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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.
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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.
homepark
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Two points:
1. A surge of patients prevents hospitals providing their best care to those infected (like running out of ventilators);
2. The residuals of surviving the virus can leave you with permanent organ damage (quality of life issues).
Perhaps the two do cancel each other out.
1. A surge of patients prevents hospitals providing their best care to those infected (like running out of ventilators);
2. The residuals of surviving the virus can leave you with permanent organ damage (quality of life issues).
Perhaps the two do cancel each other out.
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12:21 min
Should We Do CPR for COVID-19 Patients? What is ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation)?
•Premiered 44 minutes ago
Doctor Mike Hansen
The average length of mechanical ventilation for patients with COVID-19 who have ARDS is 17 days. For some patients, ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation) is a last-ditch effort that involves taking blood out of the body, oxygenation that blood, and removing carbon dioxide from that blood, and returning that blood back to the body. Also, during this pandemic, when an Adult COVID-19 patient has a cardiac arrest (their heart stops), should health care workers perform CPR (ACLS) on them? This is a controversial topic that needs to be addressed.
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40:05 min
Illinois Gov. Pritzker Gives Update On Coronavirus
•Streamed live 3 hours ago
NBC News
Watch coronavirus livestream coverage of the outbreak as COVID-19 spreads, impacting markets and daily life across the U.S. and abroad.
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Members of the Coronavirus Task Force Hold a Press Briefing
•Started streaming 7 minutes ago
The White House
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psychgirl
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I don’t have cable!
Have to rely on antennae tv.
But I can get our local fix59, nothing showing at all on my end!
marsh
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1:00 min
King County [WA] and City of Shoreline Transform Soccer Field to Help Fight COVID-19
•Apr 3, 2020
KingCountyTV
King County has partnered with the City of Shoreline and the Shoreline School District to transform the Shoreline B Soccer Field into a temporary assessment and recovery center for people exposed to or recovering from novel coronavirus. These sites are designed to help diminish the spread of COVID-19 by assisting large groups of people who don’t have a place to recover safely. With each structure housing over one hundred people, this model helps preserve our much-needed hospital beds, leaving them open for the most acute cases. While most people are expected to recover safely at home, King County is creating isolation, quarantine, and recovery sites at multiple places throughout the region. These sites will help those who cannot safely remain in their own homes without compromising the health of a family member, or help people that do not have a home.
DW has been contacted by two staffing agencies for any medical personnel she can provide. A nursing home in McKinney, TX has three confirmed cases and 20 staff members have quit today with no notice. I don’t have specifics on what different positions, just warm bodies and no need for current licenses.
EMICT
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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.
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.
danielboon
TB Fanatic
Sounds like a lot of doom
mzkitty
I give up.
Cripe, probably be double that tomorrow.
Times Square still deserted:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRe-514tGMg
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.
marsh
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Judges deny emergency release of California inmates amid coronavirus crisis
BY SAM STANTON
APRIL 05, 2020 09:50 AM, UPDATED 6 HOURS 11 MINUTES AGO
BY DAVID MIDDLECAMP
A federal court has rejected an emergency plea on procedural grounds to release thousands of California prison inmates to protect them from coronavirus, saying they do not have authority under a 2009 order limiting the state’s prison population levels.
The three-judge court, which held a hearing on the issue Thursday, issued an order late Saturday declaring that the current crisis does not fit under the original ruling.
“That order was never intended to prepare Defendants to confront this unprecedented pandemic,” the judges wrote. “Nor could it have, given that the entire world was unprepared for the onslaught of the COVID-19 virus,” the judges wrote.
But the judges gave lawyers a virtual pathway: Attorneys for the inmates could seek remedies through individual courts and two of the panel’s judges who oversee class-action suits over inmate care. That could pave the way for the panel to reconvene on the matter again in the future.
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Michael Bien, one of the lead attorneys, said they would immediately seek relief to provide for greater physical distance inside the prisons and for greater mental health care for inmates.
“We are not stopping our efforts,” Bien said Sunday, adding that new motions would be filed with individual courts within days.
