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Up To $25,000 Hazard Pay For Essential Workers ‘One Of Our Very Highest Priorities’

Thu, 2020-04-23 08:15 — Kathy Gilbeaux
forbes.com - by Terina Allen - April 22, 2020

 
On Tuesday, the Senate passed a bipartisan bill to add an additional $484 billion in relief monies for small businesses, and the House is expected to pass it Thursday according to The Wall Street Journal. But nothing in this bill addresses the outstanding issue of hazard pay for essential frontline workers. Nothing that Congress has approved so far has included hazard pay for frontline workers. Though, Senator Schumer (D – NY) has stated that getting hazard pay approved in the next phase relief bill “is one of our very highest priorities.”
 
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Timeline of COVID-19 in Orange County, Texas

Sun, 2020-04-19 19:59 — Kathy Gilbeaux
kogt.com - by Margaret Toal - April 17, 2020

February 5 was a Wednesday and Dr. Tom Johnson of Lamar State College-Orange was on the KOGT Morning Show and he brought a guest.
Johnson brought Dr. Ni Song, an LSCO associate professor of biology, who is a native of Wuhan, China.
Dr. Song talked about how physicians, including family members, were dealing with an outbreak of a deadly new coronavirus. They were needing masks, especially the N95 respirator masks, along with gloves. She asked Orange County for help.
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What the US can learn from other countries using phones to track Covid-19

Sat, 2020-04-18 17:27 — Kathy Gilbeaux

           

A person in China scans a QR code with a smartphone to register their real name before getting off a bus in Wuhan, China. Zhang Chang/China News Service via Getty Images

The US is rolling out digital contact tracing. How has it been working in other countries?

vox.com - by Shirin Ghaffary - April 18, 2020

If and when lockdown restrictions are lifted in the US, would you agree to let the government anonymously track your interactions with people within a 6-foot radius to control the spread of Covid-19?

That’s an increasingly urgent question as President Trump and state governors debate how and when to safely reopen the US economy — and as technology is being touted as a solution that would help people reenter public life.

And tech giants are stepping up. Last week, Apple and Google announced a plan to turn phones into opt-in Covid-19 tracking machines that would, if all goes as planned, make it easier for health officials to identify and alert people if they’ve been exposed to the virus.

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CCDS - Critical Care Decontamination System - Uses Hydrogen Peroxide Vapor to Decontaminate N95 Respirators, and Other PPE

Thu, 2020-04-16 07:02 — Kathy Gilbeaux

           

Battelle Memorial Institute's CCDS Critical Care Decontamination System uses a hydrogen peroxide vapor to decontaminate N95 respirators. The organization says that the process takes about 2½ and that masks can be cleaned and reused up to 20 times.Battelle Memorial Institute

nbcnews.com - by Didi Martinez, Brenda Breslauer and Stephanie Gosk - April 14, 2020

Late Monday, the Pentagon announced a $415 million contract to commission 60 decontamination systems that will allow millions of highly protective N95 face masks to be reused.

The system, which can process up to 80,000 masks per day, has been called a potential "game changer" for the front-line health care workers and first responders who rely on the masks, according to hospital officials concerned about a shortage of protective equipment to shield their staff from COVID-19.

But the story of how this system came to be is a testament to what can happen when a doctor and an engineer — who happen to be husband and wife — ask, "What if?"

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SEE IT: Simulation shows how cough can spread coronavirus in grocery stores

Sat, 2020-04-11 18:33 — Kathy Gilbeaux

kron4.com - by: Alexa Mae Asperin - April 9, 2020

Researchers in Finland have released a shocking simulation that apparently shows how respiratory droplets from just one cough in a grocery store can linger in the air for “several minutes” and travel across two aisles, possibly infecting other shoppers nearby with coronavirus.

Aalto University, the Finnish Meteorological Institute, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and the University of Helsinki studied how aerosolized particles released from the respiratory tract when coughing, sneezing or even talking flow through the air.

Preliminary results indicate that tiny particles carrying the coronavirus can linger in the air for longer than originally thought, reinforcing the importance of completely avoiding crowded spaces, or at the very least following social distancing guidelines.

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U.S. Senate Democrats propose premium pay for essential workers

Fri, 2020-04-10 08:52 — Kathy Gilbeaux
local21news.com - by Karina Cheung - April 8, 2020

Coronavirus is spreading in Texas nursing homes. But the state won't share the details.

Wed, 2020-04-08 21:28 — Kathy Gilbeaux
Families and advocates for nursing home residents are calling on Texas officials to release the numbers and names of facilities where coronavirus infection has been reported, as other states have done.
texastribune.org - BY EDGAR WALTERS AND CARLA ASTUDILLO - April 8, 2020
At least 320 residents and staff members at Texas nursing homes have tested positive for the new coronavirus. At least 18 people have died. And at least seven nursing homes, across five metro areas, are grappling with infections of 10 or more people.
But those numbers, collected by The Texas Tribune from various public health departments and local news reports, likely underrepresent the extent of the COVID-19 outbreak in Texas nursing facilities. That’s because Texas, unlike some other states, is failing to disclose comprehensive data on nursing home residents and staffers who have fallen ill — even though state officials acknowledge they are privately tracking that data.
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'Painful lesson': how a military-style lockdown unfolded in Wuhan

Wed, 2020-04-08 18:01 — Kathy Gilbeaux

           

FILE PHOTO: A man wearing a face mask walks next to barriers set up to block buildings from a street in Wuhan, Hubei province, the epicentre of China's coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, March 29, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song

reuters.com - by Cate Cadell, Yawen Chen - April 8, 2020

As the world grapples with the escalating coronavirus pandemic, China reopened the city of Wuhan on Wednesday, allowing its 11 million residents to leave for the first time in over two months, a milestone in its effort to combat the outbreak.

But while the operation to contain Wuhan’s coronavirus outbreak has been hailed as a success by China and many international health experts, it didn’t come easy.

Using virus case data, official reports and over a dozen interviews with officials, residents and scientists in Wuhan, Reuters has compiled a comprehensive account of how the military-style quarantine of the city unfolded.

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Coronavirus: low antibody levels raise questions about reinfection risk

Wed, 2020-04-08 12:33 — Kathy Gilbeaux

           

Researchers in Shanghai found low levels of coronavirus antibodies in some people who had recently recovered from Covid-19. Photo: DPA

Scientists in Shanghai say some recovered patients show no signs of the neutralising proteins

Early-stage findings could have implications for vaccine development and herd immunity, they say

CLICK HERE - RESEARCH - medRxiv - Neutralizing antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 in a COVID-19 recovered patient cohort and their implications - April 6, 2020

scmp.com - by Stephen Chen - April 7, 2020

Researchers in Shanghai hope to determine whether some recovered coronavirus patients have a higher risk of reinfection after finding surprisingly low levels of Covid-19 antibodies in a number of people discharged from hospital.

A team from Fudan University analysed blood samples from 175 patients discharged from the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Centre and found that nearly a third had unexpectedly low levels of antibodies.

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Port Arthur Health Department announces the city's first COVID-19 related death

Mon, 2020-04-06 17:07 — Kathy Gilbeaux
kfdm - facebook - April 6, 2020

From Port Arthur Health Department - It is with great sadness that the City of Port Arthur Health Department is reporting the first COVID-19 related death of a Port Arthur resident. 

The gentleman was between the ages of 45-50 years old and had underlying health issues. He had no known travel history. He presented to the hospital with known COVID-19 symptoms and passed away during his hospitalization.
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