Posted on 03/10/2020 5:22:41 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
Continuation of the thread.
Please use this thread to consolidate the discussion and stories.
OR
Multnomah County resident tests positive for COVID-19, bringing state total to 15
Health News Local News Top Stories March 10, 2020 Newsroom Staff
PORTLAND, Ore. — The Oregon Health Authority announced Multnomah County’s first presumptive positive case of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. The new case brings Oregon’s total to 15 cases in seven counties.
Currently, there are 2 presumptive cases of coronavirus in Jackson County, and 1 in Klamath county.
ugh...young...exposed...now in critical condition. Underlying health issues? This is when having a media that doesn’t do their job infuriates me.
First hand account from patient in WA, and his father in nursing home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIWDyHXaPm0
When using an N-95 mask and nitrile gloves, don't touch the mask with the gloves on. Put the mask on, and take if off, only with your bare hands. Don the gloves only when the mask is already on.
The reason for this is that the nitrile gloves are SUPPOSED TO collect any CoVid-95 particles you might pick up by touching things, and keep those away from your skin. But, if you touch the mask with your gloved hands, you risk transferring those CoVid-95 particles to the exterior of the N-95 mask, and thereby overload the mask's protective surface with dangerous particles, at least in the touched areas.
https://caribbeannewsservice.com/now/breaking-jamaica-confirms-first-case-of-covid-19/
Oh no! Not Jamaica!!!
5 new cases in Wake County (Raleigh), all from the Biogen conference in Boston. Total patients in NC is 7.
Ohio seems to be doing it right as well.
At 50 infected per one dead, the North Koreans have 10,000 soldiers infected. Unless these soldiers were excessively exposed.
WTH was going on at that biogen conference?!
Was there a server or hotel concierge that was infected? Someone in housekeeping?
Jamaica? That’s not good :(
VA
Navy confirms 1st civilian employee with coronavirus in Virginia, raising state’s total to 9
CORONAVIRUS
by: WRIC Newsroom
Posted: Mar 10, 2020 / 03:34 PM EDT / Updated: Mar 10, 2020 / 03:47 PM EDTFALLS CHURCH, Va. (WRIC) — A U.S. Navy employee at the U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in Falls Church, Va., has been admitted to a hospital in Northern Virginia after testing presumptive positive for COVID-19, the Navy announced Tuesday afternoon.
The case is the first of a U.S. Navy civilian in Virginia and the ninth reported in the commonwealth. Health officials confirmed the eighth positive case on Tuesday after getting test results from a Loudoun County resident and a Virginia Beach couple.
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The other cases in Virginia are: a Fairfax husband and wife who recently returned from a Nile River cruise; a resident of Spotsylvania County in their 50s who sought medical attention after developing fever, cough and shortness of breath, and is currently stable; an Arlington County resident in their 60s who tested who positive Sunday evening; and a U.S. Marine being treated at Fort Belvoir, just outside of the nation’s capital.
The sink in the possible self isolation bathroom (knock on wood) clogged a couple days ago and we were out of drain cleaner. Poured juice from a too old to finish jar of pickled peppers (say that 3 times), salt and baking soda down it and it seemed to work. Good news, found Draino while organizing cabinets today. It’s these little things that are going to trip us up.
Yep...whole lotta spreading going on, from that biogen conference.
With lots of people working from home my wife has been enjoying a much shorter commute time. Spring break is about to start and should make it even shorter, and all "in-person" instruction is being cancelled so they are not coming back.
@Looker
74 new cases in King County Wa
Ohio—half measures. See my post before this on how it will need to be done.
They brought it in. These folks were from all over the world.
But, I am sure they shared it with the staff. Who took it home to Dorchester, Roxbury, Cambridge, Natick...and any of the other places they work.
You would think people in the bioengineering world would have more sense.
The food at that Marriott isn’t even that good.
NEW ZEALAND
New Zealand Back doors and car park triages at GP clinics
Today, 03:30 PM
Springlands Health practice manager Mark McLean said the practice had introduced phone screening a week and a half ago, and fitted an intercom system outside the door on Monday.
“With the growing concerns around coronavirus, we decided that we would be screening everybody at the door that was coming into the practice.”
If a patient had potential symptoms of coronavirus, or had been in contact with someone who had, they were asked to return to their car where a clinician would call them, McLean said.
McLean said the new procedure was not to scare people, but to protect vulnerable patients from being exposed to viruses in the waiting room.
“Some are going in a back entrance if they think they’ve got a respiratory issue.
“Others have got a sign telling people to phone if they’re unwell and someone will go out and triage them from the car park.”
Nelson Marlborough Health chief medical officer Dr Nick Baker said they were “meticulously” streaming potentially infectious cases separately within the health system.
“The first step of streaming is to ring the health line and see if you should be seriously concerned or not. If you are then going to come into health care, ringing the practice ahead.
He said it was advisable to implement a “low touch culture” for a while, which might involve looking at workplace practices such as hand shaking, meetings and gatherings.
“Germs don’t fly, they hitch-hike,” he said.
“The virus needs a chain of infection to thrive ... At a community level, everything we can do to break or weaken that chain of infection is good.
74 new cases in King County Washington per Steve Lookner.
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