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  • sharon sanders
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    US - Food: "The US is the world’s largest producer of maize (corn), the third-largest producer of wheat, fifth-largest producer of potatoes, tenth-largest producer of sugarcane and twelfth-largest producer of rice."
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    Toilet paper manufacturer in Alabama says they won’t run out

    Updated Mar 13, 2020; Posted Mar 13, 2020


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    As nervous shoppers strip grocery and variety store shelves of tissue, Georgia-Pacific’s Naheola mill is working to churn it out. The Naheola mill currently employs more than 900 people. It produces retail bath tissue and paper towels, and also makes bleached paperboard used to make Georgia-Pacific’s Dixie plates, cups and bowls.

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    At the same time, Georgia-Pacific also manufactures hand sanitizer products for businesses and the medical industry. Abercrombie said demand for hand sanitizer is currently ten times the normal amount.

    Another reason the company is able to meet the demand is that the Naheola mill last year saw a $120 million investment that specifically targeted its toilet paper capability. Georgia-Pacific has pumped more than $500 million into the mill over the past six years, and about $1.6 billion into its Alabama operations.


    https://www.al.com/business/2020/03/...t-run-out.html


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  • Steffi
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    I'm sorry JJackson, I don't know, they haven't said but I'd guess so as they do a project for UK Biobank as Wellcome Sanger

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  • JJackson
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    What I have not seen is what test they are running. Is it RT PCR or some other type of test kit, if so I would be very interested in any details.
    Last edited by JJackson; March 16, 2020, 04:38 PM. Reason: I deleted a paragraph because the wording in the original PHE doc is ambiguous.

  • Steffi
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    deCODE has now screened 1.800 tests of 3.087 taken, 19 have been positive for COVID19. Expect to screen 1.000 samples before midnight. Everything indicates that less than 1% (0.7% last night news) of the population is infected but spread seems to be picking up a bit. Roughly 14.000 persons have booked a time for a test for screening till 27.03.19

    3 positive test have been screened further, an S-type from east coast of USA and 2 L-types, both originating from Europe. Expecting 100 more tests done tomorrow.


    Their FB page https://www.facebook.com/%C3%8Dslens...0756569101060/ but google does a lousy job of translating from Icelandic - you might get the gist of things.

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  • kiwibird
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    Discussion thread IV - COVID-19 (new coronavirus)

    https://grapevine.is/news/2020/03/15...h-coronavirus/ Super interesting!

    The first results of the deCODE Genetics voluntary screening indicate that about 1% of all Icelanders have the novel coronavirus, V?sir reports. Chief epidemiologist for the Directorate of Health ??r?lfur Gu?nason told reporters that this is good news, as it shows that the measures which the government has taken have yielded good results.

    As reported, deCODE Genetics CEO K?ri Stef?nsson has been wanting to offer screening to the entire Icelandic population and received the green light to do so earlier this week. Registration for that screening launched last Friday.

    While Icelandic authorities have been screening people considered especially at risk, namely those Icelanders returning to the country from high-risk areas, deCODE has sought to screen everyone else. deCODE took samples from 510 people on Friday, with 1,049 coming in yesterday and it is predicted that another thousand will go in for screening today. Of those samples which have thus far been taken, 700 have been tested. K?ri says that about half of those who tested positive have shown no symptoms, and the other half show symptoms have having a regular cold.

    ??r?lfur told reporters earlier today that if the results of the deCODE screening indicated that incidents of novel coronavirus in the general population were low, that authorities would likely continue with the operations which have already been initiated. “If infection in the general society is very low then it’s an indication that we have been doing good things and achieving good results in keeping this infection contained,” he said.

    As reported, amongst the operations that Icelandic government has initiated is a public gatherings ban of numbers greater than 100, and the closures of universities and secondary schools, beginning at midnight tonight. The country remains open to visitors, and the gatherings ban does not apply to the international airport in Keflav?k.
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