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    • COVID-19 Has Killed Close To 300 U.S. Health Care Workers, New Data From CDC Shows

    The coronavirus continues to batter the U.S. health care workforce.


    More than 60,000 health care workers have been infected, and close to 300 have died from COVID-19, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

    The numbers mark a staggering increase from six weeks ago when the CDC first released data on coronavirus infections and deaths among nurses, doctors, pharmacists, EMTs, technicians and other medical employees. On April 15, the agency reported 27 deaths and more than 9,000 cases of infection in health care workers.

    The latest tally doesn't provide a full picture of illness in this essential workforce, because only 21% of the case reports sent to the CDC included information that could help identify the patient as a health care worker. Among known health care workers, there was also missing information about how many of those people actually died.

    Still, the growing number of health care workers infected by the coronavirus provides sobering evidence that many are still working in high-risk settings without reliable or adequate protection against the virus.

    "It is underreported," says Zenei Cortez, president of National Nurses United (NNU), the largest union of nurses in the country.

    The union has compiled its own count of more than 530 health care fatalities from COVID-19, using publicly available information like obituaries. A recent NNU survey of 23,000 nurses found that more than 80% had not yet been tested for the coronavirus.

    Across the country, many nurses say they still don't have enough personal protective equipment (PPE) such as masks and gowns and are required to reuse N95 masks and other supplies — practices that were considered substandard before the pandemic. Many hospitals and nursing homes continue to operate with inadequate supplies and are rationing them.

    "Everything is under lock and key. If you are going to respond to an emergency, you sometimes have to wait for someone to unlock a cabinet," Cortez says of some hospitals' PPE supplies.

    Cortez cites the death of a nurse from Southern California who rushed to the bedside of a COVID-19 patient who had stopped breathing. The nurse was wearing only a surgical mask, which offers less protection against airborne infection than the closer-fitting N95 respirator mask.

    "Fourteen days after that incident, she died because she contracted the virus," Cortez says. "If the PPE was readily available, she maybe could have put on the N95 mask and been prevented from getting the virus."

    Cortez worries that some of these unsafe practices around infection control have become normalized in U.S. health care settings and will persist in the coming months as the country reopens.

    NPR recently reported that in the spring of 2017 the Trump administration halted the final implementation of new federal regulations that would have required the health care industry to prepare for an airborne infectious disease pandemic. Consequently, there are no federal workplace rules that specifically protect health care workers from deadly airborne pathogens such as influenza, tuberculosis or the coronavirus.: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-...from-cdc-shows
    • Today’s update.

    Coronavirus Cases: 5,867,777

    Deaths: 360,437

    World population: 7,800,000,000 projection: 479,126,694 deaths

    Underreported US death count: 103,228

    Originally posted by Boon Mee View Post
    it's been blown way out of proportion.
    Keep your friends close and your enemies closer

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        • Thai economy could take more than 2 years to recover: Standard Chartered

        Standard Chartered Bank today (May 28) said it remains conservative on Thailand’s economic outlook, even as positive signs emerge with the possibility of a further policy rate cut to below 0.25 per cent.

        The return to pre-Covid levels of economic activity could take more than two years on the back of improving business sentiment as the economy reopens, the bank assessed, adding the government has been disbursing cash handouts to pandemic-affected households since April.

        Standard Chartered forecast Thailand’s 2020 GDP to contract by 5 per cent, with a sharp contraction of 13 per cent in the second quarter, followed by a gradual recovery in the second half of the year.

        “The export sector is showing signs of recovery and should benefit from China’s resumption of activity and the easing of lockdowns in other markets. Data released in June is likely to confirm a domestic demand recovery after Thailand’s reopening in May. However, we expect the pace of recovery to be slow,” said Tim Leelahaphan, economist at Standard Chartered Bank (Thai).

        “Investment is unlikely to recover until next year or later as Covid-19 is likely to exacerbate existing delays in private and government investment and initiatives, keeping the economy below potential.”

        Thailand’s first quarter gross domestic product contracted by 1.8 per cent on year (2.2 per cent contraction on quarter, seasonally adjusted) versus the consensus of a 3.9 per cent contraction on year (4.2 per cent contraction on quarter). This was the first year-on-year contraction since early 2014.

        "We expect another 25bps rate cut in the third quarter, taking the policy rate to 0.25 per cent. We also do not rule out further policy rate cuts to below 0.25 per cent, however. Negative rates are unlikely but not off the table,” added Tim.

