Wuhan virus (coronavirus) arrives in the USA

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Anonymous wrote:Praying for an early spring and warm, sunny weather.

We are supposed to have a warmer than normal spring.

Good.

Does warm weather really slow the spread? Or is this one of those myths?

I have heard that warm weather does slow Coronaviruses, in general, down.

Warm weather and alcohol....maybe a corona on a warm beach is, in fact, the antidote.

No. It's in the high eighties every day in Singapore. And they have a problem there.

Rainy season in Feb. Sunshine is a great sterilizer.

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Anonymous wrote:Snapshot of the situation in Lombardy:

Three hospitals: Lodi, Seriate and Crema, are coronavirus only hospitals.

Regional counselor tested positive for coronavirus (Mattinzoli); is in hospital now
all other members of the counsil are being tested now as they were all at a press conference together.

50 million allocated for hiring more nurses;

Counil members canceled a visit to the coronavirus hospitals because they are all being tested for COVID.

Lombardy Governor Fontana is in self isolation because staff member was positive; that employee is healing nicely; soon to be discharged to home.

positive news -- 2 patients have been discharged from hospital. However 7 deaths means total of 38 from this area have died.

medical staff from the military will be sent to help out

hospitals are under stress, 10 towns in the "red zone" completely shut down; companies are in difficulty.

Museums and libraries in Milan will reopen from Monday and Milan's cathedral will be opened but with caution, limiting access.

Patients discharged from hospitals but still positive will go to the Baggio military hospital in Milan to recover; asking for military doctors to help; don't know how many there will be or what their specialties will be.

positive cases of coronavirus in Lombardy 1,254, the hospitalized at 478, in addition to the people in intensive care who are 127. The asymptomatic positives are 472 and the deaths have risen to 38. For the latter it is treated in all the last cases of people over 80 years of age, all with related diseases and problems of a particular cardiological, nephrological or diabetic nature, "continued the councilor.

Increasing the number of intensive care units to around 200; already they have places for 140.
The increase will allow them to withstand the onslaught of new patients expected.

40 million euros allocated to buy machines (ventilators?) and 10 million to hire new doctos and nurses.

Weakest group is over 65 years of age; make up 53% of cases

68% of those in intensive care are over 65

Recommendation to those over 65 is to "make social life more rarefied: stay at home and reduce contacts with other people."

https://www.ecodibergamo.it/stories/bergamo-citta/243-casi-positivi-a-bergamocoronavirus-dati-aggiornati-in-lombardia_1343318_11

11 days into the emergency in Milan, we are changing our strategy.
Goal is to avoid further flooding in hospitals.
Three hospitals will be dedicated to coronavirus; won't rule out adding more.
Will purchase 62 more CPAP machines to use at the start of the illness to try to prevent patients needing to go to intensive care.
40 million euros for CPAP machines and basic necessities
10 million euros to hire 100 doctors and 200 nurses
2.5 million for hospitals serving the red zone
2 million for other area hospitals
1 million for "nosocomes"?

The Chinese donated to Lombardy 30 thousand four-ply masks, 600 ffp3 masks, 400 ffp2 and then 30 thousand disposable gloves

9,000 people in solitary confimement; some will be allowed to go to tyhe military Barracks of Bggion in Milan.

Those over age 65 encouraged "not to leave the house for two weeks and to minimize socializing".

Asking the Lombard mayors "to prepare a plan for the elderly, in particular for those who are alone and have no one who does their shopping or brings them medicines. We will ask the mayors to activate the voluntary associations that can help us in this regard".

Members of the council have tested negative for the virus.

https://www.lastampa.it/cronaca/2020/03/02/news/coronavirus-in-lombardia-per-l-emergenza-sanitaria-stanziati-40-milioni-arrivano-300-nuovi-assunti-tra-medici-e-infermieri-1.38541755

Once a city has close to 300 patients, then its health system will be overwhelmed and the situation is out of control. We have seen this repeatedly in China/Wuhan, Italy/Lombardy, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:Praying for an early spring and warm, sunny weather.

