new deadly human-to-human-transmissible coronavirus emerges out of China
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http://www.publichealth.lacounty.gov/media/Coronavirus/
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Not only is hand sanitizr missing, so is rubbing alcohol (the active ingredient). There's a lot of misinformation "out there" which results in people buying or making sanitizers with ineffective concentrations of alcohol, which is a great way to waste alcohol
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
My old man said that last night there was only one bottle of Purel left on Amazon going for $60.
I guess people are just going to have to wash their hands with soap like normal human beings for now.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Sanitizer is great for situations where you can't leave your work station (like assembly line), for high-contact jobs like receptionists, fast food, and cashiers, where you have close minute-by-minute contact with lots of people (like caregivers, EMTs etc) and aren't always near a sink or can't wash your hands every minute.
Same goes for masks (not even respirators) which at least keeps those people from touching their faces. Everyone who MUST work with a lot of people should have a mask and sanitizer at their work station. It just seems like a job requirement nowadays.
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Happy New Year, WISHY. I edited out your psychopathic screed!
It's more important for people who are doing a bathroom remodel from the 60's or 70's to have a mask.
How many bathrooms were remodeled this week where the workers were exposed to asbestos and who knows what because they couldn't buy any?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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There are 'respirators' like the N95 masks, and there are 'procedure' masks like this: 
The 'procedure' masks keeps the person wearing them from infecting anyone else, they don't filter anything out of the air you breathe in like the N95 does. One is not like the other. 
When it comes to coronavirus, aside from keeping people from giving infections to others, the 'procedure' masks area good way to keep people from touching their faces, which can keep them from infecting themselves through contaminated hands.
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https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/coronavirus-what-is-happening-in
-italy/#slide-1
Italy had 62 coronavirus cases on February 22, and two-and-half weeks later it has more than 10,000 cases, with more than 600 people dead and the country on lockdown. What happened?
What happened? Unlike here, Italy was able to mass-test whole swathes of the population. That's how the cases went up so dramatically. At a minimum, Italy tested 10,000 per week. If we were to be able to mass-test people, I wonder what our numbers would be. And then, of course, there was that explosive viral spread.
https://www.itv.com/news/2020-03-11/italy-doctors-coronavirus-covid-19
-quarantine-milan-health/
https://www.euronews.com/2020/03/12/coronavirus-italy-doctors-forced-t
o-prioritise-icu-care-for-patients-with-best-chance-of-s
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11135177/italy-coronavirus-lockdown-pani
c-buying-looting/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8101135/Intensive-care-units-
stop-treating-elderly-coronavirus-outbreak-worsens.html
Italy announces all shops except pharmacies and food outlets will be CLOSED as coronavirus death toll climbs by 31% to 827 in 24 hours and intensive care units are advise to stop treating the elderly
https://www.businessinsider.com/medical-staff-frontlines-of-italy-coro
navirus-outbreak-work-days-2020-3
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https://www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/study-estimates-covid-19-may-hav
e-infected-over-9000-in-us/
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/coronavirus-what-is-happening-in
-italy/#slide-1
Italy had 62 coronavirus cases on February 22, and two-and-half weeks later it has more than 10,000 cases, with more than 600 people dead and the country on lockdown. What happened?
What happened? Unlike here, Italy was able to mass-test whole swathes of the population. That's how the cases went up so dramatically. At a minimum, Italy tested 10,000 per week. If we were to be able to mass-test people, I wonder what our numbers would be. And then, of course, there was that explosive viral spread.
Can we expect even adequte testing capacity anytime soon?
It looks like no.
https://www.newsmax.com/us/anthony-fauci-testing-system-cdc/2020/03/12
/id/958093/
Dr. Anthony Fauci: US Virus Testing System Is 'Failing'
"The system is not really geared to what we need right now; that is a failing, let's admit it," Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health told a House committee hearing Thursday. "The idea of anybody getting it easily the way people in other countries are doing it, we're not set up for that. Do I think we should be? Yes. But we're not."
