"Workers First" is signed!
63,000 pounds of freight is equivalent to one 64 foot tracker trailer load.
It is a good idea to keep the weight limits at 20,000 pounds per twin axles because of the Bridge Law. The bridges in the USA are all built with the design that allows that much weight intensity over every dual axle. It is safe to maintain truck weight limits.
More trucks with legal weight when large amounts of supplies are being moved through the country.
New York may have to pursue its own path when it comes to ventilators. A lawsuit may be necessary.
The Army Corp of Engineers like to do work that is appreciated including playgrounds at request of some federal legislators. Governor Cuomo thanked the Army Corp. to accolades today. Trump is out of line in his harsh criticism of great Americans.
Trump is not a team player.
Each producer of ventilators need to have a model available to allow governors know the design for the hospital managers to be confident they will fit in the units and that they work well.
GM needs to get their tool and dye workers to build the case from the design of their engineers. GM needs to work with a 3D manufacturer to produce the small pieces. There is no time to take bid from GM’s usual suppliers. Please.
I would think the manufacturers that are producing ventilators can use a standard design as well. It simplifies the job of repair persons.
ASAP, please. They are smart people and understand the need and mass production. Americans are counting on you.
The FDA is capable of fast tracking a drug. The agency has fast tracked AZT. Enough. If the drugs are working the FDA is very sensitive to the need in the country.
Louisiana is not as economically agile a state as New York is and will be more dependent on federal dollars. Every state needs to begin to find companies that can manufacture their much needed supplies. New York tasked their own companies in a public “On Air” request by Governor Cuomo. I would urge every governor to do the same thing. The response by GM, Ford and others will be coming but the gap until that point is going to have to be filled by local companies.
None of this is easy. It requires the best of all Americans.
I do not want to be disrespectful or cruel but Mr. Trump is unhelpful in most of his comments.
All Americans need to hunker down and stay at home or the place they call home. The only way Americans are going to be okay is to stay at home. Know more than anyone else that says otherwise. STAY HOME and be patriotic in doing so.
Apply for unemployment and wait for word from an employer to return to work. Help is coming.
Friday, March 27, 2020
Congratulations to the US House is passing the "Workers First" bill.
Knowing Elon Musk as a public figure, this is probably the beginning of his medical branch. He really is a remarkable engineer himself. I am sure he has a design already.
March 26, 2020
By Kristen Korosec
Knowing Elon Musk as a public figure, this is probably the beginning of his medical branch. He really is a remarkable engineer himself. I am sure he has a design already.
By Kristen Korosec
Tesla CEO Elong Musk (click here) said Wednesday that the company’s factory in Buffalo, New York will open “as soon as humanly possible” to produce ventilators that are in short supply due to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
His comments, which were made Wednesday via Twitter, follows previous statements by the CEO outlining plans to either donate ventilators or work to increase production of the critical piece of medical equipment needed for patients who are hospitalized with COVID-19, a respiratory disease caused by coronavirus. COVID-19 attacks the lungs and can cause acute respiratory distress syndrome and pneumonia. And since there is no clinically proven treatment yet, ventilators are relied upon to help people breathe and fight the disease. There are about 160,000 ventilators in the United States and another 12,700 in the National Strategic Supply, the NYT reported....
Ohio is postponing in person voting for the primary.
There is some evidence that a nurse may have caused some infections in other people because she was positive. It is not her fault. She did not know she was positive until she had symptoms. These health care professionals are very valuable people. They are important beyond their own understanding. She blamed herself. That was wrong of her. She could have come back to work as soon as she was well taking care of people she may have infected without knowing of her status. These things happen.
NO SHAME - NO BLAME
Self-esteem issues among professionals are to seek SUPPORT among colleagues and other nursing and doctor professionals best to understand and offer perspective.
March 25, 2020
By Kelsey Landis
The Catholic Diocese of Belleville(click here) will continue a suspension on Mass through Holy Week during the coronavirus pandemic, Bishop Edward K. Braxton said in a letter Tuesday.
The Chrism Mass on April 7 and Holy Week liturgies will not be celebrated publicly in parishes but streamed online only.
The diocese suspended all Mass earlier this month to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
His comments, which were made Wednesday via Twitter, follows previous statements by the CEO outlining plans to either donate ventilators or work to increase production of the critical piece of medical equipment needed for patients who are hospitalized with COVID-19, a respiratory disease caused by coronavirus. COVID-19 attacks the lungs and can cause acute respiratory distress syndrome and pneumonia. And since there is no clinically proven treatment yet, ventilators are relied upon to help people breathe and fight the disease. There are about 160,000 ventilators in the United States and another 12,700 in the National Strategic Supply, the NYT reported....
Ohio is postponing in person voting for the primary.
There is some evidence that a nurse may have caused some infections in other people because she was positive. It is not her fault. She did not know she was positive until she had symptoms. These health care professionals are very valuable people. They are important beyond their own understanding. She blamed herself. That was wrong of her. She could have come back to work as soon as she was well taking care of people she may have infected without knowing of her status. These things happen.
NO SHAME - NO BLAME
Self-esteem issues among professionals are to seek SUPPORT among colleagues and other nursing and doctor professionals best to understand and offer perspective.
March 25, 2020
By Kelsey Landis
The Catholic Diocese of Belleville(click here) will continue a suspension on Mass through Holy Week during the coronavirus pandemic, Bishop Edward K. Braxton said in a letter Tuesday.
