COVID-19: USA, Italy & the rest of Europe

[Voodooman]

The debate in the US on trading a few lives for the economy.

Billionaires Want People Back to Work. Employees Aren’t So Sure 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-25/billionaires-want-people-back-to-work-workers-aren-t-so-sure

[Throttle2]

58 minutes ago, Civic2000 said:

Trump very angry!

f**king imbecile

[Jamesc]

Another idiot now knows its not a Democrat hoax trying to grab power when his own son another idiot politician kenna Corona.

On 16 March, the former Texas congressman Ron Paul wrote an articled titled: The Coronavirus Hoax. In the article, he accused Democrats of using the coronavirus to “grab more power and authority in the name of fighting a virus that thus far has killed less than 100 Americans”.

Six days later, his son Rand Paul became the first US senator to test positive for Covid-19. It isn’t fair that his son should suffer for his sins, but at least we can hope the news has encouraged Ron Paul to take the pandemic a little more seriously.

Then again, Rand Paul was still hitting the gym and swimming in the White House pool while awaiting his results, so maybe that’s a little too hopeful.

[Fcw75]

Ah Tiong quality...

Coronavirus: Netherlands recalls defective masks imported from China 
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/coronavirus-netherlands-recalls-defective-masks-imported-from-china?xtor=CS3-18&utm_source=STiPhone&utm_medium=share&utm_term=2020-03-29 11%3A03%3A09

Edited March 29, 2020 by Fcw75

[Wt_know]

19 minutes ago, Fcw75 said:

Ah Tiong quality...

Coronavirus: Netherlands recalls defective masks imported from China 
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/coronavirus-netherlands-recalls-defective-masks-imported-from-china?xtor=CS3-18&utm_source=STiPhone&utm_medium=share&utm_term=2020-03-29 11%3A03%3A09

a mcf bro said ... china will prosper and advance with their manufacturing

but i said ... prc always ownself destroy ownself

because they put "profit" above everything including crossing moral line (ie toxic baby formula, fake product and non approved ingredient or material used)

[Karoon]

Seems like it's all going wrong in NYC, lots of reports of ambulances not able to respond to emergencies, to covid +be docs forced to continue working, to psychiatrists being redeployed to front lines.

[Thaiyotakamli]

2 hours ago, Fcw75 said:

Ah Tiong quality...

Coronavirus: Netherlands recalls defective masks imported from China 
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/coronavirus-netherlands-recalls-defective-masks-imported-from-china?xtor=CS3-18&utm_source=STiPhone&utm_medium=share&utm_term=2020-03-29 11%3A03%3A09

Poor healthcare workers

[kobayashiGT]

Hospitals turn to snorkel masks to ease respirator overload

source: https://sg.news.yahoo.com/hospitals-turn-snorkel-masks-ease-respirator-overload-020738689.html

A medical worker tests a Decathlon snorkeling mask, with a 3D-printed respiratory valve fitting attached, at the Erasme Hospital in Brussels

As hospitals face an overload of COVID-19 patients struggling to breathe, innovative medical staff are turning to snorkelling masks from sports stores to stop their lungs collapsing.

The idea started in Italy, the European country worst-hit by the coronavirus pandemic, with hospitals in other nations taking note and adding their own specific medical parts to make it work.

One such is the Erasme Hospital on the outskirts of Belgium's capital Brussels. It is attached to the city's ULB university -- and through it to a private spin-off, Endo Tools Therapeutics, whose knowhow in 3D printing for medical use has proved invaluable.

"They are to be used for patients with severe respiratory problems. The aim is to avoid having to intubate the trachea of the patient and put them on a respirator," said Frederic Bonnier, a respiratory physiotherapist at the hospital who also teaches at the university.

He spearheaded the design of a custom-made valve that fits to the top of full-face masks, where the snorkel is meant to go, allowing them to connect to standard BiPAP machines that feed pressurised air into masks.

This helps prevent the collapse of alveoli, lung air sacs needed for the intake of oxygen into our bodies and the exhalation of carbon dioxide. Pneumonia brought on by COVID-19 inflames the lung membrane and fills those sacs with liquid.

