China Corona Virus Outbreak

[uls]

Based on interview of doc willie with a pulmunologist, omicron might be just mild but when it hit a senior citizen or a person with comorbidity it will somewhat enhance their sickness thus mild omicron triggers it.

that's what wuhan, D614G, alpha, beta, gamma, delta variants do... they send elderly/comorbids to the hospital

but omicron... i know seniors who got covid recently... they recovered at home

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mga may uncontrolled hypertension and diabetes... mga malapot ang dugo

kahit walang covid sooner or later aatekhin yan

people get heart attack and stroke everyday

maari na-exacerbate during holiday season people tend to let go during holidays... napadami ang kain

end up in the ER... na-swab... covid +... incidental

[_Cathy_]

May nabibili ba sa Pilipinas na covid self test kit? My friend is asking me to buy Binax e it's all out of stock, puro China made. I know it was mentioned here that Binax is not accurate but people prefer Abbott brand talaga

[BratPAQ]

May nabibili ba sa Pilipinas na covid self test kit? My friend is asking me to buy Binax e it's all out of stock, puro China made. I know it was mentioned here that Binax is not accurate but people prefer Abbott brand talaga

Alam ko may mga available na sa shopee at lazada. Pero hindi mga FDA approved pa. Heard on the news na ngayon pa lang maglalabas ng guidelines ang DOH for home kits including which brands is legit, important yung guidelines baka kasi may gumamit ng mali ang pag kuha ng sample. Mahirap mag try sa shopee at china made baka mag false negative, delikado yun.

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[uls]

a few days ago:

- covid spike dahil sa holiday celebrations

- bakit sa NCR lang? buong bansa nag celebrate

me: lagi NCR nauuna, susunod mga probinsya... it's only a matter of time

NEWS: tumataas covid cases outside NCR

[H1Tman]

Just got my booster here in NP, 3 hrs in line. Since nagka surge daw, biglang dami daw pumupunta dito. So be really patient

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If you missed your sched, can you just show up at NP Vax site? TIA

[glenn_duke]

Alam ko may mga available na sa shopee at lazada. Pero hindi mga FDA approved pa. Heard on the news na ngayon pa lang maglalabas ng guidelines ang DOH for home kits including which brands is legit, important yung guidelines baka kasi may gumamit ng mali ang pag kuha ng sample. Mahirap mag try sa shopee at china made baka mag false negative, delikado yun.

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Hindi na active yung nagbebenta sa lazada at shopee. Nag lie low siguro dahil sabi ng FDA DOH bawal ibenta sa mga hindi lab o hospital. Pati yung kinukunan ko sa FB hindi na nag rereply, last december nakabili pa ako ng 1 box antibody at antigen kit.

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Explainer: Why you should still try to avoid catching Omicron | Reuters


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Ganito dapat lahat pareho sa Taguig.

Vax card and valid ID or vax cert PH




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[Monseratto]

New DOH Protocols

Shifting from reporting total daily new cases to just reporting severe and critical cases only.

7 day isolation for asymptomatics and mild but fully vaccinated

5 days isolation for close contacts but asymptomatics and fully vaccinated.

Testing only needed for HCWs, people w/ commorbidites and Seniors. Eveyone else no need.

[uls]

yes PCR test only people really need to get tested

don't PCR test everyone

para di #casedemic

nagpapanic ang publiko sa numero eh

[kagalingan]

Nakakahiya talaga medical communuty. Haller st lukes, haller cardinal santos, haller makati med. Haller sinasabi ang tatanga nyo hahaha!!!!!

Puro kasi pasosy kaya nabobobo

PH told to drop plexiglass barriers


By: Dempsey Reyes - 14 hours ago

MANILA, Philippines — Instead of face shields and plexiglass barriers, the Philippines should rely more on protective masks and proper ventilation, and even going outdoors, a leading American aerosol scientist said.

Prof. Jose-Luis Jimenez of the University of Colorado-Boulder said the government should buy more N95 masks for the country’s health care and other essential workers as well as people coping with a weak immune system.

Medical workers should also wear laboratory goggles to suppress air filled with virus from getting close to the eyes, rather than plastic face shields, which Jimenez described as a “waste of money, time and attention [that] create[s] basically plastic pollution

“Now that we know that the virus is airborne and that it can infect through the eyes, [a face shield] is actually not sufficient because the air, like a smoke on the aerosols, can flow under the face shields,” he said in an email to the Inquirer.

Jimenez is a professor at the university’s Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry (Analytical, Environmental and Atmospheric Chemistry Division), and a fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences.

The government has made face shields voluntary but may consider their required use amid the surge in coronavirus cases being attributed to the spread of the Omicron variant.

“So, in summary, the face shields are not useful at all,” Jimenez said, as he called for the distribution of more N95 masks to people who cannot afford them.

He said these masks can be worn for about 40 hours, which would not require constant changing.

“The government could also consider setting up a domestic manufacturing capability for N95 masks, so that the supply is available for later COVID[-19] waves [or] the next pandemic,” said Jimenez, whose areas of expertise include aerosols, atmospheric chemistry, aircraft studies, instrument development, mathematical modeling, and disease transmission.



PH told to drop plexiglass barriers
By: Dempsey Reyes - 14 hours ago
MANILA, Philippines — Instead of face shields and plexiglass barriers, the Philippines should rely more on protective masks and proper ventilation, and even going outdoors, a leading American aerosol scientist said.

Prof. Jose-Luis Jimenez of the University of Colorado-Boulder said the government should buy more N95 masks for the country’s health care and other essential workers as well as people coping with a weak immune system.

Medical workers should also wear laboratory goggles to suppress air filled with virus from getting close to the eyes, rather than plastic face shields, which Jimenez described as a “waste of money, time and attention [that] create[s] basically plastic pollution.”