Inmate advocates have been insisting that the coronavirus crisis poses a dire threat to thousands of inmates inside the prisons who cannot get a 6-foot buffer from others and who already are sick or suffer from underlying conditions.
The state has opposed intervention from the courts, saying officials already are working to release parole 3,500 inmates who are within 60 days of their release date and move thousands of others into more suitable housing.
“No system in the country has gone as far as we have gone,” attorney Paul Mello argued Thursday, adding that there is no evidence before the court that the state is in violation of existing court mandates.
Instead, he said, the state is able to take action without court intervention to ensure inmates are housed safely.
“In real time with our experts and our infectious disease experts, we are trying to increase social distancing and we should be afforded the opportunity granted to us to attempt social distancing...,” he said. “We are able to activate other places for them.
“We can move people into gyms. We can move people into dorm rooms, we move people into vacant facilities. We should be afforded the opportunity to do those things with our experts and without intervention of this court.”
But attorneys for the inmates say a widespread outbreak of coronavirus inside the overcrowded prisons would be “catastrophic.”
“The real risk here is that COVID-19 will quickly run rampant in CDCR, causing many thousands of people to become critically ill, and those people will then require intensive, resource-consuming health care in community hospitals that already are on the verge of being overwhelmed,” they argued in a reply to the state’s planned steps. “Only by reducing the prison population to the point where effective preventative measures can actually be employed to slow transmission can this catastrophic outcome be mitigated.
The court – comprised of U.S. District Judges Kimberly J. Mueller in Sacramento and Jon Tigar in Oakland, and U.S. Circuit Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals – oversees an 11-year-old federal court mandate requiring California to keep its prison population below 137.5 percent of capacity to ensure constitutional levels of medical and mental health care for inmates.
“We take no satisfaction in turning away Plaintiffs’ motion without reaching the important question of whether Defendants have implemented constitutionally adequate measures to protect the inmates of California’s prisons from the serious threat posed by this unparalleled pandemic,” wrote two of the judges. “But we are bound by (federal law) to reach this conclusion.”
Mueller agreed ruling on legal grounds but said she thought the special panel may ultimately retain its power to order inmates released “in light of the unprecedented exigent circumstances.”
The decision comes as coronavirus cases inside the state’s 35 prisons continue to increase. As of Thursday afternoon, the state reported that eight inmates have tested positive, six of them in Lancaster at California State Prison, Los Angeles County, and one each at North Kern State Prison in Delano and at the California Institution for Men at Chino.
Another 33 staffers at 15 different prisons also have tested positive.
County jails statewide have already released thousands of inmates convicted of non-violent, non-serious crimes. Many releases involve inmates with less than 60 days to serve, and are designed to reduce crowded conditions inside jails in the event of an outbreak.
In Sacramento, where the Sheriff’s Office says no inmates have tested positive, more than 540 inmates have been released in recent days. Fresno County has released 207 inmates and Los Angeles has turned 1,700 loose with an eye toward releasing hundreds more.
BY SAM STANTON
APRIL 05, 2020 09:50 AM, UPDATED 6 HOURS 11 MINUTES AGO
BY DAVID MIDDLECAMP
A federal court has rejected an emergency plea on procedural grounds to release thousands of California prison inmates to protect them from coronavirus, saying they do not have authority under a 2009 order limiting the state’s prison population levels.
The three-judge court, which held a hearing on the issue Thursday, issued an order late Saturday declaring that the current crisis does not fit under the original ruling.
“That order was never intended to prepare Defendants to confront this unprecedented pandemic,” the judges wrote. “Nor could it have, given that the entire world was unprepared for the onslaught of the COVID-19 virus,” the judges wrote.
But the judges gave lawyers a virtual pathway: Attorneys for the inmates could seek remedies through individual courts and two of the panel’s judges who oversee class-action suits over inmate care. That could pave the way for the panel to reconvene on the matter again in the future.
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Michael Bien, one of the lead attorneys, said they would immediately seek relief to provide for greater physical distance inside the prisons and for greater mental health care for inmates.
