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You are here: Home / Healthcare / COVID-19 Coronavirus / COVID-19 Update (Domestic Edition) – Friday/Saturday, March 6/7

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

by Anne Laurie|  March 7, 20204:02 am| 32 Comments

This post is in: COVID-19 Coronavirus, Healthcare, Republican Stupidity, Republican Venality, World's Best Healthcare (If You Can Afford It)

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Every news report about “infection levels” in US should come back to this incredible-but-true reality

No one has any idea how and where the virus has spread in US, because hardly anyone has been tested

-Chinese officials knew, and concealed for a long time.

-US doesn’t know. https://t.co/CptBC5XHPB

— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) March 6, 2020

Nebraska and Kentucky reported their first coronavirus cases. 25 U.S. states have now reported infections https://t.co/OABykRaPjW

— Bloomberg (@business) March 7, 2020

AIPAC confirms that two conference attendees have now tested positive for coronavirus. I reported 2 days ago this was likely. There were 18,000 people there, including 2/3rds of Congress. On Tuesday, thousands of conference goers visited Hill offices. https://t.co/pWeQQx2Gp0

— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) March 6, 2020

He said from his fully stocked hentai bunker https://t.co/8BzMUtx6Aa

— zeddy (@Zeddary) March 6, 2020

Toronto has another case of #COVID19 in a traveler who acquired the infection in…..Las Vegas.

You heard that right – Las Vegas.

The USA is exporting cases and the travel history is rapidly becoming irrelevant. https://t.co/g5QpObskW4

— Isaac Bogoch (@BogochIsaac) March 6, 2020

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

This is all that actually matters to him. https://t.co/f0WucVJmsQ pic.twitter.com/5nntRLPgok

— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) March 5, 2020

Question: Have you considered not having campaign rallies?

Trump: No I haven’t… We had tens of thousands of people standing outside the arena

Question: Is there a risk that there’s that many people so close together

Trump: It doesn’t bother me at all pic.twitter.com/ZaMc6ayK4e

— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) March 6, 2020

New: The Trump administration's insistence that containment should remain the primary way to confront COVID-19 – and repeated claims that it was working – ignored a series of alarm bells from experts inside & outside the US government

Latest w/ @wjhenn https://t.co/2Uu6iKM3Ov

— Vera Bergengruen (@VeraMBergen) March 6, 2020

"I like the numbers being where they are." EVEN IF THEY'RE WRONG. HE'S ADMITTING IT. https://t.co/V2JVe0bpAn

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) March 6, 2020

Between Trump’s base who, God help us, actually believes him, and young people emboldened by the data that this is no big deal for them, good luck keeping a lid on rapid community transmission. https://t.co/GxcxR7bVak

— Schooley “Flatten the Curve” (@Rschooley) March 6, 2020

Depending on how bad this gets, the pivot will be from “we have perfectly handled the coronavirus” to “see this is why you can’t trust the government” as if the issue wasn’t putting incompetent grifters in charge of it.

— Adam Serwer?? (@AdamSerwer) March 6, 2020

CDC staff learned about the potential coronavirus case at the agency at the same time as other Americans – when Trump mentioned it at a press conference this morning. https://t.co/osAiA93tty with @anitakumar01 pic.twitter.com/d75ofw5V37

— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) March 6, 2020


New York state coronavirus cases triple over 48 hours to 33 people infected; thousands under ‘precautionary quarantine’ https://t.co/n7hqKZCXzY

— Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) March 6, 2020

The ‘Not So Much Grey, Just Dingy AF’ Lady has… no thoughts:

The President of the United States gave a ludicrous, utterly batshit briefing in which he raged about how he doesn't want widespread testing or to let those infected on cruise ships back on shore because it would hurt his "numbers," and NYT doesn't think it's worth mentioning. https://t.co/YzU85IToDv

— Susan Simpson (@TheViewFromLL2) March 7, 2020

Or, as the New York Times will put it tomorrow, “An Unconventional Press Conference From A President Who Upended The Political Establishment” https://t.co/SnrF6NWVjF

— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) March 6, 2020

Maggie Haberman would let her own parents die of coronavirus if it means getting the scoop on the next Hope Hicks beat sweetener

— local jack please ban the nazis person (@pleizar) March 7, 2020

Sign of the times: CROI, the retrovirus conference, is going virtual. Slated to start Mon., organizers are now telling attendees not to travel to Boston.#Covid19 is going to be so hard on the travel/hospitality industries. And the people who work in them. https://t.co/1ytnrYMMXr

— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) March 6, 2020

Testing is a crucial component of understanding the coronavirus epidemic. The CDC has declined to make comprehensive testing numbers available, so @yayitsrob and I compiled data from the states on their testing: https://t.co/YD3NfBkyJ5

— Alexis C. Madrigal (@alexismadrigal) March 6, 2020

you know who *was* paying attention and made plans? Elizabeth Warren. *sigh*

— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) March 6, 2020

Buried in the article: Out of 3000 passengers, only 46 were tested.

