Ongoing coronavirus happenings

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He employs a lot of people in the US in worker visas (and a lot without). What are they supposed to do, and can they even get home now?

eta: And naturally they don’t have healthcare.

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Supermarkets in Denmark are giving a great example of how to act in a time of crazy hoarders running amok. Nothing is missing in their shelves because if one buy 1 product, pay 1X$, if someone buy 2 or more, they will pay 50X$ for each item.

https://www.thelocal.dk/20200319/why-denmark-is-not-going-to-run-out-of-goods

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CNN Travel’s best place to visit in Germany in 2020, no less!

(No, the tourist board doesn’t pay me. But it’s kinda nice when one’s obscure hometown gets some, dare I say it, exposure.)

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Afraid not. Like everything else bad for them, that’s Obummer’s fault in their eyes.

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ETA: per the Johns Hopkins dashboard, currently 253 infections, 1 death, 9 recovered.

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Isn’t that a health code violation in the best of times?

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I like “J.Jonah Jameson”, personally.

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For any trying to self monitor, here is an online tool to help interpret what you are seeing

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Went out to get supplies today (more coffee and butter and bacon). The husband went in and facetimed me, while I sat safe in the car. We were near a hospital shortly after shift change, and I saw 3 different people in scrubs go in or out of the store.
I made the husband sanitize his skin and take off the sweatshirt he was wearing when he came out.

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Here’s a question for the tech & medical folks together:

How do you best disinfect a smartphone or tablet without trashing it? Just spray it down with isopropyl alcohol and wipe it dry?

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Just saw this, it claims to be (get it) topical:

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From a medical standpoint, as long as you dampen the surfaces (all of them) tnat should work. If you have a unit with all kinds of nooks, slots and crannies that could be a problem. What that will do to your equipment, I leave to techier folks than i!

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Not a tech girl - but there’s a wired article.

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That’s one less thing for him to worry about.

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A word from the Firsy Lady. FINALLY.

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Info from science!

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2001282?query=featured_home

Lopinavir-ritonavir didnt work in its first controlled trial

Review by Canadian pharmacy board finds inadequate data to recommend for or against ibuprofen in covid. So yeah, more data needed.

https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/49/9/1405/301441https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/49/9/1405/301441

And this oldie, reviewing use of aspirin at insanely high doses during the 1918 pandemic increased mortality (and might partially account for the excess mortality in young adults.) Lesson here: toxic doses are bad. Don’t be surprised if this is used as evidence against ibuprofen. It is not.

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Oh for the days when all we worried about was “germs.”

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