Wuhan virus (coronavirus) arrives in the USA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the public wants to know the plan. Will there be enough isolation units and hospital beds? What would a quarantine look like? Will we be able to travel to help sick parents? Should we stock up on supplies? How will medical workers be protected? Are there enough masks and medical supplies? How will we know the virus is spreading if so little testing is being done? These are pretty obvious questions and we are not seeing clear answers. We have this information for other events such as natural disasters but this is new and we don’t know what to expect.

CDC can only make recommendations. They don't set policy, and they don't coordinate emergency responses. All the policy and logistics are handled through HHS, and Every. Single. Decision. is politicized by the White House focused on re-election.

Isn’t it decided on a state level hov each state handles this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I remember when showing up with a case of a Corona was the sign of a good time.

I needed this moment of levity while going through this thread, thank you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I remember when showing up with a case of a Corona was the sign of a good time.

I needed this moment of levity while going through this thread, thank you.

Can you imagine being on the Corona marketing team right now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I remember when showing up with a case of a Corona was the sign of a good time.

I needed this moment of levity while going through this thread, thank you.

Can you imagine being on the Corona marketing team right now?

My boyfriend keeps insisting that Corona simply must be the vaccine for Coronavirus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I remember when showing up with a case of a Corona was the sign of a good time.

I needed this moment of levity while going through this thread, thank you.

Can you imagine being on the Corona marketing team right now?

My boyfriend keeps insisting that Corona simply must be the vaccine for Coronavirus.

Am I a horrible person for wanting to have a Corona party? (beyond just forcing people to drink a terrible beer)

[Anonymous]

Guess we aren't the only ones frustrated with CDC testing:

Public health labs ask to create their own tests for coronavirus

From CNN’s Nadia Kounang

With only 12 state and local health laboratories able to test for the novel coronavirus, public health labs are asking the US Food and Drug Administration for permission to create their own tests for the virus.

“We are now many weeks into the response with still no diagnostic or surveillance test available outside of CDC for the vast majority of our member laboratories,” the Association of Public Health Laboratories wrote in a letter to FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn on Monday.

The association represents the 150 largest public health labs across the country and is asking the FDA for a special exemption to create its own diagnostics.

“We find ourselves in a situation that requires a quicker local response,” the association wrote.

https://www.cnn.com/asia/live-news/coronavirus-outbreak-02-25-20-hnk-intl/index.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are countries who have some cases that recovered better of then those with no cases since apparently blood plasma from those patients who recovered, is at this point not only the only successful treatment but it also make people condition improve fast and have them recover. So in theory and in practice if a country has recovered cases then the country can treat sick who then recover and can give plasma for new sick patients who will recover and on and on and on.. so in a strange way at this point countries with no cases are in tough spot if it will hit them fast.

for Singapore, yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the public wants to know the plan. Will there be enough isolation units and hospital beds? What would a quarantine look like? Will we be able to travel to help sick parents? Should we stock up on supplies? How will medical workers be protected? Are there enough masks and medical supplies? How will we know the virus is spreading if so little testing is being done? These are pretty obvious questions and we are not seeing clear answers. We have this information for other events such as natural disasters but this is new and we don’t know what to expect.

CDC can only make recommendations. They don't set policy, and they don't coordinate emergency responses. All the policy and logistics are handled through HHS, and Every. Single. Decision. is politicized by the White House focused on re-election.

Thank you CDC head (and fellow Mom) for being honest!

[Anonymous]

The mayor of San Francisco declares a state of emergency for coronavirus in the city, which has no confirmed cases.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/SF-mayor-London-Breed-declares-state-of-emergency-15083811.php

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

CDC can only make recommendations. They don't set policy, and they don't coordinate emergency responses. All the policy and logistics are handled through HHS, and Every. Single. Decision. is politicized by the White House focused on re-election.

Here's our HHS representative, in action:

https://twitter.com/NBCPolitics/status/1232355170337640449

[Anonymous]

Oh sorry, that's Homeland Security.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

CDC can only make recommendations. They don't set policy, and they don't coordinate emergency responses. All the policy and logistics are handled through HHS, and Every. Single. Decision. is politicized by the White House focused on re-election.

Here's our HHS representative, in action:

https://twitter.com/NBCPolitics/status/1232355170337640449

That's DHS. Which illustrates that there needs to be one person who directly reports to the President who oversees the entire response.
But Sen. Kennedy is also wrong with some of his information and he's showboating. For example, the DHS Sec is correct - a vaccine is several months, probably at least a year, away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CDC just issued policies including school tele-learning, telework focus, cancelling large gathering.

Better get your TP asap (though if the water is off, not sure how great that is?)

These are POSSIBLE recommendations IF we had a pandemic. Jesus, you guys have a hard time separating actual news from hypotheticals.

Please stop thinking it is a hypothetical. There WILL BE outbreaks in the United States, people WILL BE quarantined, and there WILL BE cancelations of school and social gatherings. It's just a question of when.

Other countries (except maybe Iran) are doing what they can to slow the spread of the disease, to give everyone time to prepare and to give scientists and medical professionals time to create a vaccine and treatments. The WHO doctor that just returned from China is calling for a Manhattan Project type of collaboration among scientists. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1232323122654826497.html

Everyone personally should be using this time to prepare themselves and their families - both materially and psychologically - for something they've never seen before. A complete disruption of our lives. Think the worst snowstorm to ever hit Washington - a foot of snow falling every day for a month - prepare for that. Maybe it won't happen here, but just be prepared.

The US colleges had a huge return of Chinese students studying in the US in the month of January, right in the middle of the worst of this. Can you explain why there are virtually NO cases in US colleges?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CDC just issued policies including school tele-learning, telework focus, cancelling large gathering.

Better get your TP asap (though if the water is off, not sure how great that is?)

These are POSSIBLE recommendations IF we had a pandemic. Jesus, you guys have a hard time separating actual news from hypotheticals.

Please stop thinking it is a hypothetical. There WILL BE outbreaks in the United States, people WILL BE quarantined, and there WILL BE cancelations of school and social gatherings. It's just a question of when.

Other countries (except maybe Iran) are doing what they can to slow the spread of the disease, to give everyone time to prepare and to give scientists and medical professionals time to create a vaccine and treatments. The WHO doctor that just returned from China is calling for a Manhattan Project type of collaboration among scientists. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1232323122654826497.html

Everyone personally should be using this time to prepare themselves and their families - both materially and psychologically - for something they've never seen before. A complete disruption of our lives. Think the worst snowstorm to ever hit Washington - a foot of snow falling every day for a month - prepare for that. Maybe it won't happen here, but just be prepared.

The US colleges had a huge return of Chinese students studying in the US in the month of January, right in the middle of the worst of this. Can you explain why there are virtually NO cases in US colleges?

If you don't test for cases, cases do not exist.

Or I guess you could say that once again God has shown that the US is the favored nation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The mayor of San Francisco declares a state of emergency for coronavirus in the city, which has no confirmed cases.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/SF-mayor-London-Breed-declares-state-of-emergency-15083811.php

Given their homeless population? Might not be a bad plan.