Trump Declares A Coronavirus National Emergency On March 13

This will help put me in the future remember the context of the times we live.

Coronavirus in Italy: More Younger Patients Going Into Intensive Care and Sicker

The second wave is younger and sicker. Is this guy mutating right in front us. There is absolutely no reason this won't happen in the USA. And it just might get more deadly!  

Coronavirus: More young patients being admitted to hospital, Italian doctor warns

Over 17,600 people are infected by Covid-19 in Europe’s worst-hit country

Italians admitted to hospital for coronavirus are getting younger, a health official has claimed.

“The type of patient is changing,” Luca Lorini, the head of anaesthesia and intensive care at a northern Italian hospital, has said.

“They are a bit younger, between 40 to 45 years old and the cases are more complicated.”

Dr Lorini, who works at a hospital in Bergamo, told radio programme RaiNews24: ”People are arriving who got ill six or seven days ago and treated themselves at home – and then their conditions became more and more critical.”

Twelve per cent of those who have been treated in intensive care are aged between 19 and 50, according to official figures released last week. Around 52 per cent are between 51 and 70 years old, with the rest all over 70. 

Recently, hospitals in Lombardy have seen people aged between 25 and 50 diagnosed with Covid-19 and subsequently hospitalised for treatment, according to local media reports.

“Even if the data is only preliminary, the fact there are more young people hospitalised and in intensive care compared to the first wave can be interpreted as a natural phenomenon,” Pierluigi Lopalco, a professor from Pisa University, told Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera.

“In Italy, the first clusters of the infection started around hospitals, more commonly frequented by older people, and in small towns,” he said.

“Now the virus has spread, it is travelling around the whole country way more and it is younger people, with lots of social contact, that are more at risk of contracting the disease if they do not stick to the rules of social distancing.”...

When Will A Insurance Conglomerate Go Bankrupt?

These guys were some of the weak links in 2008.

self-aggrandizement

Basically Trump's speech was just filled corporate advertisement, deregulation, bully-ism and self-aggrandizement plus stinks with a extremist Ideology. 

Coronavirus: Brattleboro, Keene Hospitals Are Going to Be A Massacre Zone!

March 16

The most critical issues facing us today: Coronavirus USA Update: 2 Emergency Room Doctors Hospitalized In ‘Critical Condition’

March 15. One is 40 years old and the other 70 years old. A lot of emergency personnel and doctors caught the virus and died in China. There is something going on different with infections with the emergency staff than the normal public. They think it has something to do with the elevated virus levels they see in their work.      

March 15

Sorry, It was Kent State not Keene State. 

Keene State has a maintenance worker they suspect has an infection of coronavirus. He has been all over the facility. 

*All New York City hospitals will be required to cancel elective surgeries, mayor says *Here it comes or it was always here and we just realized it: 


Coronavirus in Massachusetts: Brigham and Women’s Hospital worker tests positive for COVID-19

March 14

*Italy:“It’s a massive overload,” said Unks. “They have triage tents outside hospitals so if you and I walk in together, they decide: ‘Is Brian going to live or Shannon going to live?’ They pick the one most likely to live. They have to pick the person they think is going to survive the most. They do not have enough beds, respirators, not enough personnel to care for everyone.”

*Why isn't this happening here: N.Y. Hospitals Pitch Tents, Nix Surgeries to Prepare for Influx

*NYT: Coronavirus in N.Y.: Will a Surge in Patients Overwhelm Hospitals?

“We are not prepared,” one doctor said. New York City’s hospitals may be moving too slowly as the outbreak spreads, experts say.

In a stark email to colleagues across Europe, the doctor, who wishes to remain anonymous, wrote: ‘It is true that most patients have flu-like symptoms and recover, but there is a significant proportion – not only old people – who develop acute unexpected severe respiratory distress requiring breath assistance and intubation [inserting an airway tube].’

‘Hospitals are crowded with sick people, while emergency rooms are empty because people are afraid to go there,’ he wrote, adding that outpatient visits in the region’s hospitals were likely to be cancelled from tomorrow as colleagues around the country reported an ‘alarming shortage of doctors and nurses, making them unable to cover duties and shifts’.