- Stop-gap solution -

In the worst-case infections, patients have to be hooked up to respirators in intensive-care units.

But respirators are in desperately short supply worldwide because of the sheer number of patients.

The snorkelling mask solution could be a stop-gap measure for patients on the brink of intensive-care treatment but for whom no beds nor respirators are available. Hospital masks for the less-intensive BiPAP (bilevel positive airway pressure) machines are also lacking.

Bonnier said that from Monday he will testing 50 of the masks on patients.

They are the same brand as those used by Italian doctors, donated by the French sportswear retailer Decathlon that has stores worldwide. The masks themselves are made in Italy.

He explained they were far more comfortable than the hospital ones that fit over the nose and mouth, biting into the skin. But he cautioned they were not tested to medical standards, meaning they were one-use only, unable to be sterilised between patients.

The Italian design for the 3D-printed valve also needed reworking.

"It seemed fairly complicated to make, pretty heavy, not very comfortable. So we had the idea to go a little further by thinking on it and developing our own connection part," he said.

The new plastic valve connectors have now been 3D-printed and are ready to be tested.

Bonnier added that health workers in COVID-19 wards could also use the masks for protection against the virus. But he fears the public will start panic-buying them, thereby depriving hospitals of a potentially life-saving product.

He also said that, even if the tests prove conclusive, there were still questions about how many such masks could be made available by sporting companies, under what conditions.

- Retailer cautious -

Learning of the emergency use being made of its snorkelling masks, Decathlon expressed "interest" -- but also prudence.

"At the moment we don't have confirmation that these solutions really work," it said on its Twitter account.

"If we see successful try-outs, and these hospitals confirm to us that some tests work, then we'll keep you informed. But in the meantime, beware of unsourced and unverified information spread on social media in recent days."

[Stary]

22 hours ago, Kyrios said:

So maybe now with all the US bad news no doubt including those moronic ones from trump, they will dispel 2 notions put forward by pro china sarporkters:

First that the US CIA planted the virus in china, now this conspiracy theory appears less likely with each passing day because if Trump had ordered the planting, he will have the antidote for it, well apparently not.

Second that this malignant virus was already floating around in USA a few years back and some US military folks participating in some china Games brought it there...hmm is this true? If it is really as what the chinese authorities claimed, given that the virus was already inherent within US communities for a few years might have already given US citizens herd immunity...well apparently no..such is not the case. And given the huge number of overseas tourists to US including many of us from sgp each year, shouldnt the outbreak have erupted in the US hinterland or be discovered sooner?

Just pure speculation from a layman's perspective, it could be well true that covid existed already in the US but it is maybe a milder version of its malignant cousin killing thousands worldwide now. The milder version could be like some of our harmless bacteria residing in our colons....Somehow the milder version found its way to wuhan where it fused into pangolins, bats or rats...and it metamorphsized into this potent virulent killing machine..so i say ..... china could still be the origin of all this madness.

So it is only right the Chinese folks do all they can to help italy and spain etc. I dont see why pple consider them as saviours or feel indebted to them and start talking abt using huawei 5G to repay their 'kind' favours. Or end of US supremacy blah blah etc. Some form of modified Stockholm Syndrome that we shud feel indebted to those who initially caused us so much misery?

They dragged us into this mess, perhaps involuntarily via an act of god or nature. Still, since china started this, they be very well the ones to end it by extending help to those nations painfully stricken by it. Say your pet cat goes on a rampage and topples several naybors' potted plants along your hdb corridor. Although you did not mean it purposely, the least you can do is still to apologise to your naybors and help pay for the damages? Isnt it morally the right thing to do?

Brother.....not sure if you watch Resident Evil before.......when Alice finally  goes back to her homebase (Umbrella Corporation), she kills everyone there.

So hor..maybe virus really from US.....now finally back to homebase and now trying to infect more and kill more....

Sorry la...I watch too much movies.....

 

[Mockngbrd]

NYC?

[PSP415]

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/italy-covid-19-coronavirus-death-toll-rome-12586602

16 days lock down still Covid-19 not slowing down. 

Lock downs require alot of planning and resources being prepared and ready for a long haul. 

Covid-19 do not care for calendar days or weeks. Till the last strain or vaccine appearance, these will keep infecting willing bodies. 

