notquiteaff

AL has its first case now.

https://whnt.com/news/coronavirus/go...us-in-alabama/

LAXlocal

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said up to 70% of Germans will get this ,
Lets say the USA "only" gets 30% , much more than the Hospitals can care for !

What are the best practices to stay at home with the Virus if you do not have pre-existing conditions ,

Is there a website that discusses this ?

GadgetFreak

Check the CDC website. They have a lot of information.

jiejie

MS first case was reported a couple of days ago (but I think it was actually identified as a potential positive one week ago--he had traveled to/from Florida). I'm in MS now. And our household has been stocking up and now hiding. We assume the virus is already more prevalent in the community than is known. I'm afraid testing capacity is worrisome in these parts, but I don't really know the situation.

felimz

Some updates on the airport screening situation after the March 13 EU ban. Out of the original 20 airports with COVID-19 screening capabilities, only 11 will provide "enhanced screening" for flights arriving from EU.

All passengers from the EU should go through one of the below airports as their first port of entry.

Example:

FRA->IAH was cancelled and passengers placed on previously FRA->ORD->IAH scheduled flights.

cmtlatitudes

I didn't see this before, on a Canadian team isolating the COVID-19 virus yesterday. Kudos to them. Apologies if this was out there already in the thread and I missed it.


Either way, open the tweet and scroll down a bit for some much needed levity.

invisible

Pinging doctoravios and trublue

I have one question which might be outside of your direct expertise, but you so far have provided very valuable information.

Because we already entered into mitigation/delay the spread stage, what ordinary people can do to help to slow down the spread before reaching the phase of area/state/country lockdown? Apart from personal hygiene and consciously avoiding unnecessary travel?

Can people volunteer at local hospitals to help offloading overworked nurses and doctors? Or to do something else useful?

I guess Civil Defense classes would be highly useful, but when I had them (>40 years ago, behind the Iron Curtain), it was mostly told what to do during nuclear/chemical/biological attack... Civil defense during pandemics were never part of the course...

Ideas?

GadgetFreak

This was done months ago and the sequence of the virus has been used in tests by the WHO and. others. for months. I don't understand this at all.

PanAmWT

You definitely should be commended for not submitting your analysis to a journal and issuing a news release to claim a scientific discovery.

FlitBen

What I have read is that FEMA and the like cover whatever is left of civil defense organizations (and budgets) outside the cities. These are mostly gone or have devolved in many areas.

They may not be best for managing contagions anyway, since outfits that rely on first responders usually focus on securing the populace and resources from varying impacts. Not enforcing regimes that can scale up vastly and somewhat uniformly, like block quarantines and searches.

PanAmWT

While waiting for doctoravios and trublue's expert opinions, here are my two cents:

Non trained personnel probably should stay away from hospitals to avoid becoming new patients to add to the burden.

Civil defense system in China played very valuable roles in China's success of controlling the transmission
1. They (mostly retirees and older housewives) man the posts at apartment building entrances, neighborhood gates, street corners, with thermometer guns and record the name and contact information of everyone who passes through, whether leaving or entering. They send information of those who have symptoms up through the monitoring system almost real time..
2. They go door to door to inform residents the newest official messages and rules as soon as they receive them.
3. They monitor the compliance of residents. Any one without a face mask, or does not keep a safe distance from others in a queue, etc. will be directed to correct.

username

American man confirmed as Taiwan's 50th COVID-19 case - "Based on the timeline of the man's case, Chen said Taiwanese authorities believe he was likely infected by one of his American friends [who visited him in late February].": https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202003130013

Taiwan has done a good job defending the first wave (Mainland China) and is now increasingly seeing cases from Europe (and now America). They are preparing for things to get much worse.

JAMA article: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...rticle/2762689

Lionheart

The NHS (UK Government) will only allow FFP3 Masks to be used by Doctors/Nurses once a patient has a positive swab result. The rest of the time we are to use simple surgical masks only.

Since I work in A&E, I have ended up buying a stash to protect myself - as obviously nobody will have a positive swab result on arrival to A&E. I do feel like we are being guaranteed to be infected with their approach.

pw21

Currently in Taiwan, honestly speaking I’m more worry about this upcoming 2nd wave.

boerne

and now its a national emergency in the US

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...085c6327bbf979