I noticed the chryon at the bottom of the vimeo video has the “Iowa caucuses” time clock on the right hand side.
Iowa caucuses were held on February 3rd, 2020.
Governor Newsom Deploys California National Guard to Help Distribute Food at Food Banks & Protect California’s Most Vulnerable
“Due to COVID-19, many food banks have been affected by a significant decline in volunteerism, impacting logistical and local infrastructure for food distribution. The California Guard will initially deploy personnel and logistical equipment to a food bank distribution warehouse in Sacramento County starting today, and will conduct immediate site assessments statewide for those counties that have requested short-term support and stabilization. This short-term assistance from the California National Guard allows time to mobilize AmeriCorps, California Conservation Corps and Local Conservation Corps members, and other volunteers where counties have identified serious gaps.”
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/03/20/governor-newsom-deploys-california-national-guard-to-help-distribute-food-at-food-banks-protect-californias-most-vulnerable/
Haiku4U, you’re right! (Very observant of you.) Wow, then that video is very old (about 6 weeks) relative to this fast-moving pandemic!
Maybe they suppressed this Feb. 3rd video as out-of-synch with the CDC/MSM approved narrative at the time. There was apparently a video done yesterday on Fox & Friends that is referenced in the article above but for which the video is missing. Maybe they’ll post it in about 6 weeks when it is old news and Chris’ views are deemed acceptable by CDC/MSM.
Chris, can you provide any insight into what is going on with these delayed/missing Fox interviews?
[Note the younger ages (i.e., less than age 65) of the confirmed infected–including 19 people (1.6%) age 17 or younger. Of the 1216 cases with known ages, the majority (72.%) are age 18-64; and 26.4% are age 65 and older. ]
California Department of Health: COVID-19 in California by the Numbers:
As of March 20, 2020, 2 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time, there are a total of 1,224 positive cases and 23 deaths in California (including one non-California resident).
Ages of all confirmed positive cases:
Age 0-17: 19 cases
Age 18-64: 876 cases
Age 65+: 321 cases
Unknown: 8 cases
24 – Cases of positive tests related to federal repatriation flights
1,200 – Cases not related to repatriation flights
96 – Travel related
122 – Person-to-person acquired
325 – Community acquired (see map of local health jurisdictions reporting community transmission - PNG)
657 – Under investigation
(Source)
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/21/politics/fda-coronavirus-test/index.html
Washington, DC (CNN)The US Food and Drug Administration announced it has authorized the use of the first rapid diagnostic test that could detect the novel coronavirus in approximately 45 minutes.
The authorization was made Friday and tests will begin shipping next week, according to a statement from California-based Cepheid, the company manufacturing the tests.
“During this time of increased demand for hospital services, Clinicians urgently need an on-demand diagnostic test for real-time management of patients being evaluated for admission to health-care facilities,” said Dr. David Persing, MD, Ph.D., chief medical and technology officer at Cepheid.
“An accurate test delivered close to the patient can be transformative – and help alleviate the pressure that the emergence of the 2019-nCoV outbreak has put on healthcare facilities that need to properly allocate their respiratory isolation resources,” Persing added.
The announcement of more efficient testing comes as the medical community has been looking to get quicker results to stem the tide of the coronavirus outbreak.
Last week, Dr. Rod Hochman, CEO of Providence St. Joseph Health, an organization of 51 hospitals and about 1,000 clinics, described testing capacity in the US as highly deficient. The turnaround time on testing results, he said, had ranged from 24 hours to four days, which he called “unacceptable.”
If cases of the disease are not identified quickly and community spread continues unchecked, it could soon overwhelm the nation’s medical system, just as it did in Wuhan, China, said Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.
Vice President Mike Pence announced during a Saturday news briefing on coronavirus response that more than 195,000 Americans have been tested for the virus as cases surpassed 22,000, with about half confirmed in New York. He noted that the number does not include county hospitals or health care labs around the country. Currently, only 19,343 tests have come back positive, Pence said.
As officials work to increase the availability of the tests, they’ve also sought to make clear in what cases people should seek them.
Officials have urged Americans to use discretion before seeking a coronavirus test, advising them to be administered to people who are symptomatic and not for those who do not show signs that they could be infected with the disease.
“We want to remind Americans as Dr. Fauci will emphasize in a moment, if you don’t have symptoms, don’t do a test,” the vice president said Saturday." It is another way that the American people can make sure that we are preserving the resources that our health care workers need to administer and support those who are dealing with the coronavirus and other illnesses."
Hey there Sparky,
Not just for this topic but for oh so many other topics I’ve often wondered why Chris’s voice has not been heard on Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now or any of the Pacific Stations like KPFK in So.Cal and KPFA in No. Cal. I have heard so many so called “experts” that seem like uninformed “experts” or those just towing the MSM line on those radio shows/stations.
I’m not an NPR (National Petroleum Radio) listener and certainly not a FOX News viewer so I wouldn’t know if Chris has been on NPR and I didn’t know he was on FOX but being on FOX makes more sense to me than him being on ABC, CBS or NBC and the other MSM news outlets like CNN, MSNBC etc. During my anger stage I had to call KPFK a few times to let them know just how wrong they had it, in regards to “just the flu”, masks, gloves & goggle use and staying the bleep home.
