Posted on 03/25/2020 10:05:49 AM PDT by Mariner
Thread #26 here:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3827832/posts
” As of Wednesday night, just 21 states have ordered people to stay at home, and most of those are states with Democratic governors.”
And they also account for a big majority of US GDP.
I liked the ‘drop and give me 10’ pushups one. kids remember things like that but usually not with anger
One of the videos says India has fewer hospital beds than Italy.
OUCH!
No wonder they have the cops out besting people’s assess.
More than 50,000 Americans overseas are seeking help getting home
The scramble to get Americans home while it’s still possible comes as the State Department is finding the coronavirus striking its own workforce.
William Walters, acting deputy chief medical officer for the State Department, said the agency is aware of 58 confirmed cases in overseas posts. One bureau alone has 33 staffers who have tested positive, though Walters did not identify which posts have been hit hardest. In the United States, officials have identified 16 cases in five cities, he said.
Walters noted that the State Department has 75,000 employees, including local staff in embassies and consulates, so the virus has struck a rate of one in 1,000 staffers. He said they have been aggressively encouraging social distancing and teleworking.
CALIFORNIA
Riverside County Public Information Officer (951) 743-0075 bcfederico@rivco.org
Riverside County receives federal medical station to increase hospital capacity
Riverside County health and emergency management officials received a federal medical station (FMS) from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Starting tomorrow morning, the California National Guard will be at the fairgrounds in Indio to set up a portion of the FMS in an existing building. The California National Guard will not perform any law enforcement activities. The station will provide an additional 250 beds to the county’s overall hospital system, which will ease the burden from an expected surge in COVID19 cases.
“We know we’ll have more cases and some of them will be serious,” said Riverside County Public Health Officer Dr. Cameron Kaiser. “This medical station will relieve stress from our hospitals, allowing them to better provide higher levels of care for our sickest individuals, and get more people on the way to recovery faster.”
The FMS includes all the equipment to run a basic hospital. This includes beds, bed sheets, portable sinks, medication and 740 complete units of personal protective equipment (PPE), including N95 masks, surgical masks, gloves, gowns and face shields. These materials will be set up in two existing buildings to create two stations that will care for less acute patients.
Half of the materials will be used to set up a station the county fairgrounds in Indio, in existing buildings on the fairgrounds. The remaining materials will be used to set up an identical 125 bed facility in western Riverside County. The site for the western location will be shared soon.
“I am proud our Riverside County Fairgrounds will aid in this critical mission of providing a venue for health care,” said Riverside County Board Chair and Fourth District Supervisor V. Manuel Perez. I want to thank Congressman Ruiz as well as Assemblymembers Garcia and Mayes for their ongoing support and for ensuring that the federal medical station is established in the Coachella Valley and western Riverside County.”
Riverside County hospitals will move stable, less severe patients to the federal medical station locations. This will allow greater capacity in the county’s existing hospitals to respond to the needs of more critical patients.
The county continues to plan for the operation of the FMS, including meeting site requirements for the equipment and locating approximately 80 personnel to work in the two locations.
lucky us. Very few cases here and we get a Wuhan unit. Lovely.
Works for me.
LOL!!!!!
Consider the source.
A pot stirring, attention seeking troll.
Do best to ignore.
ASIA - JAPAN/HONG KONG
Tokyo faces further isolation measures to prevent an “explosion’ of coronavirus cases and there are calls in Hong Kong for a curfew to stop the health system collapsing amid fears of a second wave of infections in eastern Asia.
The governor of Tokyo has asked the city’s residents to stay at home this weekend “at all costs” to avoid an “explosion” of Covid-19 infections following a rise in the number of local cases.
Yuriko Koike described the situation as “severe”...
...Ho Pak-leun, an infectious diseases expert at Hong Kong University, told local radio that unless Hong Kong brought in a curfew or lockdown-style restrictions, there would be “serious consequences”.
SAN DIEGO VA
New COVID-19 cluster identified, cases near 300
a cluster had been identified at the Mission Valley Veterans Administration office.
“We are under an active investigation with the staff at that site,” he said. “We have done some notifications through the VA and through their system. We believe that this cluster of cases has been identified. However, there may be more close contacts that are identified as time goes by.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-covid-19-cluster-identified-cases-near-300/ar-BB11IAXE
CALIFORNIA Show me the money, Newsom
Few sheltered as California aims to help homeless amid virus
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Homeless outreach workers are passing out hand sanitizer, checking temperatures and pleading with people not to crowd together. But a week after California Gov. Gavin Newsom pledged thousands of hotel rooms to help the homeless survive the coronavirus pandemic, most of those rooms sit empty...
