Thursday, March 19, 2020

Coronavirus News (10)

What COVID-19 means for people with diabetes people with chronic medical conditions are at higher risk for experiencing more serious complications from the new coronavirus, and are at a higher risk for death. ..... diabetics are not more likely to get COVID-19, the problem lies with the seriousness of the virus once infected. ..... “if diabetes is well managed, the risk of getting severely sick from COVID-19 is about the same as the general population.”....... COVID-19 is much more serious than the seasonal flu, and precautions to avoid it should be followed more strictly by people with diabetes, like washing your hands and avoiding close contact with people who are coughing or sneezing.

Some children with coronavirus develop serious illnesses, study finds
Coronavirus shows off Donald Trump's single greatest accomplishment as President There may be differing views about Ronald Reagan, but no reasonable mind can deny the comfort he provided us after the Challenger explosion in 1986. Contrast that with Trump on Sunday, who during a formal coronavirus briefing, while surrounded by uniformed public health officers (not modeling responsible "social distancing" behavior, mind you) couldn't resist whining about "fake news." Trump was unhappy about the natural skepticism from reporters about a misleading (or at least confusing) claim regarding access to information about coronavirus testing...........Any goodwill the President might deserve for suddenly adopting a more reasonable tone at coronavirus press conferences is undercut by his Twitter demeanor, which remains as petty as ever. ........ The President regularly bullies or attacks the credibility of anything or anyone that isn't fully in lockstep with him: the intelligence community, federal prosecutors, career diplomats, the Federal Reserve Board, federal courts, the National Security Council, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and top military officials, to name a few. ....... patently false or misleading remarks like "when you have 15 [coronavirus cases in the United States], and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero," to utter nonsense like "[Coronavirus is] going to disappear. One day it's like a miracle, it will disappear" — a statement that would be laughed at by a 9th grade biology student.

Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown Is Coming Politicians won’t admit it yet, but it’s time to prepare—physically and psychologically—for a sudden stop to all life outside your home. ......... The window of opportunity to relocate has closed for residents of the Bay Area. .......

Where, and with whom, do you want to spend the next six to 12 weeks of your life, hunkered down for the epidemic duration?

...... Your time to answer those questions is very short—a few days, at most. Airports will close, trains will shut down, gasoline supplies may dwindle, and roadblocks may be set up. Nations are closing their borders, and as the numbers of sick rise, towns, suburbs, even entire counties will try to shut the virus out by blocking travel. Wherever you decide to settle down this week is likely to be the place in which you will be stuck for the duration of your epidemic......... The United States, for example, is currently tracking exactly where Italy was about 10 days ago. France and Germany, which track two to five days ahead of the United States, are now revving up measures akin to those taken by Italy, including lockdowns on movement and social activity. In a matter of days, the United States will follow suit........ While panic-buying has led to stockpiles of toilet paper and hand sanitizer, getting through eight months of confinement with others will require a great deal more, both physically and psychologically. This is especially true for households that span generations. ...... Long-term confinement that includes children undergoing remote schooling and adults trying to work requires designated spaces for each individual, a powerful Internet signal and Wi-Fi router, and a great deal of shared patience. ......... The virus is transmitted by droplets and fomites—it isn’t like measles, capable of drifting about in the air for hours. It dehydrates quickly if not inside water, mucus, or fomite droplets. The size of the droplets may be far below what the human eye can see, but they are gravity-sensitive, and will fall from an individual’s mouth down, eventually, to the nearest lower surface—table, desk, floor. You do not need to clean upward. ........... the virus survives in “aerosols for up to three hours, up to four hours on copper, up to 24 hours on cardboard and up to two to three days on plastic and stainless steel.” This means an uncleaned surface can pose a risk to members of the household for a very long time—a doorknob, tabletop, kitchen counter or stainless steel utensil......... Give special attention to the most commonly shared surfaces in your home or work area: door knobs, light switches, phones, faucets, toilet handles, kitchen utensils, computer keyboards, and remote controls...... The virus is killed by ultraviolet sunlight, and air flow will hasten dehydration........

It’s also important to prepare psychologically. Every family or couple has its issues, and tensions can amplify during long confinement. Common sense can ease the shared suffering.

