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[ScatManDoo]

NYC now 'epicenter' of coronavirus crisis, mayor says; 258 dead in US.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/corona...e_hero_related

[Captain Solo]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/21/w...gi_id=82224936

Italy, Pandemic's New Epicenter, Has Lessons for the World.

By Jason Horowitz, Emma Bubola and Elisabetta Povoledo March 21,2020 Updated 2:23 pm ET.

As Italy's coronavirus infections ticked above 400 cases and deaths hit the double digits, the leader of the governing Democratic Party posted a picture of himself clinking glasses for "an aperitivo in Milan," urging people "not to change our habits."

That was on Feb. 27. Not 10 days later, as the toll hit 5,883 infections and 233 dead, the party boss, Nicola Zingaretti, posted a new video, this time informing Italy that he, too, had the virus.

Italy now has more than 53,000 recorded infections and more than 4,800 dead, and the rate of increase keeps growing, with more than half the cases and fatalities coming in the past week. On Saturday, officials reported 793 additional deaths, by far the largest single-day increase so far. Italy has surpassed China as the country with the highest death toll, becoming the epicenter of a shifting pandemic.

[Sound7]

How easy to get this combo Rxs at Tijuana Costco or others0? Cure in 6 days. French Rx based on small study published, and = 40 .

As happened in Europe and Iran, Mexico will have a spike in CoVid19 infections and deaths in 2 to 3 weeks, scientifically unavoidable, regardless what AMLO said.

The costs in health care, death and economic losses will be horrendous and long lasting. Mexican government officials are irrational and are burying their heads in the proverbial sand in the face of danger. Mexicans will have to pay for this pandemic with their lives, health and earnings, and will have good reasons to hate their government leaders.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/...ronavirus.html

Mexico Is Frighteningly Unprepared for the Coronavirus.

As the virus spreads, the government is still downplaying the danger.

By JORDI OLIVERES.

March 19,20203:42 PM.

A crowd of concertgoers, some wearing face masks with skull imagery, outside on a sunny day.

Image: The "Vive Latino" music festival at Foro Sol in Mexico City on Saturday. Alejandro Melendez / Getty Images..

[Captain Solo]

As happened in Europe and Iran, Mexico will have a spike in CoVid19 infections and deaths in 2 to 3 weeks, scientifically unavoidable, regardless what AMLO said.

The costs in health care, death and economic losses will be horrendous and long lasting. Mexican government officials are irrational and are burying their heads in the proverbial sand in the face of danger. Mexicans will have to pay for this pandemic with their lives, health and earnings, and will have good reasons to hate their government leaders.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/...ronavirus.html

Mexico Is Frighteningly Unprepared for the Coronavirus.

As the virus spreads, the government is still downplaying the danger.

By JORDI OLIVERES.

March 19,20203:42 PM.

A crowd of concertgoers, some wearing face masks with skull imagery, outside on a sunny day.

Image: The "Vive Latino" music festival at Foro Sol in Mexico City on Saturday. Alejandro Melendez / Getty Images.

Last weekend, 110,000 people attended the "Vive Latino" music festival in Mexico City, which took place as scheduled despite several confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Mexico's capital. At the same time, while governments worldwide took drastic measures to slow down the spread of the disease, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known as AMLO, traveled to the south of Mexico and met with adoring crowds, shaking hands and hugging and kissing supporters. During his daily press conferences, AMLO has insisted that his honesty and moral rectitude protect him from the virus and that the threat of COVID-19 is greatly exaggerated. "I have great faith that we will move our dear Mexico forward, that misfortunes and pandemics won't affect us," he told reporters at a press conference on Sunday.

The number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Mexico may seem low, but it has grown exponentially over the last week, from eight to 118, and the first death from the disease was reported on Wednesday night. Moreover, Mexico has very limited testing capabilities, and the official statistics are not a reliable indicator of the actual number of cases in the country. Although the government's position is that Mexico is still in "Phase 1" of the pandemic, meaning all diagnosed cases of COVID-19 are people who caught the virus while traveling abroad, most experts agree the virus is already rapidly spreading within Mexico and that the government's nonchalance about the situation could have disastrous results.

"We need political leaders that are properly advised and understand the gravity of the situation," said Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. "A lot of people in Mexico would die unnecessarily unless the government gets very seriously prepared for this. " Getting seriously prepared means taking drastic measures to curb the spread of the virus, bolstering the hospital system, and helping people cope when the economy grinds to a halt.

The Mexican government has not yet imposed any travel restrictions nor encouraged people to stay home, and it seems very unlikely that the public health system, which suffered drastic budget cuts and shortages last year, will be prepared for the magnitude of the imminent crisis.

