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Not to mention it was offered a working commercially available test by WHO, well before the CDC's test was ready, and it was declined.

People always make light of or find excuse for incompetency as if there’s always someone waiting in the background to fill the gap. IMO that is the single most important quality needed in our leaders. US’s race to the bottom in dealing with Covid-19 outbreak is a prime example. I’m praying there’s still tiny window of time left to flatten the curve enough so that our healthcare system is not overwhelmed.

BTW, in 2018, entire Pandemic response chain of command was fired to save money.
 
People always make light of or find excuse for incompetency as if there’s always someone waiting in the background to fill the gap. IMO that is the single most important quality needed in our leaders. US’s race to the bottom in dealing with Covid-19 outbreak is a prime example. I’m praying there’s still tiny window of time left to flatten the curve enough so that our healthcare system is not overwhelmed.

BTW, in 2018, entire Pandemic response chain of command was fired to save money.

Exactamundo.
 
Just watched Gavin Newsom's press conference on the 12th of March. CA had, as of that date, 8227 tests for a state of ~40,000,000 people.

Also, some of the local state labs had a no. of kits to do the RT-PCR detection step of the test, but CDC did not provide the RNA Extraction reagents required to extract the viral RNA to be able to actually do the RT-PCR detection step.

CDC drops the ball once again...
 
Found this on Facebook. Sobering.

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Take care pls!

Soren
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Bay Area will be virtually locked down, effective midnight today. You can only go out for grocery/food and medical appointments/pharmacy runs.
 
Did you see any of this hysteria, or press coverage, last 'flu season' when '61000 people died in the USA of influenza, and millions worldwide..?..Covid 19 is an upper respiratory, infection, that to date, has a morbidity and mortality rate approaching the flu. There is no reason, currently,. for any of the panic that is press driven in this country. People are going to die but the average healthy person, if they contract the disease may not even have significant symptoms.It is too early to in the disease to say whether contracting the virus will give you immunity going forward.This virus, like most viruses, is able to mutate. What will probably happen is that the CDC and labs across the country will come up with an immunization, possibly yearly, that will confer at least partial protection...like the current flu shot. The reality is that < 50% of people that are offered the flu shot don't get it..Dont forget to buy extra 'toilet paper;...

There is reason to panic. I am an emergency medicine doctor in the front lines. I am 61 have well controlled diabetes and hypertension along with adult onset asthma. My risk of dying from the virus is 10-15%. If I was 70 or older it would be about 20% with my risk factors. And most people that are 50 or older have one or more risk factors like hypertension, coronary heart disease, diabetes, COPD or Emphysema, kidney disease or any one of several autoimmune diseases. The virus is more virulent than the flu. And contrary to your statement about mutation. The virus mutates very little so far.

Currently, there are 2 Emergency Medicine doctors that are in the intensive care unit with the virus. One is in his 40's with no comorbid risk factors, the other one in in his 60's. The virus does impart at least partial immunity. However, there are a few patients in Japan that have become re-infected with the virus. The virus has a much higher mortality than the flu. 20% that get it will require hospitalization and a significant percentage of that will require the ICU and ventilator support.

Today, about 340 people died overnight in Italy.
 
There is reason to panic. I am an emergency medicine doctor in the front lines. I am 61 have well controlled diabetes and hypertension along with adult onset asthma. My risk of dying from the virus is 10-15%. If I was 70 or older it would be about 20% with my risk factors. And most people that are 50 or older have one or more risk factors like hypertension, coronary heart disease, diabetes, COPD or Emphysema, kidney disease or any one of several autoimmune diseases. The virus is more virulent than the flu. And contrary to your statement about mutation. The virus mutates very little so far.

Currently, there are 2 Emergency Medicine doctors that are in the intensive care unit with the virus. One is in his 40's with no comorbid risk factors, the other one in in his 60's. The virus does impart at least partial immunity. However, there are a few patients in Japan that have become re-infected with the virus. The virus has a much higher mortality than the flu. 20% that get it will require hospitalization and a significant percentage of that will require the ICU and ventilator support.

Today, about 340 people died overnight in Italy.

Hi Mechnutt, your comments are bang-on. I'm not a physician, but I have degree in microbiology, and I was a molecular biologist/geneticist that developed molecular diagnostics tests during my career in Biotech.

With respect to the lethality index, SARS-CoV-2 is ~34X as deadly as Influenza B H3N2.

