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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Nurses and doctors now face ‘fear of the known’ as COVID-19 brings people to the hospital

“The people that go around saying, ‘I don’t have to wear a mask,’ if they had family that works in a hospital, that take care of COVID patients, they might feel differently,” said Cokie Giles, a nurse at EMMC who is president of the Maine State Nurses Association, a union representing almost 2,000 health care workers. “They might have to consider if they have a heart attack and they have to go to the hospital and find out there are no beds because there are COVID-19 patients. They need to stretch their imaginations a little bit.”

Dr. Brandon Giberson, a 33-year-old emergency room physician who primarily works at Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick, said that he initially worried about catching the coronavirus while treating patients. That’s partly because his twin brother Tyler, who also is an ER doctor, became very sick with COVID-19 last May while finishing his medical residency at a hospital in Georgia. He suffered 31 straight days of fever and briefly had to be hospitalized, but has since recovered.

As an ER doctor, Giberson is typically responsible for intubating the sickest COVID-19 patients, a risky process that requires sticking breathing tubes down their throats, which can cause viral droplets to spray around the room. He must also ensure that more stable patients can be safely sent home.

Giberson — who is employed by a Brunswick-based physician staffing company called BlueWater Health and has also done shifts at hospitals in Houlton and Augusta — said that he now feels well protected by the respirator masks, face shields, gowns, gloves and other protective equipment he must wear in the hospital, and that he is more concerned about the risks of running into maskless people at the grocery store.

Source: Nurses and doctors now face ‘fear of the known’ as COVID-19 brings people to the hospital

Oxford’s Covid-19 vaccine could do more for the world than other shots – CNN

this vaccine could still prove to be more valuable for the world than the other two in the coming months. If the questions over its results are answered and it receives approval, it may lead the way in providing vaccine coverage in poorer countries where it is urgently needed.
The UK government took the first step in that approval process on Friday, announcing that it had formally referred the candidate to the UK’s medicines regulator for assessment.

Source: Oxford’s Covid-19 vaccine could do more for the world than other shots – CNN

A Randomized Trial of Convalescent Plasma in Covid-19 Severe Pneumonia | NEJM (did not help)

No significant differences were observed in clinical status or overall mortality between patients treated with convalescent plasma and those who received placebo. (PlasmAr ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT04383535. opens in new tab.) Source: A Randomized Trial of Convalescent Plasma in Covid-19 Severe Pneumonia | NEJM

2020 A worse year and a lesson

Soni's thoughts

Hey friends, i hope all are well and safe…
I remember 31st Dec 2019 night… What a night it was, new year welcoming party, full on masti, dance, dhamaka, and enjoyment to d core…Everyone were full ready to greet 2020 with loads of hope, joy, glee and what not!!And 1st Jan 2020 finally arrived with bang…Like every year, this year also people were delighted to spend the time with full of passion, ambition, high spirits….And then booooommmmm💣💥Shattering situations were piled up for everyone…who knew or who imagined ever!!
“CORONA”–> Its presence was already endured in december 2019 end in China and was publicly declared in January as per sources…That time people in other country had a thought like ok, China is getting affected…lets c…we are safe!!! Then slowly it started spreading worldwide, with more speed than that of light!Count started increasing in such higher rate which is beyond one’s wildest…

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El Valor del Oro que tanto codician

see the video

Barbara Crane Navarro

Niña Yanomami, cara pintada con Achiote,
Alto Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuela

Como dice el portavoz Yanomami Davi Kopenawa en su libro “La caída del cielo”: “Cuando un ser humano muere, su fantasma no lleva ninguno de sus bienes a la espalda del cielo, incluso si es muy codicioso. Las cosas que hizo o adquirió se dejan en la tierra y solo atormentan a los vivos reavivando el anhelo de su presencia. .

Somos diferentes a los blancos y nuestro pensamiento es otro. Entre ellos, cuando un padre muere, sus hijos se alegran de decirse unos a otros: “¡Vamos a compartir su mercancía y su dinero y nos los quedaremos para nosotros!”

Nuestros bienes reales son las cosas del bosque: sus aguas, pescado, caza, árboles y frutos. ¡No mercancía! Por eso, en cuanto alguien muere, hacemos desaparecer todos los objetos que guardaba. Molimos sus collares de cuentas; Quemamos su hamaca, sus flechas, su…

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Cases average around 1,000 daily — ORANGE COUNTY TRIBUNE (California)

MASKS, sanitizers and social distancing are weapons in the battle against the coronavirus (Shutterstock). New cases of coronavirus in Orange County are now averaging about 1,000 a day, according to the latest report from the county health care agency. No tally was posted on Thursday because of the Thanksgiving holiday, so the two-day total released…

Cases average around 1,000 daily — ORANGE COUNTY TRIBUNE

L.A. County adopts new stay-at-home order amid COVID surge – Los Angeles Times (insufficient, I think – need Fed action on pay and emergency assistance)

The restrictions, which will last for three weeks, are not as severe as those imposed this spring.

“Residents are advised to stay home as much as possible and always wear a face covering over their nose and mouth when they are outside their household and around others,” the county health department said.

The order prohibits all public and private gatherings with individuals not in the same household, except for religious services and protests.

Source: L.A. County adopts new stay-at-home order amid COVID surge – Los Angeles Times