I would bet that “exercise induced asthma” is not on that list.
It’s not up. It was positive one day when all others were down but it is down overall and it’s not off as much as the market. I’ve been a long term holder so I know.
Agree. And for things like hypertension, does it matter if it is controlled or not? Lots off people over 50 have controlled hypertension, for example.
I agree about the “underlying conditions.” They shouldn’t tell us the health details of any patient, but they can and should make a list of what they would call an “underlying condition” if some patient presented with it. They have to know that already; they can’t just make it up as they go along (oh, here’s someone with a broken ankle, we’ll call that an underlying condition).
I have not seen mild hypertension mentioned as an “underlying condition” listed by WHO.
No, but I’ve seen the phrase “hypertension” listed as a condition that was identified as having much higher than normal death rates in conjunction with the coronavirus. Does that mean mild, severe, controlled, everyone with a systolic reading over 130, what? There is no detail, just “hypertension”.
KIRO showed footage of crowds and empty shelves at the Kirkland Costco and Totem Lake Fred Meyer. I, on the other hand, shopped at my little QFC and saw normal traffic and no empty shelves, just a couple of miles away.
I follow a presidential hopeful on Twitter and saw a retweet she made of Howard Forman. His Twitter account says he’s an emergency/trauma radiologist, health policy professor. In all caps he warns that US cases will explode in the coming days due to testing starting to ramp up, and that people should not panic as it’s not a sign that actual case numbers are exploding.
My Twitter feed is limited to NPR, this one candidate, and my son’s high school football coach. I try not to get sucked into non-fact-based tweets. However I thought this was a really interesting and likely realistic statement, so thought I’d share.
We avoid the Kirkland Costco like the plague, even on a slow weekday it can be packed. If you can, drive to the one in 'ville. Mucho better parking, and the crowds are smaller. Plus you pay unincorporated Sno - county tax rate. 
@doschicos To add to your tally- An Italian man in the Domincan Republic and possible cases in Guadeloupe. Confirmed cases in St Barts and St Martin. No results published yet on the test of the person in the British VI. If I am remembering correctly the test sample had to be sent to Trinidad/Tobago
Dominican Public Health Minister Rafael Sánchez Cárdenas said a 62-year-old Italian man had arrived in the country on Feb. 22 without showing symptoms. He was being treated in isolation at a military hospital and “has not shown serious complications.”
France, meanwhile, reported three cases on the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe, the first in one of France’s overseas territories.
Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/article240781911.html#storylink=cpy
However a few days ago Guadeloupe said some suspected cases turned out negative. Is this a different set of people?https://www.stlucianewsonline.com/no-coronavirus-in-guadeloupe/
https://www.antiguaobserver.com/breaking-news-three-cases-of-coronavirus-confirmed-in-st-barthelemy-saint-martin/
Three cases of the feared coronavirus (COVID-19) have been confirmed in the French island of St. Barthélemy (St. Barts) and French Saint Martin, the Agence France-Presse (AFP) has reported.
The cases were confirmed by the Institut Pasteur Laboratory of Guadeloupe which is conducting tests for the virus.
The case involves a resident of St. Barthélemy and his visiting relatives, the Agence Régionale de Santé (ARS) confirmed in a press release on Sunday.
I don’t think our primary care docs are going to be ready for the onslaught of calls.
The link on the last page (http://www.snohd.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=266) stated:
"Do not go to the emergency room unless essential. Emergency rooms need to be able to serve those with the most critical needs.
If you have symptoms like cough, fever, or other respiratory problems, call your regular doctor first.
Stay home when sick."
I heard the same advice repeatedly on the TV today. I understand why ERs cannot handle the volume they will face, but how will the small practice PCP know what to do with suspected COVID-19?
hah! “Like the plague”… slip of the tongue?
Okay, so it might be out in the San Antonio community after an evacuee from China who was ill was treated, tested negative twice, then tested positive after she was released.
Worrisome there were two negative tests and then she tested positive.
The cases here are undoubtedly imo already well into the thousands. So it wouldn’t surprise me at all to see the official numbers shoot up.
This is NOT about the politics…it’s about the procedure!
There are a lot of primaries coming up over the next two months. What are folks supposed to do? Wipe off the voting pens? Are poll workers going to need to disinfect every polling booth between voters?
There is no way to avoid lines and other people in these places.
Absentee ballots are certainly an option for anyone quarantined…but the poll workers need to handle those ballots.
I’m an election poll worker…and I can see these all as potential issues if this ramps up in a big way.
Thank dog we vote by mail!!
Realistic, yes, but many people have had their heads in the sand and have been given false assurances that we wouldn’t be where we are going to be going.
@doschicos. Good to know. Just going by a conversation I had yesterday with her.
Another good reason for early voting-I think most everyone in Texas already voted
Sad fact is, I can’t recall all the source links I’ve glanced at since this kicked off a couple months ago, so I can’t produce that one.
There’s only a vague memory of 60 seconds and sanitizers are gelled to keep them from drying out too soon. Along with a bunch of speculation as to how many virions are too many and are the ones that survive still as effective after some period of drying and a hangover. Which probably came from somewhere else, but is still interesting.
All of which may be utter bs, so I found this one:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK513254/
Maybe a bleach wipe still wouldn’t be a bad idea, depending on where you’ve been hanging out, still.
One last thing: somewhere upthread I posted a link to a study of coronavirus and how long it survived on various surfaces. Think it was a veterinary study. Findings were: possibly for a long time, depending on the surface.
Read commentary skeptical of it, that there was speculation the authors might have made a game of seeing how long they could keep them viable.