new deadly human-to-human-transmissible coronavirus emerges out of China
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for Signy and myself
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-07/coronavirus-cases-
keep-rising-la-california-what-you-need-to-know
Coronavirus cases keep rising in Los Angeles, across California: Here is what you need to know
The latest: Counties continued to report more cases Friday. Some areas are seeing spread through community contact, such as Santa Clara, San Francisco and Solano. Here are the numbers as of Friday: Seven cases have been tied to people who were once on a cruise ship where there was a coronavirus outbreak. Stanford University is going to online classes after a faculty member tested positive.
Los Angeles
The latest: L.A. County confirmed two additional cases of the new coronavirus Friday, bringing the total to 13. The new cases still don’t point to community spread in Los Angeles County, L.A. County Department of Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said. She estimated that 50 people in the county have been tested for COVID-19 and emphasized that more tests are coming back negative than positive. The L.A. Marathon is still scheduled for Sunday.
• 8 cases involve a group of travelers who visited northern Italy, where coronavirus has cause widespread outbreaks.
• 2 are connected to close contact to a coronavirus patient.
• 2 are Los Angeles International Airport workers.
• 1 is a patient who lived in Wuhan, China.
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https://ca.news.yahoo.com/coronavirus-italy-sees-largest-daily-rise-de
aths-confirmed-181200199.html
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/coronavirus-canada-cases-184926838.html
I may have forgotten to mention there are no active cases remaining in WI, the only one recovered.
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This site
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
now says 14% of Active Cases are critical/serious, 6% of Closed cases are fatal.
DP cases have 7 deaths (back up to 7, but # of cases and serious/critical ar unchanged from yesterday - will this 7th become undead as well?). 245 recovered, 32 serious/critical.
Spain poised to surpass Diamond Princess for 7th place.
US is in 10th place, with 484 cases and 15 recoveries. 19 deaths.
Canada is tied for 24th place, with 64 cases, 8 recoveries. 0 deaths.
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Using hand sanitizer
It works. Use it often. Make sure it’s alcohol-based. at least 60% There are some “natural” products designed to be less drying to your hands. These do not work.
Washing hands
This is always important, but especially now. Wash your hands for 20 seconds, regularly. Note that soap works ideally in combination with scrubbing and heat, but cold water works far better than nothing. You do not need antibacterial soap; the coronavirus is a virus, not a bacterium. Antibacterial soap needs 6 minutes to do its job anyway. Nobody lets it sit on their hands for that long. In addition, the active ingredient has been liked to heart failure. imo nobody needs antibacterial soap - ever.
Cleaning hand towels
Wash them often, too. Or use paper towels.
Shaking hands
don't
Touching your face
Avoiding touching your face is a nice idea and would be very effective, but no one is going to stop touching their face. Use medical masks when out and about to remind yourself.
Using bathrooms
The dirtiest things you'll touch are the handles - toilet handles, faucet handles, paper towel dispenser handles, and door handles. I wash the paper towel dispenser handles when I wash my hands, and use paper towels to touch everything else afterwards. If the toilet had a lid, put the lid down before you flush. It'll avoid letting the flushing aerosol get all over the room.
Disinfecting common surfaces
The crux of all the focus on hand-washing is that you’re unlikely to get the virus from someone coughing or sneezing directly into your face. You are much more likely to catch the virus by touching something that someone else touched after coughing into their hand. This can partly be prevented by disinfecting surfaces. Not touching your face when you're out and about (use a mask) getting hands contaminated, then washing or sanitizing hands immediately on getting home works just as well, if you decontaminate things you routinely touch as well like your wallet and phone.
The most commonly touched surfaces in homes and offices, especially shared spaces, are priority. Countertops, remote controls, and refrigerator handles should be disinfected regularly. That said, it’s very possible to become compulsive about this in ways that have their own risks. Any given surface is very unlikely to harbor a dangerous virus, so it’s possible to overdo this and waste a lot of time, resources, and concern. But if you’re the sort to typically only clean things that look visibly dirty, do consider the invisible.
Cleaning phones
This one warrants its own special note because phone screens may be the surface we touch the most. Other, similar coronaviruses are known to live on glass for up to four days. If you’ve been touching your phone with viral hands, then you do a beautiful job washing those hands, and then you touch your phone again, you may have just recontaminated yourself. I’m not suggesting constantly cleaning your phone.