“We are not stopping our efforts,” Bien said Sunday, adding that new motions would be filed with individual courts within days.
Inmate advocates have been insisting that the coronavirus crisis poses a dire threat to thousands of inmates inside the prisons who cannot get a 6-foot buffer from others and who already are sick or suffer from underlying conditions.
The state has opposed intervention from the courts, saying officials already are working to release parole 3,500 inmates who are within 60 days of their release date and move thousands of others into more suitable housing.
“No system in the country has gone as far as we have gone,” attorney Paul Mello argued Thursday, adding that there is no evidence before the court that the state is in violation of existing court mandates.
Instead, he said, the state is able to take action without court intervention to ensure inmates are housed safely.
“In real time with our experts and our infectious disease experts, we are trying to increase social distancing and we should be afforded the opportunity granted to us to attempt social distancing...,” he said. “We are able to activate other places for them.
“We can move people into gyms. We can move people into dorm rooms, we move people into vacant facilities. We should be afforded the opportunity to do those things with our experts and without intervention of this court.”
But attorneys for the inmates say a widespread outbreak of coronavirus inside the overcrowded prisons would be “catastrophic.”
“The real risk here is that COVID-19 will quickly run rampant in CDCR, causing many thousands of people to become critically ill, and those people will then require intensive, resource-consuming health care in community hospitals that already are on the verge of being overwhelmed,” they argued in a reply to the state’s planned steps. “Only by reducing the prison population to the point where effective preventative measures can actually be employed to slow transmission can this catastrophic outcome be mitigated.
The court – comprised of U.S. District Judges Kimberly J. Mueller in Sacramento and Jon Tigar in Oakland, and U.S. Circuit Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals – oversees an 11-year-old federal court mandate requiring California to keep its prison population below 137.5 percent of capacity to ensure constitutional levels of medical and mental health care for inmates.
“We take no satisfaction in turning away Plaintiffs’ motion without reaching the important question of whether Defendants have implemented constitutionally adequate measures to protect the inmates of California’s prisons from the serious threat posed by this unparalleled pandemic,” wrote two of the judges. “But we are bound by (federal law) to reach this conclusion.”
Mueller agreed ruling on legal grounds but said she thought the special panel may ultimately retain its power to order inmates released “in light of the unprecedented exigent circumstances.”
The decision comes as coronavirus cases inside the state’s 35 prisons continue to increase. As of Thursday afternoon, the state reported that eight inmates have tested positive, six of them in Lancaster at California State Prison, Los Angeles County, and one each at North Kern State Prison in Delano and at the California Institution for Men at Chino.
Another 33 staffers at 15 different prisons also have tested positive.
County jails statewide have already released thousands of inmates convicted of non-violent, non-serious crimes. Many releases involve inmates with less than 60 days to serve, and are designed to reduce crowded conditions inside jails in the event of an outbreak.
In Sacramento, where the Sheriff’s Office says no inmates have tested positive, more than 540 inmates have been released in recent days. Fresno County has released 207 inmates and Los Angeles has turned 1,700 loose with an eye toward releasing hundreds more.
Tristan
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I guess the percentage of deaths seems quite low until it's your spouse, or child, or... fill in the blank. I mean, it's only running like 17x the rate of flu deaths, so who cares, right?
I do. I've got enough people who I will never see again on this mortal coil; I don't want to add to that list. Do you?
And, I think that you don't actually either understand or appreciate the idea of flattening the curve, as you don't take into consideration what that is attempting to do: to address the spike in infection which overwhelms the medical systems, exhausts the practitioners, and degrades their ability to provide critical services to those who need it most, whether Covid-19 Wuhan Coronavirus victims, or the everyday garden variety of Heart attack victims, Stroke victims, Cancer victims, Accident victims, etc. etc. ad infinitum, & etc.
Doctors, Nurses, Ambulance Drivers, Police Officers, other first responders, Truckers (who deliver the goods), Farmers, etc. etc. ad infinitum, & etc. are getting sick as well, and these folks are critical to maintaining something like a functioning modern society. It's probably a good thing to help assure that they will be more likely than not to receive the care necessary to help as many survive as possible, don't you agree?
