DC: First COVID-19 Case Confirmed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trump is only worried about the stock market. A just wait until everything implodes and Trump hangs Pence out to dry. He’ll be blamed, dismissed as VP and Trump will try to get a female running mate, ideally a woman of color.

My money's on Nikki Haley.
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/485562-cnns-begala-trump-will-dump-pence-for-haley-on-day-of-democratic-nominees

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Anonymous wrote:Guessing we?ll be at about 500,000 cases by April. Where will people be treated?

500,000 cases, only a few thousand needing hospital treatment. By mid April people will realize NBD.

500,000 by April is 2 million by early May. With 20% requiring hospitalization and poof--not a single open hospital bed in the USA.

Numbers don?t indefinitely trend upwards. China has barely any new cases, and South Korea now also seeing a decline.

Cite?

Read the news!! Who are all you people posting on this thread, who can't even keep up with the basic headlines? FFS.

But here you go:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2020/03/09/coronavirus-international-developments/4998528002/

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/09/asia/south-korea-coronavirus-intl-hnk/index.html

They want it NOT to be true. Trust me on this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry if this has been asked before but what is the most efficient way to start pressuring DC to actually start testing and expand testing guidelines. Call the mayor's office"

We don't have tests because the Federal government didn't plan ahead months ago when this started. They wanted to develop their own test. Now, we don't have testing capabilities. So, people are walking around infected instead of staying inside.

Interesting. Do you really want to be dependent on tests from a country who is withholding masks and threatening to withhold antibiotics? CDC screwed up the reagent. That's why we are short. That's on them.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry if this has been asked before but what is the most efficient way to start pressuring DC to actually start testing and expand testing guidelines. Call the mayor's office"

We don't have tests because the Federal government didn't plan ahead months ago when this started. They wanted to develop their own test. Now, we don't have testing capabilities. So, people are walking around infected instead of staying inside.

But supposedly we have the ability to test 50/day. I realize that's laughable, but we're not even doing that. As of Friday DC has run only 9 tests. total. Presumably a few more this weekend given the Georgetown reverend and his family.

Because the locals don't have their sh*t together. Read @raheemkassam 's thread on Twitter. He's going through it now.

[Anonymous]

I can’t believe one city/country has caused so much issues for others. I feel sorry for all who suffered and love ones lost. Terrible situation and it seems the econ is the worry for that country. But more of their stuff.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else find the DC response completely lacking? There is no game plan, no coordination, no messaging, like wtf are we doing? what are we supposed to be doing?

We don't have to panic, but I also don't think we should be allowed to carry on like nothing is going on. But I think that IS the plan- carry on like nothing is going on and hope it goes away until there are more positives, more deaths, and we hit a crisis.

This. The silence is deafening. Wtf? Bowser needs to step up.

The federal government too - they need to issue some guidelines to schools and businesses regarding how to handle contacts of confirmed cases.

The problem is, though, that there's hardly any testing capacity to test everyone who should be tested. Eventually everyone is going to know someone who has it - are we all going to just stay home?

We should be testing and staying home now. I don't think Trump can be directly blamed for the CDC f-ing up the testing, but he can be directly blamed for everything since, especially the lack of messaging and contradictory messaging.

That doesn't excuse state and local governments from the head-in-the-sand approach. There should be requirements of anyone in contact with the church rector and parishioners to quarantine. Instead, there was no official information about the identity of the rector, nothing. Just assurance that the cherry blossom festival will go on.

I can't tell if it's political- ignore it and it will hopefully go away - or if it is incompetence. So many failures.

Trump's messaging has been on par with what's coming out of S. Korea (the downramping of death rates, etc). The WHO was screaming 3.7% death rate and Trump was trying to give the proper stat of 1% or less, which WAS being said by other more reliable sources than China's data.

BTW, I just saw this AM a newsbar that said the Chinese open air markets had measurable coronavirus in the air directly inside. If the Chinese would be more responsible with, well, freaking EVERYTHING, then they would not be the #1 exporter of all these deadly diseases. They are the real issue, not Trump. You all just are so blinded by hate you don't want to hear that.

People need to stop with this. The truth is, these are two different kinds of statistics: case fatality rate (percentage of confirmed cases that end in death), and mortality rate (number of deaths divided by number of infections). We don't have enough data to calculate the mortality rate yet. What we have is a CFR, which by definition is going to be higher than a MR.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else find the DC response completely lacking? There is no game plan, no coordination, no messaging, like wtf are we doing? what are we supposed to be doing?

We don't have to panic, but I also don't think we should be allowed to carry on like nothing is going on. But I think that IS the plan- carry on like nothing is going on and hope it goes away until there are more positives, more deaths, and we hit a crisis.

This. The silence is deafening. Wtf? Bowser needs to step up.

The federal government too - they need to issue some guidelines to schools and businesses regarding how to handle contacts of confirmed cases.

The problem is, though, that there's hardly any testing capacity to test everyone who should be tested. Eventually everyone is going to know someone who has it - are we all going to just stay home?

We should be testing and staying home now. I don't think Trump can be directly blamed for the CDC f-ing up the testing, but he can be directly blamed for everything since, especially the lack of messaging and contradictory messaging.

That doesn't excuse state and local governments from the head-in-the-sand approach. There should be requirements of anyone in contact with the church rector and parishioners to quarantine. Instead, there was no official information about the identity of the rector, nothing. Just assurance that the cherry blossom festival will go on.

I can't tell if it's political- ignore it and it will hopefully go away - or if it is incompetence. So many failures.

