4-1-20.
From New York Governor Andrew Cuomo press conference today.
We have 8,000 more cases since yesterday totalling 83,712.
New Jersey has 18,606.
He related that if a person goes on the ventilator there is only a 20% chance they will come off it. Covid-19 just destroys their lungs.
He looks. At model projections uses the McKinsey model.
Bill Gates's foundation uses the IHME model which says this wave of coronavirus will last till July not May. Nationwide this model predicts 93,000 deaths, 16,000 for New York.
From Mayor Bill DeBlasio's press conference today. He is going week by week. By Sunday 4/5 New York City will have enough face shields, goggles, gloves for the week of 4/6 this will be enough for all hospitals and first responders.
We will need resupply of these items for the week after next week. We are going week by week folks.
3.3 million N95 masks
2.1 million surgical masks
100,000 isolation gowns
Ventilators needed:
400 more ventilators by Sunday 4/5
For the week of 4/6 to 4/12
Minima 2500 to 3000 more vents.
For the entire month of April we need 15,000 vents
20,000 beds will become i.c.u. beds
We will need to build out 65,000 more hospital beds by end of April.
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NYC Mayor Bill DeBlasio called upon former Police Commissioner Jimmy O'Neill to lead his Task Force with regards to the supply chain and personnel. He wants seamlessness how supplies came into the system and get where they need to go. He wants to be able to know at any given hour what any hospital needs and get them the supplies. A police Commissioner has tactical and mobilization skills. He will get it done.
The Mayor is also working with Pete Gaynor from the FEMA administration.
The NYC Emergency Command Center is in Brooklyn.
Mitch Katz from the Health and Hospital Public Health System is also on board.
All the hospitals, public, private, independent will work as one unified group against the coronavirus.
His press conferences are at
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1 million masks coming from China to Boston on the New England Patriots team plane.
Thanks nebbish. I'm not subscribed to WSJ but other articles have details from that article that are amazing what they all went thru
And out of 9 million masks since only 1.2 million fit on the plane most of those going to Boston, they will give NY 300,000 from what fit on the plane. The rest are coming soon in another shipment. And the Kraft family paid 2 million dollars half the cost of the masks.
We have to call a truce between the Boston vs NY sports rivalry now. This is just incredible.
Https://www.boston.com/news/health/2020/04/02/patriots-plane-masks-robert-kraft/amp
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Disney theme parks donating 1 million masks to California, New York and Florida as well as ponchos in lieu of protective gowns.
Https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/disney-donating-thousands-ponchos-masks-151100366.html
It's a small world after all.
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You probably heard FEMA ordered 100,000 body bags. They only have 50,000 stockpiled. They think there could be 100,000 to 200,000 deaths. NY is expected to suffer 16,000 deaths. Yesterday we had 83,712 cases, today 93,480. Overnight 10,000 more cases. Tomorrow or Saturday we will probably have over 100,000 cases.
The other big number states New Jersey, Michigan, Florida, Texas, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and the states with 2,000 cases will increase their cases. If NY will have 16,000 deaths, the rest of the country has to make up the conservative number from Bill Gates's foundation of 93,000 total deaths.
This is not just a NY, NJ, California, Florida, Washington state problem.
Everyone needs to do social distancing be no closer than 6 feet from someone else.
Stay or go home as much as possible. The virus is in the air, on surfaces everywhere.
4-3-20 Friday
From NYC Mayor DeBlasio
We will need 85,000 more beds for April/May for a total of 100,000 beds.
Jared Kushner is sending 200,000 N95 masks.
For April/May we need 15,000 ventilators. Of that total number we need 2500 to 3000 for next week.
NY and NJ Governors each passed Executive Orders requiring other hospitals in the states to release ventilators they are not using. The National Guard will collect them from NYS hospitals. Gov. Cuomo said later on we will either return them or buy new ones to give back to the hospitals.
Also any other businesses including construction and manufacturing have to hand over their supplies, any business that resists the NYPD and Sheriffs offices will use their capacity to get these supplies turned over to the Health and Hospital Services.
Staffing needs
125,000 more clinical staff needed.
They will be paid even if they are just volunteers [doctors, nurses, dietitians]
Re: ventilators he said there are 10,000 in the federal stockpile, 2,000 in the state stockpile.
