Georgia Coordinating Center

That is a great website. Scary position the hospitals are in, though.

 

[LaborDayRN]

CA COVID update: ICU capacity drops to 0% in Southern California as state reports 379 new deaths, shattering record

In Los Angeles County alone, about two people are dying every hour on average from the coronavirus.

According to the latest Los Angeles County data, 4,656 people were hospitalized with COVID-19 as of Wednesday. That number has increased by nearly 1,000 in less than a week.

Even if hospitals add more ICU beds, most don't have the extra staff to help with the surge of patients.

 

[SoCalDavidS]

The virus strain has been identified as a US strain. May have come from the driver who transported transiting airline staff.

That's America. Spreading Cheer & Covid around the world!

 

[SouthAussie]

That's America. Spreading Cheer & Covid around the world!

Merry Christmas Australia! Here's some covid for you!

 

[SouthAussie]

A covid relief bill may be passed this weekend. Fingers crossed.


For the first time in months there were small signs of a functioning government Wednesday as congressional leaders negotiated a Covid-19 relief package

Talks in Congress were still tenuous on Thursday and it looks increasingly likely that members would need to pass another stopgap funding measure to keep the government running until a deal for the Covid relief package is finalized.

"We face the prospect of the eleventh hour. A decision to finish the work we were elected to do or simply to delay the situation again," Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin said in a speech on the Senate floor Thursday. "We need to do our job and we need to do it now. We need to pass our annual appropriations bills, and to keep the government running. I cannot imagine the unforgivable and embarrassing tragedy it would be if the government is shut down for our failure to reach a decision. We need to pass a Covid relief bill."

"When you ask people on the street 'What is the most important thing the government can do in this terrible, terrible moment?' They will say, 'Give us some help. We need some help right now to pay the bills,'" Sanders said on "The Situation Room." "That is what we are trying to do."

The Vermont senator said members should not go home until the deal is completed: "We cannot go back to our families when so many families in this country are hurting right now. We've got to get this done."

McConnell told his members during a conference call Wednesday they should be ready for weekend votes.

Glimmers of progress in stimulus negotiations as Trump's election sideshow drags on

 

[dixiegirl1035]

Oh, snap!
I've been watching Flight Radar today. I noticed several life flights to Grady. Now I know why. Total diversion due to COVID patients. EXACTLY 21 days after Thanksgiving. Nope. Not leaving my house until January!!! MOO BREAKING: Grady Hospital hit with influx of patients, placed on total diversion

There was a website posted here last week that was going to be updated weekly as the United States government is now releasing publicly the capacity of hospitals. Grady was on the list last week at 100% capacity. I guess it should have been updated today, but the link is on my computer and I'll have to look for it tomorrow if I remember.

It's a Regional level 1 Trauma Center that needs to keep some capacity for level one trauma!

@gngr~snap, back on computer and I found the link for United States breakdowns of individual hospital capacity

Federal Data Reveal Which Hospitals Are Dangerously Full This Week. Is Yours?

ETA: Oh, I saw your link on a later post for Coordination of Centers in Georgia, GREAT link! Thanks.

 

[ilovewings]

Wayne Co. Sheriff Benny Napoleon dies after contracting COVID-19

Wayne County sheriff Benny Napoleon passed away from Covid after three weeks on a ventilator. I think he was a good and decent man.

 

[weepingangel]

8 Nuns Die of COVID-19 in Last Week at Wisconsin Convent
more at link
Eight nuns living at a retirement home for sisters in suburban Milwaukee died of COVID-19 complications in the last week — including four who passed away on the same day — a grim reminder of how quickly the virus can spread in congregate living situations, even when precautions are taken.

Notre Dame of Elm Grove had been free of the virus for the last nine months, but the congregation that runs the home found out on Thanksgiving Day that one of the roughly 100 sisters who live there had tested positive. Despite social distancing and other mitigation efforts that were already in place, several more positive tests followed, said Sister Debra Marie Sciano, the provincial leader for School Sisters of Notre Dame Central Pacific Province.

The first death happened last week, and the death announcements kept coming. Four of the eight nuns died on Monday alone, a difficult situation for other sisters in the home and members of the broader congregation, who consider each other family.

 

[sds71]

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  • Skylar Mack, 18, of Georgia, and Vanjae Ramgeet, 24, of the Cayman Islands, have been in prison since Tuesday, when the ruling was issued
  • They had both pleaded guilty, but their attorney, Jonathon Hughes, said he will argue for a less severe sentence next week
  • Mack, who is enrolled as a pre-med student at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, arrived in the Cayman Islands on Nov. 27
  • She was supposed to undergo a two-week quarantine as mandated by the government, which electronically tracks anyone who arrives
  • The student broke quarantine on Nov. 29 when her boyfriend picked her up to attend a water sports event, Hughes said
  • The Cayman Islands, a territory of nearly 62,000 people, has reported more than 300 coronavirus cases and two deaths

Teen, 18, is jailed in the Cayman Islands along with her boyfriend, 24, after breaking quarantine | Daily Mail Online

 

[dixiegirl1035]

I'm ecstatic @margarita25 ! Katie Couric has just interviewed Dr. Maria re the New Covid Mutation IN THE SPIKE PROTEIN (not the part mRNA vaccines are from YET) from the UK. (NOTE to phone manufacture folks - Why can't you make the selfie mode reverse so all is not flipped? Hello.... I am sure your technology can make that happen)

She lists countries that have done well in terms of showing us this comprehensive approach of casefinding, isolation, care, quarantine, contact tracing, cluster investigation etc. have done well. She e.g. listed China, S. Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, New Zealand, Australia, Senegal, Cambodia, Germany, Rowanda, South Africa, Quatar, UAE, Madagascar, Finland, Norway, Uraguay, etc.

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