VA: First COVID-19 Case Confirmed
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Anonymous
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2 new cases in Fairfax county. A 20 something year old and someone in their 60s.
https://patch.com/virginia/mclean/s/h1oz1/2-cases-new-coronavirus-identified-fairfax-county |
Anonymous
Nope. Did you watch the press conference? When the reporter specifically asked how the person from NC contracted the virus (was it international travel, did she have direct contact with someone, or was it community spread) the health dept lady couldn't even get out a full sentence without several stammers and bumbles then went when she finally got her bearings she went on and on about something unrelated to the question. It goes against what they're saying about lack of community spread. |
Anonymous
| I thought the Virginia woman went to the biogen conference in Boston and that’s how she got it. |
Anonymous
Why won’t they identify where these people live and where they’ve been? This is how countries like South Korea are staying on top of this virus. |
Anonymous
They both got it from a family member in NC who got it at the conference in Boston. Somehow. |
Anonymous
Nope. You're going to hear a lot about the coronavirus for the next few months, including from people like me who have been talking about it forever because it's what I studied in school. I don't care about being cooler/smaller/better-- but apparently you do. |
Anonymous
No, because now we need to heal from being laughed at and not heard. |
Anonymous
Yes, but how? And are they actually related? Why are the two only being referred to as working in Tysons? Why the hell can't everything be more transparent? If, God forbid, I get this virus. I will be posting on social media and letting everyone I know that I have it and where all I've been so others can at least be aware in case they were in the same places I had been in. |
Anonymous
I agree the thread was hard to follow. But I believe she said the NC woman went to Boston from NC and back to NC (no stop in Fairfax). If that is true, her spouse and the other family member must have visited her. (This seems odd but that's what was said.) The younger case in 20's (possibly a child of the couple), was out and about quite a bit (contact at home/work/community) and they are doing doing contact tracing based on the names provided by the victim and won't give the locations. In my opinion, this is faulty reasoning because the locations matter when the virus can live on surfaces. We know the work location because that was in the earlier post about the Tysons building being cleaned. |
Anonymous
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CNN report about possible CIA employee in area but not at Langley (must scroll down to read)
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-outbreak-03-13-20-intl-hnk/index.html |
Anonymous
| Not a lot of info on the VDH site, but it is concerning that 35% are hospitalized. And we are only just beginning to test. |
Anonymous
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6 of 17 VA cases hospitalized. http://www.vdh.virginia.gov/surveillance-and-investigation/novel-coronavirus/ Different sources, but only 10 cases in the whole country are considered "serious/critical." So hospitalized includes "mild" cases. I'm having trouble getting my head around this because to me being hospitalized seems serious; recovering at home seems "mild." |
Anonymous
Funny thing you should ask.... seem that “mild “cases are not so mild at all if you can end up hospitalized and or with pneumonia. Dr. Bruce Aylward, of the W.H.O., In the interview with NY Times stated https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/health/coronavirus-china-aylward.html (...) Q: What were mild, severe and critical? A: No. “Mild” was a positive test, fever, cough - maybe even pneumonia.  :
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/coronavirus-qu...covid19-symptoms-deaths-spread During infection, the virus that causes COVID-19 attacks cells within the respiratory tract, particularly the lungs. As these cells die, they fill the airway with fluids and debris while the virus continues to replicate — making it hard to breathe. The presence of dying cells and a replicating virus spark the immune system to react to the infectious intruder. Immune cells then flood the lungs to repair damaged tissues and wipe out the virus. While the immune response to the virus is generally highly controlled, it can sometimes go berserk and cause its own damage to healthy cells as well as dying ones. A flood of signals from the immune system, called a cytokine storm, can damage the lungs and cause respiratory failure, and can also harm other organs, leading to multiorgan failure. So......OP, if you thing that mild case is a light cold then think again because this thing is a war on your body, even in mild cases. besides confirmed damage to lungs and immune system, kidney, liver, gallbladder, brain matter, cardiovascular system, spleen, etc ... wait for it.... there is more!!! Just posted on another thread: recently discovered damage to central nervous system: in China they found virus in the cerebrospinal fluid of a male patient- he recovered, not sure about sequela And we still do not know all about the possible long term damage. |
Anonymous
| No updates on Virginia? |
Anonymous
| Where are those million tests? I thought it was supposed to go up to 4m tests this week. |