He would like a NYC Reserve Corp and the state to have one.
Fema coordinated with General Milley helping us.
Number of cases now 102,863
Deaths 2,935
Javits center has 2500 beds and will be run by Fema as a Covid-19 only hospital.
He emphasized we have to see work as a National Community. We are on "crisis footing". Don't sit on the sidelines help us now and we will help the other effected communities once our crisis levels off.
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From Governor Cuomo's press conference
He mentioned that since the feds will run the Javits field hospital they will have to find the ventilators for it since it will be federally run. They will need 300 vents per day. He expressed that the federal stockpile is not enough for all the places that need them or will need them. The states have to move vents around within their states and help other states when their states -apex has passed. 21 days from now NY will be on the other side of the curve. "Help the place that has the crisis then re-deploy to the next situation". "New York will be there for any community that needs us" but right now we need the most help, our crisis is like a war. He and DeBlasio both emphasized no state can do this alone, we have to help each other.
There is no point to blaming anyone about the ventilator shortage. We need them now, send them, we will reimburse other states and return them or buy you more. We just have no more time. People will die without them. If you have them and are not using all of them, send them here. Hospitals stockpile them for 4 or 5 months, we will replace them before 5 months. If we don't get some now it will be a death sentence to these people next week and the week after for 21 days.
He did pass the state budget at 3 am and he spoke with Nancy Pelosi and is working with her on programs he needs for the state to be included in the next phase of the Stimulus plan. He said she has "unparalleled credibility and competence". He has known her for 30 years.
Long Island has close to 20,000 cases now. Send those vents.
Https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo
And from Trump's press conference which can be found in many places including his Twitter page
Https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump
Alex Azar said that Medicare and Medicaid will pay for Covid-19 treatment for people who do not have insurance and not charge the patient the difference, so they are not looking at expanding Obamacare as it is known.
He touched upon the Strategic National Stockpile of ventilators. The federal government has to be able to allocate them all over the country so they cannot all go to one state. NY wanted 37,000. They cannot do that. What do they tell Florida, Michigan, California or Seattle or Louisiana or the southern states whose numbers are climbing? Too bad the Yankees beat you to it? They cannot do it even if they had the 37,000 which is highly doubtful.
Mail in voting came up. Pelosi wants this. Trump is against this. He wants Voter identification cards with your picture on it and you vote at the polls.
Reporters asked and complained about when are people getting their $1200 stimulus checks. He said the money will go to the states to disburse it. I thought the Treasury sent them electronically.
Tariffs came up, he said he is not doing it but could in regards to the oil situation between Russia and Saudi Arabia but he thinks they and the markets will work it out without him doing that.
Stephanie Grisham, Press Secretary alluded that Trump had a meeting today with Executives from the Oil and Gas Industry for a roundtable.
A bariatric surgeon explains what happens to and in your lungs with Coronavirus.
How Covid-19 Kills I'm a Surgeon and Why We Can't Save You
Duc C. Vuong, M.D.
Comments: Now I understand.
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4-4-20 Saturday
Researchers in China found a new chronic mutation in a person who had non severe symptoms who had a prolonged ability to infect others beyond the 14 day timeframes. He was contagious for 49 yes forty nine days. He kept having a high viral load that normally is seen in patients with severe symptoms. He was treated with a plasma transfusion of antibodies and two days later he tested negative.
Findings published March 27 in MedRxiv.org
Reported in Yahoo and South China Morning Post.
Https://nypost.com/2020/04/02/chinese-researchers-find-coronavirus-patient-contagious-for-49-days/
Army Medical University in Chongqing No 967
Hospital PLA, Dalian and General Hospital of PLA General Theatre in Wuhan.
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Researchers discovered a mutation in the virus not found in animal hosts but likely to have occurred during repeated small cluster infections in humans. They believe that while the virus may have originated in animals it jumped from animals to humans years maybe even decades ago.
The study is on Nature Medicine March 17
Study by:
Kristian Andersen, Scripps Research Institute, California
Andrew Rambout, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Ian Lipkin, Columbia University, New York
Edward Holmes, University of Sydney, Australia
Robert Garry, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
Hong Kong Microbiologist proves serum from recovered Covid-19 hamsters binds to the ACE-2 host receptor cell and helps infected hamsters recover. Hamsters have similar respiratory systems to humans.
