Posted on 04/25/2020 4:04:53 AM PDT by RaceBannon
New Thrtead, starting 4/25/2020
Just last week Jennifer Zeng and other sources were reporting that China is prepping more hospital beds in anticipation that there is another wave coming. Looks like that wave may be happening now.
HA! :)
OPEN FOR BUSINESS Shocking pictures show notorious Indonesian wet market still open despite links to coronavirus
Despite expert advice, both China and Vietnam has allowed the wildlife trade to continue after the World Health Organisation gave the green light for the markets to reopen, despite their own country-wide ban.
In Wuhan the controversial wet markets were back up and running last week while the rest of the world battles to contain the deadly coronavirus pandemic.
Earlier this month, the city celebrated the end of its strictly enforced, months-long lockdown, with China state TV showing its contentious food markets reopening to customers.
Last week, Downing street and governments across the world called for China to enforce the ban.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11484229/shocking-pictures-wet-market-still-open-coronavirus/
I get it. I understand that chicoms and vietcongs think that wildlife killed in front of their eyes is ‘healthier’. What they don’t understand is that all those species in close proximity, all that blood on the ground, people handling raw meat as they select their pieces from a pile on the table, all contributes to disease. The meat of an animal in extreme stress from the smell of death isn’t any healthier than meat that has been prepared in sanitary conditions, packaged for sale and kept under refrigeration. In fact, the adrenaline alone would make it tough and bitter. It will take a huge education program to explain modern sanitation to these markets but its’ an effort that has to be don. Or wild meat needs to be banned, leaving the markets for vegetables and eggs.
EXPIRY DATE Coronavirus outbreaks die out within 70 days regardless of lockdown measures, expert claims
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Prof Isaac Ben-Israel has suggested that all efforts to curb the spread of Covid-19 will lead to the same results because the killer bug is “self-limiting”.
The Israeli academic, who is head of the Security Studies program at Tel Aviv University, has said his analysis proves the virus peaks at 40 days before declining.
His calculations show the pattern of daily new infections as a percentage of accumulated number of infections.
They start at about 30 per cent and then decrease to 10 per cent after six weeks, before dropping to less than five per cent on the seventh week - or about 49 days.
The former chief Cybernetics adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote in a self-published article this week: “Our analysis shows that this is a constant pattern across countries.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11470621/coronavirus-outbreaks-expert/
interesting theory
RUSSIA
Scores of doctors unable to treat patients with adequate protective equipment have reportedly quit, hospitals are under resourced and overwhelmed ...
...The effects of the pandemic on top of the oil price collapse and the country’s main revenue stream appear to be destabilising the Russian regime.
Medical staff say they have run out of oxygen and ambulance crews queue for hours to deliver patients to overloaded hospitals.
Billionaire oligarchs have bought up desperately needed ventilators for private use in their mansions amid public anger that the government is favouring the rich.
if they’re spreaders, they’re not ‘healthy’; they’re infected
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Yes indeed. A simple concept. You’d think that people had never heard of Typhoid Mary or Tuberculosis Sanitariums and Quarantine for TB. It boggles the mind.
If people are infected, they need to stay isolated until they are no longer contagious. Seems to be a simple concept.
NEWARK, NJ and ISRAEL
Israeli who flew to and from US with COVID-19 has his work visa revoked
The Israeli passenger is from the largely haredi Orthodox Jewish settlement of Beitar Illit and reportedly works to certify whether foods are being produced in accordance with Jewish dietary laws.
The man did not notify the United Airlines crew that he had the virus when he boarded the fight, according to Israeli media.
He flew to the United States last week despite having taken a COVID-19 test in Israel. He was informed of his positive test result while in the United States, Israel’s Channel 12 reported, and he flew back to Israel because he did not have insurance for health care in the United States. His family informed Israeli authorities while he was en route, a health official told the Times of Israel.
That second wave is obviously due to reopening the country. People from Wuhan travelling around. Looks like we will be riding waves for a year or two.
Everyone should have a pulse oximeter as part of their home medical kit. Goes hand and hand with blood pressure and thermometers.
Your PCP will appreciate if you have those vitals available during the initial phone consult.