"The current guidelines are 'wash your hands, don't touch your face, and avoid people who are coughing,' " said Gordon McCord, a professor at the School of Global Policy & Strategy at the University of California San Diego. "We know from the experiences of Asia and Italy that if all you do is avoid people who are coughing, you're going to get an explosion of sick folks in the population, so that's coming. " Italy, which after China has the most confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths to date, has 340 hospital beds per 100,000 people, which has proved woefully insufficient. Mexico, by comparison, has only 150 hospital beds per 100,000 people, less than half.

Around 5 percent of coronavirus cases become critical, meaning they result in respiratory failure, septic shock, and organ dysfunction. These cases require intensive care to keep the patients alive, which is limited and more expensive. Doctors in Italy, which has an above-average number of intensive care unit beds for European standards (12.5 per 100,000 people), are being forced to decide which patients to keep alive and which ones to let die because there are not enough respirators available for all critical cases. Mexico's public health care system has 3,000 ICU beds in the entire country. That's 2. 3 beds per 100,000 people.

According to a prominent Mexican epidemiologist, who asked to remain anonymous because of possible hostility from government authorities, Mexico will see a spike in coronavirus cases in the next couple of weeks, and within a month the death toll will begin to rise significantly. "It's not that Mexico isn't taking the problem seriously enough. It's that it did not take it seriously when it should have, and now we are starting to see community spread," the doctor said. "From my perspective, we have all the conditions for this to turn into a tragedy, similar to Italy, if not worse."

The government's nonchalance may be the result of previous experience. In 2009, the Mexican government took severe measures to contain the spread of a new strain of swine flu. Public life was virtually shut down in the capital for several weeks, which took its toll on an already struggling economy in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. Mexico suffered its first recession since 2009 last year, and government officials have indicated they do not want to overreact to the situation out of concern for the country's economy. In a press conference last week, Hugo López-Gatell, Mexico's deputy health minister, told reporters that "the 2009 economic loss was directly related, in the most part, to the disruption of tourism, trade and services. . It is so important, with very careful precision, not to take preemptive actions that do not correspond to the magnitude of the risk. ".

It is unclear how López-Gatell is assessing the magnitude of the current risk when no significant amount of testing has been done on the population. At the end of last week, the government had tested only around 500 patients. By comparison, South Korea, which has had some of the best results controlling the COVID-19 outbreak, has tested 270,000 people. "I'm sympathetic to the desire of the government not to pull the trigger too early while the number of cases are small," said McCord. "But if you're going to do a multiphased approach, there's one thing you absolutely need if you're going to get the timing right, and that's data. Data means mass testing of the population so that you know in real time what's going on in terms of the epidemiology of this disease."

López-Gatell announced this week that the government will spend 3. 5 billion pesos (roughly $147 million) on tests, protective gear, and other equipment to address the pandemic, and that widespread testing will begin next week. The government's equipment purchases are based on an estimate of 250,000 cases of the coronavirus over the course of the pandemic and 10,528 people requiring intensive care. That number seems absurdly low, considering that epidemiologists predict around half of the world's population could get the virus and that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's worst-case scenario estimate for the USA, Mexico's next-door neighbor, is 65 percent of the population getting infected. Based on the CDC's projections, Mexico, which has a population of 130 million, should be planning for a worst-case scenario of 84.5 million infections and 4. 2 million cases that require intensive care.

Some new measures to curb the spread of the virus will be implemented in the next few days—public schools are going on spring break ahead of schedule at the end of the week, most colleges are switching to online classes, and the country's biggest concert promoter canceled all of its shows until mid-April—but the government still insists on delaying more significant measures, like travel restrictions and social distancing. "If one begins these measures too early, one extinguishes the will of society to keep them up," said López-Gatell in a recent press conference. "And although some of those measures might be useful now, they may be even more useful in the future. "

That is simply not true. The more time and opportunity the virus has to spread in the population, the worse the situation is going to be later on. "The more you refrain from the social distancing message now, the longer people feel 'Let's go to the restaurants, bars, beaches one last time'—then the higher the spike will be in two or three weeks when this really hits the health system," said McCord. "And I think everybody senses Mexico is going to be overrun. "

[LuvMexicanas]

Stay in Home order. California.

There is no enforcement, as there will be no arrests, citations or fines.

[Chator]

If anyone thinks they got corona already, you are probably lucky. I'm asuming you didn't end up in the hospital. And asuming the docs are correct that you can't get it twice. So now you can go live your life. The rest of us have to hide. Never touch a girl for months. Never talk to girls in bars. Talk to girls on the subway, I just read a article. We could have done close to nothing, and let everyone get this disease 5% will be dead and we go back to normal in 3 months. Instead, thisbwill take 13 months, 1% of population will be dead, as almost everyone will get the disease. So 1% population dead, but we live like hermits for 13 months. Or 5% dead and we go back to normal in 2 or 3 months. . By the way I took off to Florida I couldn't sit in ny room alone for a year. A few bars still open in Florida as is half the beaches. California just banned people from going outside.

