Category: HEALTH

Michael Sorkin Dies Of The Coronavirus In New York

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Michael D. Sorkin (born 1948) was an American architect, author, and educator based in New York City. He wass one of the most provocative and polemical voices in contemporary culture and in the design of urban places at the turn of the twenty-first century.

Michael David Sorkin (August 2, 1948 – March 26, 2020) was an American urbanist architect, author, and educator based in New York City.He was considered to be a provocative and polemical voice in contemporary culture and in the design of urban places at the turn of the twenty-first century. In addition to being a noted professor at many great architectural schools, he was an architectural critic for the Village Voice and a guest columnist in many publications.He was director of the urban design graduate program at City College of New York.

Sorkin was born in Washington, D.C. in 1948. He was an architect and urbanist whose practice spanned design, planning, criticism, and teaching.Sorkin received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago in 1969, and a masters in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.Arch ’74). Sorkin also held a master’s degree in English from Columbia University (MA ’70). He was founding principal of the Michael Sorkin Studio, a New York-based global design practice with special interests in urban planning, urban design and green urbanism.

Sorkin was house architecture critic for The Village Voice in the 1980s, and he authored numerous articles and books on the subjects of contemporary architecture, design, cities, and the role of democracy in architecture.

Sorkin was the co-president of the Institute for Urban Design, an education and advocacy organization, and vice president of the Urban Design Forum in New York. In 2013, Sorkin was awarded the Design Mind award by the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

He was a principal in the Michael Sorkin Studio and president of Terreform, a nonprofit research group.

On March 26, 2020, Sorkin died from complications brought on by COVID-19 in Manhattan.

Mourning his death, architectural mavens were effusive in their praise of his writing and critical skill.

Revealed – Coronavirus: DOD Response

DOD Issues Flexible Instructions on Response to ...

Soldiers assigned to the 1st Special Forces Group’s Group Support Battalion at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, are manufacturing personal protective equipment for routine care and protection against COVID-19.

The soldiers created prototypes for reusable respirator masks, 3D-printed face shields, and surgical masks for Madigan Army Medical Center and its regional partners.

A soldier wearing gloves and a face mask operates a sewing machine.

The battalion’s parachute riggers repurposed their sewing machines — typically used to repair parachutes — to assemble surgical masks.

“The Aerial Delivery Platoon will be able to produce 200 [masks] per day, initially, with only five, lightweight sewing machines,” said Army Lt. Col. Christopher S. Jones, the battalion’s commander.

Soldiers will continue to refine the process of producing the masks and improving them following feedback from medical employees.

“We’ll get better by week’s end and be able to produce 1,000 to 1,500 during a normal work week,” Jones said.

The masks will immediately benefit personnel identified by medical professionals, said Army Col. Rodd E. Marcum, the 1st Special Forces Group surgeon.

Soldiers wearing gloves and face masks prepare surgical masks for sewing.

“The most likely application [for the masks] will be to have a symptomatic patient — one with a cough, sneezing, shortness of breath — wear the mask in order to reduce the amount of respiratory droplets contaminating the environment, helping reduce the likelihood that ill people expose others,” Marcum said.

In this period of adjustment for many people, he said, it is important to remember that the priorities are protecting the force and their families by following medical guidelines.

“Nothing is more important as we work through this unexpected challenge than following the recommendations of public health professionals. Physical or social distancing is critical in reducing the chain of transmission,” Marcum said.

A soldier places bags of masks on a hardened container as medical personnel look on.

Jones said he looks forward to witnessing the impact of his soldiers’ hard work on the nation as other forces join the battle against this disease.

“I believe this is a phenomenal effort to help our health care professionals and fellow Americans,” he said. “We’re collaborating with [Army Special Operations Forces] and conventional forces across the Army to make a difference. The effort in and of itself is a worthwhile exercise in how to innovate to provide solutions, especially as the U.S. military has the best capability in the world.”

Revealed – California State Warning Center Situation Cell Incident Report 2020 novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is intently observing an episode brought about by a novel (new) coronavirus in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. Chinese specialists initially distinguished the new coronavirus, which has come about in over a thousand affirmed human diseases in China with a few passings revealed.

The World Health Organization (WHO) on January 30, 2020, announced the flare-up of novel Coronavirus 2019-nCov a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).

