A respiratory Doctor explains what happens to the lungs when the virus goes there. Only 1 in 6 will get seriously ill.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel self quarantining because her Doctor has the virus. Ironically he visited her Friday to give her the pneumonia vaccine. She was seen Saturday shopping buying wine and toilet paper.
Https://arynews.tv/en/germany-chancellor-angela-merkel-coronavirus-quarantine/
Pakistan estimates 20 Million cases by June if aggressive measures not taken.
Https://www.dawn.com/news/1542651/coronapocalypse
Sindh province on lockdown.
Remarks: What happens to our troops in Afghanistan if 20 million people in Pakistan are sick, with people crossing the borders?
There are already people sick with the virus, confirmed positive in Khyber Pahtunkwa.
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Afghanistan has 40 cases per Public Health Minister Ferozuddin Feroz. New cases 3 in Herat, 2 in Farah, 1 in Ghor.
Dr. Ahmad Rashid Totakhil met with President Ghani there will be a plan drafted for the release of prisoners and detainees to stop the spread of the virus. EXCEPT THE TALIBAN. "The Taliban and those who have committed crimes against national security are not included ".
A spokesman for the Attorney General Jamshid Rasuli said it will be conducted transparently.
Afghan forces killed 50 Taliban today.
A draft of the plan will be released tomorrow Monday 3-23-20.
[Edited on 3/23/2020 by gina]
Palestine is not immune to the virus. Israel reportedly told them to use socks to make masks due to the global mask shortage.
Muslim women will fair better than others due to their hijabs and burkas.
People here and abroad could use socks, bandanas anything to cover your mouth and nose.
MAJOR DEVELOPMENT FROM DISTRIBUTED BIO [Laboratory]
Dr. Jacob Glanville in San Francisco is 3 or 4 weeks away from having an antibody to the coronavirus that will neutralize the virus in 20 minutes. Antibodies not a vaccine. He took 5 proteins from the Sars 2002 virus is tweeking them [mutating them] to recognize Covid-19 then the antibodies will neutralize it. In anyone. The military will verify it, clinical trials begin in July, and the treatment can be given to patients in September.
Https://www.foxnews.com/media/dr-jacob-glanville-antibody-neutralize-coronavirus
If you haven't been you should be reading the New York Post. Tons of great info there.
There's a 12 year old girl in Atlanta fighting for her life on a respirator, no prior medical problems. The coronavirus is so infectious/contagious it can kill you in a couple of days. Just from a sneeze or a cough you can catch it.
There is a secret service agent infected.
We need the antibodies we have no time to wait for a vaccine too many people will die. Regeneron and Dr. Glanville's research is so important. India has locked down 100 million people. This thing is worldwide.
Https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/01/countries-confirmed-cases-coronavirus-200125070959786.html
[Edited on 3/23/2020 by gina]
While those who think outside the box working to create antibodies for infected patients, the pharmaceutical companies working on vaccines have some news too.
Vaccines would be given to healthy people to prevent the virus.
Antibodies would be given to those already sick. That is the difference.
Moderna one of the companies working on vaccines created the first batch of vaccines that will be used on 45 healthy people. The first patient to receive the first vaccine received it in Seattle.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/first-coronavirus-vaccine-human-trials-140103934.html
3-24-20
The Numbers in NY.
25 665 cases totally throughout the state.
210 deaths
NYC
12,000 cases
131 deaths
Long Island
1180 Suffolk 17 deaths - the District Attorney Tim Sini tested positive.
2869 Nassau 10 deaths - 24 police tested positive.
Westchester
4000 cases
As more people are tested the numbers will go up. But also the virus is believed to be infecting people and doubling the cases over a 3 day time frame. If this continues this way the numbers will be BIG soon. How big? Our Governor says he asked the federal government for 30,000 ventilators they offerred 400. FEMA is sent 2,000 and will send 2,000 more tomorrow. Not enough.
We have 53,000 hospital beds, we need 110,000.
We have 3,000 i.c.u. beds, we need 18,000 to 37,000.
He is working on creating temporary hospitals each takes 10 days to complete. We only have 300 people working on it daily. Wuhan had 700 people working on theirs so theirs went up faster.
The worst time is 14 to 21 days away. The Governor has warned what you see happen in NY will be a vision of the future for other states. We are just the first, you will be next.
