Originally Posted by Bwana:
Once again, don't come in this thread with some kind of political agenda, or you will be shown the door. If you want to go that route, there is a thread about this in DC.
Originally Posted by Dartgod:
People, there is a lot of good information in this thread, let's try to keep the petty bickering to a minimum.
We all have varying opinions about the impact of this, the numbers, etc. We will all never agree with each other. But we can all keep it civil.
Thanks!
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Spoiler!
Apparently the CoronaVirus can survive on a inanimate objects, such as door knobs, for 9 days.
California coronavirus case could be first spread within U.S. community, CDC says
By SOUMYA KARLAMANGLA, JACLYN COSGROVE
FEB. 26, 2020 8:04 PM
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating what could be the first case of novel coronavirus in the United States involving a patient in California who neither recently traveled out of the country nor was in contact with someone who did.
“At this time, the patient’s exposure is unknown. It’s possible this could be an instance of community spread of COVID-19, which would be the first time this has happened in the United States,” the CDC said in a statement. “Community spread means spread of an illness for which the source of infection is unknown. It’s also possible, however, that the patient may have been exposed to a returned traveler who was infected.”
The individual is a resident of Solano County and is receiving medical care in Sacramento County, according to the state Department of Public Health.
The CDC said the “case was detected through the U.S. public health system — picked up by astute clinicians.”
Officials at UC Davis Medical Center expanded on what the federal agency might have meant by that in an email sent Wednesday, as reported by the Davis Enterprise newspaper.
The patient arrived at UC Davis Medical Center from another hospital Feb. 19 and “had already been intubated, was on a ventilator, and given droplet protection orders because of an undiagnosed and suspected viral condition,” according to an email sent by UC Davis officials that was obtained by the Davis Enterprise.
The staff at UC Davis requested COVID-19 testing by the CDC, but because the patient didn’t fit the CDC’s existing criteria for the virus, a test wasn’t immediately administered, according to the email. The CDC then ordered the test Sunday, and results were announced Wednesday. Hospital administrators reportedly said in the email that despite these issues, there has been minimal exposure at the hospital because of safety protocols they have in place.
A UC Davis Health spokesperson declined Wednesday evening to share the email with The Times.
Since Feb. 2, more than 8,400 returning travelers from China have entered California, according to the state health department. They have been advised to self-quarantine for 14 days and limit interactions with others as much as possible, officials said.
“This is a new virus, and while we are still learning about it, there is a lot we already know,” Dr. Sonia Angell, director of the California Department of Public Health, said in a statement. “We have been anticipating the potential for such a case in the U.S., and given our close familial, social and business relationships with China, it is not unexpected that the first case in the U.S. would be in California.”
It is not clear how the person became infected, but public health workers could not identify any contacts with people who had traveled to China or other areas where the virus is widespread. That raises concern that the virus is spreading in the United States, creating a challenge for public health officials, experts say.
“It’s the first signal that we could be having silent transmission in the community,” said Lawrence Gostin, director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law. “It probably means there are many more cases out there, and it probably means this individual has infected others, and now it’s a race to try to find out who that person has infected.”
On Tuesday, the CDC offered its most serious warning to date that the United States should expect and prepare for the coronavirus to become a more widespread health issue.
“Ultimately, we expect we will see coronavirus spread in this country,” said Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. “It’s not so much a question of if, but a question of when.”
According to the CDC’s latest count Wednesday morning, 59 U.S. residents have tested positive for the new strain of coronavirus — 42 of whom are repatriated citizens from a Diamond Princess cruise. That number has grown by two since Messonnier’s last count Tuesday, although the CDC was not immediately available to offer details on the additional cases.
More than 82,000 cases of coronavirus have been reported globally, and more than 2,700 people have died, with the majority in mainland China, the epicenter of the outbreak.
But public health leaders have repeatedly reminded residents that the health risk from the novel coronavirus to the general public remains low.