Dr. Vuong said it is the ACE-2 -angiotension converting enzyme host receptor cell that is involved in this.
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Dr. Yuen Kwok-Yung from the University of Hong Kong proved that by day 4 the infected hamster had hemorrhaging in the lungs, damage to the trachea and intestines but after receiving serum from a recovered hamster he started getting well. What's more if you injected the serum in a healthy hamster then infected him the viral load after infection was reduced 10 times.
So the serum from recovered patients might be able to be used in healthy people too so if they get sick they will not get severely sick.
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The President emphasizes we have to get the country open again, people need to work. He gets criticized for so much. Maybe he knows things you don't. I read an article today that described how we as a nation could face food shortages. 32 percent of our vegetables are imported along with 55 percent of the fruits. It is not simply fixed because of a contagion all over the country the migrants can't cross the border to come and work and migrate to the different farms as they usually do. The world has virus concerns and its citizens are also on lockdown. Those empty shelves you see at the stores may not be due to just selfish people hoarding.
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What about those stimulus checks?
Washington Post says the following dates for release.
Adjusted gross incomes determines release date so those worse off get relief soonest.
Adjusted gross incomes up to $10,000 will go out 4-24-20
Adjusted gross incomes up to $20,000 will go out 5-1-20
Adjusted gross incomes up to $40,000 will go out 5-15-20
Last group goes out on 9-11-20.
From Trump's press conference today 4-4-20
180,000 N95 masks ordered from 3M. FEMA and HHS will monitor and send data on utilization rates from health care facilities nationwide.
Fema, HHS and DOD will have new criteria in 24 hours as to allocations.
1,000 military Doctors, Nurses professional staff heading to NY.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper will elaborate on the use of the military tomorrow and Monday.
There are 29 million doses of hydroxychlorquin in the National Strategic Stockpile and more ordered.
Gilead pharmaceuticals is in their Phase 3 clinical trial of 1,000 patients with Remdesivir.
Small Business Loans to help with payroll and keeping staff paid 1200 lenders. Started Friday that first day 28,000 loans were handled, Chase and Bank of America participating in program.
The State Dept. Successfully brought 40,000 Americans home from 75 countries. Good job Mike Pompeo.
Dr. Han said the Red Cross is working on the antibody plasma program.
As to the possible second wave it was said that we will need to "test, identify, isolate, and perform contact tracing" to contain and "vanquish the virus".
They said the deaths we see today are from people infected 2 or 3 weeks ago.
Pence said 4400 vents going to NY.
209 went to New Jersey.
100 vents went to Massachusetts
309 vents went to Detroit.
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4-5-20 Sunday
Firstly George W. Bush had it right in 2005. "If we wait to prepare for a pandemic to appear it will be too late".
Book: The Great Influenza - John Barry 2005
"It happens every 100 years".
Brooklyn, New York Emergency Room Doctor tasked with opening a Covid-19 unit realizes "we are treating the wrong disease". He says the Covid-19 patients do not have pneumonia which all the Doctors are treating with ventilators to prevent them from going into Acute Respiratory Distress [ARDS]. In pneumonia patients their muscles tire out and their lungs are filled with fluid and they cannot breathe. These Covid-19 patients do not have that. These patients are oxygen deprived like people with high altitude sickness. The ventilator the way it us being used is making them worse, damaging their lungs and killing them.
The patients need the vents but not with the force and thrust that a pneumonia patient needs. He begs for the protocols to be changed.
Cameron Kyle Siddell
Maimonides Hospital Brooklyn
The video links no longer work. The branch of government that censors/scrubs public information seems to be at it again. The point of the video is in his hospital and he set up the Covid-19 unit there a week ago, the patients they have seen did not have pneumonia findings. They had something else.
So, are we seeing and dealing with more than one disease at a time?
If so what are THEY dealing with?
Has the disease they are seeing mutated presenting a different set of symptoms?
These questions need answers STAT because the situation can be occurring all over NY and the nation.
P.S. To the unmentionable people, thank you for the videos. I love Carol Burnett. Truce accepted.
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I was going to put something else up from an upper level expert from the National Academy of Sciences on Emerging and Infectious Diseases but this has not been released from the White House Task Force so I will be respectful of their medical team.