The Chrism Mass on April 7 and Holy Week liturgies will not be celebrated publicly in parishes but streamed online only.
The diocese suspended all Mass earlier this month to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Let's talk ventilators
It looks very workable to me, but the BLUE BAG is the place where air enters and then is forced into the patient. It MUST be more durable than is in use now as temporary resuscitation devise. THAT SAID, this looks like a very viable design. It is a matter of using the current supply available for resuscitators and improving on the manufacturer's GRADE OF RUBBER/PLASTIC used.
Clinical and design considerations (click here) will be published online; goal is to support rapid scale-up of device production to alleviate hospital shortages.
The current resuscitators CURRENTLY IN THE HOSPITAL are not designed for extended use. That will have to be considered in that design.
...The team, called MIT E-Vent (for emergency ventilator), was formed on March 12 in response to the rapid spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. Its members were brought together by the exhortations of doctors, friends, and a sudden flood of mail referencing a project done a decade ago in the MIT class 2.75 (Medical Device Design). Students working in consultation with local physicians designed a simple ventilator device that could be built with about $100 worth of parts. They published a paper detailing their design and testing, but the work ended at that point. Now, with a significant global need looming, a new team, linked to that course, has resumed the project at a highly accelerated pace....The states are not only competing for equipment, it is actually a global competition.
...We are one of several teams (click here) who recognized the challenges faced by Italian physicians, and are working to find a solution to the anticipated global lack of ventilators. In the US alone, the COVID-19 pandemic may cause ventilator shortages on the order of 300,000-700,000 units (CDC Pandemic Response Plans). These could present on a national scale within weeks, and are already being felt in certain areas. An increase in conventional ventilator production is very likely to fall short and with significant associated cost (paywall warning).
Almost every bed in a hospital has a manual resuscitator (Ambu-Bag) nearby, available in the event of a rapid response or code where healthcare workers maintain oxygenation by squeezing the bag. Automating this appears to be the simplest strategy that satisfies the need for low-cost mechanical ventilation, with the ability to be rapidly manufactured in large quantities. However, doing this safely is not trivial....
They appear to be made of items already in the hospitals in the USA. The cities need to put their city engineers to work on the design and teach hospital maintenance personnel how to assemble them. Basically, there needs to be a teacher to facilitate the distribution of that information to many hospitals.
My only real concern in this design is the DURABILITY of the soft parts and having either items nearby to bring about a quick replacement and/or asking the manufacturer of these SOFT items to make them now more durable for longer term use.
Just a word about the markets. This fluctuation is nothing. They appeared to have stabilized. I have an article I want to discuss about the ethics of the current financial sector, BUT, FIRST, let's discuss the ethics of ventilators.
To being there is such a thing as A HEALTH CARE PROXY AND HEALTH CARE POWER OF ATTORNEY.
Those must be honored at this time and hospital staff that meets the admission to the hospital have ways of assessing the wishes of the patient when being triaged. Many hospitals have a record (copy) in a patient's chart already. These are frequently found in patients hospitalized with end-stage cancer. In the case of these patients, the health care proxy may prohibit ventilation AND may demand Hospice Care at Home or in Hospice units. The demand for PPE by home care staff is necessary as well.
IT IS NOT MY CALL to encourage discharge to the home of seriously ill patients with COVID-19 with Health Care Proxies that demand no invasive methods. Those best to make policy regarding these patients are LOCAL Public Health personnel. When a policy is in effect, the doctors will defer them to Hospice and home. Docs and Nurse Practitioners write the discharge and/or home orders.
To vent or not to vent and termination of a ventilator. It appears there is already some discussion of this. BUT, I would like to see more ventilators. There need to be more ventilators NOT fewer patients when they are very ill.
March 25, 20202
By Dr. Mark Abdelmalek, Kaitlyn Folmer and Josh Margolin
Faced with more critically ill COVID-19 patients (click here) than equipment to treat them, hundreds of hospitals are mapping out how they can ration care and equipment in order to save the greatest number of patients possible.
In the last two days, guidelines were provided to scores of hospitals around the country, including every hospital in Pennsylvania, that include a point system that could – in extreme cases – end up determining what patients live or die.
"Priority is assigned to those most likely to be saved, and most likely to live longer," said Dr. Scott Halpern, professor of medical ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania.
On Monday, Halpern and Dr. Douglas White, chairman of ethics in critical care medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, released guidance to hospitals that is now being adopted throughout the nation.
White said "the existing approach to allocate ventilators was unfair because it excluded large groups of patients."...
Local and State Authorities have the right to review hospital policy under their authority. NO government policy should override the doctor's assessments and ethics. They believe in life and it is their call to order a vent or just oxygen. Even if a COVID-19 patient is end-stage anything, it is still the decision of the physician to make the order with respect to a patient's wishes. That relationship CANNOT change. Physicians and Nurse Practitioners have to be able to look themselves in the mirror and know they acted ethically with each such decision.
AGAIN, euthanasia is illegal in the USA, except where legislation has allowed terminally ill patients their dignity, including I think it is Oregon which allows self-termination.
An example of an end-stage disease that has patients living for a decade or more is kidney failure and dialysis. So, just because a patient has an end-stage diagnosis does not mean they are terminal. Physicians and Nurse Practitioners can determine these decisions.