The President of the United States has announced a Public Health Emergency for the novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) and has forced travel limitations, producing results Sunday February 2, 2020, at 1700 hours ET.

The World Health Organization (WHO) reports there are 37,558 (+2,676) cases and 813 (+89) affirmed passings from the novel Coronavirus 2019-nCoV around the world, remembering 12 affirmed cases for the U.S and 6 in California.

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Place for Disease Control (CDC) Risk Assessment

Flare-ups of novel infection diseases among individuals are consistently of general wellbeing concern. The hazard from these episodes relies upon qualities of the infection, including whether and how well it spreads between individuals, the seriousness of coming about disease, and the clinical or different estimates accessible to control the effect of the infection. Examinations are progressing to find out additional, yet some level of individual to-individual spread of 2019-nCoV is happening. It isn’t clear yet how effectively 2019-nCoV spreads from individual to-individual. While CDC considers this as a genuine general wellbeing concern, in light of current data, the quick wellbeing hazard from 2019-nCoV to the general American open is viewed as low as of now.

Places for Disease Control (CDC) Actions

CDC built up a 2019-nCoV Incident Management Structure on January 07, 2020. On January 21, 20220, CDC initiated its Emergency Response System to offer continuous help to the 2019-nCoV reaction.

CDC alongside Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are proceeding to lead upgraded passage screening of travelers who have been in Wuhan inside the previous multi day at 20 U.S. air terminals. Travel out of Wuhan has been closed down; the quantity of travelers who meet this criteria are diminishing.

All flights from China are being piped through the eleven (11) US air terminals.

On February 4, 2020, the FDA gave an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to approve the crisis utilization of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) 2019-novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time Reverse Transcriptase (RT)- PCR Diagnostic Panel for the possible subjective location of nucleic corrosive from the 2019-nCoV in upper and lower respiratory example.

The CDC will appropriate 200 test packs for the novel coronavirus to household labs, and another 200 test units to global labs. This will take into account improved limit with regards to testing by right on time one week from now. Each test pack can perform 700 to 800 patient examples. CDC authorities are expecting these packs will bring about states reporting their own affirmed cases, as opposed to hanging tight for affirmation from the CDC.

CDC revealed the first U.S. resident demise (a multi year-elderly person) in Wuhan.

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California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES)

Business flights into California from the Hubei Province, China, could require isolate and lodging for as long as 14 days while being screened and tried for 2019-nCoV. Cal OES is imparting and planning with State and Local accomplices to recognize lodging areas and potential needs inside the Operational Areas.

CDPH, Cal OES, and the Emergency Medical Services Authority (EMSA) have shaped a Multi-Agency Coordination Group (MAC) for rare asset assignment of N-95 respirators. Destinations include:

o Competing needs

o Advanced arranging

o Supply close by

o Supply chain accessibility

o Current remarkable asset demand

o Distribution direction dependent on need of necessities

Cal OES Law Enforcement Branch

The Cal OES Law Enforcement Branch keeps on observing the conditions encompassing the Coronavirus isolates. To date there have been no solicitations for Law Enforcement Mutual Aid for common agitation/fights, or site security.

Cal OES Law Enforcement Area Coordinator alloted to the novel Coronavirus stays in contact with Federal, state, and Local accomplices in regards to law implementation needs and isolate status.

Cal OES State Threat Assessment Center (STAC)

The State Threat Assessment System (STAS) is on an upgraded availability pose, STAC will keep on observing Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) and danger streams for any potential dangers and will give cautions varying.

STAC Commander has advised HAS STAS Directors on status, improved stance mentioned.

All California Intelligence focuses are at an improved stance.

The STAC Awareness Response Team (ART) has counseled with CDPH and the State Warning Center, and gave two alarm refreshes relating to 2019-nCoV.

The STAC Duty Analyst and key individuals from the board have taken an interest in day by day update video chats with the CDC and national wellbeing accomplices.

Cal Cyber Security Integration Center (Cal-CSIC) keeps on observing and work together with Federal, State, and Local accomplices.

Cal OES Fire and Rescue Division

OES Fire Division in Regions 1, 2, and 6, are effectively drawn in with nearby fire authorities and army installations (Travis, March, and Miramar) on any requirements that may emerge from the novel Coronavirus reaction.

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