Coronavirus Thread

[93Regina]

Ford has a ventilator design using F-150 seat fans......

Respirator, not ventilator....."Ford announced today that it is partnering with 3M in order to manufacture powered air-purifying respirators (PAPRs) as part of its response to the COVID-19 pandemic. These respirators are often called positive-pressure masks as they take contaminated air, pull it through a filter, then push it to the sealed mask using an air blower. "
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Ford, GE Healthcare to produce 50,000 ventilators by July using this tiny company’s design

Ford and GE Healthcare have licensed a ventilator design from Airon Corp and plan to produce as many as 50,000 of them at a Michigan factory by July as part of a broader effort to provide a critical medical device used to treat people with COVID-19.

[93Regina]

Johnson & Johnson Is Already Ramping Up Production On Its $1 Billion Coronavirus Vaccine - could roll out to the public by early 2021.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrew ... us-vaccine

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28 Mar 2020 - Twitter Speak: DrMattMcCarthy - NEW: CDC guidance on masks expected to change in next 10 days. Americans will be advised to wear masks in everyday life. Current recommendation is for high-risk groups only.

CDC is weighing advising Americans to wear face masks outdoors
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is considering whether to update its guidelines on the new coronavirus to advise Americans to wear ...
Yahoo News


Tucker Carlson: We understand there's a shortage of medical masks. Stop lying to us and tell the truth
The government has told us dumb lies about the medical mask shortage from the start of the coronavirus outbreak.
Fox News

[93Regina]

Bend it like the Bay Area: Doctors see flatter curve after 2 weeks of social isolation

SAN FRANCISCO — State leaders and doctors are cautiously optimistic that the Bay Area's early moves to lock down residents two weeks ago have prevented surges of coronavirus patients from overwhelming the region's health care capacity thus far.

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Scientists find evidence that coronavirus COVID-19 is airborne

A new study has found that the coronavirus COVID-19 could be transmissable through the air

Up until now, it was widely known that the coronavirus COVID-19 could be transmitted from human-to-human through surfaces and droplets from an infected persons mouth. Now, a study has come out suggesting that the virus can be spread through the air.

According to a new joint study that was released over the weekend by the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), the National Strategic Research Institute at the University of Nebraska and others, researchers found evidence to suggest that SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) is airborne. Researchers took samples from 11 patients' rooms who were placed in isolation and found the virus' genetic material on many commonly used surfaces such as toilets. What was surprising is that the researchers also took air samples and found positive results for SARS-CoV-2.

The paper states, "air samplers from hallways outside of rooms where [the] staff was moving in and out of doors were also positive." These recent findings indicate that COVID-19 might be spreading from person-to-person through surfaces, direct droplets, and now indirect contact through airborne transmission. While the results seem to confirm the news that COVID-19 is airborne, the researchers do say that the findings are yet to be finalized and scientists can't say how much the virus being airborne is spreading the disease.

"These findings indicate that disease might be spread through both direct (droplet and person-to-person) as well as indirect contact (contaminated objects and airborne transmission) and suggests airborne isolation precautions could be appropriate." Patients who even have mild symptoms of the virus, "may create aerosols of virus and contaminate surfaces that may pose a risk for transmission."

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That's what I said...like cigarette smoke, it floats around

[93Regina]

Note - "Patients who even have mild symptoms of the virus, "may create aerosols of virus and contaminate surfaces that may pose a risk for transmission."

So far, only 2 affected in county....I'm trying to find out if wives were affected....so far, no new cases reported in county.

[volvolugnut]

More statistics on US states and COVID-19 growth rates. My raw information is from Worldometer. Any errors or misrepresentations are my own.

These tables show all available US states and territories and the COVID-19 data for the last 4 days. I have sorted the states alphabetically and added growth rates for last several days for all states with ranking of each day. Of course, this information changes daily. I have presented the table in two parts because of the screen shot, but it is actually one table in Excel.

Again, results change daily.

There was an error in the spreadsheet I posted yesterday. The March 26 growth rate number was incorrect for all states and distorted the 5 day average for all states. Today's moving average is for 4 days. Tomorrow I will return to 5 day moving average calculation.

I have noticed that some of the states with smallest infection totals (typically states that had first infections later), have some of the fastest growth rate. I suspect these states delayed effective control measures like stay at home orders and the initial spread was rapid. As states issue control orders, the growth rates appear to drop after several days.

Several states did not have new case data yesterday. This will distort their averages for the next several days.

I hope this is of interest.

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