There are also people in home care with ventilation already. An example of that is ALS. Lou Gehrig's Disease is a terminal illness whereby a patient often dies at home on Hospice with a ventilator. Yes, the ventilator is on until death when the patient no longer is capable of sustaining consciousness.
So, it is the decision of physicians to discern the care of a patient going forward. This is not simply a government policy. The government legislates PERMISSION to the individual American to determine their path forward with advanced methods of sustaining their life. That MUST NOT CHANGE. American physicians have perfected these delineations.
ONE MORE TIME. MORE VENTILATORS AND NOT LESS PATIENTS.
That should do it for now. Public Health authorities can be helpful at this time to help with difficult decisions by government officials.
SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI NEEDS TO STAY IN HER OFFICE WITH A FILTER MASK WHILE THE DEBATE AND VOTE OCCURS.
That should hold true for any elderly and/or high-risk wellness lawmakers if the US House reconvenes and then one House member at a time casting a vote in the chamber. I am sure Speaker Pelosi can order the Capital Guard to carry out the single voters in the chamber at a time.
I am very serious about that. It will delay the final vote, but, it will be worth it.
Perhaps the US Air Force can shuttle members of Congress to and from home. They can control the environment in which the legislators travel.
That should hold true for any elderly and/or high-risk wellness lawmakers if the US House reconvenes and then one House member at a time casting a vote in the chamber. I am sure Speaker Pelosi can order the Capital Guard to carry out the single voters in the chamber at a time.
I am very serious about that. It will delay the final vote, but, it will be worth it.
Perhaps the US Air Force can shuttle members of Congress to and from home. They can control the environment in which the legislators travel.
LA County is experiencing an increase in cases. Hospitals have to adapt to this pandemic. They have to make bold decisions they are not used to making. Hospitals are run by people that like to be careful when making decisions so that any change is not so radical it disturbs the smooth running of an entire hospital's systems. Every day is a day to learn how best to handle the pandemic and local health departments are really good partners.
Antibody donors are important and there should be a separation of blood donors and antibody plasma donors. THERE ARE PRIVATE COMPANIES that pay donors for their plasma as a daily practice. They sell that plasma to research companies. Those plasma companies are already staffed and equipped to carry out plasma extraction for high-level use. They should be tapped as an exclusive supply of antibody plasma.
BioLife (click here) is one of those companies.
BioLife Plasma Services (click here) is an industry leader in the collection of high-quality plasma that is processed into life-saving plasma-based therapies. We operate numerous state-of-the-art plasma collection facilities throughout the United States and Austria.
BioLife is committed to safety: through superior service we strive to ensure the safety of our donors and the patients who receive life-saving plasma-based therapeutics.
BioLife Plasma Services is part of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TSE:4502/NYSE:TAK), a patient-focused, values-based, R&D-driven global biopharmaceutical company committed to bringing Better Health and a Brighter Future to people worldwide by translating science into highly-innovative medicines....
MIT where are you?
This is a UV light (click here) used in hospitals for sanitation of viruses. WITH SAFETY FIRST, perhaps these lights should be considered as a part of a filtration system to help end this pandemic.
The biohazard suit below is the type of protection the nursing and MD staff need to protect themselves, especially in high-density viral areas.
They are pricey and need to be decontaminated for reuse. This is why the hospital usually uses disposable PPE. This is the TRUE REUSEABLE ALL DAY protection.
I am not sure, but, these biohazard suits are used by NASA at the Kennedy Space Center. The USA federal government probably has a stock of them. Don't know how much. Were these purchased for Eboli?
The suits for NASA won't be needed in the near future.
This is superior protection for any staff in direct contact with the ill.
Retired doctors and nurses with more advanced age should be the first to use these as they and the suits come into service.
I think I am fresh out of ideas right now. I need a cup of tea.
Antibody donors are important and there should be a separation of blood donors and antibody plasma donors. THERE ARE PRIVATE COMPANIES that pay donors for their plasma as a daily practice. They sell that plasma to research companies. Those plasma companies are already staffed and equipped to carry out plasma extraction for high-level use. They should be tapped as an exclusive supply of antibody plasma.
BioLife (click here) is one of those companies.
BioLife Plasma Services (click here) is an industry leader in the collection of high-quality plasma that is processed into life-saving plasma-based therapies. We operate numerous state-of-the-art plasma collection facilities throughout the United States and Austria.
BioLife is committed to safety: through superior service we strive to ensure the safety of our donors and the patients who receive life-saving plasma-based therapeutics.
BioLife Plasma Services is part of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TSE:4502/NYSE:TAK), a patient-focused, values-based, R&D-driven global biopharmaceutical company committed to bringing Better Health and a Brighter Future to people worldwide by translating science into highly-innovative medicines....
MIT where are you?This is a UV light (click here) used in hospitals for sanitation of viruses. WITH SAFETY FIRST, perhaps these lights should be considered as a part of a filtration system to help end this pandemic.
The biohazard suit below is the type of protection the nursing and MD staff need to protect themselves, especially in high-density viral areas.They are pricey and need to be decontaminated for reuse. This is why the hospital usually uses disposable PPE. This is the TRUE REUSEABLE ALL DAY protection.
I am not sure, but, these biohazard suits are used by NASA at the Kennedy Space Center. The USA federal government probably has a stock of them. Don't know how much. Were these purchased for Eboli?
The suits for NASA won't be needed in the near future.
This is superior protection for any staff in direct contact with the ill.
Retired doctors and nurses with more advanced age should be the first to use these as they and the suits come into service.
