Corona Virus Updates Part 5

Okay, I forget how many update threads ago it has been since I promised to update for the situation at my own hospital in the central part of Illinois, when the first sample from a Covid-19 patient crossed my path.

Well, today I had my first TWO samples on the same day. This has been slow to hit the community where I live (Macon county, Illinois), which went from 2 cases a week ago to 10 cases as of yesterday, with today's results still pending.

The 2 cases that I came in contact with today through my job in the hospital lab were as follows:

We got the placenta from a Covid-19 positive patient who gave birth yesterday. She had been symptomatic up to 6 days prior, but was not symptomatic during labor, and had apparently recovered. She is a 25 year old female. I can't really say anything more, other than that she had contracted her coronavirus from a local dentist (one of the first known positive patients in our community). Her pregnancy and delivery were successful, and mother and child are both healthy now.

The second patient had fluid drawn from around the lung (pleural effusion), and it was sent for me to look over, count cells, and make sure there was nothing malignant in it. (There was nothing malignant, btw) This patient is a terminally ill 69 year old male with stage 4 lung cancer. This situation is more worrisome, because he was seen outside the hospital in the office of a local oncologist for cancer treatment, and was acting sick and confused. They thought he had brain metastasis; so, sent him to the hospital ER, and he was found to have a clear brain scan, but positive for Covid-19, with pneumonia. He has been admitted into the ICU under isolation in our Covid-19 unit. I just hope they took isolation precautions at the oncologists' office, and in their waiting room, because I can imagine this patient was definitely already sick there, and hopefully didn't spread it to any other cancer patients.

So, that is the local update. It took a while, but I kept my promise to report

ADDENDUM: They just called a 'code blue' from the Covid unit. There are currently 4 positive patients and 2 patients under investigation up there. Code blue means someone just went into cardiac arrest, and the code team is going there to resuscitate....

Okay, that is enough of me spamming this thread for now.

Yahoo UK

The UK’s actual daily total of coronavirus deaths has on some days been more than double the official figures supplied by the government. Every day, at about 2pm, the Department of Health has been announcing the latest number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths. The death toll is widely known to be lower than the actual number because of reporting delays. However, new figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on Tuesday have revealed the huge extent to which the government’s figures have been less than the actual death toll. It comes after date of death figures were released by NHS England, allowing a contrast with the Department of Health’s figures.

Between 15 March and 27 March, the government’s numbers have been more than 100% less than the actual figures on three occasions. The biggest discrepancy came on 16 March, when NHS England recorded 145 deaths. On the other hand, the government reported just 67. On 24 March, NHS England had noted 865 deaths compared to 412 recorded by the government. On 25 March, it was 1,067 to the government’s 515.

modelling from Alessandro Vespignani

Modeling covid in the continental US
Project is work in progress, features such as data download, interactive explorations and state projections will be added in the next days.

@alexvespi on twitter

originally posted by: ragiusnotiel
modelling from Alessandro Vespignani

Modeling covid in the continental US
Project is work in progress, features such as data download, interactive explorations and state projections will be added in the next days.

@alexvespi on twitter

A grim model. The US is on the "unmitigated" section of that model at this point. I'm not surprised, given the lack of support for social distancing and mitigation and the numbers who ignore the rules.

I dont see this said anywhere but the UK has just gone from two low days to its higher day yet
total is now a whopping 6227!
its just becoming terrifying
Americans do you realise how small England or the Entire UK is
For us to have that many deaths is shocking!

Death toll in the US is going to be high today. It is already 1,403, which is I believe the highest we have seen in a day. It is only a little after 2pm EST, we have not been breaking the 1,000 mark until 5pm or so.

It could potentially hit 2,000 today. I hope not.

www.worldometers.info...

originally posted by: PandaPrincess
I dont see this said anywhere but the UK has just gone from two low days to its higher day yet
total is now a whopping 6227!
its just becoming terrifying
Americans do you realise how small England or the Entire UK is
For us to have that many deaths is shocking!

I hope the study discussed (and disputed) is very much off target. Very scary otherwise.

World-leading disease data analysts have projected that the UK will become the country worst hit by the coronavirus pandemic in Europe, accounting for more than 40% of total deaths across the continent.

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in Seattle predicts 66,000 UK deaths from Covid-19 by August, with a peak of nearly 3,000 a day, based on a steep climb in daily deaths early in the outbreak.

