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OSWEGO - The number of COVID-19 cases in Oswego County doubled, from four to eight, over the last 24 hours, according to county officials, who are urging residents to avoid public places and groups of people as much as possible. Oswego County announced a fourth confirmed COVID-19 case Wednesday evening, and less than 24 hours later announced eight tests had come back positive. Statewide more than 37,250 cases of the novel coronavirus have been confirmed, with the number of deaths topping 380 in the state and 1,000 across the country.

My anxiety symptoms are through the roof. Makes hard to differentiate between real and"fake"..

As the novel coronavirus sweeps across the world, some countries are finding themselves in a difficult situation. Low on supplies or money, traditional American allies like Spain, Italy, France and Japan have had to turn to China for help. "China creates the poison and sells the solution to it," foreign affairs expert Gordon Chang told Fox News. China has used its money, medical equipment and teams of doctors and nurses in a high-stakes campaign to show the world that while the United States scrambles to contain the novel coronavirus within its borders, China is busy moving in on some of America's closest allies. "Never let a good crisis go to waste," Dimitar Bechev, a senior fellow in the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center, wrote. "There is no better illustration that the medical supplies and crews of doctors China has been supplying to Italy and other European countries battling COVID-19. Beijing does carry a large share of the blame for the global pandemic... but now it seeks to shape the narrative of the crisis unfolding before our eyes." China has also been floating the idea that it has donated all of the medical supplies out of concern for the world. That's not the case, Chang said. "A lot of the stuff that China claims has been donated has not been donated," he said. "It's been sold." While China has come through for several countries but, in some, it has fallen short of expectations. In Spain, for example, Health Minister Salvador Illa announced Wednesday that the country had bought $467 million in medical supplies from China, including 950 ventilators, 5.5 million testing kits, 11 million gloves and more than half a billion protective face masks. Soon after receiving the supplies, the Spanish government announced plans to return 9,000 "quick result" test kits to China, El Pais reported, because they were deemed substandard, specifically the sensibility of the test was around 30 percent, when it should be higher than 80 percent. China admitted that the kits they sold to Spain were bought from Bioeasy, a Chinese company not licensed to make them. The time and money Spain wasted on faulty supplies could have devastating effects on a country that is now in its second week of a national lockdown after cases of COVID-19 spiked. https://www.foxnews.com/world/china-money-coronavirus-spain-467-million-faulty-supplies

I agree 100% I haven't got my mail in a week lol I had ups here 2 days ago and the package is still under my car port .I'm gonna wear gloves to retrieve the mail, not touch my face and then wash my hands.. Even the mail here goes through quarantine lol

CLAY, N.Y. -- A United States Postal Service employee who works at the Taft Road post office and processing center has tested positive for the coronavirus, the agency said Wednesday. The USPS did not provide any other information about the employee, including what route the employee may have worked or whether the employee worked in the office. In a memo obtained by Syracuse.com | The Post-Standard, the postal service told workers that “the risk is low” for employees working in the facility. The memo said federal law prohibited them from releasing the name of the employee or medical information about the person. Onondaga County has reported 81 positive cases of COVID-19 so far, including one death. As of 3 p.m. on Wednesday, 248 people were in mandatory isolation. The county currently has results for roughly 1,550 tests of the nearly 2,400 tests taken countywide. Experts told USA Today it’s unlikely that the coronavirus could spread via the mail because of the virus’ livability on paper and cardboard.

CNN Business)Amazon warehouses are facing a growing tide of coronavirus cases with at least 11 facilities hit so far, according to Amazon and local media reports. One person who works in Amazon's Staten Island, New York, fulfillment center tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the online retail giant told CNN Business late Tuesday. The person, who was last at work physically on March 11, is in quarantine and recovering, Amazon said. That case marks the second to affect Amazon warehouses in New York. It comes a week after the first reported case at any US Amazon facility, in Queens, NY. The company also confirmed a case at a facility in Joliet, Ill. and at an Edison, NJ facility Wednesday. Other positive cases have been reported at Amazon facilities in Moreno Valley, Calif.; Jacksonville, Fla.; Shepherdsville, Ky.; Brownstown, Mich.; Oklahoma City, Okla.; Katy, Texas; and Wallingford, Conn.

