Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #39

[Chelly]

I've been retired for a few years, and live alone...honestly I believe that my natural cycle, the one my body wants, is to sleep from 4am to 9 am. I don't like that, but there it is.

Hey, me too, retired, live alone. Body won't give in to a good sleep until around 3 a.m.

 

[WideOpen]

South Carolina

Folly Beach bars visitors again during coronavirus pandemic hours after reopening island

jmo

 

[Henry2326]

Haven't read further but did they get some of the new tests at 50k/day to jump to that number? Or are they old tests that take longer? This is so darn hard to analyse. Prepare for is easier. That's a jump imo I'm holding on to the 50k per day rapid tests.

I picked up on it when it was at 46,800 a couple of days ago.

 

[10ofRods]

And lookie here, news just in:

China donates medical supplies to Canada amid coronavirus pandemic, Embassy says

China donates medical supplies to Canada amid coronavirus pandemic, Embassy says

Canada has been much nicer to China.

Karma. Current foreign policy may have be re-examined.

South Carolina

Folly Beach bars visitors again during coronavirus pandemic hours after reopening island

jmo

Well good! - I wonder why? Sensible people afraid of dying? Or already obvious that there are way more coughing.sneezy people at the beach?

 

[LadyL]

I was too weak to do it cold turkey.

not weak at all
whatever works

 

[Henry2326]

WASHINGTON

#US #WA King County "If an individual who has #COVID-19 symptoms with a test pending is not remaining self-quarantined," @DocJeffD said, "they may be subject to enforcement actions, which could include legal actions for involuntary detention." Live: Coronavirus daily news updates, March 28: What to know today about COVID-19 in the Seattle area, Washington state and the nation

COVID19 on Twitter

 

[mickey2942]

Crow and Northern Cheyenne tribes issue stay-at-home orders

This article is worded very carefully, where they are checking the ID of every one who leaves and comes in. Sounds to me, that if you don't live there, you are not getting through.

Where coronavirus could find a refuge: Native American reservations

I agree with this, at some point, the virus will explode on reservations.

Indian Health Service isn't consistent on all reservations, reporting will be all over the map.

Workers battle coronavirus — and jiní — at epicenter - Navajo Times

 

[Best of What's Around]

FLORIDA

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Florida is doubling every three days, putting the state on a trajectory to see tens of thousands of infections in the coming weeks, a Tampa Bay Times analysis shows.

But at this point, experts say the math is simple. The number of cases is already past the point of easy containment and infections are growing faster and faster, at what statisticians call an exponential rate.

“We do understand the math and the models well enough to say with great confidence that Florida is going to have a huge public health crisis,” Hladish said. “And we are just at the beginning of it right now.”

By 11 a.m. Saturday, Florida had reported more than 3,700 cases — an increase of nearly 1,000 in 24 hours.

Florida remains one of the few states with a large outbreak not to issue a statewide order to keep residents at home. Several counties across the state, including Hillsborough and Pinellas, issued “safer at home” orders in the last week.

Some public health experts say it will take the more extreme step of shutting down the state to halt the disease’s rapid spread in Florida. Nine hundred Florida healthcare workers had signed a petition by Friday asking for the same thing.

Florida coronavirus cases are growing fast. Here’s what that means.

Yikes, and they are worried about NYers coming down? It is way too late for that IMO. Akin to rushing to shut the barn door after the animals have all escaped and are cavorting on the nearby beaches...

I was born and raised in FL. Very worried about the high senior population in FL - to me, it is an Italy just waiting to happen and I fear they are going to be too late when they finally really shut things down there.

 

[Boston Corbett]

Jim Sciutto
@jimsciutto

New: NYPD has nearly 700 positive coronavirus cases; about 12% of the workforce out sick

 

[Chelly]

Yep.... They ain't dumb and they do like to diversify their businesses.....moo

Maybe they will sell us a few of their ventilators. Or, maybe make a trade

 

[JaneEyre]

South Carolina

Folly Beach bars visitors again during coronavirus pandemic hours after reopening island

jmo

Duh. What the H is wrong with them? Seriously, you see something happening next door and continue to believe it won’t come to yours. I’m becoming more and more convinced that an awful lot of idiots are in charge.

 

[Henry2326]

Johns Hopkins CSSE (@JHUSystems) now produces county-level COVID-19 data for the US. Here is a loop of the last week of *confirmed* COVID-19 cases: Tomer Burg on Twitter
Tomer Burg on Twitter

 

[cody22]

Johns Hopkins CSSE (@JHUSystems) now produces county-level COVID-19 data for the US. Here is a loop of the last week of *confirmed* COVID-19 cases: Tomer Burg on Twitter
Tomer Burg on Twitter

Once again, thanks for all the news links, Henry......moo

 

[LadyL]

gnite all
tomorrow is another chance to get it right
#stayhome

 

[Henry2326]

NEW YORK

While heroic staffers beg for protective equipment and don garbage bags to treat coronavirus patients at a Mount Sinai hospital, two of the system’s top executives are waiting out the public health catastrophe in the comfort of their Florida vacation homes, The Post has learned.

