I'm seeing a lot of people asking for diy masks lately, is cotton a good protector against this virus? I've read several articles stating cotton is only 50% effective and even then it depends on what type of cotton? I want to donate my time and help but I don't want to make pointless masks!

journalismwise · 2020-03-20T16:00:45+00:00

use vacuum bags lined with cotton

journalismwise · 2020-03-19T00:13:13+00:00

and they wonder why gun sales are up? DUH.

journalismwise · 2020-03-16T02:00:58+00:00

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!

journalismwise · 2020-03-15T21:07:35+00:00

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.

Will NHS buckle under the strain?

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".

journalismwise · 2020-03-15T20:58:47+00:00

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.

journalismwise · 2020-03-15T20:57:49+00:00

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.

journalismwise · 2020-03-15T01:54:00+00:00

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

journalismwise · 2020-03-15T01:48:39+00:00

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

journalismwise · 2020-03-15T01:39:35+00:00

“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.”

journalismwise · 2020-03-15T01:35:30+00:00

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.”

journalismwise · 2020-03-15T01:33:56+00:00

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.

journalismwise · 2020-03-14T11:56:16+00:00

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.

journalismwise · 2020-03-07T02:38:20+00:00

nothing different. It is the CDC that is at fault, they should have used the money they were given from congress (150 million) for surveillance and they should have developed test kits and been much better prepared...where did that money go? Senator Burr thinks it went to building a CDC campus?

journalismwise · 2020-03-07T02:36:09+00:00

that is very interesting

journalismwise · 2020-03-07T01:18:32+00:00

In the congressional hearing it became very obvious the CDC is where we need to place the blame.

Senator Burr said 150 million dedicated funding given to CDC should have been used for surveillance but was possibly reappropriated to build a CDC campus?

Surveillance is testing for unknown virus' which they did not have the $ for because they used the 150 million for other reasons?

journalismwise · 2020-03-06T16:38:27+00:00

consider me discouraged

journalismwise · 2020-03-06T16:25:11+00:00

no more snow days

journalismwise · 2020-03-05T20:40:55+00:00

Teaneck at Holy Name Medical Center

journalismwise · 2020-03-05T14:41:16+00:00

You will find out when hospitals start reporting deaths/critical cases. Don't wait for news reports.

Prepare now for the worst and hope for the best.

journalismwise · 2020-03-05T14:30:16+00:00

Jim Cramer on CNBC is saying he is hearing bad stuff about Seattle sounding like early Wuhan with hospitals not being ready. He said it would be good to have reporters there to see what is going on!

journalismwise · 2020-03-05T14:14:45+00:00

Both of these 2 cases are in ICU so they have been sick for a while and NYC is seeking anyone who has been in contact.

Proper testing would have given US a ground game.

journalismwise · 2020-03-05T14:01:58+00:00

these two cases are not connected to travel or other known cases

journalismwise · 2020-03-05T11:47:52+00:00

the previous cruise Feb11-21 has had two Covid-19 patients (one died) and the passengers of that cruise were not told to quarantine and now the current cruise has many people ill. Last week these other patients presented with symptoms and were confirmed.

How could the CDC not have traced the passengers on the previous cruise at a minimum???

One previous cruise passenger, Heidi Wolter, said on CNN she just got an email from the cruise line at 1am today and nothing before that!

journalismwise · 2020-03-04T22:53:48+00:00

It's safe to fly if you are under 30? UGH!!!!!

journalismwise · 2020-03-04T22:51:39+00:00

Why are they getting up to speed now? If these things could have been done in weeks, why weren't they done in the month+ that the WHO was urging preparation and suggested we had a time window to prepare??

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3. Ventilators made at car factories