Do you think we could set-up a meeting with the Chinese students and Congressional Demo’s????
Cultural exchange and such.
Definitely to congress, and especially to the Virginia congress, the women's march and other such key gatherings.
Do you think we could set-up a meeting with the Chinese students and Congressional Demo’s????
Cultural exchange and such.
Do you think we could set-up a meeting with the Chinese students and Congressional Demo’s????
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Cultural exchange and such.
I had not heard of this before. Thank you for the information. It answers some questions I had about this earlier in the thread. I had thought a mask would be enough but I guess we need goggles too.The surface tension of the fluid on the outside of the eye acts like an attraction to the virus. Touching or rubbing the eye is one way to get it but also walking into a room where the virus has been aerosolized by a sneeze or a cough can transmit the virus to a person.
If a person were sick and wanted to slip past screeners, would tylenol knock the fever down enough to get through? Think not feeling well on the flight and not wanting to get turned back at the airport...
HUGE DISCLAIMER. This article is hair on fire doom. It was written by a style editor, not a scientist. It screams to me of a 'how do I get the most clicks' type of article - the key word in the headline being "COULD". A lot of horrible things COULD happen, the world COULD end tomorrow, etc... you get my drift. But because it's out there being read and discussed, I'll add it to the mix.
China's coronavirus could have same death rate as Spanish flu pandemic that killed 50m people
I have a question for the medical folks..
If a person were sick and wanted to slip past screeners, would tylenol knock the fever down enough to get through? Think not feeling well on the flight and not wanting to get turned back at the airport...
Following up on PPE (personal protective equipment) aspects of this news...
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Surgical masks as good as respirators for flu and respiratory virus protection
Researchers may finally have an answer in the long-running controversy over whether the common surgical mask is as effective as more expensive respirator-type masks in protecting health care workers from flu and other respiratory viruses.medicalxpress.com
September 3, 2019
Surgical masks as good as respirators for flu and respiratory virus protection
by UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dr. Trish Perl. Credit: UTSW
Researchers may finally have an answer in the long-running controversy over whether the common surgical mask is as effective as more expensive respirator-type masks in protecting health care workers from flu and other respiratory viruses.
A study published today in JAMA compared the ubiquitous surgical (or medical) mask, which costs about a dime, to a less commonly used respirator called an N95, which costs around $1. The study reported "no significant difference in the effectiveness" of medical masks vs. N95 respirators for prevention of influenza or other viral respiratory illness.
"This study showed there is no difference in incidence of viral respiratory transmission among health care workers wearing the two types of protection," said Dr. Trish Perl, Chief of UT Southwestern's Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine and the report's senior author. "This finding is important from a public policy standpoint because it informs about what should be recommended and what kind of protective apparel should be kept available for outbreaks."
Medical personnel—in particular nurses, doctors, and others with direct patient contact—are at risk when treating patients with contagious diseases such as influenza (flu). A large study conducted in a New York hospital system after the 2009 outbreak of H1N1, or swine flu, found almost 30 percent of health care workers in emergency departments contracted the disease themselves, Dr. Perl said.
During that pandemic, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended using the tighter-fitting N95 respirators, designed to fit closely over the nose and mouth and filter at least 95 percent of airborne particles, rather than the looser-fitting surgical masks routinely worn by health care workers, Dr. Perl said. But some facilities had trouble replenishing N95s as supplies were used.
In addition, there are concerns health care workers might be less vigilant about wearing the N95 respirators since many perceive them to be less comfortable than medical masks, such as making it harder to breathe and being warmer on the wearer's face.
Earlier clinical studies comparing the masks and respirators yielded mixed results, said Dr. Perl, also a Professor of Internal Medicine who holds the Jay P. Sanford Professorship in Infectious Diseases.
