Saturday, March 14, 2020
Then do you think Corona is dangerous? is the purpose of the media campaign to settle the trade war between China and America
Source:
University of Hamburg data
The number of deaths in the world in the first two months of 2020
2360 : Corona virus
69602 : Common cold
140 584 : Malaria
153,696 : suicide
193,479 : road accidents
240,950 : HIV loss
358,471 : alcohol
716,498 : smoking
1,177,141 : Cancer
Then do you think Corona is dangerous?
Or
is the purpose of the media campaign to settle the trade war between China and America
or
to reduce financial markets to prepare the stage of financial markets for mergers and acquisitions
or
to sell US Treasury bonds to cover the fiscal deficit in them
Or
Is it a Panic created by Pharma companies to sell their products like sanitizer, masks, medicine etc.
Do not Panic & don't forward Rumurs.
University of Hamburg data
The number of deaths in the world in the first two months of 2020
2360 : Corona virus
69602 : Common cold
140 584 : Malaria
153,696 : suicide
193,479 : road accidents
240,950 : HIV loss
358,471 : alcohol
716,498 : smoking
1,177,141 : Cancer
Then do you think Corona is dangerous?
Or
is the purpose of the media campaign to settle the trade war between China and America
or
to reduce financial markets to prepare the stage of financial markets for mergers and acquisitions
or
to sell US Treasury bonds to cover the fiscal deficit in them
Or
Is it a Panic created by Pharma companies to sell their products like sanitizer, masks, medicine etc.
Do not Panic & don't forward Rumurs.
Friday, March 13, 2020
Italy MOH: 2547 New COVID-19 Cases, 250 Additional Deaths
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Although we can't say with certainty what the COVID-19 pandemic will look like in the United States, the UK, or in much of Europe 3 or 4 weeks from now, the epidemic's impact in Italy shows what can happen to a modern country if community spread isn't slowed.
Three weeks ago today, Italy had only 3 known cases. They now have over 17,000 confirmed cases - and thousands of others are likely infected - but not yet sick enough to seek medical attention.Hospitals there are overrun, and some are on the verge of collapse. There are reports of shortages of ventilators, staff, and even oxygen. The entire country has been in lockdown for nearly a week, and yet the numbers keep rising (see Italy MOH: Statement On Extension of `Exceptional Measures' To All Of Italy).
Of particular concern, the apparent CFR (case fatality rate) continues to rise, with 7.1% of confirmed cases nationwide having died. The CFR in Lombardy - the hardest hit region - is over 9%, while in the rest of the country it is 4.8%.These fatality rates are far higher than we've seen anyplace else in the world - and while they may be heavily skewed by their inability to include mild and moderate cases in the denominator - some of these deaths are likely due to the near collapse of their health delivery system.
What countries do now to slow community spread of the virus - even if their numbers are currently low - will determine how much they look like Italy a month from now.
Press conference at 6 pm on March 13th
17660 total cases, the currently positive people are 14955, 1266 died and 1439 recovered.
Among the 14955 positives:
- 6201 are in home isolation
- 7426 hospitalized with symptoms
Read the tables:
- 1328 in intensive care
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Iran MOH: 11,364 COVID-19 Cases & 514 Deaths
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Outside of Mainland China, Iran is second only to Italy in their number of reported COVID-19 cases and deaths, but the situation on the ground is likely far worse than the official numbers would suggest.
Today's update adds 1239 cases, and 85 additional deaths.
Director of public Relations and Information Center of Ministry of Health announced:
Identification of 1289 new cases of the definitive in the country
The head of public Relations and Information Center of the Ministry of Health said: Fortunately, 3529 of the patients have been improved and have been discharged.
Dr. Kianoosh Jahanpour told the latest of the corona in the country: yesterday to today and according to the results of the laboratory, 1289 new patients with a 19-week study in the country were identified and the total of patients with this disease increased to 11364.
Fortunately, 3529 patients have been improved and discharged from the 19th to the 19-person, he added.
