3 Cases of Coronavirus Confirmed in MD

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Anonymous wrote:I read something about how a person who was at the villages event called to see if they should be tested. And were told only if they developed symptoms. I thought there was asymptotic transmission. I feel like they aren’t doing all they could be. I predict community transmission is confirmed in the next few days

I was there this morning. Each and every person who walks in must fill out a questionnaire and has their temp taken. Residents’ temps are taken twice a day. Nobody there is currently symptomatic. The event that the coronavirus patient attended was in one room so health dept. believes risk is low and have not instructed quarantines, unless symptomatic.

I see you mentioned the person who called had been at the event. Yes, health dept. not recommending self-quarantine unless symptoms arise. I can only speak to the actual facility and what it was like there this morning.

We've had family , friends, and others in nursing homes. No one used the restroom? Got coffee? MOCO is BS. Note he schools closing in PA and he sanitizing. Furthermore MCPS is planning congregate = group feeding for closed schools instead of specifically stating it will/is getting waivers from USDA.

Washington State got waivers and all should get them now with a simple plan for food districution of non perishables..https://civileats.com/2020/03/06/coronavirus-is-closing-schools-heres-what-it-means-for-millions-of-kids-who-rely-on-school-meals/

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I know someone who was at the event at the village. They are self-quarantined at home by their own choice (meaning nobody told them to). They were told there’s no need to test unless they develop symptoms. They do not live in MoCo; they live out of state.

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Anonymous wrote:I read something about how a person who was at the villages event called to see if they should be tested. And were told only if they developed symptoms. I thought there was asymptotic transmission. I feel like they aren’t doing all they could be. I predict community transmission is confirmed in the next few days

I was there this morning. Each and every person who walks in must fill out a questionnaire and has their temp taken. Residents’ temps are taken twice a day. Nobody there is currently symptomatic. The event that the coronavirus patient attended was in one room so health dept. believes risk is low and have not instructed quarantines, unless symptomatic.

Risk is low to people who didn’t attend the event, but the event drew guests from all over the DMV and beyond...which means anyone exposed took their germs back to other communities.

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Oh great I only live a couple miles from that retirement home.

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Maryland stopped posting pending test numbers.

They aren't doing enough tests, and soon they'll stop doing them altogether--"it's already endemic," they'll claim.

The United States, at every level of government, won't be taking decisive stops to flatten the case curve. A disaster in the making.

https://twitter.com/VictoriaSanchez/status/1236381931517943808?s=19

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It’s already been 8 days since the event (9 if you include the day of, last Friday); the majority of people who attended would’ve become symptomatic by now, correct? Not all, but many or most? Hopefully they will get tested if they develop symptoms.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s already been 8 days since the event (9 if you include the day of, last Friday); the majority of people who attended would’ve become symptomatic by now, correct? Not all, but many or most? Hopefully they will get tested if they develop symptoms.

They font know how long the incubation period is, but it somewhere between 5-12 days they think.

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Anonymous wrote:I read something about how a person who was at the villages event called to see if they should be tested. And were told only if they developed symptoms. I thought there was asymptotic transmission. I feel like they aren’t doing all they could be. I predict community transmission is confirmed in the next few days

I was there this morning. Each and every person who walks in must fill out a questionnaire and has their temp taken. Residents’ temps are taken twice a day. Nobody there is currently symptomatic. The event that the coronavirus patient attended was in one room so health dept. believes risk is low and have not instructed quarantines, unless symptomatic.

So no employers that worked that event, work anywhere else around the residents? I find that hard to believe.

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Anonymous wrote:The CDC well and truly sucks.

They are blowing this.

I just read a profile of the head of the CDC, and he's Trump appointee hack with a really sordid history when it comes to infectious disease. The CDC is full of brilliant scientists and doctors doing their best, but the guy at the top seems to be just what you'd expect of a Trump official.

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Anonymous wrote:I am concerned about this Rockville Village home and how this may mimic what is happening in Seattle. My husband (a doc) says Seattle's weather is ideal for the spread of the virus (damp and cold). Hoping that is the reason and not the fact that a breeding ground of a nursing home helped spread the disease. There are many elderly people in that home as well as some people going through rehab. If the gathering in February took place in the main building, that is where the elderly and rehab patients are...and many visitors coming and going daily.

I spent a lot of time there when my aunt was there for rehab after her stroke a few years ago. The care there is HORRIBLE. The workers were very negligent. I went to visit my aunt at 2 pm one day, and she was STILL IN BED. Her lunch was sitting on a tray UNTOUCHED. My aunt was a stroke rehab patient with dementia and very underweight/undernourished. The staff there was so overworked, nobody got decent care. My aunt was so upset because she wanted to get out of bed, but nobody came to help her. And when I asked the staff about it, they when on immediate defense and said that she didn't want to get out which is NOT AN EXCUSE when dealing with a dementia patient. She left that hell hole in worse condition than when she entered with multiple bedsores and an injury of unknown origin. When she was returned to her home (an assisted living facility), they suspected ABUSE. I would not doubt it.