“Now that we know that the virus is airborne and that it can infect through the eyes, [a face shield] is actually not sufficient because the air, like a smoke on the aerosols, can flow under the face shields,” he said in an email to the Inquirer.

Jimenez is a professor at the university’s Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry (Analytical, Environmental and Atmospheric Chemistry Division), and a fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences.

The government has made face shields voluntary but may consider their required use amid the surge in coronavirus cases being attributed to the spread of the Omicron variant.

“So, in summary, the face shields are not useful at all,” Jimenez said, as he called for the distribution of more N95 masks to people who cannot afford them.

He said these masks can be worn for about 40 hours, which would not require constant changing.

“The government could also consider setting up a domestic manufacturing capability for N95 masks, so that the supply is available for later COVID[-19] waves [or] the next pandemic,” said Jimenez, whose areas of expertise include aerosols, atmospheric chemistry, aircraft studies, instrument development, mathematical modeling, and disease transmission.



‘Ridiculous’
The Spanish-American chemist drew the attention of Filipino netizens after he included the Philippines in a tweet on what he described as the “world hall of shame” — countries that he said have bad practices in managing the pandemic.

Jimenez had pointed out, for example, the use of motorcycle barriers which the government approved but later dropped, and also the installation of plexiglass barriers in classrooms and offices which, he said, “should be removed because they increase the transmission.”

“I don’t think those [motorcycle] shields really do anything and… frankly, they are pretty ridiculous,” he said in his email.

Lately he noted how hospital ventilation in the country is “not known to be quite good.”

He provoked criticism from a medical adviser to the government, former Health Undersecretary Teodoro Herbosa, who said on Sunday that Jimenez had “no expertise on disease epidemiology and pathogenesis.”

Outdoors, open windows
But Jimenez stood by his recommendations to avoid or lessen the circulation of the coronavirus.

He said taxi drivers should consider opening their windows to prevent any infection between them and their passengers.

He also suggested that encouraging people to go outside would help prevent transmission indoors, especially in enclosed spaces.

PH told to drop plexiglass barriers | Inquirer News

[dr. d]

Nakakahiya talaga medical communuty. Haller st lukes, haller cardinal santos, haller makati med. Haller sinasabi ang tatanga nyo hahaha!!!!!

Puro kasi pasosy kaya nabobobo




PH told to drop plexiglass barriers | Inquirer News

he can say all he wants.
i'll still wear my welding mask (from ace hardware) today.

[kagalingan]

haaay buhay!!! Ako wala pa pandemic ako ang mahilig magpost about air ventilation big windows. Yan reason bakit ko criticize condominium kasi puro design focus hindi inisip functionality.

kaya sa mga nag-aral ng medical school sa pinas magdemand kayo refund tuition
Walang kakwenta-kwenta hahaha!!!

magaling lang mangwarta!!!!

[yubby24]

Ganito dapat lahat pareho sa Taguig.

Vax card and valid ID or vax cert PH




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Tried checking our records again in vaxcert PH and andun na kaming lahat. Downloaded a copy for all of us in the household.

[Monseratto]

Surely magagalit si Leachon dito since no need lockdown...

[kagalingan]

Yes. Korek.

Sana naman hindi na sila maghahanap ng ibang variants para ma extend pa itong pandemic…

in my own experience, nagka ganito na rin ako last 2018 coming from HK and december din yun winter/rainy season… same2 symptoms…

today may 4th day i can say pwede na ako lumabas… hindi na mahina katawan ko, ubo na lang and clogged nose minsan…

If ganito yung covid symptoms in most cases itong phase na ito dapat sila mag luwag, kasi hindi naman grabe unlike before, parang common colds and cough which is manageable sa home care… plus immunity by natural infection is greater than vaccine…

Kags, saan ba sila grumaduate? [emoji1787][emoji1787][emoji1787]

I think if we go back sa spanish flu, this time they consider it na endemic na kasi wala na masyado namamatay or hospitalized…

ngayon pandemic lumalabas kung ano naproduce ng education ng updilim, ateminess, lasaless, crc. Mga ampaw.

mga tameme ngayon pandemic.

[StockEngine]

Nakakahiya talaga medical communuty. Haller st lukes, haller cardinal santos, haller makati med. Haller sinasabi ang tatanga nyo hahaha!!!!!

Puro kasi pasosy kaya nabobobo




PH told to drop plexiglass barriers | Inquirer News

hahahhaa good read

[uls]

from the article quoted by kagalingan

He also suggested that encouraging people to go outside would help prevent transmission indoors, especially in enclosed spaces.

eh ang problema ayaw ng gobyerno lumabas mga tao

tapos mga so-called educated people (many on twitter) na lagi nakakulong sa bahay galit na galit sa mga lumalabas

galit sa mga nagpupunta sa baywalk (which is as outdoor as outdoor can be you can't get any more outdoor than that)

super spreader event daw

pero ung mga private indoor gathering ng mga mayaman hindi super spreader event?

haha

[Athrunzala]

Surely magagalit si Leachon dito since no need lockdown...

mga Doctor sa pinas makinig kayo dito...

[Athrunzala]

from the article quoted by kagalingan




eh ang problema ayaw ng gobyerno lumabas mga tao

tapos mga so-called educated people (many on twitter) na lagi nakakulong sa bahay galit na galit sa mga lumalabas

galit sa mga nagpupunta sa baywalk (which is as outdoor as outdoor can be you can't get any more outdoor than that)

super spreader event daw

pero ung mga private indoor gathering ng mga mayaman hindi super spreader event?

haha

oo, bababa ang Vitamin D levels ng katawan kung magkukulong sa bahay...