DC: First COVID-19 Case Confirmed

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What if you and the kids aren’t sick, but spouse is?

Send them to school and infect others!! Seems like the DC area thing to do, right?

Do your duty spread the virus don’t ask questions.

Are we supposed to just really sit and wait?.?..

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The worried well are insisting on testing and taking up scarce resources. I don't understand why we lack access to comprehensive testing, but I CAN tell you that being a drama queen/king about insisting on a test when you are not in a health emergency and haven't had demonstrated contact with a positive case or hotspot is sucking up scarce resources. That lady who made such a stink about it a few days ago ended up being negative ... which anyone could have told her!

As hard as it is to stomach, people need to internalize that we are in a period of time where decisions have to be made for the common good, which means that your normal UMC tactic of INSISTING ON WHAT I WANT WHEN I WANT IT is not going to work

TL; DR - if you are sick, stay home. If you get really sick, go to the ER.

You're attacking the wrong people. You know that but you just don't care.

Yes, anyone who wants to be tested should be. That's how testing works. That's the point of testing. It is supposed to include negative people as well as positive people.

No, that's actually not how distribution of any scarce resource works. Testing right now is very scarce, and even if it gets ramped up, will likely still be limited. Demanding scarce medical resources for yourself contrary to what the medical & public health officials have determined is the rubric for access is quintessentially American and selfish.

I suppose you've never heard of Matt Gaetz.

Testing should not be and soon will not be a scarce resource. Labs are ramping up production but the CDC guidelines are still a bottleneck -- not the number of tests anymore. Look at the CDC site that shows numbers tested. Those numbers could be higher by an order of magnitude now, private labs can be testing more samples. They aren't because of the CDC guidelines, not because of a lack of tests or a lack of symptomatic people.

So you think everyone should be tested, even with no symptoms? That's not going to happen. The fact is, in a well-run public health system, there are criteria for testing. It's not "test everyone" except in the case of screening tests with a proven cost-benefit ratio. Obviously we need more testing now, but the fact that you can't walk into any urgent care and get a test when you have no symptoms is not going to change.

Yes, it will change soon. Washington state has drive through testing sites. Soon others will as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's everywhere. It's gotta be by now.

[Anonymous]

Whether or not it's everywhere or not, we should be taking steps to mitigate spread. Schools should never have become babysitting venues and food banks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whether or not it's everywhere or not, we should be taking steps to mitigate spread. Schools should never have become babysitting venues and food banks.

"Should never have"?

Consolidation and streamlining services is bad because ... why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What if you and the kids aren’t sick, but spouse is?

Send them to school and infect others!! Seems like the DC area thing to do, right?

Do your duty spread the virus don’t ask questions.

Are we supposed to just really sit and wait?.?..

Sorry, you think your husband has coronavirus and you're asking if you should just sit and wait? YES. That's what self-quarantine is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The worried well are insisting on testing and taking up scarce resources. I don't understand why we lack access to comprehensive testing, but I CAN tell you that being a drama queen/king about insisting on a test when you are not in a health emergency and haven't had demonstrated contact with a positive case or hotspot is sucking up scarce resources. That lady who made such a stink about it a few days ago ended up being negative ... which anyone could have told her!

As hard as it is to stomach, people need to internalize that we are in a period of time where decisions have to be made for the common good, which means that your normal UMC tactic of INSISTING ON WHAT I WANT WHEN I WANT IT is not going to work

TL; DR - if you are sick, stay home. If you get really sick, go to the ER.

You're attacking the wrong people. You know that but you just don't care.

Yes, anyone who wants to be tested should be. That's how testing works. That's the point of testing. It is supposed to include negative people as well as positive people.

No, that's actually not how distribution of any scarce resource works. Testing right now is very scarce, and even if it gets ramped up, will likely still be limited. Demanding scarce medical resources for yourself contrary to what the medical & public health officials have determined is the rubric for access is quintessentially American and selfish.

I suppose you've never heard of Matt Gaetz.

