The Covid-19 Thread: News, Preparation Tips, Etc
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I thought today was wed. Dh had to remind me. I’m just here getting fatter and lazier...
Jmartjrmd
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Ikr..I couldnt stand it. I had to be out on a propofol drip except the 2 hours they gave me to sink or swim. I felt like I was choking all the time. After 5 rounds on a ventilator I never want to go down that road again.
ThirdEyeBeauty
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I would need much more information.
Black Ambrosia
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The Detroit metro area has the most cases and it's 80% black.
Guapa1
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Thank you @Gangababy. I'm feeling a lot better and only cough when I try to talk now. How's your aunty? @shelli4018 how's your niece?
I hope your dad is feeling a lot better now.
Las Vegas parking lot turned into 'homeless shelter' with social distancing markers
City says parking lot marked to distance residents from each other was best option after virus forced another shelter to close
Mario Koran
Tue 31 Mar 2020 03.14 BSTLast modified on Tue 31 Mar 2020 18.27 BS
Homeless people sleep in a parking lot with spaces marked for social distancing in Las Vegas. Photograph: Steve Marcus/Reuters
Images of homeless people sleeping in a converted parking lot in Las Vegas have sparked criticism, even as the city officials describe an “emergency situation” and say the solution was the best option after another shelter was forced to close amid the coronavirus crisis.
Over the weekend, authorities in Las Vegas needed to find additional sleeping space for the city’s sizable homeless population when a 500-bed overnight shelter closed after a client tested positive for the new coronavirus.
Officials turned a parking lot into a makeshift shelter, saying spaces for sleeping were drawn 6ft apart in observance of federal social distancing guidelines.
Many white boxes were covered up with blue mats that could be more easily cleaned. But photos of the temporary shelter showing people sleeping close to each other on the ground, some within arm’s reach, sparked backlash on social media.
Jace Radke, spokesperson for the city of Las Vegas, said the city and county had worked to open the temporary shelter after Catholic Charities closed and the city’s other shelter, Courtyard Homeless Resource Center, was nearly filled to capacity.
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Blue mats were laid down for people to sleep on. Photograph: Ethan Miller/Getty Images
Officials set up the new shelter in the parking lot of the Cashman Center, which most recently has hosted soccer games. A city official said the inside of the Cashman Center could not be used as shelter because it was reserved for overflow hospital space.
Homelessness is a continuing crisis in southern Nevada, with at least 6,500 people camped on streets or in storm drains at any given time.
On Saturday, roughly a dozen medical and physician assistant students from Touro University were on hand to help officials set up the shelter.
Touro University med students & physician asst. students have arrived to help with our temp. homeless facility at Cashman Center. It’s coming together! #coronavirus #Vegas
Due to the closure of Catholic Charities, we are joining with @CityOfLasVegas & area homeless providers to set up a temporary shelter @ Cashman Center. It will open tonight & run through April 3rd, when Catholic Charities will reopen #coronavirus #Vegas
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Radke said Catholic Charities planned to reopen within the week and that medical staff would be available near the Cashman Center to screen people for symptoms and get them medical help if they showed signs of being infected.
The blue mats laid down for people to sleep are easier to clean than the 24,000-sq-ft carpet squares volunteers had first used at the parking lot, which cannot be power washed.
But many on Twitter have criticized the move, pointing to photos of people who appear to be sleeping on the ground or on unseen patches of carpet.
https://twitter.com/Manda_like_wine/status/1244602911084154880
Nevada, a state in one of the richest countries in the world, has painted social-distancing boxes on a concrete parking lot for the homeless to sleep in.
“After criminalizing homelessness this year, Las Vegas is now packing people into concrete grids out of sight,” tweeted Julián Castro, the former presidential hopeful and mayor of San Antonio, who served as the secretary of housing under Barack Obama.
After criminalizing homelessness this year, Las Vegas is now packing people into concrete grids out of sight.
