Wednesday Morning C-19 Update

 

NOTE - Below is a radio-friendly notepad used on the Need To Know Morning Show on AM1100 The Flag WZFG.  Spelling, punctuation, etc are not edited.  

LETS TAKE A LOOK AT THE UP TO THE MINUTE NUMBERS.....

NO FATALITIES TUESDAY IN NORTH DAKOTA TUESDAY....STILL 4 IN ALL SINCE THE VIRUS SPREAD TO THE US......12 MORE PEOPLE TEST POSITIVE....THE TOTAL NOW IS 237.... 5 MORE IN CASS COUNTY - 70 NOW IN ALL, 31 MORE THAN ANY OTHER COUNTY....….. THERE ARE NOW ALMOST 77-HUNDRED WHO HAVE BEEN TESTED ...82 HAVE HAD THE VIRUS AND RECOVERED.....18 ARE HOSPITALIZED ....IF YOU'RE TRACKING THE MORTALITY RATE IN ND....WE STAND RIGHT NOW AT 1.7 PERCENT, 4 DEATHS WITH 237 CONFIRMED CASES....THE PERCENT POSITIVE RATE IS 3%....237 OUT OF 77-HUNDRED TESTED.

FOUR MORE ARE DEAD IN MINNESOTA...NOW A TOTAL OF 34.......The four people who died were a Dakota County resident in their 60s, a Winona County resident in their 90s, a Hennepin County resident in their 90s and a Hennepin County resident in their 80s. All were residents of long-term care facilities..83 NEW CONFIRMED CASES TUESDAY...AND NOW A TOTAL OF 1,069 CONFIRMED CASES…NO NEW CASES IN CLAY COUNTY, STILL 19...........ABOUT 29-THOUSAND HAVE BEEN TESTED....549 HAVE RECOVERED....THE AVERAGE AGE OF THOSE TO DIE IS 86....

FOR THE SECOND STRAIGHT DAY, TWO MORE DIED IN SOUTH DAKOTA YESTERDAY TAKING THE TOTAL FROM 4 TO 6.....FOUR NOW DEAD OVER THE LAST 2 DAYS.........32 NEW POSITIVE TESTS THERE ....320 NOW TOTAL..... ABOUT 6-THOUSAND HAVE BEEN TESTED....

THE DEATH TOLL TAKES A JUMP, NEARLY 19-HUNDRED DEAD, MORE THAN ANY SINGLE DAY ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD .......AND NEARLY 13-THOUSAND ARE NOW DEAD....27-THOUSAND NEW CASES TUESDAY...WITH THE TOTAL NUMBER JUST SHY OF 400-THOUSAND.......BUT....ON THE BRIGHT SIDE, ALMOST 22-THOUSAND HAVE HAD THE VIRUS AND RECOVERED....

worldwide THE DEATH TOLL JUMPED BY ABOUT 72-HUNDRED....CURRENTLY STANDING AT JUST MORE THAN 82-THOUSAND....MORE THAN 1.3 MILLION CONFIRMED CASES........... WHILE MORE THAN 300-THOUSAND have had the virus worldwide and have recovered...

COMPARING TO FLU NUMBERS....BETWEEN 30-THOUSAND AND 60-THOUSAND DIE OF THE FLU EVERY YEAR IN AMERICA.....SO WHILE OUR TOTAL NUMBER OF CORONAVIRUS DEATHS IS STILL WELL SHORT OF THAT, AT 12,752 WE HAVE NOW ECLIPSED THE TOTAL OF 12,469 THAT DIED OF THE SWINE FLU A LITTLE MORE THAN A DECADE AGO....

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LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT YOUR WEDNESDAY MORNING HEADLINES.

TWO FARGO POSTAL WORKERS HAVE TESTED POSITIVE FOR COVID 19....VALLEY NEWS LIVE REPORTING THAT THE USPS OFFICE IN FARGO CONFIRMED THE NEWS, AND SAID THAT THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT THE VIRUS IS BEING SPREAD THROUGH THE MAIL....