I don't know about your numbers, but this contagion is being suppressed at the expense of the economy and people's personal liberties because if it isn't, the number of sick will flood and overwhelm the healthcare system. In fact, at the rate that infections keep doubling every few days, it may not be possible to prevent the collapse of the healthcare system even with the measures in place such as lockdowns, etc. I don't know what to say about Floridians, their infections and dead just doubled.

[Sound7]

Stay in Home order. California.

If anyone thinks they got corona already, you are probably lucky. I'm asuming you didn't end up in the hospital. And asuming the docs are correct that you can't get it twice. So now you can go live your life. The rest of us have to hide. Never touch a girl for months. Never talk to girls in bars. Talk to girls on the subway, I just read a article. We could have done close to nothing, and let everyone get this disease 5% will be dead and we go back to normal in 3 months. Instead, thisbwill take 13 months, 1% of population will be dead, as almost everyone will get the disease. So 1% population dead, but we live like hermits for 13 months. Or 5% dead and we go back to normal in 2 or 3 months. . By the way I took off to Florida I couldn't sit in ny room alone for a year. A few bars still open in Florida as is half the beaches. California just banned people from going outside.

[Dogers69]

If anyone thinks they got corona already, you are probably lucky. I'm asuming you didn't end up in the hospital. And asuming the docs are correct that you can't get it twice. So now you can go live your life. The rest of us have to hide. Never touch a girl for months. Never talk to girls in bars. Talk to girls on the subway, I just read a article. We could have done close to nothing, and let everyone get this disease 5% will be dead and we go back to normal in 3 months. Instead, thisbwill take 13 months, 1% of population will be dead, as almost everyone will get the disease. So 1% population dead, but we live like hermits for 13 months. Or 5% dead and we go back to normal in 2 or 3 months. . By the way I took off to Florida I couldn't sit in ny room alone for a year. A few bars still open in Florida as is half the beaches. California just banned people from going outside.

[Captain Solo]

This pic of the San Ysidro crossing, taken around 1:19 PM, showed virtually no cars entering the US, about 1% of the usual traffic.

Border closure is expected to be announced tomorrow Friday. Just hope LuvMex won't be locked down in HK with 100 horny girls for the next 14 days.

US-Mexico border restrictions expected as coronavirus spreads, report says.

PUBLISHED THU, MAR 19 2020 4:19 PM EDTUPDATED 4 HOURS AGO Dan Mangan at _DANMANGAN.

KEY POINTS.

The United States is expected to announce restrictions on travel across the border with Mexico as part of the effort to stem the tide of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report.

The restrictions are expected to be revealed Friday, Reuters reported.

President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau earlier in the week said were temporarily closing their nations' border — the longest in the world — to non-essential travel.

GP: US MEXICO border San Ysidro Coronavirus 200319.

View of San Ysidro port of entry as few cars enter the US from Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on March 19,2020.

Guillermo Arias.

AFP.

Getty Images.

The United States is expected to announce restrictions on travel across the border with Mexico as part of the effort to stem the tide of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report Thursday.

The restrictions are expected to be revealed Friday, according to the report by the Reuters news agency, which cited two officials familiar with the matter.

Those sources said that the restrictions on the USA -Mexico border would be similar to the agreement with Canada that was announced Wednesday by President Donald Trump.

Trump and and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that day said they were temporarily closing their nations' border — the longest in the world — to non-essential traffic.

On Tuesday, the member countries of the European Union agreed to close their external borders to non-citizens in most cases for one month.

There have been more than 236,000 cases of coronvirus reported worldwide, with at least 9,790 deaths.

In the United States alone, there have been at least 11,238 coronavirus cases, and at least 157 related deaths.

Mexico has 118 confirmed cases, and 1 reported death, according to Johns Hopkins University of Medicine, which has been tracking the spread of coronavirus, and the related disease of COVID-19.

[LuvMexicanas]

I'll be in the Zona by early Thursday evening and will report my observations.

[Captain Solo]

Tuesday chicas texted me that HK and Chicago were open on Sunday and Monday but there were virtually no clients. Bars owners were talking about shutting down due to lack of business.

As of today, Baja has ordered schools to close, but only recommends people to avoid bars, not total shutdown. With more confirmed cases expected in Tijuana in the next few days, bars, street girls, massages dens, restaurants, hotels, food carts, stores ect will soon be all shut down in La Zona.

Any bros happen to be in the area please take a few pics of the scene. Would be interesting to see. This pic of the San Ysidro is old, showing workers still putting covers over the SENTRI lanes, and they were blocked. No buenos.

Baja California confirms first two cases of coronavirus.

