MNKYPOX Monkeypox - Consolidated Thread.

phloydius

phloydius

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This is not directly related to Monkeypox, but I am posting it as a reminder that this is the condition that the healthcare system is in prior to dealing with the rising number of cases of Monkeypox that we are expecting...
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Harborview Medical Center over 130% capacity; no longer admitting non-emergency patients

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Harborview Medical Center over 130% capacity; no longer admitting non-emergency patients

Harborview Medical Center leadership says they are over 130% capacity as of Thursday afternoon.
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SEATTLE — Harborview Medical Center leadership says they are over 130% capacity as of Thursday afternoon. Their CEO, Sommer Kleweno Walley, says the hospital can usually hold up to 413 patients; however, 563 are being treated inside. Because of the rise in patients and lack of staff to accommodate, Walley says the hospital has decided to not take in any non-emergency patients for a moment.

“It could mean something like ‘I’m having appendicitis or I’m having abdominal pain or my breathing isn’t quite right.’ But it doesn’t reach the threshold of being considered life-threatening,” medical director Dr. Steve Mitchell said.

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psychgirl

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phloydius said:
This is not directly related to Monkeypox, but I am posting it as a reminder that this is the condition that the healthcare system is in prior to dealing with the rising number of cases of Monkeypox that we are expecting...
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Harborview Medical Center over 130% capacity; no longer admitting non-emergency patients

www.kiro7.com

Harborview Medical Center over 130% capacity; no longer admitting non-emergency patients

Harborview Medical Center leadership says they are over 130% capacity as of Thursday afternoon.
www.kiro7.com www.kiro7.com

SEATTLE — Harborview Medical Center leadership says they are over 130% capacity as of Thursday afternoon. Their CEO, Sommer Kleweno Walley, says the hospital can usually hold up to 413 patients; however, 563 are being treated inside. Because of the rise in patients and lack of staff to accommodate, Walley says the hospital has decided to not take in any non-emergency patients for a moment.

“It could mean something like ‘I’m having appendicitis or I’m having abdominal pain or my breathing isn’t quite right.’ But it doesn’t reach the threshold of being considered life-threatening,” medical director Dr. Steve Mitchell said.

[More at Link]
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This has been happening all over the UK for months.
 
jward

jward

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Dog Gets Monkeypox in First Recorded Human-to-Animal Infection



By Luca Cacciatore | Friday, 12 August 2022 06:20 PM EDT


A recent study indicates that a same-sex male couple could have given monkeypox to their four-year-old greyhound, as questions over the virus' human-to-animal transmission still loom.
The Lancet reported the finding in a medical journal entry published on Wednesday, which observed that the couple's greyhound started contracting the virus nearly two weeks into their own cases.
Then, using PCR testing protocol, the researchers confirmed the dog had monkeypox. According to the report, the two men stated that they let their dog sleep in their bed but consciously tried to avoid public interactions with other pets and owners.
"This case establishes the possibility of human-to-domestic pet transmission," University of Wisconsin Medical School head Dr. Jonathan Temte informed Newsweek.
"Many species of animals can be infected with monkeypox, but—for the vast majority—we simply do not know how susceptible they are. Furthermore, we do not know the risk for transmission from a pet (such as a dog) to a human," he added.
Infectious disease expert Amesh Adalja told the outlet that the findings were not particularly surprising, as the virus likely originated in an animal of some kind. However, he assured that it is likely an uncommon phenomenon.
"The danger with monkeypox passing into animals in non-endemic countries is that it allows the virus to establish a domestic reservoir outside of its usual zone of endemicity," he said.
 
jward

jward

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Monkeypox Proves We Haven’t Learned the Lessons of COVID-19. In the briefing Wednesday, Jeremy Youde looked at how, in these early days of the global monkeypox outbreak, it appears that we have not learned any lessons from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.


