Coronavirus outbreak

[Ronaldoescobar]

5 minutes ago, BPA said:

Arizona doctors worry as ICUs fill: 'We’re leaving the hospital sometimes in tears'

 

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/health/medical/arizona-doctors-worry-as-icus-fill-we-re-leaving-the-hospital-sometimes-in-tears/ar-BB168Syp?li=AAggFp4&ocid=ientp

 

Hospitals in Arizona are seeing an intense wave of new coronavirus cases, doctors at the Banner University Medical Center in Phoenix told ABC News on Monday, and it is filling up their intensive care units and pushing their nurses to the brink.

 

 

EDIT:  wanted to added these following paragraphs for emphasis.

 

"My concern is that we're not going to have a break before the big flu/COVID-19 wave that's going to come this winter. And who's going to be staffing that? If residual workers get sick, we're not going to have the workforce," Dreiffus said, noting the combination will be "devastating."

 

"It stands to crumple our health system across the board," Dreiffus added.

 

 

 

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It is only going to get worse.  They had a chance to Flatten the Curve but chose to open up the Economy.  This is the price they will pay.

And the world will pay right along with them unfortunately.

[skolozsy2]

2 hours ago, debluvscanucks said:

Eventually I'd really, really like to leave my house for things other than work and groceries...and its morons like this that are preventing me from doing so.

[NewbieCanuckFan]

1 hour ago, skolozsy2 said:

Eventually I'd really, really like to leave my house for things other than work and groceries...and its morons like this that are preventing me from doing so.

Unfortunately we got our share of morons up here as well.  Your country doesn’t have a monopoly on that (it’s just too bad though you have some in positions of power in government.....not that Justin Trudeau isn’t much more than an airhead).

[nuckin_futz]

Canada extends international travel ban until July 31

 

 

The Canada Border Services Agency says it will be extending a wide ban on international travel that bars entry to foreign nationals from any country other than the United States.

 

CBSA spokesperson Rebecca Purdy confirmed in an email to Victoria Buzz that the Order-in-Council that set the ban to expire on June 30 will be extended to July 31.

 

Limited exceptions are permitted under the order, including immediate family members, members of the Canadian Forces, or airplane crews.

 

The travel ban is separate from another order prohibiting non-essential travel between Canada and the U.S., which was extended in June and is set to expire on July 21, 2020.

 

The international travel ban extension from Ottawa comes shortly after the European Union announced that it would be allowing tourists from “safe” countries—including Canada—to enter the EU.

 

Canadian citizens and permanent residents returning to Canada after travelling abroad must self-isolate for 14 days under the Quarantine Act.

 

Violations of the Act are punishable by fines up to $750,000 and/or imprisonment for six months. If a person causes a risk of death or serious bodily harm, they can face up to $1 million in fines and/or imprisonment up to three years.

 

Despite travel restrictions remaining in place, WestJet and Air Canada recently announced they would be loosening restrictions on seat distancing policies as domestic air travel returns.

 

B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix says that Transport Canada and Health Canada have jurisdiction over airline operations.

 

Dix added that if the federal authorities approve of the removal of seat distancing policies for Canada’s two largest airlines, they need to be explicit in explaining why the move is considered safe at this time.

Edited June 30, 2020 by nuckin_futz

[AlwaysACanuckFan]

6 hours ago, debluvscanucks said:

Unless you don't want to see it coming

[-DLC-]

https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-06-26/inside-the-body-the-coronavirus-is-even-more-sinister-than-scientists-had-realized?fbclid=IwAR32mXSCRX8FxYI-AYi9_gMzXeRs_HmOgJn86GAGNmGem1juvjcddU4Rt2g

 

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Inside the body, the coronavirus is even more sinister than scientists had realized

An electron microscopy image of a cell infected by the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.

(Dr. Elizabeth Fischer of NIAID/NIH)

By MELISSA HEALYSTAFF WRITER 

JUNE 26, 2020

8 AM

The new coronavirus’ reputation for messing with scientists’ assumptions has taken a truly creepy turn.