Unfortunately, during the last 24 hours, Dr. Jahanpour stated that 85 of the new people were killed, and the total of the victims died in 514 in the country.
The spokesperson of the Ministry of Health announced the new cases of patients in the country as follows:
Tehran: 303
Qom: 42
Gilan: 71
Isfahan: 110
Alborz: 6
Mazandaran: 192
Central: 48
Qazvin: 12
Semnan: 38
Golestan: 21
Khorasan Razavi: 110
Fars: 33
Lorestan: 25
East Azerbaijan: 97
Khoozestan: 15
Yazd: 46
Zanjan: 20
Kurdistan: 9
Ardebil: 15
Kermanshah: 15
Kerman: 12
Hamadan: 10
Sistan and Baluchestan: 2
Hormozgan: 4
South Khorasan: 0
North Khorasan: 0
Chaharmahal va Bakhtiari: 0
Ilam: 8
West Azebaijan: 25
Kohgiluyeh and buyer Ahmad: 0
Boushehr: 0
UK CMO: Moving From Contain To Delay Phase On COVID-19
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Invariably, as each country finds that COVID-19 is spreading widely in their communities, local public health efforts will move away from containment and towards delaying - or mitigating the effects - of their epidemic.
We also hope to `flatten the curve', so that the number of people sick at the same time can be reduced, and therefore limit the impact on healthcare facilities (see Community Pandemic Mitigation's Primary Goal : Flattening The Curve) and absenteeism from the workplace.
Testing will be reserved for seriously ill, hospitalized cases. Those who are symptomatic - but not seriously ill - will stay home. The UK will gradually phase in stricter social distancing recommendations in the weeks to come.
First the press release from the UK Government, then a video explaining in greater detail how the UK will deal with this pandemic.
Invariably, as each country finds that COVID-19 is spreading widely in their communities, local public health efforts will move away from containment and towards delaying - or mitigating the effects - of their epidemic.
Some containment activities may continue, but the more entrenched the virus becomes in a community, other priorities take precedent.The goal - particularly when we are still in the winter respiratory season - is to delay the peak of the first pandemic wave until summer, when hospitals are better able to cope with an influx of cases.
We also hope to `flatten the curve', so that the number of people sick at the same time can be reduced, and therefore limit the impact on healthcare facilities (see Community Pandemic Mitigation's Primary Goal : Flattening The Curve) and absenteeism from the workplace.
While the WHO urges all countries to continue with containment efforts - even after moving to mitigation - each country must makes their own decision based on their own situation, and resources.Yesterday the CMO (Chief Medical Officer) of England, Professor Chris Whitty, announced the decision to move to what they call the DELAY phase.
Testing will be reserved for seriously ill, hospitalized cases. Those who are symptomatic - but not seriously ill - will stay home. The UK will gradually phase in stricter social distancing recommendations in the weeks to come.
First the press release from the UK Government, then a video explaining in greater detail how the UK will deal with this pandemic.
Press release
COVID-19: government announces moving out of contain phase and into delay
The government has announced that we are moving out of the contain phase and into delay, in response to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.
Published 12 March 2020
From:Department of Health and Social Care
The government has announced that we are moving out of the contain phase and into delay, in response to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
The UK Chief Medical Officers have now raised the risk to the UK from moderate to high.
As per the current advice, the most important thing individuals can do to protect themselves remains washing their hands more often, for at least 20 seconds, with soap and water. Make sure you cough or sneeze into a tissue, put it in a bin and wash your hands.
We are asking anyone who shows certain symptoms to self-isolate for 7 days, regardless of whether they have travelled to affected areas. This means we want people to stay at home and avoid all but essential contact with others for 7 days from the point of displaying mild symptoms, to slow the spread of infection.
The symptoms are:
- a high temperature (37.8 degrees and above)
You do not need to call NHS 111 to go into self-isolation. If your symptoms worsen during home isolation or are no better after 7 days contact NHS 111 online at 111.nhs.uk.
