Update On Coronavirus, COVID-19, 3/10/2020
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Andrew Cuomo, Governor of New York (Attribution: Pat Amow, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en, Presented at: WindermereSun.com)
Tweet of Mike Baker, tally of COVID-19 cases in USA recorded on each Tuesday between 1/14/2020-3/10-2020 (map attribution: nyties.com , Presented at: WindermereSun.com)
Symptoms of coronavirus disease 2019 (attribution: Mikael Häggström, M.D.,Presented at: WindermereSun.com)
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For updated info & data on COVID-19, please click HERE.
On Tuesday, March 10, 2020, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced he is implementing a “containment zone” around a one-mile radius in the city of New Rochelle, which has the largest cluster of cases in the country, in the video “New York Implements ‘Containment Zone’ Around Coronavirus Cluster, NBC Nightly News“, below:
The number of cases in the state has soared to at least 173, with two school bus drivers and a Barclays employee testing positive, in the video “New York orders nation’s first coronavirus containment zone“, published on March 10, 2020, below:
Unprecedented measures are being enforced right across Italy to try to limit the spread of Coronavirus. As the number of cases and deaths rise sharply Italy faces growing isolation with thousands of flights cancelled and stringent controls on its borders with Austria and Slovenia. Public gatherings including sports events are banned, and schools and universities are closed. Italians are being advised to stay at home. In the UK, a 6th person has died and the number of cases has risen to 382, in the video “Coronavirus – Italy in lockdown – BBC News“, below:
Giacomo Grasselli – a senior Italian government health official who is coordinating the network of intensive care units in Lombardy – explains the “critical” situation in Italy, brought about by the Covid-19 outbreak, in the video “Coronavirus ‘worse than a bomb’ on Italy, says doctor coordinating response“, below:
A man in his 80s with underlying health issues has become the sixth person in the UK to die after testing positive for the virus, in the video “Coronavirus: UK cases rise to 373 as sixth person dies“, published on March 10, 2020, below:
Italy’s government has ordered some of the harshest measures outside China to try and contain the Coronavirus. The country has the worst outbreak in Europe, in the video “Should countries follow Italy’s coronavirus quarantine? Inside Story“, published on March 9, 2020, below:
New York is under a state of emergency as the number of COVID-19 cases continues to rise. Officials are also worried the virus is spreading undetected, because there’s a shortage of test kits, in the video “New York’s COVID-19 outbreak: How big cities are coping, The Weekly with Wendy Mesley“, published on March 8, 2020, below:
Johns Hopkins experts brief Capitol Hill staffers in Washington, D.C. about the coronavirus. More information about COVID-19 can be found at https://coronavirus.jhu.edu., in the video, published on March 6, 2020, “John Hopkins Experts Brief Capitol Hill on Coronavirus“, below:
CEO of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations Dr Richard Hatchett explains the long-term dangers of the Covid-19 coronavirus – saying it’s the scariest outbreak he’s dealt with in his 20-year career, in the video “Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)“, published on March 6, 2020, below:
The coronavirus worldwide death toll now tops 3,000 with nearly 90,000 cases. Even those numbers are nothing compared to what could happen in the months ahead. Jim Axelrod reports, in the video “Epidemiologist predicts effects of coronavirus in the months ahead“, published on March 2, 2020, below:
Joseph Fair, a virologist, epidemiologist and NBC News Science contributor, joins Lester Holt in New York City to explain how Americans can protect themselves on public transit, at home and in the workplace amid the coronavirus outbreak, in the video “Coronavirus: Virologist Explains Americans’ Best Defenses in Public Places, NBC Nightly News“, below:
As for individual citizens, wash your hands often, stop shaking hands, be sure to get sufficient rest, be well nourished, exercised, drink plenty of hot water and ginger tea, and decrease unnecessary social contacts.
Some of the basics needed in prepping for potential self-quarantine:
- Hand cleanser (soap & water & hand sanitizer)
- Cleaning products: for cleaning household surfaces such as countertops, faucets, door knobs, drawer pulls, light switches, telephone, handles of brooms, mops, etc., for reference list suggested by CDC, click HERE.)
- Laundry detergent
- Food (at least 3 weeks worth of staples:beans, pasta, rice, canned vegetables, frozen food, canned soup, shelf-stable milk, or dehydrated food, etc.)
- Water (be it in bottled water form or activated carbon filter pitcher and/or distiller)
- Face masks
- Prescription meds (talk to your doctor as to how much of your prescription meds need to be stocked)
- Over-the-counter medicine (acetaminophen, ibuprofen, cough medicine, etc.)
- Thermometer
- Robust WiFi
- Video conferencing services
- Entertainment (check out: Netflix’s Pandemic & Amazon’s Contagion)
- Exercise guides or equipment
You may be interested in these podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/worldaffairs/id101215657
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- Global Town Hall: Coronavirus – Facts & Fear & What To Prep For
- U.S. Senate Homeland Security Committee Meeting On Containing The COVID-19
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- Americans Should Get Ready: It Is Not A Question Of “If” But “When” COVID-19 Will Spread In USA
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- Update Of COVID-19 Or nCoV-2019, As Of Feb. 19, 2020
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