Six on Coronavirus: The Best-Case Outcome for the Coronavirus, and the Worst; The coronavirus economy will devastate those who can least afford it; Public health expert says African Americans are at greater risk of death from coronavirus; Italian may
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"If you think your new reality is inconvenient and stressful, here's some perspective: Tens of millions of people are trying to stave off the coronavirus without reliable access to basic needs like shelter, food or health care.
Why it matters: The people who were already vulnerable in a strong economy are facing severe hardship as jobs evaporate overnight and safety net services are strained to the max.
Here's a look at who's hurting the most:
People experiencing homelessness: You can't "socially distance" or shelter in place if you don't have shelter in the first place.
- Transmissible diseases can spread quickly among those sleeping in close-quartered shelters and in outdoor encampments without hygiene facilities.
- The homeless population is trending older, so they're more vulnerable to COVID-19.
- "We don’t want people sleeping outside but don’t want to put them at risk in a shelter where others have been exposed," said Lauren Dunning, director of Milken Institute's Center for the Future of Aging. "We have to look at opening emergency shelters to so people can properly quarantine."
Low-income workers: Hourly-wage workers in retail, food service, janitorial jobs, and even preschool teachers often live paycheck to paycheck — and their incredibly slim margins are about to be obliterated.
- 53 million Americans — 44% of U.S. workers — are making a median of $10.22 an hour, or about $24,000 a year.
- About half of low-wage workers are sole earners for their families, per Brookings Institution fellow Martha Ross.
- "As you see the economy shut down, it's a picture of a workforce that was already vulnerable that's now going to be in much deeper trouble," Ross said.
Older residents of rural areas: Rural residents tend to be older and less likely to have paid sick leave or access to health care services.
- More than 100 rural hospitals have closed in the last decade.
- Those who don't have a doctor nearby, or who don't have health insurance, are more likely to forgo testing and treatment.
Single parents: They're shouldering the burden of work (if they still have it) and childcare on their own.
- According to a ParentsTogether survey of 1,500 families, two-thirds of families are struggling financially due to the coronavirus outbreak and have lost income or expect to soon.
- 80% of families are worried about having enough money to cover housing and food costs within three months; 46% are concerned they'll run out within two weeks.
Parents of children with special needs: Children with physical, emotional and intellectual disabilities often rely on therapy and services provided through public school systems, the majority of which have closed for weeks.
- Mounting financial pressures and jugging remote work while caring for special-needs children can create extreme stress for parents, especially those caring for multiple children.
Poor families: Children are at the mercy of their circumstances and, without school to offer routine and reliable meals, can take on the anxiety they see in the adults around them.
- Among families with children receiving free or reduced-priced school meals, more than half are worried about being able to feed their children, per the ParentsTogether survey.
- Nearly one-third of families whose schools have closed haven't been told by their districts where they can get food.
The mentally ill and immunocompromised: This group of patients has a host of complicated pre-existing conditions that often go untreated due to lack of access to care or social stigma.
- People suffering from mental illness may have difficulty dealing with the stress of the crisis and not know where to seek help.
- Those with weakened immunity require specialized care that can be hard to find, and are also more susceptible to the coronavirus itself.
Inmates: Social distancing is hard to achieve in overcrowded jails without putting everyone on lockdown or solitary confinement, Axios' Stef Kight reports.
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- Visits by family, friends and attorneys to people in federal prisons has been halted and several states have paused visitation for the time being.
- Proper hand washing isn't always possible, and hand sanitizers are often considered contraband in prison because they can contain alcohol."
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Let’s talk about the uninsured. Obviously, we still have too many people of color who are uninsured, particularly in those states that chose not to expand the Medicaid program. They certainly don’t cover the non-African Americans either, but African Americans have had real challenges in those communities, which tend to be in the South and the Midwest.
