COVID-19 Coronavirus UPDATES, BANS, CLOSURES, ADVISORY, etc.

[BRICKBURN]

I decided to do some investigation into this bug that is causing so many issues.

So, where did the name come from?

Naming the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and the virus that causes it
Official names have been announced for the virus responsible for COVID-19 (previously known as “2019 novel coronavirus”) and the disease it causes. The official names are:

Disease
coronavirus disease
(COVID-19)

Virus
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2)

ICTV announced “severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)” as the name of the new virus on 11 February 2020. This name was chosen because the virus is genetically related to the coronavirus responsible for the SARS outbreak of 2003. While related, the two viruses are different.


SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome)
Cause
SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV) – virus identified in 2003. SARS-CoV is thought to be an animal virus from an as-yet-uncertain animal reservoir, perhaps bats, that spread to other animals (civet cats) and first infected humans in the Guangdong province of southern China in 2002.
https://www.who.int/ith/diseases/sars/en/


Not sure why this surprised me. SARS was such a "big" issue in 03.

 

[Wheels]

This is not good news.



Coronavirus (COVID-19) Alerts
@coronaviruscare

Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at Erasmus MC, Rotterdam & Chairman, Dutch Association for Intensive Care, Dr Diederik Gommers, has confirmed that more than half of #COVID19 patients in Dutch ICUs are under 50 years old, including some young people.
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[Hogpatrol]

@Wheels, Don't know the particulars about those younger victims but I worked in a plant with over 3000 blue collar workers and I know many in their 30s and 40s who would have been perfect petri dishes for the Corona virus. They smoked, drank, did drugs, didn't get enough sleep and generally just ignored maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Having said that, it doesn't surprise me that young people are contracting the disease. I talked with my Dr. buddy and he told me of a myriad of diseases and certain prescription drugs that weaken the immune system, other factors that may have contributed to being a younger victim.

 

[lwaters]

Don't surprise me drugs and whores are legal in Holland. That may well in some big cities in the US. Glad I don't live in one.

 

[BRICKBURN]

It would be interesting to know how this group contracted the virus.
Travel or all night parties. Who knows.

 

[sgt_zim]

This is not good news.



Coronavirus (COVID-19) Alerts
@coronaviruscare

Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at Erasmus MC, Rotterdam & Chairman, Dutch Association for Intensive Care, Dr Diederik Gommers, has confirmed that more than half of #COVID19 patients in Dutch ICUs are under 50 years old, including some young people.
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While mortality rate is still fairly low, the need for acute care is much higher with this virus than a typical flu epidemic. Patients on ventilators have to be in ICUs, not on standard medical/surgical floors.

Patient:nurse ratio in ICU is either 2:1 or 1:1. You might see as high as 3:1 in more rural hospitals, but even that isn't very common. On a med/surg ward, I've had as many as 8 patients in a shift (though 5-7 was much more common).

This is the 800# gorilla which could cause some real problems and bump the mortality rate, as someone mentioned earlier - simply a lack of ICU beds.

 

[Brent in Az]

https://regenexx.com/blog/coronavirus-myths-debunked/

 

[Wheels]

It would be interesting to know how this group contracted the virus.
Travel or all night parties. Who knows.

Probably community spread.

I have a bad feeling that this weeks North American spring break parties will cause an exponential explosion that will offset the self quarantining the rest of us are doing.

 

[Wheels]

While mortality rate is still fairly low, the need for acute care is much higher with this virus than a typical flu epidemic. Patients on ventilators have to be in ICUs, not on standard medical/surgical floors.

Patient:nurse ratio in ICU is either 2:1 or 1:1. You might see as high as 3:1 in more rural hospitals, but even that isn't very common. On a med/surg ward, I've had as many as 8 patients in a shift (though 5-7 was much more common).

This is the 800# gorilla which could cause some real problems and bump the mortality rate, as someone mentioned earlier - simply a lack of ICU beds.

This is where America has a comparative advantage over most. Data is obviously older than I would like but it is all I could find.

 

[BRICKBURN]

Probably community spread.

I have a bad feeling that this weeks North American spring break parties will cause an exponential explosion that will offset the self quarantining the rest of us are doing.

The pictures of the cram packed airports of people repatriating is the thing that had me...

 

[Standard Velocity]

What can we call Gen-X and Millennials? Already had the lost generation, the greatest generation and the silent generation. Maybe the selfish generation?

"The nation's top infectious disease researchers have repeatedly warned, if not begged, Americans to practice social distancing as the contagious coronavirus spreads through the population.

That's because, due to a woeful lack of testing in the nation, no one knows how many Americans are infected — and the resulting respiratory disease (COVID-19) is 10 times more lethal than the flu. Sunday morning, Marc Lipsitch, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Harvard University, emphasized this point, noting that the true number of infections is certainly "much higher" than confirmed cases.

But, though some folks are social distancing, many still clearly aren't. Some are even actively bragging about not doing it. This weekend, journalists and others reported that bars across the nation were packed in Boston, Chicago, Nashville, and New York City.

For those eager to ignore the recommendations of scientists who have squelched deadly virus epidemics in the past — like immunologist Mark Cameron who helped put SARS to rest— consider this: Between 20 to 60 percent of adults globally are expected to become infected, and some 15 percent of cases are severe or critical. It is people over 60 who are most vulnerable. So stopping the virus' spread will help your older relatives or parents from falling extremely ill, or worse.