FYI - I have been self isolating and social distancing since 3/1 and using all my PPE since then too whenever I do go out for some real quick errand. One good outcome, a lot less gasoline use (not even a tank yet, usually 2 per month) and the cost of gas has been dropping. I will be going to get a pizza from my favorite Italian restaurant this evening to help support it during this time. I definitely want it to stay open but I don’t eat out often anyway so if they are expecting my patronage to “save” them then oh boy…look out. I am not much of a shopper for most of the stuff being sold in the U.S.A. Thanks.
Broadspectrum
Graphic Out of Italy Re: Covid-19
https://www.epicentro.iss.it/coronavirus/bollettino/Infografica_17marzo%20ITA.pdf
Deep in the story below is a discussion about estrogen and that it might provide women some sort of protection.
Why is the coronavirus so much more deadly for men than for women?
On Friday, White House COVID-19 Task Force director Dr. Deborah Birx cited a report from Italy showing that men in nearly every age bracket were dying at higher rates than women. Birx called it a “concerning trend.”
The apparent gender gap in Italy echoes earlier statistics from other hard-hit countries. While preliminary, early accounts have suggested that boys and men are more likely to become seriously ill than are girls and women, and that men are more likely to die.
Italian health authorities last week reported that among 13,882 cases of COVID-19 and 803 deaths between Feb. 21 and Mar. 12, men accounted for 58% of all cases and 72% of deaths. Hospitalized men with COVID-19 were 75% more likely to die than were women hospitalized with the respiratory disease.
Those figures are in line with early accounts from China, where the novel coronavirus first appeared, and from South Korea, where detection and tracking of coronavirus infections have been very comprehensive.
An analysis of all COVID-19 patient profile studies filed in China from December 2019 to February 2020 suggests that men account for roughly 60% of those who are infected and become sick. And in a detailed accounting of 44,600 cases in mainland China as of Feb. 11, China’s Center for Disease Control reported that the fatality rate among men with confirmed coronavirus infections was roughly 65% higher than it was among women.
Even among children younger than 16, coronavirus may affect boys more than girls. In a recent report on 171 children and adolescents who were treated for COVID-19 at the Wuhan Children’s Hospital, 61% were male.
In South Korea, men accounted for nearly 62% of all cases. And infected men were 89% more likely to die than were women.
The emerging picture of male vulnerability to coronavirus may be easily explained by a clear gender disparity with social and cultural roots: Across the world, men are much more likely to smoke cigarettes. That damages their lungs and primes them for inflammation and further damage when they are battling an infection.
In China, where cigarette smoking rates are among the highest in the world, 54% of men were current smokers in 2010, and 8.4% were ex-smokers. Yet only 3.4% of Chinese women had ever smoked, according to the same 2016 study.
In South Korea, the disparity was almost as pronounced: half of adult men and 4% of women smoke. In Italy, 28% of adult males and 20% of females smoke.
But that's not the whole story, said Dr. Stanley Perlman, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the University of Iowa who has studied coronavirus infection in mice.
In a series of experiments in 2016 and 2017, a team led by Perlman infected male and female mice with the coronaviruses that caused severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). At every age, male mice were more susceptible to infection than females.
At the same time, the death rates of infected female mice shot up when their ovaries were removed, or when they got drugs that suppressed the activity of the hormone estrogen.
To Perlman, those dual findings strongly suggest that there’s something about estrogen that protects against the ravages of deadly coronaviruses — and he suspects it's true for the new SARS-CoV-19 virus as well.
“Why does estrogen protect the woman, and how?” Perlman said. “We’d like to know.” Estrogen has so many important roles in the female body, “it’s hard to prove anything” about its specific protective powers, he said.
For most other lung diseases, men have a distinct advantage. Women have long been known to suffer complications and die of influenza at higher rates than men. They’re much more likely to develop autoimmune diseases of the lungs. And after accounting for men’s higher rates of smoking, women appear to be more vulnerable than men to lung cancer and emphysema.
“We don’t really understand why that is,” said UC Davis’s Kent E. Pinkerton, who studies gender differences in lung health.
But Pinkerton and others suggest that humans’ responses to COVID-19 could reveal important distinctions between the way that men’s and women’s immune systems fight infection. They suspect that hormonal differences may be playing a key role in that immune response.
And if scientists can uncover how that works, they could identify better strategies for fighting coronavirus infections in general, they said.
Researchers will scour the records of COVID-19 cases for evidence that the immune system’s perimeter defenses — the body’s first response to infection — may react more robustly to this coronavirus in women than in men, said Susan Kovats, an immunologist at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation in Oklahoma City.
If that “innate” immune response tends to be stronger in females, infected women may have more luck keeping their viral loads low, Kovats said. And they may not need to roll out an army of the immune system’s big guns — the T-cells and B-cells — for a major battle.
Often, mounting such an assault after viral loads have shot up does double damage, she said. The infection itself damages delicate lung tissue. And then, the “adaptive” immune system overreacts, setting off dangerous levels of inflammation that cause further damage in the lungs.
