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24 March 2020
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CLEANING
Soap
It’s the best way to wash up (and much easier to find than hand sanitizer).
Disposable gloves
For handling things that might be contaminated. Do not wash or reuse.
Disinfectant wipes
Look for products with active ingredients such as quaternary ammonium, sodium hypochlorite, or hydrogen peroxide.
Towels, clean linens
Or anything else you might need more of as cleaning habits change.
FOOD/NECESSITIES
Supplies of shelf-stable food
Beans, rice, flour, and canned items: enough for a couple of weeks, if access to grocery stores is limited.
Coffee or tea
Or other everyday “necessities”.
A first aid kit
Hospitals may be overwhelmed, so you’ll want to be able to treat minor problems at home.
90 days of medication
The CDC recommends stocking up on prescriptions, so contact your doctor.
WORK AND ENTERTAINMENT
Yarn, art supplies, or other hobby items
It’s a good time to dive into an activity you can do at home. Morale matters!
Things for working from home
From a desk chair to a mouse, it’s better to have the tools for your job if it’s possible to work remotely.
Electronics and, potentially, spare parts
If your phone or computer breaks, it’s an inconvenience in the best of times. Right now, it might be more than that, if stores aren’t open to get a replacement.
Games for family time
If you’ve got kids at home, you’ll need distractions!
IF YOU GET SICK
Medication for reducing a fever, like acetaminophen (Tylenol).
A thermometer for monitoring a fever.
Cough and cold medication
including cough drops and lozenges, cough syryps like Dayquil/Nyquil, and decongestants like Sudafed (the active ingredient is pseudoephedrine, so get the much lower cost generic version).
A humidifier can also help with a cough that makes it tough to sleep.
Rehydration solutions
Pedialyte or Gatorade works, but you can make it at home with a liter of drinking water, a scoop of sugar, and a pinch of salt. Plain water or other liquids also work for mild dehydration in adults.
Basics
what is COVID-19?
Coronaviruses (CoV) are a large family of viruses that cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV). [WHO: Coronavirus]
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a new strain that was discovered in 2019 and has not been previously identified in humans. [WHO: Coronavirus]
Coronaviruses are zoonotic, meaning they are transmitted between animals and people. Detailed investigations found that SARS-CoV was transmitted from civet cats to humans and MERS-CoV from dromedary camels to humans. Several known coronaviruses are circulating in animals that have not yet infected humans. [WHO: Coronavirus]
Common signs of infection include respiratory symptoms, fever, cough, shortness of breath and breathing difficulties. In more severe cases, infection can cause pneumonia, severe acute respiratory syndrome, kidney failure and even death. [WHO: Coronavirus]
Standard recommendations to prevent infection spread include regular hand washing, covering mouth and nose when coughing and sneezing, thoroughly cooking meat and eggs. Avoid close contact with anyone showing symptoms of respiratory illness such as coughing and sneezing. [WHO: Coronavirus]
How do I care for myself and family?
Everyone should take care of their health and maintain hand and respiratory hygiene to protect themselves and others, including their own families.
Regularly and thoroughly wash your hands with soap and water, and use alcohol-based hand sanitiser. Maintain at least 1.5 metres or 6 feet distance between yourself and anyone who is coughing or sneezing.
Persons with persistent cough or sneezing should stay home or keep a social distance, but not mix in crowd. Make sure you and people around you, follow good respiratory hygiene, meaning cover your mouth and nose with a handkerchief or tissue or into your sleeve or tissue when you cough or sneeze. Then dispose of the used tissue immediately.
Stay home if you feel unwell with symptoms like fever, cough, and difficulty in breathing. Go to the emergency room if your symptoms turn serious. Do not engage in self-medication.
COVID-19 prepartions
Masks and other protective gear [What preppers are stocking up on for COVID-19]
Water and storage [What preppers are stocking up on for COVID-19]
Medical equipment [What preppers are stocking up on for COVID-19]
from Dr. Sarah Boon:
These are the basic, solid graphics that people need to understand what to do and not to do in these times. Basic #scicomm, people!
—Dr. Sarah Boon, Co-founder & BoD @ScienceBorealis, Writer, editor, photographer, Former scientist, as posted on Twitter 12:32 pm, 24 March 2020
Coordinate help for charities.
