COVID-19 Pandemic (Coronavirus)

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Squirrel from Meteor Man said:
I just saw reports they're now reporting the first deaths to have occurred in early February in California. I think it’s been in both NY and California since January, so the death rate is probably higher
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I saw last night that Newsom is having all of our coroners go through their December records and pull any files where people died of corona-like symptoms in an attempt to trace it's path of origin.

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We gonna hit 60k deaths before the end of the month. Is Trump still sticking by that total?
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Probably, I think it's why he backed off on supporting the Georgia reopening. Somebody probably put some numbers in his ear, which I think is the only thing that registers on his spectrum of autism.
 
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fact said:
Good evening, yall. I haven't been posting a lot about my wife lately because I didn't want to jinx anything.
She is still very sick, still on pretty much around the clock IV's, and they are still trying to fight off the infection in her brain, but like 7 days ago now, they had her on a ventilator. She woke up, and was responding pretty well to instructions, but was non verbal. They decided to ween her off the vent and put her on oxygen. Well that same night she was having trouble breathing again, and they put her back on the vent. We found out the next morning that all this shyt went down, so I was hopeful, and then distraught, because all the news you see is vent=grave nowadays.
About 5pm that day, after being a complete fukking mess, I get a call from the hospital, I didn't even want to answer tbh, I was, in those 3 rings, ready for the worst news in my life. I picked up, voice shaky
Nurse: is this Mr. Fact?
Me: This is he.
Nurse: Mr. Fact, she wants to facetime with you..
Me: Which Dr.? or Nurse?
Nurse: No, your wife!
Me: What are you talking about, she just got put back on the vent this morning, what are you saying? *all that's going through my mind is that they are letting her facetime her family because she is......)
Nurse: She will explain everything
So it was, about 10 minutes later I get a facetime from the units ipad from my beautiful, tough as fukk, gangster ass wife with NO NEUROLOGICAL DAMAGE telling me that she came to this morning (about 30 minutes after I heard from the Dr's that am) not knowing why she was in the hospital, not knowing a week went by, and ready to put hands on nurses and dr's for having her on a ventilator. I was having a really hard time getting through the call, I was so fukking overjoyed, it's harder than I thought it would ever be explaining to someone that you thought they were going to die, and how much it meant to me to hear her voice and see her face again, something I wasn't sure I was going to ever be able to do again, in this life anyway. Especially with her being confused as to what the fukk happened, being in a place she hates (we have spent WAY too much time in hospitals over the past 8 years), and her just saying she wants me to come and get her right now.
I actually slept for the first time that night thinking everything might turn out alright. The next day, we talked a couple more times on the ipad, the Dr's and Nurses I talked to all said that they had never seen a patient go from what she was 24 hrs ago to what she was when she woke up. I tried to warn them not to get too far ahead of themselves just yet, she is a nurse herself and has been dealing with a very rare disease, learning everything there is to know about it for the last 8 years, along with a practically identic memory for medical science, that if they treat her like a "victim" or not tell her exactly what is happening, however complex they might think it is for normal patients to hear, she is going to make hell for them. Luckily the HCP's really actually appreciated my wife's knowledge and ability to answer questions about her conditions, her symptoms, and helped administer a lot of her own simple care, she said they were absolutely fukking slammed, a lot of the nurses and dr's were running on fumes.

I talked the person that was supposed to be my point person inside the hospital so I didn't have to keep calling the nurses and drs every hour, and she told me that my wife would definitely be in the hospital for another 6-8 weeks on IV antibiotics. Ok, that's a long ass time, but whatever it takes, even though my wife is gonna lose her shyt. I then get a call from the neurosurgeon that will be doing her last resort brain surgery if the infection does not go away, and he said she will be in the hospital for at least another week. WTF? I called back my point person, she said she will look into it. I get a call from Dr. that runs the unit she is on, She says at least middle of May. I get a call from my wife on Friday, she says "I'll be home next week". WTF!! I just chalked up my wife's wishful thinking to drugs or exhaustion. On Monday morning my wife calls and says "I'm not getting discharged today". I said "Well, that sucks (in the back of my mind, i'm like no shyt, you aren't coming home anytime soon baby)", She also told me that she came back negative for her 3rd Covid test (apparently they are out of room, and there are units where non covid, and covid patients are onm same floor, and have same nurses, which scared the fukking shyt out of me). She also said that there was a chaos on the floor among the nurses because they ran out of masks. FANTASTIC.
Tuesday morning she calls me at 8am "I'm being discharged today". I'm still letting all of this sink in. She is not out of the woods yet, she is still very sick, still on IV's, but she is in the other room right now, I can hear her sleeping, I can hold her when I go to bed.