Dr. Kenneth Davis, 72, the CEO of the Mount Sinai Health System who pulled down nearly $6 million in compensation in 2018, is ensconced in his waterfront mansion near Palm Beach.

Davis has been in the Sunshine State for weeks and is joined by Dr. Arthur Klein, 72, president of the Mount Sinai Health Network, who owns an oceanfront condo in Palm Beach.

As the duo work from “home,” the Upper East Side-based hospital system seems to be imploding.

Mount Sinai West assistant nursing manager Kious Kelly succumbed Tuesday to COVID-19; maintenance workers scrambled to create patient pods in the main hospital’s vast lobby to deal with patient overflow, and specialists were called to the front lines to treat the sick.

A photo of nurses at Mount Sinai West near Columbus Circle wearing trash bags because they said there were no more gowns highlighted the dire supply shortage. City Council Speaker Corey Johnson called the photos and situation “shameful and shocking.”

Some nurses continued to say they lacked personal protective equipment Thursday despite claims by the hospital administration, and even Gov. Andrew Cuomo at his daily briefing, that there were enough supplies.

But staffers across the system talked about hospitals under siege.

“People come in, they get intubated, they die, the cycle repeats,” Dr. Steve Kasspidis, of Mount Sinai Queens in Astoria, told Sky News. “The system is overwhelmed all over the place.”


The head of the New York State Nurses Association blasted the ghost leaders.

“How can you inspire confidence in your employees who are in the front lines of the epicenter that you have their best interests at heart when you are 1,000 miles away? Even more important, what are you doing to procure the PPE that is proven to save lives of caregivers and, ultimately, the patients we care for? We are not protected. And every day it is getting worse,” said Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez, the union president.

Davis, reached at his six-bedroom, eight-bathroom home by The Post Friday, said he was told by his own doctor to stay in Florida because he was older than 70. He said he was already there on a fundraising trip for the hospital “before this started.”

Mount Sinai hospital leaders holed up in Florida vacation homes during coronavirus crisis

 

[Dontknow?]

So true. They know it too. For pharma, for medical equipment and supplies (does anyone really think GM is going to switch over to just making ventilators - if they ever make any?)

For tubing, for dials, for all kinds of metrical equipment but also masks, gloves, sutures, oxymeters, blood pressure monitors, ventilators, monitors in general, etc.

Oh - and phones, computers, routers, servers etc.

I would think it would take quite a few manufacturers to produce parts for the ventilators and hope they do it fast! It's improving hopefully.

 

[RANCH]

WHAT??! I LOVE this.
Rhode Island Governor Announces National Guard Will Go 'Door-to-Door' to Identify New Yorkers to Slow COVID-19 Spread

Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo announced during a press conference on Friday that the state would take drastic steps to “pin-point” individuals who had recently traveled to New York in an attempt to stem the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

“Right now we have a pin-pointed risk that we need to address and we need to be very serious. And that risk is called New York City,” she said. Over the past week, New York has become the epicenter of the coronavirus crisis in the United States. As of Saturday afternoon Eastern Time, New York had at least 52,318 confirmed cases of COVID-19, according to a tracker by Johns Hopkin’s University; that’s nearly half of the at least 115,547 cases in the entire United States. In comparison, Rhode Island currently has at least 203 confirmed cases, per the tracker.

What will they do to the people they identify as going from New York?

Lock them up somewhere against their will?

 

[BeckyF]

I’m contemplating adopting a puppy, but not 100% sure.
My gal is completely deaf due to fireworks a few years ago. Sadly she was fine 07/04 until a neighbor had a commercial firework event, the next day she kept tipping over & shaking her head. I had no idea what was wrong until I opened the fridge & she failed to hear me, then I knew. She’s also old & chubby, idk if she’d like a child dog around. I can’t foster, I would never be able to give the dog up. It would be too emotional. I’m really concerned too many dogs will wind up in shelters. Can Purina not send out vouchers? Send one to every address, anyone without animals can give theirs away. Moo

I have a little 1 year old dog. I never would have thought 10 months ago when I got him how much comfort he would be bringing me these last few weeks. He is so innocent and unaware of all this turmoil going on. I have to stay healthy so that I can take care of him.

 

[NuttMegg]

Johns Hopkins CSSE (@JHUSystems) now produces county-level COVID-19 data for the US. Here is a loop of the last week of *confirmed* COVID-19 cases: Tomer Burg on Twitter
Tomer Burg on Twitter

I really don't understand the rationale of opening up the lower density counties with fewer cases
1 They are all going to be exposed eventually anyway
And
2 The buying power and industry is in the populated, more infected counties.

 

[Henry2326]

MARYLAND

Sixty-six residents of a senior home in Carroll County, Maryland, have #coronavirus: NBC
#Covid_19
Zaid Sabah on Twitter

Tonight, Maryland has experienced a tragic #coronavirus outbreak at Pleasant View Nursing Home in Mount Airy," Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said in a statement Saturday night: NBC

Eleven of the 66 residents who tested positive for #Coronavirus are hospitalized at Carroll County Hospital and Frederick Memorial Hospital, the county health department said.

Zaid Sabah on Twitter