        Standard Chartered said economic growth is far below Thailand’s potential rate of 4 per cent, and headline inflation is below the Bank of Thailand’s 1-3 per cent target range.: https://www.nationthailand.com/busin...ernal_referral

        Originally posted by Somchai Boonporn View Post
        Perhaps a blessing in disguise for the Golden Land.
        • Cancer patients twice as likely to die from COVID-19

        People with cancer are more than twice as likely to die from COVID-19 than those without it, a large study published Thursday found.

        The data on more than 900 patients in the US, Canada and Spain which appeared in a paper in The Lancet, found that mortality increased the further the cancer had progressed.

        Cancer patients with decreased ability to carry out daily life tasks were more at risk than those with higher functionality.

        The paper’s authors looked at how many people died within 30 days of being diagnosed of COVID-19 of all causes.

        “The 30-day all-cause mortality was 13 percent, more than twice the mortality reported as the global average by Johns Hopkins,” Toni Choueiri, an oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute who co-authored the paper told AFP.

        In keeping with previous studies, the team also found that advanced age, male sex, the presence of two or more underlying conditions, and former smoking status were all also tied to increased risk of death.

        But the receipt of chemotherapy or other anti-cancer therapies within four weeks of COVID-19 diagnosis did not affect mortality outcomes.

        “Taken together, these results suggest that fit patients with cancer and few comorbidities can and should proceed with appropriate anti-cancer treatment,” said Choueiri.

        But those who have poor daily life functionality or a cancer which is progressing “need to have thoughtful conversations with their oncology providers about risk versus benefit of anti-cancer treatment,” he added.

        Bill Cance, chief medical and scientific officer for the American Cancer Society which provided funding for the study, said: “This is a very high impact paper that shows how cancer patients are at higher risk for Covid.”

        He added that the paper suggested that the drug combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin may cause a three-fold greater risk of death — an area that needed further exploration.: https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/can...ovid-19-study/
        • Early update.

        Coronavirus Cases: 5,922,781

        Deaths:362,391

        Underreported US death count: 103,330

        Originally posted by Boon Mee View Post
        it's been blown way out of proportion.
        Keep your friends close and your enemies closer

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          • Will coronavirus make flying more expensive?


          Covid-19 has caused unprecedented turmoil in the aviation industry. What does that mean for pricing when planes take to the skies again?

          As more countries start to ease their Covid-19 lockdowns, attention is returning to the global aviation industry, almost entirely grounded for months. Some passenger airlines have kept skeleton fleets flying for repatriation missions, some have converted passenger jets to use as cargo planes, but all of them would much rather return to their primary objective: flying people safely around the world.

          But when planes do take to the skies again, how much impact will the pandemic have on what they charge? “We know airlines want to get planes back in the air and bums back on seats,” says Benjamin Cany from Amadeus, a technology company that provides IT services to the travel industry, including one of its principal booking systems. In the short-term at least, that would point to lower fares aimed at incentivising consumers.

          Yet look past the next few months and there are factors that could push fares up, from airline bankruptcies that could reduce both supply and competition, to reduced fleets caused by retiring aircraft early. And the great unknown is how quickly passengers will return to flying, with the general feeling in the industry that aviation won’t return to pre-pandemic numbers until 2022, 2023 or beyond.

          irlines, Cany says, usually look at past demand to forecast future trends. But there’s no precedent for the current circumstances. “What are airlines to do when the past data is radically different, or no longer relevant for future calculations?”

          The pricing equation

          Airline pricing, explains Cany, is normally based on a combination of scientific calculations and models. This, he says, “is about understanding the customer's motivation to travel and how much they are willing to pay for the ticket. Airlines then balance that against capacity, and a myriad other indicators. The airline wants to strike the best deal for the airline and the traveller.”

          This is both a science and an art. The science, Cany says, “is in the modelling, machine learning and algorithms behind this calculation” and would usually include “the choice between the different airline products (for example, business versus premium economy) and the various airline itineraries available (departure time, arrival time, trip duration). That needs to be combined with historical data, seasonality, as well as market indicators such as upcoming local events, competition on that same route, and so forth.”

          When will demand return?

          In the most basic of economic terms, for example, airline fares are set based on a supply curve and a demand curve. Airlines usually have the lever of supply under their control, and it’s generally understood that when they want to stimulate demand to fill capacity, they reduce fares. More people will travel if a ticket is $50 than if it is $100. The X factor right now is that many people are scared to travel because of hygiene concerns, lockdown guidance and quarantine rules.

