Public Health: Tips and information on how to prepare for the epidemic, avoid illness and protect our communities.
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COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Update - Spoiler: It's All Bad News
An overview of significant updates with the COVID-19 pandemic, including the need to switch from a containment approach to one of mitigation. Discussing social distancing including school closures.
An overview of significant updates with the COVID-19 pandemic, including the need to switch from a containment approach to one of mitigation. Discussing social distancing including school closures.
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DIY Homemade Hand Sanitizer Formula from WHO -- Updated
Do-it-yourself hand sanitizer formula from World Health Organization (WHO) scaled down for home use. US & metric recipes below -- click "SHOW MORE"
Due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, hand sanitizers are in short supply. You can easily make your own using drugstore materials: alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, and glycerin. The formula is recommended by the patient safety pamphlet "Guide to Local Production: WHO-recommended Handrub Formulations" at https://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/Guide_t...
When you can, use ordinary soap and water to clean your hands. You only need to use hand sanitizer when soap and water are not available. https://www.cdc.gov/handwashing/when-...
To help prevent shortages, please buy only the amounts of ingredients you will actually use in the next month. No need to panic! If everyone behaves reasonably, supplies will get back to normal.
Do-it-yourself hand sanitizer formula from World Health Organization (WHO) scaled down for home use. US & metric recipes below -- click "SHOW MORE"
Due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, hand sanitizers are in short supply. You can easily make your own using drugstore materials: alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, and glycerin. The formula is recommended by the patient safety pamphlet "Guide to Local Production: WHO-recommended Handrub Formulations" at https://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/Guide_t...
When you can, use ordinary soap and water to clean your hands. You only need to use hand sanitizer when soap and water are not available. https://www.cdc.gov/handwashing/when-...
To help prevent shortages, please buy only the amounts of ingredients you will actually use in the next month. No need to panic! If everyone behaves reasonably, supplies will get back to normal.
DIY-HP-LED
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I'd use the formula above and forget Aloe Vera
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Aloe Vera as a Homemade Hand Sanitizer Ingredient
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Aloe Vera as a Homemade Hand Sanitizer Ingredient
greg nr
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This tweet is from a doctor in Italy. This is where most areas in the US are heading....
From a well respected friend and intensivist/A&E consultant who is currently in northern Italy:
1/ ‘I feel the pressure to give you a quick personal update about what is happening in Italy, and also give some quick direct advice about what you should do.
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4/ We’ve stopped all routine, all ORs have been converted to ITUs and they are now diverting or not treating all other emergencies like trauma or strokes. There are hundreds of pts with severe resp failure and many of them do not have access to anything above a reservoir mask.
5/ Patients above 65 or younger with comorbidities are not even assessed by ITU, I am not saying not tubed, I’m saying not assessed and no ITU staff attends when they arrest. Staff are working as much as they can but they are starting to get sick and are emotionally overwhelmed.
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Short version: If you have a pre-existing condition, you are going to die. If you are over 65, you are going to die. If you become a critical care patient for any other reason, you are going to die.
They don't have the resources or time to deal with you. They won't even assess you.
Die. Die. Die.
From a well respected friend and intensivist/A&E consultant who is currently in northern Italy:
1/ ‘I feel the pressure to give you a quick personal update about what is happening in Italy, and also give some quick direct advice about what you should do.
...
4/ We’ve stopped all routine, all ORs have been converted to ITUs and they are now diverting or not treating all other emergencies like trauma or strokes. There are hundreds of pts with severe resp failure and many of them do not have access to anything above a reservoir mask.
5/ Patients above 65 or younger with comorbidities are not even assessed by ITU, I am not saying not tubed, I’m saying not assessed and no ITU staff attends when they arrest. Staff are working as much as they can but they are starting to get sick and are emotionally overwhelmed.
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Short version: If you have a pre-existing condition, you are going to die. If you are over 65, you are going to die. If you become a critical care patient for any other reason, you are going to die.