I will say you need to be masked if you are going anyplace. You don't need to be coughed on or sneezed on to catch this.
Another news source covertly says there will not just one more wave of this virus but 3 or 4. Even Dr. Fauci said it can become seasonal like the flu. The covert news source says the death toll from this first wave will likely be anywhere from 300,000 to 500,000 people nationwide.
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The timing is unreal. A Pastor I follow pointed out that Passover occurs this week into next week. NYC's worst contagion time is this week and next week. In Exodus the people who were leaving Egypt were told everyone would be struck down, all the first born children unless they marked the sides and top of their doors. God and his angels would protect those people nothing would happen to them when he passed over the land that night and struck down the Egyptians, but they had to stay inside their homes. Exodus chapter 12
What we are now told at Passover, everyone not just Jews has to stay inside their homes to be safe or they can be struck down by this plague.
Coincidence or does God want to save his people? In the Bible in Ezekiel 37:19 God wanted to unite the tribes of Judah and Israel into one people so Passover will be a lasting ordinance for all people, no more of this well the Christian's celebrate his ascension and rising on the 3rd day. All people will celebrate the same festivals once he establishes HIS reign upon all the people of the earth.
The Muslims will be protecting and go out to fight next to side by side with Jesus when he returns to fight the antiChrist.
We are in perilous times but in the end it works out and we have peace and no more plagues or evil on the earth.
This was promised. For now if you die from a plague, you are martyred, blessed and favored. Wear your masks, stay home as they ask you to and contemplate the world to come. No you do not have to become a Jew to be one of God's people or have benefits during Passover.
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I redacted the prior post. It is not time for this yet. What I will say is that the virus was not happenstance. It is the first thing that happened which will bring about worldwide governmental changes. [ No Trump is not involved in the evil one world government elite and their plans].
Our government will re-open, Trump is dedicated to this happening and even in his press conference today said he will ask Congress for another 250 Billion stimulus for small business loans so they can remain afloat and re-open when we are able to. There have been 500,000 small business loans submitted for $70 billion.
There are 10 drugs being used in clinical trials and 2 vaccines in the works. Georgia and Rhode Island are using the rapid test from Abbott Labs. Abbott is highly reliable.
Trump is also looking at why blacks are getting sick at a rate of 3 or 4x other races. Hope's to have answers in a few days. I have an answer, Dr. Siddell from Maimonides said patients they were seeing were oxygen deprived not going into pneumonia. I say that Blacks have a higher percentage of sickle cell anemia where cells are oxygen starved perhaps this virus or a variant is utilizing some of the responses or DNA in a way sickle cell anemia does. I'm not Dr. House but something in the bodies of blacks is making them more susceptible or better hosts. I suggest looking into oxygen deprivation diseases and anemia or hemorrhagic diseases.
There are 1500 hydroxychlorquin trials going on in NYC patients right now.
From Gov. Cuomo's conference today.
Infected 138,836
Deaths 5,489
We hired 7,000 new staff and have 90,000 beds plus 2500 at Javits and 500 on the USN Comfort.
So total 93,000 beds.
He is coordinating with NJ and CT to provide a unified tri-state approach. We will all go back to work at the same time. We need the FDA to approve and help bring to scale an antibody test that measures IgG an antibody that shows if you had the disease and resolved it. A test measuring for IgM shows if you are currently infected.
Everybody has antibodies, IgG, IgA, IgD, IgE, and IgM. Different antibodies are elevated in different diseases.
Gov.Cuomo wants testing done on people so we will know if they have immunity or are carriers or still sick. I fully agree. The tri-state area will set the standard doing this in unison since all people here travel between states. It makes sense.
He said people will say "you can't save everyone" some will die but we must be able to say
Yes to the question of "are you saving everyone you can save?" And we are doing that.
He has left no stone unturned in the 37 days NY has been fighting. The rest is in God's hands.
