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
“SMITH COUNTY, Texas (KETK) – Three people have tested positive for the coronavirus in Tyler, according to Jenny Wells with the city. No details about the patients have been released due to HIPAA laws. One patient is in serious condition. The patients are believed to be travel-related cases.”
https://www.easttexasmatters.com/health/coronavirus/#/questions/2574827
“Catholic Diocese of Tyler issues temporary liturgical measures in response to coronavirus threat”
https://twitter.com/trvrb - reporter from Dallas. Scroll for updates.
We’re going to look back fondly on the days when the only cases were “travel-related”.
NE
First Nebraskan tests positive for coronavirus
(CDC)
Posted: Fri 3:47 PM, Mar 06, 2020 |
Updated: Fri 4:24 PM, Mar 06, 2020
OMAHA, Neb. (KOLN) - The first Nebraskan to test positive for the coronavirus is a 36-year-old Omaha woman who was travelling in the United Kingdom.
Officials said Friday that the patient was in the United Kingdom with her father from Feb. 18 to Feb. 27. The patient went to a local medical facility emergency department Thursday for a respiratory infection that had been going on for 12 days.
Her symptoms were mild but got worse Thursday. She has serious pneumonia-like symptoms, as well as a secondary bacterial infection. She is being transferred to the biocontainment unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
It is currently unknown whether the patient’s immediate family members have been exposed. An investigation is underway by an epidemiology team to see who else this individual has had contact with and where.
https://www.1011now.com/content/news/Governor-confirms-a-Confirmed-case-of-Co-568568091.html
Teaneck:
How is this 40K self-quarantine supposed to work?
Gov. probably can’t mobilize National Guard quickly enough—I have been talking about this...
All fifty states need to get their National Guard trained and mobilized and ready to go....
Lots of the decommissioned nuts have been replaced with CCGT.
There are a large number of cases near Williamsburg. Do you have any idea what the genesis of that wa?
I know there are a lot of retirees in that area. My guess is that someone there returned either from Italy or rhe cruise on the Nile.
Lookner
74 new cases and 3 new deaths in Washington State
642 cases and 40 deaths total
Sisters coworker is one case in Waukesha. Recently traveled to Germany
I have been involved with Salem State University (MA) radio ever since the 1980s when I was a student there—I help out with weekend programming. The university is closing for two weeks as a precaution. The Tufts university station (Medford MA) is supposedly closed till the end of April. In both cases automation runs music, but no DJs.
The Tufts station is trying to convince the university or station bigwigs to let them go on, saying they are confined to a small building and have good security, etc. Not sure they will succeed.
over 7500 people tested now in WA
Lookner
Over half of the coronavirus patients in intensive care in the Netherlands are under 50 years old
See the problem with the British plan....
Hays Co. is San Marcos between Austin and San Antonio on I-35.
https://www.kxan.com/news/coronavirus/hays-county-announces-first-presumptive-case-of-coronavirus/
“Hays County has confirmed its first presumptive case of the coronavirus in a statement released Saturday morning.
Officials said the patient traveled to multiple cities along the West Coast of the US and is believed to have been exposed while traveling.
he patient notified the Hays County Local Health Department about their symptoms. They will self-quarantine at home until they have been fever-free for 48 hours without medication.
At no time did the patient expose other Hays County residents to the virus, the county said.”
Uh, he/she may not have contaminated anyone in Hays County but likely along West Coast, on the plane to ABIA, the airport and the luggage and if he/she stopped for gas or eats. Sounds like the person knew they were sick while in flight.
I disagree with your numbers.
Let’s say, closed environment, various ages, 100 exposed, 9% down for the count, leaving 91. The 91 are going to be two groups - the not-sick who aren’t going to get sick, and the ‘cold’ level sick.
The 91 will all remain working because
a) nobody is going to get sicker, statistically;
b) they are in a closed environment and the 91 aren’t going to be going home for a while - they will be sequestered in place per HS and NRC regs. Nobody in-nobody out;
and c) in the event the statistics are blown, the contingency plans of the managing companies already include having crosstrained employees that can be brought in from sister plants. Force on Force exercises are held every 3 years and train exactly for this scenario.
VA
Commonwealth of Virginia Reports First COVID-19 Death
in the Peninsula Health District
(Richmond, Va.) — Today, the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) and the Peninsula Health District reported the death of a hospitalized patient who previously tested positive for COVID-19. This event marks the first death in the Commonwealth of Virginia due to COVID-19.
The patient was a male in his 70s who acquired COVID-19 through an unknown source. The cause of death was respiratory failure as a result of COVID-19.
NY
Rockland County man reported as second coronavirus death in New York state
By Tina Moore, Bernadette Hogan and Laura ItalianoMarch 14, 2020 | 5:11pm | Updated
A 65-year-old Rockland County man is the second coronavirus fatality in New York state, The Post has learned.
The victim died earlier this week in the Village of Suffern and has posthumously tested positive for the deadly virus, sources said.
lol- ain’t that the truth!
I heard on the news, this morning, that there’s supposed to be added SNAP $$ to their folks’ EBT cards, for not being able to eat, at school.
They shouldn’t be getting both, right?
How about $15/week added to SNAP....and NO freaking free school meals?
Their parent’s can cook, or teach them how to budget shop and cook, like most of us have had to do, at some point, over the years.
I’ve been going by the SK numbers. 0.9% and only going to go up because they have a huge number of unresolved, still. But they will have identified the vast majority of infected, so there isn’t much likelihood of diluting that number back down. And the SK numbers will include the asymptomatic infected that we normally don’t even include for the flu. SK is the best numbers we are going to get, and probably the best outcome, overall, for any country, barring some game changer like a vaccine.
We had perhaps as many as 51 million cases, 670,000 hospitalizations for flu, and 55,000 deaths, high end numbers from the CDC. (Where did you get your stats?) Imagine that 10-fold. And of that 51 million, most simply bought flu meds without any sort of medical interaction.
At the other end is Italy. That’s what happens when you let it get away from you. 1 in 15 dead.
I, and most people with any sense, long ago tossed the Chinese numbers. They have been flat out lying since the beginning. Iran, too.
Your data is bad, and that might be why you don’t understand why drastic measures have been taken, not just by the Trump administration but by dozens of governments around the world. Dig a bit deeper and actually read what has been posted.
can you imagine how exicted 15 and 17yo chem students would be to be able to make hand sanitizer for their community?
even something simple like that would be a big morale booster
or using the students to pack the 3-day box lunches they are handing out to elementary students. Dress them up in scrubs and sheets and masks and it’d be the experience of a lifetime for them
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