They don't have the resources or time to deal with you. They won't even assess you.
Die. Die. Die.
DIY-HP-LED
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I hear test kits are being distributed in the US this week and hope ya don't end up like Italy, a fucking disaster. What could go wrong with a stable genius incharge.
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CDC says coronavirus testing is now available across all 50 states, more tests coming soon
PUBLISHED MON, MAR 9 20201:31 PM EDTUPDATED MON, MAR 9 20201:44 PM EDT
CDC says coronavirus testing is now available across all 50 states, more tests coming soon
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday that it now has the testing capacity in 78 state and local public health labs across 50 states to test for the coronavirus.
KEY POINTS
- The CDC said Monday that it now has the testing capacity in 78 state and local public health labs across 50 states to test for the coronavirus.
- There are now 75,000 lab kits cumulatively to test for COVID-19 with more coming on board soon, the CDC said.
The CDC has 75,000 lab kits “cumulatively” for public labs to test for COVID-19 with more coming on board soon, Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said during a conference call.
A majority of coronavirus testing will likely come from the private sector, she said, adding that private labs have more testing kits.
Different states will also have varying testing capabilities and policies for who can be tested, she said.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services at the beginning of March said that it would investigate a manufacturing defect in some initial coronavirus test kits that forced some states to seek emergency approval to use their own kits.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it would allow some laboratories to use their own tests, which needed to be verified by the CDC, while they await the FDA’s emergency-use authorization.
“We trust in a matter of weeks that the coronavirus tests will be broadly available to the public and available to any American that is symptomatic and has a concern about the possibility of having contracted the coronavirus,” Vice President Mike Pence said during a press briefing Friday.
While the virus is slowing in China where it originated in December, it’s picking up pace across other parts of the world. Korea has the most cases outside of China with roughly 7,500 infections, followed closely behind by Italy and Iran, which each had more than 7,000 COVID-19 cases as of Monday morning, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
In the U.S., cases erupted over the last week to more than 560 spread across at least 30 states, according to John Hopkins University.
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Dr. Gupta: This is how you fight the pandemic
How we can fight the coronavirus
The novel coronavirus has led to thousands of deaths and more than 100,000 infections across the world. CNN's Dr Sanjay Gupta outlines what we can do to fight back.
Source: CNN
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How we can fight the coronavirus
The novel coronavirus has led to thousands of deaths and more than 100,000 infections across the world. CNN's Dr Sanjay Gupta outlines what we can do to fight back.
Source: CNN
How we can fight the coronavirus | CNN
The novel coronavirus has led to thousands of deaths and more than 100,000 infections across the world. CNN's Dr Sanjay Gupta outlines what we can do to fight back.
greg nr
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I made a small 2 oz test batch with aloe vera yesterday using my cannabis infused iso. It does have some gelatin floating in it, but nothing like that video shows. Still, it looks funny.
I'll try the recipe above and see how it works. I'll have to adjust it since I have 91% instead of 99, but that should be easy.
I also put too much peppermint oil in it and it is not a good scent. But, it will keep you from touching your face.
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greg nr
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The problem is multi-fold. The test kits were slow rolled, and even a million kits won't help if the criteria to approve the use of one doesn't change.I hear test kits are being distributed in the US this week and hope ya don't end up like Italy, a fucking disaster. What could go wrong with a stable genius incharge.
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CDC says coronavirus testing is now available across all 50 states, more tests coming soon
PUBLISHED MON, MAR 9 20201:31 PM EDTUPDATED MON, MAR 9 20201:44 PM EDT
CDC says coronavirus testing is now available across all 50 states, more tests coming soon
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday that it now has the testing capacity in 78 state and local public health labs across 50 states to test for the coronavirus.www.cnbc.com
KEY POINTS
Coronavirus testing is now available across all 50 states in 78 state and local health labs, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday.
- The CDC said Monday that it now has the testing capacity in 78 state and local public health labs across 50 states to test for the coronavirus.
