The CDC has not changed its recommendations on killing the virus.
Itâs as if a Mob is running thingsâŠ
Fascinating how the pandemic is respecting Louisianaâs borders. Seems downright⊠polite.
If you own a fitness-tracker, smart watch etc, check this out.
ETA:
https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus/Corona-Datenspende.html
ETA:
Southern Hospicefatality
DId anyone suggest otherwise? I assume Finland (where @vermes82 is) has their own guidelines. The blue spirits Iâve been using here in Norway is, according to its MSDS, 90% isopropyl alcohol plus a colorant, which is consistent with both the local guidelines and those from the CDC. It wonât work in place of a gel hand sanitizer because it evaporates too quickly, but it is fine for surface cleaning (as even the methylated spirits the Finnish article warns against ought to be), and because it is isopropyl it is also fine for making DIY wipes for use when you canât get to soap and water. (I soak a piece of paper towel, lay that on a square of plastic wrap and roll the two together up tightly.)
So this might answer some of the questions that have been asked here. Raises others, of course, but that is what good science does!
No idea what is going on here (BBC just quotes competing claims without shedding much light, though there might not be much to shed), but it sounds unhelpful. On the one hand it sounds as though the EU is lacking for a coordinated response, on the other it sounds like heâs focused on a âcureâ over mitigation and management.
An engineer from Rio de Janeiro creates a mobile sink so that homeless people and workers can wash their hands on the streets.
Footballer Marcelo, from the spanish team Real Madrid, sponsored the project and will pay for the installation of 100 units of this contraption.
This kind of thing is not all that difficult to reproduce any where. Whether it be public wash basins, vending machines for free face masks, public hand sanitizer dispensers, etc.
Iâve read of a scant few rich patrons contributing to such projects but, it still boggles my mind why more havenât chipped in.
All the initiatives that I read in the local newspapers were created by ordinary people, even children, who were moved and decided to show solidarity.
In a partnership between the Union of Residents and the Womenâs Association of ParaisĂłpolis and the G10 of the Favelas (an institution that brings together leaders from 10 large favelas in Brazil), the ârelief programâ for the community in the South Zone of SĂŁo Paulo emerged.
420 âstreet presidentsâ were chosen, volunteers who are responsible for taking care of predefined sections of road, each with about 50 houses. The âpresidentsâ are tasked with monitoring whether any residents in their region have symptoms of Covid-19 or whether they need medical attention. Another task is to identify families that are on a reduced income or even without income and are starving.
For medical care, the community hired a team with three ambulances (one being a mobile ICU), two doctors, two nurses and three rescuers, who moved to ParaisĂłpolis 15 days ago.
This is bad.
Some doctors and nurses now say they are being instructed not to speak to journalists and disciplined for doing so or taking action to protect themselves.
This is a fairly common situation nationwide right now. We actually have it far better than most, in that we have enough to get by. We absolutely reuse equipment not meant for it, we use homemade fabric masks to cover our standard ones and try to protect and prolong the usefulness of them. But we have what we need to get by. We are, however, an outpatient pediatric office, and not nearly in as much of a hot zone as the ICU folks. I feel (self-justification notwithstanding) that we can get away with ânonstandardâ procedures a bit more safely than they can. Hell, until this started, the idea of masking, gowning, even wearing scrubs, was just not something we did. But as I have said, my ex lost her job working as an RN at the local ED because she refused to work without PPE. They actually went to the extent of confiscating PPE from the department due to âunauthorizedâ use causing fear among patients. I donât know about you, but I would worry if I went into an ED where they were not using PPE. The gulf between administration and staff in some places seems unbridgeably wide.
