Posted on 04/30/2020 3:05:32 PM PDT by RaceBannon
Corona Virus Daily Thread #49 COVID-19 4/30/2020
“Drudge Report, in big red letters: “BEEF SHORTAGES ALARM””
Just got back from the Store I see Beef there. Maybe I am missing something, do they mean beef shortage in two weeks?
Trump is making the factories stay open. I do not see how the shortage could start unless people panic buy because of the articles like this.
Ok the 22 hotspots is a remake of the article done around April 23 on Dailymail.co.uk...
Wow Drudge Report is pushing click bait now.
Early Predictor of Severe Respiratory Failure in Patients With COVID-19 Identified
Findings published in Critical Care suggest that high plasma levels of the protein suPAR are associated with worse outcomes
30-Apr-2020 3:15 PM EDT, by Rush University Medical Center Contact Patient Services
Newswise — A very high level of a protein known as suPAR in the blood of patients with COVID-19 may be a predictor of severe respiratory failure, according to new research published in the Journal of Critical Care on April 30. The findings by researchers at Rush University Medical Center and other institutions suggest suPAR could be a potential predictor for which patients with COVID-19 will need to be put on ventilators to help them breathe.
“This is the first report in the world to show that suPAR is elevated in COVID-19 and is predictive. Since suPAR is a reactant of the innate immune system, it’s an indicator of disease severity,” said Jochen Reiser, MD, PhD, the Ralph C. Brown, MD, Professor of Internal Medicine, chairperson of the Department of Internal Medicine at Rush.
“These results show that the higher the plasma suPAR level, the worse the outcome will be in the lungs of these patients,” said Reiser, who is co-correspondent author of the study. “The higher the suPAR level, the shorter the time before patients needed intubation.”
Reiser’s research team tested suPAR levels in 15 Rush patients when they were admitted or tested for COVID-19. The University of Athens Medical School measured 57 patients for suPAR and followed them in their clinical course. Time to intubation was followed and found to be shorter in patients with a higher plasma suPAR.
“There is a body of literature that suPAR is associated with poor outcomes from acute respiratory distress syndrome (a condition in many patients with severe COVID-19) and poor lung functioning in critically ill patients,” Reiser said.
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Soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor, aka suPAR, is produced in the endobronchial tree in the lungs and by immune cells in the bone marrow and repeatedly has been shown to harm kidneys. In two publications in The New England Journal of Medicine, Reiser’s research showed that chronically elevated blood levels are linked to development of chronic kidney disease, yet a high plasma suPAR also increases the risk for acute kidney injury – a sudden decline in kidney function that can be a severe side effect of general medical procedures.
I lived up there when that movie came out. The movie theater was within eye sight of the WTC and ESB.
Wheee.
Imagine that.
Highest daily death toll on the eve of the day of reopening.
What a coincidence........
“Texas’ virus deaths hit single-day high on eve of reopening”
Another nail in the hope of Hot Weather theory. :(
THREE PORK PLANTS ARE TOP U.S. PRIORITY FOR REOPENING, SAYS PETERSON
PORK AND BEEF PRODUCTION FALTERED THIS MONTH AS PACKING PLANTS SLOWED OR SHUT DOWN SLAUGHTER LINES AS THE VIRUS INFECTED THOUSANDS OF EMPLOYEES.
By
Chuck Abbott
4/30/2020
National Pork Board
The Trump administration’s top meat-industry priority is reopening three pork plants, now shuttered due to coronavirus outbreaks, that account for 12 percent of U.S. hog slaughter, said the House Agriculture Committee chairman on Wednesday. Labor and public officials said meat production will not revive nationwide unless workers feel safe in the often-crowded processing plants.
Pork and beef production faltered this month as packing plants slowed or shut down slaughter lines as the virus infected thousands of employees. At least 20 workers have died, according to a labor union that represents meat workers. Consumers will face higher meat prices or spot outages of some products in coming weeks, according to an industry analyst.
President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday to keep plants operating during the pandemic — overruling state and local officials worried about virus hot spots — and put Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue in charge of the effort. The executive order directs meatpackers to follow CDC guidelines on minimizing workers’ exposure to the coronavirus.
“The secretary said this morning their No. 1 priority right now is to open up this plant, the plant in Sioux Falls, [and] the plant in Waterloo,” said House Agriculture chairman Collin Peterson during a news conference in Worthington, Minnesota, home to a JBS pork plant. Peterson said he had spoken to Perdue earlier in the day.
The hardest hit areas of GA us south GA which has had plenty of hot weather. For a while, they had one of the highest CFR per capita in the world.
I don’t think they could possibly have had the deaths react that quick to reopening that seems like liberal sensationalism. However, it could possibly reflect Easter gathering numbers.
It would take quite a while to get the National Guard up to speed on processing meat in plants that would be efficient or up to safety standards.
You simply don’t take them, drop them in and hack away at carcasses.
You could take him out driving and have him pass YOUR test. Just for fun.
Florida medical examiners were releasing coronavirus death data. The state made them stop.
April 29, 2020
State officials have stopped releasing the list of coronavirus deaths being compiled by Florida’s medical examiners, which has at times shown a higher death toll than the state’s published count.
The list had previously been released in real time by the state Medical Examiners Commission. But earlier this month, after the Tampa Bay Times reported that the medical examiners’ death count was 10 percent higher than the figure released by the Florida Department of Health, state officials said the list needed to be reviewed and possibly redacted.
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They’ve now been withholding it for nine days, without providing any of the information or specifying what they plan to remove.
Dr. Stephen Nelson, the chairman of the state Medical Examiners Commission, said the change in policy came after the state health department intervened.
My tester went to HS with my dad and was a lifelong friend of his.
I didn’t do a road test.
We pulled around the building and parked again.
I questioned this and he told me ‘if your dad bought a car and paid insurance on it for you, he’s MUCH more particular about your driving skills than I EVER could be’.
And that was the end of that.
I worked in a meat processing plant while in college. Training took a few minutes for any station. The work was easy. The management, though, was retarded and corrupt. Recruiting and hiring policies were as retarded and corrupt as management.
We’ve had over a million confirmed COVID-19 cases in USA. So how many people are untested but got infected?
My new freezer arrives next Tuesday. We plan on hunting in my area. We have a large Deer and pig populations. I am also on river front for fishing.
I purchase a shot gun for bird hunting (turkey, duck) last month, only need a 22 now for rabbits and squirrel. Never eaten ground hog before, a lot of those here too.
If they do run out of fresh meat I am sure we can survive in the country. What was that song: Country Boy can survive.
One person. One station. Surrounded by people who had been there for years.
No, assume you are new...and everyone else is.
And your assessment of management is the same as every front line worker ever. I hope your acumen has changed over the years. Because otherwise, you have no idea what it’s like to run a “factories.”
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