Posted on 03/17/2020 8:36:27 AM PDT by Mariner
Thread #18 is here:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3825150/posts?page=1
https://www.c-span.org/video/?470444-1/senate-session
Voting on Paul amendment. Remove ourselves from Afghanistan to pay for coronavirus aid. Needs 60 votes, As of now, 2 yays, 67 nays
All that pollution and disease must’ve given them massively tip-top immune systems, so they’re like little American kids — little or no symptoms?
GA
3 Albany Deaths May Be Linked To Coronavirus
ANDY MILLER, GEORGIA HEALTH NEWS • MAR 18, 2020
The recent deaths of three southwest Georgia residents are being investigated as possibly having been caused by the coronavirus.
The Dougherty County coroner, Michael Fowler, said Tuesday that the deaths of the three people “are suspicious’’ and that tests are being run in those cases by the GBI medical examiner’s office.
The deaths, all in Albany, were of two people in their 40s and one person in the 70s, Fowler told GHN. One person died at home, one in a nursing home and one in a hospital, he said. He did not identify the facilities, and the local hospital, Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, did not give information about a recent death there.
https://www.wabe.org/3-albany-deaths-may-be-linked-to-coronavirus/
That’s a great idea. What’s that, a trillion dollars a year we can then use here? I’m sure it’s at least 100 billion a year.
ME
Maine CDC Director Nirav Shah said there are 30 confirmed cases and 12 presumptive positive cases, bringing the total to 42 cases.
Could this be fallout from that idiot who broke quarantine to attend a funeral? (Ever heard of Skype, idiot?)
NOW: “There are concerning reports coming out of France and Italy about some young people getting seriously ill and very seriously ill in the ICUs,” says Dr. Deborah Birx, White House Coronavirus Task Force Response Coordinator. #COVID19
https://twitter.com/DavidBegnaud/status/1240314626635636736
Cuomo: New York needs 110,000 hospital beds for coronavirus patients in 45 days and we only have 53,000
Published Wed, Mar 18 202011:40 AM EDTUpdated 20 min ago
Noah Higgins-Dunn
William Feuer
Amanda Macias
New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo said President Donald Trump is sending a floating hospital to help the state manage an onslaught of coronavirus cases expected to surge in the next 45 days.
“Right now, in New York specifically, the rate of the curve suggests that in 45 days we could have up to an input of people who need 110,000 beds that compares to our current capacity of 53,000 beds, 37,000 ICU units, ventilators, which compares to a capacity currently of 3,000 ventilators. That’s our main issue,” Cuomo said at a press conference in Albany on Wednesday.
The Comfort, a vessel transformed from a hulking oil tanker into a 1,000-bed hospital ship, is one of the military’s two floating lifesavers. The Comfort is homeported at Naval Station Norfolk in Norfolk, Virginia.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper said the U.S. military would provide up to 5 million respirator masks and other items of personal protective equipment to safeguard front-line responders, as well as up to 2,000 specialized ventilators.
Overall, new deaths are down. USA is now a 6. Iran, Spain, Philippines, Netherlands, Belgium, leading others. Indonesia is now over 11 deaths, which puts them on the table with 19 deaths - 15 new = 63.16.
All these statewide shutdowns are beginning to remind me of GW Bush during the financial crisis, in which he said something to the effect of “I killed capitalism in order to save it.”
As Fury has repeatedly said, “The operation was a success: the patient is dead.” or something to that effect.
HHS issuing a regulation today allowing doctors to practice across state lines.
https://twitter.com/abbydphillip/status/1240311681823182854
There are that many seriously ill who require beds?
Better not allow NYer’s to leave NY or NYC.
The WH has been _very_ slow to talk about the impact of this virus on younger people—about time they _got_ _it_ and talked about it.
Thank you! Will pass your thanks on to my wife! :)
Health depts don’t report until 4, so we won’t know today’s numbers yet.
TX
Burnet CISD - Extending Spring Break through April 3 (or longer) to abide by Trump’s 15 day slow the spread due to students traveling during SP. All UIL and other activities cancelled. Free meals.
***State dept of education says school will not have to make these days up later.***
If people stayed home for their 15 days, school would be back on and businesses would be open.
IMHO one of the reasons governments are freaking out about this virus and destroying economies...is that it leaves many male survivors sterile or very sub fertile.
I’m wondering if THIS isn’t its design intention if it WERE designed as a biological weapon.
If you think the lines at Costco are nuts...imagine what they will look like outside the ERs.
This virus has not really changed since Wuhan in terms of 14-20% needing hospital beds, 5-10% needing ICU.
It’s been that way in nearly every country. The problem that people were having trouble grasping is that different countries are all at different stages. Because the virus takes 3-4 weeks to run its course, it takes a while for the picture of what it will look like in any given country to become clear.
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