I think I am fresh out of ideas right now. I need a cup of tea.
Florida's lethargic governor has a quickly escalating caseload. The Florida governor needs to LEARN QUICKLY from his peers.
Ohio is now predicting a 40 to 70 percent exposure of all Ohioans. Ohio is expecting 6000 to 8000 new cases per day in the coming weeks.
THE ONLY WAY to handle that infection rate is to restrict the assessment of patients to small clinics throughout the state. The faster testing tool is definitely needed and now.
How is New York's trial of medication coming along? It is slightly early to know for sure, but, is there any indication that the new medications are effective, either in the USA or other countries?
Hospitals cannot continue to be the clearinghouse for a caseload that big. Hospitals should begin closing their doors to isolate the ill from the well. The ER will only receive cases that need hospitalization from the assessment clinics. SERIOUSLY. I am saying this knowing I might be the one standing in line at a clinic, okay? I rule nothing out because the most successful ISOLATION of the public happened in Wuhan and I am not convinced we understand this atypical virus completely, so much as how to treat it and end the plague.
I do have an air purifier that I love. The air in the apartment is wonderful. There is a big difference in my wellness since obtaining the air purifier. Yes, it has a sophisticated filter and UV system. It is all contained in one unit and it is completely safe even if a child knocks it over.
Hospital staff is too vital to the best outcomes of patients. The staff is going to need every employee working to protect the medical milieu of the hospital. Floors cleaned frequently, sterilization units operating 24-7 and clerks stocking the floors on a continuous basis.
Nurse Managers are responsible for establishing stocking levels for a unit. That means there is a "daily standard" for supply clerks to bring IV bags of Normal Saline, Dextrose 5% bags, etc.... That daily refill for the units are more than likely hourly restocks at the height of the pandemic in the USA. So, the hospital staff can't be interfered with by visitors.
The hospital can be a source of infection as well for visitors that allow themselves the freedom of wandering the hospital floors to "find word" about their loved ones. That visitor traffic needs to stop as far as I am concerned.
Most outpatient surgery clinics (same day units) should remain operational for normal emergencies. Those clinics can handle uncomplicated surgeries such as appendectomies, etc. They are mini-hospitals, EXCEPT, they don't entertain high-risk patients normally. Surgeons can determine if a patient is high risk and move them to the hospital where a more dense number of professionals can respond to CODES. These surgical units have suspended ELECTIVE surgery. My guess is for this reason so they can assume the emergency surgery normally received in the ER.
Ancillary staff needed: (click here)
Americans need to be ready to find a health care system that is different than they are used to for the next few months.
As a side note: The workforce in these states are going to be ill and recovering so the unemployment support makes complete sense.
March 26, 2020
Doctors test hospital staff with flu-like symptoms for the CCP virus in tents set up to triage possible COVID-19 patients outside before they enter the main emergency department area at St. Barnabas hospital in the Bronx borough of New York City on March 24, 2020.
In Thursday’s midday report, (click here) a total of 378 new cases have been identified, pushing the total positive tests in the state to 2,355 (2,235 Florida residents, 120 non-residents). In the last two-plus days, state health officials have confirmed 1,128 new cases - 240 on Tuesday, a single-day record 540 on Wednesday and the 378 in Thursday’s first report. Polk County up to 17 cases.
This is interesting. Americans love potatoes.
March 25, 2020
By Jessie Higgins
Evansville -- Potato growers and shippers (click here) are working overtime to keep American grocery stores stocked with enough spuds to meet skyrocketing consumer demand during the coronavirus pandemic
With restaurants closing and governors forcing people to stay home, grocery stores are struggling to keep potatoes in stock, and many suppliers have exhausted supplies earmarked for retail consumption, said Blair Richardson, CEO of Denver-based Potatoes USA, a marketing organization for the industry...
There is absolutely no reason for Donald John Trump to take political advantage of Democratic governors. MIT is providing a tool to look at this virus and it's effect on the American population to governors and mayors. THERE ARE NO QUESTIONS TO THE EXPERTISE OF MIT.
March 26, 2020
By Ruth Reader
The interactive map represents a relative risk profile of counties within each state. The red areas on the map represent regions with higher relative risk compared to the white ones. To categorize counties e produced a score that ranges from 0 to 6, 6 being the highest risk. For each of the risk factors a county can be given 2, 1, or 0 points if it belongs to the top 25%, top 50%, or bottom 50% of counties in the state, respectively. The risk profile was created on the basis of three categories – hypertension, diabetes, and obesity.
We have overlaid the number of known COVID-19 cases in the form of blue circles on top of the corresponding county.
That woman at Trump's briefing, what's her name....Betty White looking woman will have no problem to understand THE COUNTRY'S COUNTIES BURDEN TO DATE IN THIS CRISIS THANKS TO THE INSTANT TOOL BY MIT.
The coronavirus is moving at a blurring rate. (click here) But researchers, doctors, and health officials still have a lot to learn from even the most recent events. That’s why a group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has released a set of tools aimed at helping officials find the people most likely to suffer negative effects from the coronavirus. Included in those resources are a couple of maps that identify the most risk-prone counties all around the U.S.
“I think there’s some very dark days ahead, and in those dark days state and local officials will want to know where are those vulnerable people,” says Simon Johnson, a professor of entrepreneurship at MIT and the former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, who is co-leading the effort.
