Wuhan virus (coronavirus) arrives in the USA

[Anonymous]

Quarantine does not mean no one leaves their home! How about telling all workers if they can work remote, to do so. And let’s implement remote learning for Middle and High Schools. Even that will help slow this down!

It doesn’t have to be all or nothing to make a big impact.

[Anonymous]

There's an outbreak at a nursing home (Life Care) in Washington state. Info from the King County Health Dept:

Facility has about 108 residents/180 staff. Approx 27 residents and 25 staff have symptoms. Two confirmed (one health worker and one resident).
Health care worker in 40s with no history of travel. Another a woman in her 70s who is a nursing home resident.

https://twitter.com/sherifink/status/1233851501682069504?s=20

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Quarantine does not mean no one leaves their home! How about telling all workers if they can work remote, to do so. And let’s implement remote learning for Middle and High Schools. Even that will help slow this down!

It doesn’t have to be all or nothing to make a big impact.

Social distancing is what that is called. That is the next step.

[Anonymous]

Worldwide cases now exceed 85,000 and fatalities are nearly 3000.

South Korean cases now exceed 3000; they were just 30 less than two weeks ago.

Italian cases are over 1000; they were at 3 ten days ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Quarantine does not mean no one leaves their home! How about telling all workers if they can work remote, to do so. And let’s implement remote learning for Middle and High Schools. Even that will help slow this down!

It doesn’t have to be all or nothing to make a big impact.

They aren’t even closing the school with the infected student for more than 3 days. And they aren’t asking the students at the school to self-quarantine — though surely there are others with the virus there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's an outbreak at a nursing home (Life Care) in Washington state. Info from the King County Health Dept:

Facility has about 108 residents/180 staff. Approx 27 residents and 25 staff have symptoms. Two confirmed (one health worker and one resident).
Health care worker in 40s with no history of travel. Another a woman in her 70s who is a nursing home resident.

https://twitter.com/sherifink/status/1233851501682069504?s=20

This is the nursing home.

https://lcca.com/locations/wa/kirkland/

This is very bad news, especially since all the patients are seniors.

One is reminded of the long-term psychiatric facility in Daegu where 98% of the residents became infected. From the description, it appeared most were older, likely Alzheimer and dementia patients.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's an outbreak at a nursing home (Life Care) in Washington state. Info from the King County Health Dept:

Facility has about 108 residents/180 staff. Approx 27 residents and 25 staff have symptoms. Two confirmed (one health worker and one resident).
Health care worker in 40s with no history of travel. Another a woman in her 70s who is a nursing home resident.

https://twitter.com/sherifink/status/1233851501682069504?s=20

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/two-cases-of-coronavirus-found-in-washington-nursing-home


Here’s another article about the nursing home

[Anonymous]

Washington governor issues state of emergency in response to coronavirus cases

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee issued a state of emergency in response to the new cases of coronavirus that were announced in the state late Friday night.

“This is a time to take common-sense, proactive measures to ensure the health and safety of those who live in Washington state. Our state agency directors have been actively preparing since the nation’s first case appeared in Snohomish County. Washingtonians can be assured we’ve taken this threat seriously and have been working in collaboration with our health care partners to develop plans and procedures to prepare for what could likely be a world-wide pandemic,” Inslee said.

The proclamation directs state agencies and departments to utilize state resources and do everything necessary to assist affected communities responding to and recovering from coronavirus, according to the emergency order.

CNN

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's an outbreak at a nursing home (Life Care) in Washington state. Info from the King County Health Dept:

Facility has about 108 residents/180 staff. Approx 27 residents and 25 staff have symptoms. Two confirmed (one health worker and one resident).
Health care worker in 40s with no history of travel. Another a woman in her 70s who is a nursing home resident.

https://twitter.com/sherifink/status/1233851501682069504?s=20

This is so sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's an outbreak at a nursing home (Life Care) in Washington state. Info from the King County Health Dept:

Facility has about 108 residents/180 staff. Approx 27 residents and 25 staff have symptoms. Two confirmed (one health worker and one resident).
Health care worker in 40s with no history of travel. Another a woman in her 70s who is a nursing home resident.

https://twitter.com/sherifink/status/1233851501682069504?s=20

jfc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's an outbreak at a nursing home (Life Care) in Washington state. Info from the King County Health Dept:

Facility has about 108 residents/180 staff. Approx 27 residents and 25 staff have symptoms. Two confirmed (one health worker and one resident).
Health care worker in 40s with no history of travel. Another a woman in her 70s who is a nursing home resident.

https://twitter.com/sherifink/status/1233851501682069504?s=20

This is so sad.

