In 2015, Dr. Spencer was criticized by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, among others, after he arrived back in NYC from working with Ebola patients in Guinea. Instead of self-isolating himself, he went around the city on the subway, went bowling, and ate at restaurants.He did that despite feeling fatigue, a symptom of Ebola...View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AsCH0IXelo
5:36 min
New York Doctor Reports From Front Lines Of Coronavirus Crisis: ‘It Does Not Spare Anyone’ | TODAY
•Mar 25, 2020
TODAY
Dr. Craig Spencer, who contracted Ebola while fighting its outbreak in Africa, is now an emergency room doctor in New York City. He tells TODAY that “it’s hard to find patients who are not coronavirus” and says they are young as well as old: “It does not spare anyone.” He warns: “Soon hospitals are going to be overwhelmed.”
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldhqxjFYTOQ
mediarightnews.com
Lindell had expected to make the announcement this morning during Fox News’ American Newsroom but that was delayed until tomorrow morning.
MyPillow
✔@MyPillowUSA
https://twitter.com/MyPillowUSA/status/1242539912626397184
MyPillow is excited to announce that we are now manufacturing face masks for hospitals across the country!
64.1K
12:52 PM - Mar 24, 2020
Mike Lindell
✔@realMikeLindell
https://twitter.com/realMikeLindell/status/1242453309933453319
I’ll be on @FoxNews today at 10:50 a.m. CT with @edhenry sharing an important announcement related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Tune in to hear what I have to say!
254
7:08 AM - Mar 24, 2020
Ironically, a Democrat strategist Jesse Lifson had sarcastically tweeted earlier today, “Serious question. The ‘My Pillow Guy’ makes about 30 million pillows per year. I know he also makes towels. Does he make masks?” He will be in for a surprise when he hears the news.
Mike Lindell
✔@realMikeLindell
https://twitter.com/realMikeLindell/status/1242482822264348672
TIME CHANGE: Mike will be on @FoxNews with @edhenry tomorrow (3/25/20) at 10:30am CT to make a big announcement!
587
9:06 AM - Mar 24, 2020 · Chaska, MN
https://twitter.com/DoYouEvenLIf/status/1242552719010861061
Jesse D. Lifson@DoYouEvenLIf
https://twitter.com/DoYouEvenLIf/status/1242552719010861061
Serious question.
The “My Pillow Guy” makes about 30 million pillows per year. I know he also makes towels.
Does he make masks?
1,001
1:43 PM - Mar 24, 2020
Actually, I did forget about that and I didn't factor that in.
By Sunday, the majority leader said, they had a bill from “both sides.”
The legislation itself cannot defeat the crisis, McConnell stressed, but it can provide relief to Americans, who will ultimately beat the virus.
As Breitbart News reported in February, the coronavirus pandemic has brought increased attention to the United States’ dangerous dependence on China for pharmaceutical and medical supplies, including an estimated 80 percent of the active pharmaceutical ingredients needed to produce drugs in the United States.
www.the-sun.com
www.the-sun.com
www.abcactionnews.com
www.businessinsider.com
When will they begin with the crematoriums?
They've got five freezer trucks at the hospital in NYC. What are they going to do when they can't get enough trucks to store bodies in? I see the day....
Test + Quarantine (real quarantine) works = scientific methodIn one Italian town, we showed mass testing could eradicate the coronavirus
By identifying and isolating clusters of infected people, we wiped out Covid-19 in Vò
Andrea Crisanti and Antonio Cassone
Fri 20 Mar 2020 03.00 EDT Last modified on Fri 20 Mar 2020 08.05 EDT
People line up to undergo a voluntary test for coronavirus in Vò, Italy, 8 March 2020. Photograph: Andrea Casalis/AP
It’s now about one month since Covid-19 began to sweep across Italy. With more than total cases topping 40,000 as of 19 March, it is now the worst-affected country outside of China.
But in the last two weeks, a promising pilot study here has produced results that may be instructive for other countries trying to control coronavirus.
Beginning on 6 March , along with researchers at the University of Padua and the Red Cross, we tested all residents of Vò, a town of 3,000 inhabitants near Venice – including those who did not have symptoms.
This allowed us to quarantine people before they showed signs of infection and stop the further spread of coronavirus. In this way, we eradicated coronavirus in under 14 days.
Scientists say mass tests in Italian town have halted Covid-19 there
While we believe it is too late to enact this approach in a city such as Milan, where infections are out of control, there could still be time to do this in the UK before the crisis gets even worse: the government could identify and isolate clusters, quarantine everyone affected, trace their recent contacts, and quarantine and isolate them, too – whether they had symptoms or not.
Our experiment came to be by chance. The Italian authorities had a strong emotional reaction to news of the country’s first death – which was in Vò. The whole town was put into quarantine and every inhabitant was tested. The tests were processed by us at the University of Padua. It became clear that this was a unique epidemiological setting – and an application was put in to keep the town in lockdown and run a second round of tests after nine days.
In the first round of testing, 89 people tested positive. In the second round, the number had dropped to six, who remained in isolation. In this way, we managed to eradicate coronavirus from Vò, achieving a 100% recovery rate for those previously infected while recording no further cases of transmission.
We made an interesting finding: at the time the first symptomatic case was diagnosed, a significant proportion of the population, about 3%, had already been infected – yet most of them were completely asymptomatic. Our study established a valuable principle: testing of all citizens, whether or not they have symptoms, provides a way to control this pandemic.