Https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/24/new-york-coronavirus-cases-andrew-cuomo-hospitals
Https://abc7ny.com/health/li-coronaviruses-cases-surge-past-600-including-police-officer/6021346/
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NEW TEST
Dr. David Alland and his team at Rutgers are working on a test that gives results in 45 minutes. The test called CEPHEID runs on a GeneXpert instrument. The test runs on a cartridge on the GeneXpert platform. There are 5,000 of these instruments in the US, 23,000 in the rest of the world. Emergency FDA approval was obtained to begin shipping the tests out as early as Monday. Three hospitals have access in New Jersey. His lab at Rutgers, University Hospital at Newark and Robert Wood Johnson Hospital in New Brunswick.
For now only labs with clearance by the govt for high level research will be able to do the test, but the government can issue waivers to other labs.
Dr. Alland is the Chief of Infectious Disease, Director of the Center for Emerging Pathogens, Director of the Biocontainment Labs at Rutgers NJ Medical School.
He is known for his work on drug resistant mycobacterium, particularly tuberculosis.
His team on the coronavirus includes
Padmapriya Banada, M.D.
Sukalyani Banik, M.D.
At the Rutgers Biomedical Health Sciences Institute for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases.
Reported by Rebecca Jeverett for NJ Advance Media and also by Bob Makin for My Central Jersey.com
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3-26-20
Yesterday there was a significant disruption to internet service. I was told NY, FL, Puerto Rico had overwhelmed the system. There are still problems look at downdetector.com or outage.report/us
I will not get into this now but this summer there may be more disruptions due to incoming space debris.
Highlights of today include restaurant owner Stratis Morfogen offering to feed local hospital workers in lower Manhattan. His Brooklyn Chop House which serves beef, chicken and Chinese food is feeding 40 staff at Presbyterian Lower Manhattan hospital. Even janitors get a plate each night. 35 other hospitals asked him for food so he said yes to Lenox Hill, Elmhurst in Queens, Weill Cornell. He asks other restaurants to follow his lead.
Bill and Hillary sent pizzas to a hospital.
The Four Seasons luxury 5 star luxury hotel on 57th Street, as well as the St. Regis will offer free housing to medical workers, the St. Regis will offer housing for non critically I'll patients. The Wythe Hotel in Brooklyn will offer free lodging to medical workers and Air BnB will host medical workers.
Today's numbers are 37,258 infected
5,327 hospitalized
1,290 on ventilators
1,517 treated and released.
52,000 medical professionals answered Governor Cuomo's call to come out of retirement and help.
8,600 mental health professionals also volunteered.
New York will rise to the occasion no matter what you throw at us. It's just how we are.
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In his press conference today the Governor said he wants to have a 1,000 bed overflow temporary hospital for all the boroughs of NYC [Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Staren Island] and also Suffolk County, Rockland and Westchester counties.
Dyson is helping to make 10,000 ventilators for the U.K. patients. [Reuters]
Ford Motor Company also making masks and vents.
The vacuum cleaner companies can pitch in.
What about washing machine or HVAC companies? Can they help?
If their equipment could do it. They should.
What about air conditioning companies?
Companies that make diving equipment?
This is an all hands on deck needed problem.
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Friday 3-27
Today I am just going to give you the reality of what lies ahead.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/report-warns-coronavirus-pandemic-overwhelm-202100847.html
That's right a new report warns that the coronavirus pandemic will overwhelm US hospitals and coukd kill 81,000 by July.
US deaths 38,000 to 162,000 by July, 200,000 to 2.2 Million by end of year.
It will start in April. Different weeks for different states. It peaks at different times for different states. April 6 starts peaking here.
Https://covid19.healthdata.org
Original article
Https://www.healthdata.org/news-release/new-covid-19-forecasts-us-hospitals-could-be-overwhelmed-second-week-april-demand-icu
I have read Dr.'s who say it is NOT a bioterror weapon they know it is from bats and pangolins. Sylvia Browne a psychic who passed away wrote a book in 2008 and said a lung condition pandemic would happen in 2020. She said it will go away but come back ten years later. Whatever is learned from this we need to remember for the future.
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NY forges on. While he is dealing with a pandemic, our Governor also has to deliver a budget by April 1st for the people of the State of New York and he will. During his press conference yesterday he said since he does not know what will be coming from Washington he will adjust the numbers downward and then do quarterly adjustments.
He gets the job done.
The coronavirus situation is bad. Elmhurst Hospital has 45 of 63 ventilators being used. When patients go on a vent they are on them for anywhere from 11 to 21 or 30 days. They are critically-ill. Dr. Mitchell Katz, head of the Health and Hospitals Corporation that operates public hospitals like Elmhurst said plans are underway to convert many of the areas into i.c.u. beds for the patients so they do not have to be transferred elsewhere. The Governor will allow patients to be transferred upstate if the city hospitals and overflow hospitals he is building are beyond capacity. This will not be like Italy. He's already working on this.
