New York deploys National Guard to New Rochelle, establishes containment center
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#2Here on nearby Long Island cases are popping up all over the place with no known links to other diagnosed cases, including 2 school bus drivers. Despite this, barely anyone is being tested, even those who are symptomatic. This crisis is being terribly mishandled.
https://www.fox5ny.com/news/two-long-island-bus-drivers-diag...
Re: New York deploys National Guard to New Rochelle, establishes containment center
#3Here on nearby Long Island cases are popping up all over the place with no known links to other diagnosed cases, including 2 school bus drivers. Despite this, barely anyone is being tested, even those who are symptomatic. This crisis is being terribly mishandled. https://www.fox5ny.com/news/two-long-island-bus-drivers-diag...
It's the lack of information and sense that there are no adults in the room among our leadership that is the most frustrating. It worries me more than the virus itself.
Re: New York deploys National Guard to New Rochelle, establishes containment center
#4Here on nearby Long Island cases are popping up all over the place with no known links to other diagnosed cases, including 2 school bus drivers. Despite this, barely anyone is being tested, even those who are symptomatic. This crisis is being terribly mishandled. https://www.fox5ny.com/news/two-long-island-bus-drivers-diag...
I've not been keeping up; what's the obstacle to getting tested? Insurance companies not covering? Hospitals not willing? Patients not going in?
Re: New York deploys National Guard to New Rochelle, establishes containment center
#5Here on nearby Long Island cases are popping up all over the place with no known links to other diagnosed cases, including 2 school bus drivers. Despite this, barely anyone is being tested, even those who are symptomatic. This crisis is being terribly mishandled. https://www.fox5ny.com/news/two-long-island-bus-drivers-diag...
I've not been keeping up; what's the obstacle to getting tested? Insurance companies not covering? Hospitals not willing? Patients not going in?
# of test kits. The US can currently test something like 7800 people per day as of yesterday.
Some other system constraints to think about are:
1M hospital beds 70k ventilators
Re: New York deploys National Guard to New Rochelle, establishes containment center
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I've not been keeping up; what's the obstacle to getting tested? Insurance companies not covering? Hospitals not willing? Patients not going in?
# of test kits. The US can currently test something like 7800 people per day as of yesterday. Some other system constraints to think about are: 1M hospital beds 70k ventilators
I don't know if this is still true but according to an article I read a few days ago, the US has the lowest testing rate of any affected country. Experiences of other countries seem to suggest that high testing rate may mitigate the need for measures like lockdowns.
Re: New York deploys National Guard to New Rochelle, establishes containment center
#7Here on nearby Long Island cases are popping up all over the place with no known links to other diagnosed cases, including 2 school bus drivers. Despite this, barely anyone is being tested, even those who are symptomatic. This crisis is being terribly mishandled. https://www.fox5ny.com/news/two-long-island-bus-drivers-diag...
It's the lack of information and sense that there are no adults in the room among our leadership that is the most frustrating. It worries me more than the virus itself.
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Re: New York deploys National Guard to New Rochelle, establishes containment center
#8Here on nearby Long Island cases are popping up all over the place with no known links to other diagnosed cases, including 2 school bus drivers. Despite this, barely anyone is being tested, even those who are symptomatic. This crisis is being terribly mishandled. https://www.fox5ny.com/news/two-long-island-bus-drivers-diag...
I've not been keeping up; what's the obstacle to getting tested? Insurance companies not covering? Hospitals not willing? Patients not going in?
The CDC completely dropped the ball on providing test kits, so all the individual states and localities have had to source them themselves. Which, entirely predictably, they are not doing a great job at.
It didn't help matters either that those test kits the CDC did provide early on turned out to have flaws that caused inaccurate readings (see https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/after-missteps-cd...).
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#9Here on nearby Long Island cases are popping up all over the place with no known links to other diagnosed cases, including 2 school bus drivers. Despite this, barely anyone is being tested, even those who are symptomatic. This crisis is being terribly mishandled. https://www.fox5ny.com/news/two-long-island-bus-drivers-diag...
I've not been keeping up; what's the obstacle to getting tested? Insurance companies not covering? Hospitals not willing? Patients not going in?
From my perspective, it's largely politics.
CDC would not authorize state and local labs to test. That seems to be an order coming from the White House to avoid economic panic (which is happening anyways).
Re: New York deploys National Guard to New Rochelle, establishes containment center
#10Here on nearby Long Island cases are popping up all over the place with no known links to other diagnosed cases, including 2 school bus drivers. Despite this, barely anyone is being tested, even those who are symptomatic. This crisis is being terribly mishandled. https://www.fox5ny.com/news/two-long-island-bus-drivers-diag...
I've not been keeping up; what's the obstacle to getting tested? Insurance companies not covering? Hospitals not willing? Patients not going in?
This administration sticking their heads in the sand and the CDC also either not being prepared or executing their prep horrendously.