The new study was performed at multiple medical settings in seven cities around the country, including Houston, Denver, Washington, and New York, by researchers at the University of Texas, the CDC, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Colorado, Children's Hospital Colorado, the University of Massachusetts, the University of Florida, and several Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals. Researchers collected data during four flu seasons between 2011 and 2015, examining the incidence of flu and acute respiratory illnesses in the almost 2,400 health care workers who completed the study.
The project was funded by the CDC, the Veterans Health Administration, and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), which is part of the U.S. Health and Human Services Department and was founded in the years after Sept. 11, 2001, to help secure the nation against biological and other threats.
"It was a huge and important study—the largest ever done on this issue in North America," Dr. Perl said.
In the end, 207 laboratory-confirmed influenza infections occurred in the N95 groups versus 193 among medical mask wearers, according to the report. In addition, there were 2,734 cases of influenza-like symptoms, laboratory-confirmed respiratory illnesses, and acute or laboratory-detected respiratory infections (where the worker may not have felt ill) in the N95 groups, compared with 3,039 such events among medical mask wearers.
"The takeaway is that this study shows one type of protective equipment is not superior to the other," she said. "Facilities have several options to provide protection to their staff—which include surgical masks—and can feel that staff are protected from seasonal influenza. Our study supports that in the outpatient setting there was no difference between the tested protections."
Dr. Perl said she expects more studies to arise from the data collected in this report; she now plans to investigate the dynamics of virus transmission to better understand how respiratory viruses are spread.
I am currently at the hospital the U.S. case in quarantined at (wife's cancer surgery). I didn't have a clue until I walked past the news crew on my way to grab lunch... WooHoo! Ground Zero for WWZ (not).
— World Health Organization Western Pacific (@WHOWPRO) January 16, 2020
We are still in the early stages of understanding this new virus, where it came from, and how it affects people. There is still many unknowns, and the situation may continue to evolve.
— World Health Organization Western Pacific (@WHOWPRO) January 16, 2020
Some thing I've been thinking about. The numbers (as low as they are reporting them to be) are only the cases that have been admitted to the hospital with pneumonia. How many people are walking around Wuhan with sniffles and a scratchy throat who may have caught this but it didn't escalate to a critical stage? Are they contagious? Can they transmit the virus to someone else who could escalate into a worse case/pneumonia? How many "Typhoid Mary's" are there right now in China?
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Almost one in five known cases in Wuhan are critical or dead.
I have a question for the medical folks..
If a person were sick and wanted to slip past screeners, would tylenol knock the fever down enough to get through? Think not feeling well on the flight and not wanting to get turned back at the airport...
.heightening outbreak fears before the country’s week-long lunar new year holiday, which starts on Friday and during which hundreds of millions of people travel across the country
im sorry mike for your wifes struggles. we will be praying for you both.I am currently at the hospital the U.S. case in quarantined at (wife's cancer surgery). I didn't have a clue until I walked past the news crew on my way to grab lunch... WooHoo! Ground Zero for WWZ (not).
Did China really quarantine an entire city?
That level of response seems, "Unusual"; Almost as if they're genuinely worried about something.
That level of response seems, "Unusual"; Almost as if they're genuinely worried about something.
Aww Goose! Talk bout a war story! :: Passin ya hot tea in memory ::
At the time, as a new recruit, I thought "Well, it is the Army, I guess it's part of making us tough." But I can tell you, I went on to become a medic and then Army nursing school, and no hospital or field unit I worked in - 43rd MASH, Korea, Madigan Army Med Center, Washington, plus small field units with very, very limited equipment - would ever treat patients like that! I really think that place was out of bounds, completely! It's gone now, tore down a few years ago.
I pray that they overcome this terrible new disease, not only for the rest of the world, but for themselves. I pray they find comfort, that their families are reunited and that they have the basics of life met. We may be at odds with the government, but people are pretty much the same the world over. In the end, we are all inhabitants of a tiny, fragile blue/green paradise in the cold vacuum of space. Prayers for the people of Wuhan. Prayers for us all.