COVID-19 Coronavirus UPDATES, BANS, CLOSURES, ADVISORY, etc.

[Mekaniks]

My favorite local watering hole and restaurant is offering To-Go and take n bake curb side service. So last night we ordered 1 doz oysters on the half shell, taken bake lasagna with garlic bread and a family salad. Called it in and picked it up 15 min later curb side outside the restaurant. We are gonna eat on that lasagna all weekend!

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SMALL BUSINESSES

 

[Wheels]

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I’ve been thinking a lot about the test kits. Everyone likes to point to Korea as a shining example, but consider that Korea is half the size of Washington state alone and has all of its 55 mil citizens in that space. The US is about 100x larger with 7x the population. It’s simply impossible to expect the same kind os response given the challenges that causes.

True.

My frustration is that the CDC tried to micromanage the testing process 2-3 weeks. They didn't have the facilities for the volume needed nor did they have tests working properly. The 2-3 weeks were wasted time which will cause Americas numbers to be much worse than it would have been otherwise.

 

[Royal27]

 

[Bignut]

I actually see it slightly differently. It took 14 weeks to find out 125k were infected, it took 9 days more to find out 250k were infected. The difference is testing. There were not 125k brand-spanking new cases in 9 days, there were already there. They were just quantified.

semantics, maybe, but I think it’s important to understand not all of these infections are novel, they’ve been out there already for some time.

Exactly my thoughts..

 

[baxterb]

Really interesting articles regarding Italy:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-...se/have-many-coronavirus-patients-died-italy/

Read the whole thing, but a very interesting pgf:

“On re-evaluation by the National Institute of Health, only 12 per cent of death certificates have shown a direct causality from coronavirus, while 88 per cent of patients who have died have at least one pre-morbidity - many had two or three,” he says.”

If a person dies while having CV, CV is listed as a cause of death. CV may have been the nail in the coffin, but good grief, it’s not quite how it’s represented.

we really have to get a handle on this damn thing, we are potentially making decisions based on grave assumptions.

 

[Pheroze]

The USA is moving up the ladder with the number of new infections.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

 

[baxterb]

The USA is moving up the ladder with the number of new infections.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Again, this is because we are testing much more aggressively now. It’s expected. Given that CV has likely been here since late Nov/early Dec, we are only catching up to what we kind of already know.

 

[Ridge Runner]

.....Anybody else curious?....
With all mainstream media spending most of their news time on the Coronavirus.... and very little time about local, state and other news stories...... Wonder what devious bills, laws, and corrupt acts Congress is doing and keeping the American people from finding out about?

 

[Brent in Az]

FDA just approved a Coronavirus test kit, that produces results in 45 minutes.

 

[Pheroze]

Again, this is because we are testing much more aggressively now. It’s expected. Given that CV has likely been here since late Nov/early Dec, we are only catching up to what we kind of already know.

I am not sure that makes sense. The infection incubates and then fulminates for a limited period of time. So, doing more testing will only catch more if there are more incubating. It's not like they sit around dormant for weeks waiting to be tested.

 

[baxterb]

I am not sure that makes sense. The infection incubates and then fulminates for a limited period of time. So, doing more testing will only catch more if there are more incubating. It's not like they sit around dormant for weeks waiting to be tested.

In a way they do. Onset of symptoms is 2-14 days from exposure, people can test + for probably close to 3-3.5 weeks Depending on when your dr says to get tested. Testing is only done on symptomatic pts, and the rate of testing is increasing. This, along with demand for testing is simply putting a number to a previously unknown quantity. The number of infected still rises a an unknown amount, but testing shoots up. Seattle is reporting something like 3k test results per day now with about 7% CV+. When they started testing, they only reported about 300 results per day. So, with a 10x increase in testing ability over an average incubation period (which is about what it’s been) positives increase very quickly.