- a new, continuous cough
If you have no internet access, you should call NHS 111. For a medical emergency dial 999.
In the coming weeks, we will be introducing further social distancing measures for older and vulnerable people, asking them to self-isolate regardless of symptoms.
If we introduce this next stage too early, the measures will not protect us at the time of greatest risk but could have a huge social impact. We need to time this properly, continue to do the right thing at the right time, so we get the maximum effect for delaying the virus. We will clearly announce when we ask the public to move to this next stage.
Our decisions are based on careful modelling.
We will only introduce measures that are supported by clinical and scientific evidence.
One of the best resources I've found on COVID-19 comes from Dr. John Campbell's youtube channel. Campbell, who is a PhD, is a retired Nurse Teacher and A and E nurse based in England, and is the author of several nursing textbooks.
Over the past couple of months, he's done a remarkable job producing 1 or 2 videos a day, going over the latest COVID-19 news, and breaking down the latest studies.
In today's video (below), he goes into great detail over what the UK expects to see in the coming months from this first pandemic wave, and the UK government's plan to meet it.
Highly recommended. As are all of his daily COVID-19 vlogs.
Failures of the Imagination
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. - H. L. Mencken
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Although the writing on the wall has been quite legible to many of us for the better part of two months, this seems to be the week that most in the western world have finally woken up to the idea that we are facing a genuine, and quite serious pandemic.
All it's taken has been a stock market crash, the closure of scores of colleges and universities, the cancellation of March Madness and the NBA season, and the shuttering of Disneyland. All subtle hints that something is amiss.Somewhat incredibly, even at this late date, there are still millions of people in denial. At least if the `meme army' on twitter is any indication. We are seeing fewer and fewer comparisons of COVID-19 to seasonal flu, but even so, few seem to realize that this isn't going to blow over in a few weeks, and then life goes back to normal.
This is, of course, the sort of messaging that many countries - at least outside of the current `hot zones' - have been projecting. This week I've heard several U.S. officials warn that `we haven't seen the peak in cases, quite yet'.
As if we are anywhere near the peak. Folks, we are barely into the foothills.I suppose they think this is a way of breaking bad news `gently' - an approach that might be appropriate if you were talking to a 4 year old - but not when discussing a serious, potentially life-threatening event with adults.
As a result, we've squandered 2 valuable months of lead time. Time to prepare, mentally and logistically, for what is likely to become a long viral siege.
And no, this isn't just an American problem. This denialism runs deep around the world. Everyone - with the exception of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore - has been badly behind the curve on this pandemic threat.Due in large part, I suspect, to what the Risk Communications tag-team duo of Peter Sandman and Jody Lanard previously dubbed `Failures of the Imagination', in the following essay on the world's response (and lack, thereof) to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa in 2014.
While this essay deals with specific time, place, and pathogen it's lessons can be applied to our current - and probably any future - pandemic threat. I've only included an excerpt, so follow the link to read it in its entirety.
Ebola: Failures of Imagination
by Jody Lanard and Peter M. Sandman
The alleged U.S. over-reaction to the first three domestic Ebola cases in the United States – what Maryn McKenna calls Ebolanoia – is matched only by the world’s true under-reaction to the risks posed by Ebola in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea. We are not referring to the current humanitarian catastrophe there, although the world has long been under-reacting to that.
We will speculate about reasons for this under-reaction in a minute. At first we thought it was mostly a risk communication problem we call “fear of fear,” but now we think it is much more complicated.
Some of the world’s top Ebola experts say they are worrying night and day about the possibility of endemic Ebola, a situation in which Ebola will continue to spread, and then presumably wax and wane repeatedly, in West Africa.
They – and we – find it difficult to understand why Ebola has not yet extended into Cote d’Ivoire, Mali, and Guinea-Bissau. (After we drafted this on October 23, a case was confirmed in Mali.)
