Posted on 03/13/2020 11:11:42 AM PDT by Mariner
Yesterday's thread is here: http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3823939/posts?page=1301
"If you like your president you can keep your president"
Medicines taken by 6.6million people with high blood pressure and diabetes could raise the risk of deadly coronavirus symptoms, scientists claim
Are patients with hypertension and diabetes mellitus at increased risk for COVID-19 infection?
https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lanres/PIIS2213-2600(20)30116-8.pdf
That’s one of the factors that worries me the most, with the explosion in people with diabetes we’ve been seeing, that’s a big factor in the number of people who will either die or have to be treated.
Several years ago my husband had a serious case of food poisoning from a hamburger eaten at a famous chain restaurant. One of his symptoms was tingling in his arms.
North Korea deploys Photoshop to beat coronavirus: Masks are superimposed onto propaganda images - while Kim is pictured without one to show he does not fear the disease
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8108679/North-Korea-deploys-Photoshop-beat-coronavirus.html
American Indians are at great risk - lots of diabetics.
ITALY
Former NHS doctor trapped in coronavirus-hit Italy begs the UK Government to shut down EVERYTHING in the fight against the killer infection as he warns it’s NOT just the elderly who are dying
Idiot. (The guy in the article, not you!)
He could have sold the $1 Purell bottles for $20 for lots of 10 and then charged shipping @ cost plus a couple bucks for packing, and no one would have blinked an eye - unless he couldn’t get ‘em shipped fast enough.
Better yet, he should have looked for a bulk distributor to get his cost down to $.60 a bottle or so.
Instead Great-granny in Podunk-Ville who maybe doesn’t even do e-mail can’t get sanitizer @ Dollar General & gets the virus.
That said, I also find it ridiculous that eBay blocks all sales of the stuff. Just turn over the most egregious offenders to LE and post such on your log in page.
Aldi here put a limit of 4 on such purchases & was able to maintain stock for a couple days, at least.
IRAN
Iran imposes nationwide lockdown within 24 hours so EVERY citizen can be checked for coronavirus as regime struggles to contain outbreak
has now claimed over 500 lives and infected more than 11,000.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/index.html
USA
Jack Ma to Donate 1 Million Face Masks + 500,000 Testing Kits to US Amid Coronavirus Spread
Chinese billionaire exec Jack Ma is extending a helping hand to the United States amid the spread of the coronavirus.
The Alibaba co-founder announced today that the e-commerce giant’s philanthropic arm and his namesake foundation have joined forces to provide 500,000 testing kits and one million face masks to the United States, which has confirmed 1,215 cases of the illness and 36 deaths.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/jack-ma-donate-1-million-165850286.html
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Bay-Area-coronavirus-updates-Contra-Costa-County-15129171.php
LATEST, March 14, 10:45 p.m.: Sonoma County health officials announced the first coronavirus case contracted through community spread on Saturday night.
The latest case involves an adult resident and is the fourth case of COVID-19 in the county. A person who came into contact with the adult patient has also been tested, but results are not yet available.
March 14, 9:35 p.m. An Alaska Airlines agent who worked at San Francisco International Airport tested positive for COVID-19.
The employee, who left work sick on Tuesday, March 10, tested positive for coronavirus on Friday, March 13.
All Alaska Airlines employees who possibly came in contact with the patient were told to self-isolate. The airline said it doesn’t believe that any customers were put at-risk.
March 14, 6:18 p.m. A graduate student of UC Berkeley has tested positive for COVID-19, the university announced in a statement on Saturday.
The person neither lives on campus nor in the city of Berkeley, the statement added. The patient is in self-quarantine in an unspecified city, and was described as being in “good condition” with no “serious symptoms.”
March 14, 4:18 p.m. Marin County confirmed two more cases of novel coronavirus on Saturday, bringing the county’s total to five.
The latest patients confirmed to have COVID-19 had no known contact with previous cases, according to the Marin County Department of Health and Human Services, making them the first cases in the county to be the result of community spread.
WASHINGTON - Life Care Center
Visiting patients through the window. Public getting angry at level of care
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBHW_5f6bms
Thank You, Mr. Ma!
(Something about that doesn’t sound quite right.)
I’d be even happier if he could arrange to SELL us 50 million masks and 20 million tests at a fair price.
Yes - breathing near someone is enough to transmit the virus. My wife has been wearing a mask to the store - but doubt she wore one to see this doctor.
BTW - the doctor visit was in the city of Bellevue, WA. I just saw on twitter a post by the Seattle Business Journal of a gal that worked in Bellevue:
A 60 year old legal assistant went home early on Tuesday due to flu-like symptoms. She worked from home on Wednesday. When she didn’t answer her phone or emails on Thursday somebody went to check on her. Found her dead in her home.
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