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The original and continuing purpose of this thread is to share the most up-to-the-minute thoughtful & insightful articles regarding the Coronavirus Endgame.[/quote]
have been sort of looking for that info my self,… but have not found anything I thought realistic,… lots of denial the pandemic exists AND/OR people think its fake news
there is an old adage “don’t judge a book by its cover” but looking at various news reports about what average people are doing to prepare (for example)
[quote] ‘Absolute chaos’: Grocery stores struggle to meet COVID-19 demand
Tim Gerwitz, of Buffalo, stocks up with eight rolls of toilet paper, a roll of paper towels and two bottle of Mountain Dew at Familly Dollar on Kenmore Avenue in Buffalo, Friday, March 13, 2020. (Sharon Cantillon/Buffalo News)
personally 99.999% certain this isn’t going to end or get better anytime soon,… unlike POTUS the self described “Very Stable Genius!”
[quote] Trump says nation can see “light at the end of the tunnel” as Washington pushes $6 trillion stimulus
President Trump says the U.S. is beginning to see the “light at the end of the tunnel,” as the number of coronavirus cases in the country is doubling every two to three days. The president has been signaling impatience with the ongoing business closures and stock market volatility, and on Tuesday began suggesting he wants the country “back open by Easter” on April 12.
“There is tremendous hope as we look forward and we begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Stay focused and stay strong and my administration and myself will deliver for you as we have in the past,” the president said during a Coronavirus Task Force briefing at the White House late Tuesday.
[quote] Exclusive: U.S. axed CDC expert job in China months before virus outbreak
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Several months before the coronavirus pandemic began, the Trump administration eliminated a key American public health position in Beijing intended to help detect disease outbreaks in China, Reuters has learned.
The American disease expert, a medical epidemiologist embedded in China’s disease control agency, left her post in July, according to four sources with knowledge of the issue. The first cases of the new coronavirus may have emerged as early as November, and as cases exploded, the Trump administration in February chastised China for censoring information about the outbreak and keeping U.S. experts from entering the country to help.
“It was heartbreaking to watch,” said Bao-Ping Zhu, a Chinese American who served in that role, which was funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, between 2007 and 2011. “If someone had been there, public health officials and governments across the world could have moved much faster.”
Zhu and the other sources said the American expert, Dr. Linda Quick, was a trainer of Chinese field epidemiologists who were deployed to the epicenter of outbreaks to help track, investigate and contain diseases.
As an American CDC employee, they said, Quick was in an ideal position to be the eyes and ears on the ground for the United States and other countries on the coronavirus outbreak, and might have alerted them to the growing threat weeks earlier.
No other foreign disease experts were embedded to lead the program after Quick left in July, according to the sources. Zhu said an embedded expert can often get word of outbreaks early, after forming close relationships with Chinese counterparts.
[quote] Chaos, inconsistency mark launch of drive-thru virus testing
…Patients have complained that they had to jump through cumbersome bureaucratic hoops and wait days to get tested, then wait even longer for a result. Testing centers opened in some places only to be shut down shortly afterward because of shortages of supplies and staff.
[quote] Hospitals consider universal do-not-resuscitate orders for coronavirus patients
Hospitals on the front lines of the pandemic are engaged in a heated private debate over a calculation few have encountered in their lifetimes — how to weigh the “save at all costs” approach to resuscitating a dying patient against the real danger of exposing doctors and nurses to the contagion of coronavirus.
The conversations are driven by the realization that the risk to staff amid dwindling stores of protective equipment — such as masks, gowns and gloves — may be too great to justify the conventional response when a patient “codes,” and their heart or breathing stops.
…The new protocols are part of a larger rationing of lifesaving procedures and equipment — including ventilators — that is quickly becoming a reality here as in other parts of the world battling the virus. The concerns are not just about health-care workers getting sick but also about them potentially carrying the virus to other patients in the hospital.
R. Alta Charo, a University of Wisconsin-Madison bioethicist, said that while the idea of withholding treatments may be unsettling, especially in a country as wealthy as ours, it is pragmatic. “It doesn’t help anybody if our doctors and nurses are felled by this virus and not able to care for us,” she said. “The code process is one that puts them at an enhanced risk.”
Wunderink said all of the most critically ill patients in the 12 days since they had their first coronavirus case have experienced steady declines rather than a sudden crash. That allowed medical staff to talk with families about the risk to workers and how having to put on protective gear delays a response and decreases the chance of saving someone’s life.
bottom line,… the only way things start to improve is when everyone stops doing stupid things like flushing disinfection wipes down toilets AND people wake up to the fact that simple basic hygiene using soap and water to wash hands and surfaces is a way to slow down virus transmission
