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COVID-19 Update (Domestic Edition) – Friday/Saturday, March 6/7

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Yes, it’s (comparatively) ‘old news’… but, for my health, I refuse to hash through this kind of crap more than once a day.


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  1. 1.

    sukabi

    So what’s the incubation period for covid19… 9 days or so? I expect that in the next 2 weeks that there will start to be panic in the disco  on the Hill as MoC start exhibiting symptons….

  3. 3.

    Martin

    Stanford professor tested positive. Nice timing with their test. Also explains why they cancelled in-person classes.

    That seems to basically be everyone’s criteria – instructor or student infected: stop instruction. My old student worker is currently in quarantine but not showing symptoms. Hopefully it stays that way. We have about a dozen students in quarantine.

  4. 4.

    Martin

    Not a good development up around Redmond WA :

    Can I be tested for COVID-19 at an EvergreenHealth Urgent Care or clinic?
    In partnership with the CDC, we have updated our screening guidelines for COVID-19. We have halted performing nasopharyngeal testing in our outpatient clinics, including our urgent care locations.

    Here’s why:
    The CDC has determined that COVID-19 is now endemic, meaning that the virus is now considered to be regularly found in our region amongst our population. Previously, only individuals who had previously known risk factors (including history of travel, exposure to a confirmed case), were considered high risk for acquiring the disease. There is increased risk of transmission when performing any nasopharyngeal testing.

    Looks as though they’ve halted testing because it’s sufficiently widespread that testing just puts people together and increases risk of contagion.

  5. 5.

    NotMax

    This predates the report of the first confirmed case in the state (on Oahu).

    Mayor Michael Victorino issues Public Health Emergency Proclamation on COVID-19

    This proclamation gives the County of Maui and our statewide partners the ability to take action to suspend any county law that “impedes on tends to impede, or that may be detrimental to, the health, safety and welfare of the public.” …
    [snip]
    This proclamation also allows the County of Maui to use public property for the purposes of emergency management. This includes the ability to take proactive measures to promote public health, and remove hardship or obstructions to public health.…

  6. 6.

    Zinsky

    Trump, being the infantile bed-wetter that he is, says he is being treated unfairly and that the COVID-19 scare is a “Democrat [sic] plot” to ruin his glorious presidency.  He also indicated that he wants to “keep the people on that ship to keep the numbers down”.  This guy is so stupid and clueless, he verbalizes the perpetually self-centered voice that is going on inside his tiny brain.  It really is like a daily course in abnormal psychology to have this asshole as our President!  Sheesh!

  7. 7.

    Joey Maloney

    AIPAC confirms that two conference attendees have now tested positive for coronavirus.

    I’ve been saying for years that AIPAC is toxic. But did anyone listen? Noooooooo…

  9. 9.

    Shalimar

    Has anyone seen Baron lately? Trump is definitely the type of parent who would lock him in a closet if he got sick, so no one finds out.

  10. 10.

    Ohio Mom

    [email protected] It’s widely rumored that Baron lives with Melania’s parents in a DC suburb (forgot which one). Which makes sense and is believable to me.

    It’s also rumored that Melania also lives there, outside of the times she needs to make public appearances. To which I say, spin it whatever way you want, of course she spends as much as possible with her kid.

  11. 11.

    (((CassandraLeo)))

    Am I a terrible person for not feeling a damn bit of sympathy for anyone who willingly attends one of Twitler’s Nuremberg rallies and contracts COVID-19? Fuckem. I’ll save my sympathy for rally attendees’ family members who don’t attend those things and end up being infected anyway.

    It would certainly be a morbid instance of dramatic irony if Twitler ends up killing off some of his voters because he insists on continuing to have rallies with this thing out there. To make it truly O. Henry-worthy, it would have to cost him the election, though.

    My imagination has gone to some very dark places these days.

    Cēterum cēnseō factiōnem Rēpublicānam esse dēlendam.

  12. 12.

    Ken

    I take it Jim Bakker hasn’t read Dante, though I’m sure he invokes hell when he wants to condemn others. Ironically, the punishment for falsifiers in the tenth bolgia is to suffer horrible diseases.

  13. 13.

    Barbara

    At some point, and we are probably past that point, the focus is going to turn to keeping vulnerable people safe, not requiring less vulnerable populations to isolate themselves.  But yeah, it’s still probably a good idea to limit major conferences, concerts, and large gatherings.  I’m just not sure it makes sense to close schools.

  14. 14.

    lafcolleen

    Confirmed case of a classroom aid at a school here in Chicago.  Aide taught at a special education high school.  as it is not a local high school, students are bused in from around Chicago.  School has various commmunitu partners as part of its spec ed programming.

  15. 15.

    Wag

    @Martin:

     

    Looks as though they’ve halted testing because it’s sufficiently widespread that testing just puts people together and increases risk of contagion.

