COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US) (2 Viewers)

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I was just joking mostly, but I’m not the one suggesting smoking makes people less likely to get covid.
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if you look at the article, it states they are looking at the nicotine, not smoking
 
Florida is paying a lot more claims, but processing sure is slow.. only added 8000 processed yesterday. But they added almost 40,000 new claims paid.

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WhoDatPhan78 said:
I was just joking mostly, but I’m not the one suggesting smoking makes people less likely to get covid.
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I haven’t read that article but their have been studies even before this one that nicotine helps with cykotine storm.

Cykotine storm is what appears to be killing the otherwise healthy people because their immune system is in overdrive. How nicotine helps with that i don’t know but it is a stimulant and sedative so maybe it levels out the bodies reaction?
 
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Companies reveal their plans for what work will look like when America returns to the office

MarketWatch spoke to companies across the country in different industries to gauge their back-to-work plans, and what they shared provides a glimpse into...
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An interesting article. Glad to see the big companies have been working through this. We've had cubes for a long time. Only some of our areas are open cubes.

When Discover Financial Services Inc. decided to evacuate its 25,000 employees world-wide because of the COVID-19 outbreak, it did so with military efficiency in just two weeks.

Now comes the hard part. When and how does the financial-services giant bring its full-time workers and contractors back to work across the U.S., from Phoenix to New Castle, Del.?

“Bringing back people in waves, based on where they live and what they do, is unlike anything we’ve ever done,” Andy Eichfeld, executive vice president of human resources and administration at Discover DFS, +5.28% , told MarketWatch in a phone interview late Monday.
MarketWatch spoke to companies across the country in different industries to gauge their back-to-work plans, and what they shared provides a glimpse into significantly different work and commerce environments. Workplaces in the near future will likely feature employees wearing personal protective equipment such as masks — sometimes alongside new automation at manufacturing settings — with widespread medical testing and screening on-site.

See also: Welcome back, cubicles? Longtime Silicon Valley CEO says coronavirus could kill the open office

Desks will be more spread out and work schedules will be staggered so as to limit people in the office at the same time. Cubicles might replace open-air seating. Company visitors may have their temperatures taken and travel documented before they are allowed to enter. Meanwhile, the bar for business travel will be significantly higher because videoconferencing services have proved to be effective in bringing people together. (Facebook Inc. FB, +2.44% , for example, has called off all travel through June.)

“Things will return to normal in our personal lives, like going to restaurants, but things in business will change forever,” Box Inc. BOX, +0.25% Chief Executive Aaron Levie told MarketWatch in a phone interview.

Some businesses will look at the industries that have been operating during the pandemic for clues to how, and how not, to establish new practices. Kroger Co. KR, -0.04% , the world’s largest supermarket chain with $122.3 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2019, publicly shared a comprehensive in-house plan called “Sharing What We’ve Learned: A Blueprint for Businesses” this week that envisions reconfigured stores that minimize employee-customer contact through online orders, drive-through purchases, expanded pickup and delivery services, digital payments, exclusive early hours for seniors and other high-risk individuals, and plenty of in-store signs and audio messages.

The future of successful coronavirus response: Mass testing at work and in church and self-administered tests

“We want to share what we’ve learned and best practices with other businesses, so they can take steps now to develop protocols and procedures to reopen safely and continue to flatten the curve,” Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen said in a video message explaining the report
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California is starting a program to reimburse local restaurants for delivering nutritious meals to seniors at home.

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State will pay restaurants to deliver meals to seniors during pandemic

Gov. Gavin Newsom says the state will pay for restaurants and catering companies to deliver nutritious meals to seniors stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Jackson parish sheriffs office is reporting 54 cases today. State website is reporting 22. Something is not right here. I trust the sheriffs office. This sheriff isn’t one to make stuff up.

Even though the big hotspots are flattening the curve, I worry that we are overlooking the infancy of thousands of new hotspots across the country.
 
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