@mom717 From what I’ve seen on campus, college students generally are completely worried or completely not worried.
Many in my state are on wells. No power = no water, the standard advice is to have water on hand for at least 2 weeks. We had hurricanes go through here some years back that several times caused extended power outages. Can’t flush the toilet without water to pour into it to make it flu when there is no power. Not a fun situation! But I agree, the water thing does puzzle me. maybe it is that they are considering that if things get bad enough and they have to order people to stay home, that could take down parts of the power grid as workers who support its running are home or sick???
It is scary and frustrating but I think now that the CDC and the US government is starting to approach a response they should have had all along in my opinion. I am hopeful that the spread will start to slow as people finally do something here. I do think that much of the spread is from people contaminating their own faces with unclean hands and that’s something we have control over, which is a good thing. I’m trying to think more positively. The situation overall is extremely depressing.
2 cases of coronavirus in Pennsylvania
"Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced the first two confirmed cases of coronavirus in the state of Pennsylvania.
“I want to assure Pennsylvanians that we are prepared for this. This is not the first rapidly spreading virus we have faced, and it certainly will not be our last,” Wolf said in a tweet.
Here’s what we know about the two people:
One is an adult from Wayne County and is currently in their home in isolation. The person recently traveled to a country where COVID-19 is present.
Another is from an adult from Delaware County and is also in their home in isolation. The person recently traveled to an area of the United States where COVID-19 is present." (CNN)
I think some of this fear/frustration is out of lack of transparency. In my town we just received an email from the HS Principal saying that with the new regs from CDC the few families in town who have recently traveled abroad as of Wednesday were asked to keep their kids home for the timeline recommended. HOWEVER the Principal did not mention if the kids have already been to school and NOW are being held out - error of omission or what? He is not answering any emails/calls re this so parents are left in the dark.
We are not looking for the who, just the where - were the kids in the school or not? A little info goes a LONG way in maintaining trust in these strange times.
Heartsick beyond words for those families dealing with the actual virus and sad that our children have to live in a world slightly upside down at the moment.
CZECH REPUBLIC - 6 new cases, TOTAL: 18.
The Czech Republic will fine you up to $130,000 if you break quarantine
"The Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic has announced new measures for people returning from Italy, ordering every Czech resident who came back from the country starting tomorrow to contact their doctor and self-quarantine for 14 days.
The ministry said that the order has been issued due to the significant spread of the novel coronavirus in Italy and the fact that a majority of people who have tested positive for the virus in the Czech Republic have been infected during their stay in Italy.
“According to our information, there are currently 16,500 Czech citizens in Italy,” the ministry said in a statement.
The ministry has ordered family doctors to quarantine anyone coming back from Italy for 14 days. The statement added that anyone breaching a quarantine can be fined up to 3 million Czech crowns — about $130,000.
It said that people in quarantine are entitled to receive sick pay and urged employers to allow people who are quarantined but not sick to work remotely." (CNN)
Assume the answer is yes - they were in school. That’s what happened in my town. They were following what the government told them then the govt tightened the protocol. Not the fault of families or schools.
Why would coronavirus cause the power to go out…for you folks who gave wells?
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accuses China of setting back coronavirus prevention efforts
"Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused China of putting the rest of the world “behind the curve” in trying to contain the coronavirus outbreak. Pompeo said it has proven “incredibly frustrating” to work with the Chinese government around obtaining data on the coronavirus, “which will ultimately be the solution to both getting the vaccine and attacking this risk.”
“Remember, this is the Wuhan coronavirus that’s caused this, and the information that we got at the front end of this thing wasn’t perfect and has led us now to a place where much of the challenge we face today has put us behind the curve,” Pompeo said in an interview with CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”" (CNBC)
Some good tips - one I haven’t heard before.
"And when it comes to the overhead air vent, the consensus is that having it blow air toward you is better than using it to blow air away.
“The air in the plane blower has been filtrated, which can remove more than 99% of dust and microbes in the air,” said Fielding of UCLA. “By having the vent blow on you, you create an invisible air barrier around you that creates turbulence – simultaneously blocking any droplets that may have viruses within them and forcing them down to the ground.” "
I don’t understand the water thing either and I’m one of those who has well water! I didn’t stock up on bottled water. It wasn’t even a passing thought; I’m not worried about losing power. I only buy bottled/jugs of water if there is a blizzard or hurricane warning. We fill our tub with water to ensure we can flush our toilets.
Everyone around here is already advised to have water on hand because of past wide-spread, long lasting power outages in our state. We had several that lasted almost 2 weeks. The power will sometimes go out in the future related to weather issues and if that combined with a big uptick in covid-19 cases around here, it could take an extra long time to get power back on.
There were many HS trips to Italy for the February presidents day week. The kids did go back to school right afterwards but with a caution that if anyone who was on the trip got sick, they needed to report it ASAP
BELGIUM - 59 new cases for a total of 109, more than doubling in the last 24 hours.
Belgian authorities said that they expect the numbers to continue to rise, adding that most of the patients have recently travelled in Italy but there have also been contaminations within the country.
NETHERLANDS - 46 new cases for a total of 128. First death in the Netherlands - an 86-year-year old man. who died in hospital in the port city of Rotterdam.
PERU - 1st confirmed case
TOGO - 1st confirmed case. The patient is a 42-year old female resident of the capital Lome who had visited Benin, Germany, France and Turkey in late February and early March.
SLOVAKIA - 1st case in a man who had visited his son in Venice.