NYC has 560,000 undocumented immigrants, 20,000 in the areas near Elmhurst Hospital.
There are more neighborhoods in Brooklyn, the Bronx with this situation.
One Doctor at Columbia today said in 4 hours she saw 20 patients, 16 tested positive. [Dara Cass, Emergency Medicine].
It's a city wide, statewide crisis. The Governor asks for more ventilators because we are expected to have the most cases here, thus the greatest need. We have 19.5 million people in New York and an anticipated death toll by August 4 of 10,243.
We need the most because we have and will have the most people needing them.
Https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo
Daily press conferences on what is happening here.
Javits temporary hospital opens Monday.
62,000 retired medical workers coming to work.
10,100 mental health professionals on board.
Jet Blue will fly medical professionals here for FREE if they want to help.
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Why is it some people get the virus and recover and others are at death's door. We were told there are two strains, the L being the mild strain. It turns out there are EIGHT strains circling the world.
Https://www.yahoo.com/news/8-strains-coronavirus-circling-globe-182338255.html
The UK, France, Italy were hit with a very deadly strain.
There is something worse than the coronavirus that is coming because of the virus. Firstly the estimates of the death projections may be low. The virus spreads 15X faster than the flu. The 2017 flu infected 74 to 90 million people, 88,000 died. So what can we expect from the coronavirus? Possibly 200,000 to 300,000 deaths. The warm weather is coming. People's behavior will change, just like Spring Break in Florida they will not take it seriously and keep 6 feet away from each other. Even this is not the worst of what is coming.
The virus spread due to travel. To prevent it worsening, there will need to be an identification system used worldwide so that people are accountable for their health and trackable. Nobody wants to get sick right? They want to know if fellow travelers at the airports etc are sick. If they are they should not be able to fly. But it's not just the airplanes. China already did it there was an app on the phones that would send info on people's whereabouts to police as well as tell them if they could continue at the metro train station. If it said no and they continue police were dispatched to arrest the person. If you were scanned and had a fever that info was related electronically to police and health authorities. Even if you were okay but you were heading to an area that was quarantined the app on the phone would tell you that you were not authorized to go there. So if you did not know it was quarantined it protected your health and stopped you from going to an infectious area. I saw the app in Chinese newspapers. No one objected to it.
What is going to happen is the United Nations is working on unified identification system to identify all people worldwide. Your personal info. Including medical status will be in this. They are looking at bracelets since people reject the rfid chip implants but it will be used the same way. If you do not accept and use the one world global identification you cannot travel or get things you need.
It will be rolled out to the people as a safeguard for their health in this pandemic. People will accept and demand it. They want to be safe from infected people. Later it will be used by the beast, the anti-Christ and the one world order to control buying things you need, selling for businesses etc. It will run on the 5G-technology and artificial intelligence developed.
The virus is real not man created, but man is seizing on the opportunity to sell fear to the people to get them to accept this.
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gina, dear woman, you're either an incredibly fast typist or you have a lot of time on your hands.
God bless you. Be safe.
Yes I type in the mid to high 70's. Thank you for the well wishes. I am glad Little Rhody will escape the brunt of this pandemic if the prognosticators are correct. For NY it's another 9-11 type event, people will pull through or if not they go home to God. He calls people home when he feels they have done enough. There is nothing else he needs them to do. How or when people die does not matter, these bodies are temporary garments for your soul. When you die you leave this old trenchcoat of a body behind and soar free to the light, in the light and with the light. So do not cry for the departed, they are at peace among the Angel's and God.
While you are here just do what you can and live each day.
Now we hear there is a condom shortage due to the lockdown in Malaysia.
Https://finance.yahoo.com/news/condom-shortage-looms-coronavirus-lockdown-114905514.html
Malaysia Karex Bhd makes 2 in every 5 condoms. They have 3 factories were closed for more than a week. There is already a shortfall of 100 million condoms. The factory restarted Friday with 50% staff. India and China are the other major manufacturers.
REMARKS: The US cannot even make it's own condoms? I though they were made in North Carolina. We need to lower the sanctions on China because we are just being squeezed too hard. Is this shortage why Trump is so hot for people to get back to work? People have too much time on their hands. Uh huh. 
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Yes I type in the mid to high 70's. Thank you for the well wishes. I am glad Little Rhody will escape the brunt of this pandemic if the prognosticators are correct. For NY it's another 9-11 type event, people will pull through or if not they go home to God. He calls people home when he feels they have done enough. There is nothing else he needs them to do. How or when people die does not matter, these bodies are temporary garments for your soul. When you die you leave this old trenchcoat of a body behind and soar free to the light, in the light and with the light. So do not cry for the departed, they are at peace among the Angel's and God.