*Of them*, 21 were positive for coronavirus. https://t.co/LnpOPrz6Zj

— Jeff Yang (@originalspin) March 6, 2020

The number of confirmed virus cases in the U.S. exceeded 200 and test kits remained in short supply, yet two Trump aides described the outbreak as “contained” https://t.co/qXSprzOGpa

— Bloomberg Politics (@bpolitics) March 6, 2020

Could we wait til summer before deciding whether or not any state was good at handling covid19 as a whole

— Rui Zhong 钟瑞 (@rzhongnotes) March 6, 2020

BREAKING: The University of Washington, with more than 50,000 students, is closing classrooms and moving to remote learning amid the coronavirus outbreak. https://t.co/aKPmDgviL0

— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) March 6, 2020

BREAKING: @Stanford cancels on-campus classes for next two weeks amid #Coronavirus concerns. Classes will be held online.
“Large-group events also are being canceled or adjusted.”
2 students in self-isolation after possible exposure.

— Ian Cull (@NBCian) March 7, 2020

Important to inject racism into everything, it is after all the fox brand. https://t.co/jrDcNHSkWB

— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) March 6, 2020

Breaking: The New York attorney general’s office has just ordered disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker to stop misleading consumers about a fake cure for coronavirus.

— Frank Schaeffer (@Frank_Schaeffer) March 6, 2020

trash dog would be so much better https://t.co/LVKHVDcPmU

— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) March 6, 2020

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  1. 1.

    sukabi

    March 7, 2020 at 4:52 am

    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….

  2. 2.

    Martin

    March 7, 2020 at 5:16 am

    @sukabi: 6 days. Ranges from 2-11.

  3. 3.

    Martin

    March 7, 2020 at 5:18 am

    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

    March 7, 2020 at 5:28 am

    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

    March 7, 2020 at 5:59 am

    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

    March 7, 2020 at 6:08 am

    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

    March 7, 2020 at 6:16 am

    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…

  8. 8.

    Joey Maloney

    March 7, 2020 at 6:18 am

    @Zinsky: Your description might be literally true: Internet Speculates After Trump Appears to Have Wet Pants at Tennessee Disaster Meeting

    CW: There’s a picture

  9. 9.

    Shalimar

    March 7, 2020 at 6:23 am

    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

    March 7, 2020 at 7:20 am

    [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)))

    March 7, 2020 at 7:35 am

    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

    March 7, 2020 at 7:56 am

    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

    March 7, 2020 at 8:35 am

    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

    March 7, 2020 at 8:41 am

    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

    March 7, 2020 at 8:59 am

    @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

    March 7, 2020 at 9:05 am

    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

    March 7, 2020 at 9:22 am

    @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

    March 7, 2020 at 9:25 am

    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

    March 7, 2020 at 10:04 am

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

  20. 20.

    Soprano2

    March 7, 2020 at 10:11 am

    @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.

  21. 21.

    Another Scott

    March 7, 2020 at 11:31 am

    @Soprano2: The Johns Hopkins map (mentioned here a couple of days ago) is a great resource for seeing where confirmed cases are and their status.

    Johns Hopkins Map

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  22. 22.

    Another Scott

    March 7, 2020 at 11:46 am

    @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

    March 7, 2020 at 12:46 pm

    @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

    March 7, 2020 at 1:00 pm

    @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

    March 7, 2020 at 1:02 pm

    @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

    March 7, 2020 at 2:00 pm

    @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.

  27. 27.

    Another Scott

    March 7, 2020 at 2:52 pm

    @SFAW: The JH map shows 50 cases in Iceland.

    Iceland.

    :-/

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  28. 28.

    EmbraceYourInnerCrone

    March 7, 2020 at 2:58 pm

    @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

    March 7, 2020 at 3:02 pm

    @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…

  30. 30.

    SFAW

    March 7, 2020 at 3:05 pm

    @EmbraceYourInnerCrone:

    You’re not cheering me up, you know.

    Thanks for that info. I hope it will eventually fall into the “well that was interesting, fortunately nothing came of it” category.

  31. 31.

    pat

    March 7, 2020 at 3:22 pm

    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

    March 7, 2020 at 4:51 pm

    @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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