There are 150K hotel rooms in Vegas going unused right now. How about public-private cooperation (resources) to temporarily house them there? And fund permanent housing!
“There are 150K hotel rooms in Vegas going unused right now. How about public-private cooperation (resources) to temporarily house them there? And fund permanent housing!”
Radke said he could not speak to specific photos but said they may have been taken of the sections of parking lot that were not yet covered when officials ran out of mats.
“Look, this is an emergency situation. People are always going to criticize. But the city and county are working to ensure people can get the resources they need,” he said, adding that the state’s stay-at-home order “is easier said than done for people who are homeless”.
Despite the backlash, the shelter was a welcome sight to Denise Lankford, who is unhoused.
“I’m about to cry,” Lankford told the CNN affiliate KLAS. “This right here is helping us feel secure, feel safe. Other places, you don’t feel safe.”
Before coronavirus landed in the global spotlight, the city had begun cracking down on people living outdoors. In November, the city council approved a law that made sitting, resting or “lodging” on sidewalks a misdemeanor punishable with up to six months in jail or fines of up to $1,000 in most neighborhoods.
While the mayor, Carolyn Goodman, said the city’s “entire effort is humanitarian and compassionate”, housing advocates worried that the “no lodging” convictions would haunt people for the rest of their lives.
Homelessness is a widespread problem across the western US, particularly in California, where more than 40,000 people live in shelters on a given night.
Advocates and shelter residents have warned that unsanitary and inhumane conditions raise significant concerns for the battle against the spread of the coronavirus.
It’s good you are getting better. It’s good news for those who had it and got over it. Really good news. You can send me some of your plasma please. Thanks lol.
She is taking it easy. Thanks for asking.
She is taking it easy. Thanks for asking.
@shelli4018 how's your niece?
I hope your dad is feeling a lot better now.
The Coronavirus Doesn't Discriminate, But U.S. Health Care Showing Familiar Biases
April 2, 202012:37 PM ET
BLAKE FARMER
While more affluent parts of Nashville have had testing sites for weeks, this drive-through testing site at Meharry Medical College, in a historically African American neighborhood, experienced weeks of delays because staff couldn't acquire the needed testing supplies and gear like masks and gloves. It finally opened March 30.
Ken Morris/Meharry Medical College
The new coronavirus doesn't discriminate. But physicians in public health and on the front lines say that in the response to the pandemic, they can already see the emergence of familiar patterns of racial and economic bias.
In one analysis, it appears doctors may be less likely to refer African Americans for testing when they show up for care with signs of infection.
The bio-tech data firm Rubix Life Sciences, based in Boston, reviewed recent billing information in several states, and found that an African American with symptoms like cough and fever was less likely to be given one of the scarce coronavirus tests.
Delays in diagnosis and treatment can be harmful, especially for racial or ethnic minority groups that have higher rates of certain diseases, such as diabetes, high blood pressure and kidney disease. Those chronic illnesses can lead to more severe cases of COVID-19.
On the campus of Meharry Medical College — a historically black institution in Nashville — drive-through testing tents sat empty for weeks, because the school couldn't acquire the necessary testing equipment and protective gear like gloves and masks.
Dr. James Hildreth, president of Meharry and an infectious disease specialist.
His medical school is located in the heart of Nashville, where there were no screening centers until this week.
Most of the testing in the region took place at walk-in clinics managed by Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and those are primarily located in historically white areas like Belle Meade and Brentwood, Tennessee.
Hildreth says he's observed no overt bias on the part of health care workers, and doesn't suspect any.
But he says the distribution of testing sites shows a disparity in access to medical care that has long persisted.
'I pray I'm wrong'
But if anyone should be prioritized, Hildreth says it's minority communities, where people already have more risk factors like diabetes and lung disease.
"We cannot afford to not have the resources to be distributed where they need to be," he says. "Otherwise, the virus will do great harm in some communities and less in others."
