COVID-19 Pandemic World Updates

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CA Man Dies at 34 Recently Visited Disney World in FL

A 34-year-old man has died in California after testing positive of coronavirus just days ago, and 2 weeks after visiting Walt Disney World and Universal Studios in Florida.

34-Year-Old CA Man Dead of Coronavirus, Recently Visited Disney World

A 34-year-old man from Glendora, CA has passed away from coronavirus.

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Jeffrey Ghazarian from Glendora, CA, died Thursday morning at a Pasadena hospital after spending 5 days hooked up to a ventilator and battling for his life ... according to his family.

His sister says ... "He suffered a lot and put up a good fight. We will miss our Jeff everyday but we are thankful for all the fun happy memories of the times we had together."

Jeff's timeline regarding his COVID-19 infection is terrifying and should be eye-opening for people of all ages. According to his family, he flew from L.A. to Orlando on March 2 for a work conference, but stayed a few extra days to visit Disney World and Universal theme parks with friends.

We're told on March 7 he developed a cough, and the next day he coughed up blood. He flew back to LAX on March 9 ... and immediately went to the ER, where he also had a high fever.

The family says a chest x-ray confirmed Jeff had pneumonia, and he was tested for COVID-19 and sent home with fluids and antibiotics and instructed to self-quarantine until he got the results back.

We're told the results came back positive on March 13, and Jeff was provided a portable oxygen meter to keep an eye on his levels ... which took a turn for the worse that afternoon.

On March 14 he was taken by ambulance to the hospital and quickly transferred to the ICU when it was discovered his lungs were 60-70 percent blocked with pneumonia. Doctors decided the best path forward was to sedate and intubate, hoping a ventilator would help his lungs heal.

Sadly -- and despite the family claiming he was approved for antiviral meds -- the medication was delayed in getting to him, he took a turn for the worse ... and passed away Thursday morning.

It appears Jeffrey was higher-risk patient. He had a history of asthma and frequent bronchitis as a child, though he outgrew that. He also had undergone surgery for testicular cancer back in 2016.

The CDC now says young people can also be at grave risk ... and this underscores the danger.

He was 34.

 

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Beautiful tall and athletic models in uniform now patrol the streets of Italy to enforce the lockdown.

Meanwhile on the London Tube passengers cram into reduced number of trains leading to even faster spread of SARS.

 

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Coffins are downloaded at the Ferrara cemetery, from a military convoy coming from Bergamo, a city at the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in northern Italy, March 21.

 

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Doctors who treated COVID patients are posting detailed descriptions of how infected people die and some of the posts are so vivid you can feel physically sick.

It is a slow agonizing death most patients stay conscious and aware they are dying until oxygen levels drop so low they suffocate and pass out.

 

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Italy has opened a brand new hospital with 400 beds only for COVID patients.

 

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Opera singer Placido Domingo has tested positive for Covid-19, the artist confirmed on his Facebook page.

"I feel it is my moral duty to announce to you that I have tested positive for COVID19. My Family and I are all in self-isolation for as long as it is deemed medically necessary," the Spanish singer said. "

Domingo added he is currently in good health but had experienced "fever and cough symptoms."

 

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Interactive Map (PC Version)

You can check the infected, deaths and recovered toll of all the world. The map is updated 2 or 3 times every hour.

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Beautiful soldiers stand guard at Piazza del Duomo in Milan, Italy.

 

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Hospital in Madrid today. Total number of fatal cases over 2,000 with 462 victims in the last 24 hours.

 

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Bulgarian factory for face masks against SARS-CoV-2.

 

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Staff at Dongfeng Honda in Wuhan eat lunch – while maintaining a safe distance – after returning to work.

 

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Covid 19 is a crazy virus. That growth curve is still very exponential

 

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The death toll in New York City is now approaching 100. The number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the city on Monday was 12,339 with 99 deaths. There are just over 20,000 confirmed cases in New York state as a whole and 157 deaths. For context, there are around 41,200 confirmed cases in the entire United States.

 

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A temporary morgue has opened just outside of Madrid as hospitals and funeral homes are unable to cope with the amount of corpses.

Spanish minister says older people found 'dead and abandoned'

US scrambles to tackle coronavirus pandemic and Germany reports that new infections are levelling off

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Epidemiologists and doctors from around the world have observed these facts about SARS-CoV-2.

1. the virus is insidious with a long incubation, any population actions you take will only have an effect weeks later
2. the virus spreads remarkably quickly and effectively
3. the virus causes an unusually large proportion of patients to require invasive ventilatory support
4. early large scale testing, and social distancing measures, are effective at stopping exponential growth
5. stopping exponential growth is VITAL to preventing critical care systems from being overwhelmed.

 

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SARS crisis escalates in UK as NHS gets overwhelmed with patients.

NHS A&E doctor gives glimpse from frontline of coronavirus crisis

Dr Katie Sanderson, a junior doctor in Acute Medicine at a London hospital, pleaded with listeners to 'stop and think before leaving their house' as she spoke to BBC Radio 4 this morning.

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Military vehicles cross Westminster Bridge after soldiers delivered medical masks to St Thomas' Hospital in London today.

 

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Bus in Russia. The country has surprisingly little number of infections and no fatal cases.

 

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The US could become the new centre of the global coronavirus pandemic, according to the World Health Organization, which said case numbers were rising quickly there even asDonald Trump talked of reopening the country for business.

“We are now seeing a very large acceleration in cases in the US. So it does have that potential [to become the centre of the pandemic],” the WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris said.

So far, 46,450 people in the US have become infected with the virus and there have been 593 deaths, according to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University.