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NHS staff are being targeted by muggers trying to steal their identity badges so they can use them to obtain the free food and drinks being offered to doctors and nurses tackling coronavirus.

Health service bosses are so concerned by a spate of incidents that they are preparing to warn all hospital staff to hide their NHS lanyards when they are arriving at or leaving work.

NHS England condemned attempts to rob staff as “the actions of an idiotic few”.

Last week robbers tried to grab badges belonging to two personnel at Lewisham hospital in south London but did not succeed. The muggers approached the two staff – thought to be doctors – as they were walking through a park just outside a rear entrance to the hospital.
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NHS staff warned to hide ID after spate of targeted muggings

Robbers targeting doctors and nurses to obtain free food offered for tackling coronavirus
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Pentestaajana olen huolissani tästä ilmiöstä.
 
Merten sheriffi kirjoitti:
Somali voi oireisena matkata Haaparantaan ja sanoa taikasanat. Siis jos tietää Tukholman sairaalan olevan täynnä.
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Ei välttämättä tartte sanoa. :)

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Pyramids, pandas and polar bears: Wednesday’s top photos

The Guardian’s picture editors select photo highlights from around the world
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Cody Lee Pfister posted a video of himself licking deodorants at the Warrenton store on March 11, according to court documents. As he wiped his tongue across the packages, he asked, "Who's scared of coronavirus?" according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Pfister was arrested Monday.
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Missouri man charged with licking items at Walmart to mock coronavirus fears

Authorities say Cody Lee Pfister, 26, posted a video on social media of himself licking deodorants at a Walmart in Warrenton. He was charged with making a terrorist threat.
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In a number of critical cases of COVID-19, a hyper-vigilant immune response is triggered in patients that, if untreated, can itself prove fatal. Fortunately, some pharmaceutical treatments are available—although it’s not yet fully understood how well they might work in addressing the new coronavirus.

Meanwhile, a new blood filtration technology has successfully treated other, similar hyper-vigilant immune syndromes for people who underwent heart surgeries and the critically ill. Which could make it a possibly effective therapy (albeit still not FDA-approved) for some severe COVID-19 cases.

Inflammation, says Phillip Chan—an M.D./PhD and CEO of the New Jersey-based company CytoSorbents—is the body's way of dealing with infection and injury. It’s why burns and sprained ankles turn red and swell up. “That’s the body’s way of bringing oxygen and nutrients to heal,” he said.

Inflammation across most or all of the body, so-called systemic inflammation, can be productive in fighting off a flu, for instance. Or, potentially, in combating the new coronavirus. (COVID-19 is the name of the disease caused by that virus.)

One of the mediators of inflammation in the body are proteins called cytokines. As the world well knows, COVID-19 in some patients devolves into a severe and deadly condition. Some doctors are now arguing that those severe infections require treatment for a patient’s increasingly desperate immune response to the coronavirus.

This is where medicine could make a possibly crucial intervention. Turning back the “storm” of cytokines in severe COVID-19 patients may seem like the opposite of what doctors should be doing. After all, it’s effectively telling the body to pull back a bit in its immune response to the viral invader.

“A life threatening infection can often result in a massive immune response,” Chan says. “It’s like a chaotic four alarm fire, when all semblance of organization is lost. The immune system goes into overdrive, churning out inflammatory mediators called cytokines at a very high rate, that then trigger even more cytokine production. Ultimately, this spiral, called a cytokine storm, can directly damage organs and cause such severe whole body inflammation that vital organs like the lungs, heart, and kidneys begin to fail.”

In other words, some of these severe COVID-19 cases, he says, may be creating a new and possibly treatable problem beyond the novel coronavirus infection. “Severe inflammation in the lungs causes the blood vessels in the lungs to become leaky, resulting in inflammatory cells, fluid, and chemicals to fill the air sacs of the lung, essentially drowning a patient from the inside out,” Chan says. “Physicians dealing with COVID-19 pneumonia call it the worst viral pneumonia they have ever seen, resulting in the need for weeks of mechanical ventilation while the lungs try to recover."
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“Brita Filter for Blood” Aims to Remove Harmful Cytokines for COVID-19 Patients

In some coronavirus cases, the body’s immune system begins to attack itself; a new technology could counteract the harmful effects
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According to the CytoSorbents website, a patient’s blood is pumped out of their body using a standard blood dialysis machine and sent through the CytoSorb cartridge. Chan says the cartridge contains the company’s proprietary porous polymer beads that act like tiny sponges to extract cytokines from blood.