People are thought to be most contagious when they are most symptomatic (the sickest). Some spread might be possible before people show symptoms; there have been reports of this occurring with this new coronavirus, but this is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads. It may be possible that a person can get COVID-19 by touching a surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose, or possibly their eyes, but this is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads.

The main way to spread this virus is from person to person which is why it's key to keep a good distance.. Person-to-person spread The virus is thought to spread mainly from person-to-person. Between people who are in close contact with one another (within about 6 feet). Through respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs or sneezes. These droplets can land in the mouths or noses of people who are nearby or possibly be inhaled into the lungs.

A long-distance runner has described how COVID-19 made him feel like he was drowning - and warned young people to take the disease seriously. Daryl Doblados, 29, ran the Cambridge half marathon just 10 days before he was diagnosed with the virus. The father of two, who has no underlying health conditions, called 111 last Thursday as he struggled to breathe and was told to call an ambulance. He said: "It just feels like your lungs are filling up with smoke or liquid. I struggled to breathe. I've never experienced anything like this before." Mr Doblados was discharged from hospital eight hours after his admission, with a consultant advising him to monitor his breathing and to call 111 again if it worsened He posted a video of himself on Facebook from his home in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, where he is self-isolating. "I'm still struggling now on day four of recovery. If I don't concentrate on my breathing then it feels just like you're drowning." He said he made the video to warn young people to take coronavirus seriously. "The nature of this virus is that it will get you. "For the young people out there, we need to make sure that we do this, do this right, we stay away from as many people as possible to stop the spread of infection." His message was echoed by another coronavirus patient who has urged the Irish government to bring in more restrictions on public movement in a bid to stop the spread of the virus. Micheal Prendergast, 28, told Sky News he developed symptoms shortly after flying home to Ireland from London last week. Speaking from his bed in an isolation ward at Kerry General Hospital, he said: "If you don't get affected as bad as I have, I guarantee your parents, or your aunts and uncles or your grandparents are going to be. This virus is a killer." He added: "It's extremely disheartening to see that people are out and about. I would call on the government to make a proactive step - instead of reactive - to have tighter controls on the public."

You could close every store in America and just leave Walmarts open and we'll survive lol The lines on the other hand..

The country is not shut down lmao 17 states have some restrictions. The vice president said NY is the exception not the rule in terms of lifting restrictions. Why would people even wanna work when you're getting more money to sit at home and not catch the virus lol Why would they extend unemployment to 39 weeks if this is a short term issue?

It's funny because my in-laws who are a big supporter of an unnamed person thinks everything is on the way up lol That we just have this"magic pill" that will cure the world, everything will be back to normal in a couple weeks they say

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As of yesterday, not sure if these numbers are 24 hour intervals or what lol

After reading a few articles it's the governor who makes the call on when restrictions are lifted... What about state stay-at-home orders? States with stay-at-home orders made by their governors could continue those orders, regardless of whether Trump lifts the federal guidelines. As of Tuesday, at least 17 states have stay-at-home orders in place, and at least 10 others have some cities or counties that have issued their own orders. Each state has their own rules in place for how long the orders last. For example, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s stay-at-home order is set until April 6, while some governors have not given an exact date that the order will end. In addition to stay-at-home orders, several states have closed school for several weeks or even until the end of the school year, such as Virginia and Kansas. Those orders also could stay in place if Trump lifts the federal guidelines. "We are at war," DeWine said Sunday when announcing his executive order to have Ohioans stay home. "And in a time of war we have to make sacrifices. The country's public health law is a patchwork of responsibilities divided up between the federal and state governments, but typically states are in control of "police powers," according to Professor Glenn Cohen, faculty director for the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics at Harvard Law School. Some states even delegate those powers to individual localities. But if Trump decides to lift the federal guidance, states like California or New York that have issued stay-at-home orders "may decide to follow suit or not, but typically have significant discretion as to what to do," he said

$385 is the average Nationwide..

