Virus

Evropska unija pokazala je da nije spremna da se izbori sa epidemijom koronavirusa, izjavio je bugarski premijer Bojko Borisov tokom zasedanja Saveta bezbednosti te zemlje.

„Nijedna od članica EU ne poseduje dovoljnu rezervu maski, zaštitne odeće, aspiratora, respiratora, navlaka za obuću, rukavica. Nijedna – zato što niko nije mogao da predvidi ovakav razvoj situacije.

If you’re upset about regular folk hoarding toilet paper, wait till you hear about how a tiny percentage of rich people have hoarded most of the world’s wealth.

— Jason Reid (@JasonReidUK) March 11, 2020

Luca Franzese, instruktor fitnessa i glumac koji se pojavio u talijanskoj kriminalističkoj televizijskoj seriji Gomorra, tvrdi da je njegova sestra Teresa u subotu umrla u svome domu u Napulju te da joj je bila dijagnosticirana bolest COVID-19, bolest koju uzrokuje koronavirus, piše Sky News.


Franzese je na svom Facebook profilu objavio nekoliko videa, uključujući i jedan u kojem se u pozadini može vidjeti tijelo njegove sestre, za koje tvrdi da ga je država odbacila.


"Moja je sestra jučer umrla, vjerojatno zbog virusa, a ja od jučer navečer čekam odgovore", rekao je u videu. "Ljudi, propali smo. Italija nas je napustila."

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How did the Chinese reorganize their medical response?

First, they moved 50 percent of all medical care online so people didn’t come in. Have you ever tried to reach your doctor on Friday night? Instead, you contacted one online. If you needed prescriptions like insulin or heart medications, they could prescribe and deliver it.

But if you thought you had coronavirus?

You would be sent to a fever clinic. They would take your temperature, your symptoms, medical history, ask where you’d traveled, your contact with anyone infected. They’d whip you through a CT scan …

Wait — “whip you through a CT scan”?

Each machine did maybe 200 a day. Five, 10 minutes a scan. Maybe even partial scans. A typical hospital in the West does one or two an hour. And not X-rays; they could come up normal, but a CT would show the “ground-glass opacities” they were looking for.

(Dr. Aylward was referring to lung abnormalities seen in coronavirus patients.)

And then?

If you were still a suspect case, you’d get swabbed. But a lot would be told, “You’re not Covid.” People would come in with colds, flu, runny noses. That’s not Covid. If you look at the symptoms, 90 percent have fever, 70 percent have dry coughs, 30 percent have malaise, trouble breathing. Runny noses were only 4 percent.

The swab was for a PCR test, right? How fast could they do that? Until recently, we were sending all of ours to Atlanta.

They got it down to four hours.

So people weren’t sent home?

No, they had to wait. You don’t want someone wandering around spreading virus.

If they were positive, what happened?

They’d be isolated. In Wuhan, in the beginning, it was 15 days from getting sick to hospitalization. They got it down to two days from symptoms to isolation. That meant a lot fewer infected — you choke off this thing’s ability to find susceptibles.

What’s the difference between isolation and hospitalization?

With mild symptoms, you go to an isolation center. They were set up in gymnasiums, stadiums — up to 1,000 beds. But if you were severe or critical, you’d go straight to hospitals. Anyone with other illnesses or over age 65 would also go straight to hospitals.

What were mild, severe and critical? We think of “mild” as like a minor cold.

No. “Mild” was a positive test, fever, cough — maybe even pneumonia, but not needing oxygen. “Severe” was breathing rate up and oxygen saturation down, so needing oxygen or a ventilator. “Critical” was respiratory failure or multi-organ failure.

So saying 80 percent of all cases are mild doesn’t mean what we thought.

I’m Canadian. This is the Wayne Gretzky of viruses — people didn’t think it was big enough or fast enough to have the impact it does.

Hospitals were also separated?

Yes. The best hospitals were designated just for Covid, severe and critical. All elective surgeries were postponed. Patients were moved. Other hospitals were designated just for routine care: women still have to give birth, people still suffer trauma and heart attacks.

They built two new hospitals, and they rebuilt hospitals. If you had a long ward, they’d build a wall at the end with a window, so it was an isolation ward with “dirty” and “clean” zones. You’d go in, gown up, treat patients, and then go out the other way and de-gown. It was like an Ebola treatment unit, but without as much disinfection because it’s not body fluids.

How good were the severe and critical care?

China is really good at keeping people alive. Its hospitals looked better than some I see here in Switzerland. We’d ask, “How many ventilators do you have?” They’d say “50.” Wow! We’d say, “How many ECMOs?” They’d say “five.” The team member from the Robert Koch Institute said, “Five? In Germany, you get three, maybe. And just in Berlin.”

(ECMOs are extracorporeal membrane oxygenation machines, which oxygenate the blood when the lungs fail.)

I can't believe what I'm reading. The UK government's plan is to allow the entire population to get infected and "acquire herd immunity" to the coronavirus. This is at insane levels of incompetencyhttps://t.co/xgoGaj1SRx pic.twitter.com/PiB4XhzgpX

— Saloni ️‍ (@salonium) March 12, 2020

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Apsolutno niko nije mogao da predvidi, virusi se obično zaustavljaju na državnim granicama, ovaj je potpuno atipičan.

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