Wuhan virus (coronavirus) arrives in the USA

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New coronavirus case in northern California may be first with no link to travel

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/26/us-coronavirus-california-case

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe these kinds of Pandemics will lead to widespread teleworking and more and more working moms will choose to not quit and become SAHMs.

I can see the benefit of Coronavirus.

Who will take care of the children?

Two weeks quarantined with my tots and you won’t have to worry about us. We’ll kill each other before the corona can get us.

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Anonymous wrote:New coronavirus case in northern California may be first with no link to travel

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/26/us-coronavirus-california-case

Someone posted this on Reddit. If accurate, he’s been at UC David a week and another hospital prior to that where he was intubated. It takes at least a week to get ill enough to need that (though likely two weeks). So he’s been sick 2-3 weeks plus the 2 week incubation period. He’s had Coronavirus at least a month.



Employees of UC Davis Health in Sacramento received this email just a couple hours ago:

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"Today we learned a patient we are treating here at UC Davis Medical Center for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is being investigated by the CDC as possibly the first patient to have received the infection from exposure in the community.

This patient was transferred to us from another Northern California hospital on Wednesday, Feb 19. When the patient arrived, the patient had already been intubated, was on a ventilator, and given droplet protection orders because of an undiagnosed and suspected viral condition. Since the patient arrived with a suspected viral infection, our care teams have been taking the proper infection prevention (contact droplet) precautions during the patient’s stay.

Upon admission, our team asked public health officials if this case could be COVID-19. We requested COVID-19 testing by the CDC, since neither Sacramento County nor CDPH is doing testing for coronavirus at this time. Since the patient did not fit the existing CDC criteria for COVID-19, a test was not immediately administered. UC Davis Health does not control the testing process.

On Sunday, the CDC ordered COVID-19 testing of the patient and the patient was put on airborne precautions and strict contact precautions, because of our concerns about the patient’s condition. Today the CDC confirmed the patient’s test was positive.

This is not the first COVID-19 patient we have treated, and because of the precautions we have had in place since this patient’s arrival, we believe there has been minimal potential for exposure here at UC Davis Medical Center.

We are proud of our health care workers who have been working to care for this patient and are committed to saving this patient’s life. Just as when a health care worker has a small chance of exposure to other illnesses, such as TB or pertussis, we are following standard CDC protocols for determination of exposure and surveillance. So, out of an abundance of caution, in order to assure the health and safety of our employees, we are asking a small number of employees to stay home and monitor their temperature. We are handling this in the same way we manage other diseases that require airborne precautions and monitoring. We are in constant communication with the state health department and the CDC and Sacramento County Public Health about the optimal management of this patient and possible employee exposures.

As we regularly handle patients with infectious diseases, we have robust infection control protocols in place to handle this patient and others with more frequently seen infectious diseases. In this case, we are dedicated to providing the best care possible for this patient and continuing to protect the health of our employees who care for them.

There are a number of informational resources, including a Q&A and background information on COVID-19 on The Insider and the UC Davis Health website."

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It is outrageous that healthcare providers don't have readily available tests for this yet. WTF.

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So there is an app called plague inc. It gives you a pretty good feel for how these thing spread.

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Mind blowingly outrageous that there aren’t tests readily available.

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Yup. And note that they took the sample on Sunday and got the test result back today...Such wonderful turnaround for a virus where speed is of the essence. They must have known about this prior to the newsconference today.

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Anonymous wrote:How many folks who are able to telework in DC area will ask to do so? I’m considering. Not so much for me, but for my elderly father I care for.

I wold think that putting everyone who can be on telecommute now would semi isolate huge group of people improving odds. This is how prevention works. If there is no harm to effectiveness lets do it now. Kids have no reason to be subjected to school closing at this time because there is no imminent threat and their learning would suffer. But telecommute is really a great and easy preventive measure and zero cost.
Some gain, no traffic, pollution reduced, more rested people earned two hours time a day in commute waste, could also be stronger more rested and their immune system would be charged and ready to fight any silly germ.