          “Short-term, aircraft will continue to be much less full and airlines will be motivated to price seats to get customers flying safely in a Covid-19 world,” says Joe Leader, chief executive officer of APEX, a trade association whose members include airlines and their suppliers. “Airlines have cut back their flights to absolute connectivity minimums and are losing money on the vast majority of remaining flights… Hopefully, the combination of increased Covid-19 safety measures alongside low prices will encourage a travel rebound.”: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article...to-coronavirus
          • Today’s update.

          Coronavirus Cases: 5,992,049

          Deaths: 365,343

          World population: 7,800,000,000 projection: 475,576,117 deaths

          Underreported US death count: 104,323

          Originally posted by Boon Mee View Post
          it's been blown way out of proportion.
          Keep your friends close and your enemies closer

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            • NESDC: 14.4m workers at risk

            Thailand may lose up to 14.4 million jobs in the second and third quarters, largely because of the coronavirus outbreak and widespread drought, says the government’s planning unit.

            Of the total, some 8.4 million workers are estimated to be at risk of job loss, 2.5 million of whom are in the tourism sector (excluding retail and wholesale trading sector), 1.5 million in the industrial sector and 4.4 million in other parts of the service sector, said the National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC).

            The tourism sector employs an estimated 3.9 million people, while the industrial sector, diminished by the trade war, hires about 5.9 million workers.

            Workers in other parts of the service sector, such as schools or places with large groups of people such as fresh markets, sports stadiums or shopping malls are estimated to number 10.3 million people.

            Thosaporn Sirisamphand, the NESDC’s secretary-general, said the drought crisis, which started in the middle of last year and continued into the first quarter of this year, has also resulted in a reduction of employment in the agricultural sector.

            There were about 370,000 seasonally unemployed workers, the highest in seven years for the farm sector.

            In April, 26 provinces announced the assistance area for emergency disaster victims (drought). There are about 3.9 million farmers faced with drought and 2.1 million farmers in other areas with insufficient water were unable to engage in agricultural activities.

            A total of 6 million farmers were affected by drought, Mr Thosaporn said.

            “The impact of the outbreak and the drought on unemployment will be apparent in the second quarter and more clearly in the second half of the year," he said. "In 2020, the unemployment rate is expected to stay within 3-4% throughout the year with no more than 2 million unemployed. The pandemic is getting under control and in May the government began to relax the tight control measures, allowing some economic activities to be reopened.”

            Mr Thosaporn said the government has announced a spate of relief measures to rehabilitate the domestic economy by focusing on creating employment in the local area and providing training programmes to improve workers' skills and aid measures to help new graduates.

            In addition, the agricultural sector remains capable of accommodating some unemployed workers despite the drought.

            Mr Thosaporn said the agency plans to ask for financial assistance from the government's 400 billion baht slated for economic and social rehabilitation under the government’s 1.9-trillion-baht relief measure to soften the economic blow from the deadly virus outbreak, to create 200,000 jobs for new graduates.

            There are about 520,000 new graduates scheduled to be released to the labour market between May to July.

            Today, the NESDC reported Thailand’s unemployment rate was still relatively low in the first quarter at 1.03% of the total workforce or 395,000 people, up from 0.92% in the same quarter of last year or 351,000 people.

            On a quarterly basis, the rate dropped from 1.04% in the fourth quarter of last year.

            There were 38.19 million workers in the first quarter of this year, down 0.44% from 38.36 million in the same quarter of last year. Of the total, 37.42 million were employed in the period, down 0.7% year-on-year from the first quarter of last year. This marks the fourth straight quarter of decreases.

            “In the first quarter, the pandemic had yet to affect employment much,” Mr Thosaporn said.: https://www.bangkokpost.com/business...orkers-at-risk

            Originally posted by Somchai Boonporn View Post
            Perhaps a blessing in disguise for the Golden Land.
            • Early update.

            Coronavirus Cases: 6,045,653

            Deaths: 367,116

            Underreported US death count: 104,542

            Originally posted by Boon Mee View Post
            it's been blown way out of proportion.
            Keep your friends close and your enemies closer

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              • 'Silent' COVID-19 More Widespread Than Thought

              A new cruise ship study suggests that the number of people who are infected with the new coronavirus but have no symptoms may be much higher than believed.

              More than 80% of those who tested positive for the infection had no symptoms, according to the study published online May 27 in the journal Thorax.

