WHO Now Officially Recommends to Avoid Taking Ibuprofen For COVID-19 Symptoms
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⊠which is exactly what I would have expected from Austrian chancellor Kurz, even if to a lesser degree. Iâm positively surprised.
One of the major supermarket chains in Austria has asked everyone to reserve the 8-9 AM timeslot for the elderly and other risk groups. The other major chain has explicitly refrained from doing so because they said they are not sure if concentrating all at-risk people at the same time in the same spot is a wise thing to do.
Does anyone actually know who is right?
How is it that in America, seemingly alone among all countries on the planet, people who display a complete unawareness of the existence of the rest of the world can rise to positions of prominence in politics?
Two random factoids:
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My scout group has officially decided (in a volunteersâ meeting) that the Corona crisis is no reason to activate our Zombie Apocalypse Emergency Plans (yes, we are prepared!)⊠unless further information becomes available.
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I went shopping to my local supermarket on Monday. Iâve never seen so much toilet paper in one place. Theyâve doubled the shelf-space for toilet paper, and they are keeping it well-stocked.
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From the weekend in the U.K. everyone over 70 and people in high risk groups are being told to stay home for 12 weeks and get others to drop off food parcels on the doorstep. The government is pushing forward emergency powers to mean that you canât be sacked from your current job if you (have to) spend 4 weeks working as a food delivery volunteer
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Their voters see that as a feature, not a bug.
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Some good news for once
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If you have never done it or have no training, you will almost certainly do more harm than good, not to mention the fact that laryngoscopes are not generally found in first aid kits. I actually do have a set in mine, and have extensive experience managing pediatric airways, but would still be very hesitant to do so if I did not have access to adequate sedatives. Trust me, the feeling of having that tube in your throat is intensely gag-inducing, and no one is going to hold still for intubation without good sedation. There are options that are less technically demanding, like laryngeal mask airways and even good old fashioned mask-bag ventilation which would be much better options if you are on your own.
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What gets me is that I saw that data floating around the internet around a month ago - and instead of doing anything about it most governments sent it to committee and the people in charge are like that canât happen here, deny and delay. If you only listen to experts who try to warn you after the shit has hit the fan (or the stock markets tumble, because that is more important than lives) you shouldnât be in power.
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I have a pesky little allergy to one of the inert binders used to manufacture OTC analgesics, so my only choice for aspirin is the chewable 81mg variety. Not only does the math work just fine, but you get to Belushi those fuckers ten at a time like some sort of crazed badass.
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Weirder than the fact that a bar has a parking lot in the first place?
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Agreed, seems like a much more terrible idea this morning than it did late last night. Truth be told, I was focused exclusively on the device itself, not the intubation. I design and build machinery for a living and spent half my career working on medical devices and sterile manufacturing suites. The idea of building a ventilator had appeal because it was something concrete for me to do and Iâm feeling really helpless.
But yeah, dropping that idea. Iâll go volunteer at the food pantry instead.
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Well my job finally was forced to do the remote work thing but itâs only as half the work force is away while the other is at the office. They better use proper sanitation procedures cause I have no clue if this will work, but since Iâm likely to suffer badly from covid-19 Iâm doing it.
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You do what works! As long as the mg dosing is appropriate the form it takes matters not at all. The old-timey St. Josephâs orange-flavored chewables are a delightful memory from my childhood.
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Aerosol and Aerosol and Surface Stability of SARS-CoV-2 as Compared with SARS-CoV-1
March 17, 2020
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc2004973A novel human coronavirus that is now named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) (formerly called HCoV-19) emerged in Wuhan, China, in late 2019 and is now causing a pandemic. We analyzed the aerosol and surface stability of SARS-CoV-2 and compared it with SARS-CoV-1, the most closely related human coronavirus.
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Hey, if you can figure out a way to come up with the equipment when itâs needed, that wold be huge. There are folks out there who can put it to use! I would just probably suggest a division of labor here.
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This fills my heart with joy!
Promise youâll let us know if you do activate your Zombie Apocalypse Emergency Plans?
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Pretty much the numbers that have been put forth elsewhere. 3+ hours viable hang time, which is a worrisome finding, and very long (by viral standards) on surfaces. Actually suggests social distancing might be less effective than we would hope, although def more effective than nothing, and lock-down might be our best bet.
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I hate that taste to this day. There were cherry flavored ones commonly available for a long time, but they seemed to disappear from store shelves a year or two ago.
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To each their own. A lot of the kid-friendly ones went away with the Reyes syndrome scare.
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Europe is going tribal:
(An urgent shipment of decontamination equipment â gloves, goggles, etc â for the local hospitals was stopped at the border because of emergency EU rules against exporting them elsewhere, even within Schengen and despite standing free trade agreements.)
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I would like to offer up some news thatâs possibly cause for a little optimism: the daily growth rate for cumulative confirmed cases in Italy appears to be slowing down.
The average daily growth rate for the past 20 days is 24%, while the average for the past five days is 16% (and each of the past two days have seen only a 13% growth rate).
Itâs still a little too early to tell, but Iâm hoping this indicates that Italyâs measures have curtailed the spread of the virus somewhat. It could also be meaningless, but I find it hard to believe that their actions have had no measurable impact by this point.
Again, Iâm no epidemiologist, just a nerd looking at numbers. My data source is Worldometer.
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