Posted on 03/18/2020 10:36:37 AM PDT by Mariner
MI
Man at Wayne County hospital is Michigan’s first confirmed coronavirus death
Man in 50s dies at Beaumont Hospital in Wayne County
WAYNE COUNTY, Mich. – A man being held at a Wayne County hospital who tested positive for COVID-19 has died, health officials said. He is the first confirmed coronavirus death in the state of Michigan.
Officials said the man was in his 50s and had other underlying medical conditions.
Exactly. From the abstract - “ One degree Celsius increase in temperature and one percent increase in relative humidity lower R by 0.0383 and 0.0224, respectively. This result is consistent with the fact that the high temperature and high humidity significantly reduce the transmission of influenza. It indicates that the arrival of summer and rainy season in the northern hemisphere can effectively reduce the transmission of the COVID-19.”
They don’t have a drive-up? You could request it be brought to the parking lot. Pay cash and say “keep the change”.
SD
The positive cases remain at 11. Negative is at 551, and there are 350 pending cases in South Dakota.
https://www.keloland.com/keloland-com-original/covid-19-cases-at-a-standstill/
I think it’s more to do with the specific receptor and tissue distribution of that.
ACE2 has high expression in the testicles. Just getting infected, even possibly asymptomatically, might do the deed.
Mumps wasn’t known for being a nasty disease symptom wise. (fever, pneumonia, etc). But getting it after puberty put a damper on the swimmers.
Today may be interesting.
Daily new cases, USA:
3/15: 737
3/16: 983
3/17: 1,748
3/18: 1,276 with a lot of the day left.
LA
Source: https://www.katc.com/news/coronaviru...d-in-louisiana
Sixth COVID-19 related death reported in Louisiana
Posted: 12:35 PM, Mar 18, 2020
Updated: 1:36 PM, Mar 18, 2020
By: KATC NEWS
Baton Rouge, La. (March 18, 2020) - The State of Louisiana reports a sixth death related to COVID-19. The Orleans Parish resident was a 92-year-old individual who lived at Lambeth House in New Orleans.
A fifth death was reported earlier on Tuesday. This was a 98-year-old individual who also lived at Lambeth House. There have now been four deaths and 13 positive cases at Lambeth House.
https://www.katc.com/news/coronavirus/sixth-covid-19-related-death-reported-in-louisiana
CDC case counts US - 7,000+ cases, 126 fatalities as of March 18, 2020
AUSTRALIA
Coronavirus cases in NSW near 270
AAP
Wednesday, 18 March 2020 12:37 pm
The number of coronavirus cases in NSW with no known transmission source have increased, as major events are cancelled and Premier Gladys Berejiklian implores schools to remain open.
NSW COVID-19 cases jumped to almost 270 on Wednesday as a fifth person in the state was revealed to have died, taking the national toll to six.
NSW Health says an 86-year-old man previously confirmed to have COVID-19 died on Tuesday night in a Sydney hospital.
Chief health officer Kerry Chant on Wednesday said there were 267 confirmed coronavirus cases in NSW up from 210. More than 25,000 tests have been conducted.
https://7news.com.au/news/health/coronavirus-cases-in-nsw-near-270-c-751820
What a freaking, double whammy nightmare.
“It indicates that the arrival of summer and rainy season in the northern hemisphere can effectively reduce the transmission of the COVID-19.”
So does this lower the distance to 3 feet? hopefully
Can you have Rx transferred to Walgreens?
They do not, I already called and asked them. No curb side anything. Now Publix does have a drive through if I had them fill it.
But it doesn’t matter, eventually I’m going to have to go out of the house to the store. I feel like a shut in with Agoraphobia now.
People call it a ‘wimpy’ bioweapon because we knew it was coming and only had a few cases initially.
Imagine if it had been released, simultaneously, in 100 of our largest cities. In multiple highly populated/popular spots in each city.
In 3 weeks every ER in nearly every large city would have been full of blue people.
And nobody would have known what did it. Where it came from.
And all your medical people would have it.
Once THAT die off was complete (and it would be spectacular under those conditions...imagine what that scenario would do to law enforcement, the military, food distribution, power/electrical maintenance, etc), then you find out any survivors are sterile.
Complete population replacement in 2 generations.
No bloodshed needed by the aggressor. Just sit back and wait.
My brother and I had planned to go to our local Walmart supercenter at opening (6am). We delayed going for various reasons, arriving around 7:30am. It turns out that there had been a considerable line waiting for the doors to open at 6am, and thankfully, we missed it, going right inside.
There was an above average amount of people in the store for the time of day, but nothing bothersome. The produce section was fully stocked. The meat section was hit hard but choices remained. Some of the interior shelves were hit the hardest. Plenty of frozen foods. No milk. No t.p. No paper towels. The canned meats and canned goods sections were also wiped out. As an FYI- This particular store receives their resupply trucks between the hours of 11am and 2pm.
I spent $176, which was about a third higher than normal, due to having to buy more oddities than classic meal staples. Ex: soy milk- about $3 for a half gallon. I bought 3. Cost... $9. Reality- $4.50 a gallon for “milk”. I also bought a number of things that would keep and added them to my home supplies. Beer, pasta, canned goods, meats to freeze, soup broths and stock, dry cereals, snacks, and condiments.
The day before, I shopped at a one off discount store, again buying some oddities, and other food stuffs that would keep for a period of time and were added to a food surplus that I’m building up at home. The cost was quite reasonable except for the paper towels, all items running me $133, which was $50 for the 12 paper towel rolls (commercial shop grade), $20 for a high grade bag of dog food, and $63 for fresh and canned food. I received 10% off ($13) for being a US Mil. veteran, spending $120.
I wouldn’t be too worried. I would go to the store at about the time the pharmacy opens.
I notice most of these ridiculous articles about these health concerns always have the word “may” in them. All these articles do is serve to keep people scared, anxious, and hopeless.
These Coronavirus threads are absolute trash!
that family is involved in horse racing. Somebody high up in the racing chain died. Dont remember who
Some musings from Northern California...
“Locked Down” here in Santa Clara County, CA (one of six contiguous counties to do so). It is eerily quiet out there and so very strange.
Went hiking yesterday in the hills of the Arastradero Preserve in Palo Alto. Parking lot was full about 2:00 pm which was extremely rare on a weekday. It’s a small lot, holds maybe 40 cars and is normally almost empty on a weekday. There was excellent “social distancing” on the trails — but there always is.
Stopped at Safeway on the way home and the shelves were a bit more full compared to the previous day. The meat coolers were now fully stocked. The normal shortages of paper goods, beans, rice, bread, soaps, and hand sanitizer have not abated. There was an semi truck trailer parked at the loading dock which was good to see. I read the other day Safeway and others are desperately looking for people to hire to distribute products. My son told me this morning that they are hiring on the spot, almost no questions asked.
My wife arrived at our Idaho house this morning and said it’s nice to be in an area where things are (so far) operating normally. That will probably change quickly in the next two or three weeks. She’s going to work remotely from there for the next weeks or months.
We watched the 2011 movie “Contagion” last night. It was fun, but got scary when food ran out around week 16. The movie was implausible in that there was zero national or Presidential leadership, the epidemic ended around Day 135, and they got a vaccine into production within five months. I found it plausible that they used a lottery system to determine when people could get inoculated with the limited-supply vaccine.
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