THE MAYORS OF WF AND FARGO JOINED WITH CASS COUNTY'S TOP OFFICIAL, TUESDAY, TO URGE RESIDENTS TO STAY AT HOME WHENEVER POSSIBLE.....FARGO MAYOR TIM MAHONEY WENT FIRST AND SAID PEOPLE IN HIS CITY ARE STILL NOT TAKING THE VIRUS SERIOUSLY........

WEST FARGO MAYOR BERNIE DARDIS, WEARING GLOVES ON HIS HANDS AND A MASK AROUND HIS NECK, SPOKE NEXT, SAYING FOR HIM IT'S PERSONAL ...SO BOTH, ALONG WITH CASS COUNTY COMMISSION PRESIDENT CHAD PETERSON, ASKED RESIDENTS TO WEAR MASKS WHEN INTERACTING WITH OTHERS IN PUBLIC...AND SAID THEY ARE IN LOCK STEP WITH THE GOVERNORS ORDERS WHICH ARE IN FORCE IN THE ENTIRE COUNTY...

SO...WHAT WAS NEW??? MAHONEY TOLD US ON THE NIGHTLY REVIEW THAT PEOPLE CAN NOW BE FINED IF THEY GATHER IN LARGE GROUPS.....THE FORUM REPORTS THAT WEST FARGO MAYOR DARDIS SAID THERE WERE NO CHANGES TO THE LAW IN WEST FARGO.....

MORE THAN 45-HUNDRED PEOPLE HAVE NOW SIGNED THE PETITION ON CHANGE.ORG TO ASK ND GOVERNOR DOUG BURGUM TO ISSUE A SHELTER IN PLACE. THAT'S UP MORE THAN 5-HUNDRED FROM THE DAY BEFORE.....

ND GOVERNOR DOUG BURGUM TUESDAY SIGNED AN EXECUTIVE ORDER Allowing winter-grade fuel to be sold until May 20 instead of the traditional April 1 cutoff date. The state has an oversupply of winter-grade fuel due to the travel restrictions and economic downturn resulting from the COVID-19 emergency.

the Clay County Sheriff’s Office IS ANNOUNCING A NEW PARTNERSHIP WITH THE RURAL COMMUNITY.....MARK EMPTING TODAY SAID THAT RESIDENTS OVER THE AGE OF 60, OR WITH UNDERLYING HEALTH ISSUES CAN ASK THE SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT TO DELIVER GROCERIES AND PRESCRIPTIONS IF IT'S NOT PRACTICAL FOR RESIDENTS TO DO IT....

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control HAS ADDED MINNESOTA TO A LIST OF STATES WITH WIDESPREAD TRANSMISSION OF COVID 19...THE MOVE MEANS THAT BY LAW...PEOPLE NOW RETURNING TO ND FROM MINNESOTA MUST NOW QUARANTINE FOR 14 DAYS....ND GOVERNOR DOUG BURGUM SAYS HE'LL LOOK AT AN ORDER THAT WOULD ADD FLEXIBILITY....

THIS COULD BE A VERY INTERESTING DAY IN MINNESOTA, WHERE Gov. Tim Walz is EXPECTED TO EXTEND THE STATE'S STAY AT HOME ORDER THAT EXPIRES FRIDAY BUT IS INDICATING HE MAY CHANGE BUSINESS RULES THAT HAVE CAUSED JOB LOSS AND ECONOMIC HARDSHIP THROUGHOUT THE STATE.....WALZ SAYS EVEN THOUGH THE PEAK IS NOT HERE YET, THERE CAN BE SOME ACCOMMODATIONS TO HELP INDUSTRY AND JOBS........

MN HEALTH COMMISSIONER JAN MALCOLM SAYS THERE'S GOOD NEWS IN THE GROWTH RATE OF CASES....In the first weeks of March, cases were doubling every one or two days. Since March 18, roughly when many of the state’s restrictions on public life began, cases have doubled every eight days....

