outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

Not gonna lie, I can imagine what would happen if you go into an ER these days and DON'T have at least suspected coronavirus.

"To the back of the line with you! Oh, what's that, you've been shot in the groin and you're missing an arm? Welp, sucks to be you."

Someone from my choir died yesterday after having been sick for weeks having trouble breathing and having temperature swings. She wasn't tested.

I'm sorry Frederik, that's awful

Sorry to hear that, Fred.

That’s awful, sorry to hear that.

Sorry to hear that.

Really sorry, that's terrible.

very sorry, Fred

Fuck. That sucks.

Thanks everyone. This pandemic feels very real right now. And the fact that she was never diagnosed makes me fear so many more people I know - not close, but know and see regularly - might be battling this right now :( I'm very very happy for the slightly silly text message I got from my grandmother this morning.

That's awful Fred, condolences.

sorry fred

Reuters reports:

A British company behind a 10-minute coronavirus antibody test, which will cost about a $1, has begun sending prototypes to laboratories for validation, which could be a game-changer in the fight against the pandemic. Health technology firm Mologic, which created one of the first at-home pregnancy tests, is aiming for the test to be rolled out by as early as June if the trials are successful.

Antibody tests are designed to establish whether people have previously been infected, as opposed to antigen tests which show if someone actually has the COVID-19 disease caused by the virus. Mologic said assessment and validation of its COVID-19 diagnostic test had begun this week at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and St Georges hospital, and that global partners would also examine the prototypes.

elizabeth holmes at it again

Condolences fred 😞

xp that was my first thought!

missed it earlier, my condolences fred.

Terribly sorry Fred <3

Shit, Fred, that terrible. My condolences.

oh god, Fred. Hugs if I could.

I'm so sorry Fred, that's horrible. My sincere condolences.

The state with the prettiest name: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/03/26/coronavirus-tests-scarce-florida-home-millions-elderly-hospitals-scrounging/5083283002/

Sorry to hear that, Fred.

sorry to read it, fred

My 10 pm commute to work at Elmhurst Hospital. The 7 train still with plenty of people commuting home from Manhattan. Many of my patients work jobs classified as essential, be they cab drivers, construction laborers or delivery workers, without receiving any essential protections pic.twitter.com/LRFOoArNWX

— Ben McVane (@ben_mcvane) March 26, 2020

A N.Y. Nurse Dies. Angry Co-Workers Blame a Lack of Protective Gear.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/uw-model-says-social-distancing-is-starting-to-work-but-still-projects-1400-coronavirus-deaths-in-the-state/

For those interested in the 538 of covid death in the USA here you go https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections

oof, that's a grim website. all based on one analysis, though. i see that it's based off of current information available, which makes sense, but it seems like the projections assume that the current amount of ICU beds available don't change over time. for example, for New York, it shows 718 ICU beds available right now (which seems really low? for Illinois they show we have 1,131 ICU beds right now. more than NY? holy shit if true), but also 718 ICU beds available a month from now, and in June. one would think NY will be able to at least slightly improve their situation? i don't know.

Australia is moving to enforced quarantine for new arrivals.(hotel in the city people land in), troops on the streets enforcing self- isolation.

xps Many condolences, Fred, to you and your choir family.

Fucking hell, nothing on rents yet. (Australia)

Condolences.

Really sorry for your loss, Fred.

Took my husband to the ER yesterday - he was complaining of shallow breathing, increased heart rate and night sweats. Thought it would be wise to get him checked out even though he didn’t have a fever and no known close contact with anyone positive. It wasn’t covid - turns out it was a panic attack. :/ He just didn’t know how to describe it. Take care of your loved ones, folks.

Very sorry indeed, Fred.

Kaiser Permanente is discontinuing routine chloroquine prescriptions for lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and malaria patients to deal with a shortage driven by #covid19, and thanking them for their "sacrifice" https://t.co/TK1MzsosiT via @tanyachen and @dvergano

— Azeen Ghorayshi (@azeen) March 25, 2020

Condolences Fred

Kaiser Permanente is discontinuing routine chloroquine prescriptions for lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and malaria patients to deal with a shortage driven by #covid19, and thanking them for their "sacrifice"

Yeah but socialist "death panels" would be wrong

Bevon Bloise, a registered nurse at Mount Sinai West, complained on Facebook that the hospital does not have sufficient personal protective equipment, or P.P.E. “I’m also very angry with the Mount Sinai Health System for not protecting him. We do not have enough PPE, we do not have the correct PPE, and we do not have the appropriate staffing to handle this pandemic. And I do not appreciate representatives of this health system saying otherwise on the news.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/nyregion/nurse-dies-coronavirus-mount-sinai.html

Boris. Welp.

plsss

roz, sounds terrifying

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/us/politics/coronavirus-ventilators-trump.html

sharpen the pitchforks, seriously

murder

does anyone even produce guillotines anymore?

Is there a country anywhere in the world that is dealing with this worse than the US?

Brazil maybe?

contrast that with this: https://www.constructiondive.com/news/border-wall-construction-continues-with-additional-contract-for-12b-proje/574917/

(in case you just read the URL, it's 1.2B not 12B)

this is straight up murder