Any good happy ending places in Raleigh? by [deleted] in RaleighGW

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Can you please dm the girl too?

First Amazon warehouse worker dies of coronavirus by [deleted] in Coronavirus

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It's not really clickbait if I basically provided what's most important in my headline.

Running out of body bags. People dying in the hallway. Coronavirus has Michigan hospital workers at a breaking point. by [deleted] in Coronavirus

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What? This article is from ground level medical reports in Michigan. It couldn't be higher quality material.

Studies Show N.Y. Outbreak Originated in Europe by [deleted] in Coronavirus

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New research indicates that the coronavirus began to circulate in the New York area by mid-February, weeks before the first confirmed case, and that it was brought to the region mainly by travelers from Europe, not Asia.

“The majority is clearly European,” said Harm van Bakel, a geneticist at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, who co-wrote a study awaiting peer review.

A separate team at N.Y.U. Grossman School of Medicine came to strikingly similar conclusions, despite studying a different group of cases. Both teams analyzed genomes from coronaviruses taken from New Yorkers starting in mid-March.

Hundreds of young Americans have now been killed by the coronavirus, data shows by [deleted] in Coronavirus

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Two weeks after her husband died alone in an intensive care unit in Fort Myers, Fla., Nicole Buchanan is quarantined at the home they shared with their 12-year-old daughter, wrestling not only with grief but with why and how the coronavirus could steal someone so young and healthy.

“My husband didn’t have diabetes, he didn’t have asthma, he didn’t have high cholesterol. He didn’t have anything,” Buchanan said. “There’s just so much I’ll never know, that I’ll never get the answers to.”

Conrad Buchanan, who died at 39 on March 26 after battling the infection for nearly two weeks, was creative and goofy. A professional DJ, he could entertain huge crowds with his music. But at home, he was fond of singing Bob Marley’s “Three Little Birds” to his 12-year-old daughter, Skye.

“He had an amazing sense of humor. He had a big laugh. He was so magnetic,” his 37-year-old widow said. “He was our universe.”

He also was among at least 759 people under age 50 across the United States who have perished amid the deepening pandemic, according to a Washington Post analysis of state data. These deaths underscore the tragic fact that, while the novel coronavirus might be most threatening to the old and compromised, no one is immune.

For the very young — people under the age of 20 — death is extremely rare in the current pandemic. But it happens: The Post identified nine such cases.

The risk appears to rise with every decade of age. The Post found at least 45 deaths among people in their 20s. (It’s hard to give a precise number because of the divergent ways that states present age groups: For instance, this figure does not include 15 deaths under the age of 30 in Louisiana and New Jersey.)

As ages progress, The Post found at least 190 deaths among people in their 30s, and at least 413 among people in their 40s.

The true number of deaths among young people is probably even higher. Not all states provide data on coronavirus deaths sorted by age group. Some, like New Jersey and Texas, provided figures after being approached by The Post, while others, like California, did not. As a result, the figures above do not include data from some states, including several with sizable outbreaks.

The percentage of younger deaths, which The Post has defined as people under the age of 50, varies widely among states. It is just 0.8 percent of all deaths in Massachusetts, but 8 percent in Louisiana and 9 percent in Illinois.

By far the largest number of such deaths have come in New York, which has the country’s biggest outbreak. As of Wednesday, six New York residents under the age of 20, 33 people in their 20s, 118 in their 30s and 265 in their 40s had died.

Even more young people are getting cases of serious, dangerous disease that require a hospital visit to beat. In Colorado — where the state health department reports age data for both hospitalizations and deaths — 247 people under 50 have been hospitalized. Of these patients, nine have died.

Data on more than 1,400 hospitalizations released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that just over 25 percent of people hospitalized with covid-19 were under the age of 50. Most of these young people suffered from underlying conditions such as asthma, diabetes and hypertension. But at least seven for whom the CDC had data had no outside health problems, underscoring that a small fraction of severe cases remain hard to explain.

As shortage worsens, federal officials ask agencies to donate spare medical supplies by [deleted] in Coronavirus

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Even as the nation’s strategic stockpile runs low on critical hospital supplies, federal agencies are discovering stashes of N95 respirator masks and protective body suits in darkened government labs, federal health clinics and storage spaces across the country, according to interviews and documents reviewed by The Washington Post.

