Covid-19 Observations

[Felicia's Mom]

I live in a care center and all food and supplies are provided.

Residents can't leave and visitors can't come in.

[Freckles]

I live in an Independent Living Facility with 225 residents. Our central dining room has been closed. I always eat at home for breakfast. For lunch Sunday we could choose from three specials, then pick it up at the kitchen to take home to eat, or have it delivered to our apartment. Had a nice turkey dinner today. Turned in my order for tomorrow's lunch. so far so good.

Monday morning learned that dining room will be closed for 30 days

Tuesday, management is now delivering all meals.

[Karen]

Crazy crazy day today, schools here will be closing, one lady had to Express Mail a key fob to Philadelphia because her office building will be closing and very few people have that fob and access.

[cats4ever]

We offered our clients to stay in the car while attending to their pets' needs.
So far, nobody has taken us up on it.
After each client, we wipe down the benches and door handles in the exam rooms. We also disinfect around each other, all the counters, computers, keyboards etc.
There's talk about suspending all elective surgeries, like spays and neuters, to preserve supplies that could potentially be needed for hospitalized people.
It is all so surreal, and I hope for all of us that we will come out of this ok.

[Felicia's Mom]

Starting Wednesday, where I live, residents will eat meals in their rooms.

[Karen]

Yes, I just talked to Aunt Lyn, Paul's aunt technically, but she was widowed a little over a year ago, but she is in an assisted living facility, and now they are only allowed to eat their meals in their rooms. But she is wearing her shamrock socks, so celebrating St. Patrick's Day at least a little.

[Randi]

The number of Covid-19 cases confirmed is 200,000
So right now, there are more than 200,000 people globally who have been tested positive for coronavirus. Just over 8,000 have lost their lives.

The situation in Denmark is that we have just over 1,000 confirmed cases of infection - four people have died.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

Prohibition has come into force. At 10am today (March 18), more than ten people have been banned from gathering in public. This applies both indoors and outdoors. The government also calls for the same to happen in private homes. The prohibition does not apply when more than ten people are present in, for example, a shop, a supermarket or a train station. Public transportation and workplaces are also exempt from the ban. Restaurants, cafés, taverns, nightclubs, hairdressers and malls will be closed until March 30. In addition, all indoor sports and sports facilities must close. Grocery stores and pharmacies are not among the stores ordered temporarily closed, the prime minister said.

Crisis talk from the Queen. In a very unusual speech to the nation on Tuesday night, Queen Margrethe made an appeal to all Danes to think about and do their part to prevent the coronavirus from spreading unnecessarily. “Coronavirus is a dangerous guest. It spreads like rings in the water and it goes strong. A person can infect many, "she said. She called it" thoughtless "and" reckless "if you do not follow the advice of the authorities and, for example, still hold birthdays and gatherings." You can not know that, "she said. The queen also sent a thank you to the authorities and the health service and sent thoughts to the sick and relatives.

Dentists close for non-critical treatments. All the country's dentists will close for all non-critical treatments in the next three months. This is based on a new instruction from the National Board of Health.

Coughing Danes must test themselves. The Danish Serum Institute is working to create a more comprehensive picture of the degree of infection among Danes, who contact their doctor, but who are not considered to need help. From next week, selected doctors will probably be given the opportunity to test sick Danes with respiratory tract infections that do not require hospitalization. A relative can go down and get a test kit from the doctor, and the sick person can test himself.

Gender distribution of infected Danes: Men 65.5 percent, women 34.5 percent. So two out of three infected are men. Chinese research also shows that coronavirus strikes men harder than women.

Age distribution of infected Danes: 44.3 percent are aged 40-59. On Tuesday, March 17, there are 13 children under the age of 10 and 8 aged over 90 years. Over 220 infected men are aged 40-49.

Denmark's government told private companies struggling with drastic measures to curb the spread of coronavirus that it would cover 75% of employees' salaries if they promised not to cut staff.
During the three-month aid period that will last until June 9, the state offers to pay 75% of employees' salaries at a maximum of 23,000 Danish crowns ($ 3,418) per month, while companies pay the remaining 25%.
“If a big drop in activity, and production is halted, we understand the need to send home employees. But we ask you: fire them, ”Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen told a news conference on Sunday (March 15).
Employees will be required to take five days of mandatory vacation or time off from work, she added.

Take care, everyone!!

[david p]

I live in a care center and all food and supplies are provided.

Residents can't leave and visitors can't come in.

That is my situation also. Everything is supplied to us and if if one of us have a doctor's appointment, that person is put in quarantine for two days. ( and wear a mask)

[Felicia's Mom]

All the residents where I am living had a Covid-19 shot today.

[Kay Burton]

All the residents where I am living had a Covid-19 shot today.

This is great news! Still, little by little, step by step, we are approaching victory over the virus. Of course, he will not completely disappear, but he will be under control and we can return to normal life. Until the next infection, of course.

[Freckles]

I got my first shot on Jan. 18th . Feb. 8 for my second shot.

[david p]

Freckles, that's the same day I had my second shot. My left shoulder was sore and I was up all night shivering(I don't usually do that.) However, despite of that, I'm doing okay!

[david p]

Freckles, that's the same day I had my second shot. My left shoulder was sore and I was up all night shivering (I don't usually do that.) However, despite of that, I'm doing okay!

[Vette]

Store shelves here are looking much like they did in the very beginning with lots of empty fruits an veggie bins
no toilet paper
no rubbing alcohol or germ killing hand wipes etc
tylenol an the likes are hard to find again
dog food an treats are even more sparsely stocked then before. had to go to a different store to get my dogs kibble an even they had only 2bags of it so i bought both. they were both 14pound bags so theyll last quite a while an hopefully through this