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Firstly applause to Dr. Cameron Kyle Siddell. The conscience driven Dr. promoted to head up the Covid unit at Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn who believes the patients are being treated with this mistaken belief that all Covid patients will progress to ARDS and thus hospital protocols nationwide are to ventilate them to prevent this but the vents may be damaging their lungs and possibly even quickening their deaths. In a patient with ARDS they need a vent their muscles no longer work so they cannot breathe due to pneumonia. In Covid patients their respiratory muscles work . Ventilators do the work for muscles that do not work, but the covid patients muscles DO work they are just oxygen starved because covid causes a massive cytokine/inflammatory response. The treatment for covid should be stop the inflammatory response. Use dexamethasone and use a nasal cannula with moist air going in their nose.
If I was sick and home I would use major glucocorticoids, like prednisone or dexamethasone or triamcinolone and possibly Voltaren to stop the inflammation then boost my immunity with my herbs and Atkins protocol disease vitamin regimen.
Dr. Paul Marik, Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School agrees with the premise of stopping the Cytokine storm. Then use high flow nasal cannula therapy. He uses high dose Vitamin C and Dexamethasone.
Update the dose for the Vitamin C being done in clinical trials here is 50 mgs/kg of body weight infused every 6 hrs. Over 96 hours. Oral Vitamin C cannot raise the serum plasma levels enough to have the beneficial effects of the intravenous Vit. C. Research also being done at The Cleveland Clinic, University of Kentucky, Emory University, Medical College of Milwaukee.
As for Dr. Siddell he stepped down from the Covid unit and went back to the Emergency Room where he can help his patients rather than using a nationwide one size fits all protocol that is hurting and injuring lungs in patients nationwide.
Https://nypost.com/2020/04/06/nyc-doctor-says-coronavirus-ventilator-settings-are-too-high
Jason Cai, the Physician Assistant and first NJ patient who was infected in Times Square after attending a medical conference agreed with Dr. Siddell's opinion. "Muscles in the lungs of ARDS patients do not work properly. Muscles in Covid patients DO work properly". Basically it is the patients cytokine storm and the vents that are killing these patients.
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Short update tonight
Numbers:
NY 149,316
Deaths 6268
NJ 47,427
Deaths 275
Gov. Cuomo is having Dr. Havidan Rodriguez NYS Dept of Health along with Northwell Health start more testing in minority communities NOW to find out why more minorities are infected and dieing.
He has extended unemployment due to covid another 13 weeks to a total of 39 weeks and is issuing an immediate additional $600 to help poor people.
He said "The poorest people always pay the highest price", Why?
From the White House Task Force Meeting
There are 4 clinical studies currently being done on hydroxychlorquin. Dr. Fauci said Drs. Can use a medication as an "off label" medication.
Dr. Birx has/had a conference call with the hospitals that have the 2,000 Abbott Labs testing machines with 1 million test kits to find out when they can be online. She will also be on a call with Pence and the CEO's of those hospitals where the machines are located on Thursday. So far there are 18,000 machines across the country, we purchased 2,000 more and have tested 1.9 million people. The goal is to test every health care worker for starters and later people who need it.
Today is Wednesday and tomorrow those CEO's will be in the Task Force Board Room and better have answers.
We still have a severe paper shortage here as well as water and white bread. If this paper shortage continues bears may not be the only ones sitting in the woods. I will warn people though if you have to go in the woods you need to dig a hole 5 feet down to bury waste so it does not impact animals who live there. Water run off can contaminate the soil. You need a small army shovel to dig a hole to bury solid waste.
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4-8-20
Updates from Mayor DeBlasio
The NAVY arrived and are working at Elmhurst, [Queens]
Bellevue [Manhattan]
Woodhull [Brooklyn]
Kings County [Brooklyn]
Hospitals.
The AIR FORCE arrived and are working at:
Lincoln [Bronx]
Jacobi [Bronx]
Queens [Flushing]
Hospitals.
Failure not an option.
Tuesday the city delivered
3 million masks
2.1 million gloves
1.2 million N-95 masks
100,000 pairs protective eyewear
61,000 gloves
We still need 9 million surgical gowns to get thru April. We have a lot of hospitals in the city.
The New York Roadrunners Club donated $100,000 to provide meals for front line health care workers. 10,000 front line health care workers will get meals because of this generosity. They will get fed.
4-9-20 Thursday
Engineers say incredible mothers are donating breast pumps to use as coronavirus ventilators
Brandi and Grant Gerstner, Alex Scott, Rachel LaBatt reversed 2 valves to bypass the circuit board to control the inhale to exhale ratio, volume of air and respiratory rate in four hours creating a $300 prototype.
