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Sue U wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 16, 2020 2:28 pm

If it were me? Just sayin' . . .

MajGenl.Meade wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 16, 2020 7:55 pm

They don't get decent wine in Auckland, do they?

A nurse in El Paso, Texas, has told of the 'horrific' conditions at hospitals in the city as the state grapples with one of the worst surges in coronavirus in the United States, and prison inmates are brought in to help carry the dead in morgues.



Registered nurse Lawanna Rivers took to Facebook to describe her time at the University Medical Center in El Paso where she claims patients were taken to a room called The Pit and given just three rounds of CPR before being pronounced dead.

In a video posted to Facebook November 7 she said: 'My first day at orientation, I was told that whatever patients go into the pit, they only come out in a body bag. I saw a lot of people die that I felt like shouldn't have died.

'This hospital's policy was they only get three rounds of CPR which was only six minutes, this out of all the codes we had, there is not a single patient that made it.'

Her shocking statement came as pictures taken Saturday show offenders, dressed in PPE gear, helping the El Paso County Medical Examiner's office carry the dead to refrigerated trucks amid a mounting death toll that threatens to overwhelm the state.

The virus that is surging throughout the U.S. has been unsparing across Texas where the latest figures show more than one million people have tested positive for the virus; more than 20,000 people have died across the state as of Monday.

In El Paso data released by the city Sunday confirms six more people had died from the virus. There were 981 new COVID-19 cases with more than 73,000 people testing positive in total. The city said there were seven additional deaths Monday bringing the death toll to 769. The deaths include two men and one woman in their 70s, two men and one woman in their 80s, and one woman in her 90s. All seven had underlying health conditions.

Last week daily deaths were increasing at a slightly higher rate with 15 additional deaths reported Saturday; 16 on Friday and 29 deaths reported Thursday. As of November 6 the death toll was 657, indicating the rise since then.

An El Paso County Sheriff's Office spokesman confirmed to The Texas Tribune that up to eight inmates have volunteered to carry out the work for $2 an hour. The inmates are not normally paid for their community work but are said to have 'refused to work unless they were compensated' for this task, the spokesperson confirmed.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... tions.html

This hospital's policy was they only get three rounds of CPR which was only six minutes, this out of all the codes we had, there is not a single patient that made it

An El Paso County Sheriff's Office spokesman confirmed to The Texas Tribune that up to eight inmates have volunteered to carry out the work for $2 an hour. The inmates are not normally paid for their community work but are said to have 'refused to work unless they were compensated' for this task, the spokesperson confirmed.

The average cost of a COVID-19 test in the commercial market is $130. In contrast, out-of-network cost more than $185 for nearly half of diagnostic tests and a third of antibody and antigen tests.

This represents a 10% increase in the share of high cost diagnostic and antibody tests since July. The share of COVID-19 tests administered out-of-network increased by 14%.

As much as 16% of out-of-network test claims were more than $390—three times the average cost.

America’s catastrophic coronavirus crisis hit new heights as the most recent daily total of numbers of new cases neared the grim landmark of 200,000 a day and the overall total of infections in the US was heading to 12m.

The New York Times reported that its database showed a seven-day average has exceeded 100,000 cases a day every day for the last two weeks and that Friday’s total number was 198,500 – a record infection rate for a single day.


Meanwhile, the John Hopkins University database showed that the total number of Covid-19 cases in the US was now more than 11,915,000 cases, by far the largest total in the world.

The news comes as vast swaths of America are imposing new restrictions on movement and businesses in a bid to contain the spiraling pandemic, even as the federal government response led by the Trump administration remains largely passive.

On Saturday California will enact a nighttime curfew as surging coronavirus cases threaten to swamp healthcare systems and the state’s largest county warned that an even more drastic lockdown could be imminent.

The newest restrictions require people not on essential errands to stay home from 10pm to 5am through 21 December, with a possible extension if rapidly worsening trends don’t improve. People will be allowed to shop for groceries, pick up food and even walk their dogs.


Authorities say the focus is on keeping people from social mixing and drinking the kinds of activities that are blamed for causing Covid-19 infections to soar after dipping only a few months ago.

Dr Mark Cullen, an infectious disease expert who recently retired from Stanford University, said the underlying goal is based on a reasonable interpretation of data.

“Large numbers of people getting together oblivious of controls no masks, no social distancing, often indoors a lot of those things are in fact occurring at night,” Cullen said. However, he also questioned whether a limited curfew will be effective.

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A Hasidic wedding in Brooklyn slipped under the radar of city officials as it crammed 7,000 maskless people into a synagogue in defiance of Governor Andrew Cuomo's coronavirus restrictions.



On November 8, crowds gathered shoulder to shoulder in the Yetev Lev temple in Williamsburg to celebrate the nuptials of Yoel Teitelbaum, grandson of Satmar Grand Rabbi Aaron Teitelman.

To keep the celebration under wraps, the community shared information on the wedding only by word of mouth as organizers schemed to avoid it being broken up by 'the ravenous press and government officials'.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... dding.html

Gob wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 22, 2020 11:44 am

To keep the celebration under wraps, the community shared information on the wedding only by word of mouth