In Memphis, a heat map shows where coronavirus testing is taking place. It reveals that most screening is happening in the predominantly white and well-off suburbs, not the majority black, lower-income neighborhoods.
Rev. Earle Fisher has been warning his African American congregation that the response to the pandemic may fall along the city's usual divides.
"I pray I'm wrong," Fisher says. "I think we're about to witness an inequitable distribution of the medical resources too."
Around the nation, concentrated pockets are popping up. In Milwaukee, African Americans made up all of the city's first eight fatalities.
Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers says he wants to know why black communities seem to be hit so hard. "It's a crisis within a crisis," Evers said in a video statement.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is also on the ground on the north side of Milwaukee, as well as several other hot spots, looking into the outbreak in black neighborhoods. Nationwide, it's difficult to know how minority populations are faring because the CDC isn't reporting any data on race.
A few states are releasing more demographic data, but it's incomplete. Virginia is reporting race, yet the state's report is missing that information for two-thirds of confirmed cases.
Dr. Georges Benjamin of the American Public Health Association has been pushing health officials to start monitoring race and income in the response to COVID-19.
"We want people to collect the data in an organized, professional, scientific manner and show who's getting it and who's not getting it," Benjamin says. "Recognize that we very well may see these health inequities."
The subjectivity of symptoms
Until he's convinced otherwise, Benjamin says he assumes the usual disparities are at play.
"Experience has taught all of us that if you're poor, if you're of color, you're going to get services second," he says.
The subjectivity of coronavirus symptoms is what worries Dr. Ebony Hilton the most.
"The person comes in, they're complaining of chest pain, they're complaining of shortness of breath, they have a cough, I can't quantify that," she says.
Hilton is an anesthesiologist at the University of Virginia Medical Center who has been raising concerns.
She sees problems across the board, from the way social media is being used as a primary way of educating the public to how quickly drive-through testing has expanded. The first requires internet connection. The second, a car.
Hilton says the country can't afford to overlook race, even during a swiftly moving pandemic.
"If you don't get a test, if you die, you're not going to be listed as dying from COVID," she says. "You're just going to be dead."
https://www.npr.org/sections/health...-care-showing-familiar-biases?t=1585860898348
April 2, 202012:37 PM ET
BLAKE FARMER
While more affluent parts of Nashville have had testing sites for weeks, this drive-through testing site at Meharry Medical College, in a historically African American neighborhood, experienced weeks of delays because staff couldn't acquire the needed testing supplies and gear like masks and gloves. It finally opened March 30.
Ken Morris/Meharry Medical College
The new coronavirus doesn't discriminate. But physicians in public health and on the front lines say that in the response to the pandemic, they can already see the emergence of familiar patterns of racial and economic bias.
In one analysis, it appears doctors may be less likely to refer African Americans for testing when they show up for care with signs of infection.
The bio-tech data firm Rubix Life Sciences, based in Boston, reviewed recent billing information in several states, and found that an African American with symptoms like cough and fever was less likely to be given one of the scarce coronavirus tests.
Delays in diagnosis and treatment can be harmful, especially for racial or ethnic minority groups that have higher rates of certain diseases, such as diabetes, high blood pressure and kidney disease. Those chronic illnesses can lead to more severe cases of COVID-19.
On the campus of Meharry Medical College — a historically black institution in Nashville — drive-through testing tents sat empty for weeks, because the school couldn't acquire the necessary testing equipment and protective gear like gloves and masks.
Dr. James Hildreth, president of Meharry and an infectious disease specialist.
His medical school is located in the heart of Nashville, where there were no screening centers until this week.
Most of the testing in the region took place at walk-in clinics managed by Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and those are primarily located in historically white areas like Belle Meade and Brentwood, Tennessee.
Hildreth says he's observed no overt bias on the part of health care workers, and doesn't suspect any.
But he says the distribution of testing sites shows a disparity in access to medical care that has long persisted.
