Foundation steps in to help CDC fight coronavirus
Mr. Roy Earl Shedd, age 82, of Rome, passed away on Tuesday, January 28, 2020, at his residence.
Mr. Shedd was born in Floyd County, Georgia on March 12, 1937, son of the late Herbert Lee Shedd and the late Lillie Williams Shedd. He was also preceded in death by two sisters, Helen Casey and Rosita Helton, and by three brothers, Junior Lee Shedd, Bobby Shedd and Don Shedd. Prior to retirement, Mr. Shedd was a self-employed paint contractor. He was a member of Liberty View Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife of 60 years, Helen Jacobs Shedd; a son, Jay Shedd (Donna), Rome; three grandsons, Mason Shedd, Braden Shedd and Zack Mccorkle; a granddaughter, Carlie Mccorkle; a great grandson, Kayden; a sister, Carolyn Ward (Donald), Manchester, GA; nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held on Friday, January 31, 2020, at 2pm in the Chapel at Henderson & Sons Funeral Home, South Chapel, with the Rev. Ladell Jacobs and WKH 5HY %U\DQ 7DWH RI¿FLDWING. Interment will follow in Floyd Memory Gardens.
The family will receive friends at Henderson & Sons Funeral Home, South Chapel, on Friday from 12 noon until 1:45pm.
Pallbearers are asked to assemble at Henderson & Sons Funeral Home, South Chapel, on Friday at 1:30pm and include; Mason Shedd, Braden Shedd, Tim Thrash, Jack Jacobs, Joey Jacobs and Victor Jacobs.
Henderson & Sons Funeral Home, South Chapel, has charge of the funeral arrangements.
The CDC Foundation has launched an emergency response fund to help the CDC address the novel coronavirus, a respiratory illness that has sickened more than 6,000 people in China and reached the United States and other countries.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has contributed $1 million to kick off that fund-raising effort, which started this week.
The CDC Foundation, which supports the work of the Atlanta-based public health agency, has a history of raising funds in emergency situations, including for hurricane recovery and outbreaks such as Ebola. The foundation can deliver money faster than the CDC can gain through a congressional budget appropriation.
The novel coronavirus is spreading rapidly in China, and has now been reported in the United States — with five confirmed cases — and several other nations. The death toll has risen to 132 in China, with 6,078 confirmed cases of infection.
Health officials believe the outbreak originated in a large animal and seafood market in Wuhan, China.
Funds raised by the Atlanta-based CDC Foundation will go to support state and local health departments, and to provide help for the global response, logistics, communications, data management, personal protective equipment, supplies and other items.
Dr. Judy Monroe, president and CEO of the foundation, said Wednesday that the CDC recently asked her organization to activate its own emergency response fund.
The foundation will provide funds for the CDC to spend as it sees fit. “It’s really important for the CDC to access flexible resources,’’ Monroe said.
During the Ebola outbreak that began in 2014, the CDC Foundation raised $56 million for needs that the health agency identified, which included providing supplies and equipment for use on the ground in West Africa, where the deadly disease was centered. Contributions to such funding are made by philanthropies, businesses and individuals.
Foundation funds are essential to address rapidly evolving situations where speed and flexibility are paramount to saving and protecting lives, Monroe said.
Transmitted between people
Named for the crown-like spikes on their surfaces, coronaviruses infect mostly bats, pigs and small mammals. Seven strains are known to infect humans, including this new virus, causing illnesses in the respiratory tract, the Wall Street Journal reported. Two strains rank among the deadliest of human infections: SARS and Middle East respiratory syndrome, or MERS.
The latest illness has struck people who did not visit mainland China during the outbreak, with patients falling ill in Germany, Japan, Taiwan and Vietnam, the New York Times reported. The overseas cases highlight the ability of the mysterious disease to be transmitted from one person to another, increasing its chances of spreading.
The U.S. government and other governments have airlifted their citizens out of Wuhan, the outbreak’s epicenter.
Medical workers in protective gear talk with a woman suspected of being ill with a coronavirus at a community health station in Wuhan in central China’s Hubei Province, on Monday.
Dr. Nancy Messonnier, Lyon said. But right now director of the CDC’S National in this country, the flu is a Center for Immunization much bigger public health and Respiratory Diseases, problem, he added. “The said Wednesday that novel coronavirus, at the it had 165 people in the U.S. present, is a very low threat under investigation for coronavirus. in the U.S.’’ In addition to the 5 Lyon said the CDC Foundation confirmed positive, 68 have funds “can be effective tested negative. The agency in meeting emerging is prioritizing the testing public health needs.’’ based on a person’s risk. Contributions to the CDC
Messonnier said earlier Foundation’s Emergency Rethis week that the agency sponse Fund can be made had posted the blueprints on the foundation’s website for its diagnostic test on a (donate here) or by phone public server and was working or mail. To discuss giving “as fast as we can” to get opportunities for giving or test kits out to states. making an in-kind donation,
Right now, all the testing contact Advancement at the for the new coronavirus is CDC Foundation: by email taking place at the CDC’S at advancement@cdcfoundation.org headquarters in Atlanta. or 404.653.0790,
The symptoms of the disease toll-free at 888-886-4CDC. are similar to those of The Georgia Department of the flu, including fever and Public Health said this week respiratory illness. Experts that it’s evaluating patient insay a vaccine for the virus is formation received from health still a long way off. care providers about potential
Dr. Marshall Lyon, an incases of the coronavirus. To fectious disease expert at date, DPH has not confirmed Emory University School of any cases in Georgia. Medicine, said Wednesday Health officials are screening that health officials need a passengers at Hartsfieldjackson better way to detect coronavirus Atlanta Internationcases. al Airport and other major
The current test takes sevU.S. airports. eral hours, so the CDC has Public Health says the pubprioritized the testing for lic should follow the advice people who show symptoms given during a cold and flu and have traveled to China season: Wash your hands recently, Lyon said. “If this regularly, avoid touching your outbreak continues, we may eyes, nose or mouth with unwashed see better diagnostics.’’ hands, and stay away
When a case is suspected, from people who are sick. the person is isolated in a hospital to minimize spread of the disease, he said.
From what’s known so far, the coronavirus appears more deadly than the flu,