New Coronavirus - COVID-19

[Xist]

Tesla is supposed to start making ventilators. Volkswagen will, too.

Can you imagine fighting for your life and seeing a Fiat logo on your ventilator?

- "New York and Illinois on Friday followed California in telling tens of millions of people to stay at home in the most sweeping measures the United States has taken so far to try to contain the coronavirus crisis.

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy said he planned to give similar orders shutting down all but essential businesses within the next 24 hours. " -Reuters

- "President Trump declares major disaster in New York state due to coronavirus, orders federal assistance" -BNO News

- "German carmaker Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) said on Friday it was joining other manufacturers around the world to explore using 3D printing to make hospital ventilators to combat the coronavirus. " -Reuters

- "Chilean president Sebastian Pinera is under growing pressure to announce a national quarantine by opposition leaders, medical experts and local mayors, who have launched their own measures to try to curb the spread of the new coronavirus. " -Reuters

- "Cuba will bar foreign visitors from entering the country for a month starting Tuesday in a bid to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus in the Caribbean island nation, President Miguel Diaz-Canel said on Friday. " -Reuters

- "Negotiations on a possible $1 trillion coronavirus economic stimulus bill were moving ahead, but agreement by a deadline at midnight on Friday deal was becoming elusive with several major issues dividing congressional Republicans and Democrats, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said." -Reuters

- "Mainland China reported zero locally transmitted cases of the coronavirus for a third day running, while the daily log of infections involving travellers arriving from other countries continued to rise." -Reuters

- "New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern urged people on Saturday to cut non-essential internal travel and asked older residents to stay at home to help combat the spread of the coronavirus, which has now infected more than 50 people in the island nation.

The 39-year-old leader said in a televised address that she will keep schools open for now, in a similar policy employed in neighboring Australia." -Reuters

- "Germany may enforce a nationwide curfew if the country’s 83 million people fail to keep their distance from each other this weekend to curb the spread of coronavirus, government and health leaders said on Friday. " -Reuters

- "New Zealand has introduced a COVID-19 alert system. It's currently at Level 2 nationwide but different levels can be declared for parts of the country" -BNO News

- "Madagascar reports first 3 cases of coronavirus" -BNO News

- "UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered the closure of bars, clubs, restaurants, leisure centers, theaters and gyms - Sky News" -BNO News

- "While most governments are asking people to stop panic buying, Taiwan's premier is taking a different approach: "Buy as much as possible, there's plenty of goods .. As the economy is slowing down, of course the government encourages everyone to enthusiastically buy" - REU" -BNO News

https://imgur.com/gallery/0DxVknQ

[oil pan 4]

The auto industry had been looking for excuses to sell more cars or slow down. There was a GM union labor dispute in MI last year. I hear it was negotiated to shut down production for a week and make it look like the union won when really both the union and corporate got exactly what they needed.

[oil pan 4]

Originally Posted by freebeard

The American public's approval has risen from 46% to 55%. [citation needed]

Here's an article from February the First:
[URL="https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/01/us-australia-close-border-chinese-arrivals-amid-cornoavirus-outbreak-12166512/"]metro.co.uk: Nations ramp up border controls as Coronoavirus death toll rises

Read more: https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/01/us-au...2/?ito=cbshare

USofA and Oztralia followed Russia, Mongolia and North Korea. I fail to see how trading in mid-Feb was insider trading.

I can't find anything on Madagascar. Have they shut. Down. EVERYTHING.

Russia have positioned themselves well for the aftermath so here's a celebration from one of my favorite bands, Otava Yo— Medieval Disco:

Trump called the state department "the deep state department" I'm pretty sure shortly after that I heard the sound of his approval rating going up another 1%.

[Fat Charlie]

Originally Posted by Xist

Tesla is supposed to start making ventilators. Volkswagen will, too.

Can you imagine fighting for your life and seeing a Fiat logo on your ventilator?

https://imgur.com/gallery/0DxVknQ

Just so long as it doesn't say Takata.

[oil pan 4]

If your ventilator says "fiat" then you'll both have something in common. Both you and your machine are struggling to stay alive.

[Xist]

...and you need to be bailed out?

I love that auto manufacturers are switching to making ventilators. That cannot be easy or cheap.

This site says that ventilators for ICUs cost $25,000 - 50,000: High-Acuity Ventilator Cost Guide

The U.S. has about 200,000 ventilators and 135,000 respiratory therapists to run them. WebM.D. says that we may need up to 960,000 ventilators. U.S. May Not Have Enough Ventilators for COVID-19

Of course, these are international corporations, and this is a global pandemic, but how many countries can afford these? This post starts out saying that ventilators are available, but hospitals cannot afford them, but then says that hospitals aren't buying more because this is only a temporary spike: More lifesaving ventilators are available. Hospitals can’t afford them.

As a Stanford postdoc a decade ago, Matt Callaghan created the designs for a streamlined, low-cost ventilator that hospitals could stockpile, to prepare for the possibility of a global pandemic.

But when he went on to cofound a company, One Breath, he and colleagues determined that the immediate need was producing cheaper ventilators for critical care in the developing world, where chronic respiratory illnesses are among the leading causes of death.

The company raised several million dollars, set up manufacturing in Southeast Asia, and finally expected to begin production for its initial markets within the next 12 months.

We need more ventilators. Here’s what it will take to get them.

FDA authorizes first rapid, 'point of care' coronavirus test
These should begin shipping next week.

[freebeard]

Jimmy Dore: Government Building Field Hospitals To Handle Pandemic

This is in King County [Seattle] where my son is sick but still working the weekend.

'1/3 of cases in NYC'

Scott Adams needs to get out more.

He takes a call and they speculate about why there are not more cases in Russia. They speculate without knowledge about the Russia/China border and I stopped listening when they agreed their both Communist countries. Seriously? That's so 1980s.

At least here we know the order in which countries closed their borders. Although I still don't know about Madagascar. I heard they've 32 cases.

[RedDevil]

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ says 3 cases in Madagascar.

That is just reported cases.
Iceland is hardly representative, but they did test on a random sample of their inhabitants and found many people who were infected but did not show symptoms. Even of those who did show symptoms many were not (yet) tested for that reason.

So I guess there's easily over a million people infected worldwide already, even if there are 'only' 303,196 confirmed cases right now.

[redneck]

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Since this looks like it started sometime in October 2019, Millions are probably infected. It was out and spreading way before the Chinese government officially admitted to a problem.

Clock and TMRCA based on 27 genomes - nCoV-2019 Genomic Epidemiology - Virological


And then there was this...

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/202...idnt-age-well/

One can be asymptomatic, then spread it far and wide...



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[freebeard]

I still wonder what that was I had in January.