President Trump has APPROVED a disaster declaration for Minnesota as the state combats the coronavirus outbreak.....Gov. Tim Walz wants to use the money for crisis counseling, supplemental nutrition programs, medical assistance, funeral aid and other needs.

A PAIR OF APPS WERE INTRODUCED TUESDAY TO HELP TRACK THE VIRUS IN MN AND ND....The UNIVERSITY unveiled one of the first nationwide trackers of hospital bed usage for COVID-19, with the goal of helping states to share information and support one another when cases surge.....IN NORTH DAKOTA, GOVERNOR BURGUM announced the launch of a free mobile app called Care19.....IT'S meant to help the STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH identify individuals who may have come in contact with people who have tested positive, and therefore reduce the spread of the virus more effectively.

THE MAYO CLINIC SAYS IT'S OPTIMISTIC THAT convalescent plasma COULD BE a potential treatment for the coronavirus, ....Convalescent plasma involves collecting blood plasma from someone who has recovered from COVID-19....It is then transfused into someone infected with the virus in the hopes that antibodies from the recovered individual can help the person who is sick

There's some hope THAT the wave of cases in HARD HIT New York City is starting to plateau....AXIOS.COM REPORTS THAT Deaths continue to rise, but hospitalizations, ICU admissions and intubations have mostly been stagnant or declining in recent days.

PRESIDENT TRUMP CRITICIZED THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION YESTERDAY SAYING THAT THE ORGANIZATION WHICH IS MOSTLY FUNDED BY THE U-S, HAS NOT BEEN HONEST WITH THE WORLD ABOUT CHINA'S PROBLEMS WITH THE VIRUS....Trump ordered travel restrictions on people arriving from China in January to ward off spread of the virus here BUT THE WHO OPPOSED THE MOVE AND also downplayed the severity of the outbreak, AND INCORRECTLY REPORTED IN MID-JANUARY THAT CHINA HAD NO evidence of human-to-human transmission.

The Navy’s top civilian has resigned after criticizing an aircraft carrier captain who pleaded for help with a coronavirus outbreak on his ship....Secretary of Defense Mark Esper accepted the resignation OF NAVY SECRETARY THOMAS MODLY, JUST HOURS AFTER Modly apologized for ridiculing U.S. Navy Capt. Brett Crozier,....CROZIER'S letter pleading for help amid a coronavirus outbreak on a U.S. warship was leaked to the media.

ON WALL STREET TUESDAY, A DAY OF GAINS WAS WIPED OUT ON THE FINAL HOUR OF TRADING....AT ONE TIME THE DOW JONES WAS UP MORE THAN 600 POINTS...IT ENDED THE DAY DOWN 26.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he has spoken with congressional leaders to secure an additional $250 billion for the small business loan program as the coronavirus outbreak hammers the economy....350 BILLION WAS INITIALLY PLACED IN THE PROGRAM...MNUCHIN AND DEMOCRATS IN THE SENATE SAY THE INITIAL 350 BILLION WILL NOT BE ENOUGH FOR BUSINESSES WHO HAVE HAD TO LAYOFF EMPLOYEES....THE PAYCHECK PROTECTION PROGRAM GIVES BUSINESSES A LOAN OF 2.5 TIMES THEIR MONTHLY PAYROLL TO RETAIN WORKERS....IF THEY DO, THE LOAN IS FORGIVEN

The Associated Press REPORTS THAT MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL IS DISCUSSING A PLAN THAT WOULD MOVE ALL 30 TEAMS TO Arizona to start the season....FANS WOULD NOT BE ALLOWED AT THE GAMES....MLB SAYS IT'S JUST AN IDEA AT THIS POINT.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson spent a second night in intensive care and IS in stable condition THIS MORNING after receiving oxygen support for COVID-19 complications...

THE FOG MAY BE LIFTING OVERSEAS.....WUHAN CHINA HAS LIFTED ITS LOCKDOWN FOR RESIDENTS, AND Austria, the Czech Republic, Denmark and Norway have now all announced plans to slowly relax national lockdowns later this month.