... more in article.

The Guardian (UK)

FYI


www.bing.com... celeste%2Bsolum%26%26FORM%3DVDVVXX


from a former FEMA specialist Celeste Slocum, now an Alt Media investigator/truther 1:24:55 duration -> title: Celeste Solum - "COVID-19 Vaccine: A Chimeric Nightmare" – Patrons Update 4/2/20

at 21 minute mark she speaks of the DNA altering vaccination which the WHO hides away...'Novel' vaccine for COVID...BEWARE

Numbers update for Europe (Worldometer (20h16 BST+1) now, BNO (21h16 BST+1) in next post) :







www.worldometers.info...

BNO (21h16 BST+1) :






bnonews.com...

OK, not posted much today, here's why :

Saturday, my dad wanted to use the chainsaw to cut some big branches off one of the trees.
My Mom and me managed to persuade him, that it could wait, and wasn't urgent.
(We live in the Ile-de-France, where the ER's are close to full, and any accident, not sure how it would be treated. We are 40mins from the nearest Hospital, in any case.)
He turned 76 yesterday.
This afternoon, I hear the chainsaw going, and then I look out the Window, and the 8-12in thick branch he just cut off fell on the neighbours garden fence (wire mesh) and bounced back.
I stayed with him until he finished the other 3 branches, because he wouldn't let me take the chainsaw away.
The 3rd one was vertical on the tree, and landed less than 6in from his feet, while he had the running chainsaw close to his chest.

When he put it away (at 5.30pm noise laws come into effect, yay), I locked the chainsaw in the trunk of my car, and hid the keys in the Garage.

Thankfully, he has now accepted that he has to come and get me to do any more cutting, so I can at least give a second set of eyes on what he's doing, and help out (These are 10ft+ long branches).

I had planned for one of his favorite replys, "This is my house....etc" and the outcome of that would have probably torn our entire family apart. Just thinking of that option has put my stress levels up to about 200.
So, i'll be back after midnight to post the America's and US States update, but am going to watch a film or two to seriously chill....

Lockdown is making us a bit stir crazy I think....Luckily bought beers yesterday at the shops.
It's 99% off-topic, but I thought i'd just post it anyway, in case other people are going mad as well.

Stay Safe, Stay Sane.

"Garçon, Beer me !"

I have used a serious number crunching algorithm in a spreadsheet on today's data copied from World o meter and the minimum number of global deaths I have come up with as at 14 Dec 2020 is 22m which only includes China's BS numbers.

Make of that what you will. Lets hope I am that number over!

France have been in lockdown for a while but their numbers are climbing much higher than previous days:

11,059 new cases today with 1,417 deaths. Carry on like this and they will be above Spain and Italy.

As for amount of deaths altogether, now stands at over 81,000.


Coronavirus Cases:
1,416,367

Deaths:
81,324

Recovered:
301,372

Not a record you want broken, but NY did it. Over 731 have died today because of the virus.
www.wktv.com... l

NEW YORK (AP) - New York state recorded 731 new coronavirus deaths Tuesday, marking the biggest one-day jump in the outbreak. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday the state's death toll since the beginning of the outbreak is now 5,489.

Please can anyone tell me why we don't have more people in recovered status yesterday we had 19,000 and change recovered today we only have 21,000 change even if you add the death toll 12,000 and change into that number we we only have 33,000 and change people with final out come from this virus.

We reached that number of cases on March 22 in the USA, we now have 390,000 cases, surely there should be more recovered by now?

a reply to: Brit-Tex

It can take a month for people who are really sick to recover.

a reply to: pasiphae

I understand that but with worldometers saying 95% having mild conditions and people on social media posting that they have had Covid-19 and have recovered most are between 5-18 days.

Are they not following up with the mild to asymptotic after confirming they have tested positive for the virus.

They would be following up with the cases they have tested so far would they not.

originally posted by: Brit-Tex
They would be following up with the cases they have tested so far would they not.

If they had nothing else to do, probably. But, it sounds to me like some medical staff are overwhelmed in some places, and they might have other things to do with urgent cases on site, instead of following up with people recovering at home who aren't complaining.

a reply to: Arbitrageur

And I fully understand that as well but if the number of recovered or cases closed outside are not being reported then the stats are going to be out of wack are they not.

Trump just announced in todays press briefing that the US is putting a hold on funds going to the WHO and will be looking into their handling of this situation.