Researchers exploring the interaction between the coronavirus and its hosts have discovered that when the SARS-CoV-2 virus infects a human cell, it sets off a ghoulish transformation. Obeying instructions from the virus, the newly infected cell sprouts multi-pronged tentacles studded with viral particles.

These disfigured zombie cells appear to be using those streaming filaments, or filopodia, to reach still-healthy neighboring cells. The protuberances appear to bore into the cells’ bodies and inject their viral venom directly into those cells’ genetic command centers — thus creating another zombie.

The authors of the new study, an international team led by researchers at UC San Francisco, say the coronavirus appears to be using these newly sprouted dendrites to boost its efficiency in capturing new cells and establishing infection in its human victims....(cont'd)

 

[spur1]

7 hours ago, RUPERTKBD said:

That's a nonsensical explanation. Big Pharma makes it's money by curing illness, (or treating it's symptoms) not preventing it.

 

https://globalnews.ca/news/7119648/coronavirus-remdesivir-gilead-cost/

Not many cures out there but lots of pills you can take forever. 

[bishopshodan]

6 hours ago, debluvscanucks said:

Those hats are a real treat for people that have never received any attention in their lives. They finally have people looking at them.

For sure he is listening to the latest youtuber that has the world all figured out. Meanwhile, he can't wait to brag later on about the dumb thing he did with his mask to his 'friends' on FB. 

[Chicken.]

8 minutes ago, bishopshodan said:

Those hats are a real treat for people that have never received any attention in their lives. They finally have people looking at them.

For sure he is listening to the latest youtuber that has the world all figured out. Meanwhile, he can't wait to brag later on about the dumb thing he did with his mask to his 'friends' on FB. 

Ha.. Any red had these days will get some heads turning

 

I get quite a few comments wearing this hat.. the rare occasion that I do (Canada Day is one)

 

Speaking of which happy early canada day eh’ y’all  

[bishopshodan]

19 minutes ago, Chicken. said:

Ha.. Any red had these days will get some heads turning

 

I get quite a few comments wearing this hat.. the rare occasion that I do (Canada Day is one)

 

Speaking of which happy early canada day eh’ y’all  

That hat is brill!

 

Happy Early Canada day to you too Chick.

 

[NewbieCanuckFan]

 

 

 

Florida going full on herd immunity.  Glad our broders are shut.  Snow birds can leave & not come back.

 

[skategal]

I follow this fellow on Twitter, he is a doctor in San Antonio.  Generally he writes some really cool stories using Twitter as a medium which is a challenge.  Yesterday he posted a "day in the life" in a hospital in San Antonio that consisted of 22 tweets.  I've compiled it below, it's a frightening story, heartbreaking and a reminder to do all we can as individuals to slow the spread.  If you are interested in checking him out, his name is Sayed Tabatabai and his Twitter handle is "The Real Doctor T".  I'd highly recommend a follow. 