Two weeks ago, Johnson and Retsef Levi, a professor of operations management at MIT, formed the COVID-19 Policy Alliance. The two have gathered a team of MIT experts to develop tools to help public officials understand and manage COVID-19 outbreaks across the U.S.
The group is also making recommendations on policy. On Monday, the alliance sent a proposal to the White House suggesting that the government purchase medical equipment such as respirators, scrubs, masks, swabs, and other needed equipment from China and use currently grounded passenger and freight airplanes to retrieve it. Johnson says the group is working with state officials on coordinating similar plans.
MIT’s COVID-19 Policy Alliance is among several institutions trying to use data to help identify vulnerable populations, which may need additional resources as states trying to forestall the virus’s spread enact restrictions on leaving the home....
The US House needs to pass the "Worker First" bill as soon as possible to RETURN CONSUMER CONFIDENCE.This accounting occurred as the Senate was deciding on a vote.
March 25, 2020
By Carmen Reinke
US consumers (click here) are backing away from the housing market as the coronavirus pandemic shuts down large swaths of the economy in an attempt to curb the spread of disease.
Mortgage application volume fell 29% in the week ending March 20, the largest drop since 2009, according to a Wednesday report from the Mortgage Bankers Association. The home-purchase index fell 15% to its lowest level since August 2019 and decreased 11% on the year, the first year-over-year decline in more than three months.
Refinance applications also decreased 34% from the previous week, but are up 195% from a year ago....
Ohio is now predicting a 40 to 70 percent exposure of all Ohioans. Ohio is expecting 6000 to 8000 new cases per day in the coming weeks.
THE ONLY WAY to handle that infection rate is to restrict the assessment of patients to small clinics throughout the state. The faster testing tool is definitely needed and now.
How is New York's trial of medication coming along? It is slightly early to know for sure, but, is there any indication that the new medications are effective, either in the USA or other countries?
Hospitals cannot continue to be the clearinghouse for a caseload that big. Hospitals should begin closing their doors to isolate the ill from the well. The ER will only receive cases that need hospitalization from the assessment clinics. SERIOUSLY. I am saying this knowing I might be the one standing in line at a clinic, okay? I rule nothing out because the most successful ISOLATION of the public happened in Wuhan and I am not convinced we understand this atypical virus completely, so much as how to treat it and end the plague.
I do have an air purifier that I love. The air in the apartment is wonderful. There is a big difference in my wellness since obtaining the air purifier. Yes, it has a sophisticated filter and UV system. It is all contained in one unit and it is completely safe even if a child knocks it over.
Hospital staff is too vital to the best outcomes of patients. The staff is going to need every employee working to protect the medical milieu of the hospital. Floors cleaned frequently, sterilization units operating 24-7 and clerks stocking the floors on a continuous basis.
Nurse Managers are responsible for establishing stocking levels for a unit. That means there is a "daily standard" for supply clerks to bring IV bags of Normal Saline, Dextrose 5% bags, etc.... That daily refill for the units are more than likely hourly restocks at the height of the pandemic in the USA. So, the hospital staff can't be interfered with by visitors.
The hospital can be a source of infection as well for visitors that allow themselves the freedom of wandering the hospital floors to "find word" about their loved ones. That visitor traffic needs to stop as far as I am concerned.
Most outpatient surgery clinics (same day units) should remain operational for normal emergencies. Those clinics can handle uncomplicated surgeries such as appendectomies, etc. They are mini-hospitals, EXCEPT, they don't entertain high-risk patients normally. Surgeons can determine if a patient is high risk and move them to the hospital where a more dense number of professionals can respond to CODES. These surgical units have suspended ELECTIVE surgery. My guess is for this reason so they can assume the emergency surgery normally received in the ER.
Ancillary staff needed: (click here)
Americans need to be ready to find a health care system that is different than they are used to for the next few months.
As a side note: The workforce in these states are going to be ill and recovering so the unemployment support makes complete sense.
Doctors test hospital staff with flu-like symptoms for the CCP virus in tents set up to triage possible COVID-19 patients outside before they enter the main emergency department area at St. Barnabas hospital in the Bronx borough of New York City on March 24, 2020.
In Thursday’s midday report, (click here) a total of 378 new cases have been identified, pushing the total positive tests in the state to 2,355 (2,235 Florida residents, 120 non-residents). In the last two-plus days, state health officials have confirmed 1,128 new cases - 240 on Tuesday, a single-day record 540 on Wednesday and the 378 in Thursday’s first report. Polk County up to 17 cases.
This is interesting. Americans love potatoes.
March 25, 2020
By Jessie Higgins
Evansville -- Potato growers and shippers (click here) are working overtime to keep American grocery stores stocked with enough spuds to meet skyrocketing consumer demand during the coronavirus pandemic
With restaurants closing and governors forcing people to stay home, grocery stores are struggling to keep potatoes in stock, and many suppliers have exhausted supplies earmarked for retail consumption, said Blair Richardson, CEO of Denver-based Potatoes USA, a marketing organization for the industry...
There is absolutely no reason for Donald John Trump to take political advantage of Democratic governors. MIT is providing a tool to look at this virus and it's effect on the American population to governors and mayors. THERE ARE NO QUESTIONS TO THE EXPERTISE OF MIT.
