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https://www.foxnews.com/us/la-county-containing-coronavirus-skip-testing-patients
LA County shifts from containing coronavirus, advises doctors to skip testing of some patients: report
The department “is shifting from a strategy of case containment to slowing disease transmission and averting excess morbidity and mortality,” according to the letter, the Times reported. Doctors should test symptomatic patients only when “a diagnostic result will change clinical management or inform public health response.”
 
The story of Natasha Ott, a 39 year old woman in good health.
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When Natasha first began to feel sick, Anderson said her work sent her home "but didn't test her" because "she was told she was low-risk".

Anderson said his partner tried to get a flu test but was told it would be a week before she could see her PCP.

She opted to take the test from her work but was shocked to find they only had five coronavirus tests at her clinic.

"I declined to take one so someone else could," she told Anderson.

"On Friday March 13th she wrote: 'Hey, they don't think I need to get tested unless I develop a fever. All looks well.'

"On Sunday March 15th she wrote: 'Hey, I'm not feeling so hot still. I may be testing at work tomorrow. I'm probably fine. I just tried to drink some medicinal whiskey and feel unwell. I'm ok. I love you.'

"On Monday March 16th I asked her if I could bring her some Pho, and she wrote: 'Nothing, thank you. I'm ok. I don't have an appetite.'

"She did get tested for Coronavirus that day, and was told it would take up to five days to see results.

"On Tuesday March 17th I asked 'How you feelin?' and she replied: 'Ok :)'

On Wednesday March 18th she wrote: 'I don't want to be sick anymore' and 'I just don't understand why I don't feel much better yet.''

On Thursday, the couple walked Natasha's dog Zola and Anderson recalled she complained that she felt like 'something' was in her lungs.

On the Friday, Anderson said he hadn't heard anything and went to her house around 8 that morning.

"No one answered the door," he recalled.

"I walked to the back of the house and noticed the rear door that opened into her fenced yard was open.

"I went in the back, and found her dead in her kitchen.

https://www.the-sun.com/news/572255/39-year-old-new-orleans-woman-dies-coronavirus/
 
DrHenley said:
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/nih...irus-cases-confirmed-us-end/story?id=69717284
NIH director: Up to 70K coronavirus cases could be confirmed in US by end of next week
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This was written on 3/20/2020 and it says we are going to experience an increase in confirmed cases due to more testing. I am only hearing more and more stories about lack of testing supplies. California governor, last night, said that they were going to only start testing selected cases where it was strongly suspected. I wonder why we keep getting different stories from CDC and state governments?
 
Nothing less than encouraging as well as heartwarming the way so many American companies are stepping up to the challenges we have! God Bless them all!


“We have so many companies making so many products,” Trump said. “We have the act to use in case we need it, but we have so many things being made right now by so many — they’ve just stepped up.”

Mr. Trump said that Hanes is converting manufacturing capabilities to produce protective masks. Distilleries are switching from making alcoholic drinks like whiskey to making sanitizers and disinfectants. Automakers, including General Motors, are retrofitting plants to make ventilators.

All are answering the call of duty amid a pandemic that has so far claimed more than 11,000 lives and sickened 260,000 people globally.

Redirecting plants to make completely different products take a huge effort — but companies are moving much faster than was previously thought possible..

At a news conference earlier this week, Trump singled out GM — which in 1952 designed and built what the company says was the first mechanical pump used in heart surgery — as one of many businesses that have asked to start making medical gear.

“We are literally being besieged in a beautiful way by companies that wanted to do the work,” he said. “They want to help our country.”
 
https://www.yahoo.com/news/top-york-surgeon-warns-coronavirus-015200406.html
A top New York surgeon warns that the coronavirus has 'breached' hospital walls and infections could peak in 22 to 32 days
  • A top New York City surgeon has issued two ominous memos, warning that the healthcare system could soon be overwhelmed and that healthcare workers are at risk.

  • In a memo made public by Columbia University's Department of Surgery, the chair, Dr. Craig Smith, warned that "the virus has breached our Department walls" and colleagues are becoming infected.

  • He also warns that coronavirus cases could keep climbing, reaching their peak in 22 to 32 days.
 
DrHenley said:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/top-york-surgeon-warns-coronavirus-015200406.html
A top New York surgeon warns that the coronavirus has 'breached' hospital walls and infections could peak in 22 to 32 days
  • A top New York City surgeon has issued two ominous memos, warning that the healthcare system could soon be overwhelmed and that healthcare workers are at risk.

  • In a memo made public by Columbia University's Department of Surgery, the chair, Dr. Craig Smith, warned that "the virus has breached our Department walls" and colleagues are becoming infected.

  • He also warns that coronavirus cases could keep climbing, reaching their peak in 22 to 32 days.
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That's about when the hospitals are over run, the peak wont happen until later.
 
I only wish we would hit peak with this in 30 days. I’m imagining we will be in a **** storm by then with hospitals not being able to treat many, but doubt it will be slowing down yet. Still hopefull though.
 
DrHenley said:
https://www.axios.com/rand-paul-coronavirus-847b3df1-92bc-4ee6-833b-952d16f3ee3f.html
Sen. Rand Paul tests positive for coronavirus
Senator Rand Paul has tested positive for COVID-19. He is feeling fine and is in quarantine. He is asymptomatic and was tested out of an abundance of caution due to his extensive travel and events. He was not aware of any direct contact with any infected person.
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I really liked a speech he gave railing at both Republicans and Democrats for not being able to balance the budget of control spending at all. Wish him well.
 