With attitudes like that from staff, you can imagine what else they don't do well..like sanitary practices. I would be very concerned if I had a loved one there or visited recently. I suspect there will be a similar situation here that happened in Seattle. I hope I am wrong.

Thank you for posting this. This is so horrible and sad. I'm glad she's out and I hope they were reported. Your husband said what I did - the weather in San Fran and Seattle is perfect for the spread of this illness.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The CDC well and truly sucks.

They are blowing this.

I just read a profile of the head of the CDC, and he's Trump appointee hack with a really sordid history when it comes to infectious disease. The CDC is full of brilliant scientists and doctors doing their best, but the guy at the top seems to be just what you'd expect of a Trump official.

And he gave an embarrassing “dear leader” plug at the press conference yesterday. I am a physician and have talked with many colleagues who are aghast at how quickly trust in and respect for the cdc has plummeted in the estimation of the medical community. Decades of esteem squandered.

Elections have consequences.

Yes, in this case that large swaths of the medical community have gone from holding the cdc in the highest esteem to thinking of them as some mix of ineffectual plodders and grotesque sycophants.

Please! They screwed up Ebola too.

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Anonymous wrote:So kids were there after all! Even if one.. which school????


So sorry for everyone exposed..

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/health/maryland-officials-coronavirus-risk-at-retirement-community/2233549/

Maryland's health department on Friday announced a potential risk of exposure to the new coronavirus at a retirement community in Rockville.

One of the three people who has been confirmed in Maryland to have the COVID-19 virus attended at gathering at The Village at Rockville Feb. 28, Gov. Larry Hogan said at a news conference.

The time period of risk of exposure was from noon to 6 p.m. that day, the governor said. Between 70 and 100 people who attended the event may be at some risk for acquiring COVID-19, Hogan said.

A woman whose 89-year-old father lives at the retirement community said she and her 12-year-old daughter were visiting Friday evening when they heard Hogan warn of the possible risk on the news.

“I’m in my father’s room, he’s eating his dinner, he’s a double amputee, he’s 89 years old,” Peggy Weldon said. “And on comes Gov. Hogan to make the announcement. I’m sitting there with my 12-year-old daughter, and we hear Gov. Hogan say, ‘The Villages at Rockville.’ I go and talk to the nurse staff. They weren’t aware of it. I told them. I said, ‘You folks need to have masks.’”

I am the PP who mentioned that Robert frost middle school has an after school club where students visit the residents. I just found out that they did go this past Wednesday. So more kids are exposed.

Kids having symptoms are not the issue, they're the least affected cohort. The reports suggest that kids usually manifest as asymptomatic carriers, which is the main issue.

Can you point me to the evidence that a positive asymptomatic person is shedding and spreading?

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Anonymous wrote:To recap: contradictory advice

Stay home 14 days if I think I’ve been exposed, but don’t buy two weeks of food now (that’s panic hoarding!) so I have it when I need it.

Also, wear a mask if I am sick and must obtain medical care, but the government doesn’t want me to buy masks while I am well. So I will obtain the mask to keep my coronavirus to myself how?

Also hearing keep going to work.

LOL

Mass confusion. Public affairs and comm director everyone’s role and the confusion at the top is just glaring back in scenarios like this.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The CDC well and truly sucks.

They are blowing this.

I just read a profile of the head of the CDC, and he's Trump appointee hack with a really sordid history when it comes to infectious disease. The CDC is full of brilliant scientists and doctors doing their best, but the guy at the top seems to be just what you'd expect of a Trump official.

And he gave an embarrassing “dear leader” plug at the press conference yesterday. I am a physician and have talked with many colleagues who are aghast at how quickly trust in and respect for the cdc has plummeted in the estimation of the medical community. Decades of esteem squandered.

Elections have consequences.

Yes, in this case that large swaths of the medical community have gone from holding the cdc in the highest esteem to thinking of them as some mix of ineffectual plodders and grotesque sycophants.

Please! They screwed up Ebola too.

Yes, and wasn't it swine flu for Obama which he did not even give the time of day an declare it an emergency until 1,000,000's were infected and 1,000 were dead. Please, the administration is doing the best they can given the hand dealt to them by the Chinese. This has been going on in China since December 5 and they tried and did hide it through the end of January. We will be fine, if we keep our heads together and don't panic. Yes, some people will be worse off than others, and I am at that age along with many of my friends and families who will be in that group that doesn't fair well if we catch the virus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The CDC well and truly sucks.

They are blowing this.

I just read a profile of the head of the CDC, and he's Trump appointee hack with a really sordid history when it comes to infectious disease. The CDC is full of brilliant scientists and doctors doing their best, but the guy at the top seems to be just what you'd expect of a Trump official.

You Trump haters are too much. The guy graduated from Georgetown Med and has had a lengthy career in public health with a specialty in HIV/retroviruses. Chief of Infectious Disease at UMD. What defines a hack to you? Apparently working in the government during the Trump administration. The definition of brilliant scientists and doctors? Democrats.

- signed public health professional