By Ruth Reader
The interactive map represents a relative risk profile of counties within each state. The red areas on the map represent regions with higher relative risk compared to the white ones. To categorize counties e produced a score that ranges from 0 to 6, 6 being the highest risk. For each of the risk factors a county can be given 2, 1, or 0 points if it belongs to the top 25%, top 50%, or bottom 50% of counties in the state, respectively. The risk profile was created on the basis of three categories – hypertension, diabetes, and obesity.
We have overlaid the number of known COVID-19 cases in the form of blue circles on top of the corresponding county.
That woman at Trump's briefing, what's her name....Betty White looking woman will have no problem to understand THE COUNTRY'S COUNTIES BURDEN TO DATE IN THIS CRISIS THANKS TO THE INSTANT TOOL BY MIT.
The coronavirus is moving at a blurring rate. (click here) But researchers, doctors, and health officials still have a lot to learn from even the most recent events. That’s why a group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has released a set of tools aimed at helping officials find the people most likely to suffer negative effects from the coronavirus. Included in those resources are a couple of maps that identify the most risk-prone counties all around the U.S.
“I think there’s some very dark days ahead, and in those dark days state and local officials will want to know where are those vulnerable people,” says Simon Johnson, a professor of entrepreneurship at MIT and the former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, who is co-leading the effort.
Two weeks ago, Johnson and Retsef Levi, a professor of operations management at MIT, formed the COVID-19 Policy Alliance. The two have gathered a team of MIT experts to develop tools to help public officials understand and manage COVID-19 outbreaks across the U.S.
The group is also making recommendations on policy. On Monday, the alliance sent a proposal to the White House suggesting that the government purchase medical equipment such as respirators, scrubs, masks, swabs, and other needed equipment from China and use currently grounded passenger and freight airplanes to retrieve it. Johnson says the group is working with state officials on coordinating similar plans.
MIT’s COVID-19 Policy Alliance is among several institutions trying to use data to help identify vulnerable populations, which may need additional resources as states trying to forestall the virus’s spread enact restrictions on leaving the home....
The US House needs to pass the "Worker First" bill as soon as possible to RETURN CONSUMER CONFIDENCE.This accounting occurred as the Senate was deciding on a vote.
March 25, 2020
By Carmen Reinke
US consumers (click here) are backing away from the housing market as the coronavirus pandemic shuts down large swaths of the economy in an attempt to curb the spread of disease.
Mortgage application volume fell 29% in the week ending March 20, the largest drop since 2009, according to a Wednesday report from the Mortgage Bankers Association. The home-purchase index fell 15% to its lowest level since August 2019 and decreased 11% on the year, the first year-over-year decline in more than three months.
Refinance applications also decreased 34% from the previous week, but are up 195% from a year ago....
Thursday, March 26, 2020
Americans need to know there is NO SHAME or NO BLAME or NO REASON TO BE CALLED LAZY because of the national emergency.
NO ONE IS GOING BACK TO WORK BECAUSE WE HAVE A GREAT SUPPORT FOR EVERYONE AFTER THE US HOUSE PASSES THE "Worker First" BILL TOMORROW.
TRUMP IS WRONG.
Trump is turning his daily briefings into a daily campaign speech. I think the Democratic candidates should be having a daily announcement. There is nothing wrong with talking about what their actions would be in this emergency. At least Trump might mimic the policies and the country's burden will be better.
I don't see rallies anytime soon.
Maine is calling for supplies and tests.
How is Verizon responding to the COVID-19 outbreak?
Following guidance from public health authorities, (click here) including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO), we continue to implement strategies to protect our workforce and ensure continuity of operations for our customers.
Maybe the media needs to state clearly "This is NOT Fake or political news, we report the truth." before they begin a newscast or write an article.
If it weren't for the media, Donald Trump would be huddled in his office with little worry about the people so much as the DOW's average. The media was heralding the cry of the people that brought Trump to daily reporting by the White House. There needs to be a split-screen video that shows Trump stating denial and danger while the news media was carrying the message that the people were sick.
The Indianapolis 500 is postponed.
Why is the right wing called COVID-19, CCP? Isn't CCCP an old Russian abbreviation? I think the country should be on the same page when it comes to language about the virus. It is a matter of safety.
Biden begins (click here) broadcasting from in-home studio in response to coronavirus crisis
Coronavirus in the USA: Latest Map and Case Count (click here)
The USA )(click here) is leading the world in the number of cases. Even more than China.
I need to do some averages. The percentages will be from this morning when I record the numbers.
The percentage of death rates has increased to 5 percent of the world's total.
The USA "SURGE" of COVID-19 is the largest in the world. (click here)
Confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, reached 82.404 today in the United States, giving it the most cases in the world.
And yesterday was the most active day so far in the country, with 14,042 new cases reported, and the national death toll reaching 1,069 fatalities.
The numbers came on day 10 of the White House's "15 days to slow the spread campaign," a nationwide effort at social distancing measures that has been implemented in a patchwork fashion across the 50 states. As of yesterday, 21 states had shelter-in-place or stay-at-home mandates that asked the non-essential workforce to remain at home for 14 to 30 days in an effort to slow the spread of the pandemic.
The United States late this afternoon passed both Italy and China to have the most COVID-19 cases in the world, according to the Johns Hopkins online tracker and other similar trackers.
President Trump ended the ALLOWED intelligence in China that would have brought the warning and THE NEED to prepare and stock hospitals.
According to the numbers this AM, the percentage of patients with COVID-19 is 15.6 percent of the world cases.
15.6 percent (click here) of a world in disease is a large percentage.