  • Despite monkeypox being a known disease, with effective vaccines against it, we see many of the same problems in the international response to the recent outbreaks in Europe and North America that we saw in the responses to diseases like Ebola and COVID-19. The current outbreak has seen monkeypox cases appearing and spreading outside of the handful of countries in Africa where the disease is endemic, garnering international attention and alarm.
  • One of the key lessons that we have failed to learn from earlier widespread disease outbreaks is that time is of the essence. This is particularly true when considering diseases that spread across international borders, since that makes coordinating and cooperating on response efforts more difficult and time-consuming to arrange. Despite this need for urgency, the international response to the current outbreak has been slow.
  • A second lesson from past outbreaks is that vaccines and pharmaceuticals alone are not enough. A public health response is not about vaccines as much as it is about vaccination. Monkeypox is a fortunate case because vaccines existed well before the current outbreak. But the international community still needs to find ways to get those vaccines to people in need, and those efforts are flagging.
  • Finally, stopping an outbreak requires clear, careful and nuanced communication and outreach. All of these failures point to the underlying need to invest in and support robust public health infrastructure—not just in the U.S., but around the world. Stopping a global disease outbreak requires timely and coordinated action, and global public health efforts are only as strong as their weakest link. It is time for the international community to take global public health seriously—not just with words, but with actions—and to put past lessons into practice.
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For the U.S., Just Showing Up in Africa Isn’t Enough

Antony Blinken was in Africa this week for a three-country tour, where he unveiled the Biden administration’s new approach for deepening ties with African nations.
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CapeCMom

CapeCMom

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From what a friend told me today. She works in healthcare on the Cape. I guess Provincetown is loaded with Monkey pox cases. This week is their annual gay pride festival. Thousands flock there every year for it. Not good. Also we had a monster Thunderstorm roll through and it knocked out the wastewater treatment plant. It made a mess all over town. They got it fixed but they brought in hundreds of porta potties just in case so they wouldn’t have to cancel the festival. Can you imagine all those people spreading MP by those portable toilets? Ick!
 
Meemur

Meemur

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Ugh, CapeCMom . . . that sounds extremely gross!

If you wear your outside shoes in the house, consider taking them off before you come in and wearing "house shoes," shoes that are for inside only. This way, you won't track in nasty stuff on the soles and maybe give it to pets.

I might be a little paranoid here, but it's what I do. As a bonus, my floors have significantly less sand on them when I sweep.
 
psychgirl

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CapeCMom said:
From what a friend told me today. She works in healthcare on the Cape. I guess Provincetown is loaded with Monkey pox cases. This week is their annual gay pride festival. Thousands flock there every year for it. Not good. Also we had a monster Thunderstorm roll through and it knocked out the wastewater treatment plant. It made a mess all over town. They got it fixed but they brought in hundreds of porta potties just in case so they wouldn’t have to cancel the festival. Can you imagine all those people spreading MP by those portable toilets? Ick!
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bracketquant

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CapeCMom said:
From what a friend told me today. She works in healthcare on the Cape. I guess Provincetown is loaded with Monkey pox cases. This week is their annual gay pride festival. Thousands flock there every year for it. Not good. Also we had a monster Thunderstorm roll through and it knocked out the wastewater treatment plant. It made a mess all over town. They got it fixed but they brought in hundreds of porta potties just in case so they wouldn’t have to cancel the festival. Can you imagine all those people spreading MP by those portable toilets? Ick!
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I gots to trademark the Portapoxie.
 
psychgirl

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Meemur

Meemur

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Nothing against you, my friend Psychgirl! But your last four posts have given me a real case of the willies. I'm going to go assemble furniture in my home office for awhile to distract my doomer mind.
Geez. I know this is the reality but it's hitting home hard, today.
 
psychgirl

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Meemur said:
Nothing against you, my friend Psychgirl! But your last four posts have given me a real case of the willies. I'm going to go assemble furniture in my home office for awhile to distract my doomer mind.
Geez. I know this is the reality but it's hitting home hard, today.
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I’ve got the willies for more ways than one myself, right now….it’s ok, I “get it” my friend.
 
psychgirl

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