Trump's messaging has been on par with what's coming out of S. Korea (the downramping of death rates, etc). The WHO was screaming 3.7% death rate and Trump was trying to give the proper stat of 1% or less, which WAS being said by other more reliable sources than China's data.

BTW, I just saw this AM a newsbar that said the Chinese open air markets had measurable coronavirus in the air directly inside. If the Chinese would be more responsible with, well, freaking EVERYTHING, then they would not be the #1 exporter of all these deadly diseases. They are the real issue, not Trump. You all just are so blinded by hate you don't want to hear that.

People need to stop with this. The truth is, these are two different kinds of statistics: case fatality rate (percentage of confirmed cases that end in death), and mortality rate (number of deaths divided by number of infections). We don't have enough data to calculate the mortality rate yet. What we have is a CFR, which by definition is going to be higher than a MR.

I think we're allowed to be concerned that even if the mortality rate is near 1%, that's 10x higher than the flu. Meaning close to a million people may die in one season of this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Guessing we?ll be at about 500,000 cases by April. Where will people be treated?

500,000 cases, only a few thousand needing hospital treatment. By mid April people will realize NBD.

500,000 by April is 2 million by early May. With 20% requiring hospitalization and poof--not a single open hospital bed in the USA.

Numbers don?t indefinitely trend upwards. China has barely any new cases, and South Korea now also seeing a decline.

Cite?

Read the news!! Who are all you people posting on this thread, who can't even keep up with the basic headlines? FFS.

But here you go:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2020/03/09/coronavirus-international-developments/4998528002/

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/09/asia/south-korea-coronavirus-intl-hnk/index.html

the ny times loves,lives, loves them this crisis. reeling, rattled, scrambled, panic, intensify, gripped, fear, struggle...

They want it NOT to be true. Trust me on this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else find the DC response completely lacking? There is no game plan, no coordination, no messaging, like wtf are we doing? what are we supposed to be doing?

We don't have to panic, but I also don't think we should be allowed to carry on like nothing is going on. But I think that IS the plan- carry on like nothing is going on and hope it goes away until there are more positives, more deaths, and we hit a crisis.

This. The silence is deafening. Wtf? Bowser needs to step up.

The federal government too - they need to issue some guidelines to schools and businesses regarding how to handle contacts of confirmed cases.

The problem is, though, that there's hardly any testing capacity to test everyone who should be tested. Eventually everyone is going to know someone who has it - are we all going to just stay home?

We should be testing and staying home now. I don't think Trump can be directly blamed for the CDC f-ing up the testing, but he can be directly blamed for everything since, especially the lack of messaging and contradictory messaging.

That doesn't excuse state and local governments from the head-in-the-sand approach. There should be requirements of anyone in contact with the church rector and parishioners to quarantine. Instead, there was no official information about the identity of the rector, nothing. Just assurance that the cherry blossom festival will go on.

I can't tell if it's political- ignore it and it will hopefully go away - or if it is incompetence. So many failures.

Trump's messaging has been on par with what's coming out of S. Korea (the downramping of death rates, etc). The WHO was screaming 3.7% death rate and Trump was trying to give the proper stat of 1% or less, which WAS being said by other more reliable sources than China's data.

BTW, I just saw this AM a newsbar that said the Chinese open air markets had measurable coronavirus in the air directly inside. If the Chinese would be more responsible with, well, freaking EVERYTHING, then they would not be the #1 exporter of all these deadly diseases. They are the real issue, not Trump. You all just are so blinded by hate you don't want to hear that.

People need to stop with this. The truth is, these are two different kinds of statistics: case fatality rate (percentage of confirmed cases that end in death), and mortality rate (number of deaths divided by number of infections). We don't have enough data to calculate the mortality rate yet. What we have is a CFR, which by definition is going to be higher than a MR.

Thank you, it bears repeating.

And it's always going to be higher than for the flu!!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:39 year old male--attended Christ Church

77 year old male. Attended Biogen.

79 year old male.

Oh no...

What?

It is the church’s organist and choir master. Not a parishioner.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe one city/country has caused so much issues for others. I feel sorry for all who suffered and love ones lost. Terrible situation and it seems the econ is the worry for that country. But more of their stuff.

Yes, the US is going to tank the global economy with poor response to this outbreak.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe one city/country has caused so much issues for others. I feel sorry for all who suffered and love ones lost. Terrible situation and it seems the econ is the worry for that country. But more of their stuff.

Yes, the US is going to tank the global economy with poor response to this outbreak.

You aren't paying attention, are you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe one city/country has caused so much issues for others. I feel sorry for all who suffered and love ones lost. Terrible situation and it seems the econ is the worry for that country. But more of their stuff.

Yes, the US is going to tank the global economy with poor response to this outbreak.

You aren't paying attention, are you?

I sure am. Are you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I work at a place that has a health center. I asked them last Friday, 3/6 what would you do if someone came in and asked for the test.

He said that the VA Dept of Public Health only had 50 tests for the whole state - yes 50!! So the bar had to be really high for the health center to request and get a test. I am hoping the number of tests available in the state has increased since Friday.

LabCorp now has testing. They won't do the actual swabbing, but they will test the sample. Like when the doctor's office does the swab for strep and sends it off for testing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I work at a place that has a health center. I asked them last Friday, 3/6 what would you do if someone came in and asked for the test.

He said that the VA Dept of Public Health only had 50 tests for the whole state - yes 50!! So the bar had to be really high for the health center to request and get a test. I am hoping the number of tests available in the state has increased since Friday.

LabCorp now has testing. They won't do the actual swabbing, but they will test the sample. Like when the doctor's office does the swab for strep and sends it off for testing.

Yes, but they are only accepting samples from hospitals, not from a doctor's office.