The ship that is hovering off the Florida coast, the Zaandam, is registered in the Netherlands, which last I checked is a first world country. There is no reason to risk having this ship dock in the United States, especially as most on the cruise now are not even US citizens (though there are some).
Why can’t it just go to the Netherlands Antilles? The Zaandam is a relatively modest size ship (we actually took a cruise on it two summers ago to Alaska), and there are deep water ports available there. Let the Netherlands deal with this. If there is one thing that this crisis should have taught us by now, it is that borders and countries matter.
It’s news - and the biggest news about Coronavirus in the US. Skip the NY comments. Don’t get the whole thread shut down because you’re annoyed by something.
Michigan hospital reaches capacity, doctor says
From CNN’s Jasmine Wright
Henry Ford Health System said one of its six hospitals in Michigan has “reached capacity,” after a photo of a doctor from the Macomb hospital with the caption “no more ICU beds,” circulated Twitter.
Covid-19 cases have flooded Michigan, specifically the Southeast region near Detroit.
A statement provided from Dr. Adnan Munkarah, EVP and Chief Clinical Officer, confirmed the issue to CNN:
“We are continuing to balance ICU capacity across our health system, transferring patients when necessary. Like some of our other acute care hospitals, Henry Ford Macomb Hospital has reached capacity and we are working aggressively with clinical partners in the region in an effort to transfer additional patients.”
The status of the other five hospitals was not readily available, but in its daily update, the hospital system said it had 360 intensive care units all together. As of 11 a.m. ET, the system had more than 680 hospitalized coronavirus patients.
Thousands. It’s in here somewhere I think if you search on the boats names. I think I posted about it a week or so ago.
My guess, given his comments yesterday, Trump and his team will make a decision on it and my guess is it will be handled the way Grand Princess was handled. It’s just not good optics otherwise. Time will tell…
This was posted in the other Covid-19 thread. Many posters indicated that benefit checks are staggered throughout the beginning of the month based on SS# so it sounds like this isn’t really true.
Personally, I’m interested in what’s happening in NYC, just like I was interested in what was happening in King’s County Washington a few weeks ago. It’s national news.
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I’m willing to stop bringing up Florida if the constant updates on all NY minutia stop. I could care less about whatever the NY governor has to say every day, for example.
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Connecticut governor says hunt for protective equipment is “not going that well”
CNN
Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont asked how the battle for personal protective equipment and ventilators is going with the national stockpile depleted. “It’s not going that well” Lamont said.
“We’re down there fighting every day” adding that a team of at least 40 people is sourcing down every protective gear lead it can coming from all over the world.
“We’re scrambling at this stuff” the governor said.
Lamont described the frustrating process that his state is going through.
“We’ve got it on the tarmac, then it’s rerouted we have it ready for delivery and then it’s put off for another week and it’s a bit of a mess out there, and you’re playing with people’s lives” Lamont said, echoing his previous sentiments on CNN’s Sit Room this week.
Former NYPD commissioner will oversee distribution of coronavirus medical supplies across NYC hospitals
From CNN’s Elizabeth Hartfield
Former NYPD commissioner James O’Neill has been appointed to oversee the supply and distribution of personal protective equipment and medical equipment within New York City hospitals as the demands continue to grow as a result of the coronavirus crisis, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced in a press release on Wednesday.
In this role, O’Neill will “create, operationalize and manage a supply inspection regime within the hospitals to ensure the rapid turnaround of new supplies and verify each hospital is pushing needed equipment to frontline health care workers,” according to the mayor’s office.
In some ways, I hope we don’t. That would mean lots of areas are getting screwed by the virus. Media attention in the context of Covid-19 is not a prize any state wants.
I just saw this on Twitter. “Governor DeSantis now says he’ll take the 49 Floridians off the cruise ship sitting of his shores. He won’t take the other 250 Americans or the 400 Canadians.”
Please post here if you see more on this development. Thanks!
As others have already stated, NY is a huge hotspot, with case and death counts larger than most countries. That’s why it is getting posted about - yes, by me and others. If you’ve actually been reading the thread, you’ll also notice I post TONS about other places around the globe so your criticism of me here is unfounded. You’ve made it quite clear by your numerous posts dissing Cuomo that you are not a fan. We all get that.
IMO, people can post about NY. They can post about FL or any other area of the country or world. What isn’t needed, IMO, is the back and forth the past week or two with some misplaced “competition” between the two states.
With re: NY and/or FL news – personally, I am interested in both. My D20 happens to be choosing between a college in NYC and a college in Tallahassee at the moment, so any and all news about both areas is helpful for me. This is college confidential, after all. There are numerous colleges/universities in NYS as well as FL. IMO, if you aren’t interested in reading about one particular area or another, you are free to disregard. Personal choice.
All Israelis should wear face masks while in public as a precaution against the coronavirus, and upcoming Jewish, Muslim and Christian holidays should be marked only with immediate family, its prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said.
In televised remarks, Netanyahu also announced curbs on movement around an ultra-Orthodox Jewish town that has experienced a disproportionately large outbreak.
Israel has taken stringent measures to try to halt the spread of the virus, after recording more than 6,000 cases. At least 25 Israelis have died of Covid-19, according to Israeli health ministry data.
“We ask you, citizens of Israel, all of you, to wear masks in the public sphere,” Netanyahu said in televised remarks, adding that people could improvise “with a scarf or any other facial covering” in the absence of factory-produced masks.
he Netherlands is proposing establishing a fund for the worst-hit nations and has asked other countries in the EU to contribute, its finance minister Wopke Hoekstra has said.
The Netherlands was criticised by southern European countries who accused it of lacking solidarity in its response to the coronavirus. Hoekstra told the Reuters news agency:
What we are proposing is a healthcare emergency fund to which the Netherlands would make a very substantial contribution,.
It would be roughly a billion euros and that would be a gift as a sign of solidarity intended for countries dealing with the coronavirus.
The Netherlands received positive reactions from other nations within the 27-member bloc to the proposal, Hoekstra said.
That is a scary description of how an individual state has to fight for supplies. Is that the way it’s going to be, after all? Even after the talk of having it be nationally distributed?
Many of the lower rated counties in California are rural or agricultural counties. Perhaps it is miscategorizing as “non-essential” trips that are made by those involved in food production and distribution (normally seen as “essential”)?