Besides, you seem to miss the most important point of all: time grants us the ability to study, prepare and implement strategies to blunt the number of cases, potentially bringing down the cases from 80% to who knows? 60%? 40%?
Time to (potentially) develop a vaccine? Time to test potential treatments like the well discussed Hydroxychloriquine, the recently reported success with Ivermectin, and who knows how many other like pharmaceuticals which could be brought to bear with enough time to study them.
And how about manufacturing them? I'm sure there's some of the listed medicines in warehouses, but considering the explosion in cases vs. the recent policies of 'just in time delivery', do you really think we're ready to surge production to the necessary level to respond?
Geesh.
big kumara
meh
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.
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.
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Democratic senators want probe into change of national stockpile description
A group of Senate Democrats want a federal watchdog to investigate the decision to change an online description of the country’s Strategic National Stockpile following a press briefing with W…
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BY JORDAIN CARNEY - 04/03/20 06:52 PM EDT 1,81
A group of Senate Democrats want a federal watchdog to investigate the decision to change an online description of the country's Strategic National Stockpile following a press briefing with White House adviser Jared Kushner.
Four Democratic senators sent a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) office of inspector general saying that the change in language — which caught widespread attention on Friday — raised concerns about "potential improper interference ... to advance a political agenda."
"We request that HHS OIG launch an investigation ... to determine whether political appointees in the Trump administration directed the improper use of public resources on behalf of Jared Kushner or other political appointees to alter information on an official Federal agency government website," they wrote in the letter.
Sens. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) signed the letter.
Previously, according to the federal public health emergency website, the Strategic National Stockpile was described as "the nation’s largest supply of life-saving pharmaceuticals and medical supplies for use in a public health emergency severe enough to cause local supplies to run out."
The description continued: "When state, local, tribal, and territorial responders request federal assistance to support their response efforts, the stockpile ensures that the right medicines and supplies get to those who need them most during an emergency."
But on Friday that was replaced with a shorter one-paragraph description that says the stockpile is meant as a "short-term stopgap."
"The Strategic National Stockpile's role is to supplement state and local supplies during public health emergencies. Many states have products stockpiled, as well. The supplies, medicines, and devices for life-saving care contained in the stockpile can be used as a short-term stopgap buffer when the immediate supply of adequate amounts of these materials may not be immediately available," the website now says.
The change grabbed attention because it more closely matched what Kushner said on Thursday, when he told states to be more resourceful in procuring supplies for themselves and not rely on the federal government for assistance.
"The notion of the federal stockpile was it's supposed to be our stockpile, it's not supposed to be the state's stockpile that they then use," Kushner said.
The Democratic senators called the change an "inaccurate deletion" that "distorts the public’s understanding of the purpose of the Strategic National Stockpile and violates principles of good and honest government, including transparency, faithful execution of the agency’s mission and most importantly, advancing the public interest."
"The timing of the deletion appears related to Jared Kushner’s inaccurate statement yesterday," they added.
HHS pushed back on the idea that the change was directly tied to Kushner's statement.
In a statement posted to the HHS Public Affairs Twitter account, the agency said it "first began working to update this text a week ago to more clearly explain the role of the Strategic National Stockpile. HHS has been using this same language in statements to the press for weeks now."
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Siskiyoumom
Veteran Member
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.
marsh
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Coronavirus: Retailers Make Safety Changes for Employees, Shoppers
Home Depot has a new rule for employees: take your temperature before showing up to work. It’s one of many changes big-box retailers are putting in place to slow down the spread of coronavirus. And Home Depot is not alone — Target, Costco, and Walmart are making big changes shoppers willl notice...
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Coronavirus: Retailers Make Safety Changes for Employees, Shoppers
Costco, Home Depot, Target and other big-box retailers announce changes to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.
By Melissa Colorado • Published April 3, 2020 • Updated on April 4, 2020 at 7:43 pm
NBC Universal, Inc.
Home Depot has a new rule for employees: take your temperature before showing up to work.