IT WORKS.
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals may have data from clinical trials on KEVZARA, rheumatoid arthritis drug blocks IL-6 [Interleukin 6] responsible for the cytokine storm that overwhelms coronavirus patients which leads to the coronavirus patient's own bodies killing them.
Https://www.yahoo.com/news/data-arthritis-drug-treat-coronavirus-171419735.html
Will also have antibodies clinical trials by June.
GREAT WORK.
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Al Arabiya and The Hill both report Saudi Royal Family members are in isolation after 150 of them are infected. The Saudi Health Minister Tawfiq al Rabiah says they believe 10,000 to 200,000 may become infected in Saufi Arabiya. Their troubles began after trips to Europe. King Salman is in isolation outside of Jeddah, Prince Salman [MBS] on the Red Sea [probably near Sharm el Sheikh].
Putin is in isolation after his Doctor turned up Covid positive.
The virus is aerosolized in the air.
NY's increasing death rate is due to the length of time people have been on the ventilators. Once you go on one you have only a 20 per cent chance of coming off and living. People are on the ventilators for 11 to 20 days and then they die. The virus here started cranking in March so the next two weeks mass deaths should be expected.
The job of hospitals is to keep your body alive no matter what condition it is in. Those on ventilators are sedated and not even conscious. They cannot talk they have a big tube down their throat and esophagus. They are not even mentally there. They don't know what is going on.
Iran has drone footage of a mass grave drug on Hart Island where 200 coffins will be buried. [Press tv].
There are many unclaimed bodies or people cannot afford funerals so they are buried in the city cemetery on Hart Island. Prisoners from Rikers come and dig individual graves but there are so many bodies even that is becoming un-doable. There are 80 refrigerator trucks for the bodies outside the hospitals.
Https://www.presstv.com/detail/2020/04/09/622690/us-coronavirus-new-york-pandemic
Business Insider has stories about the history of the island.
This is only Round one. The next bout occurs in the fall around the beginning of flu season.
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4-11-20 Saturday
The last few days the NY Governor's Press Conference which is taped has been shortened in the taped version. The part with the charts and question and answer sections are curiously missing. Not sure what's going on up there but it should be available in it's entirety in my opinion. I listen to it after work.
Numbers gathered from elsewhere.
New York State cases 170,512
New cases 10,575
Total deaths so far 7,844
New deaths 777
New York City cases 92,384
New cases 5,356
Total deaths so far 5,429
New deaths 651
NYC has 8.6 million people with 214 hospitals
Long Island total cases 22,178
Nassau 12,024 cases
1619 hospitalized
403 in the icu
Suffolk 10,154 cases
1298 hospitalized
401 in icu
Long Island has 2.8 million people
And 23 hospitals
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Ingenuity to solve the PPE- problem is still flourishing.
Https://www.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-im-using-pizza-oven-170205745.html
Dimitri Syrkin-Nikolan talked with friends who are engineers and came up with a way to make face shields for the doctors and nurses heating sheets of acrylic to bend them attack foam and straps.
If he sends face shields AND pizzas his restaurant will become a shrine to Chicago's health care professionals.
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While no plan has officially been adapted there are plans in the works for when the country is re-opened. Things will change and part of those changes may include unheard of surveillance to help contain, control and stop the spread of Covid or other diseases that emerge. They do not want anymore pandemics getting a foothold like this in this country.
Https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/national-coronavirus-response-a-road-map-to-reopening/
If you read the reports there is also one from Harvard you can see the issues, concerns that are being looked at. It is also important to KNOW that some areas will not hit their peaks till mid May or June. What seems reasonable is for an area like NY to have at least a 45 day or 90 day lockdown. Other areas with smaller numbers 45 or 60 days may be enough. But we cannot have travel from any states that are open TO states that are or who have not hit their peaks.
If NYC is over the hump by the end of May maybe we can reopen but doing it sooner you have will have people hitting to roads interstate for Memorial Day. Like the fiasco of Spring Break in Florida.
The States are going to have to close their borders till at least July to be safe from travelers.
Some states like Nevada and San Jose, California have set up rooms for homeless. San Jose built tiny houses where homeless infected people can quarantine with dignity. This also must be worked out.
Lots to consider.
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