The state bumped up its response to Phase 2, which includes canceling events and school closures.

By WENDY FRY March 17,20206:46 PM.

BAJA California — Baja California Secretary of Health Alonso Pérez Rico announced Tuesday the first two confirmed cases of coronavirus infection in the Mexican border state.

Pérez said the two cases are both female patients from Mexicali, ages 54 and 58, who had recently traveled to the state of Washington in the United States.

Baja California bumped up its response to Phase 2, which includes canceling events and school closures.

Until Tuesday, Baja California had not documented a single case of the COVID-19, a highly contagious disease caused by a new virus not previously identified in humans.

Cases in San Diego County, just north of Baja California, have been growing rapidly in recent days.

In Baja California, officials have identified 54 suspected cases and ruled out 37 cases as of Tuesday evening. There remain 15 cases where officials are awaiting results. Of those, nine are in Tijuana, one is in Mexicali and five are in Ensenada.

Pérez urged the public to remain calm but continue taking preventative measures, such as social distancing and frequent hand washing.

Schools will be canceled across the state starting Wednesday, a few days earlier than the already scheduled shutdown set to begin Friday, he said.

The secretary, who is also a physician, recommended people avoid bars, restaurants, casinos and gyms to prevent further spread of the coronavirus.

Residents should try to avoid meetings and public places with more than 10 people in attendance, he said.

In Tijuana, state health officials denied assertions that the absence of confirmed local cases indicated they were not adequately testing residents. The agency pointed to testing locations in each city and phone numbers for concerned people to call for testing options.

SIMNSA, a Tijuana medical facility and health plan, has installed tents in the border region to screen the public for possible cases of the coronavirus and has thousands of rapid result testing kits, said its president, Frank Carrillo.

"We're very concerned about the virus here in Tijuana and we want to send a message to the San Diego community that we are taking proactive steps to prevent its spread," said Carrillo.

Carrillo said several of the screening checkpoints will be set up in the northbound pedestrian border crossings.

Border leaders have urged Baja California officials to take the pandemic more seriously. Gustavo de la Fuente, the executive director of the San Diego-Tijuana Smart Border Coalition, said drastic measures need to be taken on both sides of the border to prevent a binational public health crisis.

"Though a facility has been designated to isolate infected patients, Tijuana does not have medical infrastructure to manage an impending surge in people believing they should be tested or for those with the infection," he and others wrote in a commentary for The San Diego Union-Tribune.

"Tellingly, there are no public hand-washing stations. Given how the virus multiplies and the Mexican federal government's lax response to a potential outbreak, we believe faster regional — border-wide — reaction is in order," De La Fuente said.

On Monday, in an interview with the Union-Tribune, Pérez said his department was collaborating daily with health officials in California.

"We have been preparing our population for six weeks" for the likelihood of a coronavirus outbreak, he said.

The health secretary encouraged residents to only travel to the United States for "essential" reasons.

Though Mexican federal health officials have said they would consider closing the border, Pérez said Monday it does not make sense to do so given the current circumstances.

"That does not mean that the situation will not change based on how many cases are presented. " he said. "Of course, the Government of Mexico and especially the State of Baja California will do what is necessary to protect our population. ".

[LovesToSploog]

Just a FYI trump layed off his pandemic team in 2018 due to budget cuts, CDC responded earlier in the weekend stating most are going to be exposed to the virus and most will survive. It's okay to be concerned but it's not okay to panic, everything will be fine.

Total failure at CDC / Trump, missed the boat. Now in containment phase. Our Fukashima pandamic. How would Mexico cope?

[Sound7]

Drive thru testing 10,000 test a day.

Very limited testing in Mexico.

https://fox5sandiego.com/news/border...e-coronavirus/

BORDER REPORT.

By: Salvador Rivera.

Posted: Mar 4, 2020/10:50 PM PST / Updated: Mar 4, 2020/10:54 PM PST.

SAN DIEGO (Border Report) Baja California's Health Department is reporting six suspected cases of the coronavirus in the state: four in Mexicali and two in Tijuana.

Both cities are just south of the USA -Mexico border. Baja health officials say they are waiting lab results for the six people in question. Four people are from Mexicali three women ages 51,28 and 24 and a 25-year old man. The two other cases involve a 40-year-old woman and a 56-year-old man from Tijuana..

[Sound7]

Total failure at CDC / Trump, missed the boat. Now in containment phase. Our Fukashima pandamic. How would Mexico cope?

Please guys. The only credible sources right now is straight from the CDC and WHO. I've seen so much misinformation spread around social media. NPR, academic health websites and such are fine but they are still second hand information. So keep that in mind.

[Jackie888]

S. Korea is testing 15,000 per day. They even have drive thru testing centers.

The USA is testing 100 a day.

Mexico have tested 278 total.

They are so fucked.