“While COVID-19 has a high transmission rate, it has a low mortality rate,” the state Department of Public Health said in a statement Wednesday. “From the international data we have, of those who have tested positive for COVID-19, approximately 80% do not exhibit symptoms that would require hospitalization. There have been no confirmed deaths related to COVID-19 in the United States to date.”
CDC officials have also warned that although the virus is likely to spread in U.S. communities, the flu still poses a greater risk.
Gostin said the news of potential silent transmission does not eliminate the possibility of containing the virus in the U.S. and preventing an outbreak.
“There are few enough cases that we should at least try,” he said. “Most of us are not optimistic that that will be successful, but we’re still in the position to try.”
Originally Posted by TLO:
Both Buchanan County and Jackson County are on that list because of Triumph Foods.
Outside of the NY\NJ area the hospitals are dead. They are freaking empty parking lots. CBS News was caught literally faking patients in a tent for a story. The official statement we got from our system was "we never saw the expected surge in cases....". Meaning we never had a run on the health system like was forecast and that's a good thing. And guess what? The hospitalizations are going down from the levels we did see.
So what does that tell us? It tells us that yes, this disease can be very deadly to individuals that are at risk. But generally speaking the masses that are getting infected are not requiring hospitalization and are recovering at home much like we do with other illnesses.
Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud:
Sassy? What is this, the 50's?
Donger's so deep into your conscious (and probably your vagina) that you'd used MS Paint in order to "insult" him by using a typical Alt-Right character in place of Robert Oppenheimer, which makes you an uncreative sheep.
Your head's so far up the ass of the Alt Right that you can't even have a simple debate about a drug of which you know absolutely nothing about. Besides the fact that you don't work in the medical industry, it's pretty clear that chemistry, biochemistry and even simple biology are way over your tiny brain.
There isn't a single person in this thread that has a shred of medical experience or knowledge that doesn't think you're mouthy blowhard and there are plenty of others that think that about you as well.
But go ahead, keep pining for a drug that doesn't work, despite what the "internet" has to say. That's sassy!
Well if this is allowed then I guess I can bring up you ****ing liberals and you need to constantly bash liberal bullshit in this thread.
Oh and I called you a sassy bitch from a PM you sent me in 2016 calling for a rep war, starting by calling me a bitch. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BleedingRed:
Well if this is allowed then I guess I can bring up you fucking liberals and you need to constantly bash liberal bullshit in this thread.
Originally Posted by BleedingRed:
wait you think this indicates are are not testing enough?
We have tested almost 10 million people. That's almost 5m more than Russia who has tested the 2nd most in the world.
People can play the tests per ______ game but it comes down to logistics and plain old numbers.
We are the 3rd most populated country in the world and we have ran the most tests. We have tested damn near as much as Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK and France combined. [Reply]
Originally Posted by O.city:
The hospital surge never hit here in Springfield either, now they’re planning to pay off nearly 2k employees this week
I'm waiting to see if we hit a surge in hospital capacity here in St Joe due to the Triumph deal. We currently have 10 people hospitalized. We're about 1/12th full on what we can handle on Covid patients. [Reply]
Originally Posted by O.city:
The hospital surge never hit here in Springfield either, now they’re planning to pay off nearly 2k employees this week
We started bring staff back on the KS side last week and will start on the MO side next week. It will be nice to get things open as there are people literally sitting in pain and suffering while we pretend all the hospitals are like NY.
Now take this FWIW but a person I know said they watched a deal on the NYC hospitals and showed them to be like a war zone. But then it went on to show what it was like after the news cameras stopped rolling and it wasn't nearly as bad as it was made out to be. Now, we know NYC was bitch slapped by this so I am not downplaying their plight. I am just pointing out that there have been several instances now of the media hyping this up for the camera. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud:
And thanks for proving me correct again in that the only nomenclature that you're familiar with is of those on Alt-Right forums.
You're the most uncreative and lamest ****ing forum member that I've seen here in long, long time.
