Saw $1.79 at a Kroger in N. Ky. and $1.70 at a couple stations in Cincinnati.

 

Might as well drop prices. We don’t have anywhere to go.

Might as well drop prices. We don’t have anywhere to go.

 

Oil is around $22 a barrel. It was in the $50-55 range just a month or so ago. That is impacting the stock market as much as the coronavirus.

Kentucky with 87 new cases today. Coming into today the total was 48.

 

Among the latest cases, a 32 year old man from Kenton County.

 

The number was 63 coming into today, according to the number released at 5:00 yesterday evening.

 

We did lose a third person, a 67 year-old man from Anderson County.

Oil is around $22 a barrel. It was in the $50-55 range just a month or so ago. That is impacting the stock market as much as the coronavirus.

 

I am aware. Just trying to make light of the situation.

The number was 63 coming into today, according to the number released at 5:00 yesterday evening.

 

We did lose a third person, a 67 year-old man from Anderson County.

 

I feel like there are going to be a lot of deaths inaccurately attributed to COVID-19 throughout this.

I feel like there are going to be a lot of deaths inaccurately attributed to COVID-19 throughout this.

 

In what way?

 

Shouldn't anyone who has COVID-19 and dies be attributed to the virus?

In what way?

 

Shouldn't anyone who has COVID-19 and dies be attributed to the virus?

 

Not necessarily, no.

Not necessarily, no.

 

My thought is even people with serious conditions who get the virus and die should be attributed to the virus.

Not necessarily, no.

 

Let's say you are in your 60s and have a respiratory disease. It is something your doctors are treating and have under control. You contract Covid-19 and die. The existing condition didn't kill you, the virus did.

If you want to know how the coronavirus works and what scientists are developing to stop the virus, here is a really good article.

 

COVID-19 treatment might already exist in old drugs – we're using pieces of the coronavirus itself to find them

 

I will try to explain and summarize. There is no treatment for the coronavirus currently. If you are infected, you have to hope your body will somehow be able to defeat it on its own. The biggest problem with the coronavirus is it invades our own cells and causes them to replicate more coronavirus. Our body initially has no way to stop this until it develops antibodies. The cells the coronavirus attacks the most vigorously are in the lungs. It is a race between your body developing antibodies to slow down and stop the coronavirus and the duplication efforts of the coronavirus. If the coronavirus wins, your lungs become overwhelmed and you die of suffocation. We have no known medicine to help your body in this fight. All we can do if you are losing the fight is connect you to a ventilator to help you breath and keep you alive long enough for your body to start winning the fight.

 

In the article it is explained that scientists don't have time to develop a new drug to help in the short term. The process is too long to safely test it and make sure our bodies can tolerate it. We don't have that time. What the scientists are doing is looking for existing drugs that might stop or slow down the virus which are approved for use in humans already for treatment of other conditions. The drugs you have heard about being tested are these existing drugs. We know they are safe. We don't know if they will stop or slow down the virus. All we can do is give them to affected people and watch to see if they work.

 

The good news is scientists have now identified 50 existing drugs that have the potential to treat the virus. This is what we have to hope for in the short term.

I feel like there are going to be a lot of deaths inaccurately attributed to COVID-19 throughout this.

 

I feel like there will be a lot of deaths not attributed to COVID-19 that should be.

As of 1:35pm today Italy had:

 

627 deaths in the last 24 hours

4032 total deaths

47,021 total infections

 

Numbers from the Italian Civil Protection Authority

 

As of 9:01pm last night Italy had:

 

6,557 new cases since Friday

793 new deaths

53,578 total cases

4800+ total deaths

 

This is day 11 of their lockdown.

If you want to know how the coronavirus works and what scientists are developing to stop the virus, here is a really good article.

 

COVID-19 treatment might already exist in old drugs – we're using pieces of the coronavirus itself to find them

 

I will try to explain and summarize. There is no treatment for the coronavirus currently. If you are infected, you have to hope your body will somehow be able to defeat it on its own. The biggest problem with the coronavirus is it invades our own cells and causes them to replicate more coronavirus. Our body initially has no way to stop this until it develops antibodies. The cells the coronavirus attacks the most vigorously are in the lungs. It is a race between your body developing antibodies to slow down and stop the coronavirus and the duplication efforts of the coronavirus. If the coronavirus wins, your lungs become overwhelmed and you die of suffocation. We have no known medicine to help your body in this fight. All we can do if you are losing the fight is connect you to a ventilator to help you breath and keep you alive long enough for your body to start winning the fight.

 

In the article it is explained that scientists don't have time to develop a new drug to help in the short term. The process is too long to safely test it and make sure our bodies can tolerate it. We don't have that time. What the scientists are doing is looking for existing drugs that might stop or slow down the virus which are approved for use in humans already for treatment of other conditions. The drugs you have heard about being tested are these existing drugs. We know they are safe. We don't know if they will stop or slow down the virus. All we can do is give them to affected people and watch to see if they work.

 

The good news is scientists have now identified 50 existing drugs that have the potential to treat the virus. This is what we have to hope for in the short term.

 

Nice Summary VOR!

As of 9:01pm last night Italy had:

 

6,557 new cases since Friday

793 new deaths

53,578 total cases

4800+ total deaths

 

This is day 11 of their lockdown.

 

Italy is getting hit harder than most.

 

Apparently they have lost a lot of people with pre existing conditions. I read somewhere that 99% of the people that have died from corona virus there have had pre existing conditions of some kind.

 

Still scary, but there must be a reason it is so much worse there than it is anywhere else.

Italy is getting hit harder than most.

 

Apparently they have lost a lot of people with pre existing conditions. I read somewhere that 99% of the people that have died from corona virus there have had pre existing conditions of some kind.

 

Still scary, but there must be a reason it is so much worse there than it is anywhere else.

 

There is. They didn’t begin testing fast enough. They didn’t take social distancing seriously. When they closed schools and businesses people took trips to ski resorts and to the beach instead of staying home. That helped spread it exponentially and forced them into a countrywide lockdown.

 

Basically they didn’t listen and they thought it was just the flu and that they’d be fine.

 

That’s what happened in Italy.

 

 

 

 

 

Russia is claiming to have began testing at the end of January when COVID-19 first became a worldwide issue. They closed their 2600 mile border to China and began testing as quickly as efficiently as they could. To date they claim to have taken over 150K tests and only have 253 cases. Most of those cases are Italians who came to Russia is what they are claiming. They say they were testing in airports and focusing on travelers from Iran, China and South Korea.