That's my Hometown company, getting a clue.
While absolutely true, there is LOTS of scut work they can do while learning "on the job". Admittedly, I'm not sure if the overall result will be better or worse for the experienced professionals already doing the job. But it would seem the baby nurses could do everything from changing beds to paperwork, as well as running for supplies and answering call bells, freeing up the experienced staff for the more technical aspects.
See also, "Florida Man"...
Jackals waiting for the Coronavirus lion to weaken their prey for them.
Dem Rep. Told Colleagues Coronavirus Bill Is ‘Tremendous Opportunity to Restructure Things to Fit Our Vision’
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) worked to scupper the phase-three coronavirus relief package on Sunday after Majority Whip James Clyburn (D., S.C.) told caucus members last week that the bill was “a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision.”Clyburn’s comments came...www.yahoo.com
Dem Rep. Told Colleagues Coronavirus Bill Is ‘Tremendous Opportunity to Restructure Things to Fit Our Vision’
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National Review•March 23, 2020
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) worked to scupper the phase-three coronavirus relief package on Sunday after Majority Whip James Clyburn (D., S.C.) told caucus members last week that the bill was “a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision.”
Clyburn’s comments came on a Thursday call featuring more than 200 House Democrats, during which caucus members laid out a list of provisions they wanted to be included in the Senate’s trillion-dollar package.
Republicans have said that Democrats have reportedly demanded increased bargaining powers for unions, as well as environmental regulations for airlines and more wind and solar tax credits.
A bit of a clap back from republicans. pic.twitter.com/8iiwtHs4HC
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) March 23, 2020
Pelosi flew into Washington, D.C. over the weekend to add demands to negotiations, a move that Senate Republicans have cited as the reason why the procedural vote to fast-track the legislation fell by a party-line vote on Sunday night.
Speaking after the vote, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) slammed Democrats for playing politics in a time of crisis.
“All of a sudden, the Democratic leader and the speaker of the House shows up and we’re back to square one,” McConnell said, saying the shift amounted to “obstruction.”
“We’re fiddling here, fiddling with the emotions of the American people, fiddling with the markets, fiddling with our health care. The American people expect us to act tomorrow,” McConnell said. “And I want everybody to fully understand if we aren’t able to act, it’ll be because of our colleagues on the other side continuing to dicker when the country expects us to come together and address this problem.
And I just started taking blood pressure medication five days ago...People who suffer from hypertension appear to be very susceptible to the coronavirus, according to figures from Italy’s epidemiology institute.
The institute is releasing details about who is dying from the disease in Italy, which has seen the most fatalities of any country. One of the interesting details refers to the victims’ underlying health conditions, so-called comorbidities.
The data up to 20 March shows that almost 75% of people who died suffered from hypertension, or high blood pressure. Almost 34% had diabetes. Only 1.2 % of cases had no comorbidities.
Photograph: Epicentro ISS
The data shows the vast majority are aged over 70.
Spain overtakes China as second worst-hit country by Covid-19 – as it happened
India locks down; Prince Charles tests positive for coronavirus; Senate and White House reach stimulus deal. This blog is now closedwww.theguardian.com
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Further proof that nurses are the utterly amazing human beings that I see in action in hospitals every 2 months or so.
Fighting Coronavirus: Medical Students Near Graduation Pushing To Get On Frontlines
As California fights the coronavirus, there's another danger that's fast approaching towards the state: a nursing and medical staffing shortage could cripple the healthcare system just when we need it most.sacramento.cbslocal.com
Fighting Coronavirus: Medical Students Near Graduation Pushing To Get On Frontlines
by Rick BooneMarch 23, 2020 at 10:43 pm
CALIFORNIA (CBS13) — As California fights the coronavirus, there’s another danger that’s fast approaching towards the state: a nursing and medical staffing shortage that could cripple the healthcare system just when we need it most.
Medical students near graduation day are pushing Governor Newsom to change the rules so they can get to the frontlines right now.
As many as 14,000 graduating nurses are waiting on the sidelines, pleading with the governor for their early certification now, versus next month.
“I’m so ready, I’ve been preparing for 19 months, I don’t want to do anything else with my life,” nursing student Ryane Panasewicz said.
Panasewicz, who’s just a few weeks from graduating as a nurse, is on a mission to change California’s medical requirements and save lives in this pandemic.
