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Anonymous wrote:https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/coronavirus-resource-center

Runny nose IS a symptom (per Harvard).

PS - the germs are airborne for 30 minutes.

Wow. This exactly what I’ve had.

“When the virus does cause symptoms, common ones include low-grade fever, body aches, coughing, nasal congestion, runny nose, and sore throat. However, COVID-19 can occasionally cause more severe symptoms like high fever, severe cough, and shortness of breath, which often indicates pneumonia.”

I assumed it would be a higher fever and no congestion/sore throat.

Anonymous wrote:https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/coronavirus-resource-center

Runny nose IS a symptom (per Harvard).

PS - the germs are airborne for 30 minutes.

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WHY EUROPEAN TRAVEL BAN DOES NOT INCLUDE UK???

Any theories or facts???

Because the EU are full of open borders and free movement. As such their people are also used to that and refuse to alter their Travel behavior. The same could be said for us as a vast country with easy visa free access to most countries in the world. So I wouldn’t be surprised if other countries start banning us.

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone should read this article from one of the very well respected publications in science: "Does closing schools slow the spread of coronavirus?"

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/does-closing-schools-slow-spread-novel-coronavirus

"Proactive school closures—closing schools before there’s a case there—have been shown to be one of the most powerful nonpharmaceutical interventions that we can deploy. Proactive school closures work like reactive school closures not just because they get the children, the little vectors, removed from circulation. It’s not just about keeping the kids safe. It’s keeping the whole community safe. When you close the schools, you reduce the mixing of the adults—parents dropping off at the school, the teachers being present. When you close the schools, you effectively require the parents to stay home."

But we can't expect MCPS to be anything BUT reactive.

Anonymous wrote:Everyone should read this article from one of the very well respected publications in science: "Does closing schools slow the spread of coronavirus?"

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/does-closing-schools-slow-spread-novel-coronavirus

Anonymous wrote:Quick question,,
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WHY EUROPEAN TRAVEL BAN DOES NOT INCLUDE UK???

Any theories or facts???

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Anonymous wrote:NY Times article says the first confirmed case in Seattle was late January—which means it’s safe to assume there were others walking around/traveling with it at that time or even sooner.

That’s long before anyone really thought it was here. And way before testing. Heck, we still aren’t testing.

So why don’t people believe it’s been here since then and has been spreading?

I think all the people presenting with flu symptoms who are testing negative for flu likely have or had corona. I know so many adults and kids who have been ill with flu symptoms but tested negative.

Another thread commented it's amazing that with all the big American chinatowns and Chinese American communities and close ties, both family and business, to China, its amazing we haven't had any positive cases pop up in the US chinatowns, either in NYC or Los Angeles. Those are huge communities. Wuhan didn't go into lockdown for a while and the virus is supposed to spread so easily.

I'm fully confident it's been around the US for longer than thought. Which is very encouraging in it's own way.

Yes. Every time I think “there are probably a few thousand untested cases” I also remember “we’re not seeing the rather high percentage of complicated cases in hospitals. I realize I can’t have it both ways in my mind. So I’m still not sure whether we will be Italy or S Korea

Thus far, close to ninety percent of the people tested in Maryland have been negative, per the info released by Hogan. Hopkins started tested two days ago or so.

LOL. They’ve probably only tested like 5 people.

We are about two weeks behind Italy. Stories about the strain on the healthcare system there didn’t start appearing until a few days ago.

There are things we can control though. We start social distancing NOW. We start closing sht NOW. We don’t wait until those sick people start showing up. What we do NOW determines where we will be in two weeks.

Why do you insist on living in a fact free world when information is so easily available? 94 test results complete in MD as of today, 9 people tested positive. https://phpa.health.maryland.gov/Pages/Novel-coronavirus.aspx

Anonymous wrote:Does Saudi Arabia know something about spread in East Africa that others don't?

"Saudi Arabia bans travel to and from the European Union, Switzerland, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Sudan, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Eritrea, Kenya, Djibouti, and Somalia, due to coronavirus." - SPA

Anonymous wrote:Y’all should read this:

https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca