More on the virus

"I just want to pass on an update I have from my friend, Dra. Margarita Ibarra Lloyd, a nephrologist who works at the Nueva Hospital Civil. It looks like things just went critical in GDL today. Her hospital went from 10% to 80% occupancy with covid-19 cases in just one day, today. Two health care workers were sent home after testing positive, and they are waiting for more test results. What this means is now more than ever is the time to really take things seriously. We have a lot of visitors from Guadalajara Lakeside today, and when I went for groceries, I saw very few with face masks or doing any kind of social distancing. Nani has told me that this is the most critical time for our area to not let down our guard. The Epidemiologist in Jocotepec says that June is when we can expect a lot of cases. So it's still stay home, stay safe. Please don't relax your guard just yet, no matter how fed up we all are of quarantine. Could you pass this on to your networks please? Its important the word gets out."

Bubba2shoes wrote:There are plenty of them shopping in La Huerta shopping center and plenty of them in town. They may have houses here , I do not know but there are lots of them here/ A doctor friend of mine from Guadalajara told me he had o problems coming down here with his family. He does have a house but he says .. no problem
All you need to do is to memorize an address. All my ids and driver[s license are from Chiapas and I have o problem coming in either.,

The municipality of Chapala already has a first confirmed case of the new Coronavirus (Covid-19). According to the same platform as with the support of the Federal Ministry of Health (SSA) and the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT) was developed to show the advance of the pandemic in #Mexico based on official data, indicates that it would be a man between 65 and 69 years old. It's an outpatient case, that is, he has not needed hospitalization and is isolated at home.

According to the statistics registered by federal health authorities, Chapala has one inhabitant of the municipality who has tested positive for the disease, 31 accumulated negative tests and five suspicious cases under review.
Current figures for Jocotepec are one positive test, 32 negative tests and three pending suspicious cases.

BisbeeGal wrote:Info from GDL Reporter's FB page,

According to the statistics registered by federal health authorities, Chapala has one inhabitant of the municipality who has tested positive for the disease, 31 accumulated negative tests and five suspicious cases under review.
Current figures for Jocotepec are one positive test, 32 negative tests and three pending suspicious cases.

It has now become well recognized that, under the right conditions of temperature, humidity, and air circulation, forceful coughing or sneezing can propel a cloudburst of respiratory droplets more than twenty feet. Yet it wasn’t until the sars epidemic in 2002, after several cases documenting more distant spread, that authorities doubled the at-risk distance from three to six feet. In one case, a man with sars on a three-hour flight from Hong Kong to Beijing infected twenty-two people, five of whom died. The twenty-three passengers in the same row or the three rows in front of the index patient bore the highest risk: eight fell ill. So did the flight attendant for the patient’s section. Extending the recommended distance made sense. But six feet was simply a choice guided by practicality. People seven rows away—around eighteen feet—developed sars, too.

Trailrunner wrote:And now apparently one in San Juan Cosala. So, Joco, Chapala, and SJC are reporting at least one confirmed pt each.
Stay home, peeps.