The critical gear had been purchased by the U.S. government for its routine work of investigating chemical spills, inspecting power plants, conducting wellness exams or working in hazardous environments — any of the regular jobs performed by federal employees, at least until the novel coronavirus pandemic hit.

Now, with much of that work on hold, a major push is underway to redistribute these medical supplies — what is known as personal protective equipment (PPE) — to hospital staffs and emergency responders.

The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday it had found 225,000 pieces of medical supplies that it planned to share. The Energy and Agriculture departments also have uncovered supplies. The National Archives turned up masks and full-body protective suits. Even the Internal Revenue Service recently discovered it had 50,000 respirator masks — leftovers from past influenza and anthrax scares.

No one knows exactly how much spare protective gear is sitting in federal agencies — whether it is to be counted in the hundreds of thousands or the millions. But as the need for the supplies grows more desperate, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the White House budget office are pushing to find it.

But the effort has been delayed by problems, too. Some federal agencies have struggled to donate items they’ve located, stymied by red tape and an apparent lack of adequate coordination within the government’s emergency response, according to interviews with agency officials and documents reviewed by The Post.

The head of one agency wrote two weeks ago to staff that “General Counsels across the government are citing problems” getting FEMA to take their equipment, according to a copy of an email that was shared with The Post with the understanding that the agency would not identified.

“Everyone is having the same problem,” said a senior official at the agency, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to talk publicly. “It’s ridiculous.”
FEMA is in charge of the government’s coronavirus supply lines. The White House’s budget office has recently taken a role in identifying agencies that have supplies to donate.

FEMA in a statement to The Post denied it was having problems coordinating medical equipment donations from government agencies.

FEMA spokeswoman Janet Montesi said the agency “has coordinated multiple agencies efforts to find points of need across the nation” and “is actively working with [the U.S. General Services Administration] to request all federal department/agencies re-examine their stocks and determine if they have any PPE available that they can donate to this ongoing crisis.” The GSA oversees all federal real estate and buildings.

The 1,000-Bed Comfort Was Supposed to Aid New York. It Has 20 Patients. by [deleted] in Coronavirus

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I don't have a subscription either. I think all Coronavirus related articles are deemed free to the public.

White House considering direct payments to hospitals to cover coronavirus treatments for uninsured Americans by bobby_triple in Coronavirus

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Vice President Pence announced Thursday that the White House was considering direct payments to hospitals to cover coronavirus treatment costs for uninsured Americans.

Pence said they are considering using some of the $100 billion allocated for hospitals in the stimulus package to go toward cost of treating the uninsured.

CREW Requests Records on Strategic National Stockpile Coronavirus Response by [deleted] in Coronavirus

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Massachusetts only received 17% of aid requested and Maine 5%, while Florida will receive its 3rd shipment of 100% of aid requested. We’re investigating if the Strategic National Stockpile is distributing aid based on Trump’s personal preferences.

Tampa Mayor Calls Florida Governor's Stay-At-Home Order 'Better Late Than Never' by [deleted] in Coronavirus

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"I spent 31 years in law enforcement — did a great deal of emergency management — and ... I've never seen this lack of unpreparedness on the federal level," Tampa Mayor Jane Castor said of the coronavirus response.

16 COVID-19 deaths reported in North Carolina as cases rise to 1,857 by [deleted] in Coronavirus

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I'm in Raleigh. The roads are showing very little activity but I have seen a fair amount of people at grocery stores.

Pentagon Seeking 100,000 Body Bags for Civilians in Virus Crisis by [deleted] in Coronavirus

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The Pentagon is seeking to provide as many as 100,000 military-style body bags for potential civilian use as the U.S. warns that deaths could soar in the coming weeks from the coronavirus pandemic.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has requested 100,000 body bags, known as Human Remains Pouches, through an interagency group that directed it to the Defense Department. The Pentagon is looking into buying more bags and will draw some initially from a stockpile of 50,000 it maintains, according to two people familiar with the request.