 

[spike.t]

I think a nice simple explanation

 

[Edster]

.....Anybody else curious?....
With all mainstream media spending most of their news time on the Coronavirus.... and very little time about local, state and other news stories...... Wonder what devious bills, laws, and corrupt acts Congress is doing and keeping the American people from finding out about?

Check out HR 5717

 

[BRICKBURN]

This one opened my eyes momentarily until I read the entire page.


"Naming the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and the virus that causes it
Official names have been announced for the virus responsible for COVID-19 (previously known as “2019 novel coronavirus”) and the disease it causes. The official names are:

Disease
coronavirus disease
(COVID-19)

Virus
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2)

Why do the virus and the disease have different names?
Viruses, and the diseases they cause, often have different names. For example, HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. People often know the name of a disease, such as measles, but not the name of the virus that causes it (rubeola).

There are different processes, and purposes, for naming viruses and diseases.

Viruses are named based on their genetic structure to facilitate the development of diagnostic tests, vaccines and medicines. Virologists and the wider scientific community do this work, so viruses are named by the WHO Director-General's remarks at the media on 11 February 2020

• WHO Situation Report on 11 February 2020

WHO and ICTV were in communication about the naming of both the virus and the disease.


What name does WHO use for the virus?
From a risk communications perspective, using the name SARS can have unintended consequences in terms of creating unnecessary fear for some populations, especially in Asia which was worst affected by the SARS outbreak in 2003.

For that reason and others, WHO has begun referring to the virus as “the virus responsible for COVID-19” or “the COVID-19 virus” when communicating with the public. Neither of these designations are intended as replacements for the official name of the virus as agreed by the ICTV.

Material published before the virus was officially named will not be updated unless necessary in order to avoid confusion."

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/technical-guidance/naming-the-coronavirus-disease-(covid-2019)-and-the-virus-that-causes-it

 

[LivingTheDream]

The USA is moving up the ladder with the number of new infections.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

What is a bit scary there is the 46 new cases in China...it had been quiet for a few days with no new cases, if there is a second wave this is going to be bad.

If you look at the US, we actually had a drop day to day in new cases for the first time. Need to see what the day brings but if new cases remain steady we might be at the top of curve. Still way to soon to tell but took it as something positive.

 

[Wheels]

No clue what to make of this information.



The Closing of 21 Million Cell Phone Accounts in China May Suggest a High CCP Virus Death Toll
Over 21 million cell phone accounts in China were canceled in the past three months while 840,000 landlines ...
MARCH 22, 2020BY NICOLE HAO

 

[baxterb]

What is a bit scary there is the 46 new cases in China...it had been quiet for a few days with no new cases, if there is a second wave this is going to be bad.

If you look at the US, we actually had a drop day to day in new cases for the first time. Need to see what the day brings but if new cases remain steady we might be at the top of curve. Still way to soon to tell but took it as something positive.

I’m pretty sure China has suppressed the numbers and are leaking them out a little bit because the world got suspicious. They have a history of this. Even WHO tweeted out their propaganda on jan14 that preliminary results from Chinese researchers showed the virus was not human-human transmissible. They knew it was way before that.

 

[Royal27]

No clue what to make of this information.



The Closing of 21 Million Cell Phone Accounts in China May Suggest a High CCP Virus Death Toll
Over 21 million cell phone accounts in China were canceled in the past three months while 840,000 landlines ...
MARCH 22, 2020BY NICOLE HAO

Need a baseline ..... No idea how high 21 million is?

I couldn't read the article without signing up, which I didn't do.

 

[EricB]

Check out HR 5717

There's only one response to that if it passes.

 

[spike.t]

No clue what to make of this information.



The Closing of 21 Million Cell Phone Accounts in China May Suggest a High CCP Virus Death Toll
Over 21 million cell phone accounts in China were canceled in the past three months while 840,000 landlines ...
MARCH 22, 2020BY NICOLE HAO

Maybe couldn't pay their accounts.... Can't see the powers in China allowing any leeway...... Just a thought.....