You should look into using hydroxyquinolone in conjunction with Zn++ as a prophylactic measure. The hydroxyquinolone functions as an ionophore into the cell wall and allows passage of zinc into the cell. The zinc is a strong inhibitor of the RNA dependent RNA polymerase (aka RNA replicase) that the virus uses to replicate itself. 400-500 mg of hydroxyquinolone 2X a day combined with zinc cold lozenges should work...

Cheers,
Stephen aka PC
 
Thanks PC. I am aware of the hydroxychloroquine and will take it if I come down with it along with zinc. Zinc tears up my stomach though.

Larry
 
I am scared. Both my wife and I feel fine tonight. Regular body temps each. No symptoms otherwise.

I live in a hot spot. Eagle County, CO. I am very spooked and entirely-mentally-exhausted living the -7 days (incubation) without knowledge of my health going forward. The doctor my wife works with (a specialist doctor office) is across the hall from the largest primary care provider in the area. Last week they had several full-gown-gear EMT extractions from that primary care office of affected patients to better facilities. My wife's office has been upholding all the CDPHE regs as they come out for directives and they have limited their patients to emergent-only cases and/or pre/post op visits. This is good.

That's not enough for me.

At home, we've been going insane with the clean hands, clean faucet, clean door knobs, clean light switches, edges of doors, key fobs, everything brought from the grocery, grocery bags, car door handles, steering wheel, gear shift, everything we touch, etc. It is difficult to keep up but we must. I WANT AND NEED FOR MY MIND to know that I am safe in my house and not have the need for both of us to wonder if today is actually day-1-exposure for either of us. Especially given that she has been going to work each day last week and today whereas I work from home remotely.

In the past 10 days, I've gone out as little as needed due to this bug and been very regimented in my hand cleaning and awareness of handling/touching things then cleaning whatever afterwards.

I'm pressing my wife to remain home with me for the full 14+ day recommended duration starting tomorrow. I must break this cycle of not knowing if either of us might be sick and not know it. Its the responsible thing to do. We need our day 1. We will know more about us by day 5. Even more by day 10 and by day 14 we can then deal with the real work going forward.

My plan is to self isolate both she and I for the next 14 days. I don't know how her doctor is going to take the news, but I must.

We will go for walks with the dog, hang at home and do catch up things here and venture out as needed for necessities and when we arrive at our destination, we'll don N95 masks, protective latex gloves, minimizing time in any given store and keeping the 6' rule in check.

Please everyone. Don't fuck around.


This was yesterday and a whole lot has changed since then:
https://kdvr.com/news/coronavirus/c...nities-to-minimize-contact-with-other-people/
 
Italy, Spain and France in essential lockdown. From today 14:00 hrs. onwards France has imposed a nationwide curfew. All European borders closed. In Germany group leisure activities forbidden by law, all public gatherings incl. religious ones stopped. Restaurants ordered to close.

Interesting to see how this pens out in the US where there is no comparable national health care system, which shoulders the pandemic everywhere else.


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This is an interesting read:

Why Telling People They Don’t Need Masks Backfired
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/opinion/coronavirus-face-masks.html

Here is the deal about masks. The virus is transmitted by droplet not bare virus. So basic surgical masks work. However, they do leak around the edges. N95 masks seal better and health care workers are supposed to be Fit tested as the N95's come in 3 different sizes. Fit testing is a 15 minute procedure. They will not work if you have a beard. N95's cannot filter out the bare viral particles, they are too small. They were made for Tuberculosis.

The reason that the public should not be hoarding N95 masks is that health care workers need them. I guarantee that if we run out of masks that I and every other health care worker will not be taking care of you if you are sick with the virus or for suspected virus.

Another reason that the masks are futile is because you need full eye protection with goggles not glasses.

Another thing about masks, if they become contaminated and you touch them, you will get the virus. Same goes for your clothes, shoes, etc..

That is why when we go in to see a patient with a cough, fever or shortness of breath, we wear full body protection. When we leave the room, it all gets taken off and thrown out and then when we go back in the room with the same patient we have to put on all new protection gear.

If you think you have the virus, please go to a drive up testing station and stay out of the clinics and hospitals unless you are having difficulty breathing or think you have pneumonia. There is nothing we can do to treat mild cases of COVID19.
 
Great vid !

Quarantined Italians Send a Message to Themselves from 10 Days Ago: What They Wish They Knew Then

 
You have actually surpassed Italy.
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