The purified blood then recirculates back into the patient’s body. During a 24-hour therapy period, a patient’s entire blood volume could be treated more than 70 times, the website says.

Manson says she recently talked with an official at University College London Hospital to see if they could set up a clinical trial to test a blood filtration idea for other cytokine storm-like conditions. Although this conversation was “pre-COVID.”

The evidence is still preliminary as to whether CytoSorb will be effective as an emergency COVID-19 intervention. That said, Manson says she’s at least convinced of the concept behind the therapy. “I think this is genius,” she says. “It’s something we should really work on.”

Chan says he’s already fielded a number of requests from hospitals in the United States to use CytoSorb for COVID-19 patients via the FDA’s “compassionate use” or “expanded access” programs for therapies already proven safe for other conditions. Since CytoSorb is not yet approved there, Chan’s company is in discussions with the FDA to help make the therapy temporarily available where needed during this crisis.
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First came the advice to work from home. Then the government shut pubs, clubs and restaurants. On March 23, prime minister Boris Johnson announced that the UK would be going into lockdown. These unprecedented measures to slow the spread of coronavirus were triggered after many people appeared to ignore social distancing instructions and flocked to parks shops and public spaces.

While much of the criticism focussed on London, where large numbers of people flouted social distancing rules, data creates a more complex picture. Even before the government announced the lockdown, Londoners had already significantly reduced the amount they were attending pubs, clubs, bars and restaurants. On March 19, the day before all pubs, bars, clubs and restaurants across the UK were asked to close, footfall to such venues in London was 76 per cent lower than the same day last year, according to data from Wireless Social, a Wi-Fi hotspot provider.

It was a similar picture of dwindling, but not vanishing, footfall in venues across the UK. On March 19, footfall in Edinburgh fell by 75 per cent, while Cardiff dropped by 74 per cent. In Birmingham, footfall in hospitality venues dropped by 63 per cent, followed by Liverpool and Manchester with falls of 68 and 66 per cent respectively.

While people in cities largely avoided nights out, over half (57 per cent) of the typical number of pub and restaurant goers in Lancashire were still going out on March 19 – the highest number in the UK. This was followed by Cheshire, with 44 per cent of regular patrons continuing to visit their local establishments according to Wireless Social’s Wi-Fi hotspot data. It was only after the announcement last Friday that all pubs and restaurants were to be shut down that behaviour changed.

“People are making decisions generally on the basis of perceived risk,” says Chris Cameron,
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This is the data that shows why the UK had to go into lockdown

When everyone was told to work from home, plenty of people did. But this data shows for many people life went on as normal
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Mitä hän kirjoittaa peilaa myös meidän todellisuutta Suomessa ja mitä tapahtui kun jengi pakeni maalle.

Since the first reports of a new flu-like illness emerged from China on December 31, 2019, every nation has kept a grim scorecard – coronavirus cases, recoveries and deaths. And as the worst public health crisis of a generation is brought to us live via a 24 hour news cycle, citizens have begun to compare each other’s records, and question why they diverge.

One area where a big gap has opened between countries is death rates. Germany, as of March 25, has recorded 35,714 Covid-19 infections but just 181 Germans have died from the disease. That puts its case fatality rate – the number of deaths out of confirmed coronavirus cases – at about 0.4 per cent. In Italy, this figure is nine per cent while in the UK – which has 8,328 confirmed cases – it’s 4.6 per cent. So what is Germany doing right?
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This is why Germany’s coronavirus death rate seems so low

Despite recording over 35,000 coronavirus cases, Germany has just 181 deaths – fewer than the UK or France. It all comes down to a combination of demographics, testing, and chance
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Autotehtaan työntekijöitä lounastauolla Wuhanissa.
Jätän tämän vaan tähän.
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Jotenkin vangistevan utopistinen kuva. Jäin tuota pohtimaan. Siinä ilmestyy totalitaristisen hallinnon ja yhteiskunnan synkän tehokas järjestelmällisyys. Homma toimii, mutta haluaisitko itse olla istumassa tuolla punaisella jakkaralla? Tuskin. Taianomainen otos.
 
A 34-year-old Italian nurse working on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic took her own life after testing positive for the illness and was terrified that she had infected others, according to a report.

Daniela Trezzi had been suffering “heavy stress” amid fears she was spreading the deadly bug while treating patients at the San Gerardo Hospital in Monza in the hard-hit region of Lombardy, the Daily Mail reported.

