**USA - 2 more coronavirus cases confirmed in Washington
"Seattle & King County Public Health “announced on Sunday two more confirmed cases of COVID-19 in King County residents, bringing the total of confirmed cases” in the county to six, and eight in the state, according to a Seattle & King County Public Health press release.
The two new cases are both males in their 60s with underlying health conditions. One is “in critical but stable condition” at Valley Medical Center in Renton. The other is in critical condition at Virginia Mason Medical Center, the release said.
“This number is expected to rise as more people are tested and results confirmed,” according to the release.
A spokesperson for Washington Public Health said they were aware of the new cases." (CNN)
Can anybody account for all 8? 2 today, 2 yesterday from the LTC facility, the one who died, the very first case awhile back that recovered. 2 more?
ETA info from KIRO 7 News:
“Labs in Washington are performing up to 200 tests per day to see who else may have the virus. Additional cases are expected…On Saturday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention flew in 10 experts to help the local health department track where the coronavirus came from. …Several fire crews from Kirkland previously responded to the coronavirus patients at Life Care Center. When they showed up, they had no idea that they were potentially exposed to this contagious disease. Seven firefighters from Station 21 were quarantined Saturday. None of them showed symptoms as of Saturday evening.”
I am going to the Gartner conference in Grapevine Texas in 3 weeks. I wonder if they will cancel the conference?
I am sitting in the food course of a ski resort here in north jersey. No empty table for us to eat. There are many people here, the bathroom line is 10 mins long. Parking lots are overflown I had to park half a mile away. No hand sanitizer anywhere people just go about their business enjoying the fake snow. I like what I see.
This normalcy wasn’t worth a mentioning if it wasn’t for Covi.
Question for microbiologists:
How do ethanol based hand sanitizers disrupt/kill protein coated viruses? When I studied microbiology we learned that ethanol at 70% kills bacteria and fungi through osmotic disruption of cell membranes. Proteins, including viral coat proteins, are susceptible to denaturation by phenol or oxidation by bleach or peroxide, but are relatively impervious to ethanol. Yet virtually every expert recommends ethanol based hand sanitizers.
Ethanol sanitizers do act as efficient surfactants to assist removal of virus particles from skin, but do they actually inactivate the virus? I like the advice presented in the pinned thread with recommendation for nitrile gloves. In addition to reducing the chance you will touch your face while wearing gloves, it is easy to wash gloved hands in dilute bleach- something you wouldn’t do without gloves.
Smart & Final was fully stocked with gloves & hand sanitizer last week. Heading back today to look for zinc based lozenges and more gloves! (Southern California)
man who died
two new cases today, both men in their 60s, both in critical condition
high school boy
woman who traveled to S. Korea
unidentified man
female health care worker at long term care
woman in her 70s at long term care
I heard the HHS Secretary say that the nursing home in Kirkland, Washington had some connection with or sent patients to the hospital where the man died of COVID-19.
A student who had been quarantined at UC Davis was tested and does NOT have the virus.
Workers at the Louvre want that museum to be closed. Tens of thousands of people from all over visit it everyday.
Does anyone know if domestic flights are doing anything out of the ordinary to clean and make flights as safe as possible? Or is it just not possible given that everyone is sharing and breathing the same air for the duration of the flight?
My son took a total of 4 flights this weekend and I’m scheduled to fly (within the country) at the end of the month. Are we just hedging our bets by flying?
I live not too far from the area. The hospital is in a large medical campus with a number of nearby affiliated medical clinics, including primary care and geriatrics specialists, the system. The majority of folks who live nearby use that hospital system, so even if they never stepped into the hospital building, yes they have “connection.” Several members of my family have been to the hospital ER in the past and have nothing but good things to say about their staff and the level of care.
I tell you, it’s a little freaky reading about the outbreak in WA. I go to somewhere in Kirkland pretty much every day I’m home… the gym, Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s. Have had a number of procedures at Evergreen. I have t been home for a week. Have people been flooding the Costco’s, cleaning out all the store shelves, @BunsenBurner? It’s just weird to be reading about this…
@catahoula, maybe I’m remembering this incorrectly, but isn’t the 60 seconds for sanitizers with bleach, otherwise four minutes? Maybe someone can confirm this.
@TatinG The SouthernSociety of Neurosurgeons met in Scottsdale last week. It is business as usual. My son went. He also said one member of their practice was vacationing in Spain last week and another was debating his trip, scheduled this week.
Waived change fees on new tickets
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ANGOLA - Angola will prohibit the entry of citizens from China, South Korea, Italy, Iran, Nigeria, Egypt and Algeria, if they travel directly from those countries as a precaution, official news agency ANGOP reported. The restriction would not apply to citizens that had travelled via a third country, the report said. (Al Jazeera)
Okie dokie. Now everyone will come in the indirect route.
ISRAEL - 3 new cases for a total of 10. Two of the new cases had recently returned from a trip to Italy, and the third is thought to have been infected within Israel. All have “light” symptoms.
MEXICO - 5th case confirmed - located in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, an 18-year-old woman who had been studying in Milan and had recently returned to Chiapas state. The woman is asymptomatic. Authorities said she had returned to Mexico after her school in Italy closed because of the crisis.
ECUADOR - 5 new cases after the 1st was confirmed yesterday. Total is 6 - all relatives of an elderly woman who brought the virus from Spain. They are presenting mild symptoms.
CANADA - 4 new cases of coronavirus confirmed in Ontario bringing Canada’s total to 24 of which 15 are in Ontario. 8 are in BC and 1 in Quebec.
a man in his 50s who is a Toronto resident temporarily living in Vaughan. The man is the brother of a patient who traveled to Iran.
-a man in his 40s who is the spouse of the York region's first Iran travel-related case announced Saturday. He traveled with his wife and toddler but was asymptomatic on flights. He self-isolated at home before becoming symptomatic,.
-a man in his 60s who returned from Iran on February 23.
a woman in her 70s from Newmarket who was in contact with a person who recently reported positive after traveling from Egypt.