The result can be death. But if women are thwarting infection earlier and more effectively, they might be less likely to suffer that outcome, Kovats said.
“I’m not surprised” that women’s immune systems may do things in ways that men could learn from, Pinkerton said. For years, immunologists only studied male mammals because the complexity of female hormones muddied their findings, he said.
When it comes to fighting infection, he added, “we really need to study both sexes to understand susceptibility.”
Seriously, Broadspectrum, people are that clueless. Our town sent out a reverse 911 call today to tell people not to flush wipes. Some people in another subdivision have been reporting issues on our town Fb emergency page. People, you have a brain, we do not want stupid water issues!!
There’s An Unexpected Loss Of Smell And Taste In Coronavirus Patients
Coronavirus symptoms shock: Scientists discover NEW symptoms including lack of taste
A common symptom of zinc deficiency.
to us too. To be at this time running “out daily for fresh food”?? And what did James Rawles say about the facial hair and proper fit of that N95 mask…
Walk the walk you talk.
I’m doing the same. In my situation I cannot store much in the way of veges and very limited in terms of growing space…so I ordered a bunch of those green mixes like Good Green Stuff, and am going to the store daily for finishing touches. Thought about sprouts but I don’t really like them and the thought of eating them daily is very off putting.
Even with lists it’s hard not to miss stuff and I need as much fresh food while I can get it. Not like I’m Joe Public here…I take precautions so still low risk and I choose my exposure windows carefully to avoid crowds etc.
…heard right after threat levels were announced, is that the alert level is going to rise in next day or so. Entirely predictable because a group of Doctors are petitioning for level 4 “or risk becoming like Italy” I hope for a jump to level 4 for the next 3-4 weeks to get this under control but they really need to pay beneficiaries/low income earners a lump sum, even just a couple of hundred so they can stock up properly prior to level 4 being called.
There are now (predictable!!) headlines about our ICU capacity. I hate the media for milking this for all it’s worth, specifically the NZ Herald. Thought we were better than that.
OTHER NEWS FROM NZ
- ex PM Helen Clarke is saying the window for commercial flights to NZ is closing and people need to get back asap…assuming they can get to an airport in the first place.
- a gin distillery has now 100% pivoted into producing hand sanitizer, a sign of the times if ever there was one
- Hicks Bay, a very small town on the East Coast of the North Island has decided that with their high risk population combined with extremely bad health care the best move is to shut off the town to visitors. I have family in Tolaga Bay/Ruatoria and hope they follow shortly or maybe just shut down the entire east cape. Road access up on the east cape is terrible so if HB-19 attacks it would be similar to a third world nation, but with an occasional rescue helicopter to take them to medical care if they are lucky - and how long would that last given the cost?
Would spraying a bit of alcohol inside the bag help killing any germs/viruses over the 2 weeks?
The idea of hope is doing a lot of heavy lifting at the moment, but toss that one on its back, too. Whatever else comes of this, it will be a long time before vapidity and self-involvement are popular again.https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/article-suddenly-knucklehead-culture-has-lost-any-charm-it-once-might-have/ I could not have said it better. Of course the people who most need to read this are highly unlikely to see it as they are too busy going to the beach or park, having house parties and getting their jollies harassing conscientious people. They have no idea of the knockout punch that is coming their way. We can only hope that it knocks the idiocy right out of them to make room for some maturity and common sense. It is a big ask, I know, but I am kind of grasping at straws to maintain some kind of hope that things will eventually get better. Jan
When you are physically isolated it might be harder than usual to distinguish the signal from the noice. What is said? Why? What’s the goal? What’s the agenda? Political? Ideological? Economical? I just found this site that aims to track down false information:
https://euvsdisinfo.eu/about/
Stay safe.
My friend just sent me this short video showing how he explained to his young daughter (<12 y.o.) why the lockdown is necessary:
This approach is easy to present and understandable to young brains. I like how it has the child come up her/himself with the conclusion that social isolation is the answer. Very effective. Feel free to share this with anyone who has young kids.Considering the disease seems to cause bloody fluid in the lungs from the body trying to deal with infection and inflammation there, anything that enhances internal bleeding would be a problem. Like, you know, Warfarin or Coumadin.
I found an unfortunate hole in my prepping 2 weeks ago that I want to share with you. In mid-March I ended up in the hospital for three nights with influenza A. It was the first time I had been sick at all in probably 10 years. Yes, it was cultured as influenza A. I never got a lung infection. I am much, much better now and rebuilding my immune system through traditional medicine.
I am single and I have no siblings and my parents have passed away. What this means is I have no next of kin. My estate planning docs have been done for years but when I moved to Southern Oregon in 2017, I neglected to give a copy to my local hospital. As a result, even though I was unresponsive when I was initially admitted, my designated agents could not receive information beyond the fact that I was in stable condition. They also could not make decisions on my behalf.
Even if you have next of kin, make sure you give copies of your advanced directive to your local medical facilities. The facilities are so overwhelmed right now that they won’t have time to deal with these kinds of things should you be admitted to the hospital.