‘Where I work, routine surgeries – for breast, kidney and colon cancers and other procedures – are postponed or reduced because of the shortage of intensive care assistance,’ he wrote. ‘My concern is whether – and for how long – our system can tolerate this.’

*Surgeon General Calls On Hospitals To Consider Stopping Elective Surgeries

“It’s a massive overload,” said Unks. “They have triage tents outside hospitals so if you and I walk in together, they decide: ‘Is Brian going to live or Shannon going to live?’ They pick the one most likely to live. They have to pick the person they think is going to survive the most. They do not have enough beds, respirators, not enough personnel to care for everyone.”

*My coronavirus quarantine in Italy: Learn from our mistakes
Do not ignore the warnings as we did in Italy

Italy is living through an incomprehensible tragedy, the likes of which the world has never seen. All 60 million of its residents are squirreled away at home, leaving only when necessary for food or medicines, armed with ID cards to show the police when we are inevitably stopped.

We’ve been asked to stay home and finally, we are listening, but it is too late for many.

I believe America is the most incredible nation to have ever existed but this virus does not care about that. Please learn from our mistakes. Do not ignore the warnings as we did.As I write this, there are nearly 136,000 official cases worldwide, 15,113 in Italy with 2,651 new cases in just the last 24 hours, and 1,016 deaths.

*Ex-Obama official warns US health system faces 'tsunami' over coronavirus

*Hospitals in the US could be overrun by coronavirus cases in little more than a week, a former Obama administration senior health official has warned, fearing a “tsunami-like” escalation that would leave tens of thousands in need of inpatient medical care but unlikely to receive it.

*Coronavirus Death Rate Soars to 7% in Italy – Is America Next?
Boston globe: Hospitals must now plan for pandemic’s worst

The number of people infected by coronavirus in Italy has risen by around 20% in one day to 21,157.

***The whole nation has been talking about hospitals in the last 24 hours. The governor of the state of Washington expects greater than 60,000 infected in two week with an additional 400 dead. We are going to have to completely destroy our economy to save our hospitals and prevent a massacre. We are deep into a national panic...shortages all over the place.  

***Our fatality rate in coronavirusville will be starting higher than average. 

Just saying, how much would you bribe your doctor or senior hospital administrator to get you "cuts" in the ventilator line to save your mother. What is the going rate: $50,000 to $100,000?  

Trump is going to declare a national emergency and get FEMA this afternoon. It is months late. We have to anticipate a Pandemic instead waiting for triplicate perfect proof with the Pandemic. We live in a world of incomplete information and are required to make judgement on fragmentary information and intuitions on a daily and hourly bases. The example is going out to get a gallon of milk. You never know in details what the road conditions are and even if the milk is in stock. We are completely capability of operating in a environment with incomplete and fragmentary information.       

"That analysis, based on data from the American Hospital Association, U.S. Census, CDC and World Health Organization, is purposely conservative. For example, it assumes all beds will be empty. Since two thirds of them are not, the reality could be far worse: about 17 people per open bed."

The US Gov's worst case based their analysis on a 7.5% infection rate for the population. The medical experts say the coronavirus infection rates can end up being 70%.

Honestly, I think this is baked into the cake. 

When are you going to stand up for us? 

Brattleboro Memorial Hospital

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Keene  

So 17 patients will be competing for one hospital beds. I believe around here, it will be 28. We have a high population of poverty. We got nurses and doctor shortages leading to a diminution of skills and discipline all around. Not many medical people favor this kind of region. The flu at this point is ravishing our population with it being worst than normal. Heroin and other drugs are again ravishing our poor population. It is a perfect storm of death. 

You get what is going to happen. There will be 2 or more people competing for one ventilator or advanced services. The doctor will choose what patient gets the ventilator based on medical triage. The other will die. In normal times, the dead person would be saved. I'd make the case these doctors who choose who gets the ventilators...they will be force to kill (triage) more patient than to cure patients. There will be a ton more medical or medicine errors...this will be a sin against the medical community. 