              The findings could be important as lockdown restrictions begin to be eased, and they highlight the need for accurate data on how many people worldwide have been infected, journal joint editor-in-chief Alan Smyth said in a linked blog.

              The study focused on a ship with 128 passengers and 95 crew that left Argentina in mid-March for a planned 21-day cruise of the Antarctic. The voyage began after the World Health Organization (WHO) had declared the new coronavirus a global pandemic.

              Passengers who in the previous three weeks had been in countries where coronavirus infection rates were high were not allowed to board. All passengers who were allowed to board had their temperature taken before embarkation, and the ship had numerous hand sanitizing stations, particularly in the dining room.

              After the first case of fever was reported on day 8 of the voyage, infection control measures were immediately implemented, including confining passengers to their cabins and the use of personal protective equipment by any crew member in contact with sick passengers.

              The ship arrived in Uruguay on day 13, where eight passengers and crew eventually required medical evacuation to hospital for COVID-19-related respiratory failure.

              On day 20, all remaining 217 passengers and crew were swab tested for the new coronavirus, and more than half (59%) tested positive. However, 81% of those who tested positive had no symptoms.

              The findings suggest that coronavirus infection rates on cruise ships are likely to be "significantly underestimated," and that passengers should be monitored after leaving the ships to reduce the risk of community spread of the virus, according to the researchers.

              The study authors also said that the potentially high rate of false negative results obtained with current swab tests suggests the need for secondary testing.

              "It is difficult to find a reliable estimate of the number of COVID-positive patients who have no symptoms," but the rate of 1% suggested by the WHO in early March is far lower than that on the cruise ship in this study, Smyth said in his blog.

              "As countries progress out of lockdown, a high proportion of infected, but asymptomatic, individuals may mean that a much higher percentage of the population than expected may have been infected with COVID," he noted.

              Whether or not people who have been infected are immune to the new coronavirus, the findings emphasize an urgent need for accurate global data on how many people have been infected, he concluded.: https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/2020...than-thought#2
              • Today’s update.

              Coronavirus Cases: 6,111,781

              Deaths: 369,394

              World population: 7,800,000,000 projection: 471,429,391 deaths

              Underreported US death count: 105,353

              Originally posted by Boon Mee View Post
              it's been blown way out of proportion.
              Keep your friends close and your enemies closer

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                • Thailand - Walls close in on poorest as virus shrivels economy

                Shuffling around their tiny slum home which is too small to stand up in, Thanapat Noidee and his wife Papassorn share donated noodles with their sons and worry about bills, as the coronavirus pushes Thailand's poor deeper into penury.


                The wood and breeze-block hut which is their home stands in the heart of a Bangkok commercial district festooned with five-star hotels and upmarket restaurants.

                They share the small space in the shadow of the nearby high-rise developments with their children Woraphat and Kittipat, aged six and seven respectively.

                Under the 1.2-metre-high (four feet) ceiling, the adults have to kneel to move around the single room which is the bedroom, living room and dining area.

                Downstairs, a tap provides a shower and a flat concrete surface serves as a kitchen area, a space shared with rats which clamber over their washed dishes.

                Ms Papassorn lost her job as a messenger as Thailand locked down to control the coronavirus in late March.

                "I have to borrow money for the electricity from my father and grandfather," she says.

                "The school term opens again soon (July 1) and I have to find money for those expenses as well."

                The parliament is due Sunday to vote on whether to approve a 2 trillion baht stimulus to revive an economy battered by the pandemic.

                If agreed, it will be the biggest state cash injection in Thai history.

                The government has long paraded low unemployment as a symbol of its economic success. But millions like the Noidee family rely on informal work or day wages for survival, jobs imperilled by a feared 6-7% contraction in the economy.

                Two months after the lockdown and with the outbreak under control, Bangkok is gradually creeping back to life.

                But Ms Papassorn's work has not returned while her husband has seen the roughly 1,000 baht he earns each day as a motorcycle taxi driver more than halved because of a fall in customers.

                The family have depended on the nearby Holy Redeemer Church for daily food handouts -- a charity service which is being closed down as the city reopens.

                "Without food donations, I'll have to fight harder for my family to survive," said Mr Thanapat as he moved on his knees inside his lodgings, occasionally knocking his head on the ceiling.: https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand...rivels-economy

                Originally posted by Somchai Boonporn View Post
                Perhaps a blessing in disguise for the Golden Land.
                • Early update.