Take care and keep well. Dun pah pah zhao and be vigilant with good personal hygiene. 

Safe ride 

Cheers 

[Jamesc]

USA yesterday 100,000 and today 125,000.

[pi3142]

Luftwaffe fliegt an Covid-19 erkrankte Italiener nach Deutschland (28.03.2020, 10:13 Uhr)

(DeepL translate: Luftwaffe flies Italians suffering from Covid-19 illness to Germany)
 

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Solidarity in extreme need: With its flying intensive care unit, the Bundeswehr brings corona patients from Italy to Germany. They are to receive further treatment in NRW.

Because of the dramatic emergency situation of northern Italian hospitals in the corona virus crisis, the Air Force is flying patients to Germany. The Airbus A310 MedEvac, the flying intensive care unit of the German Federal Armed Forces, was to take six seriously ill Italians from Bergamo to Cologne for intensive treatment on Saturday. The plane took off this morning in Cologne, said a spokesperson for the German Press Agency.

"In times of greatest need, it goes without saying that we stand by our friends", said Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (CDU) on the mission. "This is why we are now bringing seriously ill patients from Italy to Germany for treatment with our flying intensive care unit of the German Air Force. This is an important sign of solidarity. Europe must stick together."

The plane should be back in Cologne by late noon. The patients were to be taken to civilian hospitals for treatment. The State Chancellery in Duesseldorf had announced on Friday evening that several hospitals in North Rhine-Westphalia had agreed to accept corona intensive care patients from Italy and France. According to the announcement, the first six patients from the particularly affected regions of Lombardy and Piedmont are to be brought to Cologne/Bonn airport and then distributed to several hospitals in the state. According to dpa information, two patients each are to receive further treatment at the Catholic Hospital in Bochum and at the university hospitals in Cologne and Bonn.

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On Saturday, a military helicopter carrying corona patients took off for Germany from Metz in north-eastern France. On board were two patients infected with the virus who are to be treated in Germany, a journalist of the news agency AFP reported. French Defence Minister Florence Parly wrote in the short message service Twitter that military helicopters of the army would fly several Covid-19 patients from Metz to Germany.

Due to the spread of the coronavirus, the French military had already informally requested support from the German Armed Forces on Thursday. According to the request, helicopters are urgently needed to transfer corona patients from particularly affected regions to other parts of the country, as well as support in the care of sick patients, which is currently pushing the health system to its capacity limits.

So far, the requests from France have been made at working level, an official request has not yet been received in Berlin. In the defense department, however, it is expected that the Parisian counterpart of Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer could soon come forward with a formal request.

 

Translated by DeepL from,

Source: https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/luftwaffe-fliegt-an-covid-19-erkrankte-italiener-nach-deutschland-a-e2d6e337-f33c-40a6-8c16-8407277d9087

Edited March 29, 2020 by pi3142

[Jamesc]

Why the US is leading the world in confirmed coronavirus cases?

[Jamesc]

Medical Expert Who Corrects Trump Is Now a Target of the Far Right

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the administration’s most outspoken advocate of emergency virus measures, faces a torrent of false claims that he is mobilizing to undermine the president.

[Kangadrool]

On 3/27/2020 at 12:59 PM, PSP415 said:

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/switzerland-coronavirus-cases-top-10-000-12580792

Quiet quiet then 10,000 cases. 

Take care and keep well away by 1 metre from next person pls. Try not to pah pah zhao.

If can, designate 1 person in family to be driver, grabfood, grassshopper, i mean shopper etc. So lesser chance for Covid-19 to say hello, especially to your lungs.

Safe ride 

Cheers 

Liddat Rolek watches still can buy? 😂

[Jamesc]

23 minutes ago, yishunite said:

 

Italy accelerated like a Ferrari

But USA accelerated like a Tesla.

Anyway USA 27 March 82,000

29 March 125,000.

The torque of an electric motor.

 

[Silver_blade]

The UK is not doing well at the moment either. My cousin was saying they are seeing a lot of cases...with many being asked to stay at home without any test. He and his team are exhausted and there will be another round of shortage of PPE if new batch is not sent to them soon.