“The most destructive form of alcoholism is chronic alcoholism, an emotionally, socially and physically devastating disease. Alcoholism emerges from alcohol abuse, when there’s a pattern of drinking despite negative consequences. Alcoholism and alcohol abuse are both categorized as alcohol use disorders—affecting people of all ages and stages of life.”

Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation

“Alcohol use disorder (which includes a level that’s sometimes called alcoholism) is a pattern of alcohol use that involves problems controlling your drinking, being preoccupied with alcohol, continuing to use alcohol even when it causes problems, having to drink more to get the same effect, or having withdrawal symptoms when you rapidly decrease or stop drinking”

MAYO CLINIC

“A congregate setting is an environment where a number of people reside, meet or gather in closeproximity for either a limited or extended period of time.”

NYC.gov

“After the peak of illness during the second wave had come and gone in the United States. From April 12, 2009 to April 10, 2010, CDC estimated there were 60.8 million cases (range: 43.3-89.3 million), 274,304 hospitalizations (range: 195,086-402,719), and 12,469 deaths (range: 8868-18,306) in the United States due to the (H1N1)pdm09 virus.”

Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC)

The coronavirus has upended countless lives here at home and around the world. We’ve all become too familiar with new terms — shelter in place, flatten the curve, social distancing. The stock market is bouncing wildly. Just this week we saw the greatest number of unemployment applications in our nation’s history. And there’s still no toilet paper at the grocery store, if you can even go to the grocery store. So are you feeling stressed yet? Anxious? At your wits’ end because you’re trying to telework and the kids are making noise in the next room? And will someone please walk the dog?

Many people are reckoning with individual losses, including illness and death due to the novel coronavirus, or loss of employment as a result of economic upheaval. But even people who haven’t lost anything so concrete as a job or a loved one are affected.  Its makes you think is the depression going to happen again since hitory rpeats itself.  Look at Pandemics, are last one was in 2009-2010  when the President Obama was in office and we had more deaths than but it wasn’t majority in NYC.  The Corona 19 will probably over ride in deaths but we are far from the end.  Keep in mind H1N1 after the peak of illness during the second wave had come and gone in the United States. From April 12, 2009 to April 10, 2010, CDC estimated there were 60.8 million cases (range: 43.3-89.3 million), 274,304 hospitalizations (range: 195,086-402,719), and 12,469 deaths (range: 8868-18,306) in the United States due to the (H1N1)pdm09 virus.

Things should get better based on history and hopefully close in the future we will all get on a more normal working schedule again.  We will get through this and maybe our country and cities might consider stricter regulations with traveling in and out of America, better control of city populations in the U.S., and cleaner cities.    Since all these aspects play an impact on why Corona virus ended up in America and where the high amount of cases are located.

“Diagnosing ASD can be difficult since there is no medical test, like a blood test, to diagnose the disorders. Doctors look at the child’s behavior and development to make a diagnosis.

ASD can sometimes be detected at 18 months or younger. By age 2, a diagnosis by an experienced professional can be considered very reliable.¹ However, many children do not receive a final diagnosis until much older. This delay means that children with ASD might not get the early help they need.”

“Autism is a complex, lifelong developmental disability that typically appears during early childhood and can impact a person’s social skills, communication, relationships, and self-regulation. Autism is defined by a certain set of behaviors and is a “spectrum condition” that affects people differently and to varying degrees.

While there is currently no known single cause of autism, early diagnosis helps a person receive the support and services that they need, which can lead to a quality life filled with opportunity.”

Autism Society (www.autism-society.org)

“In the United States, it is estimated that 10-15 percent of the adult population suffers from IBS symptoms, yet only 5 to 7 percent of adults have been diagnosed with the disease. IBS is the most common disease diagnosed by gastroenterologists and one of the most common disorders seen by primary care physicians.”

American College of Gastroenterology

“Your kidneys and your circulatory system depend on each other for good health. The kidneys help filter wastes and extra fluids from blood, and they use a lot of blood vessels to do so. When the blood vessels become damaged, the nephrons (located in the kidneys) that filter your blood don’t receive the oxygen and nutrients they need to function well. This is why high blood pressure (HBP or hypertension) is the second leading cause of kidney failure.”

American Heart Association (AHA)