We are supposed to have a warmer than normal spring.

Good.

Does warm weather really slow the spread? Or is this one of those myths?

I have heard that warm weather does slow Coronaviruses, in general, down.

Warm weather and alcohol....maybe a corona on a warm beach is, in fact, the antidote.

I saw an expert with fancy degrees MDPHD I think interviewed and he said that is a myth. Instead in wearmer weather our nose is less likely to run due to something with blood vessels so we are less likely to catch viruses. They don't die off in summer.

That's interesting. It's a known fact that lots and lot of viruses are inactivated in sunlight, rabies being a stellar example.

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Anonymous wrote:This guy (a PhD from Duke) has a daily 30 min video every day on youtube that will answer many of your questions

I’ve been watching his videos since January. They are pretty informative.

He gets his sources and data off DCUM

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China reports its lowest new case number since January 22.

125 new cases, 31 deaths

Almost all are in Hubei province. This is excellent news.

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Likely case in Georgia. Governor will have a press conference at 10 pm that includes health experts.

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Anonymous wrote:This guy (a PhD from Duke) has a daily 30 min video every day on youtube that will answer many of your questions

I’ve been watching his videos since January. They are pretty informative.

Me too....hence was able to stack up on food and supplies starting mid-Jan.

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Anonymous wrote:This guy (a PhD from Duke) has a daily 30 min video every day on youtube that will answer many of your questions


[youtube] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNQB-Q67DpE[/youtube]

Dude is an economics blogger, not an epidemiologist.

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Anonymous wrote:Praying for an early spring and warm, sunny weather.

We are supposed to have a warmer than normal spring.

Good.

Does warm weather really slow the spread? Or is this one of those myths?

I have heard that warm weather does slow Coronaviruses, in general, down.

Warm weather and alcohol....maybe a corona on a warm beach is, in fact, the antidote.

I saw an expert with fancy degrees MDPHD I think interviewed and he said that is a myth. Instead in wearmer weather our nose is less likely to run due to something with blood vessels so we are less likely to catch viruses. They don't die off in summer.

That's interesting. It's a known fact that lots and lot of viruses are inactivated in sunlight, rabies being a stellar example.

Citation?

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Anonymous wrote:Oh, good grief. No one could have anticipated that this virus would have originated in China or that it would have spread the way it did. Millions of test of just supposed to miraculously appear out of thin air and into the hands all doctors and hospitals across the US?

Somehow the other countries are managing to do it...

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Anonymous wrote:China reports its lowest new case number since January 22.

125 new cases, 31 deaths

Almost all are in Hubei province. This is excellent news.

Yeah and the Chinese government never tries to hide information!

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Anonymous wrote:19 firefighters who responded to the Life Care nursing home in Washington are showing symptoms. Nineteen.

Also, Life Care FINALLY stopped accepting visitors and new patients this afternoon.

Wonder who Typhoid Mary is and whether or not she kept her travels (or her family's) to herself.

This is exactly why people don’t want to come forward.

Fear of lawsuits?

A-holes like PP.

How will you feel if this person was in an epicenter area and hid it so she could work?

The person would be less likely to conceal if people weren’t calling her “Typhoid Mary”.

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Doubt we will be out of the woods by summer.

https://time.com/5790880/coronavirus-warm-weather-summer/

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In a tweet, Andrew Cuomo orders health insurers in NY state to waive all co-pays for COVID-19 testing and treatment.

"BREAKING: I am announcing a new directive requiring NY health insurers to waive cost sharing associated with testing for #coronavirus, including emergency room, urgent care and office visits."

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Anonymous wrote:In a tweet, Andrew Cuomo orders health insurers in NY state to waive all co-pays for COVID-19 testing and treatment.

"BREAKING: I am announcing a new directive requiring NY health insurers to waive cost sharing associated with testing for #coronavirus, including emergency room, urgent care and office visits."

Great news, should go to good news thread.