The kids will be bringing the virus home to their parents and their parents will still be running out to do errands. No one is going to send their kid to school and then continually isolate themselves at home.

School closure as a mitigation strategy for an illness spread like flu has been studied a lot. I think it's been found that early school closure (before a lot of kids are sick actually) can really slow the community wide infection rate down a lot and thus reduce the burden of the disease on health care systems by spreading cases out over longer timeframe.

When you send the kids back to school community wide infection rates go back up and everyone is infected that was going to be over time. But it spreads the cases out.

https://nccid.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/03/SchoolClosures_ENG.pdf

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Anonymous wrote:Yup. And note that they took the sample on Sunday and got the test result back today...Such wonderful turnaround for a virus where speed is of the essence. They must have known about this prior to the newsconference today.

Really shameful incompetence. It’s time to assume we’ll all get it at some point. Clearly our government is going to be nowhere near as competent as the Chinese in taking action.

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Shameful lack of testing ability:
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/26/coronavirus-cdc-117779

Why on earth don’t we ask more competent countries for help??

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Anonymous wrote:WaPo Breaking News: First U.S coronavirus case of unknown origin confirmed in Northern California, a sign the virus may be spreading in a local area

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been informed of the first case of the coronavirus in a person who did not recently return from a foreign country or have contact with a confirmed case, according to a person briefed on the case. Officials have begun tracing the contacts of the resident to find out how the person may have been infected and who else might have been exposed..

Unknown origin? There is a HIGH population of Chinese in Northern CA.

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Anonymous wrote:WaPo Breaking News: First U.S coronavirus case of unknown origin confirmed in Northern California, a sign the virus may be spreading in a local area

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been informed of the first case of the coronavirus in a person who did not recently return from a foreign country or have contact with a confirmed case, according to a person briefed on the case. Officials have begun tracing the contacts of the resident to find out how the person may have been infected and who else might have been exposed..

Unknown origin? There is a HIGH population of Chinese in Northern CA.

That’s not what it means. Clearly it came from China originally. It means that the sick individual had no foreign travel or close contacts that had foreign travel. In other words, the virus is in the wild.

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This is the SAME ISSUE THE CDC HAD WITH EBOLA:


Since the patient did not fit the existing CDC criteria for COVID-19, a test was not immediately administered. UC Davis Health does not control the testing process.

On Sunday, the CDC ordered COVID-19 testing of the patient and the patient was put on airborne precautions and strict contact precautions, because of our concerns about the patient’s condition. Today the CDC confirmed the patient’s test was positive.


Considering that during the Ebola case here, a nurse who directly treated the man was sick and called the CDC and they told her not to worry about it and travel. They still haven't learned. This has NOTHING to do with Pence, Trump, etc. It has to do with the absolute arrogance of a few people at the CDC who say things like "doesn't fit the criteria"

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WaPo Breaking News: First U.S coronavirus case of unknown origin confirmed in Northern California, a sign the virus may be spreading in a local area

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been informed of the first case of the coronavirus in a person who did not recently return from a foreign country or have contact with a confirmed case, according to a person briefed on the case. Officials have begun tracing the contacts of the resident to find out how the person may have been infected and who else might have been exposed..

Unknown origin? There is a HIGH population of Chinese in Northern CA.

That’s not what it means. Clearly it came from China originally. It means that the sick individual had no foreign travel or close contacts that had foreign travel. In other words, the virus is in the wild.

I'm calling BS. The CDC didn't even test him for how long? Please!

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Anonymous wrote:Shameful lack of testing ability:
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/26/coronavirus-cdc-117779

Why on earth don’t we ask more competent countries for help??

Sheer arrogance of people at the CDC.

My son was brought to ER with a 104 fever and obvious signs of pneumonia. WHO trained doctor stood across the room, ordered no tests, no chest Xray and called it viral. Next day his doc opened and he was there first thing. Immediate chest XRAY and antibiotics.