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President Trump says the 1st known case of an American dying of the novel coronavirus was a woman.
WA governor says, per state Department of Health and the King County (Seattle) Public Health Department, it was a man.
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President Trump says the 1st known case of an American dying of the novel coronavirus was a woman.
WA governor says, per state Department of Health and the King County (Seattle) Public Health Department, it was a man.
Besides the idiotic cross contamination the next best claim is that he is coughing due to nervousness. You are watching cognitive dissonance right on video.Daehawk wrote: ↑Sat Feb 29, 2020 3:31 pm That man coughing with his kid and drinking out of her water is a fucking damn moron and he makes me mad. He really believes what he is told by unknowing health officials? If that was me Id quarantine myself in a motel room away from my family if I was like that. If his child dies I doubt he has enough brainpower to realize it was his fault.
oh guess what... i work in Kirkland.Blackhawk wrote: ↑Sat Feb 29, 2020 2:47 pm Well, they can't play the 'nobody has died in the US' card anymore.
First US death in Washington state.
There goes the dam.hitbyambulance wrote: ↑Sat Feb 29, 2020 6:23 pm https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-ne ... ton-state/
dozens confirmed infected in Kirkland
wonder what work's going to be like on Monday...
last i heard this isn't North Korea (i read that their first CoViD-19 case was in fact executed upon diagnosis, but that _could_ be propaganda)Oregon elementary school shuts down employee diagnosed with presumptive case
That is not what the article says. 2 confirmed. 25 with symptoms.hitbyambulance wrote:https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-ne ... ton-state/
dozens confirmed infected in Kirkland
wonder what work's going to be like on Monday...
52 with symptoms, but yeah, not confirmed.noxiousdog wrote: ↑Sat Feb 29, 2020 8:51 pmThat is not what the article says. 2 confirmed. 25 with symptoms.hitbyambulance wrote:https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-ne ... ton-state/
dozens confirmed infected in Kirkland
wonder what work's going to be like on Monday...
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i'm just speaking from the future. seems reasonable to assume they'll be confirmed in a couple days.Blackhawk wrote: ↑Sat Feb 29, 2020 8:57 pm52 with symptoms, but yeah, not confirmed.noxiousdog wrote: ↑Sat Feb 29, 2020 8:51 pmThat is not what the article says. 2 confirmed. 25 with symptoms.hitbyambulance wrote:https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-ne ... ton-state/
dozens confirmed infected in Kirkland
wonder what work's going to be like on Monday...
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hitbyambulance wrote: ↑Sat Feb 29, 2020 9:35 pmi'm just speaking from the future. seems reasonable to assume they'll be confirmed in a couple days.
Test results are ~24 hours to confirm, so by tomorrow afternoon it should be known. I would be amazed if all 52 are positive, but any number is a non-good outcome in an isolated facility that's taking care of a high risk population. Also remember now that for those 25 employees, there's going to be follow up for all them (families, spouse/partner) along with any travel they did. Same for the 27 residents if they had visitors. Everyone they came in contact with over the last week, checking in with them to see if they have any symptoms. This is where things get overwhelmed quickly.At the Kirkland facility, 27 residents and 25 employees have symptoms.
Actually. I’m pretty sure I’d seek out medical help rather than self quarantine myself without help or worse, just chill with my family and risk killing them all???
Just because you have a fever and or cough does not mean you have the carona virus. You may get it if they put you in with those that do. No community has a hospital that has beds for every one who thinks they have it. Also if you do have a fever or cough already then you have already infected your family days before the symptoms showed up.Unagi wrote: ↑Sun Mar 01, 2020 10:25 amActually. I’m pretty sure I’d seek out medical help rather than self quarantine myself without help or worse, just chill with my family and risk killing them all???
I think you’re being absurd here.
“if a person is sick they will more than likely hide themselves and not tell anyone”
This isn’t the Walking Dead where someone is hiding a scratch.
So maybe the bad flu season isn't necessarily a "bad" flu season after all?
Of course.UsulofDoom wrote: ↑Sun Mar 01, 2020 1:18 pm Just because you have a fever and or cough does not mean you have the carona virus. You may get it if they put you in with those that do. No community has a hospital that has beds for every one who thinks they have it. Also if you do have a fever or cough already then you have already infected your family days before the symptoms showed up.