Fewer experts refer publicly to what we think must frighten them even more (and certainly frightens us even more): the prospect of Ebola sparks landing and catching unnoticed in slums like Dharavi in Mumbai or Orangi Town in Karachi – or perhaps Makoko in Lagos. (Imagine how different recent history might have been if the late Ebola-infected Minnesota resident Patrick Sawyer had started vomiting in Makoko instead of at Lagos International Airport on July 20.)
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Our inability to seriously consider even a watered-down, and oxymoronic `reasonable worst-case scenario', leaves us open to incredible damage. One of my criticisms of the 2006-2008 pandemic planning around the world was far too many states and agencies were planning for a repeat of 1968 or 1957, not 1918.
Imagine if your big city fire department only trained for and was equipped to deal with average-sized fires, or if our military only prepared for `reasonable worst-case, and easily winnable conflicts'?Sadly, despite billions of dollars of tax dollars spent, that is where we find ourselves with pandemic preparedness. We always seem intent on preparing to fight the last pandemic, not the next one.
Yes, there have been many people, organizations, and agencies around the world who have clamored for realistic preparedness for a severe pandemic. You can find dozens of examples in this blog, including:
JHCHS Pandemic Table Top Exercise (EVENT 201) Videos Now Available Online
Center for Health Security Report On Preparedness for A High-impact Respiratory Pathogen
#NatlPrep: Personal Pandemic Preparedness
CLADE X: Archived Video & Recap)
Almost 2 months ago (January 18th), in response to what was happening in Hubei Province China, experts were already sounding the alarm (see JHCHS, The Gates Foundation & WEF: 7 Pandemic Preparedness Recommendations In A Joint Call to Action).
But instead of action, governments around the world have dithered, unable to believe that a truly serious pandemic could happen `on their watch'.But it is not just our current crop of leaders that are to blame. We can look back to the damning 2006 Campbell Commission SARS report, on the failures of hospitals to protect their workers during the 2003 outbreak in Ontario, which offered one overriding piece of advice:
Most important, the problems include Ontario’s failure to recognize in hospital worker safety the precautionary principle that reasonable action to reduce risk, like the use of a fitted N95 respirator, need not await scientific certainty. – SARS Commission Executive Summary.
In 2009 the Minnesota Center for Health Care Ethics and University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics released draft ethical pandemic guidelines on the rationing of scarce resources, where they estimated their were only enough PPE’s in the state of Minnesota to last 3 weeks into a severe pandemic.
This is perceived as being a big enough problem that six years ago we saw a report from NIOSH: Options To Maximize The Supply of Respirators During A Pandemic.Eleven years ago, in Caught With Our Masks Down, I wrote that the demand for PPEs during a serious pandemic would far exceed the available supply. At one time the HHS estimated the nation would need 30 billion masks (27 billion surgical, 5 Billion N95) to deal with a major pandemic (see Time Magazine A New Pandemic Fear: A Shortage of Surgical Masks).
The good news is we've been afforded more than a decade to prepare; to procure the basic PPEs needed protect our healthcare workers, first responders, and the general public.The bad news is, we instead spent billions on sexy, next-gen-high-tech pandemic `solutions' before first investing in the basic supplies and public health infrastructure we would need to deliver any of these solutions during a severe pandemic.
As a result, according to recent testimony in front of congress, we currently have about 1% of the number of PPEs we need for HCWs during a year-long severe pandemic. And, as we discussed often (see HCWs Willingness To Work During A Pandemic), a lack of PPEs is the greatest barrier to keeping healthcare workers healthy, and working during a pandemic.
That's not a temporary oversight, this is a long-standing institutional failure of the imagination of the highest order.The truth is, after the 2009 pandemic proved to be less severe than initially thought, pandemic preparedness went on the back burner - both here in the United States - and around the world. The prevailing attitude by the summer of 2010 was, we'd had our pandemic.
It wasn't so bad. And the next one probably won't come for another 40 years.Over the next couple of years most of the pandemic guidance created before 2009 was mothballed, the HHS's pandemic.gov website was taken down, and a thousand state, local, and business pandemic plans were locked away to gather dust in storage closets around the world.