It's one of many changes big-box retailers are putting in place to slow down the spread of coronavirus. And Home Depot is not alone -- Target, Costco, and Walmart are making big changes shoppers willl notice the next time they visit.
"If we don't take action right now, it could get worse," said Yandy Linares, a Home Depot shopper.
Home Depot said it is handing out thermometers to employees and asking them to take their body temperature before their shift. The home improvement retailer said it is also doing the following:
- Limiting the number of customers in stores
- Reminding shoppers through the PA system about physical distancing
- Closing early to sanitize stores
- No spring sales to avoid driving customers to stores
"You have to be concerned, period," Linares said. "It's starting to get very serious."
It's starting to get serious at Costco, too. The membership-only warehouse store on Friday started downsizing shoppers by implementing a two-person per card limit.
Seniors and the disabled will be able to shop without having to deal with a line on Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 8 to 9 a.m.
Home Depot is offering employees extra pay and expanding its paid time off policy. If a Home Depot employee is infected with COVID-19, the company said it will pay that employee until they are cleared from a doctor to return to work.
Tristan
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Tristan
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jward
passin' thru
Some people have really disappointed me thus far- but some like your station owners, have restored faith in folks that I really did not expect to find again
....and as a grandbaby to a really wonderful mom n pop gas station owner, I will admit the whole lot of em are a cut above
marsh
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Reusable respirators a potential alternative for protecting health care workers from COVID-19 | Emory University | Atlanta GA
The shortage of disposable N95 respirator masks is a serious concern for front line health care workers. A study by Emory physician Colleen Kraft finds that a reusable alternative to the N95 mask is just as effective.
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386-383-6061
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Colleen Kraft
Emory helps build free online tool to assess COVID-19 risk March 12, 2020
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Article in JAMA
The chronic shortage of disposable N95 respirator masks is a serious concern for front line health care workers involved in care of COVID-19 patients. A recent study published in JAMA determined that a reusable alternative to the N95 mask is just as effective and providers can securely fit the masks just as quickly.
Researchers found that time to achieve a secure fit with reusable elastomeric half-mask respirators (EHMRs) was not significantly different than with single use N95 respirators.
Colleen Kraft, MD, associate chief medical officer at Emory University Hospital, is the second author of the study, which was published in JAMA on March 25.
“The fact that health care providers can be rapidly fit tested and trained to use the reusable EHMR, will help address the current shortage of N95 respirators,” says Kraft.
Kraft is also an associate professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases, associate professor in the Department of Pathology and the associate medical director for Emory’s Serious Communicable Diseases Program. Erik Brownsword, MPP, and Morgan Lane, MPH, in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Emory University School of Medicine were co-authors.
Kraft also worked with colleagues at the University of Texas on this project, which is funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Read the full article in JAMA.
Profit of Doom
Dismember
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
Or did they do the anal test?
mzkitty
I give up.
I see 3 people there at the moment.
jward
passin' thru
Nothing has to "be up" it is the normal progression one sees when virgin areas become well seeded with a new virus.
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?
I don’t know whether it’s a accidental release or intentional or natural but they will use the crisis to their maximum benefit. It may become the cure for old age, and sick people.
Very disturbing thoughts here but these are things we need to think about.
That is excellent. They say the longer you are on a vent the less likely you are to ever come off. They also say only 33% of those who go on a vent survive. Thankfully, he was one of the lucky ones.
mzkitty
I give up.
April 5, 2020 at 6:39 pm
CARROLLTON, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) — Carrollton police have identified but not yet located an 18-year-old girl who claims to have the coronavirus and is “willfully spreading” it, officials said.
Officials said Lorraine Maradiaga, 18, is facing a charge of terroristic threat after she reportedly claimed to be positive for COVID-19 and appeared in a Snapchat video allegedly infecting consumers at a local Walmart.
Lorraine Maradiaga (Carrollton Police Department)
Officials said although they have no confirmation the teen is actually a threat to public health, they are taking her threats seriously.
Anyone with information on Maradiaga’s whereabouts is asked to call 972-466-3333 or email crimetips@cityofcarrollton.com.