READ: Hospital Taking Donations Amid Nationwide Supply Shortage
She and a fellow student lobbied that change to lawmakers with an online petition, and so far she’s gotten 90,000 signatures.
“Because we want to graduate and get out there. So this is our way to kinda push back,” she said.
Right now, for a nurse to graduate in the state, they must have hours of on the ground hospital training, known as clinical rotations. But with the coronavirus surging, those rotations have been suspended while career medical professionals focus on the influx of COVID-19 patients.
Some hospital employees agree with the students. Some nurses were protesting Monday to highlight the fact that they’re running thin on everything from equipment to people.
“We’re afraid that too many people are going to start getting sick and there won’t be anyone to take care of the patients anymore,” registered nurse Diane McClure said.
Across the country, several states have waived clinical rotations for graduating nursing students, while others are considering the decision. On Monday, Governor Newsom said he’s now warming up to the idea.
“We believe the ability to get fourth-year medical students into the system… getting someone that’s almost finished getting their nursing degree, get them licensed earlier,” Newsom said.
If he rescinds the requirement, some 14,000 new medical professionals could flow into hospitals immediately. It’s a change students say could have a healing impact on us all.
“I’m very optimistic he’s going to make some changes this week,” Panasewicz said.
There’s also a push to call up retired and reserve doctors and nurses to help battle the virus.
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I also used the IGNORE button for the first time ever on that person.
New York City, duking it out with LA for the title of most self absorbed.
'Blow Up the Bridges': Some Wealthy Manhattanites Are Knowingly Bringing Wuhan Coronavirus to the Hamptons
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Posted: Mar 24, 2020 1:15 PM
Source: AP Photo/John Minchillo
New York City represents over half of all of the 40,000+ cases of Wuhan coronavirus infections in the United States. There are hordes of wealthy people in the city. So, where would Manhattanites go at this time? The Hamptons. And the locals here are not happy. As New York Post columnist Maureen Callahan wrote, it’s all-out class warfare as the elite and entitled are making life hell for the locals.
She wrote that these folks, who landscape and tend to the super-rich during the summer months are not tolerant of this spring invasion, where grocery stores are wiped out and ditzy folks refuse to listen to the rules. One woman who tested positive for the Wuhan virus in the city didn’t adhere to protocol. She was told to remain in the city, but hopped on public transportation, didn’t alert anyone of her infection, and arrived at a hospital in the Hamptons demanding admission.
Callahan also added that someone flew a private jet into East Hampton and didn’t tell anyone until he landed. One local suggested they “blow up the bridges” to stop the mass influx of city dwellers (via NY Post):
The year-round residents, the locals who serve and clean and landscape for the super-rich in the summertime — and put up with all manner of entitlement and terrible behavior in exchange for good money — are silent no more.
The issue is quite simple. The local health care systems are not equipped to handle this influx of people in the offseason. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy also made similar remarks concerning folks in New Jersey who are thinking about fleeing to their summer residences along the coast. Don’t do it.
I think we have seen signs both that the intelligence of the planet has been somewhat overestimated, and the success at least in this country of 70 plus years of the public schooling agenda.
Excellent. Desperation is forcing a clue, as with New York starting to use IV vitamin C.
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FDA Allows Emergency Use of Investigational Convalescent Plasma for Critical COVID-19 Patients
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24 Mar 2020
The FDA is facilitating access to convalescent plasma, antibody-rich blood products that are taken from blood donated by people who have recovered from the COVID-19 virus, that could potentially shorten the length, or lessen the severity, of the illness. The agency will be using multiple pathways to support these efforts and has posted information for investigators wishing to study convalescent plasma for use in patients with serious or immediately life-threatening COVID-19 infections through the process of single patient emergency Investigational New Drug Applications for individual patients. The FDA also is actively engaging with researchers to discuss the possibility of collaboration on the development of a master protocol for the use of convalescent plasma, with the goal of reducing duplicative efforts.
Use of convalescent plasma has been studied in outbreaks of other respiratory infections, including the 2009-2010 H1N1 influenza virus pandemic, 2003 SARS-CoV-1 epidemic, and the 2012 MERS-CoV epidemic.