In 2017, the CDC/HHS did release updated pandemic guidance (see HHS Pandemic Influenza Plan - 2017 Update & CDC/HHS Community Pandemic Mitigation Plan - 2017), and the World Health Organization released the results of a 2-year study WHO: Survey Of Pandemic Preparedness In Member States), which confirmed what we already knew.
The world was not ready for a pandemic.Just over half (n=104, or 54%) of member states actually responded to this survey. And of those, just 92 stated they had a national pandemic plan. Nearly half (48%) of those plans were created prior to the 2009 pandemic, and have not been updated since.
It gets worse, as only 40% of the responding countries have tested their pandemic preparedness plans - through simulated exercises - in the past 5 years.But, many nations had plans, we were told, to improve global pandemic preparedness. Hopefully, maybe in the next couple of years. While the United States, Canada, and the UK ranked among the best prepared nations in this (self-reported) survey, none of their scores were exactly stellar.
Regardless of the ultimate severity and impact of COVID-19, I've no doubt we will muddle through somehow. But because of our lack of foresight, preparedness, and a failure of our imagination, we'll take greater losses - both in terms of lives and suffering, and to our economy - than we needed to.
I expect, when it is over, that we'll be told that no one ever envisioned it could be as bad as it was, or could have foreseen the challenges we would face. But I think if you click any of the links embedded in this blog post, you'll know just how far from the truth that is.
The $64 question is whether we'll learn from this, and immediately begin to prepare for the next one. Or if we will we just go back to sleep, and hope the next one doesn't come on our watch.Because next time, Nature's laboratory may throw something at us far worse than COVID-19.
Thursday, March 12, 2020
Japan MOH: 55 New COVID-19 Cases, 4 Additional Deaths
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Japan, which up until a little over a week ago had been posting relatively small daily numbers, has seen their cases count more than double over the past 9 days. With today's additional cases, their total is now 675 domestic cases (excludes Diamond Princess cases).
Over the same time period 12 patients have died, bringing Japan's total to 19 fatalities (an apparent CFR of 2.8% including asymptomatic positives).Deaths are a lagging indicator in any epidemic, as hospitalized patients may succumb days or even weeks after admission.
Some excerpts from today's report follows:
About outbreak of patients related to new type coronavirus (554-602 cases)
Today (March 12), infections related to the new coronavirus from Hyogo, Chiba, Hokkaido, Tokyo, Mie, Saitama, Osaka, Kyoto, Aichi, Niigata, and Shizuoka prefectures Forty-nine patients, six asymptomatic pathogen carriers, and four deaths were reported as follows:
With this announcement, there will be 674 domestic infections (602 patients, 72 asymptomatic pathogen carriers). In addition, one patient has been confirmed in airport quarantine to date, bringing the total to 675. In addition, there are 19 domestic deaths.
We will carry out proactive epidemiological investigations on this matter, including the identification of close contacts.
(Others) We will continue to provide prompt and accurate information, so please cooperate in providing accurate information to the public. In addition, please refrain from interviewing on site from the viewpoint of protecting the privacy of patients.
Overview
(1) Patients, asymptomatic pathogen carriers:
- Himeji city: 1 patient, asymptomatic pathogen carriers 3 cases
- Chiba prefecture: 2 patients
- Otaru city: 1 patient
- Sapporo city: 9 patients
- Tokyo: 2 patients
- Mie Prefecture: 2 patients, asymptomatic pathogen carrier 3 cases
- Hyogo Prefecture: 4 patients
- Saitama City: 2 patients
- Osaka Prefecture: 9 patients
- Kyoto Prefecture: 1 patient
- Kyoto City: 1 patient
- Aichi Prefecture: 2 patients
- Nagoya City: 5 patients
- Saitama Prefecture: 4 patients
- Niigata City: 3 patients
- Shizuoka City: 1 patient
(2) Fatalities:
Information from each local government
- Hokkaido: 1 fatal
- Aichi Prefecture: 3 fatalities
* If the contents of the documents released by the local government do not conform to the ministry's standard, they will be published in accordance with the ministry's standard.
