Videodrome
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We watched that and 93 Days in the first week of the shutdown. Sadly, Outbreak isn't on Netflix here...
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Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 (nCoV-2019)
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We watched that and 93 Days in the first week of the shutdown. Sadly, Outbreak isn't on Netflix here...
Regigate
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On CBC last night one of their experts was saying that in laboratory settings, cats have been shown to carry and potentially transmit to other cats (unclear about humans); but don't exhibit much in the way of symptoms. Dogs much less so. She sounded fairly unconcerned about cats transmitting from human to human (especially since most only interact with a few humans, who also interact with each other).
AlbertC
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Apple is designing and shipping face shields for medical workers
More than 20 million masks sourced to date
By Sam Byford Apr 5, 2020
Apple CEO Tim Cook has provided an update on the company’s response to the COVID-19 crisis. In a video posted to Twitter, Cook says Apple has sourced more than 20 million masks through its global supply chain and is working with governments to donate them where they’re needed.
Apple has also launched “a company-wide effort bringing together product designers, engineering, operations, packaging teams, and our suppliers to design, produce and ship face shields for health workers,” according to Cook, who showed off one of these shields in the video.
“Our first shipment was delivered to Kaiser hospital facilities in the Santa Clara Valley this past week, and the feedback from doctors was very positive,” Cook says. “These pack flat, one hundred per box. Each shield is assembled in less than two minutes and is fully adjustable. We’re sourcing materials and manufacturing in the US and China.”
Apple plans to ship more than one million shields by the end of this week and a further million each week after that. So far the company has been working to distribute them across the US, but plans to expand elsewhere soon. “Our focus is on unique ways Apple can help, meeting essential needs of caregivers urgently and at a scale the circumstances require,” Cook says.
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More than 20 million masks sourced to date
By Sam Byford Apr 5, 2020
Apple CEO Tim Cook has provided an update on the company’s response to the COVID-19 crisis. In a video posted to Twitter, Cook says Apple has sourced more than 20 million masks through its global supply chain and is working with governments to donate them where they’re needed.
Apple has also launched “a company-wide effort bringing together product designers, engineering, operations, packaging teams, and our suppliers to design, produce and ship face shields for health workers,” according to Cook, who showed off one of these shields in the video.
“Our first shipment was delivered to Kaiser hospital facilities in the Santa Clara Valley this past week, and the feedback from doctors was very positive,” Cook says. “These pack flat, one hundred per box. Each shield is assembled in less than two minutes and is fully adjustable. We’re sourcing materials and manufacturing in the US and China.”
Apple plans to ship more than one million shields by the end of this week and a further million each week after that. So far the company has been working to distribute them across the US, but plans to expand elsewhere soon. “Our focus is on unique ways Apple can help, meeting essential needs of caregivers urgently and at a scale the circumstances require,” Cook says.
Apple is designing and shipping face shields for medical workers
More than 20 million masks sourced to date
www.theverge.com
lenaitch
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The truth is revealed: cats have been secretly plotting for years to take over the world.
globalnews.ca
Tiger at Bronx Zoo tests positive for coronavirus: U.S. officials - National | Globalnews.ca
The 4-year-old Malayan tiger, and six other tigers and lions that have also fallen ill, are believed to have been infected by a zoo employee, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said.
globalnews.ca
Jasmine18
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Things are coming down in some parts of Europe it seems, light at the end of the tunnel it seems
Spain is looking promising. But there’s still a ways to go yet and likely a second wave.
Northern Light
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While NYC's official projections are improving; and that should be seen as a positive............it would appear that things may be, and may have been much worse than what the official totals show.
As per this Twitter thread; it appears at home deaths in NYC area are up almost 10x in the last 2 weeks; that that most of those people were not and are not being tested for Covid, as such not in the official totals.
Also appears NYC morgue system is reaching its limits even with the refrigerator trucks; they are contemplating temporarily burying people in parks.
As per this Twitter thread; it appears at home deaths in NYC area are up almost 10x in the last 2 weeks; that that most of those people were not and are not being tested for Covid, as such not in the official totals.
