Novel Coronavirus impacts

Monterey County just issued Shelter in Place Order as of Midnight Tonight until April 8.

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For Immediate Release
March 17, 2020

Monterey County Public Health Officer Issues Shelter in Place Order

With the confirmation of Monterey County’s first two cases of COVID-19 and increasing cases statewide, Public Health Officer Dr. Ed Moreno is issuing a Shelter in Place Order for all residents of Monterey County to enhance measures already being taken to slow the spread of novel coronavirus in our county and preserve critical health care capacity.

The order announced by Moreno will begin at tonight at Midnight, March 18, 2020 and last for three weeks, until Midnight on April 8, 2020.

“Temporarily making these drastic changes to our lives and routines maybe frustrating, but it is critical to slowing the spread of this virus,” says Dr. Ed Moreno, Monterey County’s Public Health Doctor. “We must weigh the loss of some freedoms we enjoy with the ability to separate healthy people who may not show symptoms from those at risk who may be inadvertently exposed. “

This order is similar to ones issued yesterday by six San Francisco Bay area counties, limiting activity, travel and business function to the most essential needs; essential businesses and operations should remain open. This order does not affect essential government services - services to protect the health, safety and welfare of communities. It also makes provision for our agricultural community and fieldworkers who keep food in our markets and on our table, and provide other products for personal consumption.

The term “shelter in place” is a more rigorous form of ‘social distancing.” The goal is to limit groups congregating together to stop the further spread the virus; it is not a complete social shutdown. It means to stay in your home and not leave unless necessary for one of the designated exceptions. For most people, this means you and those you live with should remain at home.

You can leave your home for specified reasons to make sure you have the necessities of life such as getting food and medical supplies. You are also allowed to go outside to take care of pets, go on a walk, and just get outside, so long as you do not congregate in a group and maintain at least six feet of distance between you and other people.

Please continue to practice the other precautionary measures such as handwashing and using sanitizer and if you are sick you should self-isolate, including, to the extent you can, from others you live with.

If you have specific questions about what activities are covered under the Order, check out the Shelter in Place FAQs on the Monterey County Health Department webpage www.mtyhd.org/covid19.

What they need to be telling us is how many people have been tested. All we’re hearing is the number of confirmed cases. There’s supposedly 6 confirmed cases in Sonoma County. Well is that 6 out of 6? 6 out of 20? 6 out of 200??

My work has been deemed business critical, so I’m kind of on call right now. If one of the few teams that’s still in office needs business critical parts printed then I can go in.

An acquaintance of mine is in a Bay Area hospital with confirmed
COVID-19. Bilateral interstitial pneumonia.

This is getting less abstract.

I’m extremely lucky in that I get up to 31 days paid. I could also use the break because today will be the 23rd day in a row that I’ve worked, but these models will help save these patients’ lives and I’d at least like to finish them before being shut down.

You Rock!

Bushy

Oregon just announced schools will remain closed till April 28th

California governor Newsom announced schools likely to not reopen before summer break.

What they need to be telling us is how many people have been tested. All we’re hearing is the number of confirmed cases. There’s supposedly 6 confirmed cases in Sonoma County. Well is that 6 out of 6? 6 out of 20? 6 out of 200??

My work has been deemed business critical, so I’m kind of on call right now. If one of the few teams that’s still in office needs business critical parts printed then I can go in.

+ how many of the confirmed cases tested weeks ago have been cured. Seems like they just keep adding to the numbers and no one seems to get cured.

What they need to be telling us is how many people have been tested. All we’re hearing is the number of confirmed cases. There’s supposedly 6 confirmed cases in Sonoma County. Well is that 6 out of 6? 6 out of 20? 6 out of 200??

My work has been deemed business critical, so I’m kind of on call right now. If one of the few teams that’s still in office needs business critical parts printed then I can go in.

+ how many of the confirmed cases tested weeks ago have been cured. Seems like they just keep adding to the numbers and no one seems to get cured.

This site shows info nationwide it might break it down further if you want to dive deep into it

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

These are two good sites

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

Especially that graph on right bottom if you expand shows the timeline with confirmed and cases which are deemed cleared. You can remove China as well. Remember the numbers for the US were just a few dozen a few days ago?

I like the below because it shows the daily change. What happens with flattening the curve is that it will actually take longer but avoids the chaos. There will be a time I think where so many people will have had it that they will open things back up. But risk especially for seniors will still be very high but hopefully capacity exists to help them survive. At some point the economy will have to restart again. This is quite the reset. 

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

I work from home all the time anyways. So that hopefully stays that way. better get out of the house fishing to stay sane next weeks.

Lothar

That’s an informative site CDM. THANKS

Shelter in place order issued for Mendocino county beginning 10pm tomorrow Wednesday 3/18.

That’s an informative site CDM. THANKS

Courtesy of Sonny on another post

Sad thing is look at the numbers in just four days March 14th-18th

These are two good sites

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

Especially that graph on right bottom if you expand shows the timeline with confirmed and cases which are deemed cleared. You can remove China as well. Remember the numbers for the US were just a few dozen a few days ago?

I like the below because it shows the daily change. What happens with flattening the curve is that it will actually take longer but avoids the chaos. There will be a time I think where so many people will have had it that they will open things back up. But risk especially for seniors will still be very high but hopefully capacity exists to help them survive. At some point the economy will have to restart again. This is quite the reset. 

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

I work from home all the time anyways. So that hopefully stays that way. better get out of the house fishing to stay sane next weeks.

Lothar

What they need to be telling us is how many people have been tested. All we’re hearing is the number of confirmed cases. There’s supposedly 6 confirmed cases in Sonoma County. Well is that 6 out of 6? 6 out of 20? 6 out of 200??

My work has been deemed business critical, so I’m kind of on call right now. If one of the few teams that’s still in office needs business critical parts printed then I can go in.

I'm also using https://covidtracking.com/data/ , it has more details for individual states. It also explains how testing data is unreliably and inconsistently reported.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/covid-19-testing/ used to have testing data, but it's not been updated for more than a week.

WHO Now Officially Recommends to Avoid Taking Ibuprofen For COVID-19 Symptoms


I would say avoid it altogether. It could be harmful if taken for a headache while you have asymptomatic covid19 and don't know it. Better safe than sorry.


https://www.sciencealert.com/who-recommends-to-avoid-taking-ibuprofen-for-covid-19-symptoms