There will be problems getting the dead bodies out of the hospitals and more big troubles with burying the dead.

I predict the biggest 2020 story in our area won't be coronavirus...it will be about startling levels deaths in our hospitals.

Remember the severe patients usually gets shipped off to specialized big city hospital. These hospitals will get overrun with sick patients first and they will be unavailable to hospitals like Keene and Brattleboro!   

Hospitals won’t have enough beds if coronavirus spikes

No state in the U.S. will have enough room for novel coronavirus patients if the surge in severe cases here mirrors that in other countries.

A USA TODAY analysis shows that if the nation sees a major spike, there could be almost six seriously ill patients for every existing hospital bed.

That analysis, based on data from the American Hospital Association, U.S. Census, CDC and World Health Organization, is purposely conservative. For example, it assumes all beds will be empty. Since two thirds of them are not, the reality could be far worse: about 17 people per open bed.

“Unless we are able to implement dramatic isolation measures like some places in China, we’ll be presented with overwhelming numbers of coronavirus patients – two to 10 times as we see at peak influenza times,” said Dr. James Lawler, who researches emerging diseases at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and the Global Center for Health Security.

Lawler added that “no hospital has current capacity to absorb that” without taking crisis care measures, such as postponing elective procedures and reserving finite resources for those coronavirus patients most likely to recover. The American Hospital Association wrote to congressional leaders in February to ask for money to build hospitals and housing to isolate patients.

USA TODAY’s analysis estimates 23.8 million Americans could contract COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus that first appeared in Wuhan, China.

That number is based on an infection rate of 7.4% – similar to a mild flu year. Experts say this infection rate will likely be far higher.

The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security estimates that 38 million Americans will need medical care for COVID-19, including as many as 9.6 million who need to be hospitalized – about a third of whom might need ICU-level care. In a February presentation to the American Hospital Association, Lawler estimated that as many as 96 million Americans could be infected.

Most people with COVID-19, however, will have only mild symptoms. Studies of cases in other countries suggest that some of those responsible for community spread were never identified as infected because they didn’t develop any symptoms...

Italy's Hospitals At The Stage of Collapse

Our trend of coronavirus cases mimics Italy's cases eleven days ago. We are eleven days behind them.  
Monday March 23 is that day!

This is us in eleven days. We have seven times the population as Italy. You can't deny the rate of the intensifying Pandemic is extraordinarily scary.  

Coronavirus: Italy’s hospitals overflow with the dead as toll tops 1,000

Officials in hard-hit Lombardy region have cut red tape for burials and processing of death certificates

Hospitals in Italy’s hard-hit Lombardy region, already overwhelmed trying to care for the increasing number of sick people in limited intensive care units, are overflowing with the dead.

Lombardy’s top health care official, Giulio Gallera, said at the request of the hospitals, the region had simplified the bureaucracy needed to process death certificates and bury the dead, with the death toll in Lombardy alone reaching 617 by late Wednesday.

Ok, We Got Millions Of Square Feet Of Empty Stores and Malls...How Do We Put This To Use

The stores and malls shuttered by eBay and Amazon. It is a huge resource and would be easy to be put back to use. 

In our battle to contain coronavirus, how could we use this resource efficiently? 

What Is The Coronavirus Pandemic Going To Teach Us

Sometimes for wrong reason, we set things in motion or neglect to fix problems when known, until it ignites a situation that is uncontrollable. The only way it stops is until the energy in system exhausted. Usually in the big failures,  it ends in the deaths of millions.

Why Did Trump Really Stop All Flight From Europe

This president is noted for political scams. Like the Biden/Ukraine and Russian scams. Personally I think Trump stopped air traffic from Europe as a current and future  political talking points for his kooks. He can stick out his chest and brag publicly that he limited the size of the Pandemic even as nobody trust his fight against the pandemic. It is all about what you can pump into the new sphere over and over again even if it counteracts the truth. The air stoppage is the politics he thinks can get him reelected.    

Electric Utility Stocks are Dropping Like a Rock

I see a lot more maintenance not happening and bankruptcies all around.