But clearly not the coolest one, or they would have linked to the KMFDM song. (Potentially NSFW for illustrated boobie cover art and characteristically inane lyrics.)Skinypupy wrote: ↑Sun Mar 01, 2020 6:08 pm Washington Post just linked to a Frontline Assembly song from 1990 (Virus) to "sum up the week".
This is truly the weirdest timeline ever.
Of course airplanes can spread coronavirus more quickly and more widely than fleas did, but the simple fact of modern medical knowledge means you're FAR better off vacationing in 2020 Wuhan than in 1348 Venice.
This sounds like someone at HHS randomly (?) selecting a site without checking current site status. Want more?Two HHS officials — Darcie Johnston, director of intergovernmental affairs, and Kevin Yeskey, principal deputy assistant secretary for preparedness and response — said in a Feb. 23 meeting with local officials that the patients would be flown from California to the Fort McClellan Army Airfield in Anniston, according to multiple local officials.
The airfield was closed when the Army base was shuttered in 1999. Local officials said they told the HHS officials during the meeting the runway was in bad shape.
Again, to me this sounds like federal agency that has been caught with its pants down and is scrambling to do something.The HHS plan also called for housing coronavirus patients at the Center for Domestic Preparedness, a FEMA facility on the old Army base and one of several redevelopment projects at the sprawling outpost.
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The dorms normally house emergency responders from around the country.
But the center doesn’t have any special capabilities for handling infectious diseases, local officials said. The center is used for training. It has isolation hospital rooms — located in a former Army hospital building — but they are mostly just props, with fake equipment and light switches that exist only as paint on walls.
Meanwhile, federal officials never contacted the town’s hospital, Regional Medical Center, about handling covid-19 patients, said Louis Bass, the hospital’s chief executive.
A Poll in today’s New York Post says that 77% of “U.S. adults have confidence in their government’s ability to handle the Coronavirus (Number One), compared to other health threats.” 64% for Zika, 58% for Ebola. Others way down on list. Our professionals are doing a great job!
At NYU Brooklyn, they put him in isolation, and ran a battery of tests for other things - all negative. Then, per protocol, they called the CDC, because NYU Suspect COVID-19, but the CDC said no.
The CDC says they thought he wasn't sick enough - even though public health experts say most coronavirus cases are more minor, and it flies in the face of what the CDC said on a press call on Friday.
The CDC has mistakenly released a patient from the Texas Center for Infectious Disease whose test later came back positive for COVID-19, says San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg.
The patient was part of the group that came back from Wuhan, China over two weeks ago via a State Department chartered flight. According to the CDC, the patient was asymptomatic and had met all of the CDC's criteria for release. Two tests, taken 24 hours apart, had tested negative for the virus and the CDC cleared the patient. However, a later test sample came back and was determined to be "weakly" positive for COVID-19.
I will never again think it totally implausible when I'm watching a zombie movie and they talk about the government inaction making it worse. Instead I'll be grimacing.Smoove_B wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2020 7:59 pm Case in point:
This is not normal. I have no point of comparison for this, but it's pants-on-head insane.Rep. John Garamendi (D-Calif.) on Friday said the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases was told to "stand down" and not appear on five Sunday morning talk shows to discuss the coronavirus.
Garamendi told MSNBC's Hallie Jackson that Anthony Fauci was scheduled to do all five major Sunday talk shows, but says Fauci canceled the appearances after Vice President Pence took over the administration's response to the disease.
I just got around to reading that WaPo piece. I wish I could say it was shocking. It's just the natural course of the GOP's and particularly this President's flight from science and valuing loyalty above competence. This is his Katrina moment and I hope it won't get people killed but that seems unlikely. Meanwhile he's sitting around bitching on Twitter about the Dems.Smoove_B wrote: ↑Sun Mar 01, 2020 11:12 pm As mentioned, I've been part of numerous tabletop exercises. I've sat on emergency preparedness committees. This is way above my pay grade, but I cannot make sense of it:
This week is going to be great. Buckle up.
And I’m sure the airline industry felt it then too.