    I don’t think that fear of bringing people together has anything to do with this (see Trump’s remarks about his precious campaign rallies). I think that it has to do with plausible deniability. If you don’t test, then you can claim that the numbers are small and don’t matter.

  16. 16.

    SFAW

    So I’m psyched that AIPAC has reported two NY attendees tested positive.

    Primarily because I was in DC last weekend, and some AIPAC attendees (a large number of students from Yeshiva U, which is in NYC) were in the same hotel as my family. Eating breakfast in the same room, etc. I also spoke with one or two of them. So I guess I/we will find out in a week or two whether I or my family is/are now carriers. I figure it’s a pretty low likelihood, but we’ll see.

  17. 17.

    dmsilev

    @Martin: We’ve already cancelled all large general-public events for the next month or so (with a warning not to schedule anything new for the time being) as well as things like recruiting visits from potential new grad students (which usually take place end of March). Nothing on campus yet, so classes are still going on as normal. Dorms will remain open over spring break so that students can stay here if they want rather than risk traveling.

  18. 18.

    Cathie from Canada

    So now the entire Trump Administration has adopted a unique approach to a public health crisis: flat-out lying.

    If this works, they’ll all be doing it about everything from now on.

  19. 19.

    thylacine

    An Australian doctor was likely infected in Colorado before he flew home. Eight confirmed cases now here in my home state.

  20. 20.

    Soprano2

    @NotMax: My husband’s son who lives in Paia told us that the Princess ship that’s currently docked of the CA coast with 21 cases stopped in Maui for shore excursions. He rides the bus all the time with the tourists, so he’s somewhat concerned. I’m glad he’s 49 and in relatively good health.

    So far no cases here, but our R governor says they’ve tested “almost 17” people,  whatever that means. I have zero confidence in them right now.

  22. 22.

    Another Scott

    @SFAW: If it’s any comfort, it’s probably just about everywhere in the US and probably has been for weeks.  Supposedly it was in China in November and didn’t explode until January.  The US is probably looking at ever increasing cases for weeks more.

    To be clear, this is just my gut feeling.  I’m no expert.

    We’re pretty much on our own now.  We have to self-quarantine, wash our hands, be smart about being out in public, etc.  There’s no magic bullet coming from the CDC or FDA any time soon.

    As usual, when know-nothing idiots are in charge, disasters happen.  :-(

    Hang in there.  Good luck to you, and to all of us.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  23. 23.

    Suzanne

    @Another Scott: This is my thinking, too: if it is showing up in people who have no way of knowing how they got it, it’s spreading widely. I have been in five airports in the last week (Phoenix, Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Atlanta), and I am not unusual. I am not feeling great at the moment, but it feels like a sinus headache, which I get a lot. It would not surprise me to learn that I’ve contracted it somehow, even though I’ve had no known contact and haven’t been out of the country in the past year.

    I do have a work trip scheduled for the last week of March, which am rethinking.

  24. 24.

    opiejeanne

    @Martin: Evergreen is our healthcare provider, considering a switch to Kaiser Permanente next year.

    Meanwhile, Evergreen (for now) and the CDC may not be testing in western WA, but the UW will be testing more than a thousand a day, and analyzing those tests in their lab, with an 8 hour turnaround. They do not have the intention of down-playing the virus here.

  25. 25.

    opiejeanne

    @Another Scott: The Johns Hopkins map needs to be updated. It under-reports the deaths in WA, and I think the number of cases here but I’d have to check. As of yesterday afternoon, WA had either 15 or 16 Covid-19 deaths.

  26. 26.

    SFAW

    @Another Scott:

    Thanks. On the plus side, the cough I’ve had for the last two or so weeks was probably something I caught from my wife, who was coughing long before coronavirus started spreading in the US. So that gave me immunity from catching another one, right? [No, don’t answer, I know what reality is.]

    I don’t expect I’ll be one of Santelli’s hoped-for statistics, but I also guess it’s a non-zero probability. Not worried at the moment.

  28. 28.

    EmbraceYourInnerCrone

    @SFAW: The NY AIPAC attendees are apparently connected to the Westchester man who was the first case in that county. I think they attend the same synagogue.  Also his son goes to Yeshiva U in Manhattan.  I believe the mans son, daughter and wife as well as the neighbor who took him to NY Pres Hospital have tested positive. I really really  hope the people you talked  to don’t have it.

  29. 29.

    EmbraceYourInnerCrone

    @Another Scott: also one in the Faroe Islands which completely blew my mind but the person apparently was I think a local Dr who went to medical conference…

  31. 31.

    pat

    OK, dead thread, but we just drove through Austria and Germany and on the border the car ahead of us, with an Italian license plate, was sent off to the side,  We went through…

  32. 32.

    Darkrose

    @Martin: The two students at my college who were exposed have tested negative, fortunately. The only time we closed completely was for the fires in 2018, and according to folks who were there, it was a mess. Switching to online only isn’t an option for us.

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