in agoChildren's hospital in Chicago cancels mobile testing site due to lack of materials From CNN's Jasmine Wright One of Chicago’s leading children’s hospitals had to scrap plans to host a mobile testing site, which was scheduled Tuesday on the city’s north side after it said both of its vendors weren’t able to fill orders for testing supplies. It’s another example of how difficult it can be to get tested for Covid-19. Julie Pesch, spokesperson for Lurie’s Children’s Hospital, told CNN the site was designed to be for pediatric patients not admitted to the hospital who are experiencing symptoms of the virus. The hospital was hoping to alleviate an onslaught of pressure both its hospital and individual pediatricians across the city are facing. But because of the high demand for testing and a lack of testing supplies like nasal swabs, those plans were cut short on Friday. “Our normal operational process is to hold 2-4 days of supply on a product like this. Last week (March 16) when we went to purchase an elevated quantity, due to the Covid-19 needs, we were informed by both our primary and secondary vendors that they were not able to fill orders,” Pesch said The hospital was hoping parents with an appointment would be able to get a child tested every 15 minutes. But now the hospital says sick patients will need to go through their regular pediatricians for testing. The lack of supplies to launch such an effort “is a big deal,” Pesch said. “The more testing that we can do, that means the less children that we have in the emergency department, in the pediatrician's office. That means we don’t have to use as much PPE. That is the main message that we’re trying to get across.” “Other hospitals are in the same situation,” said Danny Chun, spokesperson for the Illinois Health and Hospital Association. The lack of testing supplies remain a problem, he added. The Advocate Aurora Health hospital system announced Friday that it was suspending a similar program that had already launched because of the national shortage of test kit supplies.
14 min agoA cruise ship with 42 sick people is headed for Florida From CNN's Stephanie Gallman Holland America’s Zaandam ship headed toward Florida is carrying 42 people — 13 guests and 29 crew — reporting flu-like symptoms. “Since it is flu season, and COVID-19 testing is not available on board, it is difficult to determine the cause of these elevated cases at this time,” according to a statement from the cruise line's website. The guests have been asked by the cruise line to remain in their staterooms until they have more information and as the ship sails north with the intention to arrive in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on March 30. Zaandam departed Buenos Aires, Argentina, on March 7, prior to Holland America’s decision to suspend its global cruise operations for 30 days. The trip was scheduled to end in San Antonio, Chile, on March 21. According to the statement, no one has been off the ship since March 14 after a stop in Puenta Arena, Chile, where guests were initially told they could disembark for flights, but then were not allowed. There are a total of 1,243 guests and 586 crew on board the ship.
5 min agoTrump acknowledges coronavirus likely to worsen: "Certainly this is going to be bad" From CNN's Kevin Liptak “We’re trying to make it much much less bad," Trump went on. "Obviously the numbers are going to increase with time and then they're going to decrease.” The President seemed to downplay the situation somewhat, indicating the flu presented a similarly poor outlook: “We have a lot of people dying from the flu,” he said.
8 min agoArmy field hospitals will arrive in NYC and Seattle within the next "72 hours or less" From CNN's Barbara Starr Within the next “72 hours or less,” New York and Seattle should expect Army field hospitals to arrive in their cities by truck and start setting up, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley told a group of reporters Monday. Each hospital has 248 beds of which 48 are ICU beds. The mobile hospitals also each come with 11 ventilators. Several mobile military medical facilities are on “prepare to deploy” orders, but these two are expected to be among the first to go. 2 min agoTrump says FEMA is distributing millions of masks From CNN's Sarah Westwood President Trump said the Federal Emergency Management Agency is distributing millions of masks and that personal protective equipment for medical professionals is being shipped to what he described as “hotspots” around the country. Trump said FEMA will distribute 8 million N95 masks, the type recommended for protection against coronavirus. He said 73 pallets of personal protective equipment will be shipped to New York, and 36 pallets will be sent to Washington state – two areas where Covid-19 has hit particularly hard.
“We’re having millions and millions of masks made as we speak,” Trump said at the coronavirus task force briefing.
Trump said the badly-needed supplies will go to “medical hotspots” around the country. Healthcare workers around the US have warned of looming supply shortages if the outbreak escalates. “Across the nation we are seeing an outpouring of creativity and innovative ideas,” Trump said. “The scientific community and members of the private sector are really working together.”
4 min agoPennsylvania issues stay-at-home order for 7 counties From CNN’s Laura Ly Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf announced a stay-at-home order for seven counties in an effort to slow the spread of Covid-19, according to a statement from his office. The counties include Allegheny, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Monroe, Montgomery, and Philadelphia. The order takes effect at 8 p.m. ET on Monday and will continue until at least April 6, the statement said. Individuals will only be permitted to leave their homes for essential activities, such as seeking medical care and getting necessary services or supplies for themselves, according to the statement. A number of operations are exempt from the order, including health care services, news media, law enforcement, and religious institutions, Wolf said. 3 min agoFlorida governor will issue order mandating self-isolation for travelers from New York and New Jersey From CNN's Keith Allen 2 min agoTrump issues executive order to prohibit hoarding of medical equipment From CNN's Jason Hoffman and Daniella Diaz The executive order is also meant at preventing price gouging on critical health and medical resources. Trump said that the Health and Human Services Department will designate certain items as “scarce” and it will be a crime to stockpile those items. "Very simply, we'll not allow anyone to exploit the suffering of American citizens for their own profit,” Trump said. Attorney General William Barr said the Department of Justice has seen some evidence of hoarding and price gouging on health and medical resources that were authorized under the Defense Production Act. Barr said the new executive order provides, “the authority to address, if it becomes necessary, hoarding that threatens the supply of those necessary health and medical resources.” He also said this won't affect Americans who have stocked on toilet paper and other necessities. "I want to stress that we're not talking about consumers or businesses stockpiling supplies for their own operations," he said at the briefing. "We're talking about people hoarding these goods and materials on an industrial scale for the purpose of manipulating the market and ultimately deriving windfall profits. If you have a big supply of toilet paper in your house, this is not something you have to worry about."