We have lots of folks who work in the gig economy, so they don’t necessarily have coverage. Looking at this coronavirus, the whole issue of not having paid sick leave is an issue where we have people of color who are disproportionately working in the service industries, in the restaurant industries, working for hotels, or places where they are not in unions that have bargained for benefits that give them sick leave. They are hourly workers who don’t have certain kinds of benefits, so that if they don’t work, they don’t eat. And that’s a challenge. Obviously, if you get sick and we tell you to stay home, you should stay home. But you’re less likely to do so because you’ve got to work. You’ll probably come to work during the early part of your illness and the challenge with that, of course, is you’ll infect others.
Why is there so much distrust between African Americans and the medical community?
Everyone obviously goes back to the Tuskegee experiment. The syphilis study where African American men were not treated for syphilis and they continued not to be treated even after we had treatment available. Ultimately the Public Health Service apologized, as well as President Clinton apologized on behalf of America.
We also have experiences where people go into academic health centers and the word on the street is you go in, but you don’t come out. That’s a reality, but the reason they don’t come out is because people go into those places in a much later state of disease. Quite often we have far too many women who are found to have breast cancer. They have a lump in their breast, but they still show up far too late to get the best cancer care.
Also, when you go in and you have someone who doesn’t look like you or doesn’t communicate with you in a culturally competent way, that’s a problem. We still have lots of clinicians out there that talk down to patients. They don’t give us the full range of options."
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The kits were shipped in small white cardboard boxes. Inside each box were four vials, packed in stiff gray foam, which held the necessary materials, known as reagents, to run tests on about three hundred people. Before a state or local lab could use the C.D.C.-developed tests on actual patients, however, it had to insure that they worked the same way they had in Atlanta, a process known as verification. The first batch of kits, sent to more than fifty state and local public-health labs, arrived on February 7th. Of the labs that received tests, around six to eight were able to verify that they worked as intended. But a larger number, about thirty-six of them, received inconclusive results from one of the reagents. Another five, including the New York City and New York State labs, had problems with two reagents. On February 8th, several labs reported their problems to the C.D.C. In a briefing a few days later, Nancy Messonnier, the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said that although “we hoped that everything would go smoothly as we rushed through this,” the verification problems were “part of the normal procedures.” In the meantime, she said, until new reagents could be manufactured, all covid-19 testing in the United States would continue to take place exclusively at the C.D.C.
The public-health-laboratory network was never intended to provide widespread testing in the event of a pandemic. To offer tests to anyone who wanted them, as President Trump did, on March 6th, was always going to require commercial testing facilities to come on line. Still, the three-week delay caused by the C.D.C.’s failure to get working test kits into the hands of the public-health labs came at a crucial time. In the early stages of an outbreak, contact tracing, isolation, and individual quarantines are regularly deployed to contain the spread of a disease. But these tools are useless if suspected cases of a disease cannot be tested. The void created by the C.D.C.’s faulty tests made it impossible for public-health authorities to get an accurate picture of how far and how fast the disease was spreading. In hotspots like Seattle, and probably elsewhere, covid-19 spread undetected for several weeks, which in turn only multiplied the need for more tests. “Once you’re behind the eight ball, it’s very hard to catch up,” Alberto Gutierrez, the former head of the F.D.A. Office of In Vitro Diagnostics and Radiological Health, which regulates tests, told me. “The problem was that containment was not done very well. At this point, we’re looking at exponential growth, and we need to figure out how to meet an exponential demand.”
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Related: 13 coronavirus myths busted by science
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- Heat in an oven for 30 minutes at 58 degrees Fahrenheit (70 degrees Celsius)
- Use ultraviolet light for 30 minutes
- Soak the mask in 75% ethyl alcohol, then let it dry
- Clean the mask with liquid or vapor hydrogen peroxide
- Clean the mask with bleach
- Steam the mask with hot vapor from boiling water
- Microwave the mask
- Use extreme heat in an oven or autoclave
- Soak in soap and water
"To be useful, a decontamination method must eliminate the viral threat, be harmless to end-users and retain respirator integrity," they wrote."
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