Official Coronavirus Thread (any other threads made about coronavirus will be closed) (New York: rental car, bathroom)

[jonbenson]

New York will extend unemployment benefits to 39 weeks including an additional $600 per week payment for those on unemployment benefits.

[PruSue]

Originally Posted by jonbenson

"The Dr Fauci bobblehead is not a spoof it's a real bobblehead being sold by The National
Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum

$5 from every Dr. Fauci Bobblehead sold to the American Hospital Association's Protect
the Heroes Campaign to support the 100 Million Mask Challenge."


https://www.bobbleheadhall.com

oh thank God - (it was a ...compliment).


coulda been the other way...(someone - somewhere here - put down Dr. Brix)...

[Checkmarkblue]

A very sad look at Elmhurst, Corona and Jackson Heights Queens.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-...e=BB12nGnX_1|7

[jonbenson]

Originally Posted by PruSue

oh thank God - (it was a ...compliment).

No, it was just a funny thing to report. Not about a commentary pro or con on Fauci

[naicha]

Originally Posted by Checkmarkblue

A very sad look at Elmhurst, Corona and Jackson Heights Queens.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-...e=BB12nGnX_1|7

My dad lives in Elmhurst.

He stays holed up, but I'll see a video he took o facebook sometimes of him walking around, filming streets and stores. I'm like,..get outta there,.go home!

[Airborneguy]

I can't believe we finally have a thread longer than the DSNY test threads. Imagine if I didn't need to delete 15 off topic posts every day?

[BPt111]

Some positive news daily hospitalization have reach lowest levels since early March it seems New York state starting fatten the curve atleast in Downstate area NYC area. Don't get too excited it first wave of COVID-19 cases

The 1918 Spanish flu hit in 3 waves.

We are only in the first wave.

We can’t assume that because we are seeing some positive signs this will be over soon or that additional waves won’t hit.


t's been 80 days since first COVID-19 case in US, 39 days since first case in New York.


4/09/2020 update New York state

There been 159,937 COVID-19 cases, up 10,621, 7.11%

799 new deaths. Highest number of new deaths to date. Death toll now at 7,067

18,279 hospitalized statewide, with a 200 net increase in the last day

There been 84 intensive care unit admissions and 88 intubations.

NEW YORK CITY has 87,028 cases which is 5,225 new cases of coronavirus death toll stand at 4,426 since yesterday reports.




Plans for more testing in African-American and Latino communities in New York to try to figure out the disparity in illnesses and deaths.

New York Gov. Cuomo warns of a possible "second wave," citing statistics from Wuhan, China, where the CCP virus first started.

"Before you talk about re-starting the economy, you're going to have to address the damage to society done today."

The projections "were all off," Cuomo admitted. "I don't know if that curve goes up, I don't know if the curve goes down."

[nyc3333]

It is not flattening the curve if the hospital refuses to admit those sick patients. The health system will be spared, but people are still dying. The city is doing a horrible job. They let those sick patients go home, and then they infect their room mates and their family. that's why New York has more cases than any country in the world. Crazy

[Aeran]

Stressful!

https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs...1fq8QrHdAh_gCs

Why Social Distancing Might Be Impossible For This Family

Nearly a year ago, NY1 first introduced you to a family of five living in a Manhattan studio.

It was tough then. It’s even harder now with coronavirus.

[BlakeJones]

Originally Posted by jonbenson

I made an earlier post of a doctor talking about this and here is a brand new article

(not that we don't need the ventilators also)

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https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/08/...-for-covid-19/

STAT

With ventilators running out, doctors say the machines are overused for Covid-19


By Sharon Begley @sxbegle
April 8, 2020


Even as hospitals and governors raise the alarm about a shortage of ventilators, some critical care physicians are questioning the widespread use of the breathing machines for Covid-19 patients, saying that large numbers of patients could instead be treated with less intensive respiratory support.
If the iconoclasts are right, putting coronavirus patients on ventilators could be of little benefit to many and even harmful to some.
What’s driving this reassessment is a baffling observation about Covid-19: Many patients have blood oxygen levels so low they should be dead. But they’re not gasping for air, their hearts aren’t racing, and their brains show no signs of blinking off from lack of oxygen.


None of this means that ventilators are not necessary in the Covid-19 crisis, or that hospitals are wrong to fear running out. But as doctors learn more about treating Covid-19, and question old dogma about blood oxygen and the need for ventilators, they might be able to substitute simpler and more widely available devices.


(more at link)

Excellent article, key takeaway:

"Their low blood oxygen might result from things that
ventilators don’t fix. Such patients need “the lowest possible [air pressure]
and gentle ventilation,” they said, arguing against increasing the pressure
even if blood oxygen levels remain low. “We need to be patient.”"