“Today, a 52-year-old patient was confirmed to be infected,” the prime minister, Peter Pellegrini, told journalists on Friday. He said the man, who has not been named, is hospitalised in Bratislava.
“The patient did not travel anywhere recently but his son returned from Venice a couple of weeks ago,” Pellegrini added. The patient’s sample was tested twice, so there is no doubt about coronavirus, according to the prime minister.
“His son has not shown any signs of illness,” Pellegrini said.
UK - 47 new cases for a total of 163. 1 new death for a total of 2.
A daily update of figures on UK’s Department of Health website:
of 7am on 6 March 2020, 20,338 people have been tested in the UK, of which 20,175 were confirmed negative and 163 were confirmed as positive.
5 new cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in Scotland, taking the total to 11. The new Covid-19 cases are in two in Fife, and one each in Grampian, Forth Valley and Lothian health board areas. It is the largest increase in a day since the first case in Scotland was confirmed on Sunday evening.
FRANCE - 154 new cases totaling 577, 2 new deaths totaling 9.
Among the new cases are an MP and a bus driver from near Orly airport south of Paris.
Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday he believed an epidemic was “unavoidable”. Around 150 schools are now closed, leaving 45,000 pupils and 3,000 teachers and professors at home. There are no plans as yet to cancel the baccalaureate exams that take place in May and June.
The French authorities have imposed a €3 maximum price on a 100ml bottle of hand gel. The decree comes into effect today (Friday) until 31 May.
French President Emmanuel Macron urged citizens to avoid visiting relatives in retirement homes to prevent exposing them to possible coronavirus infection. “We must avoid visiting our elderly relatives as much as possible,” Macron said Friday during a visit to a retirement home in Paris. —Reuters
GREECE - 14 new cases totaling 45.
The new cases could all be traced to a pilgrimage taken by a group of travelers to Israel and Egypt - with three described as people they had come in contact with.
A 65 year-old man who had also attended the trip was in serious condition in a hospital in the western port city of Patras.
Greek authorities announced they would extend containment policies in three western regions – Achaia, Ileia and the island of Zakynthos – for another two weeks to try and prevent the outbreak spreading to other parts of the country.
In an unprecedented step Thursday, the government announced it was shutting all schools, cancelling sports events and prohibiting large public gatherings in the regions. Organised tours to and from the areas have also been shelved. Given the spread of infections across Europe, the health ministry says a ban on school trips abroad will also be prolonged until at least the middle of the month." (Guardian)
The campaign to shift the blame has begun. China is just too easy an target. No one in DC takes responsibility. Who’s to blame for not taking the disease seriously? For the lack of preparation and for the lack of testing kits?
Summit county Colorado, 30 year old who had been in Italy, skiing At Keystone and Vail, and staying at condo in Keystone, tested positive. Was instructed to go to lower altitude.
Keystone has had an outbreak of Mumps recently, so this is not good news for them.
Again, the water thing isn’t because they’re afraid of something happening to your water.
Places like flint still need to get bottled water just like they do food. Quarantine = no going out to get more water.
If you drink water straight out of the tap, the water suggestion isn’t for you.
Just like the stock up on prescription meds isn’t for you if you don’t take them
Today make 2 weeks since the February break and the big quarantine in Italy. People that came back and were infected have already spread and the people that aren’t should be ok. If we ever start testing our own people on a large scale (like other industrialized countries) we will really see where we are.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/health/coronavirus-deaths-rates.html
Great article interviewing a mathematician who models pandemics, explaining the significance of some of the numbers we’ve been hearing. The most striking, for me, is extrapolating from one death.
There are coronavirus cases in 20 US states
(CNN)
There are 231 cases of the novel coronavirus in the United States, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as state and local governments.
This includes presumptive positive cases that tested positive in a public health lab and are pending confirmation from the CDC, and confirmed cases have received positive results from the CDC.
These numbers also include 49 cases of people who traveled back to the US from elsewhere in the world (46 from the Diamond Princess cruise ship; 3 from Wuhan, China).
Here’s a state-by-state breakdown of cases around the US:
Arizona – 2
California – 49 (includes 1 fatality)
Colorado - 2
Florida – 4
Georgia - 2
Illinois - 5
Maryland - 3
Massachusetts - 3
Nevada - 1
New Hampshire – 2
New Jersey - 2
New York - 22
North Carolina - 1
Oregon - 3
Pennsylvania- 2
Rhode Island - 2
Tennessee - 1
Texas - 5
Washington state - 70 (includes 13 fatalities)
Wisconsin – 1
Last night, the region we had been skiing in was declared a high risk area. So as of today, all three kids are in quarantine. Kinda expected this would happen, they just tried to hold out as long as they could because they knew how many skiers have returned from there last weekend, and they just don’t have the testing capacity. Since every kid has, as of today, either a sore throat or a headache, I need to get them all tested as well, and have been on call back from the service number for hours. I know service hours have finished for the week 15 min ago, so no testing until Monday, but as they are in quarantine for the week, it’s kinda moot.
Having been tested myself, I can go out, and would even have to go to work on Monday if symptom free (still have a sore throat, though). Husband feeling kinda worn out from the week of doing things alone because I was in self isolation, so let’s see what happens - on one side of the state line (where he teaches and two of my kids go to school) they still want public school teachers to come in even if they have travelled in high risk areas and are symptom free, on the other side, where another hoes to school, they don’t. There is no logic to any of this.
Going out to get groceries now - let’s see what I find!