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Dismember
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.
Tom McDowell
BAMN
VA to begin opening beds to civilians in multiple states
From CNN's Gregory Clary
The Department of Veterans Affairs will open about 1,500 beds at hospitals in multiple states to civilians to alleviate the burden on civilian hospitals, according VA Secretary Robert Wilkie.
"We provide a bridge from the federal government to states and localities during these emergencies," Wilkie said.
In the metropolitan New York area, the VA is opening up approximately 100 beds in Brooklyn, Manhattan and East Orange in New Jersey, Wilkie said.
Louisiana will gain access to the VA medical center in Shreveport, Wilkie said.
In Michigan, access to hospital beds will be provided in both Ann Arbor and Detroit as as providing a pharmaceutical trailer for the state's use, Wilkie said.
Wilkie said the VA will help Massachusetts officials "in their efforts to protect the most vulnerable citizens in two of their nursing homes."
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From CNN's Gregory Clary
The Department of Veterans Affairs will open about 1,500 beds at hospitals in multiple states to civilians to alleviate the burden on civilian hospitals, according VA Secretary Robert Wilkie.
"We provide a bridge from the federal government to states and localities during these emergencies," Wilkie said.
In the metropolitan New York area, the VA is opening up approximately 100 beds in Brooklyn, Manhattan and East Orange in New Jersey, Wilkie said.
Louisiana will gain access to the VA medical center in Shreveport, Wilkie said.
In Michigan, access to hospital beds will be provided in both Ann Arbor and Detroit as as providing a pharmaceutical trailer for the state's use, Wilkie said.
Wilkie said the VA will help Massachusetts officials "in their efforts to protect the most vulnerable citizens in two of their nursing homes."
VA to begin opening beds to civilians in multiple states
The novel coronavirus continues to spread, with more than a million cases across the globe. Follow here for the latest news.
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Ya, I counted 8 + 1 pooch.
marsh
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Emory among U.S. sites hosting new clinical trial for COVID-19 treatment | Emory University | Atlanta GA
Emory University will take part in an NIH-sponsored global clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of novel therapeutic agents in hospitalized adult patients diagnosed with COVID-19. The drug remdesivir is the first agent to be evaluated.
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Woodruff Health Sciences Center | March 12, 2020
Contact Quinn Eastman
For media inquiries only
404-727-7829
qeastma@emory.edu
Aneesh Mehta, MD, is the site principal investigator for the NIH-sponsored COVID-19 clinical trial.
Emory University will take part in an NIH-sponsored global clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of novel therapeutic agents in hospitalized adult patients diagnosed with COVID-19. The drug remdesivir is the first agent to be evaluated.
The Emory Vaccine Treatment and Evaluation Unit (VTEU) was activated 3/11/2020 by The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), meaning it can begin enrollment as part of this phase three therapeutic clinical trial.
The clinicaltrials.gov identifier is NCT04280705.
Emory is one of several sites being activated for the trial. The study will be conducted in up to 75 sites globally. Dr Aneesh Mehta, an investigator in both the national VTEU network and National Ebola Training and Education Center (NETEC), serves as the Emory principal investigator for this study. The Emory VTEU is led by Drs. Nadine Rouphael, Evan Anderson and Carlos Del Rio.
“This important study will allow our patients to access the highest level clinical care, driven by the best data from around the world, while contributing to the science of caring for patients with COVID-19,” says Mehta.
COVID-19 starts as an upper respiratory tract infection, often indistinguishable from other more common respiratory tract infections. First detected in Wuhan, China, the novel coronavirus has spread rapidly around the globe. Worldwide, the number of COVID-19 cases has topped 100,000, while in the United States the total has grown to more than 1,000.
Emory is playing a key role in the effort to expedite clinical trials to combat COVID-19. VTEUs have performed high-quality clinical research for more than half a century to test new vaccines and therapies for infectious diseases in clinical trials of adults and children. The Emory VTEU includes the Hope Clinic of the Emory Vaccine Center and the Emory Children's Center Vaccine Research Clinic, both renowned in clinical and translational research in infectious diseases vaccines, treatment and prevention.
