***NON-POLITICAL COVID-19 Discussion Thread***

[JakeF]

A couple of reminders...

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.”

[KCUnited]

There were a dozen cars in the Starbucks drive thru line when I went to Home Depot at 1pm today. No one is getting hassled unless you're standing around in groups.

[petegz28]

Birx just said in NY 28% of the specimens submitted for testing are positive whereas the rest of the country only about 8% are positive.

[BigRedChief]

#BREAKING Arizona man dies after self-medicating trying to prevent COVID-19. He and a woman ingested chloroquine phosphate, a chemical used to clean fish tanks. The woman is in critical condition. #12News https://t.co/y29rGmhjJY

— Bianca Buono (@BiancaBuono) March 23, 2020

[Donger]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-..._outbreak_2019

In New York, a lawyer contracted the illness then spread it to at least twenty other individuals in his community in New Rochelle, creating a cluster of cases that quickly passed 100,[20] accounting for more than half of SARS2 coronavirus cases in the state.[21] For comparison, the basic reproduction number of the virus, which is the average number of additional people that a single case will infect without any preventative measures, is between 1.4 and 3.9

[TLO]

Originally Posted by BleedingRed

https://twitter.com/S3Alkenani/statu...02385012240384

A great early result from a drug that will start tomorrow in New York and other places! #COVIDー19 https://t.co/4F4Qk4WFtK

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 23, 2020

Hydroxychloroquine, Azithromycin combination effective against COVID-19#CoronavirusPandemic #Covid_19india #COVID19outbreak #coronaupdatesindia #Hydroxychloroquine #Azithromycin https://t.co/ocXnDoBcDk

— India TV (@indiatvnews) March 22, 2020

[stumppy]

Originally Posted by BigRedChief

#BREAKING Arizona man dies after self-medicating trying to prevent COVID-19. He and a woman ingested chloroquine phosphate, a chemical used to clean fish tanks. The woman is in critical condition. #12News https://t.co/y29rGmhjJY

— Bianca Buono (@BiancaBuono) March 23, 2020

That can be blamed on Darwin.

[petegz28]

313,000 people have been tested with 41,000 positive

[notorious]

Originally Posted by BigRedChief

#BREAKING Arizona man dies after self-medicating trying to prevent COVID-19. He and a woman ingested chloroquine phosphate, a chemical used to clean fish tanks. The woman is in critical condition. #12News https://t.co/y29rGmhjJY

— Bianca Buono (@BiancaBuono) March 23, 2020

****ing morons will figure out a way to kill themselves.

[TLO]

Originally Posted by petegz28

313,000 people have been tested with 41,000 positive

Do you have state by state data by chance?

[Discuss Thrower]

Facebook stashed hundreds of thousands of N95 masks.

Whewww

[TLO]

Originally Posted by petegz28

Birx just said in NY 28% of the specimens submitted for testing are positive whereas the rest of the country only about 8% are positive.

Geeeez...

[petegz28]

Originally Posted by TLO

Do you have state by state data by chance?

No. Just reporting what VP Pence just stated at his presser

[TLO]

There was a woman in her 30's that died from this in St. Louis today. I read somewhere she had cancer, but the site I read that on has since removed the article. Do we know if that's true?

I suppose it doesn't really matter one way or the other though.

[oaklandhater]

https://www.usatoday.com/opinion/

We need an immediate five-week national lockdown to defeat coronavirus in America

Locking down the country would reduce infections and allow time for massive testing. There will be staggering human and economic costs if we delay.


I am an MIT-trained physicist and complexity scientist who studies pandemics. I have warned about global pandemics due to increasing travel for 15 years. I recommended community-based monitoring of symptoms to stop Ebola in West Africa in 2014, and it worked. The fastest and even the only way to contain COVID-19 in the United States is a five-week national lockdown.

Closing schools, bars and movie theaters are good measures, but not enough. Our relaxed approach to social distancing is insufficient to stop the exponential growth of COVID-19. Until Americans consistently adopt strong social distancing recommendations — a lockdown — the disease will continue to spread exponentially.

During a five-week national lockdown, federal, state and local authorities would ensure that all Americans stay home except to obtain food and other essentials, access medical care or do work essential to the functioning of society. Travel would cease: We would close our borders and airports and prohibit all unnecessary travel across state and county (or town) lines within the United States. The U.S. government would have to provide aid to citizens separated from their sources of income and ensure care for vulnerable members of society.

Lockdown would sharply reduce cases
During the first two weeks of a lockdown, infected individuals will either recover from mild cases of COVID-19 at home or seek medical attention for the 14% of cases that are severe. During the third, fourth and fifth weeks, any newly infected family or cohabitants of infected individuals will recover or seek medical attention, and their isolation will prevent further spreading. By the end of the lockdown, the number of infections will be a small fraction of what they are now.


does anyone still not want a lockdown seeing italy and spain's numbers trending down.

[Mr_Tomahawk]

Goddamnit