Posted on 03/07/2020 8:01:01 PM PST by RummyChick
On Saturday night, 31 states and the District of Columbia reported at least one confirmed or presumptive positive case, with those cases totaling 372. Including those infected people repatriated from abroad, and those trapped aboard the quarantined cruise ship Grand Princess off San Francisco, the total is at least 442.
Washington state had the most cases with 103, including 16 deaths, followed by New York with 89 cases and California, with 81 cases and one death. Florida, which reports 11 cases, has also seen two fatalities.
In the interior of the country, a number of more sparsely populated states reported their first cases on Saturday, including Missouri, Indiana, Minnesota and Nebraska.
In Nebraska, there were dramatic scenes as a woman who tested positive for the virus was rushed from a community hospital to the nation's leading biocontainment unit at he University of Nebraska Medical Center Omaha.
The 36-year-old was photographed being transported to the facility in a hi-tech isolation pod late Friday.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The nursing home in WA State was using a CPAP machine and a nebulizer — you couldn’t ask for a better way to spray virus droplets all over the place. The firefighters attending the patients there said none of the nursing home staff were wearing any PPE.
You are seeing what they like to call “an abundance of caution.”
Clearly squeeze is needed.
Interesting connections.
But there is something about whatever is going with that 36 year that necessitated moving to a better facility
Kind of reminds me of the “Day 223 of the Iran Hostage Crisis” stuff we used to see.
received in a PM
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-08/coronavirus-updates-live/12036640
The Chief of Australian Defence Force just sent out a order directing all Defence personnel with cold/flu symptoms to self-isolate and contact local health authorities to arrange testing.
Please. The death rate from this current virus is low.
Theres a new flu every year because viruses mutate and thats why so many are infected. This is following exactly the same pattern. In this case it seems to be fatal mostly to older people or people with respiratory problems. For the rest, its a bad experience but they recover.
Sensible people get a flu vaccine because while it may not be accurate...some years the CDC has picked the wrong virus...generally it helps.
There will be a vaccine for this, but by then the disease will probably have disappeared or mutated into something else. Thats the life of a virus. Even so, I bet there are a lot of anti-vax folks on FR who would not get an anti-wuhan virus shot no matter what.
Wash your hands and stay healthy.
Sounds like the virus mutates
About three weeks ago it was announced five patients were being moved to a hospital in Spokane. It was one of only 11 hospitals in the nation with the proper isolation rooms for highly infectious diseases and has something like 10 beds. The number of such isolation rooms in the entire country is quite low and will be quickly overwhelmed.
See post #51 below re scalability.
LOL
A mild cold, happens every day.
Where are all the people posting they survived Wuhan from Italy.
Maybe they are old and dont do internet.
Seems like there should be more information from actual victims.
And....now its full.
The next guy goes into 414 with the broken hip lady.
I just did, thanks. Precisely my concern.
She’s just pining for the Fjords.
maybe they will divert to another facility
There is a big difference between SARS-COV-II aka as Novel Coronavirus and one of the common cold coronaviruses.
You need to educate your self.
Go to youtube and watch the MedCram video titled “How Coronavirus Kills”.
If you want to get an idea of how quickly this thing spreads and what percent end up in the hospital and what percent die, and the threats to our healthcare system, then watch youtube videos put out by Peak Perforance.
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