Very true.
reposting because I forgot to update the US numbers.
Thank you! I am going to start doing this.
Reading this story of a woman who went to a Bat Mitzvah around March 3 and couldn’t get tested for Covid-19 for weeks is scary because at the time she decided to go to the Bat Mitzvah, there were not cases in that area, or maybe only 1 case and then it just blew up. Much of the USA is already past the point when she decided to go to that Bat Mitzvah. Where will we be in 1, 2, 3 weeks?
Also, very scary is the experience she had trying to get tested. It’s incredible that we are still failing at the most basic step in preventing the spread of this illness, basic testing and contact tracing and quarantine. Countries that have been successful all say that is the only thing that works. Now where are we headed? It could have been so much less impactful than it is. The way it was handled is unbelievable to me.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/17/opinions/coronavirus-testing-three-week-struggle-calihman/index.html
https://www.kare11.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/minnesota-narrows-coronavirus-testing-criteria-health-care-workers-now-among-positive/89-a29c6e4d-87f4-4c07-8859-6f47515deae2
…Hospitals and doctors are being asked to tell people who have a fever and/or respiratory symptoms (cough, shortness of breath) to self-quarantine for seven days, or three days after the fever resolves. This is the guidance even if those people do not meet the standard for testing…
So I am trying to understand this as relates to my daughter and her untested illness that has all the hallmarks of Coronavirus. There aren’t enough tests and the health department probably isn’t going to test her as she does not need medical care.
If she is fever free for three days (with no Tylenol etc) she would be able to go back to work even if the full 14 days have elapsed? She started with a pronounced fever either the 14th or 15th, meaning her 14 days should end the weekend of the 28-29.
She still has a fever, but if she is fever free by this weekend can she just start counting three days from then and be back to work by the middle of next week?
My friend says that the three days of no fever with medication is the criteria now used in the Netherlands.
There are many times more than because they are not testing enough. This is scary but think of the real numbers. Very scary.
After initially being told he wouldn’t be tested, my coworker’s son has been told he will be tested, tomorrow. Exposure to a person with a confirmed case; serious symptoms himself; in a county with community spread.
Ugh, my parents’ church is just beyond the Austin city limits so the crowd restrictions don’t apply!
That doesn’t sound right. People shed the virus even after they test negative from what I heard from my friend from China. She said China started doing three tests on people before letting them out of quarantine because too many tested neg twice and then were still contagious.
@suteiki77
I made an error. Three days with no fever withOUT fever medication.
Also, the whole of China stayed home unless they absolutely had to go out and everyone had to wear masks. Masks do stop the spread. more chinese didn’t die because they took very strong measures and took it seriously.
Israel is helping the Palestinian people when Arab countries won’t with giving them Covad 19 tests and supplies…and working side by side. Yes, they will try to help their so called enemy.
https://unitedwithisrael.org/israel-helps-palestinians-prevent-coronavirus-arabs-betray-them/
Just FYI, the Faroe Islands have 47 cases. You can’t be much more remote than that!
If you think it it really is Covid-19, in South Korea and China, they are quarantining people for an ADDITIONAL 14 days after they are recovered.
Well, you can give all of us access to their social media pages and/or an email for the pastor and CC members can go to work reaching out to remind them that the “christian” thing to do is be mindful of their greater community’s wellbeing.
@OneMoreToGo2021, the fatality rate for healthy 20 year-olds is virtually zero. Symptom rate for 20-year-olds and kids pretty low too.
China was able to keep deaths down with draconian lockdowns so the vast majority of the 1.3B weren’t exposed. They also suffers massive economic loss.
Fatality rates for the elderly much higher. Even some of the middle-aged who survive are having a rough time of it, with lung capacity reduced 20-30%, making them gasping for air after a brisk walk.
Moab, Utah has closed all accommodations to out of town visitors. Another example of a remote town trying to prevent outsiders from infecting them. Moab is the nearest town to Arches National Park and popular with mountain bikers.
I understand the fear, but in the US the virus wasn’t brought here by foreign visitors. In the cases we know about, it was brought by Americans who had traveled abroad and brought the virus with them - business in China, Nile river cruise, all sorts of Italian vacations, etc.
Is Moab going to forbid their residents from ever leaving? That’s the hard part.
All the cases in my town are in their forties and fifties, some in critical condition. Not just the elderly.
“Good lord. Just a few hours ago it was 5,000 cases and 100 deaths”
Infections with exponential growth rates grow exponentially. Though that may just be when the cases hit the tracker you’re looking at. Expect those numbers to be several times more in several days.
“Request is being made that people who might have unopened masks at home donate them to hospitals. Same for construction masks.”
This makes sense. We all might want to think about what we have hiding in our basements and workshops.
I fear that mine have been opened.