Posted on 04/13/2020 2:28:12 PM PDT by RaceBannon
Hat tip Treyfish, keeping up with the nursing home new on FT:
Coronavirus leaves 1 more veteran dead at Holyoke Soldiers’ Home: 88 residents, 78 employees test positive for COVID-19
Today 5:33 PM3/31/2020 -
By Jeanette DeForge | jdeforge@repub.com
HOLYOKE –One more veteran has died of coronavirus at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home, bringing the total of deaths of residents in three weeks to 33.
An additional 88 residents at the state-owned home for elderly and infirm veterans have contracted COVID-19, test results on 11 more are pending and 78 employees are positive for the disease. Seven other residents have died in the past three weeks from other causes, officials for the state Executive Office of Health and Human Services said.......
..At the Chelsea Soldiers’ Home, eight veterans have died of COVID-19 and 23 additional residents have been infected with the coronavirus. A total of 217 veterans have tested negative, officials said
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42 dead in coronavirus outbreak at Virginia nursing home, more expected
Rich McKay
3 MIN READ
(Reuters) - Forty-two residents of a Virginia nursing home near Richmond have died from the COVID-19 disease pandemic in one of the worst clusters of the new coronavirus in the United States, and officials expect more deaths to come.
At least 127 elderly people out of the 163 residents of the Canterbury Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center in Henrico County have tested positive for the new coronavirus in recent weeks, said its medical director Dr. James Wright. News reports say the latest two people died in the last three days.
.....Of the 97 known coronavirus outbreaks in Virginia, 53 are in long-term care facilities such as Canterbury, state health officials said.
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Coronavirus is ‘in most, if not all our nursing homes,’ N.J. health official says
Updated 5:10 PM; Today 4:40 PM
A state health official said Monday they are working under the assumption that all of New Jersey 375 nursing homes has been affected the coronavirus as case numbers among that particularly vulnerable population continue to rise to more than 5,200.
Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli announced 324 those long-term care facilities have confirmed cases. That up from 81 nursing homes with at least one case less than two weeks ago.
Thank you - if I divide each municipality by their population and multiply it by the US' 329MM total population (to put everything on national terms), Minnesota breaches the 1,000+ adjusted death mark on 4/2/20 while Sweden breaches that mark on 3/24/20.
Using the fatality count as of a few mins ago from GitHub, the size-adjusted fatality count on Day 13 (i.e., today for MN, Apr 5 for SE) is 4,084 for MN and 11,896 for SE, respectively.
Thus, things are going better in MN vs SE.
Number of confirmed coronavirus cases surpasses 2 million worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins tally
18 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — https://apnews.com/520a9447fc4da77e0e85ed69c0ba7f3c
Someone has been reading the same studies we have:
Surge in men panic buying at-home collection kits to freeze their sperm amid fears coronavirus will leave them unable to have kids - despite NO evidence the virus harms fertility
17:46 EDT, 13 April 2020
Several sperm-freezing clinics have reported spikes in the number of men ordering their at-home collection kits
Men cite concerns that COVID-19 could affect their fertility
No research has linked coronavirus to infertility and viral illnesses in general don’t affect the ability to reproduce, an NYU expert told DailyMail.com
Fever can disrupt sperm production, but the effects are short-lived
Men are rushing to freeze their sperm amid the coronavirus pandemic, clinics claim - despite no concrete evidence that the virus will hurt male fertility.
Sales of CryoChoice’s at-home sperm collection kits have spiked by as much as 20 percent in the last few weeks, their operations manager Heather Kilpatrick told the Daily Beast.
So far, there’s no evidence to suggest that coronavirus damages sperm or male fertility.
But that’s not stopping American men from flocking to sperm banks with mail-in collection services in a bid to save their seeds.
.....A study conducted at Nanjing Medical University in China - which was published as a preprint online but has not yet been peer-reviewed - examined the testicles and semen of 13 coronavirus patients, including 12 in recovery and one who died.
Despite confirmation that the men, all of whom were between ages 22 and 38, aside from the patient who died (aged 67), were infected with coronavirus, none of their semen or testicular tissues were positive for the virus.
As a result, the authors of the small study concluded that there is no reason to believe that coronavirus can be sexually transmitted.
They did not address if or how the men’s sperm were affected by their infection
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The study:
ACE2 Expression in Kidney and Testis May Cause Kidney and Testis Damage After 2019-nCoV Infection
February 15th, 2020, 10:11 AM
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.12.20022418v1.full.pdf
It grew so big through misunderstanding the threat. That can happen again very easily.
The one constant is the inability of the left-hand side of the curve to understand anything with any science or math to it. This is why God invented leadership ability. But we have gone for so long without a real war that people have gotten soft and egotistical and they scoff at leaders.
I just want to hold off until fall. My wife should be recovered from the chemo by then.
i dont see how that is possible
when people swarm together it is going to kick off another wave unless hot months kill it off.
if hot months dont kill it off then Trump cannot let people converge until health care workers get adequate protection and a workable drug is found.
there are states I would let loose that have few cases to see what happens...
but I will still be staying in until I see how this virus does in the hot weather.
Everyone I know is in the medical field or a first responder. They are waiting for the second shoe to drop.
Just saying why it will.
That and just plain stir-crazy boredom.
Can’t read it because I don’t turn my ad blocker off for nobutty! But I’m so glad to hear this. I’m sure I’ll find the story elsewhere. Thanks for letting me/us know about that.
Just a follow up on Singapore.
“Complacency” is a factor in the resurgence. That’s not good news.
Thank you.
Minnesota is doing << than Michigan in the numbers.
Both are apparently running the same policy of shutting things down and seeking social distancing. I don’t understand why the disparity in outcomes. Michigan’s problems are centered in Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb Counties plus Detroit City which is counted as it’s own entity on the Michigan website. Minnesota is not having similar issues in MSP [Fraternal]Twin Cities.
Michigan is roughly the same population as Sweden and is likely well above Sweden in the numbers.
Not just the governmental policies arre at work here.
Thanks for posting that report.
Kerrysgold but no TP. Still no tp in any of the stores. If we manufacture all the to for our country why are these stores still out?
Glad I have a stash but it is pretty disturbing from a supply chain perspective.
That I do not know.
I scan the online stuff every day looking for some sort of sign of reappearance. None so far.
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