The nature of this crisis means that establishing a structured response like this is key, while widespread testing is crucial in telling an accurate story of how many people are affected, and what the mortality rate of the virus actually is. In Italy, we have struggled with a rampant rise of mortality (the number of casualties divided by the number of infected people), which has reached an apparent value of 8% – far higher than the mortality rate in China and grimly close to that during the 2002-2003 Sars outbreak.
This high rate is misleading, though. After the first few days of the initial outbreak, cases were classed as all of those found to be infected by the virus. Yet since then, only the obviously symptomatic subjects – those needing medical care – have been tested for the virus and thus counted as cases.
The decision to only test those who presented for treatment with symptoms of the virus was taken by major Italian public health experts, apparently in line with World Health Organization (WHO) suggestions. The consequence has been that people who haven’t asked for medical attention have only been tested very occasionally in Italy. Nonetheless, asymptomatic or quasi-symptomatic subjects represent a good 70% of all virus-infected people and, still worse, an unknown, yet impossible to ignore portion of them can transmit the virus to others. Full testing would give us a clearer picture of how many people actually have the virus, and how many pass it on.
If the fact that only those presenting with the virus were being tested was accounted for, the mortality percentage would fall to more “normal” levels. This is shown by the mortality in the Veneto region, which is steadily around 2.5-3%, still high but threefold less than the ones in Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna.
Why this marked difference? Veneto is comparable to the other two northern regions for education, general lifestyle, personal income and age of the population – all factors, particularly the last one, believed to influence Covid-19 mortality.
Although a non-homogeneous data collection and other variables could explain the difference, there is one main factor that is likely playing a role. In Veneto, the virus was more actively sought out through testing, a programme that included part of the asymptomatic population. Official numbers speak of roughly eight in every 100 people tested in Veneto, against about half and one-third of that proportion in Lombardy and Emila-Romagna, respectively.
Unfortunately, it would be near impossible to repeat this model in a large city, due to the number of people who would need to be tested. However, our findings warrant careful consideration by health policymakers in Italy and around the world. They invite researchers to eradicate the virus through extensive testing of both symptomatic individuals and all of their social contacts – including relatives, friends and neighbours. In this way, we catch out the disease before it has the chance to spread – and, most importantly, before the carrier has the chance to unwittingly pass it on to other people.
In the absence of specific therapies or a vaccine, quarantine, distancing and identification of asymptomatic carriers remain the only real measures to control this epidemic. In the UK, authorities could still identify and isolate clusters, and test everyone who has come into contact with those infected. Wisely, though probably belatedly, WHO has just this week recommended what we have found in our research to be the best line of defence: testing, testing, testing.
• Andrea Crisanti is professor of microbiology at the University of Padua; Antonio Cassone is a former director of the department of infectious diseases at the Italian institute of health
===
In one Italian town, we showed mass testing could eradicate the coronavirus | Andrea Crisanti and Antonio Cassone
By identifying and isolating clusters of infected people, we wiped out Covid-19 in Vò, say Andrea Crisanti, a professor of microbiology, and Antonio Cassone, a former official at the Italian institute of healthwww.theguardian.com
.
When Trump is gone and Hillary is president
All this means is the wealthy won't be able to... er... encourage (bribe, or otherwise reward) their doctor to give them a script for hydroxychloroqine "just in case".
The beginning of the tidal wave I mentioned in earlier postsWell... Who DIDN'T see this coming???
Students at multiple Florida colleges test positive for the coronavirus
More college students across Florida have tested positive for COVID-19, a disease brought on by the coronavirus, the schools announced over the weekend.
The latest case is at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, which delivered the news in an email to students and faculty Sunday. Four days earlier, the school sent out a notice that an employee on the USF Tampa campus had tested positive for the virus, after coming into direct contact with 13 students.
Meanwhile, the University of Florida updated its website Sunday afternoon to show 10 students and one employee had tested positive at the Gainesville school. And the University of Tampa on Saturday announced five additional cases linked to spring break travel, bringing the school’s total number of student cases to six.
The student at USF, who has not been identified, hasn’t visited campus since “late February,” according to the email by university president Steve Currall. The school did not release the student’s age, gender or field of study, and did not specify whether the case is travel-related.
"The student is being monitored by the Florida Department of Health Pinellas County office and based on its assessments, there is no need for further contact-tracing at the university for this case,” Currall wrote.
The count at UF includes undergraduate, graduate and law students in various fields of study. The sole employee to test positive works in the College of Veterinary Medicine, according to the website.
UF officials will continue to update the website each day, the school said on Twitter: “Each new entry will include as much info as possible according to student, employee and patient confidentiality laws.”
Five of the UT students traveled together for spring break, along with other students from the school, according to a Facebook post by the school. The university did not specify where the students traveled but said only four returned to campus afterward. All are self-isolating and none have been hospitalized, the post said.
All three schools have said the Department of Health is monitoring the affected students. Questions posed to the department were not immediately answered.
Students at multiple Florida colleges test positive for the coronavirus
The University of Florida, the University of South Florida and the University of Tampa all announced new cases over the weekend.www.tampabay.com
It's not far away by the looks of it
Garbage barges into the atlantic.
I bet the Queen dies exactly one day after he does.
www.wcvb.com
Well, i think its safe to say, that they will not be preserving these bodies for any long period of time. Therefore, they will not be "storing" these corpse's. The city will properly dispose of these DOA'S if family does not take for burial, and or cremation.
