wader
Well-Known Angler
1st post said they were there - I didn't know they were large enough to see from space - that kinda freaked me out - just how many are dying there that this becomes the result?
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1st post said they were there - I didn't know they were large enough to see from space - that kinda freaked me out - just how many are dying there that this becomes the result?
wader
Well-Known Angler
have MR .C - I still think this will surpass any financial & mortality rates seen as a result of this virus - Stock Market alone has already lost trillions in value - we've surpassed the number of US service men killed - wait until the figures really start coming in - because we have no idea................
wader
Well-Known Angler
Both posts said the same thing
Chinacat
Well-Known Angler
Yeah, nothing worse than someone in your personal space no matter what's going on....
I guess maybe I didn't mean completely locked up in your home... just stay away from other peeps and dont intermingle.
Lets just pull the band aid off and get it over with instead of a slow painful mess for the unforeseen future
Sad but true Oh well Im gonna go make a drink and get too my happy placeWe have all collectively lost our minds.
CELLFISH
Well-Known Angler
ya bud, I watch fox all da time and I barely hear of the sept11 comparison and calculating death tolls at this time is kinda injecting useless fear into da soup... be well... cellie...
You're gonna have to explain the service men killed comment - since the pandemic started?
I'm on the NYS DOH listserv - below
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Dear MRT Listserv Subscriber,
Please see the below Health Advisory from the New York State Department of Health, issued Friday, March 13, 2020: COVID-19 Cases in Nursing Homes and Adult Care Facilities.
This guidance supersedes previous NYSDOH guidance regarding these facilities.
Thank you.
DATE: March 13, 2020
TO: Nursing Homes (NHs) and Adult Care Facilities (ACFs)
FROM: NYSDOH Bureau of Healthcare Associated Infections (BHAI)
COVID-19 has been detected in multiple communities around New York State. Residents of NHs and ACFs are at especially high risk of severe morbidity and mortality. Healthcare personnel (HCP), other direct care providers and visitors who enter NHs and ACFs while symptomatic or asymptomatic with COVID-19 present a high risk for outbreaks. At this time NHs and ACFs statewide are required to take the following actions. This guidance supersedes previous NYSDOH guidance.
To prevent the introduction of COVID-19 into NHs and ACFs
If there are confirmed cases of COVID-19 in a NH or ACF
If there are suspected cases of COVID-19 in a NH or ACF
Residents suspected of infection with COVID-19 should be given a facemask to wear, and the facility must immediately contact the NYSDOH. The resident must be isolated in a separate room with the door closed. Staff attending the resident if and until they are transferred should wear gowns, gloves, eye protection (goggles or a face shield), and facemasks and should maintain social distancing of at least six (6) feet from the resident except for brief, necessary interactions. Facilities should bundle care and minimize the number of HCP and other staff who enter rooms to reduce the number of personnel requiring facemasks.
For ACF Resident Access to the Community
In areas of high concentrations of positive coronavirus cases, residents should be encouraged to remain at home. If residents access the community and community transmission is recognized in the area where the ACF is located, the ACF must have staff available to screen residents for symptoms or potential exposure to someone with COVID-19.
Facilities should also refer to the following documents for more information:
1 Any such visitors shall be checked as if they are staff.
Medicaid Redesign Team Updates
Office of Health Insurance Programs
New York State Department of Health
Albany, NY 12237
[email protected]
=============================================================================================
Dear MRT Listserv Subscriber,
Please see the below Health Advisory from the New York State Department of Health, issued Friday, March 13, 2020: COVID-19 Cases in Nursing Homes and Adult Care Facilities.
This guidance supersedes previous NYSDOH guidance regarding these facilities.
Thank you.
DATE: March 13, 2020
TO: Nursing Homes (NHs) and Adult Care Facilities (ACFs)
FROM: NYSDOH Bureau of Healthcare Associated Infections (BHAI)
COVID-19 has been detected in multiple communities around New York State. Residents of NHs and ACFs are at especially high risk of severe morbidity and mortality. Healthcare personnel (HCP), other direct care providers and visitors who enter NHs and ACFs while symptomatic or asymptomatic with COVID-19 present a high risk for outbreaks. At this time NHs and ACFs statewide are required to take the following actions. This guidance supersedes previous NYSDOH guidance.
To prevent the introduction of COVID-19 into NHs and ACFs
- 1. Effective immediately, suspend all visitation except when medically necessary (i.e. visitor is essential to the care of the patient or is providing support in imminent end-of-life situations) or for family members of residents in imminent end-of-life situations, and those providing Hospice care.1 The duration and number of visits should be minimized. Visitors should wear a facemask while in the facility and should be allowed only in the resident’s room. Facilities must provide other methods to meet the social and emotional needs of residents, such as video calls. Facilities shall post signage notifying the public of the suspension of visitation and proactively notify resident family members.
- 2. Immediately implement health checks for all HCP and other facility staff at the beginning of each shift. This includes all personnel entering the facility regardless of whether they are providing direct patient care. Facility staff performing health checks must wear facemasks. HCP and other facility staff with symptoms or with T ≥ 100.0 F should be sent home, and HCP and other facility staff who develop symptoms or fever while in the facility should immediately go home.
- 3. All HCP and other facility staff shall wear a facemask while within 6 feet of residents. Extended wear of facemasks is allowed; facemasks should be changed when soiled or wet and when HCP go on breaks. Facilities should bundle care and minimize the number of HCP and other staff who enter rooms to reduce the number of personnel requiring facemasks.