"I turn off the lights.
These bulbs are old, not the newer LEDs. There is a lingering glow as the hot tungsten filaments gradually cool.
I watch them as the room slowly goes dark.
A lingering glow... and then nothing.
I am exhausted, but I can’t sleep.
A monster awaits.
Morning comes far sooner than it has any right to, and before I know it I’m back in the hospital.
It’s almost like my time away from this place was the dream, and the hospital is my waking reality.
N95 on, surgical mask over it.
Face shield for when it’s time.
Armor up.
You don’t face the monster without armor. Even if it’s in short supply, you reuse what you have, and you find a way to make it work.
And you don’t face the monster alone.
The intensivist sits with me in the dictation room.
She is a seasoned veteran.
She leads naturally.
I’ve known her for five years now. She is kind, with a smile that brightens the room. Like when she shows me photos of her son’s graduation, or a funny meme.
But beneath the kind smile is a steely resolve.
And above the mask her green eyes are twin pools of calm strength.
Something is different today.
Something in the air, quite literally.
The monster is on the prowl.
The intensivist is more stressed than I can remember her being. Her smile is thin.
“Tubed several so far. Floor people decompensating. ER is packed.”
Short, staccato updates.
We are in the dictation room together. A sort of fishbowl in the middle of the ICU, with large glass windows.
A nurse comes up and opens the door, her voice terse. “Doc, we need you out here.”
“Coming.” She gets up quickly, grabbing her stethoscope.
I follow, to see.
The COVID rooms are sealed, negative pressure rooms, constantly keeping air flowing inwards.
Outside the doors are sets of IV pumps, so they can be adjusted without going inside.
Face shields hang on makeshift hooks when not in use, names written on them in Sharpie.
One of the patients is not yet intubated, but experiencing that rapid decline that is the hallmark of the monster attacking aggressively.
The breathing is becoming shallow, labored, despite multiple interventions.
The ICU team prepares for another intubation.
Armor up.
I am a nephrologist by training, but I am also board-certified in internal medicine, and I spend a fair amount of my time practicing critical care medicine.
I sit down at the table outside the room. Backup, just in case things go sideways.
The team preps rapidly, smoothly.
To enter the monster’s lair and perform an “aerosolizing procedure” requires special precautions.
The team (the doc, a respiratory therapist, and an ICU nurse) wears PAPR hoods.
PAPR - Powered Air-Purifying Respirator, running on batteries.
They put them on in silence.
Once the PAPR is active you can’t hear much while wearing it. The whirring of the fan drowns out a lot of sound.
To make sure they can hear each other, the team dials in to a special number, and tapes their headphones to their ears so they won’t dislodge accidentally.
Sitting outside the room, I dial into the line on my phone, and I can hear them too.
They enter the room, the door sliding open slightly with a hiss.
Now they are in the monster’s lair.
“You got everything?”
“Yup.”
“I’m going to move fast.”
“Ready to position.”
“On it.”
They talk to each other with the calm efficiency of a cohesive team of professionals, at the peak of their expertise.
I can hear the patient through their mics. She’s gasping with each labored breath.
“Ohgodohgodohgodohgodohgod-“
Her voice is growing quieter.
Ominous.
Sometimes when people sound quieter and calmer during a respiratory issue it’s a sign of impending doom.
You can’t make noise if you can’t breathe.
The team moves rapidly.
“Etomidate.”
“Yes.”
“Succs.”
“In.”
The intensivist’s eyes are keenly focused as she intubates.
She is a mother, and just a few weeks ago she was proudly showing me her son’s socially distanced graduation photos.
As I watch her team save a life, I wonder how I could make people see.
The risks that some have to take because of the simple steps that others wouldn’t.
Afterwards we are back sitting in the dictation room. She reviews the chest x-ray to confirm the placement of the breathing tube.
“Looks good.”
She exhales deeply, rubbing her eyes. Then she looks up.
“You ok Sayed? Did you eat something?”
Her empathy is her strength.
Before either of us can grab a bite to eat, another emergency page.
Another patient beginning to succumb.
The monster is raging like a wildfire.
She opens a small packet of gummy bears, and pops a handful in her mouth.
The sugar will help.
Time to go.
Armor up.
The day passes in this way, and turns to night.
Not every life has been saved. People have died today.
My fatigue is the kind that makes my soul feel shallower.
I am hollow.
The work isn’t done, but it isn’t ours anymore. Backup arrives in the form of the on-call team.
Before we leave for the day, I tell the intensivist I’m going to write about her.
She is exhausted, her face marked with the indentations of her PPE, but she smiles.
“Aw really? Be sure to tell your readers to wear their masks.”
I nod. “You got it.”
Time to go home.
On the elevator to the garage, I run into the patient’s respiratory therapist.
I tell her I’m going to write about the day.
I ask her if she has any messages.
She nods, and her smile is faint.
“Wear your f***ing masks. Distance. None of this had to happen. None of it.”
As I drive home I pass a restaurant less than a few blocks from the hospital.
It’s packed, and I can see only a few masks as I drive by.
The thought occurs to me.
The monster isn’t just in those hospital rooms.
Everywhere.
People risking other people’s lives.
I finally get home.
Get ready for bed.
I turn off the lights.
These bulbs are old, not the newer LEDs. There is a lingering glow as the hot tungsten filaments gradually cool.
I watch them as the room slowly goes dark.
A lingering glow... and then nothing.
A monster awaits.

