New York has its first confirmed case of Coronavirus

[JB 2]

With things getting back to normal in a couple weeks I am looking forward to watch again how the Unions after the 11 Sept. Attacks, extorted the Airlines and other Transportation industries.

How many Americans, here at home have gotten sick. How many have recovered.

 

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[92CorruptCourtStreet]

As of midday today, Cuomo said the state has 216 cases in New York:

• Westchester: 121 (13 new)
• New York City: 52 (16 new)
• Nassau: 28 (9 new)
• Suffolk: 6 (5 new)
• Rockland: 6
• Saratoga: 2
• Ulster: 1

 

[DanCooper]

Heard tonight officials will meet on Friday, to discuss closing local schools. 

[PeteMoss]

3 hours ago, DanCooper said:

Heard tonight officials will meet on Friday, to discuss closing local schools. 

Superintendents met at BOCES.  Process to close school/schools is online.  Close school for 24 hours, clean and evaluate.  County Health Department makes the call.

google this pdf :  covid-19-p-12-school-guidance

[DanCooper]

Schools and more businesses will close, now that Trump has promised checks to workers.

[DanCooper]

4 hours ago, PeteMoss said:

Superintendents met at BOCES.  Process to close school/schools is online.  Close school for 24 hours, clean and evaluate.  County Health Department makes the call.

google this pdf :  covid-19-p-12-school-guidance

I’m talking the rumored meeting happening tomorrow.

[Bingoloid]

23 hours ago, JB 2 said:

How many Americans, here at home have gotten sick. How many have recovered.

The answer, as of this morning, is that there 1,363 cases in the United States, about 1,000 unrelated to known travel, and 15 have recovered. The largest cluster in the country is tied to New Rochelle, 113 cases.

It's also worth pointing out that other countries are now reporting cases contracted from their travelers visiting America or from American travelers bringing it in.

[19April1775]

How many people have died in New York?

[PeteMoss]

2 hours ago, 19April1775 said:

How many people have died in New York?

Have you signed up to be a test subject?

[19April1775]

2 minutes ago, PeteMoss said:

Have you signed up to be a test subject?

So I don't play along with your fear porn and it makes you stutter. Good thing to remember.

[92CorruptCourtStreet]

According to dailymail there is a case in broome

Coronavirus cases in New York State 

Westchester County - 148 

New York City - 95

Nassau County - 41 

Suffolk County - 20

Rockland County - 7 

Ulster County - 4 

Saratoga County - 3

Orange County - 2 

Albany - 2

Monroe - 2

Broome - 1

Delaware - 1

Dutchess - 1

Herkimer - 1 

New York State Total - 328

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8107203/Donald-Trump-says-domestic-travel-ban-possible-coronavirus-gets-hot-certain-areas.html

[WolfMan]

36 minutes ago, 92CorruptCourtStreet said:

According to dailymail there is a case in broome

Coronavirus cases in New York State 

Westchester County - 148 

New York City - 95

Nassau County - 41 

Suffolk County - 20

Rockland County - 7 

Ulster County - 4 

Saratoga County - 3

Orange County - 2 

Albany - 2

Monroe - 2

Broome - 1

Delaware - 1

Dutchess - 1

Herkimer - 1 

New York State Total - 328

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8107203/Donald-Trump-says-domestic-travel-ban-possible-coronavirus-gets-hot-certain-areas.html

Broome ain’t got one. Gov was given wrong info.

[PeteMoss]

4 hours ago, 19April1775 said:

So I don't play along with your fear porn and it makes you stutter. Good thing to remember.

So you talk big but in the end you are just a coward.  Figures!

[2pelo Honey]

 

 

In 1918, the city of Philadelphia threw a parade that killed thousands of people. Ignoring warnings of influenza among soldiers preparing for World War I, the march to support the war effort drew 200,000 people who crammed together to watch the procession. Three days later, every bed in Philadelphia’s 31 hospitals was filled with sick and dying patients, infected by the Spanish flu.

By the end of the week, more than 4,500 were dead in an outbreak that would claim as many as 100 million people worldwide. By the time Philadelphia’s politicians closed down the city, it was too late.

<img src="https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/image.png?w=450&h=282&crop=1&strip=all&quality=75" alt=""/>proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

A different story played out in St. Louis, just 900 miles away. Within two days of detecting its first cases among civilians, the city closed schools, playgrounds, libraries, courtrooms, and even churches. Work shifts were staggered and streetcar ridership was strictly limited. Public gatherings of more than 20 people were banned.

The extreme measures—now known as social distancing, which is being called for by global health agencies to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus—kept per capita flu-related deaths in St. Louis to less than half of those in Philadelphia, according to a 2007 paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

 

The concept of “flattening the curve” is now a textbook public health response to epidemics, including the spread of Covid-19. Once a virus can no longer be contained, the goal is to slow its spread. Exponential growth in infections leaves health care systems struggling to handle the surge. But with fewer people sick at once (and overall), services aren’t overwhelmed and deaths diminish. This buys time for doctors to treat the flood of patients and researchers to develop vaccines and antiviral therapies.

But it wasn’t always this way, says Richard Hatchett, a physician and head of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations in London, who co-authored the 2007 paper. Social distancing interventions were not always trusted, he wrote in an email; they were widely ignored during flu pandemics in 1957 and 1968. But in the 2000s, several papers including Hatchett’s reanalyzed Spanish flu data to show the efficacy of distancing measures—and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention later incorporated them into their outbreak guidance.

