new deadly human-to-human-transmissible coronavirus emerges out of China
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What's with the lack of test kits???
Supposedly they were distributed last week, totaling up to 1.5 million individual tests (roughly 450,000 patients) and THIS week 78 public health labs were certified.
So WTF??
yes, I know ... it's hard to get big programs going at the drop of a hat. This speaks to the slow strangulation of governmental science and medicine by previous Presidents over various terms of office ... but still. Is this deliberate or just mind-blowingly incompetent??
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Happy New Year, WISHY. I edited out your psychopathic screed!
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I wish I knew. But I opine it's some massive FUBAR.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
So...
Nobody has answered my question yet.
Did 15 elderly people in a home in Seattle die of COVID or not?
That's at least half, or possibly more than half of the supposed deaths recorded so far, depending on the source.
Has anybody else even heard of this story?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Yes, they did Jack. I was watching some American news from Washington state last Saturday and there were the deaths.
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https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-outbreak-03-11-20-
intl-hnk/index.html
World Health Organization declares coronavirus a pandemic
There goes those pandemic bonds!
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https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/next-major-roadblock-white-hous
es-coronavirus-response
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/10/coronavirus-testing-lab-mater
ials-shortage-125212
Exclusive: U.S. coronavirus testing threatened by shortage of critical lab materials
A looming shortage in lab materials is threatening to delay coronavirus test results and cause officials to undercount the number of Americans with the virus.
The slow pace of coronavirus testing has created a major gap in the U.S. public health response. The latest problem involves an inability to prepare samples for testing, creating uncertainties in how long it will take to get results.
Qiagen*, a major supplier of the kits, confirmed that its product is backordered due to “the extraordinary pace” at which the world has increased coronavirus testing over the last few weeks.
Complicating the situation, most labs have been running at least two tests per patient - although that could soon change. The CDC issued interim guidelines on Monday that minimize the number of tests required for a diagnosis. The agency says labs can combine a patient’s nose and throat samples into one test, a move experts say will cut in half the amount of supplies used to test each person.
* Originally a Chinese company currently owned by Thermo-Fisher,
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51761435
6 March 2020 (last Friday)
At a press briefing on Monday, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephan Hahn said close to a million tests would be ready by the end of this week.
(But) Vice-President Mike Pence said the Trump administration would not be able to meet its objective of delivering one million testing kits this week.
But he said that by the end of next week the US government's diagnostic supplier would distribute kits across the country that would enable 1.2 million Americans to be tested for coronavirus.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/article241018106
.html
March 09, 2020 04:00 AM (this week Monday)
The leader of Sacramento County’s Department of Health Services said Sunday that physicians in the Sacramento region will have greater access to testing for COVID-19 starting Monday because LabCorp and Quest Diagnostics will have approval to do the analyses locally.
Dr. Peter Beilenson said the local laboratory has been constrained because it hasn’t been able to get more testing kits from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“We have 20 tests that we can do a day,” he said. “We’re obviously full every day. ... It’s clearly a shortcoming of the CDC, in terms of not having enough tests out there.”
https://news.yahoo.com/coronavirus-probe-california-nursing-home-21433
7786.html
By Dan Whitcomb, Reuters•March 11, 2020
The difficulties come as regulatory hurdles at the federal and state level as well as logistical and technical challenges have slowed the rollout of testing kits across the United States, according to healthcare providers, public health officials and test makers.
"We're using our own tests and California state tests to test as many patients as possible," Beilenson (Sacramento) said, adding that there may not be enough to cover everyone.
https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/03/11/coronaviru
s-local-leadersfederal-direction-1266348
03/11/2020 08:00 AM EDT
“This has been mostly a state and local effort. The federal government has been sort of behind the times,” Beilenson (Sacramento) said, adding that “there clearly could have been testing kits available much more early than there were,” which means now “the entire country is” catching up.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker (Illinois) said “I am very frustrated with the federal government. We have not received enough tests. We’ve been told for days and that the commercial labs will be coming on line. Just again today I was told they’d be coming on line in a matter of days and we haven't seen it.”
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/supply-chain/how-government-labs
-are-dealing-with-shortage-of-coronavirus-testing-kits.html
How government, labs are dealing with shortage of coronavirus testing kits
Maia Anderson - Wednesday, March 11th, 2020
As the U.S. is facing a shortage of a critical component of COVID-19 diagnostic tests, some labs are borrowing kits from colleagues, the FDA updated a policy allowing labs to use a different type of diagnostic kit and the CDC has offered to look into the shortage.
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Update (1522ET): LA County health officials announced on Wednesday that one of their patients had succumbed to the virus, marking the second death in California from the virus and the first in LA County, a local TV station reports. They also announced another 6 confirmed cases, bringing the county total to 27.
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Beverly Hills priest diagnosed with coronavirus as L.A. County total hits 29
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My old man said that last night there was only one bottle of Purel left on Amazon going for $60.
I guess people are just going to have to wash their hands with soap like normal human beings for now.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Not only is hand sanitizr missing, so is rubbing alcohol (the active ingredient). There's a lot of misinformation "out there" which results in people buying or making sanitizers with ineffective concentrations of alcohol, which is a great way to waste alcohol
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
My old man said that last night there was only one bottle of Purel left on Amazon going for $60.
I guess people are just going to have to wash their hands with soap like normal human beings for now.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Sanitizer is great for situations where you can't leave your work station (like assembly line), for high-contact jobs like receptionists, fast food, and cashiers, where you have close minute-by-minute contact with lots of people (like caregivers, EMTs etc) and aren't always near a sink or can't wash your hands every minute.
Same goes for masks (not even respirators) which at least keeps those people from touching their faces. Everyone who MUST work with a lot of people should have a mask and sanitizer at their work station. It just seems like a job requirement nowadays.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Happy New Year, WISHY. I edited out your psychopathic screed!
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