Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #37

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ITALY.....but California has 48,600 pending tests....

#Italy continues testing ~ 27K per day, which is a massive rate & it is not a surprise that new #Covid19 cases could grow, albeit at slower rate. GROWTH in daily deaths are certainly down, for now, & that is a wholly good thing. @Maryyzzhao (((Howard Forman))) on Twitter

(((Howard Forman))) on Twitter
 
WHO THE HECK HANDS OVER THEIR GUNS IN THE MIDDLE OF A BATTLE....THIS IS INSANE!!

The White House says it’s going publish new guidelines on maintaining, increasing, and relaxing social distancing.
Key point: counties will be designated as high, medium, and low risk.
But the White House is not suggesting that there be travel restrictions between counties. Yashar Ali on Twitter

Yashar Ali on Twitter
 

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Today I learned from a friend about an interesting inhaled drug being tested that "could protect people [like health care workers] in close contact with patients who have COVID-19 from contracting the illness caused by the new coronavirus."

"The drug, delivered as an aerosol known as PUL-042, was created by biopharmaceutical company Pulmotect, MD Anderson Cancer Center and Texas A&M, which have worked together to develop the drug for more than a decade. PUL-042 has been tested on mice and had limited human trials in the United Kingdom...."
'Clorox' for the airways: Houston researchers test new drug

Here is some info about the upcoming phase 2 clinical trial:
"Adults who have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 infection and are under observation or admitted to a controlled facility (such as a hospital) will receive PUL-042 Inhalation Solution or placebo up to 3 times over a one week period in addition to their normal care. Subjects will be be followed and assessed for their clinical status over a 14 day period with follow up at 28 days to see if PUL-042 Inhalation Solution improves the clinical outcome."
The Use of PUL-042 Inhalation Solution to Reduce the Severity of COVID-19 in Adults Positive for SARS-CoV-2 Infection - Full Text View - ClinicalTrials.gov

This sounds very promising to me!
 
Our grocery list wasn't huge. We opted to walk to the grocery store. It wasn't busy at all.

There were eggs. Lots of eggs in the cooler. Good sign!

And lots of neat blue 6 ft apart "stepping stones" for all the checkout lanes.
 
NJ

President Donald Trump approved a Major Disaster Declaration for New Jersey, making federal funding available to the state to aid in the response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Gov. Phil Murphy had requested the declaration in recent days as the Garden State remains one of the states most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, with over 4,000 cases and 62 deaths. ( a lot more now)

Murphy was on a video conference with Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and state governors from around the country, where he thanked the president for approving the declaration.

The Garden State joins New York, Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Iowa, Louisiana, Washington and California in getting the declaration.

NJ gets 'Major Disaster' status, federal funding on the way to help coronavirus response
 
NEW YORK

Governor Cuomo says #coronavirus cases will peak in NYC in 2-3 weeks (roughly Easter). Our models consistently diverge from that. We have cases peaking in NYC the first week of May. Discrepancy based on interpretation of limited testing & success of physical distancing measures.
Matt McCarthy on Twitter
 
Our beloved Ben (for those that don't know him, we here started following him on thread #1 or #2, as he was the first to do Youtubes from Wuhan on lockdown to document, he's single and from Ireland :p) has done a post about his THIRD lockdown...

 
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"Ah crap, I put the zeroes in the wrong place again. Dammit!" - Neil Ferguson yesterday.

Don't sweat it, bud. We all make trillion dollar mistakes.

March 17th- The Imperial College London group led by Neil Ferguson reported that if nothing was done by governments and individuals and the pandemic remained uncontrolled, 510,000 would die in Britain and 2.2 million in the United States over the course of the outbreak.

March 25th-
Epidemiologist Neil Ferguson, who created the highly-cited Imperial College London coronavirus model, has been cited by organizations like The New York Times and has been instrumental in governmental policy decision-making, offered a massive revision to his model on Wednesday.

Ferguson’s model projected 2.2 million dead people in the United States and 500,000 in the U.K. from COVID-19 if no action were taken to slow the virus and blunt its curve.

Ferguson now says both that the U.K. should have enough ICU beds and that the coronavirus will probably kill under 20,000 people in the U.K. — more than 1/2 of whom would have died by the end of the year in any case [because] they were so old and sick.

Ferguson is presenting drastically downgraded estimates, revealing that far more people likely have the virus than his team figured. Now, the epidemiologist predicts, hospitals will be just fine taking on COVID-19 patients and estimates 20,000 or far fewer people will die from the virus itself or from its agitation of other ailments, as reported by New Scientist Wednesday.

Ferguson thus dropped his prediction from 500,000 dead to 20,000.

Epidemiologist Behind Highly-Cited Coronavirus Model Drastically Revises Model
 
<modsnip: quoted post was removed> LE departments are putting out alerts they are limiting their response to calls. People are afraid with hundreds of inmates released daily. Moo. Sure, they are not violent offenders, but how many are jobless, homeless & lack resources? Moo
 
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Barr: Federal Prisons Mustn't Become 'Petri Dishes' For Coronavirus
March 26, 2020 | 2:13 PM ET
The U.S. Bureau of Prisons could begin sending home some of its oldest and most at-risk inmates as part of its response to the coronavirus pandemic, Attorney General Bill Barr said on Thursday.
[...]
Barr also pointed out that there are about 20,000 people over 60 in the federal prison population — the group considered at greatest risk in the pandemic.
[...]
 
justbeachy said:
Question: my daughter will be 19 in April and in order to have access to her medical information or, God forbid, need to make medical decisions for her, I will need a temporary power of attorney. I did a google search for free forms (Florida), but the options are overwhelming.

Has anyone downloaded legal forms online from a reputable website that you could direct me to? TIA!
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Quoting my own post in case anyone else needs a healthcare power of attorney. The American Bar Association has one on their website:

Giving Someone a Power of Attorney for Your Healthcare (multi-state guide and form)
 
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