14 min agoA cruise ship with 42 sick people is headed for Florida From CNN's Stephanie Gallman Holland America’s Zaandam ship headed toward Florida is carrying 42 people — 13 guests and 29 crew — reporting flu-like symptoms. “Since it is flu season, and COVID-19 testing is not available on board, it is difficult to determine the cause of these elevated cases at this time,” according to a statement from the cruise line's website. The guests have been asked by the cruise line to remain in their staterooms until they have more information and as the ship sails north with the intention to arrive in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on March 30. Zaandam departed Buenos Aires, Argentina, on March 7, prior to Holland America’s decision to suspend its global cruise operations for 30 days. The trip was scheduled to end in San Antonio, Chile, on March 21. According to the statement, no one has been off the ship since March 14 after a stop in Puenta Arena, Chile, where guests were initially told they could disembark for flights, but then were not allowed. There are a total of 1,243 guests and 586 crew on board the ship.
5 min agoTrump acknowledges coronavirus likely to worsen: "Certainly this is going to be bad" From CNN's Kevin Liptak “We’re trying to make it much much less bad," Trump went on. "Obviously the numbers are going to increase with time and then they're going to decrease.” The President seemed to downplay the situation somewhat, indicating the flu presented a similarly poor outlook: “We have a lot of people dying from the flu,” he said.
8 min agoArmy field hospitals will arrive in NYC and Seattle within the next "72 hours or less" From CNN's Barbara Starr Within the next “72 hours or less,” New York and Seattle should expect Army field hospitals to arrive in their cities by truck and start setting up, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley told a group of reporters Monday. Each hospital has 248 beds of which 48 are ICU beds. The mobile hospitals also each come with 11 ventilators. Several mobile military medical facilities are on “prepare to deploy” orders, but these two are expected to be among the first to go.
2 min agoTrump says FEMA is distributing millions of masks From CNN's Sarah Westwood President Trump said the Federal Emergency Management Agency is distributing millions of masks and that personal protective equipment for medical professionals is being shipped to what he described as “hotspots” around the country. Trump said FEMA will distribute 8 million N95 masks, the type recommended for protection against coronavirus. He said 73 pallets of personal protective equipment will be shipped to New York, and 36 pallets will be sent to Washington state – two areas where Covid-19 has hit particularly hard.
Trump said the badly-needed supplies will go to “medical hotspots” around the country. Healthcare workers around the US have warned of looming supply shortages if the outbreak escalates. “Across the nation we are seeing an outpouring of creativity and innovative ideas,” Trump said. “The scientific community and members of the private sector are really working together.”
4 min agoPennsylvania issues stay-at-home order for 7 counties From CNN’s Laura Ly Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf announced a stay-at-home order for seven counties in an effort to slow the spread of Covid-19, according to a statement from his office. The counties include Allegheny, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Monroe, Montgomery, and Philadelphia. The order takes effect at 8 p.m. ET on Monday and will continue until at least April 6, the statement said. Individuals will only be permitted to leave their homes for essential activities, such as seeking medical care and getting necessary services or supplies for themselves, according to the statement. A number of operations are exempt from the order, including health care services, news media, law enforcement, and religious institutions, Wolf said. 3 min agoFlorida governor will issue order mandating self-isolation for travelers from New York and New Jersey From CNN's Keith Allen
2 min agoTrump issues executive order to prohibit hoarding of medical equipment From CNN's Jason Hoffman and Daniella Diaz The executive order is also meant at preventing price gouging on critical health and medical resources. Trump said that the Health and Human Services Department will designate certain items as “scarce” and it will be a crime to stockpile those items. "Very simply, we'll not allow anyone to exploit the suffering of American citizens for their own profit,” Trump said.
Attorney General William Barr said the Department of Justice has seen some evidence of hoarding and price gouging on health and medical resources that were authorized under the Defense Production Act. Barr said the new executive order provides, “the authority to address, if it becomes necessary, hoarding that threatens the supply of those necessary health and medical resources.” He also said this won't affect Americans who have stocked on toilet paper and other necessities. "I want to stress that we're not talking about consumers or businesses stockpiling supplies for their own operations," he said at the briefing. "We're talking about people hoarding these goods and materials on an industrial scale for the purpose of manipulating the market and ultimately deriving windfall profits. If you have a big supply of toilet paper in your house, this is not something you have to worry about."
早都该这样了。
现在还有游客？！！！
这是field hospital, 自带装备和医护。另外的army Corp of engineer 建的临时医院是不带物资和医护的。在Javits Center 两种医院都会有。
太好了，赶紧打击吧
是的，佛州州长说，纽约封城之后一批人来佛罗里达了。。。
A huge amount of people...
是去躲避的吧，海滩好像关了啊