- There are now 75,000 lab kits cumulatively to test for COVID-19 with more coming on board soon, the CDC said.
The CDC has 75,000 lab kits “cumulatively” for public labs to test for COVID-19 with more coming on board soon, Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said during a conference call.
A majority of coronavirus testing will likely come from the private sector, she said, adding that private labs have more testing kits.
Different states will also have varying testing capabilities and policies for who can be tested, she said.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services at the beginning of March said that it would investigate a manufacturing defect in some initial coronavirus test kits that forced some states to seek emergency approval to use their own kits.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it would allow some laboratories to use their own tests, which needed to be verified by the CDC, while they await the FDA’s emergency-use authorization.
“We trust in a matter of weeks that the coronavirus tests will be broadly available to the public and available to any American that is symptomatic and has a concern about the possibility of having contracted the coronavirus,” Vice President Mike Pence said during a press briefing Friday.
While the virus is slowing in China where it originated in December, it’s picking up pace across other parts of the world. Korea has the most cases outside of China with roughly 7,500 infections, followed closely behind by Italy and Iran, which each had more than 7,000 COVID-19 cases as of Monday morning, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
In the U.S., cases erupted over the last week to more than 560 spread across at least 30 states, according to John Hopkins University.
Under current criteria, they will only approve a test if you are in serious respiratory distress with fever, have tested negative for all other virus's, and have either been in a country with known cases or have been in contact with an identified individual who has had a positive test.
That rules out all community based infections. These rules weren't because there weren't enough test kits, they were in addition to not enough test kits.
The White House and GOP have taken a strategy that they are only going to allow a rapid spread of the virus to get it through the system as quickly as possible. That will have the least detrimental impact to the economy, but the most detrimental impact to people. They have chosen to manage deaths but not mitigate the spread.
DIY-HP-LED
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Then yer fucked, it's up to the states and communities to protect themselves. Congress is gonna be on Trump like stink on shit over this, many GOP senators are ancient and vulnerable too, as are some house members. There's nothing breaks ranks like a heavy brigade of tanks coming at you unexpectedly and from your rear! I figure Mitch is warning him to go golfing or self isolation and STFU, Mitch is 78 years old and though he might be an asshole, he does have a brain. National suicide is Donald's plan, not congresses, its an election year and many elderly vote republican, they are all fucked, Donald, the GOP congress and the innocent seniors.
Dr.Amber Trichome
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how is the national guard going to enforce it?
DIY-HP-LED
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Like the Nazi's did with the jewish getto in Warsaw, use force. The analogy will be mentioned I'm sure...
greg nr
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By being extremely polite, I'm sure.
My guess is they will park very large vehicles at every intersection and post guards at intervals along the streets.
Dr.Amber Trichome
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This shit is going to spread all over the country, is the national guard and military going to be broughtin full force? This is insane.
DIY-HP-LED
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At one point they are gonna have to be mean and nasty though.
DIY-HP-LED
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It's gonna get a lot crazier, if they don't get a handle on this soon Amber, look at the Italian experience for your best guide. If it costs money to see the doctor or get tested, people are gonna go to ERs, free off site centers need to be setup now for admitting, testing & triage. People with mild cases and no sick leave will go to work and hide their illness, most people can't afford to be not working and locked down for a month in quarantine. Your social issues with healthcare and lack of employer/employee regulations, powerless workers and unions will make this situation very difficult to control without draconian measures like in Italy. Healthcare was free for the people in Italy too, no charge, no copays...
DIY-HP-LED
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You should be seeing an American version of this video soon at the White House briefing room, Donald will be taking and Alex Azar will be sweating in the background like this guy.
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I have coronavirus': Iranian deputy health minister reveals results
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I have coronavirus': Iranian deputy health minister reveals results
Dr.Amber Trichome
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People I see at my work place are clueless and completely out of touch with this pandemic. They are still shaking hands around here! Bunch of ass backwards okies. And the college kids are panicking not knowing what to do. There is still toilet paper on the shelves!! And hand sanitizer for sale!