If there are confirmed cases of COVID-19 in a NH or ACF
- 1. Notify the local health department and NYSDOH if not already involved.
- 2. In NHs, actively monitor all residents on affected units once per shift. This monitoring must include a symptom check, vitals, lung auscultation, and pulse oximetry.
- 3. Assure that all residents in affected units remain in their rooms. Cancel group activities and communal dining. Offer other activities for residents in their rooms to the extent possible, such as video calls.
- 4. Residents must wear facemasks when HCP or other direct care providers enter their rooms, unless such is not tolerable.
- 5. Do not float staff between units. Cohort residents with COVID-19 with dedicated HCP and other direct care providers. Minimize the number of HCP and other direct care providers entering rooms.
- 6. In NHs, all residents on affected units should be placed on droplet and contact precautions, regardless of the presence of symptoms and regardless of COVID-19 status. HCP and other direct care providers should wear gown, gloves, eye protection (goggles or a face shield), and N95 respirators (or equivalent) if the facility has a respiratory program with fit tested staff and N95s. Otherwise, HCP and other direct care providers should wear gown, gloves, eye protection, and facemasks. Facilities may implement extended use of eye protection and facemasks/N95s when moving from resident to resident (i.e. do not change between residents) unless other medical conditions which necessitate droplet precautions are present. However, gloves and gowns must be changed and hand hygiene must be performed.
- 7. For residents who initially test negative, re-testing should be performed immediately if they develop symptoms consistent with COVID-19.
If there are suspected cases of COVID-19 in a NH or ACF
Residents suspected of infection with COVID-19 should be given a facemask to wear, and the facility must immediately contact the NYSDOH. The resident must be isolated in a separate room with the door closed. Staff attending the resident if and until they are transferred should wear gowns, gloves, eye protection (goggles or a face shield), and facemasks and should maintain social distancing of at least six (6) feet from the resident except for brief, necessary interactions. Facilities should bundle care and minimize the number of HCP and other staff who enter rooms to reduce the number of personnel requiring facemasks.
For ACF Resident Access to the Community
In areas of high concentrations of positive coronavirus cases, residents should be encouraged to remain at home. If residents access the community and community transmission is recognized in the area where the ACF is located, the ACF must have staff available to screen residents for symptoms or potential exposure to someone with COVID-19.
Facilities should also refer to the following documents for more information:
- · From CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/healthcare-facilities/prevent- spread-in-long-term-care-facilities.html
- · From CMS: https://www.cms.gov/files/document/qso-20-14-nh-revised.pdf
- · From NYSDOH (on Health Commerce): https://apps.health.ny.gov/pub/ctrldocs/alrtview/postings/Nursing_Home_Guidance_3_1 583593822992_0.6.20_with_signage.pdf
1 Any such visitors shall be checked as if they are staff.
Medicaid Redesign Team Updates
Office of Health Insurance Programs
New York State Department of Health
Albany, NY 12237
[email protected]
So far, the best FAKE OR EXAGGERATED COVID-19 NEWS I've seen, this one from The Babylon Bee. However, the premise that decreased airport traffic would have a negative impact on CNN ratings intrigues me; I've always wondered why all those airport TVs were constantly on CNN...
For those of you into Conspiracy Stories, the article has a wonderful TV Ratings Political Twist, but in deference to the site, I didn't include them. If you want a good laugh, you can read it here: CNN's Ratings Collapse As Coronavirus Fears Empty American Airports
CNN's Ratings Collapse As Coronavirus Fears Empty American Airports
March 13th, 2020
U.S.—CNN's ratings have somehow tanked even worse than they previously had as Americans began to quarantine themselves and stopped taking commercial flights, emptying American airports and robbing the cable channel of its captive audience.
While CNN is usually able to claim millions of captive viewers every day, their audience dropped to almost nothing overnight. With airports completely devoid of weary travelers with dead smartphones and nothing to look at but CNN, the core of the channel's audience has disappeared overnight.
Screens at airports across the country continued to play CNN to empty airports, creating a spooky, dystopian atmosphere as hosts ranted to no one in particular.
For those of you into Conspiracy Stories, the article has a wonderful TV Ratings Political Twist, but in deference to the site, I didn't include them. If you want a good laugh, you can read it here: CNN's Ratings Collapse As Coronavirus Fears Empty American Airports
CNN's Ratings Collapse As Coronavirus Fears Empty American Airports
March 13th, 2020
U.S.—CNN's ratings have somehow tanked even worse than they previously had as Americans began to quarantine themselves and stopped taking commercial flights, emptying American airports and robbing the cable channel of its captive audience.
While CNN is usually able to claim millions of captive viewers every day, their audience dropped to almost nothing overnight. With airports completely devoid of weary travelers with dead smartphones and nothing to look at but CNN, the core of the channel's audience has disappeared overnight.
Screens at airports across the country continued to play CNN to empty airports, creating a spooky, dystopian atmosphere as hosts ranted to no one in particular.
Old Mud
Well-Known Angler
Well i can say this, I am on "Social isolation" as of yesterday. I'm not staying in my house exclusively but i will stay in my yard ,in my shop and away from other folks. Canceled my hotel reservations and my Tuna bash. I have a family member who's a Doctor at a big hospital keeping me in the loop. As I am in that 80 year old group with bronchitis i think that's the best thing for me. Not that i'm afraid of dying it's just i don't want to die from something so easy for me to prevent.
That's a great plan and a smart one,good luck..
Chinacat
Well-Known Angler
wader
Well-Known Angler
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