Coronavirus Updates

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Essence Lumin]

Trump announces rally in Wisconsin — hours after Dems suspended theirs to protect public from coronavirus | Raw Story

If the orange one"s supporters don't believe in the virus spreading through crowds... Darwin awards.

 

[Brenda Archer]

Elizabeth Warren just told private prisons to release their coronavirus plans

 

[Brenda Archer]

Immigration detention conditions are already poor. A coronavirus outbreak could be a disaster

 

[bubblesort]

Not the onion...

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

E3 2020 has been canceled

 

[Caliandris]

I'm really liking this vlogger now. I thought he was bit boring initially, but now I appreciate the way he covers the information about Covid-19 and shows how we should be approaching the virus

 

[Beebo Brink]

When a danger is growing exponentially, everything looks fine until it doesn’t

If we can just slow this down, we can avoid scenarios like this one:

A British health-care worker shared a message from a doctor in Italy, who alleged that covid-19 patients in their hospital who are over 65, or have complicating conditions, aren’t even being considered for the most intensive forms of supportive treatment.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

While Trump is still playing trade war with China, China donated vast quantities of medical equipment on top of an order to Italy for free:

 

[Innula Zenovka]

People who are undergoing, or who have in the past undergone, treatment for cancer may find it helpful to read this FAQ, prepared by a consortium of major British cancer charities:

Coronavirus (covid) and cancer - Macmillan Cancer Support

We understand that people with cancer are worried about coronavirus. Here is the latest guidance.

www.macmillan.org.uk

It certainly answered several questions that had occurred to me.

People may also find this article relevant -- it really brings it home to me how big a difference even being in moderately comfortable material circumstances is likely to make to people who are at particular risk because of their health issues.

Coronavirus hits ill and disabled people hardest, so why is society writing us off? | Frances Ryan

No wonder immuno-compromised people are heading online to share strategies as to how to stay safe, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

www.theguardian.com

 

[Caliandris]

This is a useful site, sorry if it has been posted before:
Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)

 

[Archer]

The current rate of death in Italy is over 6%. That is terrifying. The latest info I saw was the top underlying condition there was obesity. Not heart or lung disease, although those are next in line.

One of the most critical issues in addition to the number of hospital beds and health care workers will be equipment availability. Ventilators specifically. Tying up an expensive and scarce piece of equipment like that for several weeks per patient severely limits how many people can be treated. Because that is the key piece to survival of those who get critically ill, being on a ventilator for an extended period of time.

 

[Beebo Brink]

People may also find this article relevant -- it really brings it home to me how big a difference even being in moderately comfortable material circumstances is likely to make to people who are at particular risk because of their health issues.

As yet another breaking news banner flashes across our screens, disabled and older people deserve to be reassured that their wellbeing is a priority. The coronavirus response can’t be survival of the fittest.

Well good luck with that in the U.S. where poverty and vulnerability are seen as moral failings.

 

[Caliandris]

A mathematician has been tweeting her calculations about the progress of the disease Thread by @LizSpecht: I think most people aren’t aware of the risk of systemic healthcare failure due to #COVID19 because they simply haven’t run the numbers yet.…

 

[Beebo Brink]

New York officials traced more than 50 coronavirus cases back to one attorney

 

[Beebo Brink]

It's officially a pandemic.

 

[Blue Green]

March 11, 2020 coronavirus news

edition.cnn.com

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Kara Spengler]

Trump announces rally in Wisconsin — hours after Dems suspended theirs to protect public from coronavirus | Raw Story

Well, it is his ego we are talking about ...

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]