If you have contact info and items needed by other charities, please let us know through the website contact form.
Contact
Feeding the working poor, elderly, and homeless
The Someone Cares Soup Kitchen, Costa Mesa, CA, has an extreme shortage of paper plates, paper napkins, paper towels, plastic forks and spoons, and toilet paper needed to feed hundreds of working poor, elderly, and homeless every day.
If you are in the Orange County area you can contribute. See their website. Please provide contact info for other charities around the world.
720 West 19th Street, Costa Mesa, CA 92627 USA
[949] 548.8861 Office
shannon@someonecareskitchen.org Executive Director
News and historical timeline
(all times are Pacific unless specified otherwise)
regular timeline
24 March 2020
A Different Bias
Pub Workers Thrown Under Bus by Martin
24 March 2020 at 11:00 PM
from Manu Raju:
#BREAKING: The White House and Senate leaders struck a major deal early Wednesday morning over a $2-trillion package to provide a jolt to an economy struggling amid the coronavirus pandemic, capping days of marathon negotiations that produced the far-reaching measure.
“Ladies and gentleman, we are done,” White House legislative affairs director Eric Ueland said right before 1am after leaving Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office following negotiations that have spanned around the clock since last Friday. “We have a deal.”
Ueland: “We have a deal … Much of the work on bill text has been completed. And I’m hopeful that over the next few hours we’ll finish what’s left and be able to circulate it early in the morning.”
McConnell said he’s there to report “good news.”
“At last, we have a deal. After days of intense discussions, the Senate has reached a bipartisan agreement on a historic relief package for this pandemic,” McConnell said. “This is a war-time level of investment for our nation.”
Schumer called it “the largest rescue package in American history. … This is not a moment of celebration — but of necessity.”
—Manu Raju, Senior Congressional Correspondent, @CNN, as posted on Twitter 10:01 pm, 24 March 2020 (or 1:01 am EDT, 25 March)
The Majority Report with Sam Seder
Hannity and Ingraham Push Totally Unproven Medical Cures
24 March 2020 at 10:00 PM
The Majority Report with Sam Seder
Trump BORED of Pandemic Already
24 March 2020 at 9:00 PM
The Young Turks
Trump Feuding With Fauci
24 March 2020 at 9:00 PM
David Pakman Show
Guy Dies from Drinking Trump’s “Cure”
24 March 2020 at 8:00 PM
The Majority Report with Sam Seder
Trump Single Handedly Ends Pandemic By Pretending It’s Not a Problem Anymore
24 March 2020 at 8:00 PM
The Young Turks
Trump’s New Plan: ENDLESS Virus Outbreaks
24 March 2020 at 7:00 PM
The Jimmy Dore Show
Facebook Donates 720,000 Masks To Hospitals. WTF?!?
24 March 2020 at 7:00 PM
India under lockdown for 21 days from midnight of 24 March, says PM Modi
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a televised address today announced that the entire country will be under lockdown for the next 21 days starting midnight tonight.
PM Modi said: “There will be a total ban on venturing out of your homes.”
He also announced an emergency financial package of Rs150 billion ($1.97 billion) for healthcare.
So far, over 500 coronavirus cases and ten deaths have been reported in the country, according to the figures released by the Union Health Ministry.
—Pharmaceutical-Technology.com, 5:35 pm, 24 March 2020
David Pakman Show
Republican Senators Caught Dumping Stock While Saying All’s Fine
24 March 2020 at 5:00 PM
Covid-19 triggers 20% drop in oil demand
Early figures are suggesting that the outbreak of Covid-19 could have a significant impact on global oil demand, with Arij van Berkel, a director at US-based research firm Lux Research claiming that “early indications by traders suggest a 20% drop in demand.”
“In a sense, the current demand decrease is a preview of demand projections for 2030 and beyond,” he continued, noting that the outbreak could simply be accelerating a trend many have already predicted. “As an example, Barclays projects a global peak in oil demand between 2030 and 2035 followed by a steady demand reduction.
“We should watch how oil companies respond, as it will reveal vulnerabilities to decreasing demand and consistently low prices.”