San Diego County, with about 8,000 homeless, has moved more than 200 people into 2,000 rooms. San Francisco, with a similar number of homeless people, says it is still preparing to move people into its 300 rooms. ..
must watch
Ill man makes plea for public to take coronavirus seriously
Guardian News UK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12ZhdYCpJ90
LONDON
Inside new makeshift temporary coronavirus hospital at ExCel Centre
NHS “Nightingale”
A new 4,000 bed field hospital to treat coronavirus patients will be functioning as of next week, the Health Secretary has announced.
Matt Hancock confirmed that NHS Nightingale would be built with the help of military assistance at London’s ExCel Centre and be comprised of two wards, with the capacity for 2,000 beds in each.
The hospital will initially open with 500 beds equipped with ventilators and oxygen, and will be staffed predominantly by NHS doctors and nurses, as well as military medics.
It is understood the military were drafted in to help following a Military aid to the Civil Authorities (MACA) request due to the fact that they would be able to plan the logistics of setting up a huge facility in the space of a few days.
The Telegraph
video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOxjJUGIn2I
CANADA
Anyone returning to Canada from abroad amid the coronavirus pandemic will no longer just be asked to self-isolate upon their return — that order is now mandatory.
Health Minister Patty Hajdu said during an appearance at the Senate on Wednesday that the government is done asking those returning to Canada from other countries to respect the request to go directly home and stay there for 14 days.
She is now invoking the Quarantine Act to force them to do so.
The move comes after repeated reports of travellers, including Canadians rushing to return as the border closed and commercial travel options disappeared, stopping to pick up groceries or do errands after they had crossed the border back into Canada.
Hajdu warned that those who do not obey government-imposed COVID-19 quarantine restrictions would face “significant penalties.”
GlobalNews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkAMEghiDvE
Post 407 is what got me thinking about this:
Somehow this ***** has told all other disease processes to get out of town.
How much of that is COVID-19 interrupting other diseases on a cellular(?) level, and how much are the other diseases being better prevented due to social distancing, increased hand washing, etc.?
My guess is that there will be a period in each area when modest efforts to control COVID-19 result in a drop in positive flu tests even as COVID-19 ramps up. PART of the latter is likely due to tests "catching up" with the backlog of infections.
Deaths from flu vs. deaths from COVID-19, adjusted for duration of each case for likely date of infection, and then observed vs. level of control efforts, might be even more "illuminating", as that would eliminate the distortion of test results catching up with the backlog of tests needed.
I'll further guess that even when testing is fully "caught up", controls sufficient to lower the rate of COVID-19 infections will be shown to suppress flu much more: Another demonstration of the higher infectiousness of COVID-19.
If flu and other contagious diseases potentially resulting in hospitalizations (esp. for vulnerable folks) actually drop in numbers due to controls aimed at COVID-19, that buys a little ICU capacity. My guess is that it will only equate to a day or two in time, but it should still save lives. This much more so if ICU and ventilator capacity is not exceeded by total needs.
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Hospitals across U.S. consider universal do-not-resuscitate orders for coronavirus patients
Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago has been discussing a universal do-not-resuscitate policy for infected patients, regardless of the wishes of the patient or their family members - a wrenching decision to prioritize the lives of the many over the one.
Richard Wunderink, one of Northwestern’s intensive-care medical directors, said hospital administrators have asked Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker for help in clarifying state law and whether it permits the policy shift.
“It’s a major concern for everyone,” he said. “This is something about which we have had lots of communication with families, and I think they are very aware of the grave circumstances.”
Officials at George Washington University Hospital in Washington say they have had similar conversations, but for now will continue to resuscitate covid-19 patients using modified procedures, such as putting plastic sheeting over the patient to create a barrier. The University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, one of the country’s major hot spots for infections, is dealing with the problem by severely limiting the number of responders to a contagious patient in cardiac or respiratory arrest.
Recommended ppm for disinfectant purposes is 50-200ppm
I’m using 150ppm. The bleach smell is strong
Exponents are so interesting....even more interesting when they match the data....
Infection and death rates - not so much.
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