- Himeji City
- , Chiba Prefecture
- Otaru,
- Sapporo,
- Tokyo
- , Mie Prefecture
- , Hyogo Prefecture
- , Saitama City,
- Osaka Prefecture
- Kyoto Prefecture
- Kyoto City
- Aichi Prefecture
- Nagoya City
- Saitama Prefecture
- Niigata City
- Shizuoka City
Fatal case 1 , Fatal case 2 , Fatal case 3
Italy MOH: 2651 New COVID-19 Cases - 189 Additional Deaths
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The Italian Ministry of Health has posted the latest numbers, and over the past 24 hours 2651 new COVID-19 cases have been identified. This brings Italy's totals to more than 15,000 cases and the number of deaths now exceed 1,000.
While the CFR for the entire country is 6.7%, the highest fatality rate continues to be seen in Lombardy, where the CFR is roughly 8.5%.Outside of the Lombardy region, the CFR is roughly 4.25%.
Press conference at 6 pm on March 12th
15113 total cases, currently positive people are 12839, 1016 dead and 1258 recovered.
Among the 12839 positives:
- 5036 are found in home isolation
- 6650 hospitalized with symptoms
Read the tables:
- 1153 in intensive care
Iran MOH Update: 10,975 COVID-19 Cases & 429 Deaths
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Iran and Italy lead the world - outside of Mainland China - with the most COVID-19 cases and deaths and serve as cautionary examples of what can happen when the virus is not contained - or at least slowed down - early in its spread.
Both countries have been forced to enact harsh, economically painful measures to try to curb their epidemics. Unlike South Korea, we haven't seen any signs that these steps are slowing their outbreaks.We also don't have a good feel for the size of their outbreaks, as both countries appear to be reporting only the `sickest of the sick', and are likely missing many mild or moderate cases. It is safe to assume the `official' numbers only represent the tip of the iceberg.
Today Iran adds 1075 COVID-19 cases, and 75 additional deaths. Their CFR continues to run above 4%, and there are persistent (but unverified) reports that not all deaths are being counted.
The spokesperson for the Ministry of Health announced:
Identification of 1075 new patients with KVID19 in the country/happily 3276 patients were improved and discharged
Dr. Jahanpour spokesman for Ministry of Health, treatment and medical education said yesterday to today and according to the results of the laboratory, 1075 new patients with a 19-week study in the country were identified and the total patients in the country were increased to 10075.
According to the WEBDA, Dr. Kianush Jahanpour announced the announcement that fortunately, 3276 of the patients with 19 were improved and discharged.
Unfortunately, during the last 24 hours, 75 of the new people were killed in 19 years, and the total of the victims died in 429 from the country.
According to the spokesperson of the Ministry of Health, the new cases of identification of patients with a 19 in the country are as follows:
- Tehran: 303
- Qom: 42
- Gilan: 84
- Esfahan: 4
- Alborz: 74
- Mazandaran: 79
- Central: 88
- Qazvin: 42
- Semnan: 40
- Golestan: 25
- Khorasan Razavi: 29
- Fars: 29
- Lorestan: 25
- East Azerbaijan: 7
- Khoozestan: 31
- Yazd: 21
- Zanjan: 17
- Kurdistan: 9
- Ardebil: 14
- Kermanshah: 20
- Kerman: 7
- Hamadan: 12
- Sistan and Baluchestan: 6
- Hormozgan: 0
- South Khorasan: 12
- North Khorasan: 0
- Chaharmahal va Bakhtiari: 11
- Ilam: 7
- West Azebaijan: 3
- Kohgiluyeh and buyer Ahmad: 15
- Boushehr: 3
South Korea Continues To Make Progress Slowing COVID-19
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Although South Korea's recent progress against their COVID-19 epidemic gives hope that it is possible for community actions to dampen down the spread of the virus, it requires a level of commitment that a lot countries may have trouble duplicating.
