Posted on 03/06/2020 12:19:11 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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The lawyer who is very sick in New York had gone to Miami.
From where? Whose email? Any independent corroboration?
Eric Feigl-Ding
@DrEricDing
1/6th of Italy now now under full lockdown. #COVID19 US may need to start thinking to potentially do the same before it becomes a 50-state issue.
I do have sativa. The problem is my consumption is so low, a gram of concentrate lasts me six months — no misprint — so I hardly ever get/need to buy more.
To finish closing the loop..
The CDC approach could not work unless:
—All international flights were banned.
—Special/temporary CV hospitals were created in big cities all over the country and were within quarantined areas.
—Rapid quarantines (military, checkpoints, etc.) were immediately established around any “hotspots”.
—Healthcare workers were drafted so they could be brought in to replace sick/quarantined health care workers in “hotspots”.
Just teasing you :-)
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MORE: FDA says CDC (feds) have tested 3500 specimens which represents 1583 patients, but cannot provide patient breakdown for state and local specimens. Could not explain why they don’t have this overall number, said CDC is working on it.
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#BREAKING Carnival cruise ship’s disembarkation suspended in Long Beach due to passenger’s ‘medical matter’; patient ‘does not meet CDC criteria for coronavirus risk,’ cruise director says
Can't imagine that ever happening, except for uniformed personnel of the US Public Health Service.
Watch Italy—let us see if they go there..
The whole purpose of Ebay originally was that sellers were reviewed accurately by buyers. And if they had a lot of positive reviews they were trusted. So perhaps Ebay is deleting the ones with lower or little ratings ? There are people out here that need masks, are not government or frontline workers, and our work causes many others to gain income.
Take care of yourself and remember, you are doing the right thing to quarantine. You are protecting your loved ones.
I was hospitalized for pancreatitis this week at Providence Regional Hospital in Everett, Washington.
This is the hospital the first Covid-19 patient in the U.S. was treated in. This hospital is one of the few hospitals specially equipped with a lot of high tech stuff for this exact situation, which is one of the reasons he survived. I learned a bit about how it was done from the staff. Only a very small number of people can expect to get treatment like that.
While I was hospitalized I talked with a LOT of doctors and nurses about this virus, ALL of whom were very willing/eager to talk about it, and are VERY concerned.
Here’s a summary of what I learned:
1. The staff described the hospital as in “crisis mode”.
2. They are putting double the normal of nurses/staff on suspected patients, and working hard to protect the staff and other patients. Any staff member who shows symptoms is sent home to self isolate (not sure for how long, but possibly two weeks).
3. They are paying extra for overtime and bonuses in order to attract more staff, but cannot get enough people no matter how hard they try. One of my nurses was flown in from Florida.
4. They are working very hard to keep people like me far away from people they suspect have the virus. No one was allowed on my floor if they had any of the symptoms of Covid-19. However, they were NOT screening visitors, so who knows.
5. They do NOT know how many of their patients have Covid-19. The CDC is partly responsible for this through their earlier failure to provide test kits that work, and their current failure to provide nearly enough test kits to cover the current situation.
6. The state of Washington also shares some of the blame. The state issued rules that greatly restricted who could officially be considered a possible case. Almost no one met the state’s criteria, so even obviously suspicious cases could not be listed as a possible case. The hospital took things into their own hands and treated these people as if they DO have it. (Based on a few news reports, the state may have finally relented a bit on this, but I’m not sure.)
7. The staff told me, unofficially of course, that they were 100% sure they would run out of supplies.
8. I was sent home a day earlier than they would normally have sent someone like me home. The reason is that I have a severe lung condition that makes me a very high risk patient if I happen to catch this virus. The doctors emphasized multiple times that I needed to avoid hospitals and doctor’s offices as much as possible, and should practice social distancing.
9. I was VERY impressed with every person I met at the hospital. They are under a lot of stress and in my opinion, doing a GREAT JOB.
Many thanks to the entire staff at Providence Regional Hospital in Everett, Washington state.
AuroPharma has a huge manufacturing facility in Canada and Teva isn’t far behind. There’s also Boehringer Ingelhelm and GlaxoSmithKlein (makes COPD inhaler products). In the States we have a Bayer facility along with Bayer in Germany, and there’s Novatis and Alcon in Switzerland. And then there’s France, England and India.
We have the lab and manufacturing resources already in place, and China doesn’t have a monopoly on precursors.
I believe we can go around China rather quickly. Maybe not in a ‘off-the-shelf-next-week’ but within a timeframe that will still make the CCP’s head spin around like the Exorcist.
The reason I think it will happen (in Italy first) is that they need to quarantine the CV care areas, because you do not want outsiders (not under quarantine) infecting healthy positive tested health care workers.
That means you have to keep health care workers _inside_ the quarantined area indefinitely, which is a de facto draft.
Thanks! I like the style of his presentation.
I read really fast. Been a speed reader since 1978. So these videos that are so popular these days are tedious to me. I can’t stop myself from skipping forward and so I miss stuff and then try to go back. I need to learn a way to watch these things as they are the wave of the future. When a video is too slow and repetitive, then I should write questions and counter statements as I go along, take notes even.
Anyway all that aside, if long-range, small-droplet aerosol transmission is common, then this virus is way more widespread than is thought and it is way less virulent than is feared. Maybe breathing it in you don’t get enough of the virus to get sick. Maybe most people getting the virus are asymptomatic. If so that ought to show up in the virology. The nature of the virus explains its pathogenicity. The nature of the disease it causes explains its spread.
Thank you so much cgbg for your thoughtfulness to help me. I will tag that channel and watch some more later.
What I would like to see is death rates based on age for L-CoV only.
Thank you for that personal hospital experience.
Pretty much confirms what we’ve been reading and hearing about, here.
Glad you are home. Prayers for quick and complete recovery, from your pancreatitis.
I agree with you comments on the virus on both counts.
That is why I keep telling folks that the death risk is not the big story here.
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