Also appears NYC morgue system is reaching its limits even with the refrigerator trucks; they are contemplating temporarily burying people in parks.
Northern Light
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Ontario reporting
309 new cases of COVID-19 today, for a total of 4,347. That's a 7.7% increase, lowest in quite a while, down from 11% yesterday.
589 hospitalized (+66) that's a 12.6% increase in hospitalizations, which is up.
216 in ICU (+16) that's an 8% increase which is also up, and more substantially so from a very low number yesterday.
160 on ventilators (+6) ; that's a 3.9% increase
Only 13 new deaths. That's after more than 100 yesterday.
Notes: Total number of tests remains quite low at about 4,000 (per day); ICU/Vent capacity is still tracking acceptably, on a province-wide basis.......for now.
309 new cases of COVID-19 today, for a total of 4,347. That's a 7.7% increase, lowest in quite a while, down from 11% yesterday.
589 hospitalized (+66) that's a 12.6% increase in hospitalizations, which is up.
216 in ICU (+16) that's an 8% increase which is also up, and more substantially so from a very low number yesterday.
160 on ventilators (+6) ; that's a 3.9% increase
Only 13 new deaths. That's after more than 100 yesterday.
Notes: Total number of tests remains quite low at about 4,000 (per day); ICU/Vent capacity is still tracking acceptably, on a province-wide basis.......for now.
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WislaHD
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We're about to see for real how transparent with the public the United States is.
Boris Johnson in ICU now https://www.itv.com/news/2020-04-06...-being-admitted-to-hospital-with-coronavirus/
Towered
Senior Member
Wow, even though he's had it for almost 2 weeks?
Fresco
Active Member
I read somewhere that once they have to put you on a ventilator your chances of walking out of that hospital are less than 1 in 3.
I hope he makes it
W. K. Lis
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He isn't on a ventilator (yet)
AlbertC
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500,000 masks coming to Ontario after shipment halted at American facility
Published Monday, April 6, 2020 12:14PM EDT
Half a million N95 masks will arrive in Ontario later this week, despite a battle with the United States government over the much-needed personal protective equipment for front-line healthcare workers.
The news comes after a recent Ontario-bound shipment was halted at an American production facility this weekend – days after U.S President Donald Trump issued an order stopping N95 mask maker 3M from shipping their supplies to Canada and South America.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford revealed Monday morning that the “recent restrictions” at the U.S.-Canada border left the province with “roughly a one-week supply” of facial masks for those on the front-lines of the COVID-19 fight.
Ford said he felt a “glimmer of hope” after speaking with officials in the U.S. and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland Monday morning and confirmed that he’s been told that 500,000 of those masks are on their way to Ontario.
“What I understand is that we had three million masks that were stopped by U.S. officials coming out of 3M in South Dakota,” he told reporters at a news conference Monday.
“I was just briefed not long ago that we were able to get 500,000 N95 masks moving forward that should be released today and coming into Ontario.”
Published Monday, April 6, 2020 12:14PM EDT
Half a million N95 masks will arrive in Ontario later this week, despite a battle with the United States government over the much-needed personal protective equipment for front-line healthcare workers.
The news comes after a recent Ontario-bound shipment was halted at an American production facility this weekend – days after U.S President Donald Trump issued an order stopping N95 mask maker 3M from shipping their supplies to Canada and South America.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford revealed Monday morning that the “recent restrictions” at the U.S.-Canada border left the province with “roughly a one-week supply” of facial masks for those on the front-lines of the COVID-19 fight.
Ford said he felt a “glimmer of hope” after speaking with officials in the U.S. and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland Monday morning and confirmed that he’s been told that 500,000 of those masks are on their way to Ontario.
“What I understand is that we had three million masks that were stopped by U.S. officials coming out of 3M in South Dakota,” he told reporters at a news conference Monday.
“I was just briefed not long ago that we were able to get 500,000 N95 masks moving forward that should be released today and coming into Ontario.”
Ontario premier thanks U.S. officials for deal that will allow shipments of N95 masks
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has thanked United States officials after a deal was made between manufacturing giant 3M and the White House that will allow Canadians to continue receiving shipments of N95 masks.
toronto.ctvnews.ca