Today's report from Korea's CDC indicates only 114 new COVID-19 cases were added over the past 24 hours, bringing their total to 7869 cases and 66 deaths.As noted yesterday, with the slowing in the number of new cases, and the inevitable, albeit lagging increase in the number of fatal outcomes, we are seeing South Korea's CFR slowly creep up. A week ago it was roughly .6%, while today that number has risen to .84% - or about 8 times higher than we would expect to see with a bad seasonal flu.
○ From March 8th to the present, 99 confirmed patients related to the call center located in Guro-gu, Seoul, and epidemiological investigations of infection paths and contacts are ongoing.
* 80 employees (53 in Seoul, 14 in Gyeonggi, 13 in Incheon), 19 contacts (17 in Seoul, and 2 in Incheon) (as of 00:00 on March 12) There are additional confirmed cases in the morning, which may differ from the announcement of local governments Can
-Up to now, 80 out of 208 call center employees on the 11th floor have been confirmed as confirmed patients, and 553 employees working in the same company but on different floors (7th to 9th floors) are first self-contained and subject to inspection. I plan to check the radio wave scale.
□ World Health Organization (WHO) Secretary General Tedros Adhanom Gevresu said on the 3.11 media briefing that 'Corona 19 was evaluated to be characterized as a pandemic' and that it was the de facto corona 19 worldwide pandemic. Made a declaration.
○ The Central Defense Countermeasures Division maintains the current countermeasures
* in Korea, which simultaneously prevents the spread of domestic communities and prevents further influx from foreign countries while preparing for a pandemic situation, but adds countermeasures in line with the changed situation at home and abroad. Said to strengthen.
* Combination of containment strategy and mitigation strategy such as rapid patient discovery and diagnosis, quarantine, treatment, and bed preparation
○ First, as the number of cases in which corona 19 is collectively increased in people in dense environments in closed spaces such as sports facilities and call centers, based on the guidelines for management of collective facilities and multi-use facilities, Prepare guidelines for intensive management of workplaces * to strengthen infection management by workplaces and facilities.
* Call center, karaoke room, PC room, sports center, religious facility, club, academy, etc.
-Each ministry prepared and implemented detailed management guidelines according to the characteristics of each work site and facility, and also conducted an on-site inspection of infection control to check whether the guidelines were implemented and managed continuously.
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COCA Call Today: COVID-19 - Caring For Children & Pregnant Women
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On the heels of last week's COCA Call on What Clinicians Need To know To Prepared for COVID-19 (see COCA Call On COVID-19 Now Available Online), the CDC is following up with two new COCA Calls (today & tomorrow) for clinicians on COVID-19.
Primarily of interest to clinicians and healthcare providers, COCA calls are designed to ensure that practitioners have up-to-date information for their practices. Older COCA calls are archived on the CDC Website, and are available for viewing.
Both of these presentations are expected to be heavily attended, but if you are unable to watch in real time, they should both be uploaded to the CDC COCA Call website within a few hours. Today's presentation is summarized below:
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Update—Information for Clinicians Caring for Children and Pregnant Women
Due to the high demand we anticipate for this COCA Call, we kindly ask participants to access it in a group format, if possible. Click the “Call Information” tab below for links to access the call via COCA’s Facebook Live or Zoom.
Date: Thursday, March 12, 2020
Time: 2:00 P.M. – 3:00P.M. (Eastern Time)
If you are unable to attend this COCA Call, the recording of this webinar will be posted at this location a few hours after the live event.
Overview
During this COCA Call, presenters will focus on current information about COVID-19 as it relates to children and pregnant women. Topics will include infection prevention and control measures in inpatient obstetric healthcare settings (CDC’s Interim Considerations for Infection Prevention and Control of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Inpatient Obstetric Healthcare Settings) and resources available to care for pediatric patients.
Call Materials Presenters Call Information Additional Resources
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Wednesday, March 11, 2020
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