"Social distancing is based on the principle of altruism," Jason Farley, a nurse practitioner for the Division of Infectious Diseases AIDS Service at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, told Mashable last week. "Treating everyone around you like it’s your 80-year-old grandmother is the circumstance we need to think about."

Many people — perhaps unaware they can walk around infected but without any symptoms for some five days or longer — clearly aren't considering the societal notion of altruism during a pandemic:"
BY MARK KAUFMAN1 DAY AGO"​

Source: https://apple.news/A7Ow32oFERv2ofRlNtqgt1A

 

[BRICKBURN]

"Hospital bed shortages amid COVID-19 expose the deadly cost of a lack of vision

To understand the heartbreaking consequences of governments stuck in short-term thinking, listen to Christian Salaroli, the 48-year-old anesthesiologist who serves as the medical director of a hospital in the alpine city of Bergamo in northern Italy, where the novel coronavirus pandemic is peaking.

“Some of us are crushed – the primary physicians, the newly arrived young people who find themselves in the early morning having to decide the fate of a human being,” he told the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. His job every morning is to go through the packed emergency ward and decide who, among the scores of new patients, will be admitted to the few intensive-care beds and hooked up to the hospital’s extremely limited supply of ventilators – and which ones will be left to their fate."

DOUG SAUNDERS
BERLIN
PUBLISHED MARCH 13, 2020
Globe and Mail Opinion Piece.

 

[Wheels]

The pictures of the cram packed airports of people repatriating is the thing that had me...

Governments make a decision at the top, then don't give time for the grunts that do the real work to implement the plan. It would have been fairly easy to pull in a TSA supervisor from Dulles to be part of the decision making. Give the supervisors and workers a day to rework schedules to handle demand. The good news is the photos put blame right where it belongs. Right back in the decision makers laps.

I do feel for the people waiting seven hours on their feet to clear customs. Ridiculous.

 

[Standard Velocity]

Governments make a decision at the top, then don't give time for the grunts that do the real work to implement the plan. It would have been fairly easy to pull in a TSA supervisor from Dulles to be part of the decision making. Give the supervisors and workers a day to rework schedules to handle demand. The good news is the photos put blame right where it belongs. Right back in the decision makers laps.

I do feel for the people waiting seven hours on their feet to clear customs. Ridiculous.

Surely there could be a more orderly way to get people back home. Maybe by age and infirmity (health issues, 60+ and 12- out first along with family) followed by everyone else? There’s a fine line between quick action and going off half cocked.

 

[BRICKBURN]

Governments make a decision at the top, then don't give time for the grunts that do the real work to implement the plan. It would have been fairly easy to pull in a TSA supervisor from Dulles to be part of the decision making. Give the supervisors and workers a day to rework schedules to handle demand. The good news is the photos put blame right where it belongs. Right back in the decision makers laps.

I do feel for the people waiting seven hours on their feet to clear customs. Ridiculous.

I think they should rework the screening procedures to be completed in this government building:

Filled with highly paid experts ready to help.
Multiple Aisles.
Plenty of seating.
Large halls to wait in line.
Plenty of parking out front.

 

[Wheels]

I think they should rework the screening procedures to be completed in this government building:
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Filled with experts ready to help.
Multiple Aisles.
Plenty of seating.
Large halls to wait in line.
Plenty of parking out front.

I can think of 535 public servants that should be required to help!

 

[DieJager]

Don't surprise me drugs and whores are legal in Holland. That may well in some big cities in the US. Glad I don't live in one.

Do not know where you got your information from but as a Dutchmen from the Netherlands ( Holland are two provinces) drugs are not legal. Even the weed is not(technically). Prostitution is legal. To blame on that is way to simplistic.

 

[Mike Van Horn]

Maybe those people standing in lines for hours in airports should have takin responsibility for themselves a week ago and gotten out of areas with high rates of infection. Instead of waiting until the ban and than blaming someone else for their ignorance.

 

[YancyW]

"Hospital bed shortages amid COVID-19 expose the deadly cost of a lack of vision

To understand the heartbreaking consequences of governments stuck in short-term thinking, listen to Christian Salaroli, the 48-year-old anesthesiologist who serves as the medical director of a hospital in the alpine city of Bergamo in northern Italy, where the novel coronavirus pandemic is peaking.

“Some of us are crushed – the primary physicians, the newly arrived young people who find themselves in the early morning having to decide the fate of a human being,” he told the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. His job every morning is to go through the packed emergency ward and decide who, among the scores of new patients, will be admitted to the few intensive-care beds and hooked up to the hospital’s extremely limited supply of ventilators – and which ones will be left to their fate."

DOUG SAUNDERS
BERLIN
PUBLISHED MARCH 13, 2020
Globe and Mail Opinion Piece.

I have noticed as stories like this continue to come to light, the "it's only the flu people" are increasing quiet.

 

[BRICKBURN]

Maybe those people standing in lines for hours in airports should have takin responsibility for themselves a week ago and gotten out of areas with high rates of infection. Instead of waiting until the ban and than blaming someone else for their ignorance.

To play devils advocate here: If you can tell me what President Trump will say next Thursday at 3 PM, I'll agree with you and blame the people out travelling.