Coronavirus

Does anyone know if "US" means federal government, state government or private entity?

(Reuters) - 3M Co said on Friday it would make more face masks for the United States to fight the coronavirus pandemic, but warned of the “humanitarian implications” of limiting supply to other countries as President Donald Trump directed.

Trump has asked 3M to ramp up imports of the masks to the U.S. from its other global manufacturing facilities, while demanding a pause in the exports of domestically-produced respirators to Canada and some Latin American countries.

“There are, however, significant humanitarian implications of ceasing respirator supplies to healthcare workers in Canada and Latin America, where we are a critical supplier of respirators,” the company said in a statement.

3M said such a move was likely to cause other countries to retaliate as the N-95 face masks made by 3M and other companies are in short supply among healthcare workers treating coronavirus patients.

“If that were to occur, the net number of respirators being made available to the United States would actually decrease.”

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said blocking 3M’s export of respirators could backfire, adding that thousands of nurses cross the border to work in Detroit every day.

3M’s response comes a day after Trump slammed the 117-year-old industrial giant in a tweet regarding their mask supply and invoked the Defense Production Act to get the company to produce more respirators. 3M “will have a big price to pay,” he had said, without elaborating. [nL1N2BR01X]

The Defense Production Act, which was passed in 1950, grants the president the power to expand industrial production of key materials or products for national security and other reasons.

U.S. trade adviser Peter Navarro said that the government had some issues making sure that enough of the masks produced by 3M around the world were coming back to the United States.

“The narrative that we aren’t doing everything we can as a company is just not true,” 3M Chief Executive Officer Mike Roman told CNBC television in an interview on Friday.

3M said it will work closely with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to prioritize orders for the masks after saying earlier this week that it expects to ramp up U.S. monthly production of N-95 masks to 50 million in June.

The company said on Friday it has secured China’s approval to export to the U.S. 10 million N-95 respirators manufactured by the company in China.

The Post-it note maker’s shares declined as much as 3.6% to $133, compared with a 2.2% fall in the broader S&P 500 index .SPX.

BillRM wrote:

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as of March 11,
Total cases: 938.
Total deaths: 29.
States reporting cases: 39.

March 11th info is on the other side of out of date and meaningless

ehBeth wrote:

BillRM wrote:

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as of March 11,
Total cases: 938.
Total deaths: 29.
States reporting cases: 39.

March 11th info is on the other side of out of date and meaningless

I know.

As of today, there's been more than 2250 Deaths in NYC alone.
So for the stats of 3/11

New York State reported 594 new coronavirus deaths on Sunday, fewer than the 630 it reported on Saturday, Governor Andrew Cuomo said at his daily news briefing. The state has had 4,159 fatalities so far.

New Jersey, which has the second-highest number of U.S. cases, reported a slowdown in the death rate: Fatalities rose by 71 on Sunday, compared with 200 the day before. It also reported fewer new cases, 3,381, for a total of 37,505. Total deaths are 917.

As President Donald Trump and other leaders warned of rising death tolls, Cuomo said it was too early to say if the outbreak had reached a peak in New York -- the center of the nation’s outbreak.

Brooklyn, New York (CNN)One emergency room. 40 minutes. Six patients went into cardiac arrest. Four died before they made it out of the ER.

The blare of the critical "CODE 99" from the hospital alert system rang out five other times in less than an hour, calling medics to scramble to a patient needing resuscitation.
It's not chaos, but to an onlooker, it seems like hell.
"They're so sick you lose them in a heartbeat, they're that sick," respiratory therapist Julie Eason told CNN. "They're talking to you and then a few minutes later you're putting a tube down their throat and you're hoping that you can set the ventilator in such a way that it actually helps them."
This is the truth of what coronavirus is doing to thousands of Americans, and likely will to many thousand more. It has been largely unseen because visitors are not allowed to be in hospitals, and everyone else is staying home.
The University Hospital in Brooklyn is now dedicated to only coronavirus patients.
The University Hospital in Brooklyn is now dedicated to only coronavirus patients.
CNN was invited to witness the scenes inside the University Hospital of Brooklyn, New York, part of the SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University. All the patients the hospital treats now are suffering from coronavirus -- it's one of three hospitals in the state ordered by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to dedicate itself entirely to dealing with the pandemic.
The volume of people coming to the ER is lower than before the virus, but because they are all suffering from Covid-19, the patients are sicker and the death rate is high. Nearly 25% of the patients admitted to the hospital with the virus have died.

We shut down the whole society for an outbreak that is similar to a bad flu season at worst.

BillRM wrote:

We shut down the whole society for an outbreak that is similar to a bad flu season at worst.

We shut down the whole society because we'd have more than two million US dead if we didn't.

More than two million US dead is nothing like a bad flu season.

But what's really happening is that authorities just don't want all 2 million dead at the same time. "Flatten the curve". All we are doing right now is keeping people secluded so they don't all get sick at once.

People are still going to get sick. People are still going to die all over the world. It will just be over a longer period of time.

The streets of Ecuador's western city of Guayaquil are deserted, with few residents in sight -- and a few dead, as bodies are being left in the streets of this overwhelmed place.

The coronavirus pandemic is overloading the public services in the country's most populous city to a point of collapse. Hospitals have no beds left to accept sick patients, and morgues, cemeteries and funeral homes are straining. With no place left to put them, some residents say they have no choice but placing them outside.

Many fewer people will die if we flatten the curve. We don't have enough ventilators for everyone to get sick all at the same time. A lot of people will die from the lack of an available ventilator if everyone gets the disease all at once.

Having the disease spread in slow motion allows a ventilator to be reused over and over again on multiple people. As one patient recovers and no longer needs a ventilator, that ventilator can be transferred to a new patient who is just getting sick.

Also, if more people avoid getting the disease now when we don't have a lot of treatments for the disease, more lives will be saved later on when better treatments for the disease are developed.

French Deaths Cut by Half in a Day (2:10 p.m. NY)
France reported the lowest daily coronavirus deaths in five days in a possible sign that three weeks of confinement are starting to help contain the outbreak. The country had 518 fatalities on Sunday, the fewest since last Tuesday, according to figures published by French health authorities. New cases dropped to 1,873, the fewest since March 21.


N.J. Death Fall Sharply (1:50 p.m. NY)
New Jersey, which has the second-highest number of U.S. cases, reported a slowdown in the death rate: Fatalities rose by 71 compared with 200 the day before.

N.Y. Deaths, Hospitalizations Fall (11:30 a.m. NY)
New York reported 594 new coronavirus deaths, fewer than the 630 it reported on Saturday, Governor Andrew Cuomo said at his daily press briefing. He said it’s too soon to draw conclusions. The state has 4,159 fatalities so far.

There are 122,031 positive cases in total. New hospitalizations also dropped, to 574 from 1,095, Cuomo reported.