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I agree with this. We bought one when my Dad came to live with us after his stroke. Eventually, he was put on oxygen, and it was very useful-there’s a reason why they check your blood pressure and oxygen levels when you are in the hospital-and it was very helpful for the providers to have that info.
Attn Employers:
The learning platform Coursera will make 3,800 of its courses available for free to people unemployed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“To assist during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, the Coursera community is launching an effort to assist countries, states, and cities reskill their unemployed workers to re-enter the workforce,” the company’s website said.
Enrollment is open through September 30 for organizations to enroll unemployed workers in courses. Newly-enrolled learners will have through December 31, 2020 to complete their courses.
https://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/India/20200427/3547930.html
We saw rising cases plateau within 2 weeks after social distancing and lock downs. That is about 15 days. Peak flattens with slight downward slope. If you let it run wild instead of social distancing and lockdowns, in 3 weeks people will start social distancing and quarantining themselves. Seeing a neighbor drop dead in the street typically stimulates a self correcting mechanism.
STUDY
Presenting Characteristics, Comorbidities, and Outcomes Among 5700 Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19 in the New York City Area
Findings
In this case series that included 5700 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in the New York City area, the most common comorbidities were hypertension, obesity, and diabetes. Among patients who were discharged or died (n=2634), 14.2% were treated in the intensive care unit, 12.2% received invasive mechanical ventilation, 3.2% were treated with kidney replacement therapy, and 21% died.
Meaning
This study provides characteristics and early outcomes of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in the New York City area.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2765184
TREATMENTS
Special Report: As virus advances, doctors rethink rush to ventilate
In China, 86% of 22 COVID-19 patients didn’t survive invasive ventilation at an intensive care unit in Wuhan, the city where the pandemic began, according to a study published in The Lancet in February. Normally, the paper said, patients with severe breathing problems have a 50% chance of survival.
A recent British study found two-thirds of COVID-19 patients put on mechanical ventilators ended up dying anyway, and a New York study found 88% of 320 mechanically ventilated COVID-19 patients had died.
More recently, none of the eight patients who went on ventilators at the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi hospital had died as of April 9, a doctor there told Reuters. And one ICU doctor at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta said he had had a “good” week when almost half the COVID-19 patients were successfully taken off the ventilator, when he had expected more to die.
The experiences can vary dramatically. The average time a COVID-19 patient spent on a ventilator at Scripps Health’s five hospitals in California’s San Diego County was just over a week, compared with two weeks at the Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center in Jerusalem and three at the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur, medics at the hospitals said.
Here’s an interesting article I ran across-just a brief excerpt and link is below:
The coronavirus remains the No. 1 cause of death in America on a day-to-day basis, vastly outpacing deaths from cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer’s, obesity, accidents, shootings and all violent crime combined. Nothing is killing more Americans right now, day to day, than the coronavirus. Clearly it isn’t “just the flu.”
1. What about Sweden?
2. If the lockdown were lifted what are the projected cases and deaths?
3. Are those numbers acceptable given other causes of death and the economic damage of the lockdown?
4. Don’t we arrive at the same place anyway - continued lockdown - gradual lifting - no further lockdown?
If I asked you to keep buying gas to fill the leaky gas tank of a broken down car that will never run again, would you?
https://twitter.com/MEMRIReports/status/1254710034644205569?s=20
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Lebanese International Affairs Expert Abdo Al-Laqis: COVID-19 Was Made by the U.S. and Deliberately Sent to China; It Is Designed to Kill off People over 65, Because They Are Unproductive
this sounds like the Michael Jackson approach, I mean, that made him white and delightsome, didn’t it?
Of the 16,966 deaths in New York since the first mortality on March 14:
60% were men, 40% were women
84% of the deaths were age 60 and older
No matter the age, COVID-19 is a serous illness for many people with underlying chronic disease.
15,114 (89%) of those who died had at least one chronic disease, with the top three identified being:
Hypertension - 65% (was 64%)
Diabetes - 42%
Hyperlipidemia - 24%
Source Data - see https://covid19tracker.health.ny.gov/views/NYS-COVID19-Tracker/NYSDOHCOVID-19Tracker-Fatalities?%3Aembed=yes&%3Atoolbar=no&%3Atabs=n
n.b. - see this post regarding COVID-19 and chronic disease - http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3832668/posts?page=655#655
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