Testing should not be and soon will not be a scarce resource. Labs are ramping up production but the CDC guidelines are still a bottleneck -- not the number of tests anymore. Look at the CDC site that shows numbers tested. Those numbers could be higher by an order of magnitude now, private labs can be testing more samples. They aren't because of the CDC guidelines, not because of a lack of tests or a lack of symptomatic people.

So you think everyone should be tested, even with no symptoms? That's not going to happen. The fact is, in a well-run public health system, there are criteria for testing. It's not "test everyone" except in the case of screening tests with a proven cost-benefit ratio. Obviously we need more testing now, but the fact that you can't walk into any urgent care and get a test when you have no symptoms is not going to change.

Yes, it will change soon. Washington state has drive through testing sites. Soon others will as well.

Nope. There is a shortage of ingredients needed to manufacture the tests, and even of nasal swabs. There will be no testing except hospitalized cases and even those may move to clinical diagnoses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Sorry, you think your husband has coronavirus and you're asking if you should just sit and wait? YES. That's what self-quarantine is.

The above is a different poster. We are following all medical advice and have aggressively pursued testing, which we are hoping we can get in the next 24 hours. We are avoiding any gatherings, having groceries delivered to the front step and both working at home.

[Anonymous]

per the current press conference DC has 6 new cases bringing the total to 10. Confirmed community transmission (obviously...) and I think I heard they said they don't know where 2 people contracted it from (i.e. not connected to other cases)

[Anonymous]

10 is still incredibly low when compared to places like Seattle and NY. Maybe we can contain it more.

[Anonymous]

Curious: how common is it for one spouse to get it and the other to be symptom free?

[Anonymous]

For those of you following along at home, this is the PP with sick spouse. He is getting tested tonight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:10 is still incredibly low when compared to places like Seattle and NY. Maybe we can contain it more.

The Christ Church cluster is going to grow immensely in the next few days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The worried well are insisting on testing and taking up scarce resources. I don't understand why we lack access to comprehensive testing, but I CAN tell you that being a drama queen/king about insisting on a test when you are not in a health emergency and haven't had demonstrated contact with a positive case or hotspot is sucking up scarce resources. That lady who made such a stink about it a few days ago ended up being negative ... which anyone could have told her!

As hard as it is to stomach, people need to internalize that we are in a period of time where decisions have to be made for the common good, which means that your normal UMC tactic of INSISTING ON WHAT I WANT WHEN I WANT IT is not going to work

TL; DR - if you are sick, stay home. If you get really sick, go to the ER.

You're attacking the wrong people. You know that but you just don't care.

Yes, anyone who wants to be tested should be. That's how testing works. That's the point of testing. It is supposed to include negative people as well as positive people.

No, that's actually not how distribution of any scarce resource works. Testing right now is very scarce, and even if it gets ramped up, will likely still be limited. Demanding scarce medical resources for yourself contrary to what the medical & public health officials have determined is the rubric for access is quintessentially American and selfish.

I suppose you've never heard of Matt Gaetz.

Testing should not be and soon will not be a scarce resource. Labs are ramping up production but the CDC guidelines are still a bottleneck -- not the number of tests anymore. Look at the CDC site that shows numbers tested. Those numbers could be higher by an order of magnitude now, private labs can be testing more samples. They aren't because of the CDC guidelines, not because of a lack of tests or a lack of symptomatic people.

So you think everyone should be tested, even with no symptoms? That's not going to happen. The fact is, in a well-run public health system, there are criteria for testing. It's not "test everyone" except in the case of screening tests with a proven cost-benefit ratio. Obviously we need more testing now, but the fact that you can't walk into any urgent care and get a test when you have no symptoms is not going to change.

Yes, it will change soon. Washington state has drive through testing sites. Soon others will as well.

Nope. There is a shortage of ingredients needed to manufacture the tests, and even of nasal swabs. There will be no testing except hospitalized cases and even those may move to clinical diagnoses.

this. we won't have adequate capacity for testing for weeks. only fools rely on the number of confirmed cases.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:10 is still incredibly low when compared to places like Seattle and NY. Maybe we can contain it more.

The Christ Church cluster is going to grow immensely in the next few days.

Yes, sadly. When you look at the timelines of other centers it is clear.