The VTEUs are a component of the Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Consortium (IDCRC). The IDCRC principal investigators are David S. Stephens, MD, professor and chair of the Department of Medicine in Emory University School of Medicine and vice president for research of Emory’s Woodruff Health Sciences Center, and Kathy Neuzil, MD, Myron M. Levine MD Professor in Vaccinology and director, Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland Baltimore.
“This COVID-19 outbreak is expanding rapidly,” says Stephens. “Thanks to the foresight of the NIAID we have a critical infrastructure in place to move quickly as well, harnessing some of the brightest minds in the academic medical community to fight COVID-19.”
About The IDCRC: The Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Consortium was formed in 2019 to support the planning and implementation of infectious diseases clinical research that efficiently addresses the scientific priorities of NIAID. It consists of nine VTEUs and the IDCRC Leadership Group. The IDCRC is made up of infectious diseases leaders and clinical researchers from Emory University, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Baylor College of Medicine, University of Washington, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, FHI360, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, University of Rochester, Saint Louis University and the NIH NIAID Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.
About NETEC: The therapeutic trial is also being conducted in conjunction with The National Ebola Training and Education Center (NETEC) Special Pathogens Research Network (SPRN), which is led by Emory University, the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and the New York Health and Hospitals Corporation, Bellevue Hospital Center. NETEC has created sustainable infrastructure and culture of readiness for managing suspected and confirmed special pathogen incidents across United States public health and health care delivery systems. By partnering with ten leading medical centers around the country, NETEC has established a network of containment units and teams to care for patients with these high consequence pathogens. Those regional treatment centers are: Emory University Hospital and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta-Egleston Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Bellevue Hospital, Johns Hopkins Hospital, University of Minnesota Medical Center, University of Nebraska Medical Center/Nebraska Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Denver Health Medical Center, Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children’s Hospital and Cedars-Sinai.
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Tiger at Bronx Zoo tests positive for COVID-19
BRONX NY, NEW YORK (WIAT) — The first animal in the United States has tested a positive for the novel coronavirus, a tiger at the Bronx Zoo. Nadia, a 4-year-old female Malayan tiger at the Bronx Zo…
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Tiger at Bronx Zoo tests positive for COVID-19
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by: Jordan Highsmith
Posted: Apr 5, 2020 / 02:02 PM PDT / Updated: Apr 5, 2020 / 02:37 PM PDT
BRONX NY, NEW YORK (WIAT) — The first animal in the United States has tested a positive for the novel coronavirus, a tiger at the Bronx Zoo.
Nadia, a 4-year-old female Malayan tiger at the Bronx Zoo, has tested positive for COVID-19. She, her sister Azul, two Amur tigers, and three African lions had developed a dry cough and all are expected to recover.
This positive COVID-19 test for the tiger was confirmed by USDA’s National Veterinary Services Laboratory, based in Ames, Iowa.
The zoo tested the cat out of an abundance of caution and will ensure any knowledge they gain about COVID-19 will contribute to the world’s continuing understanding of this novel coronavirus.
Though they have experienced some decrease in appetite, the cats at the Bronx Zoo are otherwise doing well under veterinary care and are bright, alert, and interactive with their keepers. It is not known how this disease will develop in big cats since different species can react differently to novel infections, but the zoo will continue to monitor them closely and anticipate full recoveries.
The four affected tigers live in the zoo’s Tiger Mountain exhibit. One male Amur tiger that also lives at Tiger Mountain has not exhibited any clinical signs, and a Malayan tiger and two Amur tigers at the zoo’s Wild Asia exhibit have also not exhibited any clinical signs.
None of the zoo’s snow leopards, cheetahs, clouded leopard, Amur leopard, puma or serval are showing any signs of illness. The cats were infected by a person caring for them who was asymptomatically infected with the virus or before that person developed symptoms. Appropriate preventive measures are now in place for all staff who are caring for them, and the other cats in the four WCS zoos, to prevent further exposure of any other zoo cats.
The Bronx Zoo and aquarium has been temporarily closed to the public since March 16.