The effort initially was hobbled by delays in getting testing kits out to public health labs, but the stumbles have continued, leading scientists to conclude that the virus has already spread far wider than government officials are reporting.
U.S. health officials, for example, promised nearly a month ago to tap into a national network of labs that monitor for flu. That system still isn’t up and running.
Large-scale testing is a critical part of tracking the spread of infectious diseases and allocating resources for treatment. The lack of comprehensive figures means U.S. health providers could quickly be overwhelmed by undetected cases.
As of Thursday afternoon, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was reporting about 1,260 U.S. illnesses — a number that trailed independent researchers, who are adding reports from individual states more quickly.
But some experts believe any number based on test results of individual patients is a dramatic undercount. Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles this week estimated that the true count of infections was close to 9,000 — about two weeks ago.
"I expect there are more infected individuals now," said one of the researchers, Dr. Jonathan Braun. "This means that the level of disease in the U.S. is much greater than has been reported by actual testing."
The problem, these experts say: the U.S. simply is not testing enough people.
There are no official numbers from the federal government on the country's overall testing capacity. One of the only comprehensive estimates comes from Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former FDA commissioner who is now a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank.
As of Thursday, his group estimated U.S. labs could process results for more than 20,000 patient per day. The figure is based on a combination of publicly reported information and historical estimates from government, private and academic labs. It reflects the total number of patient results that could be processed in a day, not the current number being run.
Whatever the actual number, the U.S. effort is trailing other nations.
South Korea, a country one-sixth the size of the U.S. in terms of population, is reportedly testing 15,000 people per day. CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield noted that officials there are using automated, high-volume testing systems capable of processing thousands of samples at a time. In contrast, the equipment used by most U.S. state and local labs requires technicians to manually process each sample in small batches, sometimes 100 or fewer per day.
The testing process in the U.S. requires mixing various chemicals to set
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https://ca.news.yahoo.com/coronavirus-canada-cases-184926838.html
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tom-hanks-rita-wilson-and-other-ce
lebrities-with-the-coronavirus-expert-explains-why-they-make-pandemic-feel-more-real-201949166.html
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https://ca.news.yahoo.com/sophie-gregoire-justin-trudeau-coronavirus-t
est-160504450.html
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This site
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
now says 10% of Active Cases are critical/serious, 7% of Closed cases are fatal.
11th ranked Diamond Princess cases have 7 deaths. 325 recovered, 32 serious/critical.
Switzerland, Norway have surpassed Diamond Princess.
Japan, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, UK seem ready to jump past Diamond Princess.
US is in 8th place, with 1,679 cases and 30 recoveries. 40 deaths.
Canada is 24th place, with 142 cases, 11 recoveries. 1 death.
I would like to point out that, of locations on this list with more than 100 cases, US, Canada, and Maylaysia have the lowest per capita cases.
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JSF, thanks for the updates!
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Quote:In Pierce County, River Falls is a University of Wisconsin campus in the far west of the state, near Minneapolis.
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Separately, Here in WI we have 2 new cases, up from 0 active. In Pierce Co and Dane Co (Madison.) Both cases are from traveling in America.
These 2 cases were from travelling in unspecified locations in America, but both were in spots with current community spread (CA, WA, NYC).
Yesterday 3 more cases in WI. 2 in Fond Du Lac County (south end of Lake Winnebago) and 1 in Waukesha Co (western suburbs of Milwaukee, and wealthiest County in WI - a Firefly restaurant is there.) 1 of the FDL cases was from travel in US, the other 2 were from international travel to known hot spots.
Today 2 more cases, in Dane Co, both having contact with the 2nd WI case, found earlier this week in Dane Co (Madison).
But this warms my heart.
https://www.tmj4.com/news/national/coronavirus/wisconsin-national-guar
d-mobilized-to-transport-37-wisconsinites-on-board-grand-princess-cruise-ship
Saving Wisconsinites from the horrors of California.
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