How COVID-19 is affecting society

[Archer]

Here is a website where you can enter your current situation, and they are tracking much like they normally track regular flu outbreaks. In the absence of testing, it may be the next best barometer if more people participate. Unfortunately, it is US only at this time.

COVID-19 Tracking Program

 

[Free]

How bad is this? I'm linking to Yahoo!

Jobless claims soar to record-breaking 6.648 million

The Labor Department released fresh data Thursday morning that showed the novel coronavirus’ effect on employment in the U.S.

finance.yahoo.com

 

[Veritable Quandry]

There are still people in Ohio who have been trying to sign up for over a week but the system is overwhelmed. They aren't counted yet.

 

[danielravennest]

The Real Cause of Why We Don't Have Toilet Paper

I'll gladly take one of the industrial rolls you see in commercial bathrooms. The question is where to find them?

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

I'll gladly take one of the industrial rolls you see in commercial bathrooms. The question is where to find them?

Try office supply places?

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

US diverting supplies destined to other countries to itself (French)

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Trump administration ended pandemic early-warning program to detect coronaviruses

The program had worked with labs in Wuhan, China, and around the world to detect deadly viruses that could jump from animals to humans.

www.latimes.com

Two months before the novel coronavirus probably began spreading in Wuhan, China, the Trump administration ended a $200-million pandemic early-warning program aimed at training scientists in China and other countries to detect and respond to such a threat.

 

[Clara D.]

Try office supply places?

Grainger (industrial supply) is even out.

Including the horrible note-book grade public restroom stuff.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Experts and Trump’s advisers doubt White House’s 240,000 coronavirus deaths estimate

Anthony Fauci’s security is stepped up as doctor and face of U.S. coronavirus response receives threats - The Washington Post

Anthony Fauci’s security is stepped up as doctor and face of U.S. coronavirus response receives threats Fauci, 79, is the most outspoken member of the administration in favor of sweeping public health...

www.evernote.com

The data models shown on slides at the recent presidential press conference apparently represent some very dodgy use of statistical modelling and seem to have been designed with an audience of one in mind, to persuade him to take the pandemic seriously.

 

[Sredni Eel]

 

[Sredni Eel]

Oh for fuck's sake. He actually told the truth in this clip.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Salome]

 

[Archer]

Heartbreaking. And we're just starting.

 

[Brenda Archer]

Heartbreaking. And we're just starting.

This made me cry.

I just hope he and his colleagues get the help they need and that they are heard.

 

[Free]

"Coughing on FBI agents"

2020, you gettin' way too silly.

 

[Sid]

Amsterdam the Kalverstraat on a normal day:

Amsterdam, the Kalverstraat, these days:

 

[Shiloh Lyric]

This makes me happy beyond compare.

I just saw this, Sredni, and it's freaking awesome. Thank you for sharing it.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

"Coughing on FBI agents"

2020, you gettin' way too silly.

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Medical supplies seized from alleged price gouger to be distributed to hospitals

Hundreds of thousands of masks and other pieces of medical equipment seized from a Brooklyn man will be distributed to medical workers treating coronavirus patients.

abcnews.go.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The 1,000-Bed Comfort Was Supposed to Aid New York. It Has 20 Patients. (Published 2020)

“It’s a joke,” said a top hospital executive, whose facilities are packed with coronavirus patients.

www.nytimes.com

The Comfort was sent to New York to relieve pressure on city hospitals by treating people with ailments other than Covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus.

President Trump left a nine-day sequester in the White House last week to travel to Norfolk, Va., to personally see off the ship as it set sail for New York, saying it would play a “critical role.” The ship’s arrival on Monday was cheered as one of the few bright moments in a grim time for the city.

But the reality has been different. A tangle of military protocols and bureaucratic hurdles has prevented the Comfort from accepting many patients at all.

On top of its strict rules preventing people infected with the virus from coming on board, the Navy is also refusing to treat a host of other conditions. Guidelines disseminated to hospitals included a list of 49 medical conditions that would exclude a patient from admittance to the ship.

Ambulances cannot take patients directly to the Comfort; they must first deliver patients to a city hospital for a lengthy evaluation — including a test for the virus — and then pick them up again for transport to the ship.

At a morning briefing on Thursday, officials said three patients had been moved to the Comfort. After The New York Times published an article with that number, Elizabeth Baker, a spokeswoman for the Navy, said the number had increased to 20 by late in the day. “We’re bringing them on as fast as we can bring them on,” she said.