                Coronavirus Cases: 6,176,486

                Deaths: 371,286

                Underreported US death count: 105,557

                Originally posted by Boon Mee View Post
                it's been blown way out of proportion.
                Keep your friends close and your enemies closer

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                • But Ms Papassorn's work has not returned while her husband has seen the roughly 1,000 baht he earns each day as a motorcycle taxi driver more than halved because of a fall in customers.

                  The family have depended on the nearby Holy Redeemer Church for daily food handouts
                  So, they are squatting (no rent) and earned more than 30k a month before - where's all the money gone, no savings?
                  500 a day still is enough to feed four.
                  Originally posted by Ergenburgensmurgen;n186588
                  What are you talking about, I don't post on Teakdoor.


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                  • ^I’m not going to defend the couple but there are related costs to being a motorcycle taxi driver and depending on the pickup location it could be pricy.
                    • Moderna: First patients dosed with COVID-19 vaccine in Phase 2 study

                    The company’s chief scientist is Israeli-born Tal Zaks, who earlier this month told N12 that he is “not surprised that the vaccine works.”

                    Moderna Inc. announced over the weekend that it has dosed its first participants in each age cohort with its COVID-19 vaccine in the company’s Phase 2 study.

                    In a release, the biotechnology company explained that the study will evaluate the safety, reactogenicity and immunogenicity of two vaccinations of mRNA-1273 given 28 days apart.

                    Some 600 people are expected to take part in the study (around 300 people between 18 and 55 years old, as well as the same number of people over the age of 55), who will be tracked for 12 months.

                    Participants will be given a placebo, or a dose of 50 or 100 micrograms at each vaccination.

                    Earlier this month, the US Food and Drug Administration granted mRNA-1273 "fast track" designation.

                    The company’s chief scientist is Israeli-born Tal Zaks, who earlier this month told N12 that he is “not surprised that the vaccine works.”

                    He highlighted that the company has already been successful in developing vaccines for eight other viruses, including several specifically targeting respiratory infections.

                    Moderna released early data from its Phase 1 trial on May 18, showing that the vaccine produced protective antibodies in a small group of eight healthy volunteers.

                    The study was not designed to prove that the vaccine works, Reuters explained in an article published that day. But the report did “offer an early glimmer of hope” that Moderna’s mRNA-1273 could provide protection against the novel coronavirus.

                    The Phase 1 study was led by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, which will be submitting the data to a peer-reviewed clinical publication.

                    Moderna said in its release that the company anticipates collaborating with NIAID on a Phase 3 study by July.: https://www.jpost.com/health-science...2-study-629749 - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-h...-idUSKBN23535H
                    • Today’s update.

                    Coronavirus Cases: 6,236,356

                    Deaths: 373,200

                    World population: 7,800,000,000 projection: 466,772,583 deaths

                    Underreported US death count: 106,130

                    Originally posted by Boon Mee View Post
                    it's been blown way out of proportion.

                    Keep your friends close and your enemies closer

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                        • 20 Thais back from UK have high fever, rushed to hospital

                        Twenty of the 251 Thais who returned home on Sunday (May 31) from the United Kingdom were found to have high fever and rushed to hospital, Suvarnabhumi Airport deputy director Kittipong Kittikachorn said.

                        “The 251 Thais departed from London on Thai Airways International Flight TG917 and arrived at the airport at 2.20pm,” Kittipong explained. “Preliminary screening found that 20 passengers had high fever and they were rushed to hospital.”

                        “There are 16 passengers who expressed an interest in entering alternative state quarantine facilities, while the rest were transported to the government’s specified facilities in Bangkok and Samut Prakarn.”: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/...ernal_referral

                        Originally posted by Somchai Boonporn View Post
                        Perhaps a blessing in disguise for the Golden Land.
                        • Early report.

                        Coronavirus Cases: 6,282,574

                        Deaths: 374,233

                        Underreported US death count: 106,195

                        Originally posted by Boon Mee View Post
                        it's been blown way out of proportion.
                        Keep your friends close and your enemies closer

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                        • Covid hell. Let's see how many of the looters get the biz after all the non social distancing.
                          Madness, the other day they looted a local shoe store. ...all that was left were the work boots.

                          That's what yoy get for paying people to stay home I guess.

                          Dems got a better plan. Well better than NAFTA..

                          Get my kid into a job he wasn't trained for, knows nothing about and slide into the easy chair.

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                          • While the rest of the hood burns.

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                            • Dems people musts be dumbs.

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                              • not as dumb as fish
                                Originally posted by Ergenburgensmurgen;n186588
                                What are you talking about, I don't post on Teakdoor.


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