The key to effective social distancing, though, is timing.

“I think the critical lesson from both the modeling and the historical work is that the benefits of multiple interventions are greatest if they are introduced early (before 1% of the population is infected) and maintained,” wrote Hatchett, who has also directed medical preparedness in the Obama White House. Distancing measures are less effective once more people have contracted the virus, especially in cases where the vast majority of people are not sick enough to need medical attention.

 

This outbreak is one of those cases. Only 19% of confirmed cases of Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, become severely or critically ill, reports the CDC. Those with mild symptoms (or none at all) may easily pass the virus on to vulnerable people, particularly those who are older or have pre-existing health conditions. “You can compare the outcomes in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan, which used such interventions aggressively from the very start, with what happened in Wuhan and what is happening now in Iran and Italy,” wrote Hatchett. “There is no reason to expect the virus to behave differently in Europe and the US than it has in Asia.”

China and Italy may have waited too long; both were forced to take drastic steps weeks after the first cases were discovered. China’s government locked down nearly 60 million people in Hubei province while restricting travel for hundreds of millions of others. Now Italy is banning public gatherings and imposing travel restrictions for 60 million citizens, a first for a modern democracy.

In the US, these restrictions are just beginning. New York state has closed large gathering spaces and deployed National Guard to disinfect buildings and deliver food in a “containment zone” in New Rochelle just north of New York City.

But social distancing doesn’t have to be draconian. South Korea has adopted a modern version of the St. Louis model; the country never locked its citizens down or quarantined entire cities, but has still managed to slow the spread of the new coronavirus. In recent days, new infections have leveled off thanks in part to thousands of free daily tests and a coordinated government effort that closed schools, canceled public events, and supported flexible working arrangements. “Without harming the principle of a transparent and open society,” South Korea’s Vice Health Minister Kim Gang-lip told journalists in the South China Morning Post, “we recommend a response system that blends voluntary public participation with creative applications of advanced technology.”

https://qz.com/1816060/a-chart-of-the-1918-spanish-flu-shows-why-social-distancing-works/?fbclid=IwAR2OXhJD7xZTmIFuehPGnND7-s4QxxqQb2UP6HE2UzTVXs55K7O8IzA1OCA

[Bingoloid]

1 hour ago, 2pelo Honey said:

In 1918, the city of Philadelphia threw a parade that killed thousands of people. Ignoring warnings of influenza among soldiers preparing for World War I, the march to support the war effort drew 200,000 people who crammed together to watch the procession. Three days later, every bed in Philadelphia’s 31 hospitals was filled with sick and dying patients, infected by the Spanish flu.

By the end of the week, more than 4,500 were dead in an outbreak that would claim as many as 100 million people worldwide. By the time Philadelphia’s politicians closed down the city, it was too late.

Thank you. I had just written something about this same incident in the other thread.

Let me point out, the claim "only 19%" have severe symptoms should wake people up, not make them feel better. The symptoms used in the report to measure "severe" and "critical" are people who are gravely ill, sicker than most adults have ever experienced, mostly people who need hospital care immediately. The 6% of cases who present as "critical" have sepsis, multiple organ failure, etc. About 1-in-5 cases landed in the hospital in China, and Nassau County reports that 10 of their 40 are in hospital, so there's a real possibility that the data is holding up.

Once again, that is what healthcare systems are melting down over.  There is nothing in a typical cold and flu season that creates a burden anything like this and American hospitals are not much better prepared than Chinese or Italian hospitals were. Everybody who takes a little personal responsibility right now for making minor sacrifices and paying a little more attention to slow the spread is making room in a hospital for a fellow American who needs help and taking some pressure off first responders and medical professionals.

[DanCooper]

ME has suspended little league baseball “into early next week”. Little League as an organization has asked all little league teams suspend until 4/6. I’m guessing ME doesn’t think it’s that bad?

[ginger]

On 3/5/2020 at 1:51 AM, ginger said:

In my opinion, they are going to rue the day they told people to forget about wearing a mask. Two barriers (your and mine) are MORE SAFE than none. 

 

Psst..75  😊 and I had already been wearing a mask for over a month when I posted this.

[ginger]

On 3/10/2020 at 11:07 AM, ginger said:

Good morning, I just got home but was listening to Bob Joseph since he came on. Ray, the tree guy just said "It's business as usual." 

Last night I heard President Trump say he was going to try and make it so workers won't miss a paycheck. THAT IS NOT BUSINESS AS USUAL. What president has ever tried to help people out that way?

Let's look at the 4 Lifecare employees who are hospitalized...unless they have AFLAC or some other supplemental policy they are going to wait an entire month for disability or workmans comp to cut them a check. I'd like to hear about those employees.

Let us also consider people who are planning to take their loved one out of a nursing home if a coronavirus happens. I'm not sure, will they qualify to take the State or Federal PAID FAMILY LEAVE?

Once again, Bob Joseph...NO PRESIDENT, except for Donald Trump, made sure people didn't go without a paycheck. 

Seniors...even those in nursing homes got stimulus checks. The unemployed were given an extra $600 a week to cover expenses. Independent contractors who lost business were allowed to file and be covered. Business owners and their employees were also covered by ppp grants/loans. 

People were taken care of, which is more than I can say for your boss, President Biden.

NO President EVER, made sure working people were covered.

Get a clue.