 

 

[bishopshodan]

Oh FFS.

COVID-19 case reported at Woodgrove Centre

https://nanaimonewsnow.com/2020/06/30/covid-19-case-reported-at-woodgrove-centre/

 

This mall is 30mins from my house and 10mins from the Ferry

 

Don't visit us here on the Island at this time, ok? thanks.

 

[Lancaster]

The Covid test is definitely not fun.  That stick they slide through your nose....

I certainly hope I didn't catch the Wuhan virus.... but I have never been this sick in my life before 

[King Heffy]

2 hours ago, NewbieCanuckFan said:

 

 

 

Florida going full on herd immunity.  Glad our broders are shut.  Snow birds can leave & not come back.

 

At what point does this qualify as conspiracy to commit murder?

[wloutet]

Periodically I turn on Fox News to see what they think about things. The Ingraham Angle was on, as she was ridiculing Dr. Fausci saying how he has been wrong on everything and their doctors really know what's going on. "Let my people be Free!". Their take on Black Lives Matter, and face masks and so on is so disturbing. Excuse me, I need a drink....

Edited July 1, 2020 by wloutet

[Gurn]

1 hour ago, Lancaster said:

The Covid test is definitely not fun.  That stick they slide through your nose....

I certainly hope I didn't catch the Wuhan virus.... but I have never been this sick in my life before 

Best of luck to you, Lancaster. Hope you aren't in the risk factor category.

[Hamhuis Hip Check]

10 hours ago, bishopshodan said:

Oh FFS.

COVID-19 case reported at Woodgrove Centre

https://nanaimonewsnow.com/2020/06/30/covid-19-case-reported-at-woodgrove-centre/

 

This mall is 30mins from my house and 10mins from the Ferry

 

Don't visit us here on the Island at this time, ok? thanks.

 

And my own dad was just saying how we shouldnt be worried anymore because the island had no cases.... i dont think people realize that even thiugh we are doing really good here we still cant get complacent. Right now we are basically up by 3 goals at the start of the third period, and some people seem to think we can just run out the clock. Well now the other team has scored and is building momentum again and if we arent careful we will be on the other side of the scoreboard fast

[skategal]

16 minutes ago, Hamhuis Hip Check said:

And my own dad was just saying how we shouldnt be worried anymore because the island had no cases.... i dont think people realize that even thiugh we are doing really good here we still cant get complacent. Right now we are basically up by 3 goals at the start of the third period, and some people seem to think we can just run out the clock. Well now the other team has scored and is building momentum again and if we arent careful we will be on the other side of the scoreboard fast

So true.  Hard to know whether there are no cases, or just no reported cases.  As we've all been made aware, many people may be asymptomatic, or have very mild symptoms and not know they are sick.  Seeing that in the PGA with some golfers testing positive and being surprised as they felt no symptoms.  Also most likely that Island Health may be the only ones that know whether the person got sick from someone who visited the Island or whether the person may have visited the mainland and brought it back with them. 

No one can let their guard down as I think the virus is still everywhere.  

[-DLC-]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/30/us-buys-up-world-stock-of-key-covid-19-drug?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

 

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US buys up world stock of key Covid-19 drug remdesivir

No other country will be able to buy remdesivir, which can help recovery from Covid-19, for next three months at least....

In a time that the world needs to unite and fight this on a global level, we have this orange clown being his greedy self and hoarding.  Guess his bleach cocktail wasn't enough?