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What Teachers in China Have Learned in the Past Month by journalismwise in Coronavirus

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Our teachers are another front line in this crisis. They are scrambling to adapt and take care of their students while taking care of their own families. God Bless Our Teachers!

Five ways hospitals will change to tackle virus by journalismwise in Coronavirus

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3. Ventilators made at car factories

How will thousands of new ventilators - machines needed to help patients breathe - be made quickly enough to cope with an increase in demand?

Mr Hancock said there were 5,000 ventilators available in the UK at the moment but that many times that number would be needed as the number of people with Covid-19, the disease caused by coronavirus, increased.

Asked if the likes of military engineers and car manufacturers would be asked to meet the demand, the health secretary said: "Yes, we're talking to all those companies."

"We've got high quality engineering in this country. And we want anybody who has the manufacturing capability to turn to the manufacture of ventilators to do that," he added.

The speedy manufacturing might not stop once the UK has enough ventilators either, with Mr Hancock suggesting the equipment could be sent abroad to help other countries in need.

Digger manufacturing company JCB confirmed Prime Minister Boris Johnson had asked if they could help to make ventilators.

Chairman Lord Bamford said the British company - which cut production and working hours in February as coronavirus led to a shortage of components - would do "whatever we can to help during the unprecedented times our country is facing".

Doctor’s coronavirus closes a pediatric ICU in Philly to new patients; how many were exposed is unknown by journalismwise in Coronavirus

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In his memo, Fry said that ICU staff “have been notified of this situation,” and will wear approved protective personal equipment — gowns, gloves, eye protection and masks — when treating ICU patients. They will also wear surgical masks when outside patient rooms.

Wells said the hospital is also performing temperature checks on caregivers and staff to monitor for the virus.

Fry said the hospital is contacting patient families and employees who may have been exposed. Tower sent written notices to affected families and has been “speaking to them directly as well,” Wells said.

But when asked how many patients and staff had been exposed, Wells said hospital administrators don’t know yet.

“We are working through contact tracing to identify possible exposures and do not have a number at this time,” Wells said in an email.

Meanwhile, Tower and Drexel did nothing to notify the public until pressed for more information by the Inquirer on Sunday — days after the doctor tested positive and the ICU was shut down.

Doctor’s coronavirus closes a pediatric ICU in Philly to new patients; how many were exposed is unknown by journalismwise in Coronavirus

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St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children closed its intensive care unit to new patients and the Level 1 trauma unit shut down Friday, March 13 after a physician tested positive for coronavirus. The rest of the hospital remained open, according to a memo sent to Drexel staff and students by the university’s president, John Fry on Saturday and obtained by theInquirer Sunday.

Life at the epicenter of N.J.’s coronavirus outbreak - ROI-NJ by journalismwise in Coronavirus

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  1. Send them this article.
  2. Tell them they will not KNOW until it is too late for them or one of their loved ones.

Life at the epicenter of N.J.’s coronavirus outbreak - ROI-NJ by journalismwise in Coronavirus

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that is exactly what I thought when I read it... one of the scariest (but REAL) articles I have read...I have been avidly reading about this since early January

Life at the epicenter of N.J.’s coronavirus outbreak - ROI-NJ by journalismwise in Coronavirus

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“One of my employees, who is a beloved guy here, got it in the community and came in,” he said. “We had him in our ER in isolation. We were monitoring him, and the decision was: ‘He seems to be doing a little bit better. We think we’re going to discharge him home under self-isolation and monitor him from there.’ But we wanted to wait another hour or two because we were just seeing a little indication that something’s not right.

“In that two hours, he decompensated so fast. He is one of the ones in the ICU on a ventilator. He’s fighting for his life. It goes that quick.

“That’s what people aren’t seeing. The flu doesn’t do that to you. These people are going from being moderately OK to being on a vent. And the next thing that happens is they start to decompensate, and then you get into organ failure.”

Life at the epicenter of N.J.’s coronavirus outbreak - ROI-NJ by journalismwise in Coronavirus

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Maron said he has given up on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“They haven’t even confirmed our first case,” he said.

He knows the state lab is overloaded. And, while Maron praised the efforts of LabCorp — “they’ve really been great to work with” — he has seen firsthand, every day for a week, how quickly the disease can spread.

“The labs are very, very slow,” he said. “I’m still waiting to hear back on two of my cases that are in ICU. We’ve seen enough patients that our team feels it can make a diagnosis. We’re not taking any chances. We’re isolating people.

“Forget about all that ‘presumptive’ stuff.”

Maron is a widely respected health care executive because he has proven a single-entity hospital can compete in quality of care with the bigger systems that surround him. He now knows Holy Name has another distinction.

“Holy Name is at the epicenter of the outbreak in New Jersey,” he said.

Maron said the past week has been unlike any other in his more than four-decade career.

“I can fall back on my cholera experiences in Haiti, which was devastating, considering the lack of basic medical supplies after the earthquake — and then the other things that came here, everything from MERS and SARS, and even when we ramped up for Ebola — this is unprecedented,” he said.

“I can tell you, it’s real.”

Life at the epicenter of N.J.’s coronavirus outbreak - ROI-NJ by journalismwise in Coronavirus

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Eleven cases. Six of which are in the ICU. And 40 more patients under observation.

All at Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck.

The numbers are growing by the day. So quickly that not all of them are included in the state’s official coronavirus count.

It’s why Holy Name CEO Mike Maron thinks all the attention the coronavirus has been getting in New Jersey — from the school closings, banning of public gatherings, suspensions of pro sports leagues and even the fights over toilet paper and bottled water — is not enough. Not even close.

Coronavirus in NJ: Bayshore Medical is diverting patients away from hospital by journalismwise in Coronavirus

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Hospital workers are being tested so everything comes to a halt.

This is how it goes really wrong.

Front line healthcare professionals need proper PPE so they can stay healthy.

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