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UK braces for coronavirus shut down as London stations close virtual shut down of London as underground train stations across the capital closed ....... London’s transport authority said it would close up to 40 underground train stations until further notice and cut down other services including buses and trains ...... Britain has so far reported 104 deaths from coronavirus and 2,626 confirmed cases, but UK scientific advisers say more than 50,000 people might have already been infected......

Britain faces a “massive shortage” of ventilators

...... Supermarkets have been forced to limit purchases after frantic shoppers stripped shelves.







Coronavirus: France President Macron suspends rent, taxes and utilities
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As Beijing, Hong Kong face second coronavirus onslaught, quarantine gets serious

China is now reporting more imported new cases than domestic infections



Coronavirus: WHO official denounces stigmatising language such as that used by Donald Trump
This is the biggest blunder in presidential history
More than 80 national security professionals break with tradition and endorse a presidential candidate — Biden

A New York Doctor’s Coronavirus Warning: The Sky Is Falling Alarmist is not a word anyone has ever used to describe me before. But this is different. ....... Today, at the hospital where I work, one of the largest in New York City, Covid-19 cases continue to climb, and there’s movement to redeploy as many health care workers as possible to the E.R.s, new “fever clinics” and I.C.U.s. It’s becoming an all-healthy-hands-on-deck scenario. ........ Alarmist is not a word anyone has ever used to describe me before. I’m a board-certified surgeon and critical care specialist who spent much of my training attending to traumas in the emergency room and doing the rounds at Harvard hospitals’ intensive care units. I’m now in my last four months of training as a pediatric surgeon in New York City. Part of my job entails waking in the middle of the night to rush to the children’s hospital to put babies on a form of life support called ECMO, a service required when a child’s lungs are failing even with maximum ventilator support. Scenarios that mimic end-stage Covid-19 are part of my job. Panic is not in my vocabulary; the emotion has been drilled out of me in nine years of training. This is different............

We are living in a global public health crisis moving at a speed and scale never witnessed by living generations. The cracks in our medical and financial systems are being splayed open like a gashing wound.

....... today, and likely tomorrow, even M.D.s do not have straightforward access to testing across the country. ....... I say this not to panic anyone but to mobilize you. ....... Doctors across the globe are sharing information, protocols and strategies through social media, because our common publishing channels are too slow.



86% of people with coronavirus are walking around undetected, study says
Coronavirus patient on hellish ordeal: ‘I was screaming for mercy and praying to God’

It started out as a tickle in his throat before bed, but by the next morning, it felt like the worst flu ever.......And by the time Kevin Harris was admitted to a hospital in Ohio five days later, he thought he was suffocating.

...... Harris, a father of four children with three grandchildren, believes he was exposed to the coronavirus at another hospital when he went in for an appointment that wound up being canceled. ..... Within a couple of days, he said, he felt like he couldn’t clear his throat. He couldn’t stop coughing. By the next day, he had a fever and headaches. But the worst part was the body aches.......

On a scale of 1 to 10, he said, the pain was 15. ...... “The pain is off the charts. Everything hurts, nose, toes and ears,” said Harris. “I was like one big ball of pain.”



As Cities Around the World Go on Lockdown, Victims of Domestic Violence Look For A Way Out For women who are experiencing domestic violence, mandatory lockdowns to curb the spread of COVID-19 (the disease caused by the new coronavirus) have trapped them in their homes with their abusers, isolated from the people and the resources that could help them....... their abusers are using COVID-19 as a means of further isolating them from their friends and family...... One out of three women in the world experience physical or sexual violence in their lifetime, according to the World Health Organization, making it “the most widespread but among the least reported human rights abuses.” But during times of crisis—such as natural disasters, wars, and epidemics—the risk of gender-based-violence escalates. In China, the number of domestic violence cases reported to the local police tripled in February compared to the previous year, according to Axios. Activists say this is a result of enforced lockdown....... “We know that domestic violence is rooted in power and control,” says Ray-Jones. “Right now, we are all feeling a lack of control over our lives and an individual who cannot manage that will take it out on their victim.” She says that while the number of abuse cases may not rise during the coronavirus crisis, people who were already in an abusive situation will likely find themselves facing more extreme violence, and can no longer escape by going to work or seeing friends.

A day-by-day coronavirus symptoms. It shows how the disease, COVID-19, goes from bad to worse. A worth watching video !

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