'I pray I'm wrong'
But if anyone should be prioritized, Hildreth says it's minority communities, where people already have more risk factors like diabetes and lung disease.
"We cannot afford to not have the resources to be distributed where they need to be," he says. "Otherwise, the virus will do great harm in some communities and less in others."
In Memphis, a heat map shows where coronavirus testing is taking place. It reveals that most screening is happening in the predominantly white and well-off suburbs, not the majority black, lower-income neighborhoods.
Rev. Earle Fisher has been warning his African American congregation that the response to the pandemic may fall along the city's usual divides.
"I pray I'm wrong," Fisher says. "I think we're about to witness an inequitable distribution of the medical resources too."
Around the nation, concentrated pockets are popping up. In Milwaukee, African Americans made up all of the city's first eight fatalities.
Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers says he wants to know why black communities seem to be hit so hard. "It's a crisis within a crisis," Evers said in a video statement.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is also on the ground on the north side of Milwaukee, as well as several other hot spots, looking into the outbreak in black neighborhoods. Nationwide, it's difficult to know how minority populations are faring because the CDC isn't reporting any data on race.
A few states are releasing more demographic data, but it's incomplete. Virginia is reporting race, yet the state's report is missing that information for two-thirds of confirmed cases.
Dr. Georges Benjamin of the American Public Health Association has been pushing health officials to start monitoring race and income in the response to COVID-19.
"We want people to collect the data in an organized, professional, scientific manner and show who's getting it and who's not getting it," Benjamin says. "Recognize that we very well may see these health inequities."
The subjectivity of symptoms
Until he's convinced otherwise, Benjamin says he assumes the usual disparities are at play.
"Experience has taught all of us that if you're poor, if you're of color, you're going to get services second," he says.
The subjectivity of coronavirus symptoms is what worries Dr. Ebony Hilton the most.
"The person comes in, they're complaining of chest pain, they're complaining of shortness of breath, they have a cough, I can't quantify that," she says.
Hilton is an anesthesiologist at the University of Virginia Medical Center who has been raising concerns.
She sees problems across the board, from the way social media is being used as a primary way of educating the public to how quickly drive-through testing has expanded. The first requires internet connection. The second, a car.
Hilton says the country can't afford to overlook race, even during a swiftly moving pandemic.
"If you don't get a test, if you die, you're not going to be listed as dying from COVID," she says. "You're just going to be dead."
https://www.npr.org/sections/health...-care-showing-familiar-biases?t=1585860898348
King of Sorrow
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I hope New Yorkers (NYC) are also watching de Blasio's briefings. He gives a lot of information on programs to assist people
- NYC now recommending you go out with a homemade facecovering.
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SpiritJunkie
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vevster
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Me too!!
TrulyBlessed
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I believe this is North Korea’s method to the madness as well.
vevster
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My cousin who sews made me some masks. There are you tube tutorials on how to make them to CDC specs.
These are cloth which can be washed. My plan is to wash them then when dry hit them with a hot iron with steam to kill any corona.
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TrulyBlessed
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nycutiepie
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This is why NY numbers are crazy. The Jews want to congregate and many are still getting on crowded trains. These pics are supposedly from today.
Dposh167
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I really wasn't gonna make a mask....but now I think I am. I have a few older family members that will need one and since we're all in NY, i guess it's just smart. I worked for a home textile company and have allergen barrier pillowcases I'm going to cut up and sew into masks. I don't have enough, so I'll probably go to Target and buy 1-2 more pairs of allergen barrier cases and make more. I trust that fabric over grabbing some old scarf. It's the best I can do at this point
MileHighDiva
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Both, I ordered some disposable N95 ones on aliexpre$$ and ordered some cloth/washable ones stateside from a black vendor.
Black Ambrosia
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I needed this earlier today. I tried washing cabbage and was just confused. I guess something like that can't be properly washed until you're ready to use it.
