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George likes his chicken y
You can keep on with your cuz Trump shtick but my wife's practice just put in protocol for dealing with Covid-19 cases. Methodist hospital system has issued protocols for dealing with Covid-19 patients. The CDC/NIH today signaled they are shifting focus to protecting the most vulnerable populations.
It's coming. Are you ready?
George likes his chicken y
What's your wife's advice?
If the president represents a highly contagious, unusually lethal disease as no big deal, mightn't that influence people to let you know their guard down and slow the federal response?
Telling people it's ok to go to work sick is bad advice regardless of the pathogen involved.
It's not the virus you need to prepare for. It's all the freaked out people like yourself you might consider preparing for.
Ask your doctor if you need medical advice. Or just put some robitussin on it.
paging Darrin
“but but there was a boat once that had 1% death rate”
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Last edited by picnroll; 03-05-2020 at 07:16 AM.
Trash Claims Thousands Could Still Go To Work With Coronavirus And Get Better
CDC advises:
“Do not go to work, school or public areas.
Avoid using public transportation, ride-sharing or taxis,”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump...b69d641c0aa3dc
HSBC bank HQ evacuated cause an employee was as positive for the virus
this virus might bring good things after all
In fairness he did explain why the numbers are most likely lower in an accurate manner.
“but but there was a boat once that had 1% death rate”
A rare moment of sanity waiting to be shattered by a tweet retweet from Mike “Smoking won’t kill you Yes it will” Pence.
Next Donald will demonstrate how to lick every person within coughing range to show those stupid libs.
His base will love the brash, swashbuckling orange dude fckn showing them socialists what socialists do.
Says the guy staying mute while Syria indiscriminately bombs women and children.HSBC bank HQ evacuated cause an employee was as positive for the virus
this virus might bring good things after all
WE ARE THE GOVERNMENT. YOU CAN TRUST US.
For weeks, federal health officials told states that only the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a few other public labs could test patients for the new coronavirus.
That was because test kits that the CDC had sent to state and local labs across the country to do their own screening had a flaw that caused inaccurate results.
“It was a malfunctioning chemical,” said Kelly Wroblewski, director of infectious disease programs at the Assn. of Public Health Laboratories.
Now, officials say they have made changes so that California labs and three dozen other public labs across the country will be able to start testing for the virus.
The lack of tests for the coronavirus was made clear this week when a patient was diagnosed with the virus who had not traveled or been in contact with anyone infected. Doctors who treated the woman at UC Davis Medical Center said they had asked the CDC to test the woman but then waited days for that to happen.
The CDC’s flawed test kits stalled the surveillance testing that federal officials had said Feb. 14 would begin in Los Angeles, San Francisco and three other cities. CDC officials said then that the surveillance tests were aimed at finding patients in the community who had been unknowingly infected with the virus.
But by Thursday, fewer than 500 tests had been performed in the U.S., according to the CDC. In comparison, South Korea says it has been testing thousands of people a day.
“If you test less than 500 people, you can’t say at all what is going on,” said Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota
Osterholm said the delay in testing could mean that many cases have gone undetected. “The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence,” he said. “I expect a sizable jump in cases in the next few weeks.”
Said Wroblewski, “It’s unfortunate there was a delay with testing. Earlier is always better, but we were waiting for a quality test.”
Some state and local labs wanted to use their own tests they had developed in-house, Wroblewski said. But that was not possible after the federal government declared the coronavirus, known as COVID-19, a public health emergency at the end of January. After the emergency declaration, any test had to receive authorization from the federal Food and Drug Administration to ensure its accuracy.
After an appeal from the public labs association, federal officials said Thursday they were making changes so that 40 state and local labs would be able to test for the virus.
Wroblewski explained that the original test had three parts. The problematic third part, aimed at testing more broadly for coronaviruses and not just for COVID-19, gave off false readings. She said some labs will now be able to use the test without using the third part. At the same time, the CDC has modified the test and is manufacturing new kits that it will soon be sending to public labs.
She said she does not believe the test is less accurate when just two of the three parts are used.
Officials hope the 40 labs will be able to test for the virus by early next week — which would allow an estimated 4,000 tests a day, Wroblewski said. “We’re in a position to start the surveillance testing, I hope.”
Wroblewski said the association’s goal is to have 100 public labs performing the tests, which would allow 10,000 patients to be tested each day.
State officials said late Friday they expected to get a shipment of test kits to initially cover 1,200 people.
Some commercial labs are also working to develop tests for COVID-19, said Julie Khani, president of the American Clinical Laboratory Assn.
But only the CDC and other public labs are authorized to test for the virus in the U.S.
“At this time, commercial laboratories are not collecting, processing or transporting specimens from patients suspected of having, or confirmed to have, COVID-19,” Khani said.
“best healthcare in the world”
“most prepared country in the world”
lol
CDC required local labs to validate against their test that didn’t work. Sure, why not.
Im guessing they think it’s more important to get good results now because the virus will spread regardless unless somehow the warming of spring causes less bunching. Not a lot we can do but practice hand washing hygiene. And follow instructions on closure rules. My observation in DFW airports is no panicking. I did not see a single person on four different airplane trips wearing a mask. We will see.
The cheapo common unfitted paper masks are not effective as protection on healthy people, as airborne virus can still get around the mask edges, and into eyes.
Masks, esp the fitted ones, work better on infected people to restrain sneezes, coughs
Basically, the masks are only good to remind you not to touch your face with your hands. That's typically how it spreads. The virus stays on surfaces (door knobs, shopping cart handles, gas pump handles, etc. for a week) you touch it and then pick your nose...bingo. You have covid19.
the dont wear masks BS is done by governments to prevent shortage of masks for their police/medical force
of course you are better off wearing a mask
I have only a handful of those and will wear it if infection reaches Seattle levels in my area
remember many of the indications by Govmt/CDC are for the better of the entire population. not for the better of you as individual or your family.
you need to decide how to protect yourself and your family in the best way possible.
What makes you think I'm freaked out?
Criticizing my government's slow response and lack of preparedness isn't a freakout, but there is something twitchy about your refusal to acknowledge that any mosstep has been made or that making up on TV might be making things worse wrt to any eventual panic.
The people need accurate info from their government in a public health emergency, Instead we're getting propaganda and disinfo straight from the top. If the people freak because their government has squandered its credibilty, that's hardly to be blamed on anonymous bulletin board posters who point it out, but def more on public officials who mislead the people in TV.
Last edited by Winehole23; 03-05-2020 at 09:50 AM.
What do you make of the decision to pull the number of people tested from the CDC website?
CORONAVIRUS CASES TESTED IN U.S. REMOVED FROM CDC WEBSITE
https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus...people-1490158
They removed it, because the number, practically nil, would make them look bad. The tests will not be widely available until later this month at the earliest.
So the virus is spreading, undetected. You know this. I know this. The administration is trying to hide it, because they don't want the general population to know this. Seems like a pertinent bit of information to make decisions on.
yes I expect the # of infections to raise by a LOT once US starts testing
US is basically in square 1 still while many other countries like Germany, France are already way ahead
the President contradicting public health officials to soothe the market isn't ideal, wouldn't you say, SnakeBoy?
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