VA: First COVID-19 Case Confirmed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are they just testing hospitalized patients? I feel like it’s very underreported and VA has not been as forthcoming with info.

In case you are just tuning in you are in the company of many who share your feelings since January 21..

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The news reports with “from international travel” are ridiculous. When you’re only testing people that meet the international travel to specific countries criteria, then of course the presumed positives are “from international travel”.

The Georgetown one is an exception and that was only tested because of the connection with that case.

The Georgetown rector had no travel, how was he able to get tested?

Miracle. He is well connected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The news reports with “from international travel” are ridiculous. When you’re only testing people that meet the international travel to specific countries criteria, then of course the presumed positives are “from international travel”.

The Georgetown one is an exception and that was only tested because of the connection with that case.

The Georgetown rector had no travel, how was he able to get tested?

Miracle. He is well connected.

From what I hear it is probably that he contracted it from a conference of Episcopalians in Kentucky that he attended in February. A few of the attendees from all over the country have tested positive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The news reports with “from international travel” are ridiculous. When you’re only testing people that meet the international travel to specific countries criteria, then of course the presumed positives are “from international travel”.

The Georgetown one is an exception and that was only tested because of the connection with that case.

The Georgetown rector had no travel, how was he able to get tested?

Miracle. He is well connected.

My educated guess: Telltale signs on his CT scan image + hush hush informal contact tracing info from the conference he attended.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Am I the only one concerned by our lack of more results today? To me this is just another confirmation of inadequate testing...

No you aren't. It is not conceivable that we've only gone up by 1 since yesterday. If Virginia's only had capacity to test 200-300 people a day they haven't been testing nearly enough. There are more out there. I'm not relying on # of confirmed cases

Per day? It sounds like the state of Virginia only has 300-400 test kits total right now.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/virginias-governor-gives-coronavirus-update-after-8-people-test-positive/2237298/%3famp

You could be right about that. During the press conference I interpreted it as a daily capacity number, but not so sure now. And I obviously couldn't remember if it was 200-300 or 300-400

Remember the old days when people criticized China messing with numbers... and nobody believed their testing....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The news reports with “from international travel” are ridiculous. When you’re only testing people that meet the international travel to specific countries criteria, then of course the presumed positives are “from international travel”.

The Georgetown one is an exception and that was only tested because of the connection with that case.

The Georgetown rector had no travel, how was he able to get tested?

Miracle. He is well connected.

My educated guess: Telltale signs on his CT scan image + hush hush informal contact tracing info from the conference he attended.

What is the takeaway?... Testing at this time..still mot for your average Joe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Am I the only one concerned by our lack of more results today? To me this is just another confirmation of inadequate testing...

No you aren't. It is not conceivable that we've only gone up by 1 since yesterday. If Virginia's only had capacity to test 200-300 people a day they haven't been testing nearly enough. There are more out there. I'm not relying on # of confirmed cases

Per day? It sounds like the state of Virginia only has 300-400 test kits total right now.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/virginias-governor-gives-coronavirus-update-after-8-people-test-positive/2237298/%3famp

You could be right about that. During the press conference I interpreted it as a daily capacity number, but not so sure now. And I obviously couldn't remember if it was 200-300 or 300-400

Remember the old days when people criticized China messing with numbers... and nobody believed their testing....

Yeah. We make China look extremely forthcoming.

[Anonymous]

Anyone know anything about the new case in Alexandria?

[Anonymous]

It’s 300-400 people in VA who can be tested *total* and they are hoping for 200 more kits. Unbelievable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s 300-400 people in VA who can be tested *total* and they are hoping for 200 more kits. Unbelievable.

Mike "one million tests by Monday" Pence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s 300-400 people in VA who can be tested *total* and they are hoping for 200 more kits. Unbelievable.

[Anonymous]

Every single state health department, state governors should be sounding the alarm bell for lack of testing. This is ridiculous. Given that the main response to this is ramping up the testing, it's crazy that the "greatest nation on the earth" can't even come close to the amount of testing that other nations have done to respond to this.

[Anonymous]

The US needs to buy tests and any equipment needed to process the tests and figure out how to bypass FDA refs that would slow that down. Immediately.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The US needs to buy tests and any equipment needed to process the tests and figure out how to bypass FDA refs that would slow that down. Immediately.

Edited to say buy from South Korea which can test 20k a day

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The US needs to buy tests and any equipment needed to process the tests and figure out how to bypass FDA refs that would slow that down. Immediately.

The US is doing a piss poor job of testing but the DMV seems even worse. And Virginia seems to be lagging behind even more...