This reminded me that my furnace filter has some sort of allergen protection layer. I’m not making a mask but I bet that material would also be better than a scarf.
dancinstallion
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They just released another study showing hydrochloroquine is effective.
Malaria Drug Helps Virus Patients Improve, in Small Study
A group of moderately ill people were given hydroxychloroquine, which appeared to ease their symptoms quickly, but more research is needed.
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The study, which has not yet undergone peer review, was small and limited to patients who were mildly or moderately ill, not severe cases. Credit...John Phillips/Getty Images
By Denise Grady
- April 1, 2020
The malaria drug hydroxychloroquine helped to speed the recovery of a small number of patients who were mildly ill from the coronavirus, doctors in China reported this week.
Cough, fever and pneumonia went away faster, and the disease seemed less likely to turn severe in people who received hydroxychloroquine than in a comparison group not given the drug. The authors of the report said that the medication was promising, but that more research was needed to clarify how it might work in treating coronavirus disease and to determine the best way to use it.
“It’s going to send a ripple of excitement out through the treating community,” said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease expert at Vanderbilt University.
The study was small and limited to patients who were mildly or moderately ill, not severe cases. Like many reports about the coronavirus, it was posted at medRxiv, an online server for medical articles, before undergoing peer review by other researchers.
The earlier reports from France and China drew criticism because they did not include control groups to compare treated versus untreated patients. Researchers called the reports anecdotal, and said the lack of controls made it impossible to determine whether the drugs worked.
Among health officials who declined to endorse the drugs, and who called for clinical trials, were some members of the president’s coronavirus task force — including Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Dr. Stephen Hahn, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.
The new study, of 62 patients with an average age of about 45, did have a control group. It was conducted at the Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, in Wuhan, China. The patients were carefully chosen to exclude people with medical problems that could be made worse by hydroxychloroquine, like abnormal heart rhythms, certain eye diseases, and liver or kidney problems.
Half the subjects — the controls — received just the usual care given to coronavirus patients, and half had usual care plus hydroxychloroquine. The usual care included oxygen, antiviral drugs, antibiotics and other treatments.
Their disease was considered mild, even though all had pneumonia that showed up on CT scans. After giving informed consent, they were assigned at random to either the hydroxychloroquine or the control group. They were treated for five days, and their fevers and coughing were monitored. They also had chest CT scans the day before the study treatment began, and the day after it ended.
Coughing and fever eased a day or so earlier in the patients who received hydroxychloroquine, and pneumonia improved in 25 of 31, as opposed to 17 of 31 in the controls.
The illness turned severe in four patients — all in the control group.
Two patients had minor side effects from hydroxychloroquine: One had a rash and another had a headache.
Dr. Schaffner cautioned that the results applied only to patients with relatively mild illness, like the ones in the study, and could not be generalized to advanced cases.
“If you want to treat people who are already seriously ill, we don’t know how well this will work,” he said.
If the drug is helping, it is not clear how. There are two possible ways. In laboratory studies, it can stop the virus from invading cells. But hydroxychloroquine can also dial back an overactive immune system, which is why it can treat autoimmune diseases. And a powerful immune reaction to the coronavirus is suspected of playing a role in some of the severest cases of the disease.
“We don’t know which of the pharmacologic aspects of hydroxychloroquine are most active, the antiviral part, or the immunomodulatory part,” Dr. Schaffner said. “We don’t know, but it does reinforce the notion, as the authors say briefly, it reinforces the thinking about the nature of many of these pneumonias we are seeing, which seem to have an immune basis, as opposed to being secondary bacterial pneumonia, which we see so often in influenza.”
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chocolat79
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JK is devil incarnate just like Donald Gump. I watched Dirty Money episode on Netflix and he's horrible. Just rotten to the core just like his FIL.
dynamic1
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Where were these posted? Please google search the headline, the funeral is from 2019 isn't it?
nycutiepie
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I saw it on FB. I stand corrected if that’s the case.
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