Posted on 03/02/2020 12:52:39 PM PST by Vermont Lt
The death was 6 days ago at Harborview Medical Center.
How many were exposed? Not just HC workers, but visitors to center....mortuary people, etc.
Reminds of Wuhan’s initial exposure wave. :(
They got 10 personal days every year.
This was in addition to vacation time. (The ten days represented holidays we worked and “sick time” which could be used for you or your child.)
If they had blown through all of those days, they could use vacation days (with a note and permission.)
No one is THAT sick. (Not with a cold.)
CDC briefing notes by Sharon Sanders @ FluTrackers
Comment - 16% fatality rate among seniors and people with co-morbidities. People over 65 avoid crowds.
Milwaukee may use it as an excuse to escape from getting torched by the Bernie Bros—good plan!
You probably know all this but for those who don’t, if there’s still rubbing alcohol - 91% alcohol on the pharm shelves, that, and a few squirts of your left-over summer aloe gel to thicken it up gets you some fine hand sanitizer at about 75-80% alcohol. (Aloe gel is at 99cent stores and can probably thicken 4 or 5 bottles of rubbing alcohol. If the 99cent version is a little thin with water, it’s ok, you need water to help the alcohol stay on the skin longer)
If you have any saline booger wipes for babies, drain off some of the saline from a fresh pack and pour in some of that 91% alcohol, and you’ve got little alcohol wipes. (I’m not a chemist so I don’t know how alcohol works with other than saline-only wipes, but I do know you can mix rubbing alcohol with salt without creating any bubbling caldron of gasses)
Today’s bad news: Costco has no buttwipe
Today’s good news: Costco gas $1.95/gal
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12 new coronavirus cases in UK: “eight patients who had travelled from Italy, one from Germany, one from Singapore, one from Japan and one from Iran”
So.
Mortician, funeral home and mourners all contaminated...
SOUTH KOREA
Updates and distribution map
https://www.cdc.go.kr/board/board.es?mid=a30402000000&bid=0030
the series, War of the Worlds, just started. The robot aliens decoded the broadcast and are out for revenge for Orsen Wells’ virusing them a hundred years ago. We’re doomed. Except for the Wolverines, wait, wrong movie.
To quote an Italian mayor.....Are they nuts ? Test everyone now. If they are clean get them out or start using those coffins.
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BREAKING: Spain reports first death from coronavirus in Valencia
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The second NY coronavirus case, who lives in Westchester County and works in Manhattan, is of unknown origin. One of his children who attends college in NYC “has exhibited symptoms associated with the illness.”
From your Sharon Sanders link...
So far 60 cases in US including presumptive and/or CDC confirmed cases (not including evacuees).
22 of 60 are travel related, 27 under investigation
Many states testing and reporting own results and are taking action on presumptive positives.
CDC is not reporting PUI and negatives anymore because states are doing their own reporting with different timing daily (and nightly).
State case counts should be considered more up to date.
Concerned about nursing home situation - i.e. 6 deaths in Washington.
Expect to find more cases including community transmission.
So far in 12 states, most within last 14 days. Will find in more states
Most cases are close contacts i.e. family and health care workers.
anyone with contact to Covid-19 positive person needs to reach out to health provider
Risk for serious outcome....report from China...16% of cases are serious and they are mostly older + with co-mobidities - twice as likely to develop serious outcomes.
Might see some local community actions to further contain spread.
If asked to stay at home for 14 days. please do that. You might need to take a break from regular activities.
Stay home when you are sick. minimize risk to those in your household. Info on this on CDC site. Reduce face to face contact. Different communities might take different actions.
Personal action...recommend people wash hands, cover sneezes, and stay away from sick people.
For seniors have medications on hand...if 65+ reduce exposure (to other people, crowds etc.)
See emergency at cdc.gov
Narrow criteria for testing? Any regrets? My interpretation of answer: Not focusing on past. Focusing on now and future actions.
California test kits? Refer to California state.
Is White House muzzling you? CDC has been giving media teleconferences since beginning of outbreak.
Testing? FDA commercially available kits might be as many as million by end of week? CDC kits to public health departments will be cover 75,000 people.
Stockpile? CDC partners with state and other gov agencies i.e. niosh etc. See ASTHO - has stockpile responsibility.
What was contaminate in original CDC test kits? That is one possible explanation...ongoing investigation...focus on moving forward.
What about national PUI and testing count? Clarifying above remark...CDC will be aggregating data. Only update once a day. Will be providing state and national data as reported. Not real time updates nationally.
Question on test kits....(technical problem in transmission)....moving forward...confident about new test kits...
How long have Seattle strains have been circulating?...need more data...interesting study...
College kid in NYC ... exhibiting symptoms....
Not good :(
Yeah well China found itself at a horrible disadvantage. Asians wage business like war. Everything China has done since fits that pattern. They will continue like this until that lost advantage is regained.
The patient that died on February 13 in WA was from that Nursing home
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