/2020-03-18

The times, they are a’changing…

Il y a 18 mois, l’USNS Comfort apportait ses soins aux Vénézuéliens (et aux Colombiens, cf. ►https://seenthis.net/messages/723968 ), aujourd’hui, il ira à New-York (dès qu’il pourra…) Et tant pis si,
• il n’est pas disponible tout de suite
• il n’est pas prévu pour traiter une épidémie
#tout_dans_la_com'

U.S. Navy Hospital Ship Weeks Away From New York Deployment - Bloomberg
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-18/navy-hospital-ship-sailing-to-new-york-harbor-cuomo-says

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• Cases in state almost double since Tuesday as virus spreads
• Governor tells most businesses to send half of workers home

The Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort will be dispatched to New York City as coronavirus cases almost doubled, Governor Andrew Cuomo told reporters in Albany on Wednesday.

The floating hospital, which has previously been sent to disaster zones such as Haiti and post-Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, can help free 1,000 beds when it arrives in a few weeks, the governor said. Another ship, the Mercy, will head to the West Coast. Defense Secretary Mark Esper told reporters on Tuesday that hospital ships aren’t equipped to handle infectious disease patients but could provide care for trauma victims, allowing more beds in hospitals on land to handle those with the coronavirus.

The Comfort is sailing from Norfolk, Virginia, which has a major naval base, and the Mercy is docked at its home port in San Diego, California. Each ship is capable of carrying 12 fully equipped operating rooms, a medical laboratory and pharmacy, as well as providing digital radiological services, CAT scans and oxygen production, according to the Navy. The crews can each include as many as 1,200 medical and communications personnel.

The Comfort isn’t ready to deploy because it’s undergoing maintenance, Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman told reporters. It will move in weeks, rather than days, he said. The Mercy will depart sooner.

Les échanges maritimes au bord de l’asphyxie : il n’y a plus de conteneurs disponibles. Tant que la Chine n’exporte pas, les conteneurs vides s’empilent dans les ports chinois ou sur les bateaux en quarantaine devant ceux-ci…

There Aren’t Enough Containers to Keep World Trade Flowing - Bloomberg
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-18/there-aren-t-enough-containers-to-keep-world-trade-flowing

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• China’s port delays squeeze containers, spur freight inflation
• Food manufacturer says consumer prices could rise on delays

A shipping container shortage that’s left everything from Thai curry to Canadian peas idling in ports may be about to get a whole lot worse as China steps up its coronavirus precautions on incoming vessels.

Unloading holdups in China and delays on the return of vessels when the outbreak was largely limited to Asia have left shippers waiting for hundreds of thousands of containers to move their products. But as the disease goes global, the port of Fuzhou is starting to quarantine incoming ships from countries including the U.S. for 14 days. That threatens to exacerbate the crunch.

“That’s millions of tons of capacity that’s wiped off the board,” said Greg Cherewyk, president of Pulse Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba-based industry group that represents the nation’s growers, traders and processors of pulses like peas and lentils. “An industry like ours, we depend on containers.”

Containers bringing consumer goods from Asia are normally unloaded, then filled with exports of other commodities. Brazil usually ships meat, pulp and coffee in containers to China, a journey that takes a month each way, while Canada uses them to ship everything from specialty crops to lumber, plywood and paper.

The availability of cargo containers at Hamburg, Rotterdam and Antwerp in Europe and Long Beach and Los Angeles in the U.S. are at the lowest levels recorded, according to a Bloomberg report. Imports to the port of Los Angeles and Long Beach, which have a 35% share of containers coming into the U.S., fell as much as 13% in the first two months of the first quarter, Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Lee Klaskow said Wednesday in a report. International volume could begin to increase as Chinese exports pick up, he said.

Container throughput in the port of Shanghai fell 19.5% in February from a year earlier, with outbound containers slumping 25%, according to data from the Municipal Statistics Bureau on Thursday.

revers de la #mondialisation

Amazon Drivers Received Single Wipe to Clean Vans Before Shifts - Bloomberg
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-18/amazon-drivers-received-single-wipe-to-clean-vans-before-shifts

In interviews, some contract drivers worry their safety is taking a back seat to the swift delivery of products.

When about two dozen Amazon.com Inc. delivery drivers reported for their shifts Tuesday morning on California’s central coast, their manager passed around a sleeve of disinfecting wipes. He said they could each take only one to clean their vans before starting their routes, according to three people present. The drivers, who work for a company that has a delivery contract with (...)

#Amazon #santé #travail

##santé

Google Wary of Sharing User Location Data in Pandemic Fight - Bloomberg
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-18/google-says-it-hasn-t-shared-location-data-in-virus-response

Google is limiting how its trove of location data is used in the fight against the novel coronavirus as the company balances government demands with user privacy concerns. The largest U.S. internet company has been talking with other tech companies and governments about how to respond to the pandemic. Google has detailed information on the movement of billions of people who use its digital Maps and Android devices, and this has been identified as a useful asset. In a statement on Tuesday, (...)

#Google #Android #smartphone #géolocalisation #BigData #santé

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