Posted on 02/25/2020 2:27:09 PM PST by Vermont Lt
I’m reposting this part in case you missed it.
From S. Korea: “Difficulty breathing was a serious condition requiring emergency medical care. The on-call doctor contacted 29 hospitals nationwide with state-designated negative pressure isolation beds and asked if there were any empty beds. But there was no bed left.”
This is going to be the tipping point for EVERY country. Good healthcare or bad healthcare. When there is no bed. Not only will coronavirus patients struggle, but there will collateral damage to people suffering other conditions who need a bed.
: Italy reports 52 new cases of coronavirus, or 128 new cases and 1 new death so far today
Not beholden the WHO? LOL...
As the Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organization’s Polio and Emergencies Cluster, Bruce Aylward works to ensure that polio stays under control and that the world is prepared to respond to health crises.
Why you should listen
A Canadian physician and epidemiologist who has authored some 100 peer-reviewed articles and chapters, Bruce Aylward is an expert on infectious diseases. He joined the World Health Organization in 1992 and worked in the field for seven years on national immunization programs for measles, tetanus and hepatitis in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
Aylward has overseen and managed the scale-up of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative since 1998, during which time the program expanded to operate in every country of the world, the annual global budget increased to $700 million a year, polio-funded staff deployed by WHO grew to over 3,500 people worldwide, and new monovalent oral poliovirus vaccines were developed for the programme. In 2014, only three countries remained polio-endemic.
He says: “It’s been estimated that our investment in smallpox eradication pays off every 26 days.”
Since 2011, Aylward has also led WHO’s work in preparedness, readiness and response to health emergencies. By developing global strategies, analyzing health trends and advising on policies and country collaboration, the WHO helps make sure that outbreaks — like the 2014 ebola epidemic — stay under control.
BREAKING: Microsoft says it does not expect to meet its previously-announced guidance for its Windows segment because of the coronavirus outbreak
Aylward is totally untrustworthy.
Completely.
Shocker.
I think there might be a new case is in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. Seeing twitter reports of a health clinic shut down.
Anybody see anything?
AFrica would have just been chaos.
Like with the ebola outbreak.
I’m still waiting to see what this does or does not do in African cities.
Most of the poor in Africa don’t have a/c. But this also seems to be spread by poop...But if it’s hot and humid maybe it will break down before it’s transmitted that way. I don’t wish this on Africa. It isn’t as though Africa doesn’t have problems.
China is using brutalist means to control the chaos.
I wonder if Africa get a lot of flu pass through there like the other places?
Does the virus like Hot and dry areas?
From Facebook
White-Wilson Medical Center
3 hrs ·
In an abundance of caution, we have elected to temporarily close our Fort Walton Beach Immediate Care Clinic. The clinic will reopen at 2 p.m. All other locations and departments remain open.
Today, an individual entered our clinic who had traveled internationally and was experiencing flu-like symptoms. The appropriate steps were immediately taken to evaluate this individual and any potential exposure to COVID-19. We worked alongside the Florida Department of Health to ensure the safety of all and elected to temporarily close the clinic as a precautionary measure.
While at this time there are no known cases of COVID-19 in our community or our state, we will continue to take every precaution to ensure that our patients and staff are safe. We ask that individuals who are experiencing any respiratory or flu-like symptoms and have recently traveled internationally or have been in contact with someone who has traveled internationally stay at home and contact the Florida Department of Health at 850-833-9065 for further instruction.
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I don’t actually know about the regular flu and Africa.
I do know the Spanish Flu had an effect there.
That's become very obvious the more video clips we see. The guys tied to a pole, or beaten by multiple PLA, or led with a leash like a dog for the crime of not having a mask or not being able to find one for sale or the money to buy one, doors welded shut, pets dragged out and beaten to death as the owners watch, are all displays of the absolute power the govt has over the people to humiliate anyone who 'disturbs harmony'. People who've done nothing more than hold a sign up that says, freedom of speech, are tossed in jail - for years. Those videos are released intentionally to brag and intimidate.
Just like the photo-ops of the bald nurses displayed as 'heros'. It was one group's idea to cut their hair short to get a better fit on their PPE hoods. But the CCP, rather than acknowledge an independent thought, took possession of that thought by suddenly mandating that nurses must shave bald and then put them on display like trophies. While at the same time the men didn't have to shave their heads. It's an ugly, ugly, ugly country that places little value on human life and the faster it fails, the better for all of us.
we have such a system. Voila:
Bluedot, a Toronto startup whose AI-driven health monitoring platform analyzes billions of data points. Launched in 2014, the venture alerted its clients to the outbreak on Dec. 31, well ahead of notifications from the World Health Organization and US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention..
..Bluedot uses natural-language processing and machine-learning techniques to sift through global news reports, airline data, and reports of animal disease outbreaks, as described by Wired. Epidemiologists look over the automated results, and if everything checks out, the company sends alerts to its clients in the public and private sectors.
BlueDot tries to track and move information faster than the disease can travel. It correctly predicted where outside mainland China the Wuhan virus would land—Bangkok, Seoul, Taipei, Tokyo—after its initial appearance.
[don’t know why, but the wired article won’t come up for me]
https://qz.com/1791222/how-artificial-intelligence-provided-early-warning-of-wuhan-virus/
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-epidemiologist-wuhan-public-health-warnings/
It’s not about predicting where...it is about affected countries having a health system that can handle it. We are about to find that out. Two years ago, we didn’t. I doubt we have it today with the way democrats block anything Trump does...down to moving funds from Ebola to CornoVid-19.
And remember, as long as we only do 20 tests a day, that is the upper limit of growth.
I read Africa and India will be pretty much bypassed due to their climate. Australia has it but those cases were Chinese nationals coming back from China.
I would think Africa would be blazing with cases right now but none that I know of except in Egypt.
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