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Our pediatrician is doing teleconference wellness visits and mobile/drivethrough vaccinations. Hopefully yours will come up with something. You definitely dont want to be inside a healthcare facility.
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Coronavirus Updates, Important Information, and Ancedotal Experience
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Our pediatrician is doing teleconference wellness visits and mobile/drivethrough vaccinations. Hopefully yours will come up with something. You definitely dont want to be inside a healthcare facility.
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My county has lowest death count among NYC and the surrounding area. Best county.
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I know, it's conspiracy theory stuff, but is it coincidence or just epidemiological statistics that some of the most common disease states in the US are also the most lethal comorbidities? Diabetes and hypercholesterolemia are much more common here than in China. About 1/3rd of adults in the US have hypertension as compared to about 13% in China.
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It's pretty lame to list "hyperlipidemia" as a comorbidity and not obesity. Plenty of people have high cholesterol that aren't fat, and it's a stretch to call that a "condition". I'd be more interested to know how many of them are actually fat.
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Sanrith Descartes
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What the data supports is basically common sense. Human beings above age 70 are on the downside of life. Not saying it to be mean just factual. We weren't designed to live for a century. We can in outliers beyond 2 standard deviations but not generally. Our bodies aren't as strong at that point.
I am curious if they find underlying health issues in the 20 and 30 something victims we haven't identified yet that made them more susceptible. Maybe lifestyle choices or a non-apparent health problem.
I am curious if they find underlying health issues in the 20 and 30 something victims we haven't identified yet that made them more susceptible. Maybe lifestyle choices or a non-apparent health problem.
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Japan is going to get hit extremely hard especially due to their older population, and it's going to be compounded by their very slow start.
japantoday.com
Tokyo running out of beds and gear, medical staff say
As Japan faces a fresh wave of coronavirus infections and the government prepares for a state of emergency, medical staff say a shortage of beds and a rise in cases linked to hospitals are pushing Tokyo's medical system to the brink of collapse. The crisis has already arrived at Eiju…
japantoday.com
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‘When you get those calls, you understand the urgency’: Cabinet company now making face shields
When the decision-makers at Gator Millworks, a custom cabinet manufacturer, decided to start making protective gear to help nurses and doctors, they knew their reach would be beyond Louisiana.
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Sorry to hear that.
Hopefully the quicker test works and gets sent out faster. Baton Rouge got picked for 2 walk in clinics to do test they said could ID it in <15 minutes.
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Figured I'd add some updates on how non-medical and non-service industry is being affected from my own personal experience.
So I do technical sales of industrial manufacturing equipment. This often includes walk-in freezers as part of the production process. Our walk-in freezer vendor let us know this week that lead times are going to be increased over the next couple months as they prioritize state governments that have been contacting them needing temporary cold storage for the impending wave of dead bodies.
We're also completely dry on our supply of ethanol and very limited on access to isopropyl as it's all being routed to hand sanitizer. Our ration for our customers is 83 gallons of isopropyl per week. For my largest clients, they go through that quantity every 20-30 minutes.
I import about a million dollars in goods per year from a factory in northern Italy. Things are so bad over there that even though this company's equipment is widely used in food and medical fields, they've been forcibly shut down by the government for the last few weeks and it's been extended to at least May. They've applied for an exemption and we'll just have to see how that goes. I have a big system that was supposed to ship in March that is delaying the onboarding of a new $13M facility in the US by at least 2 months.
Two facilities I work with are dumping their 2020 equipment budgets into paid time off for employees to prevent layoffs. The group of owners of both are running production themselves while the employees are all home. So not only are they very limited with the amount of product being made, it's also severely dampening their expansion plans by 6 months to 2 years. That, or they may have to seek outside investment and sell off part of the company to keep expanding.
I do believe that the measures taken so far have been necessary but there's a degree of difficulty in personally watching the economy collapse day by day and week by week.
So I do technical sales of industrial manufacturing equipment. This often includes walk-in freezers as part of the production process. Our walk-in freezer vendor let us know this week that lead times are going to be increased over the next couple months as they prioritize state governments that have been contacting them needing temporary cold storage for the impending wave of dead bodies.
We're also completely dry on our supply of ethanol and very limited on access to isopropyl as it's all being routed to hand sanitizer. Our ration for our customers is 83 gallons of isopropyl per week. For my largest clients, they go through that quantity every 20-30 minutes.
I import about a million dollars in goods per year from a factory in northern Italy. Things are so bad over there that even though this company's equipment is widely used in food and medical fields, they've been forcibly shut down by the government for the last few weeks and it's been extended to at least May. They've applied for an exemption and we'll just have to see how that goes. I have a big system that was supposed to ship in March that is delaying the onboarding of a new $13M facility in the US by at least 2 months.
Two facilities I work with are dumping their 2020 equipment budgets into paid time off for employees to prevent layoffs. The group of owners of both are running production themselves while the employees are all home. So not only are they very limited with the amount of product being made, it's also severely dampening their expansion plans by 6 months to 2 years. That, or they may have to seek outside investment and sell off part of the company to keep expanding.
I do believe that the measures taken so far have been necessary but there's a degree of difficulty in personally watching the economy collapse day by day and week by week.
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My wife and I work for a large restaurant company, ~180k employees across multiple brands. About half of the restaurant employees were furloughed with 4 weeks of pay and medical (thru April). I got word today that everyone at corporate got 10-50% pay cut. We both got 20% which sucks but we're able to handle it. It's got ta be hard for those restaurant people. That like 90k people.
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Just some anecdotal stuff from me.
My massage therapists brother-in-law died yesterday from covid. Youngest person to die in Indiana so far, under 40. He was obese, just recently got over normal pneumonia so he was a perfect target for it. My previous massage therapist in the same studio also has it.
A few people from work have it, and my departments first shift crew just all got put on quarantine because one of them tested positive today and they all work closely together. One of them is a really good friend of mine, hope he does alright. I sent him some words of encouragement today after he found out he can’t come to work tomorrow.
A whole shitstorm of people in my life, all today!
My massage therapists brother-in-law died yesterday from covid. Youngest person to die in Indiana so far, under 40. He was obese, just recently got over normal pneumonia so he was a perfect target for it. My previous massage therapist in the same studio also has it.
A few people from work have it, and my departments first shift crew just all got put on quarantine because one of them tested positive today and they all work closely together. One of them is a really good friend of mine, hope he does alright. I sent him some words of encouragement today after he found out he can’t come to work tomorrow.
A whole shitstorm of people in my life, all today!
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18,000 jobs. Poof. One shot. I am getting close to hating our elected officials almost as much as I hate Islamic jihadists. I am honestly surprised violence hasn't begun yet.
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The company had already declared bankruptcy before the coronavirus pandemic shut down much of the economy.
Logan’s Roadhouse fires employees, closes 261 locations
Workers were reportedly told that the restaurants may not reopen.