—Pharmaceutical-Technology.com, 4:20 pm, 24 March 2020
The Damage Report
Progressive Candidate Mobilizes Amid COVID-19
24 March 2020 at 4:00 PM
The Damage Report
10 Coronavirus Myths DEBUNKED
24 March 2020 at 4:00 PM
The Damage Report
Rikers Island DEVASTATED By Pandemic
24 March 2020 at 3:00 PM
Secular Talk
Woman Charged $34,927.43 For Covid-19 Treatment
24 March 2020 at 3:00 PM
The Damage Report
Tucker Carlson Blames Crisis On Health Workers
24 March 2020 at 3:00 PM
from Bernie Sanders:
It is outrageous that right-wing politicians in states like Texas and Ohio are using this crisis to risk women’s health and safety by denying their right to abortion and other reproductive health care. Instead, we should be expanding access with things like telemedicine.
—Bernie Sanders, as posted on Twitter 2:48 pm, 24 March 2020
from Michael Reid:
Brazil: 21 of the country’s 27 state governors are co-ordinating amongst themselves as to how to fight covid-19, ignoring the president, Jair Bolsonaro. The confrontation between governors and president has no precedent in Brazil’s democracy since 1985.
—Michael Reid, Senior Editor and columnist, Latin America and Spain, The Economist, as posted on Twitter 2:20 pm, 24 March 2020
from The Hoarse Whisperer:
The federal government moved over 100,000 tons of equipment on D-Day alone.
The Trump Administration can’t even get ventilators out of a government warehouse.
—The Hoarse Whisperer, as posted on Twitter 2:05 pm, 24 March 2020
The Damage Report
Trump Driven MAD Due To Social Distancing
24 March 2020 at 2:00 PM
Presented without comment.pic.twitter.com/sdPbDq0drc
— Ryan Knight (@ProudResister) March 24, 2020
—posted on Twitter 1:47 pm, 24 March 2020
L’Etat donne nos impôts aux entreprises et on fait un genre de téléthon où on recycle des gens qui n’ont plus de voix pour qu’on donne nos petits sous aux soignants.
— Marcel Aiphan (@AiphanMarcel) March 24, 2020
Le nouveau monde, c’est comme l’ancien, en dissonant…#EnsembleAvecNosSoignants #COVID19pic.twitter.com/3sT8uTdkq3
—Marcel Aiphan, as posted on Twitter 1:44 pm, 24 March 2020
Hoth Therapeutics forms JV to develop Covid-19 vaccine
Hoth Therapeutics has collaborated with Voltron Therapeutics to establish a joint venture (JV), HaloVax, for preclinical studies of vaccine candidates against Covid-19.
—Pharmaceutical-Technology.com, 1:42 pm, 24 March 2020
Covid-19: CEL-SCI to develop therapy; Soligenix works on vaccine
CEL-SCI partnered with the University of Georgia’s Center for Vaccines and Immunology to develop an immunotherapy against Covid-19 infection using its LEAPS peptide approach.
—Pharmaceutical-Technology.com, 1:23 pm, 24 March 2020
Trump on why he picked Easter as the day he wants to end strict social distancing and reopen American businesses: "Easter is a very special day for me ... Easter Sunday, and you'll have packed churches all over our country." pic.twitter.com/6cXEtW8LmR
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 24, 2020
—The Hoarse Whisperer, as posted on Twitter 12:45 pm, 24 March 2020
Trump to Bill Hemmer on Democratic governors criticizing the federal government for not supplying enough needed medical gear: "They have to get that gear themselves ... they shouldn't be hitting us." pic.twitter.com/rKLyX4KdKG
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 24, 2020
—The Hoarse Whisperer, as posted on Twitter 12:39 pm, 24 March 2020
Trump says if states want the federal government to be a good partner to them in fighting coronavirus, "they have to treat us well." pic.twitter.com/ixao0a1UdN
— subscribe to my newsletter (@brianbeutler) March 24, 2020
—Brian Beuter, as posted on Twitter 12:38 pm, 24 March 2020
from Kevin M. Kruse:
My feed is filled with videos of Italian mayors cursing residents to get indoors, Brazilian cops chasing beachgoers away with a helicopter, an Iraqi man breaking up a gathering with a broom … and Americans saying some old folks just might need to die to keep the markets open.
