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Post by hammer on Apr 3, 2020 15:11:32 GMT -5
Can patients just walk up to these ships and get medical attention? Let's say, for example, I thought I just broke my leg. Could I go directly to one of those ships? Or do I have to deal with standard medical BS, which might be urgent care/emergency room first, then they redirect me to the ship or take me there via ambulance. According to what I have read, patients must be transferred from other hospitals, and only after they have been tested for and cleared from having COVID-19. This means that if all the other hospitals are just too busy dealing with COVID-19, there is no route for patients to be transferred to the ships. (Apparently there is a list of 50 things the ship will not accept patients for, and COVID-19 is only one of those 50 things. So not even all non-COVID-19 patients are eligible.) That's way too much bureaucracy ... they should have the COVID-19 quick test set up outside the hospital ship and list of things they can/can't treat.
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Post by Boom! on Apr 3, 2020 16:15:14 GMT -5
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Post by ironhammer on Apr 3, 2020 20:14:34 GMT -5
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Post by ironhammer on Apr 3, 2020 21:18:18 GMT -5
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Post by ironhammer on Apr 3, 2020 22:12:40 GMT -5
CDC say everyone should wear a face mask now: www.livescience.com/cdc-recommends-face-masks-coronavirus.htmlPeople should wear nonsurgical cloth face coverings when they go out in public during the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended today (April 3).
"Most people could just make something out of a certain material," President Donald Trump said at a news conference today. "It's very simple to do." However, he added that "I won't be doing it personally. It's a recommendation."
The U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams acknowledged that the government's guidance on masks "has been confusing to the American people," he said at the news conference. Until now, the CDC had recommended that while health care workers and "people who have COVID-19 and are showing symptoms" should wear face masks, healthy people should don masks only when taking care of someone who was ill with the new coronavirus. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommended the same.
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Post by ironhammer on Apr 3, 2020 22:26:59 GMT -5
So much for international cooperation on tackling the virus: www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3078416/coronavirus-germany-france-accuse-americans-mask-piracy-dirtyThe scarcity of safety equipment essential to the coronavirus fight is fuelling tensions between long-time transatlantic allies, with local officials in France and Germany accusing unnamed Americans of using unfair means to obtain protective masks.
Berlin’s state interior ministry blamed the US for confiscating 200,000 masks ordered from a US producer when they were in transit through Bangkok. French officials have accused unidentified Americans of paying over the odds to secure masks in China that had already been earmarked for France.
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Post by hammer on Apr 3, 2020 23:18:54 GMT -5
Here's the April 3 numbers from Santa Clara County (population approx 2 million):
Confirmed Cases: 1094 New cases today: 75 Deaths: 38. (71% male, 29% female) (62% above the age of 71) (approx 75% had underlying risk factors) Number hospitalized: 287 Number of Ventilators in Use: 214 (not all are COVID-19 related) Number of Ventilators available: 412
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Post by ironhammer on Apr 6, 2020 0:14:33 GMT -5
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Post by mln59 on Apr 6, 2020 6:23:44 GMT -5
"In light of this new evidence, CDC recommends wearing cloth face coverings in public settings where other social distancing measures are difficult to maintain (e.g., grocery stores and pharmacies) especially in areas of significant community-based transmission."
if one is out for a walk in the morning, a mask is probably not needed.
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Post by akbar on Apr 6, 2020 7:29:38 GMT -5
What really do we have to lose. Its like the flu....and it will simply disappear.
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Post by XAsstCoach on Apr 6, 2020 8:13:01 GMT -5
"In light of this new evidence, CDC recommends wearing cloth face coverings in public settings where other social distancing measures are difficult to maintain (e.g., grocery stores and pharmacies) especially in areas of significant community-based transmission."
if one is out for a walk in the morning, a mask is probably not needed.
A lot of people here are baffled at why no one is wearing a face mask in the US. Not the N95, but the classic rectangular non-medical face mask when walking outside. Even today in Shanghai people walking around outside still wears these face masks.
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Post by ironhammer on Apr 6, 2020 9:03:19 GMT -5
What really do we have to lose. Its like the flu....and it will simply disappear. It is not the flu..
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Post by akbar on Apr 6, 2020 10:13:05 GMT -5
What really do we have to lose. Its like the flu....and it will simply disappear. It is not the flu.. But the "expert" involved with many "MODELS" (hint,hint,snicker,snicker) said it was. 🤔 "Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. And the tests are beautiful. They are perfect just like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good” 😉
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Post by hammer on Apr 6, 2020 13:53:11 GMT -5
What really do we have to lose. Its like the flu....and it will simply disappear. It is not the flu.. Landon Spradlin, the minister who died, clearly failed to grasp the concept of vectoring, like a significant percentage of Americans, due to weak geospatial reasoning skills. He also, in all likelihood, failed to understand the concept of comorbidities. Viewing online photos of the minister leads me to believe that his BMI was elevated. He may have been diabetic or pre-diabetic. The BBC article mysteriously did not indicate anything about these factors.
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Post by akbar on Apr 6, 2020 15:08:54 GMT -5
Landon Spradlin, the minister who died, clearly failed to grasp the concept of vectoring, like a significant percentage of Americans, due to weak geospatial reasoning skills. He also, in all likelihood, failed to understand the concept of comorbidities. Viewing online photos of the minister leads me to believe that his BMI was elevated. He may have been diabetic or pre-diabetic. The BBC article mysteriously did not indicate anything about these factors. Boris has been moved to ICU.....and the European Market bumped up 7% today. News of the day.
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