Wuhan Coronavirus

[abc_123]

Originally Posted by PSM

Geez. Prayers out, N.!

Thanks. It's a shitty deal. Just wanted everyone to know that it can happen to someone that they know and that all need to be smart on symptoms and risk. There are not enough tests for everyone, so everyone needs to be smart on when to really push and/or go to the hospital.

[T-Rock]

Spare me your false, Mea Culpa

Gracias Amigo, my Diving Officer, Michael Edwin Thornton, was probably correct about your kind..... godspeed.....

[Pete]

Was reading in one of many articles yesterday where 2 doctors have admitted that they placed their medical staff on hydroxychloroquine as a prophylactic.

I ain't got a problem with that.

Just hope more companies are getting into pumping it out at max speed.

[Pete]

Originally Posted by T-Rock

Gracias Amigo, my Diving Officer, Michael Edwin Thornton, was probably correct about your kind..... godspeed.....

T-Rock - stop your tit for tat replies.

That's one and I'm only in the mood for one these days.

[JJ_BPK]

Originally Posted by abc_123

All,

I have close family who went from feeling shitty, to sick for 5 days..to calling his doctor to being told to stay home and get rest to feeling better for 1 day and then getting worse with a 104deg fever and driving himself to the ER and being admitted while those around him put on Hazmat suits.

Prayers for your family :[

[SF_BHT]

Originally Posted by T-Rock

abc 123, Mea Culpa. You're right, I'm not your SF brother, just a Navy 5343. You're above me on your high tower, looking down. You've shown me that different military specialties have no connection whatsoever by what you've posted. Green Berets, supposedly bring everyone together for a common cause but I guess I was wrong. You dropped the ball on that shit. Live up to who you're supposed to be. I looked up to you guys but it's all a façade. I I'm gonna bow out of this thread and if I'm banned for what I've said, so be it.......

Knock if off you are way out of line....

[frostfire]

Originally Posted by doctom54

Most places in the USA have 5-10 days of PPE (gowns, gloves, masks, face shields), for nurses and doctors.

We will need 5-10 WEEKS of PPE before more start coming in through the supply pipeline.

Far be it for me to armchair quarter back places in crisis, but necessity is the mother of invention. When I worked ER CONUS, I always thought how nonchalantly wasteful my department was with the isolation PPE. I understand the need to eliminate even that 0.001% chance of bugs escaping, OSHA, lawsuit risk usw. However, desperate times, desperate measures?

Now that I'm OCONUS and our PPE shipments are stuck as the airspace is closed, my team has learned to reuse the PPE by means of bleach bucket and a small autoclave we got. So far none of us have symptoms.

Also despite the virus, almost 60 to 90K loss in stocks and folks leaving post, I have peace in knowing that the Author of all things has our best interest, even unto death. My resting HR is at 33, stress-free, content and grateful to have a job and to find meaning in service

[Penn]

FF, Love You!

[Old Dog New Trick]

This is JMOO: (and I’m no expert!)

But I wish the talking heads in the media and a lot of so called “experts” reading and interpreting raw data information from around the world would stop connecting meaningless metrics and assembling their “worst case scenarios” for the rest of the world. It’s just scaring people in the worst way.

We are not Italy or Spain, or China. We are also not Germany or South Korea although closer to both of them than the first three. Most projections I see are not based on a complete set of known facts but many many assumptions. Until we test greater numbers of random people and people that have/had this virus but showed no S/S and recovered without any treatment all the infection, morbidity/mortality information is skewed.

If this outbreak hits India it will be a biblical disaster and the same will be said for many parts of South/Central America and Africa.

We are all different in better or word se ways. The comparisons have to stop. They are apples to oranges with varying degrees of carrots and sticks needed for control measures and medical saturation.

Please read or watch the best and most trusted sources of information, there is too much hysteria and fear mongering by some outlets and websites promoting an agenda right or left. Be cognizant is all

End of morning thought.

PS: The disease is deadly and many will succumb to its ravaging effects and for that my thoughts and prayers go out to the affected and their families. This has happened before and it will happen again. Will we ever truly be ready I don’t think so we have a terrible track record of planning and preparing for the next anything. Godspeed to all those dealing with this from a personal perspective. I am too.

[JJ_BPK]

Picked up this AM

Interesting active progression chart of the virus movement for this month of the top 10 countries.

The further you are from the source the slower the incidence rate.
The USA is a case in point.

The USA may look excessive to some, but if you add all the EU countries head-count (445M) and compares to the US head-count(330M), then the EU confirmed count of 205K vs the USA count of 55K shows our "remoteness" has helped.

Will we catch-up and surpass?
Will the gap allow time for a vaccine and effective treatment to be developed?



PS: Not sure of the source. google leads to a YT page but not the author.
This is a copy from a FB.


https://www.facebook.com/1297397943/...422461754/?t=4

[Pete]

Originally Posted by JJ_BPK

...The USA may look excessive to some, but if you add all the EU countries head-count (445M) and compares to the US head-count(330M), then the EU confirmed count of 205K vs the USA count of 55K shows our "remoteness" has helped.....

If you look at the US maps the hardest hit areas are the big cities. In NC the hot spots are Raleigh, Durham and Charlotte - the big urban centers.

Still saying our numbers will improve by this weekend.

The money will have been better spent cranking out enough hydroxychloroquine treatment for everybody in the US as a prophylactic and telling everybody to go back to work.

Yes, more people will still die but .....

[Old Dog New Trick]

Anyone take a look at the Johns Hopkins University page lately.

The Diamond Princess is both a country and a US state. The Grand Princess is also a US state. Surprisingly they have one US death between them.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

[Pete]

4 more state pharmacy boards join Ohio in curbing prescriptions for experimental COVID-19 drugs.

https://www.beckershospitalreview.co...vid-19-drugs.h

"Four more state pharmacy boards have followed Ohio's lead and taken steps to block pharmacists from excessively dispensing two drugs touted as possible COVID-19 treatments, as both drugs are already in shortage.

Utah, Idaho, Texas and Nevada have all moved to block unnecessary prescriptions of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, both designed to treat malaria but commonly used to treat autoimmune diseases such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis..."

Interesting - A Listers and Sports Stars will be able to get it.

[Trapper John]

I think we are going to see more patients at younger ages with acute respiratory distress syndrome. I have developed a drug candidate to address this issue. We are raising the $s to manufacture trial lots.

Will keep yous guys posted as to our progress.

[Pete]

Originally Posted by Trapper John

I think we are going to see more patients at younger ages with acute respiratory distress syndrome. I have developed a drug candidate to address this issue. We are raising the $s to manufacture trial lots.

Will keep yous guys posted as to our progress.

Opening up the tool box and finding another tool in there.

Good work.