—Kevin M. Kruse, as posted on Twitter 12:32 pm, 24 March 2020
Genentech secures FDA approval to trial Actemra for Covid-19
Roche unit Genentech has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to conduct a Phase III clinical trial of its rheumatoid arthritis drug Actemra (tocilizumab) for the treatment of adults with severe Covid-19 pneumonia.
—Pharmaceutical-Technology.com, 12:22 pm, 24 March 2020
from Elizabeth Warren:
Our obligation, our moral imperative, is to save lives. If people are forced out of their homes too early and thousands or millions more people die because hospitals and health care providers are overwhelmed, there won't be an economy left to save.
—Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-MA, as posted on Twitter 12:15 pm, 24 March 2020
Let me be clear: Donald Trump knew about the threat the coronavirus posed and failed to act. It’s one of the most unjustifiable failures of presidential leadership in American history. pic.twitter.com/l8BdATZsaL
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) March 24, 2020
—Joe Biden, as posted on Twitter 12:30 pm, 24 March 2020
from Dr. Sarah Boon:
These are the basic, solid graphics that people need to understand what to do and not to do in these times. Basic #scicomm, people!
—Dr. Sarah Boon, Co-founder & BoD @ScienceBorealis, Writer, editor, photographer, Former scientist, as posted on Twitter 12:32 pm, 24 March 2020
UK Government announces closure of non-essential businesses
Last night, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced more stringent, semi-lockdown measures for the UK to encourage social distancing.
These included only allowing people out of their homes to shop for basic necessities, exercise once a day, any medical appointments and to go to work if absolutely necessary.
To the end of discouraging people from leaving their houses for any other reasons, the UK Government closed all non-essential shops, including clothing and electronics retail stores, hair and beauty salons, and markets, except those selling food.
The police and other relevant authorities will be given powers to enforce these social distancing rules, including issuing out fines.
—Pharmaceutical-Technology.com, 9:41 am, 24 March 2020
from Chris Hayes:
Day 2 of the full family working and learning from home:
Our two year old is now asking for an iPad and an office.
—Chris Hayes, Host of @allinwithchris on MSNBC, as posted on Twitter 7:56 am, 24 March 2020
2020 Tokyo Olympics postponed to 2021 due to coronavirus pandemic
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics has been postponed to a date no later than summer 2021, announced International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Japanese organisers.
The coronavirus pandemic has compelled the Olympics, which was scheduled to begin from 24 July and end on 9 August this year, to be postponed for the first time in its 124-year modern history.
In a statement, the IOC said: “In the present circumstances and based on the information provided by the WHO today, the IOC President and the Prime Minister of Japan have concluded that the Games of the XXXII Olympiad in Tokyo must be rescheduled to a date beyond 2020 but not later than summer 2021, to safeguard the health of the athletes, everybody involved in the Olympic Games and the international community.”
—Pharmaceutical-Technology.com, 24 March 2020
Austria
809 new cases and 7 new deaths in Austria
—gesundheitsministerium, sozialministerium, 24 March 2020
Bosnia and Herzegovina
30 new cases and 2 new deaths in Bosnia and Herzegovina, including a 51-year-old man with underlying health issues.
—Klix, 24 March 2020
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Canada
Curaçao
Germany
Israel
488 new cases and 2 new deaths in Israel
New restrictions pending approval: People allowed only 100 meters from homes, still permitted to buy groceries, medicine.
—The Jeruslaem Post, 24 March 2020
Lithuania
Namibia
Romania
186 new cases and 4 new deaths in Romania including a 70-year-old man, with previous health conditions that were treated with insulin, who had returned from Italy.
—Biziday, DIGI 24 HD, DIGI 24 HD, 24 March 2020
RwandaCovid-19 drugs: AlloVir forms alliance, Ology gets contract
Immunotherapy firm AlloVir has deepened its research and development alliance with Baylor College of Medicine for the discovery and development of Covid-19 therapies.
—Pharmaceutical-Technology.com, 24 March 2020