Wearing masks
Use procedure masks when out and about to remind yourself not to touch your face; or if you're ill.
Stockpiling prescription medications
Most U.S. prescription medications are made in China, whose own outbreak has raised concerns about medication supply chains. As of now, supplies have not been disrupted, and China is reporting declines in the spread of the virus. As with food, though, anyone who has a vital prescription and lives in a place where access would be affected by the single shutdown of a local pharmacy or a public-transit system, for example, should always have a small supply for emergencies. Health-care providers should help ensu
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The upshot - Signy's procedure - wear a procedure mask when out and about to remind you to not touch your face. Remove your mask then IMMEDIATELY sanitize or wash your hands when you get home. That way, you won't touch your face with potentially infectious hands.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/08/health/coronavirus-touching-your-fa
ce-trnd/index.html
One big coronavirus challenge is how to stop touching your face
It took a coronavirus outbreak to remind us that we touch our faces way too many times. And cutting down on that will help stop the spread of the virus, health officials say.
In 2015, a Sydney university observed medical students on video and recorded how many times they touched their faces. Each of the 26 future doctors under observation touched their faces an average 23 times per hour.
Nearly half of those times -- 44% -- involved contact with their eyes, nose or mouth.
Not touching your face is harder than it sounds
As we fight the coronavirus outbreak, which has killed 19 people in the US and more than 3,500 worldwide, officials are emphasizing all it takes is one touch for microbes on your fingers to slip into your body through your nostril, eyes or mouth.
"Viruses that affect the respiratory system enter the body through mucosal membranes which are found in the nose, oral cavity and lips. With poor hand hygiene, it's easy to acquire a viral infection this way," says Dr. Dawn Mueni Becker, an infectious disease specialist in Gainesville, Florida.
But we've been touching our faces all our lives, and stopping that habit is easier said than done.
On Friday, a video widely shared on social media showed a California health official touching her face during a news conference advising people not to do that as the coronavirus outbreak spreads.
"Start working on not touching your face, because one main way viruses spread is when you touch your own mouth, nose or eyes," she says. Then she licks her finger to flip to the next page of her remarks -- seemingly unaware she was not following her own advice.
Even one notorious self-proclaimed germaphobe can't help himself. "I haven't touched my face in weeks -- in weeks. I miss it," President Donald Trump said jokingly last week. He was photographed touching his face Monday.
Touching your face is at times tied to stress
Like most behaviors, constant face touching starts at a young age and becomes a habit over time. People touch their face for various reasons. One 2014 federal government study suggested it helps reduce stress and discomfort. "Spontaneous facial self-touch gestures are performed manifold every day by every human being, primarily in stressful situations," the study says. "These movements are not usually designed to communicate and are frequently accomplished with little or no awareness."
Touching your face is so common, there's a website that uses your webcam to notify you when you touch your face and keeps track of how many times you do it.
There are safe ways to touch your face
If you can't stop yourself, it's not the end of the world, Becker says. There are ways to lower your chances of infections from face touching. "Being conscious or aware of this habit is helpful when it comes to avoiding touching the face," Becker says. "Identifying triggers such as runny nose or urge to sneeze is important. In this case, having tissue close by is helpful -- it's better to use that to touch your face than bare hands."
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends washing your hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. If water is not available, you can use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol.
Soap and water are especially preferred if hands are visibly dirty, the CDC says, and especially after using the bathroom, blowing your
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lol
If that's what living is going to be like in the future just kill me now.
Never going to do any of that.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
OMG!!! I have to wash my hands!!!!
fixed it for you.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Happy New Year, WISHY. I edited out your psychopathic screed!
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That's OK. No one's telling you to, or even asking you to, Jack.
But some people who are not you might be interested.
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
OMG!!! I have to wash my hands!!!!
fixed it for you.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Happy New Year, WISHY. I edited out your psychopathic screed!
lol no.
That was 4 pages on ANSI paper in 12pt font of New Rules you're going to have to live by if you don't want cooties.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Gas prices by me were under $2 last night for the first time in over two years.
COVID is awesome.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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