She was working in the intensive care unit while under quarantine after being diagnosed with COVID-19, according to the UK news site.

The National Federation of Nurses of Italy expressed its “pain and dismay” over Trezzi’s death, which came as the country’s mounting death toll surged with 743 additional fatalities Tuesday.
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Italian nurse with coronavirus kills herself over fear of infecting others

Daniela Trezzi had been suffering “heavy stress” amid fears she was spreading coronavirus while working at the San Gerardo Hospital.
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:cry: PTSDtä pukkaa. Hyvät ihmiset kunnioittakaa näitä ihmisiä ja yrittäkää parhaanne, sillä teidän elämänne on kiinni näistä henkilöistä ja meillä niitä on hyvin, hyvin rajallinen määrä. Älkää hyppikö niiden nenille, taikka nalkuta asioita. Sama koskee kaikkia hoitijia. Ne on ihmisiä ja niillä on tunteet. Omasta kokemuksesta voin kertoa että pimeään huoneeseen voi lukkiutua helposti ja Suomessa se yksinäisyys tulee helposti. Joten antakaa niille rauha ja yrittäkää piristää niiden päivää, vaikka olisitte kivuissa ja tekisi mieli huutaa kurkku suorana. Ne välittää teistä ja ei ole mitenkään helpoa sulkea niitä tunteita kun hoitaa toista. Sitä ennemmin yrittää vain hymyillä vaikka tekisi mieli surra.
 
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James Dyson designed a new ventilator in 10 days. He's making 15,000 for the pandemic fight

Dyson has received an order from the UK government for 10,000 ventilators to support efforts by the country's National Health Service to treat coronavirus patients.
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Dyson said the company had designed and built an entirely new ventilator, called the "CoVent," since he received a call 10 days ago from UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

"This new device can be manufactured quickly, efficiently and at volume," Dyson added, saying that the new ventilator has been designed to "address the specific needs" of coronavirus patients.
A spokesperson for the company, which is best known for its vacuum cleaners and hand dryers, said the ventilators would be ready by early April. Dyson, who has wealth worth $10 billion according to Bloomberg, wrote in his letter that he would also donate 5,000 units to the international effort to tackle the pandemic.
 
"I think that you will all agree that we are living in most interesting times. I never remember myself a time in which our history was so full, in which day by day brought us new objects of interest, and, let me say also, new objects for anxiety."
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James Dyson designed a new ventilator in 10 days. He's making 15,000 for the pandemic fight

Dyson has received an order from the UK government for 10,000 ventilators to support efforts by the country's National Health Service to treat coronavirus patients.
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Dyson said the company had designed and built an entirely new ventilator, called the "CoVent," since he received a call 10 days ago from UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

"This new device can be manufactured quickly, efficiently and at volume," Dyson added, saying that the new ventilator has been designed to "address the specific needs" of coronavirus patients.
A spokesperson for the company, which is best known for its vacuum cleaners and hand dryers, said the ventilators would be ready by early April. Dyson, who has wealth worth $10 billion according to Bloomberg, wrote in his letter that he would also donate 5,000 units to the international effort to tackle the pandemic.
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Dyson on itse asiassa tosi kova ukko.... siis todella.

Mutta; Los Angelesista huonompia uutisia, valitan:

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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti warns of mass death, condemns 'false hope,' and tells us his city will be on lockdown for another 2 months — and to 'be prepared for longer'

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti told Insider that he was wary of "premature optimism" in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Nämä uutiset on nyt sen verran ristiriitaisia, että niiden osalta pitäisi ehkä peruuttaa kaikki tämän foorumin erityiskanavat, ja keskittyä yhteen!
Tilanne lienee se että kukaan ei tiedä, mutta jotenkin meikäläisellä on fiilis, että tämä kääntyy aika elettäväksi aikaisemmin kuin on tälläkin viikolla ennakoitu.
 
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The worldwide spread of coronavirus may feel a little too familiar for players of Plague Inc., the eight-year-old game that asks you to shepherd a deadly disease seeking to kill all of humanity. Now, developer Ndemic Creations says it is working on a new update that flips the game on its head by "let[ting] players save the world from a deadly disease outbreak."
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Plague Inc. rolling out new mode where you fight to contain the outbreak

Following popularity surge, developer donates $250,000 to coronavirus response.
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Tykkään koska tämä antaa mahdollisuuden kokeilla uusia strategioita.
 
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