Yikes...he got on a plane twice...and more!This article from Detroit shocked me on many levels. Thankful this gentleman has recovered but.......
Surviving coronavirus with help from 'the only person I needed'
Yikes...he got on a plane twice...and more!This article from Detroit shocked me on many levels. Thankful this gentleman has recovered but.......
Surviving coronavirus with help from 'the only person I needed'
BBM in red -Virus needs water molecules to remain viable until entering a host.Yes. This has been in the medical literature since almost day 1 of this pandemic. I guess the medical terms or the words of doctors on TV (few as they have been) have not been enough to make this perfectly clear.
This is the reason for social distancing.
Talking, singing, yawning, breathing, sneezing coughing all spread the virus. Virus stays in the air longer in rooms without ventilation. Virus needs water molecules to remain viable until entering a host. Once it hits most surfaces, it starts its deterioration. No one knows exactly how long it lives in air in a closed, still room but the reason for those negative air pressure rooms in hospitals is so that virus-saturated air doesn't escape the room when a carer (with PPE) goes inside.
This is why public transportation is so prone to communicating the virus. Even if everyone were silent, without masks, if they are infected, they are slowly filling the entire vehicle (car, subway, airplane) with their virus. Viral load is real. If just one virion got into your house, you'd likely never notice it and even if you breathed it in, you'd probably be okay (unless very immune compromised). If someone just sneezed near you, you could be surrounded by a crowd of virus, even if several feet away.
But if millions of virions are sitting right outside your face, in the air - well, then, you're going to get a large viral load and become infected. The new Chinese study shows that 80% of people are either asymptomatic or have symptoms just like mine today (cough, no appetite, head congestion).
I have no reason to believe I have CV19, though, as my county has one of the lowest rates in California (95% of the people who presented with symptoms to local hospitals and were tested...are negative for CV19, it was just an ordinary cold).
At this point, in areas where the virus is established in, say 15-20% of the population, who are probably shedding for 2-3 weeks, then places like hospital lobbies and pharmacies and even grocery stores slowly build up a higher viral load. Even if the virus eventually ends up on the floor, denatured and dead, if enough people are in a space (just breathing), the virus will accumulate.
Talking, singing, coughing, yawning - all of these push more of the virus out. Animated talking is not good. Some people take really deep breaths before uttering a string of words, and virus is thereby increased as the deeper part of the lung participates in pushing virus out (that's often where infection is highest anyway).
Wear a mask, stay 6-10 feet away from a conversation partner, keep things brief - especially if that person seems to have a cold.
Also, wear gloves, as door handles, car door handles, credit card machines etc carry a good viral load (until someone disinfects them).
Oh no, I hope he'll be ok.U.K Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been taken to hospital for tests as a precaution. He has been self-isolating after being diagnosed with coronavirus - Source Sky News U.K
This article from Detroit shocked me on many levels. Thankful this gentleman has recovered but.......
Surviving coronavirus with help from 'the only person I needed'
U.K Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been taken to hospital for tests as a precaution. He has been self-isolating after being diagnosed with coronavirus - Source Sky News U.K
More at link MassachusettsBOURNE, Mass. —
A third field hospital to treat coronavirus patients in Massachusetts will be set up at Joint Base Cape Cod, according to Gov. Charlie Baker.
Baker made the announcement during his visit to the new COVID-19 drive-thru testing facility at Gillette Stadium, which will solely test local first responders.
Is it also possible that the numbers are peaking now? But they don't want the public to get complacent, so they are stretching it out longer-which makes sense, strategically?Yes - Cuomo was very clear about that in this morning's presser - Daily Mail is a day late and a bit skewed in its reporting, I think.
Cuomo used a visual to speak about how they aren't at the apex yet. The reason there was an apparent fall in deaths is due to reporting vagaries. The number of new cases does seem to be falling, but the number of tests being completed daily may vary, so that most public health models still say - April 9 is New York's peak and deaths will be above 800 just before and just after that date.
That's deaths where people have sought medical care and been tested - not all of the deaths.
I'm having a difficult time finding TP too. I gave up for now. I will think about it tomorrow (Scarlet O'hara)I don't get it either. I went out the other day to try to find some things I haven't been able to get yet with no success.
The manager told me they were mostly wiped out of supplies because of all the people coming in from NY and NJ. I had assumed it was local people from PA buying everything but apparently that is not the case.
It doesn't seem fair. So much for people staying home or not travelling between states. No wonder it spread so fast.
Maybe next week I will find some toilet paper.
I never understood the toilet paper hoarding.
I don't believe people who gather in large gatherings have the understanding or wherewithal to self-isolate for 14 days afterwards. In fact, they'll be back at some other large gathering within a week. They will be in your work place if you're an essential business or your state is open for business.
You'll be seeing them at an increasing number of funerals.
But, since most people are asymptomatic, they won't care, they won't get it and they won't change until forced to (and then some will still attempt to do it).
Haha! That's funny, my mom always called me "Scarlet," after her.I'm having a difficult time finding TP too. I gave up for now. I will think about it tomorrow (Scarlet O'hara)
U.K Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been taken to hospital for tests as a precaution. He has been self-isolating after being diagnosed with coronavirus - Source Sky News U.K