Although promising, convalescent plasma has not been shown to be effective in every disease studied. It is therefore important to determine through clinical trials, before routinely administering convalescent plasma to patients with COVID-19, that it is safe and effective to do so. Clinical trials have been initiated to this aim and are one way for patients to obtain access to convalescent plasma, but such trials may not be readily available to all patients in potential need during the COVID-19 response.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) therefore today authorized access to COVID-19 convalescent plasma for use in patients with serious or immediately life-threatening COVID-19 infections through the process of single patient emergency Investigational New Drug Applications (eINDs) for Individual patients under 21 CFR 312.310. This process allows the use of an investigational drug for the treatment of an individual patient by a licensed physician upon FDA authorization. This does not include the use of COVID-19 convalescent plasma for the prevention of infection.
COVID-19 convalescent plasma must only be collected from recovered individuals with a prior diagnosis of COVID-19 documented by a laboratory test if they are eligible to donate blood. Required testing must be performed and the donation must be found suitable. Donors must also have resolved all symptoms at least 14 days prior to donation and have a verified negative follow-up test.
How to obtain authorization for use of COVID-19 convalescent plasma
- Eligible patients for use under expanded access provisions:
- Must have laboratory confirmed COVID-19
- Must have severe or immediately life-threatening COVID-19, for example:1
- Severe disease is defined as:
- dyspnea,
- respiratory frequency ≥ 30/min,
- blood oxygen saturation ≤ 93%,
- partial pressure of arterial oxygen to fraction of inspired oxygen ratio < 300, and/or
- lung infiltrates > 50% within 24 to 48 hours
- Life-threatening disease is defined as:
- respiratory failure,
- septic shock, and/or
- multiple organ dysfunction or failure
- Must provide informed consent
In addition to the above, FDA is continuing to work with its government partners including the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop master protocols for use by multiple investigators in order to coordinate the collection and use of COVID-19 convalescent plasma.
- For request that are not highly time sensitive (response from FDA provided within 4 to 8 hours), the requesting physician may contact FDA by completing form 3926 and submitting the form by email to CBER_eIND_Covid-19@FDA.HHS.gov.
- The completed form should include a brief clinical history of the patient, including: diagnosis, current therapy, and rationale for requesting the proposed investigational treatment in order to meet the expanded access use requirements of 21 CFR 312.305 and 312.310.
- The form should include information regarding where the COVID-19 convalescent plasma will be obtained.
- Providers should complete the form to the extent possible, and FDA will work with the provider if additional information is required.
- FDA will review the request and, upon approval, FDA will send the requesting physician a confirmatory email that includes the emergency IND number.
- In the event of an emergency that is highly time sensitive (response required in less than 4 hours) or where the provider is unable to complete and submit form 3926 due to extenuating circumstances, the provider may contact FDA’s Office of Emergency Operations at 1-866-300-4374 to seek verbal authorization.
- If verbal authorization is given, the requestor must agree to submit an expanded access application (e.g., form 3926) within 15 working days of FDA’s authorization of the use.
1Wu Z, McGoogan JM. Characteristics of and Important Lessons From the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Outbreak in China: Summary of a Report of 72 314 Cases From the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. JAMA. Published online February 24, 2020. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.2648
Source: Food and Drug Administration
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FDA Allows Emergency Use of Investigational Convalescent Plasma for Critical COVID-19 Patients
The FDA is facilitating access to convalescent plasma, antibody-rich blood products that are taken from blood donated by people who have recovered from
What is it that rankled you about this article? I work in Higher Ed (in IT, not faculty) and most of it makes perfect sense and I've seen it play out over the past couple of weeks.
Beat ya to it. I normally never do it, but two still in the cooler, and don't miss 'em.
But, but, but . . . I thought they were essential personnel.
IIRC, it depends on which one you take. I think the calcium channel blockers are ok. Maybe it was MedCram that discussed it.
Not a bad idea.
Stupid but even more SELFISH! all these mother****ers think they're the only person on the damn planet, a lot of these morons need their asses beat, typical New Yorkers, the godman world revolves around New York shitty, nothing more than mouthy belligerent vaginas.
Thanks for your prayers.
I'm a "He" and my Ex is a "She".Dang. I'm 56 and on Ramipril. Does anyone know if the dosage matters? I think mine is pretty low. Wonder if I should just stop taking it. Or is it too late?