Thank you everyone on here for all your well wishes, positive energy, prayers, everything!! I am extra humbled, gracious, happy, and hopeful. This site's community is overall one of love, compassion, togetherness, and positivity!!! I wish nothing but good health, good will, and a good and happy life for y'all, and I absolutely believe that all the positivity from y'all was a factor in the miracle of my wife's ability to heal at home. Thank you!
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Fam, don't even know what to say but all the best!
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gonna need for Rick Ross to make a public announcement for Dade county folk to stay indoors, cacdemon Gimenez trying to pull a fast one out there
 
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For anyone looking for more uplifting news.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...s-ppe/?utm_source=reddit.com#comments-wrapper


They lived in a factory for 28 days to make millions of pounds of raw PPE materials to help fight coronavirus

By
Meagan Flynn
April 23, 2020 at 6:22 a.m. EDT
At his factory just off the Delaware River, in the far southeastern corner of Pennsylvania, Joe Boyce clocked in on March 23 for the longest shift of his life.

In his office, an air mattress replaced his desk chair. He brought a toothbrush and shaving kit, moving into the Braskem petrochemical plant in Marcus Hook, Pa., as if it were a makeshift college dormitory. The casual office kitchen became a mess hall for him and his 42 co-workers turned roommates. The factory’s emergency operations center became their new lounge room.

For 28 days, they did not leave — sleeping and working all in one place.

In what they called a “live-in” at the factory, the undertaking was just one example of the endless ways that Americans in every industry have uniquely contributed to fighting coronavirus. The 43 men went home Sunday after each working 12-hour shifts all day and night for a month straight, producing tens of millions of pounds of the raw materials that will end up in face masks and surgical gowns worn on the front lines of the pandemic.

No one told them they had to do it, Braskem America CEO Mark Nikolich said. All of the workers volunteered, hunkering down at the plant to ensure no one caught the virus outside as they sought to meet the rocketing demand for their key product, polypropylene, which is needed to make various medical and hygienic items. Braskem’s plant in Neal, W.Va., is doing a second live-in now. The story was earlier reported in Philadelphia’s WPVI.

“We were just happy to be able to help,” Boyce, an operations shift supervisor and a 27-year veteran at Braskem America, told The Washington Post. “We’ve been getting messages on social media from nurses, doctors, EMS workers, saying thank you for what we’re doing. But we want to thank them for what they did and are continuing to do. That’s what made the time we were in there go by quickly, just being able to support them.”

For countless face masks in America, their journey from a blob of chemicals into the hands of first responders and grocery-store clerks likely began at a plant just like Braskem’s. The company, which touts itself as the largest petrochemical producer in the Americas, is one of the earliest links in the supply chain, providing a key ingredient for the personal protective equipment that millions of people worldwide now need each day.

Nikolich said the company has shifted its production lines to focus on making that key ingredient, polypropylene, given the high demand due to covid-19. The company then sells the product to clients that turn it into a nonwoven fabric, which medical manufacturers ultimately use to make face masks, medical gowns and even disinfectant wipes, among other items.

Nikolich estimated that the Braskem plants in Pennsylvania and West Virginia have produced 40 million pounds of polypropylene over the past month — enough to hypothetically make either 500 million N95 masks or 1.5 billion surgical masks, if the material were used only for that purpose. (It will also be used for other PPE such as the gowns, Nikolich stressed.)

“It just makes you immensely proud to be associated with a team like that,” Nikolich said. “They’re operating in a strange environment 24/7, 365.”

Nikolich said the plants decided to launch the live-ins so employees could avoid having to worry about catching the virus while constantly traveling to and from work, and so the staff at the factory could be closed off to nonessential personnel.

“We tried to make them as comfortable as possible,” Nikolich said.

Boyce said some guys brought their Xbox consoles and TVs, and even a cornhole set, to stay entertained. They stayed active at the on-site gym, which “has never been used so much before,” Boyce said, and stayed extra busy in the kitchen. A skilled cook, Boyce and others asked corporate for more pots and pans and a stove, whipping up creamed corn, barbecue and even filet mignon dinners for more than 40 people a night.

Before long, they fell into a routine like they were all in one enormous household, he said.

“We had to kind of adapt. We came up with a chart for housekeeping chores so we could all clean the bathrooms and clean up after meals,” Boyce said. “It wasn’t long before we’re all sitting in the same spots at dinner.”

But being separated from family got harder as time went on, said Boyce, a father of two teenagers. Some guys counted down the days. One missed the birth of his first grandchild. Visitors weren’t allowed.

So on Day 14, the families organized a “drive-by visit,” Boyce said. It was their hump day, celebrating not only being halfway done but also free of any signs of the virus, as no one during that 14-day period developed even a sniffle. With a police escort, more than two dozen families paraded past the plant bearing signs and cheering from the windows — too far away for a conversation but just close enough “to give a boost to all the guys,” Boyce said.

“It was something to see,” he said. “Just a shout and wave was pretty much what we got, but it was enough.”

They went back to work. The days blended between factory floor and conference-room bedrooms, until finally, on Sunday, it was time to clock out.

“We wanted to walk out as a team,” Boyce said. “Everybody felt that way. It really hit me when my car got a little ways down from the plant — I’m finally going to see my family.”
 
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