Looks like it BW, part of the agreed upon stimulus package.. It's also up to 39 weeks instead of 26.. Min wage workers only come home with like $350 a week lol The stimulus bill is giving a federally funded weekly pay boost to those who are unemployed. In addition to regular state unemployment insurance, individuals will receive an additional $600 per week for up to four months. In total, unemployed workers will receive 39 weeks of unemployment benefits, which will carry them through to the end of 2020. State unemployment benefits vary from state to state but averaged $385 a week nationwide in January. Adding the $600 boost included in the stimulus package would bring an average weekly unemployment check to $985, which exceeds the median weekly earnings of $936 in the fourth quarter. (Women had median weekly earnings of $843; men took home a median of $1,022.) Source

Don't forget about the unemployment package.. This is huge for people that lose their job at no fault of their own..My girl for example would bring home more if she was fully laid off for a couple months lol (CNN)In a historic expansion of unemployment insurance, the federal government would give jobless workers an extra $600 a week on top of their state benefits for four months as part of the $2 trillion stimulus deal lawmakers agreed to early Wednesday. "It has unemployment insurance on steroids," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday of the package. "But, and most importantly, the federal government will pay your salary, your full salary for now four months." While the extra money in the deal wouldn't fully replace the lost wages of some higher-paid workers, it would significantly add to everyone's regular state benefits, which range from $200 to $550 a week, on average, depending on the state. However, several Republican senators raised objections Wednesday to the jobless benefits provision, saying it would provide larger checks to unemployed workers than they would receive in wages. "This bill pays you more not to work than if you were working," said South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham. "You're literally incentivizing taking people out of the workforce at a time when we need critical infrastructure supplied with workers. If this is not a drafting error, then it's the worst idea I've seen in a long time."

In several hours on Tuesday, Dr. Ashley Bray performed chest compressions at Elmhurst Hospital Center on a woman in her 80s, a man in his 60s and a 38-year-old who reminded the doctor of her fiancé. All had tested positive for the coronavirus and had gone into cardiac arrest. All eventually died. Elmhurst, a 545-bed public hospital in Queens, has begun transferring patients not suffering from coronavirus to other hospitals as it moves toward becoming dedicated entirely to the outbreak. Doctors and nurses have struggled to make do with a few dozen ventilators. Calls over a loudspeaker of “Team 700,” the code for when a patient is on the verge of death, come several times a shift. Some have died inside the emergency room while waiting for a bed. A refrigerated truck has been stationed outside to hold the bodies of the dead. Over the past 24 hours, New York City’s public hospital system said in a statement, 13 people at Elmhurst had died. Continue reading

Updated county numbers. LAST UPDATE: MARCH 25, 2020 | 1:46PM Albany 152 Allegany 2 Broome 11 Cayuga 2 Chautauqua 1 Chemung 1 Chenango 3 Clinton 10 Columbia 12 Cortland 2 Delaware 5 Dutchess 153 Erie 122 Essex 4 Franklin 1 Fulton 1 Genesee 2 Greene 4 Hamilton 2 Herkimer 5 Jefferson 2 Livingston 3 Madison 7 Monroe 118 Montgomery 4 Nassau 3,285 Niagara 12 New York City 17,856 Oneida 9 Onondaga 65 Ontario 9 Orange 638 Oswego 2 Otsego 2 Putnam 84 Rensselaer 31 Rockland 968 Saratoga 64 Schenectady 55 Schoharie 2 St. Lawrence 1 Steuben 8 Suffolk 2,260 Sullivan 39 Tioga 1 Tompkins 16 Ulster 65 Warren 2 Washington 4 Wayne 7 Westchester 4,691 Wyoming 4 Total Number of Positive Cases 30,811

But if you’ve lost your job and qualify for unemployment benefits, this stimulus package gives you a bigger check. It’s expected to add $600 per week onto individual workers’ unemployment checks for the next four months.

The money from the coronavirus relief bill will be a lifeline for families who have lost their jobs or are unable to work due to the coronavirus.

Congress came to agreement early Wednesday morning on a massive $2 trillion stimulus package designed to help families and businesses get through the coronavirus pandemic.

I have plenty of money, who cares about anyone else, that's obviously how you think.