marsh
On TB every waking moment
6:17 min
New York State braces for spike in coronavirus cases
•Apr 4, 2020
ABC News
New York has at least half of the 290,000 confirmed cases and 7,800 deaths in the U.S.
I don’t have cable!What is really going on?? CNN crawlers -- 1) Fauci; This will be a very bad week." 2) Surgeon General: This week will be our Pearl Harbor." What's up with all this????????????
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVp2U2p4lmE
7:24 min
Doctors and Nurses Reveal the Devastating Reality of COVID-19
•Apr 4, 2020
The Atlantic
Chaos. Fear. Dwindling stockpiles of equipment. Impossible choices. Patients dying alone. These are some of the things that health-care professionals describe facing while fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the past week, we spoke with doctors, nurses, and physician assistants at some of the hardest-hit hospitals in the nation. In a new documentary from The Atlantic, they bring us into their devastating new reality.
Sounds like a lot of doomWhat is really going on?? CNN crawlers -- 1) Fauci; This will be a very bad week." 2) Surgeon General: This week will be our Pearl Harbor." What's up with all this????????????
What is really going on?? CNN crawlers -- 1) Fauci; This will be a very bad week." 2) Surgeon General: This week will be our Pearl Harbor." What's up with all this????????????
The guy with only one arm....Who stuck a swab up that kitty's nose?
OK this is my take and I'm prepared to be flamed, I appreciate the idea of flattening the curve by limiting infections by distancing etc etc thus reducing the demand on hospitals over a period of time. But I hear repeatedly from leaders such as Merkel and Johnson and others who presumably advised them that eventually 80% of the population of the world will be infected. They are saying that 80% infection is inevitable, I am not saying this will pan out as no-one including experts really knows.
So an 80% infection rate will happen no matter what measures are put in place, according to the PTB. I am not saying they are correct as no-one knows.
So why prolong the agony, let's get back to work without mass gatherings but on a local scale that will have little or no effect whatsoever on the spread of the disease.
If there were an 80% infection rate does it make any difference whether this is rapidly attained or not given the likelihood of a certain percentage of recoveries or death, except that the deaths will occur more rapidly.
The number of deaths as a percentage of those infected seems quite low except that the percentage infected is high compared with other outbreaks of this type of virus and others.
I was just saying this to my GF, and "mom" jumped in to let us know she'd STILL paddle our behinds if we snuck out
Deborah Austin
@DebsSweet
It's like being 16 again. Gas is cheap and I'm grounded.
It is simple. We have somewhere around 8K people on ventilators and many have been on them for 2 or 3 weeks and according to the known facts about 66% of them are due to die this week or next.
If your ED has not encountered this yet, they will to some degree. These are the conversations I've been hearing locally and we're not even inundated yet.
Cripe, probably be double that tomorrow.
Times Square still deserted:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRe-514tGMg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRe-514tGMg
A local mom and pop gas station decided to have a "drain the tank" sale on gas to cheer people up. $0.99 a gallon til the tank ran out. It was such a hit that when the tank ran out, he ordered another load. He and his employees made many people happy yesterday. Everyone behaved, pumps got sanitized between customers...it was a good deal.
Must have been fun sticking that swab up its nose.Noooooooooooo................. cats must be prone to it; I posted about the 2 house cats in Hong Kong who have it.
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April 5, 2020 GMT
A tiger at the zoo has tested positive for the new coronavirus. It's believed to be the first infection in an animal in the U.S. and the first known in a tiger anywhere, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Sunday, April 5, 2020. The zoo says all the animals are expected to recover.
NEW YORK (AP) — A tiger at the Bronx Zoo has tested positive for the new coronavirus, in what is believed to be the first known infection in an animal in the U.S. or a tiger anywhere, federal officials and the zoo said Sunday.
The 4-year-old Malayan tiger, and six other tigers and lions that have also fallen ill, are believed to have been infected by a zoo employee, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said. The first animal started showing symptoms March 27, and all are expected to recover, said the zoo, which has been closed to the public since March 16.
“We tested the cat out of an abundance of caution” and aim to “contribute to the world’s continuing understanding of this novel coronavirus,” said Dr. Paul Calle, the zoo’s chief veterinarian.
The finding raises new questions about transmission of the virus in animals. The USDA says there are no known cases of the virus in U.S. pets or livestock.
“It’s important to assure pet owners and animal owners that at this time there isn’t any evidence that they can spread the virus,” said Dr. Jane Rooney, a veterinarian and a USDA official.
The coronavirus outbreaks around the world are driven by person-to-person transmission, experts say.
There have been reports of a small number of pets outside the United States becoming infected after close contact with contagious people, including a Hong Kong dog that tested positive for a low level of the pathogen in February and early March. Hong Kong agriculture authorities concluded that pet dogs and cats couldn’t pass the virus to human beings but could test positive if exposed by their owners.
Some researchers have been trying to understand the susceptibility of different animal species to the virus, and to determine how it spreads among animals, according to the Paris-based World Organization for Animal Health.
For most people, the coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as a fever and cough that clear up in two to three weeks. For some, especially older adults and people, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia, and can be fatal.
Tiger at NYC's Bronx Zoo tests positive for coronavirus
NEW YORK (AP) — A tiger at the Bronx Zoo has tested positive for the new coronavirus, in what is believed to be the first known infection in an animal in the U.S. or a tiger anywhere, federal officials and the zoo said Sunday.apnews.com
We must have different definitions of what "deserted" means.
What is really going on?? CNN crawlers -- 1) Fauci; This will be a very bad week." 2) Surgeon General: This week will be our Pearl Harbor." What's up with all this????????????
The Devil is in the details, literally. If in fact this is the case it may limit most social activity for years to come effectively stopping Church services. Want to go to Church? Take our vaccine. Want to get the drug that stops it? You have to abide by our directives and regulations. Want to work?It's what I have been saying since the first "reinfections" appeared and now some have tested positive 3 times. It is why I believe anti-malarial drugs work on the virus... Because it acts like malaria. Which also explains the massive reaction to the virus that so many deem an over-reaction. The heads of state know this but can't let it out. If you catch it once and it keeps reemerging, it is a death sentence and everything they are doing to contain it, suddenly, makes more sense.
We received good new that a family friend who has COVID, is off his vent, after eight days.
He was touring Europe with his band and last gig was in Italy, just prior to the news broke about the virus. He and his band returned to the states unaware of the dangers with the virus.
They went through Customs in San Francisco with no resting of temperature or questions about Italy, just Spain and China.
They all went home and some went back to their jobs.
Within three days all the band members took ill. All ended up in the ICU, all had positive tests.
The band is made up of thirty something makes.
Back in the day of H5N1 some zoo cats were fed birds, probably chickens, that died from the virus. Pretty much wiped them out. Vicious bug, apparently.Ok, that zoo tiger getting infected is really crazy!
Ya, I counted 8 + 1 pooch.I see 3 people there at the moment.