While you are here just do what you can and live each day.
"He calls people home when He feels they have done enough".
Spot on.
How or when people die does not matter, these bodies are temporary garments for your soul. When you die you leave this old trenchcoat of a body behind and soar free to the light, in the light and with the light. So do not cry for the departed, they are at peace among the Angel's and God.
While you are here just do what you can and live each day.
X2 - beautifully said
Sunday
Yes the numbers are worse today and will be for the foreseeable future. What matters and what determines how this unfolds is what we all do. Social distancing and staying home matter. A new study by Rowland's alma mater, M.I.T. determined a sneeze can travel 23 to 27 feet with droplets remaining in the air for hours. Someone comes by later, breathes and ingests it. They believe if you do nothing, 2.5 people get infected within 5 days, those people infect others and within 30 days 406 people are infected just from the original seeze.
If you social distance only 1.5 people are infected in 5 days, and 15 people in 30 days. This with the 6 feet social distancing.
Remember you can be exposed, carry the virus, not show any symptoms or get sick and still pass it on to others. That's the problem with this virus.
How are New Yorkers doing? The faint at heart are trying to escape, but some places like Rhode Island are having none of that. Lock your doors, turn off the lights so they don't know anybody's home isn't enough. Rhode Island has National Guard going door to door looking for wayward New Yorkers. 'I hear you knockin' but you can't come in' just will not do in these times.
UPDATE: 45 mins. Ago per New York's Governor, Rhode Island has rescinded this order.
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Even though it is already hot in Florida some New Yorkers just have a hankering to go southbound to Florida. They know there is a significant revenue, tourism link between NY and themselves but they don't really want escapees either. They have set up checkpoints along major incoming roads telling New Yorkers they have to go to quarantine for two weeks or face 60 days jail time.
It's necessary folks.
The USN Comfort arrives in NY this week. Our crunch/crisis time starts April 6 and the worst time is 14 to 21 days from now. Trump will see the boat off from Virginia.
You folks can and should look on the chart at the
Https://covid19.healthdata.org
Site to see the worst times for increased cases in your area and stay home as much as possible and do the 6 foot social distancing. We do it here even on line at the supermarkets. Some stores put up plexiglass barriers between consumers and cashiers and they would like you to stand behind that. They also spray down the little shelf where you put your handbags. The convenience store put crates between the counter and the customer to distance them from cashiers. We're using the drive-thrus at the banks. You adapt. We are supposed to be home by 8 pm. People are. You change your routine that's how you cope.
Being a Monday morning quarterback saying what this person should've done doesn't help anybody in a pandemic. Remember be here now is the best position take. Deal with what is. Deal with 24 hours at a time. That's it.
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CANADA update
There are reports that Justin Trudeau's wife, Sophie is feeling much better. She became positive while she was in London on official business. Very good news of her recovering.
Updates on Canada here:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/covid-19-cases-in-canada-province-map-00505070.html
Northcom- sent some essential staff to underground bunkers at facilities such as Cheyenne Mountain. Just precaution for continuity of Pentagon DOD activities, continuity of government if an asteroid or something else ominous comes in?
Https://www.rt.com/usa/484389-military-underground-bunkers-coronavirus
New York City expects 900 police officers positive for coronavirus by tomorrow, Monday.
NYPD knows it and has already told detectives they may have to help their quarantined brothers by being beat cops in hard pressed neighborhoods that require coverage.
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MAJOR DEVELOPMENT FROM DISTRIBUTED BIO [Laboratory]
Dr. Jacob Glanville in San Francisco is 3 or 4 weeks away from having an antibody to the coronavirus that will neutralize the virus in 20 minutes. Antibodies not a vaccine. He took 5 proteins from the Sars 2002 virus is tweeking them [mutating them] to recognize Covid-19 then the antibodies will neutralize it. In anyone. The military will verify it, clinical trials begin in July, and the treatment can be given to patients in September.
Https://www.foxnews.com/media/dr-jacob-glanville-antibody-neutralize-coronavirus
BIG UPDATE NEWS - HE DID IT HE FINISHED THE ANTIBODIES 3-31-20
Dr. Glanville and his team in California did it. He finished the antibodies.
4-1-20
Benson and Hedges and it's subsidiary British American Tobacco has come up with a vaccine. No this is no April Fool's day joke. They found the corona antigen in tobacco plants AND it is being done here in the US at the Kentucky Bio Processing. They will make 3 million doses.
Remarks: God did create the plants and the Indians just use the leaves in their pure form. It was everyone else putting harmful chemicals in the cigarettes giving people cancers and disease.