CDC Statistics
March 26, 2020 (click here)
Total cases: 68,440
Total deaths: 994
Jurisdictions reporting cases: 54 (50 states, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and US Virgin Islands)
WHO
Global Cases (click here)
462,684 confirmed (49,219 new)
n20,834 deaths (2401 new)
end
TRUMP IS WRONG.
Trump is turning his daily briefings into a daily campaign speech. I think the Democratic candidates should be having a daily announcement. There is nothing wrong with talking about what their actions would be in this emergency. At least Trump might mimic the policies and the country's burden will be better.
I don't see rallies anytime soon.
Maine is calling for supplies and tests.
How is Verizon responding to the COVID-19 outbreak?
Following guidance from public health authorities, (click here) including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO), we continue to implement strategies to protect our workforce and ensure continuity of operations for our customers.
Maybe the media needs to state clearly "This is NOT Fake or political news, we report the truth." before they begin a newscast or write an article.If it weren't for the media, Donald Trump would be huddled in his office with little worry about the people so much as the DOW's average. The media was heralding the cry of the people that brought Trump to daily reporting by the White House. There needs to be a split-screen video that shows Trump stating denial and danger while the news media was carrying the message that the people were sick.
The Indianapolis 500 is postponed.
Why is the right wing called COVID-19, CCP? Isn't CCCP an old Russian abbreviation? I think the country should be on the same page when it comes to language about the virus. It is a matter of safety.
Biden begins (click here) broadcasting from in-home studio in response to coronavirus crisis
The USA )(click here) is leading the world in the number of cases. Even more than China.
I need to do some averages. The percentages will be from this morning when I record the numbers.
The percentage of death rates has increased to 5 percent of the world's total.
The USA "SURGE" of COVID-19 is the largest in the world. (click here)
Confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, reached 82.404 today in the United States, giving it the most cases in the world.
And yesterday was the most active day so far in the country, with 14,042 new cases reported, and the national death toll reaching 1,069 fatalities.
The numbers came on day 10 of the White House's "15 days to slow the spread campaign," a nationwide effort at social distancing measures that has been implemented in a patchwork fashion across the 50 states. As of yesterday, 21 states had shelter-in-place or stay-at-home mandates that asked the non-essential workforce to remain at home for 14 to 30 days in an effort to slow the spread of the pandemic.
The United States late this afternoon passed both Italy and China to have the most COVID-19 cases in the world, according to the Johns Hopkins online tracker and other similar trackers.
President Trump ended the ALLOWED intelligence in China that would have brought the warning and THE NEED to prepare and stock hospitals.
15.6 percent (click here) of a world in disease is a large percentage.
CDC Statistics
March 26, 2020 (click here)
Total cases: 68,440
Total deaths: 994
Jurisdictions reporting cases: 54 (50 states, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and US Virgin Islands)
WHO
Global Cases (click here)
462,684 confirmed (49,219 new)
n20,834 deaths (2401 new)
end
I want everyone to take a long look at this graph. There was a 1352 point gain which is a 6.5 percent gain today on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEXDJX: .DJI).There is only one reason why. Because a $2.2 trillion stimulus was passed by
the US Senate. This particular $2.2 trillion was championed by Democratic
leadership in the US Senate and US House.
THE FINANCIAL MARKETS RECOGNIZE THE POTENTIAL PROFITS IN CONSUMER
SPENDING.
Now, there are problems with the fact the markets bailed out on the First World
countries that value them. Was there ever a doubt that at the very least that
the member countries of NATO would be coming forward with generous
legislature to care for their people. Not only that this dumping of stocks occurred
KNOWING the major banks in the First World weren't going to abandon them.
The financial managers that grabbed their mortgage money leaving the world
quaking have to be ashamed of themselves. I am ashamed of them.
The financial markets recognize the opportunity. That opportunity exists in the
USA in consumer markets. Every legislator that doubted for one minute in
protecting the WEALTH of the American people that work for a living should be
ashamed of themselves as well and only proves they know nothing about what
a REAL MARKET looks like.
I MIGHT ADD FOR THOSE SO INCLINED, TEH BEST TO BUY STOCKS IS WHEN
THEY ARE AT A LOW KNOWING IT IS GOING TO SHOW PROFITS WHEN THIS
VICIOUS VIRUS IS GONE.
March 26, 2020
US stocks (click here) finished higher on Thursday, recording their third straight day of gains.
Markets had already priced in the sharp increase in jobless claims reported ahead of the opening bell this morning, and stocks rallied throughout the day.
- The Dow finished up up 6.4%, or 1,352 points. The index has emerged from the bear market it fell into on March 11, having climbed more than 20% since Monday.
- The S&P 500 closed up 6.2%.
- The Nasdaq Composite rose 5.6%.
The USA military will have a storehouse of malaria medication. They were vitamins in places like South Vietnam. The Joint Chiefs should already be asking to look at their supply of drugs.
"Role of US Military Research Programs in the Development of US Food and Drug Administration - Approved Antimalarial Drugs
Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 43, Issue 1, 1 July 2006, Pages 67–71,
US military physicians and researchers (click here) helped identify the optimum treatment dose of the naturally occurring compound quinine and collaborated with the pharmaceutical industry in the development and eventual US Food and Drug Administration approval of the synthetic antimalarial drugs chloroquine, primaquine, chloroquine-primaquine, sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, mefloquine, doxycycline, halofantrine, and atovaquone-proguanil. Because malaria parasites develop drug resistance, the US military must continue to support the creation and testing of new drugs to prevent and treat malaria until an effective malaria vaccine is developed. New antimalarial drugs also benefit civilians residing in and traveling to malarious areas....
