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Reduce the risk of spreading flu:🤧 Catch it - use tissues when you sneeze or cough🗑️ Bin it - put tissues in the bin as soon as possible👋 Kill it - wash hands with soap and warm water[_link] pic.twitter.com/ymWRLBOX4q— Public Health England (@PHE_uk) January 30, 2020
Reduce the risk of spreading flu:🤧 Catch it - use tissues when you sneeze or cough🗑️ Bin it - put tissues in the bin as soon as possible👋 Kill it - wash hands with soap and warm water[_link] pic.twitter.com/ymWRLBOX4q
How does the Wuhan coronavirus compare to seasonal flu? | ITV - Feb. 6, 2020 |
Coronavirus: awaiting the cavalry But, in fact, it now transpires that the UK government has gone for neither of those options. The clue to this came with last weekend's article which recorded the failure of a pandemic test run carried out three years ago, under the title "Exercise Cygnus". What emerged from the article is that, even though the system failed, no amendments were made to the strategic roadmap for a future pandemic, with the last update having been carried out in 2014. The actual working model for the current Covid-19 epidemic, therefore, is the Pandemic Influenza Response Plan augmented by the Pandemic Influenza Strategic Framework, both published by Public Health England in August 2014. And in those pages is the previously "opaque" reason why Public Health England so precipitously abandoned the "test and trace" programme, an action which has attracted so much criticism.
But, in fact, it now transpires that the UK government has gone for neither of those options. The clue to this came with last weekend's article which recorded the failure of a pandemic test run carried out three years ago, under the title "Exercise Cygnus".
What emerged from the article is that, even though the system failed, no amendments were made to the strategic roadmap for a future pandemic, with the last update having been carried out in 2014. The actual working model for the current Covid-19 epidemic, therefore, is the Pandemic Influenza Response Plan augmented by the Pandemic Influenza Strategic Framework, both published by Public Health England in August 2014.
And in those pages is the previously "opaque" reason why Public Health England so precipitously abandoned the "test and trace" programme, an action which has attracted so much criticism.
Results Exercise Cygnus Kept Secret
Here's the same chart but now also including the amount of #COVID19 patients currently on Intensive Care (blue bars in chart below).It's interesting to see how Norway has such a low percentage of patients dying on Intensive Care. pic.twitter.com/tiS9njtakN— GHoeberX (@ghoeberx) April 3, 2020
Here's the same chart but now also including the amount of #COVID19 patients currently on Intensive Care (blue bars in chart below).It's interesting to see how Norway has such a low percentage of patients dying on Intensive Care. pic.twitter.com/tiS9njtakN
recovery ratios for NE and UK are ... alarming: Given my Robert's rule of thumb of vent efficacy, similarity of NE, UK pathways to hospitalization, I imagine that patients' ICU arrives too late to reverse ARD w/Rx course of treatment.
It seems clear (from real-life narratives) that there are a lot of people, mostly elderly with pre-existing conditions, who are not going to survive even if they got onto life support much earlier. I suspect that in Norway, even given the small sample, they are making more rational clinical décisions in that respect.
This may change if an effective treatment turns up. It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II
Suburban Hospital, Bethesda, MD allowed my brother one week to grieve in ICU. A year ago.
So here we are. My understanding is, presses have devoted much interest in honoring the aged, condemning DNRs, and consoling the innocence of bereaved, because time is short, and there is no "effective treatment" for that.
I guess, you missed my micro-monograph on CoD, "Classification and its Consequences".
Let's ASSUME the detail drug and alcohol "abuse"/"dependence" is a count of ODs. Otherwise, engrossed; chronic intoxication being the root of pathology to irreversible organ failure, final destination. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
January-February 2013 issue of Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics found that difficulty swallowing may in turn increase the risk for "aspiration pneumonia," a common cause of death among people with Alzheimer's, due to food and liquids accidentally getting into the airways in the lungs.
UPDATE #COVID19🇪🇺 Europe, April 3rdThis chart shows the patients currently on intensive care per 100 000 inhabitants.- 🇩🇪 Germany has been added to this chart. As Germany is accepting patients from FR, NL and IT, they have passed both Portugal and Austria in previous days. pic.twitter.com/amzbdFhyl1— GHoeberX (@ghoeberx) April 3, 2020
UPDATE #COVID19🇪🇺 Europe, April 3rdThis chart shows the patients currently on intensive care per 100 000 inhabitants.- 🇩🇪 Germany has been added to this chart. As Germany is accepting patients from FR, NL and IT, they have passed both Portugal and Austria in previous days. pic.twitter.com/amzbdFhyl1
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, in Brooklyn ...The ICU, which typically has 10 beds, has expanded into four additional units. [...] Northwell Health System, which operates 23 hospitals in New York, was up to 3,000 COVID patients as of Friday morning, from 1,800 or so a week ago. Already, 500 are on ventilators. [...] Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn's Borough Park neighborhood, Dr. Patrick Borgen said the hospital's anticipating needing 400 ICU beds. As of Tuesday, it had 150. [...] On Friday, [Cuomo] signed an executive order empowering the National Guard to take ventilators and other protective equipment from private [!] hospitals and other companies and give them to hospitals in need. [...] At SUNY Downstate, Daniel said, she's intubating patients at the rate of one per hour. Amid the pandemic, she might do eight [!] in a shift, up from one or two.
Now, instead of progressing quickly to ventilators, doctors at Maimonides are relying more on high-flow oxygen therapy, with the hope that by keeping patients breathing on their own ["spontaneous respiration"] and able to move, they might be able to keep their lungs functioning better.
Story further glosses release criteria/orders, ie. self-admin of respiratory Rx, rehabilitation
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