DrHenley said:
Time to start breaking out countries, starting with the US
Members in other countries feel free to start one for your country

Today's news: Daily death toll in NYC reaches double digits and climbing
https://nypost.com/2020/03/20/coronavirus-killing-more-than-a-person-an-hour-in-nyc/
Coronavirus killing more than a person an hour in NYC
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Want to bet that will sound low in a week or two? Sad, but you can’t have people living together like ants and not spread this kind of thing.
 
GeorgiaPeachie said:
Want to bet that will sound low in a week or two? Sad, but you can’t have people living together like ants and not spread this kind of thing.
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And for every new yorker dying there is at least one more fleeing to rural areas prolly taking the disease with them. Rural communities need to block their access roads ASAP
 
GeorgiaPeachie said:
Have any of you who have taken MMS seen this article? Is it the same thing?
This actor is saying it healed him.

https://www.breitbart.com/entertain...oroquine-helped-him-recover-from-coronavirus/
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No that's an anti-malarial drug (brand name Plaquenil) that is showing some promise in treating the virus. The drug is also used for autoimmune disorders. I hope it pans out as a widely effective treatment because it could reduce the severity of symptoms and the number of deaths and hopefully get us past this more easily. It does have some nasty side effects sometimes but so does COVID-19.
 
BillMasen said:
And for every new yorker dying there is at least one more fleeing to rural areas prolly taking the disease with them. Rural communities need to block their access roads ASAP
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Yeah I have a sister in western NY and have thought about how many will flee the populated areas, even if it’s just to buy groceries. Her work is in the hot zone but her home is pretty rural. She allready knows she is highly likely to catch it. She is a respiratory therapist and only has one mask to use and reuse every day now.
 
https://www.the-sun.com/news/574277/new-york-cuomo-slams-groups-mnuchin-warns-12-weeks/
LONGTERM LOCKDOWN
Cuomo warns 80% will get virus over ‘9 months’ as Mnuchin tells 80m to prepare for 12-week shutdown
Speaking about the length and severity of the crisis, Cuomo said 80% of the state's population could get sick and the crisis could last till Christmas.

“This is not a short term situation," he said. "This is not a long weekend. This is not a week. The timeline, no one can tell you. It depends on how we handle it.

“But 40 per cent up to 80 per cent of the population will wind up getting this virus.

“All we’re trying to do is slow the spread, but it will spread, it is that contagious.”
He added: “It is going to be four months, six months, nine months… It’s in that range.”
 
KateMTx said:
No that's an anti-malarial drug (brand name Plaquenil) that is showing some promise in treating the virus. The drug is also used for autoimmune disorders. I hope it pans out as a widely effective treatment because it could reduce the severity of symptoms and the number of deaths and hopefully get us past this more easily. It does have some nasty side effects sometimes but so does COVID-19.
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Thank you Kate for explaining. It sounds promising based on this guys response. I’d take the side effects.
 
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/23/new-york-coronavirus-cases-surge-38percent-overnight-to-20875.html
New York coronavirus cases surge 38% overnight to 20,875
  • Cuomo estimated up to 80% of the state’s more than 19.4 million residents will get the coronavirus.
  • Roughly 13% of all cases have been hospitalized so far, 621 of the patients have ended up in the ICU and 157 people have died, he said.
  • New York has run 78,289 COVID-19 tests so far and is testing more than 16,000 people a day now, he said.
 
DrHenley said:
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/23/new-york-coronavirus-cases-surge-38percent-overnight-to-20875.html
New York coronavirus cases surge 38% overnight to 20,875
  • Cuomo estimated up to 80% of the state’s more than 19.4 million residents will get the coronavirus.
  • Roughly 13% of all cases have been hospitalized so far, 621 of the patients have ended up in the ICU and 157 people have died, he said.
  • New York has run 78,289 COVID-19 tests so far and is testing more than 16,000 people a day now, he said.
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Lord help us! Those are terrible infection numbers.
 
GeorgiaPeachie said:
Have any of you who have taken MMS seen this article? Is it the same thing?
This actor is saying it healed him.
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STOP and decease Peachie, read again!! hydroxychloroquine IS NOT MMS!! It is a sulfur based attempt to copy the function and effect of Chlorine Dioxide. Different name, diffenent stuff. AND not the same effects. Even if it did help him, we do not know if he was positive, with which strain of CoVid 19 (L or S), how badly he was infected and how was his health before the infection...Everybody reacts to different drugs differently...paracetamol allergy? penicillin allergy? Be careful and do not fall for this stuff and waste any minutes of your daughters time on the wrong stuff. Gary
 
Well, you know what they say...

KARMA'S A BITCH

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/corona...ts-not-social-distancing-university-of-tampa/
Florida college students test positive for coronavirus after going on spring break
At least five students from the University of Tampa have tested positive for coronavirus after traveling with other students from the school for spring break, the university announced on Twitter. This comes after crowds of spring-breakers in Florida were criticized for ignoring social distancing guidelines and packing beaches in complete disregard of the potential risk.
 
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