Rating Social Distancing by CHANGE is somewhat self-defeating. So long as Americans maintain 6 FEET social distance regardless of their previous activity is what is important now. I am glad the technology can pick this up. Unfortunately, it is not a downloadable APP for individuals to modify their behavior and safety.
March 25, 2020
By Morgan Greene, Hal Dardick and Gregory Pratt
Chicagoans (click here) were ordered to stay at home starting last weekend and, according to a company grading social distancing, the city’s getting an A.
Both Cook County and the state of Illinois have high marks as of Wednesday on the “Social Distancing Scoreboard,” an interactive project based on location data collected by the company Unacast that roughly measures whether or not people are heeding the advice of officials to “flatten the curve” of the spread of the coronavirus.
The scores were determined by the change in average distance traveled compared with before the coronavirus outbreak. If residents are staying put aside from the occasional trip to the grocery store or pharmacy, the dip in travel would be apparent in the data.
A more than 40% decrease leads to an A, with grades dropping from there. Anything less than a 10% decrease — or an increase — ends in an F.
"Role of US Military Research Programs in the Development of US Food and Drug Administration - Approved Antimalarial Drugs
Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 43, Issue 1, 1 July 2006, Pages 67–71,
US military physicians and researchers (click here) helped identify the optimum treatment dose of the naturally occurring compound quinine and collaborated with the pharmaceutical industry in the development and eventual US Food and Drug Administration approval of the synthetic antimalarial drugs chloroquine, primaquine, chloroquine-primaquine, sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, mefloquine, doxycycline, halofantrine, and atovaquone-proguanil. Because malaria parasites develop drug resistance, the US military must continue to support the creation and testing of new drugs to prevent and treat malaria until an effective malaria vaccine is developed. New antimalarial drugs also benefit civilians residing in and traveling to malarious areas....
Rating Social Distancing by CHANGE is somewhat self-defeating. So long as Americans maintain 6 FEET social distance regardless of their previous activity is what is important now. I am glad the technology can pick this up. Unfortunately, it is not a downloadable APP for individuals to modify their behavior and safety.
March 25, 2020
By Morgan Greene, Hal Dardick and Gregory Pratt
Chicagoans (click here) were ordered to stay at home starting last weekend and, according to a company grading social distancing, the city’s getting an A.
Both Cook County and the state of Illinois have high marks as of Wednesday on the “Social Distancing Scoreboard,” an interactive project based on location data collected by the company Unacast that roughly measures whether or not people are heeding the advice of officials to “flatten the curve” of the spread of the coronavirus.
The scores were determined by the change in average distance traveled compared with before the coronavirus outbreak. If residents are staying put aside from the occasional trip to the grocery store or pharmacy, the dip in travel would be apparent in the data.
A more than 40% decrease leads to an A, with grades dropping from there. Anything less than a 10% decrease — or an increase — ends in an F.
25th Amendment
This is really big trouble and the Trump administration's response is abysmal. The trend line is disastrous. The number of SERIOUSLY ILL is overwhelming the hospitals and a huge number of healthcare workers HAVE BECOME EFFECTED BY THE VIRUS.
Americans have to save themselves by SOCIAL DISTANCING AND SOCIAL ISOLATION.
According to an article today, Amazon workers are ill as well. (click here).
Donald Trump is not capable of leading this country through the worst circumstances it has ever faced domestically. He is making it worse. People are self-medicating and the "idea" that citizens will be back to work in two weeks is a lie and in two weeks people will be going to churches and becoming ill and spreading the virus.
The states that have not declared emergencies and restricted movement of people are harming the efforts to end this virus's rampage.
March 26, 2020
Columbus - Of Ohio's more than 700 diagnosed cases(click here) of the COVID-19 coronavirus, 16% are healthcare workers.
Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Amy Acton said Wednesday that 116 healthcare workers have tested positive for the novel coronavirus across the state. That's a bit more than 16% of the 704 confirmed statewide cases.
"This is an interesting stat. We know they’re higher risk, but they’re also tested more,” Acton said.
They're on the frontlines in a battle against a silent and invisible enemy, state officials said, doing everything they can to stop the advance...
Americans have to save themselves by SOCIAL DISTANCING AND SOCIAL ISOLATION.
According to an article today, Amazon workers are ill as well. (click here).
Donald Trump is not capable of leading this country through the worst circumstances it has ever faced domestically. He is making it worse. People are self-medicating and the "idea" that citizens will be back to work in two weeks is a lie and in two weeks people will be going to churches and becoming ill and spreading the virus.
The states that have not declared emergencies and restricted movement of people are harming the efforts to end this virus's rampage.
March 26, 2020
Columbus - Of Ohio's more than 700 diagnosed cases(click here) of the COVID-19 coronavirus, 16% are healthcare workers.
Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Amy Acton said Wednesday that 116 healthcare workers have tested positive for the novel coronavirus across the state. That's a bit more than 16% of the 704 confirmed statewide cases.
"This is an interesting stat. We know they’re higher risk, but they’re also tested more,” Acton said.
They're on the frontlines in a battle against a silent and invisible enemy, state officials said, doing everything they can to stop the advance...
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