There are many coughing residents in the nursing home I work in here in the DC area - the one with lots of Chinese guests and visitors. This is very scary to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Quarantine does not mean no one leaves their home! How about telling all workers if they can work remote, to do so. And let’s implement remote learning for Middle and High Schools. Even that will help slow this down!

It doesn’t have to be all or nothing to make a big impact.

Feds have telework pandemic contingency. That's where we're headed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You all need to start taking this seriously...

+1

Too many cavalier about the entire thing. I’m not a panicker/prepper and I have a PhD in Immunology/microbiology...and I am concerned.

+1 Too many drinking the "risk is low" Kool-aid. Just because it's the US? And we haven't tested? Suppose we test everyone with the symptoms of the high schooler who had it. Might see a big in cases if we did.

I have been following this closely since around January 20 and never bought the "just a flu" thesis. I agree we probably have a fair number of people with the disease who could have been caught had a lot of tests been freely available.

However, I do buy the "risk is low" Kool-Aid for any one individual. Percentage of the population infected even in Wuhan is relatively low, and the vast majority have cases that they can ride out at home.

I am most concerned about medical facilities becoming overwhelmed so death rates soar. I do not believe, and have never believed, that even if 100% of the population washed their hands 20 times a day we could stop the spread.

Our best hope is to prevent high peaks in serious cases our hospitals have insufficient resources to handle. To that end I would support stricter quarantine measures than I think most Americans would accept.

In Wuhan the death rate is 5%. That’s 1 in 20. That is not low. It’s not Ebola high but let’s not minimize what it means to say 1 in every 20 people you know could die in that scenario.

I agree with those talking about HDHP’s. People have been talked into them as a retirement savings vehicle and have $10,000 deductibles. Generally though, this outbreak has the potential to break the health insurance sector.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You all need to start taking this seriously...

+1

Too many cavalier about the entire thing. I’m not a panicker/prepper and I have a PhD in Immunology/microbiology...and I am concerned.

+1 Too many drinking the "risk is low" Kool-aid. Just because it's the US? And we haven't tested? Suppose we test everyone with the symptoms of the high schooler who had it. Might see a big in cases if we did.

I have been following this closely since around January 20 and never bought the "just a flu" thesis. I agree we probably have a fair number of people with the disease who could have been caught had a lot of tests been freely available.

However, I do buy the "risk is low" Kool-Aid for any one individual. Percentage of the population infected even in Wuhan is relatively low, and the vast majority have cases that they can ride out at home.

I am most concerned about medical facilities becoming overwhelmed so death rates soar. I do not believe, and have never believed, that even if 100% of the population washed their hands 20 times a day we could stop the spread.

Our best hope is to prevent high peaks in serious cases our hospitals have insufficient resources to handle. To that end I would support stricter quarantine measures than I think most Americans would accept.

In Wuhan the death rate is 5%. That’s 1 in 20. That is not low. It’s not Ebola high but let’s not minimize what it means to say 1 in every 20 people you know could die in that scenario.

I agree with those talking about HDHP’s. People have been talked into them as a retirement savings vehicle and have $10,000 deductibles. Generally though, this outbreak has the potential to break the health insurance sector.

I wouldn’t rely on the death rate in Wuhan. Too many unknowns. Deadlier than the flu, but I wouldn’t cite specific #s as facts yet for the US/worldwide.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Quarantine does not mean no one leaves their home! How about telling all workers if they can work remote, to do so. And let’s implement remote learning for Middle and High Schools. Even that will help slow this down!

It doesn’t have to be all or nothing to make a big impact.

Feds have telework pandemic contingency. That's where we're headed

But considering half of us have kids, telework doesn’t work