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Coronavirus Disease 2019 Situation Summary

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Re: Coronavirus Disease 2019 Situation Summary

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Post by claudeganon »

dboreham wrote: post #3

>This virus is NOT currently spreading widely in the United States. Curious how this is known given practically zero tests have been done and numerous cases with no contact external to the US have been discovered.

Yeah, this is absurd. Surveillance testing isn’t even being done at anywhere near the levels to make this claim, nor are any of the only known effective mitigation strategies, like bans on mass gatherings, being put in place.

Compare this to what is being done in Singapore with effective quarantines and extensive contract traces, or Korea with on-demand, drive-thru testing, and the complacency is staggering.

The CDC isn’t even releasing treatment details for recovered patients so doctors and hospitals can prepare to respond:

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/03/01/health/coronvirus-patient...

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Post by 101404 »

jcadam wrote: post #6

My family just got over some sort of respiratory bug that had most of us sick last week. This morning I awoke to find that 2 cases of this thing have been identified in my area. Huh. We most likely just had a cold. Most likely.

Go for testing. The virus is still present (but not contagious anymore) some time after you recover.

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Post by ransom1538 »

dboreham wrote: post #3

>This virus is NOT currently spreading widely in the United States. Curious how this is known given practically zero tests have been done and numerous cases with no contact external to the US have been discovered.

Easy. %20 of the cases require some type of hospitalization. %80 are mild and don't require medical attention. If you have Covid-19 rampant in your town - the hospitals will fill with persons experiencing a bad flu - that %20.

https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-80-percent-cases...

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Post by Slartie »

dboreham wrote: post #3

>This virus is NOT currently spreading widely in the United States. Curious how this is known given practically zero tests have been done and numerous cases with no contact external to the US have been discovered.

That is probably why they capitalized "NOT": To deflect from the fact that they do NOT know anything.

And for extra security they added "widely", which makes this statement stretchable after-the-fact to fit any imaginable reality.

Re: Coronavirus Disease 2019 Situation Summary

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Post by mdszy »

ransom1538 wrote: post #14
dboreham wrote: post #3

>This virus is NOT currently spreading widely in the United States. Curious how this is known given practically zero tests have been done and numerous cases with no contact external to the US have been discovered.

Easy. %20 of the cases require some type of hospitalization. %80 are mild and don't require medical attention. If you have Covid-19 rampant in your town - the hospitals will fill with persons experiencing a bad flu - that %20. https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-80-percent-cases...

>%20

>%80

that's not how percentages are written, ever.

Re: Coronavirus Disease 2019 Situation Summary

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Post by egdod »

dboreham wrote: post #3

>This virus is NOT currently spreading widely in the United States. Curious how this is known given practically zero tests have been done and numerous cases with no contact external to the US have been discovered.

Especially with news like this:

https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/CDC-Coronavir...

Re: Coronavirus Disease 2019 Situation Summary

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Post by jcadam »

101404 wrote: post #13
jcadam wrote: post #6

My family just got over some sort of respiratory bug that had most of us sick last week. This morning I awoke to find that 2 cases of this thing have been identified in my area. Huh. We most likely just had a cold. Most likely.

Go for testing. The virus is still present (but not contagious anymore) some time after you recover.

Risk assessment says not to set foot in a medical facility right now unless I'm actively dying, thank you very much.

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Post by [deleted] »

Slartie wrote: post #15
dboreham wrote: post #3

>This virus is NOT currently spreading widely in the United States. Curious how this is known given practically zero tests have been done and numerous cases with no contact external to the US have been discovered.

That is probably why they capitalized "NOT": To deflect from the fact that they do NOT know anything. And for extra security they added "widely", which makes this statement stretchable after-the-fact to fit any imaginable reality.

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Re: Coronavirus Disease 2019 Situation Summary

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Post by EthanHeilman »

ransom1538 wrote: post #14
dboreham wrote: post #3

>This virus is NOT currently spreading widely in the United States. Curious how this is known given practically zero tests have been done and numerous cases with no contact external to the US have been discovered.

Easy. %20 of the cases require some type of hospitalization. %80 are mild and don't require medical attention. If you have Covid-19 rampant in your town - the hospitals will fill with persons experiencing a bad flu - that %20. https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-80-percent-cases...

Is it still the case that you have a two week latency before symptoms? If so, that would make detecting the early stages of an outbreak without testing exceptionally hard.
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