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Talked to my friend today who works at a local Erie county covid hospital. They said their covid cases more than doubled overnight. When they left work at 8pm last night they had 24 cases and when they came in at 8am today there were now 64. Said they only have 130 beds for covid right now. Also said nurses are only wearing PPE when they work directly with the patients, they don’t have it on when they’re in the hallways.

As we’ve discussed, i think it’s most likely only a matter of time until it’s cancelled. I’d love to believe it’ll start again, but I just don’t see it. Right now I’m not even 100% sure next season will be able to start on time.

Article on contact tracing: https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-policy-watch/is-contact-tracing-getting-enough-attention-in-u-s-coronavirus-response/

Wtf is that? How are you going to tell States and local hospitals to acquire their own supplies and then seize them when they do? ?‍♂️?‍♂️

Wisconsin yesterday: Pictures like this all over the Internet. Might want to start looking into what you need to do to be able to vote by mail (in November) in your state now.

Damn, I got excited for a minute. I thought maybe there was a legit rumor we were trying to trade for Kamara. It’s an exciting idea but I don’t really see why the saints do this, especially if this is Drew Brees’ last season like Sean Payton said.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ Confirmed COVID19 cases: Worldwide- 1,422,000 US- 394k Spain - 141k Italy- 136k France- 109k Germany- 107k New cases in the last 24 hours: US - 26,778 France- 11,059 Germany- 4,083 Spain- 3,942 Big spike in deaths today. Over 1800 today (up from 1200 yesterday). Highest single day total yet. ? We also surpassed the death total total from the 2009 H1N1 swine flu pandemic (12,500 deaths from April 2009 to April 2010).

I get what they were saying. I was just nitpicking. I thought it was a weird way to word it. Instead of saying “just”, I would have said the Bills “still” have 7 picks in this draft after the Diggs trade, or something like that. 7 picks is the normal amount every team starts with. So we have the normal # of picks, were just missing our 1st and have an extra 6th. We still pick at least once in every round from 2-7. So it’s still basically a full draft (Diggs is just our 1st round pick). like I said, I was just nitpicking. lol

Yep, Just read the IG report on the our hospitals experience responding to the covid pandemic. Here’s the link: https://oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/oei-06-20-00300.pdf There are staff shortages, overcrowding/bed shortages, PPE shortages, shortages on all sorts of other medical equipment, cleaning equipment, food, etc. I’ve read doctors and nurses in NYC saying that they are so overcrowded that have patients dying in the hallways before they can even be moved to a room. Just because they may not be totally out of 1 specific piece of medical equipment yet doesn’t mean that they won’t be soon (many of those 323 hospitals said that they anticipate running out of ventilators soon and don’t know how/where to get more) or that they aren’t facing very difficult problems from shortages in many other areas of need. NYS had to get 1000 from China to keep from running out this coming week. Other hospitals are reporting acquiring ventilators by unusual means or converting other less than ideal equipment to use as ventilators (as you mentioned) and can potentially spread covid19 (by aerosolizing it). It’s not like there’s an abundance of them or something. They’re taking drastic measures to ensure they have enough. Interview with Doctors at NY Presbyterian hospital: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kadiagoba/ventilator-shortage-new-york-hospitals-coronavirus That part about “we got a new ventilator, let’s get somebody on it” implies that they’d have already been on it if they had more. Read this survey of 250 healthcare workers and all the shortages they’re facing: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/system-doomed-doctors-nurses-sound-nbc-news-coronavirus-survey-n1164841 NYC’s morgues are also over capacity. They had to set up something like 50+ new mobile morgues (and those are reportedly already almost at capacity too). They’re talking about soon having to temporarily bury people who died from covid in the local parks. And They say this next next week is probably going to be the toughest yet. I’m hopeful things are trending in the right direction but we have a long way to go before we are out of the woods.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000001108552/article/afc-east-roster-reset-patriots-vulnerable-after-tom-bradys-exit “AFC East roster reset: Patriots vulnerable after Tom Brady's exit?” I got a laugh out of the author saying that the Bills, after the Diggs trade “have just 7 draft picks” total in this (7 round) draft... lol

https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/hbo-free-streaming-us-launch-1234570139/ If you’ve never watched these series I’d definitely recommend checking them out. Especially The Wire (maybe the best series ever), The Sopranos & Ballers (it’s a show w/Duane “the rock” Johnson about the NFL. If you’re a sports fan you will most likely really enjoy the series. There’s even some bills related mentions).

This is going to be an interesting draft. I’m excited to see how it all plays out. Will they be more lenient if a team doesn’t get a pick in on time? At least If there are any issues they should hopefully be worked out before we pick on day 2.

This is from the NHL Winnipeg Jet’s head coach Paul Maurice. Felt like it was worth sharing in this thread. https://theathletic.com/1726826/2020/04/06/a-deep-dive-into-paul-maurices-first-press-conference-since-the-nhl-shut-down/ (Athletic Sub. req.) Well said. Paul Maurice is one of my favorite head coaches to listen to. You can see why him and Ralph Krueger are such good buddies.

Anyone else watching the Sabres re-broadcast? I think this is the most excited I've been to watch any of the games so far. Looking forward to tomorrow’s game even more though. That was one of the most exciting Sabres playoff games I’ve watched. I remember feeling so good about where that team was at after that game. Man I hope we have a team that good again someday (soon).

For anyone interested: https://oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/oei-06-20-00300.pdf U.S. Department of Health and Human Services office of the inspector general report:

https://www.businessinsider.com/boris-johnson-is-in-intensive-care-after-his-coronavirus-symptoms-worsened-2020-4 Boris Johnson moved into the ICU unit after COVID19 symptoms worsen. I believe he was just taken to the hospital yesterday.

Player’s tribune article by Brady: https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/tom-brady-the-only-way-is-through

This tweet kind of confirms what many thought - there are more deaths from COVID19 in NYC than are being reported. ? no words

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/irelands-prime-minister-will-practice-medicine-again-during-pandemic/ar-BB12cbeX?li=BBnbcA1 Ireland's Prime Minister Will Practice Medicine Again During Pandemic ‘Ireland's Prime Minister (or Taoiseach) Leo Varadkar has rejoined his nation's medical register and will work directly to assist in the medical effort to combat the coronavirus pandemic.’ ????

https://www.sciencealert.com/small-trial-found-antimalarial-is-not-effective-for-treating-coronavirus I pray that this drug does end up being effective for COVID19, but it’s just too soon to tell (and definitely way too soon to be telling anyone/everyone that it won’t hurt to take it...). another issue is that patients who are on this drug and truly Need it now can’t find it - https://www.npr.org/2020/04/01/825056946/why-lupus-patients-find-hydroxychloroquine-in-short-supply

I know of a couple friends of friends who have died, and my next door neighbor has at least 2 current cases in her family. Her young niece has it (she has asthma, they are worried) and her brother - he is one of the buffalo police officers that has COVID19. Her daughter was just sick too. They had to quarantine (though they were still out in their yard a lot... I kept more than my 6ft of distance! lol), but she just went back to work yesterday so it wasn’t covid. an acquaintance of mine’s neighbor died. He was in his 40’s and relatively healthy from what I’m told. And I have some friends and family down in NYC (some in healthcare). Thankfully I haven’t heard of anyone I know down there getting it yet (but I haven’t heard from some of them in weeks). One friend is a 65yr old doctor so I’m very worried about him. I talked to him recently. He’s taking every precaution he can, but being a practicing doctor puts him at obvious risk. They are really getting slammed down there.