Where's the petri dish thread?

[Deleted User 89]

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/28/who-rai ... level.html

[Shirley]

Fucking assholes.

All of them.



And this:

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smh

If you don't look, it isn't there.

[Shirley]

Aren't the testing supplies limited?

Mixed messages, test delays hamper U.S. coronavirus response

(Reuters) - Even as U.S. officials warn of an inevitable outbreak of coronavirus in the United States, and are alerting Americans to take precautions, some health agencies charged with protecting the public appear unprepared to deal with the threat.

Barely more than a handful of public health departments across the country are able to test for the novel virus, which began in China and has spread to at least 44 countries. The federal government has less than 10% of the protective masks required to protect healthcare workers and the public. And Washington still does not have adequate funding in place to support health departments’ efforts, though more money is on the way.

Conflicting messaging from the White House and top U.S. officials regarding the severity of the threat has only added to the uncertainty.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) this week for the first time advised American businesses, schools, hospitals and families to prepare for domestic acceleration of the virus, which has infected more than 80,000 people worldwide and killed nearly 3,000.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday assured Americans that the risk of coronavirus transmission in the United States was “very low.” Despite an explosion of cases in China over the past two months, the Trump administration only this week put in a request for $2.5 billion to aid in the response, an amount both Republicans and Democrats have said is too small.

Critics of the federal response say the United States squandered precious weeks by focusing too narrowly on keeping the coronavirus from crossing U.S. borders rather than marshaling resources to prepare American communities for a widespread domestic outbreak that officials now say was inevitable.

“This has been a realistic risk for a month, and the signal to trigger that kind of preparedness has only been going out in the last few days in an explicit way,” said Jeremy Konyndyk, a senior policy fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington. “That’s a huge problem.”

FEW BEING TESTED

There are 60 confirmed U.S. cases of the novel coronavirus, which causes the disease known as Covid-19, U.S. health officials said on Wednesday. But experts admit they have no way of knowing the true figure because access to testing at present is severely limited.

So far, the U.S. strategy has focused almost exclusively on testing infected travelers, using a test that looks for genetic material from the virus in saliva or mucus. As of February 23, fewer than 500 people from 43 states had been or are being tested for the virus.

Currently, just seven state and local health departments have the ability to screen for the virus, the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) said on Wednesday. CDC-developed tests issued three weeks ago were producing inaccurate results in some labs, so new tests had to be made and cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), leaving many labs with no local testing capability, the group said.

...“Unfortunately, we are now in the bottom tier in countries capable of doing population-based testing,” said Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.

U.S. patients typically wait 24 to 48 hours to find out whether they have tested positive and need to be quarantined, health officials said, during which time those who are infected can spread the virus to others...

[Shirley]

Not. Good:

(Be careful out there, zsn.)

2nd U.S. Coronavirus Case Of Unknown Origin Discovered In Santa Clara County

A new case of coronavirus in Santa Clara County, the county’s third case, is now the second instance in the U.S. of community transmission of the virus from an unknown origin.

The county health department said this latest coronavirus case – a woman with chronic health conditions – has no known connection to travel in countries most affected by the virus or close contact with a known infected individual.

The development indicates the virus spreading among two separate populations within Northern California. In a prepared statement, county health officials declared that “now is the time to prepare for the possibility of widespread community transmission.”

[zsn]

Not. Good:

(Be careful out there, zsn.)

Thanks, Feral! This is all over the news now, as you would expect. Don't know if this person was in contact with anyone at or near Travis AFB (about 75 miles away) where one of the evacuation flights ended up.

YIKES!!!!

[DCHawk1]

And a third in Oregon.

[DCHawk1]

Also, Illy's gone and I don't know if he's going to get the memo. Fingers crossed.

[TDub]

And a third in Oregon.

A third? I didnt even here of the other 2. Also one in seattle now

[Geezer]

Also, Illy's gone and I don't know if he's going to get the memo. Fingers crossed.

Katie Nolan was on High Noon on ESPN today and This came up.

[defixione]

And a third in Oregon.

A third? I didnt even here of the other 2. Also one in seattle now

It was up to 60 in the US this morning. Now it's 64.

[DCHawk1]

And a third in Oregon.

A third? I didnt even here of the other 2. Also one in seattle now

It was up to 60 in the US this morning. Now it's 64.

Three confirmed COMMUNITY-SPREAD cases.

[Geezer]

[TDub]

A third? I didnt even here of the other 2. Also one in seattle now

It was up to 60 in the US this morning. Now it's 64.

Three confirmed COMMUNITY-SPREAD cases.

Which means were closing in on, if not past, the point of no return as far as containment is concerned.

Unless we were to close all borders immediately. Test every single person and immediately quarantine the infected people. Which, of course would be nigh impossible to justify, much less complete.

[TDub]

I shouldve built that bunker i always half joked about.

[Shirley]

The learning curve for COVID-19 is steep, so don't take anything said in this video for granted, because some of this is the current best guess. But, be prudent.

This is Singapore’s Health Minister Mr. Gan Kim Yong.

[TDub]

Ok doc. So. Bunker or no bunker?

[Shirley]

Ok doc. So. Bunker or no bunker?

I ain't bunkering yet, but it looks like you better be careful out there too, because you're being surrounded:

A high school student in the US with no travel history is one of two new "presumptive positive" cases in Washington State

A high school student who has no history of traveling to infected areas has been diagnosed with coronavirus, according to Washington State Department of Health.

The student is one of two new presumptive positive cases of novel coronavirus in the state of Washington. The second presumptive case is a female in her 50's from Snohomish County who recently traveled to South Korea.

Presumptively positive means the tests have come back positive from the public health laboratory in Washington and are pending confirmation at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The boy -- who is a high school student in Washington state -- visited two different clinics in Snohomish County this week, according to Snohomish Health District interim health officer Dr. Chris Spitters.

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[Shirley]

Although I doubt anyone has noticed, because at times I might, might have been, critical of the Trump Administration's response since the COVID-19 virus was first identified as a problem in China in December 2019, I do want to give them/him credit for closing our borders to people returning from the infected area in China on Feb. 2, 2020. And although the administration's response since then, imo, has been severely lacking, there's almost no doubt we'd be in a worse situation now if President Trump hadn't done so. So, props to him.

[Deleted User 89]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald ... x-n1145721

remind me, who was going to be politicizing the outbreak?

[ousdahl]

How long til he says having the corona virus is still not as bad as having Dowdy for potus?