DC: First COVID-19 Case Confirmed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So DC is really going to stick with the Minimal testing approach. Interesting.

They pretty flatly said they have no intention whatsoever of changing their testing criteria.

[Anonymous]

It’s not just DC, and it’s not just the US. I just spoke with my cousin in Switzerland. He has a co worker with the virus. He said the government is only testing high risk/elderly. For everyone else, they are just saying to assume you have it.

[Anonymous]

They don't have testing capacity yet to do large-scale testing.

[Anonymous]

Positive case at IMF

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-healthimf-idUSKBN2103CV

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s not just DC, and it’s not just the US. I just spoke with my cousin in Switzerland. He has a co worker with the virus. He said the government is only testing high risk/elderly. For everyone else, they are just saying to assume you have it.

In Wuhan people were rewarded if they offered themselves to be tested.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So DC is really going to stick with the Minimal testing approach. Interesting.

They pretty flatly said they have no intention whatsoever of changing their testing criteria.

Morons.

Go to GWU or Georgetown or Howard or NIH and freaking use the huge amount of research biology experience and equipment to DO MORE TESTING.

Just like UW did in Seattle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So DC is really going to stick with the Minimal testing approach. Interesting.

I don’t think they really have much choice right now. There aren’t enough available

Bowser could walk into GWU / WHC right now and tell them to pull researchers off their work and get them to run qPCR tests.

Those facilities have a lot of big bio labs. This is exactly what UW did.

What is she thinking? 20 tests a day is insanely low.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So DC is really going to stick with the Minimal testing approach. Interesting.

I don’t think they really have much choice right now. There aren’t enough available

Bowser could walk into GWU / WHC right now and tell them to pull researchers off their work and get them to run qPCR tests.

Those facilities have a lot of big bio labs. This is exactly what UW did.

What is she thinking? 20 tests a day is insanely low.

So pathetic.

[Anonymous]

DH works at a hospital and last weekend, there were supposedly 3 positive cases. Hospital and staff were all freaking out. I remember I kept thinking the news was not current. Now the hospital is totally quiet about the number of cases at the hospital. I have to assume more than the 3 from last weekend.

[Anonymous]

March 13, 2020

DC Public Health Laboratory Coronavirus Testing Metrics as of 7 pm

Number of people tested overall: 69

Number of PHL positives: 8*

Number of commercial lab positives: 2

Number of PHL negatives: 49

Number of PHL tests in progress: 10

*This number includes: presumptive positives (6); and CDC confirmed positives (2)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:March 13, 2020

DC Public Health Laboratory Coronavirus Testing Metrics as of 7 pm

Number of people tested overall: 69

Number of PHL positives: 8*

Number of commercial lab positives: 2

Number of PHL negatives: 49

Number of PHL tests in progress: 10

*This number includes: presumptive positives (6); and CDC confirmed positives (2)

At this point probably few places are sending to PHL given the required approval and paperwork for testing and not being much faster than major private labs such as Labcorp.

This was a week of shifting from PHL to large numbers of tests being sent to private labs. Expect to see numbers jump next week when the test results start to come back.

[Anonymous]

Someone at my DH's office/company had to be rushed out today in a hurry because he/she found out that "someone they had had close contact with tested positive this morning". Great, that's all they would tell us. Not who the person is, not what floor they work on (company takes up several floors in the building), whether the sick person is the co-worker's roommate/partner/boy or girlfriend or how long the "close contact" was (was it this week or last week or when), or where the positive person lives (DC, Maryland or Virginia). Now that co-worker has to be in quarantine, but apparently my DH does not. What? I am sure DH can figure out by Monday who it is, but I wish there was more transparency that gave the facts.

I just read the Utah Jazz player who tested positive gave an autograph at a game last weekend to a young kid (probably used the kid's pen to write it), and now that kid and his younger sibling tested positive. Did my DH share a pen, the coffee maker, the door to the bathroom, etc with this person? I am trying to keep a level head but it's hard not to worry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Someone at my DH's office/company had to be rushed out today in a hurry because he/she found out that "someone they had had close contact with tested positive this morning". Great, that's all they would tell us. Not who the person is, not what floor they work on (company takes up several floors in the building), whether the sick person is the co-worker's roommate/partner/boy or girlfriend or how long the "close contact" was (was it this week or last week or when), or where the positive person lives (DC, Maryland or Virginia). Now that co-worker has to be in quarantine, but apparently my DH does not. What? I am sure DH can figure out by Monday who it is, but I wish there was more transparency that gave the facts.

I just read the Utah Jazz player who tested positive gave an autograph at a game last weekend to a young kid (probably used the kid's pen to write it), and now that kid and his younger sibling tested positive. Did my DH share a pen, the coffee maker, the door to the bathroom, etc with this person? I am trying to keep a level head but it's hard not to worry.

That’s the thing. Don’t share stuff. Stop touching stuff. Wear long sleeves, use your sleeves, elbows, fore arms, a paper towel. Wash your hands often. Santitize inbetween. You never want to think back and realize that you should have been more careful in a certain location. Assume everyone is infected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone at my DH's office/company had to be rushed out today in a hurry because he/she found out that "someone they had had close contact with tested positive this morning". Great, that's all they would tell us. Not who the person is, not what floor they work on (company takes up several floors in the building), whether the sick person is the co-worker's roommate/partner/boy or girlfriend or how long the "close contact" was (was it this week or last week or when), or where the positive person lives (DC, Maryland or Virginia). Now that co-worker has to be in quarantine, but apparently my DH does not. What? I am sure DH can figure out by Monday who it is, but I wish there was more transparency that gave the facts.

I just read the Utah Jazz player who tested positive gave an autograph at a game last weekend to a young kid (probably used the kid's pen to write it), and now that kid and his younger sibling tested positive. Did my DH share a pen, the coffee maker, the door to the bathroom, etc with this person? I am trying to keep a level head but it's hard not to worry.

That’s the thing. Don’t share stuff. Stop touching stuff. Wear long sleeves, use your sleeves, elbows, fore arms, a paper towel. Wash your hands often. Santitize inbetween. You never want to think back and realize that you should have been more careful in a certain location. Assume everyone is infected.

You can be careful, but it is hard to be perfect. I always feel like I've missed something. I read you should wash your coat every other day, etc. We are using a lot of soap, hand sanitizer, and wipes, but to the extent any of us goes out, we risk bringing the virus home. Starting our "quarantine" (due to being older, not known exposure) tomorrow, and we'll see how it goes.

[Anonymous]

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez has tested positive.