DC: First COVID-19 Case Confirmed

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Please add your voice to the discussion if in entire DMV area schools should close NOW closing


https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/862354.page

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It seems like they are only testing people experiencing actual complications. Which I kind of understand, you don't need the entire city to be showing up to the ER for a minor cold just to confirm whether or not you are infected. Just stay home until you are either recovered or need to seek medical care.

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Anonymous wrote:That press conference wasn’t very reassuring.

It disgusted me. It makes no logical sense to bother with tracing on the hospitalized male who tested positive, yet refuse to test segments of the population that likely would test positive. No, we will just send them home and pretend they are negative and not worry about their tracing.

And not one of those officials seem sympathetic to the patients at all. The one doctor was just smirking.

Didn’t watch the presser - are they even contact tracing for this guy or nah? Sounds like he was out and about from last week until he was hospitalized this wk so I’m thinking they’d like to know where he works, if he went in, did he go places on the weekend etc?

Also different question — where was the AIPAC event? Was there a conference hotel?

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Anonymous wrote:WaPo breaking news is that DC now has 2 cases.

Who is the second case?

WAPO just says someone traveling in DC

has anyone else confirmed this?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That press conference wasn’t very reassuring.

It disgusted me. It makes no logical sense to bother with tracing on the hospitalized male who tested positive, yet refuse to test segments of the population that likely would test positive. No, we will just send them home and pretend they are negative and not worry about their tracing.

And not one of those officials seem sympathetic to the patients at all. The one doctor was just smirking.

Didn’t watch the presser - are they even contact tracing for this guy or nah? Sounds like he was out and about from last week until he was hospitalized this wk so I’m thinking they’d like to know where he works, if he went in, did he go places on the weekend etc?

Also different question — where was the AIPAC event? Was there a conference hotel?

Convention center - in the heart of DC.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/06/aipac-conference-coronavirus-123158

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like they are only testing people experiencing actual complications. Which I kind of understand, you don't need the entire city to be showing up to the ER for a minor cold just to confirm whether or not you are infected. Just stay home until you are either recovered or need to seek medical care.

Who has that much sick leave, especially if you happen to be working class or in a service profession? Their boss will expect them to come into work sick.

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Anonymous wrote:If there are truly enough tests now this hoarding is bizarre. Clearly patients will be anxious and many would want an unwarranted test but if the treating physician wants one it makes no sense to withhold (unless the shortage is ongoing.)

Labcorp and Quest are doing the tests. DC doctors don't have to relay on the DC Department of Health to do the test, or at least I hope so.

Has this been verified by anyone? Or is this just another Pence lie?

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Patients are most contagious when showing symptoms, they are now saying

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems like they are only testing people experiencing actual complications. Which I kind of understand, you don't need the entire city to be showing up to the ER for a minor cold just to confirm whether or not you are infected. Just stay home until you are either recovered or need to seek medical care.

My understanding - having read everything I can on this recently - is that they really need to test extensively in order to get a handle on the scope of the problem. They can’t make intelligent decisions about school closings, businesses shutting down, etc unless they know the scope.

Obviously closing schools has a host of downsides, but if the alternative is a lot of people dying from an overloaded health care system they might need to pull the trigger on it.

Without data, they are flying blind.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like they are only testing people experiencing actual complications. Which I kind of understand, you don't need the entire city to be showing up to the ER for a minor cold just to confirm whether or not you are infected. Just stay home until you are either recovered or need to seek medical care.

Who has that much sick leave, especially if you happen to be working class or in a service profession? Their boss will expect them to come into work sick.

Yep much bigger problem in service industry/working class. Lots of white collar jobs including mine have told us not to come in even if we just think we have a cold and feel ok to work. Yet this is the privilege of people who can telework, take a day off w/o losing pay etc.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like they are only testing people experiencing actual complications. Which I kind of understand, you don't need the entire city to be showing up to the ER for a minor cold just to confirm whether or not you are infected. Just stay home until you are either recovered or need to seek medical care.

My understanding - having read everything I can on this recently - is that they really need to test extensively in order to get a handle on the scope of the problem. They can’t make intelligent decisions about school closings, businesses shutting down, etc unless they know the scope.

Obviously closing schools has a host of downsides, but if the alternative is a lot of people dying from an overloaded health care system they might need to pull the trigger on it.

Without data, they are flying blind.

Adding that having everyone go to an ER probably isn’t a good idea, what Korea is doing with drive by testing seems really on point.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems like they are only testing people experiencing actual complications. Which I kind of understand, you don't need the entire city to be showing up to the ER for a minor cold just to confirm whether or not you are infected. Just stay home until you are either recovered or need to seek medical care.

My understanding - having read everything I can on this recently - is that they really need to test extensively in order to get a handle on the scope of the problem. They can’t make intelligent decisions about school closings, businesses shutting down, etc unless they know the scope.

Obviously closing schools has a host of downsides, but if the alternative is a lot of people dying from an overloaded health care system they might need to pull the trigger on it.

Without data, they are flying blind.

Exactly.

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Anonymous wrote:Patients are most contagious when showing symptoms, they are now saying

Is this new? This is where it started like 6 wks ago for those of us who were following then and then it became - oh no asymptomatic spread totally happens. Where did you hear/read this?

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Anonymous wrote:Please add your voice to the discussion if in entire DMV area schools should close NOW closing


https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/862354.page

I thought that link would be a petition.

But i'll go add my anonymous voice to the anonymous thread nonetheless. YES THEY SHOULD!

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like they are only testing people experiencing actual complications. Which I kind of understand, you don't need the entire city to be showing up to the ER for a minor cold just to confirm whether or not you are infected. Just stay home until you are either recovered or need to seek medical care.

Who has that much sick leave, especially if you happen to be working class or in a service profession? Their boss will expect them to come into work sick.

Right but by going to these testing facilities to be tested for minor symptom such as a fever, which can be caused by literally a million different illnesses, you have just exposed yourself to a waiting room more than likely covered in it.