Coronavirus COVID-19 *Global Health Emergency* #13

[Betty P]

FIVE states in the US are NOT testing for coronavirus AT ALL | Daily Mail Online

5 states not testing for coronavirus -

Ohio
Alabama
Maine
Oklahoma
Wyoming

Guess which is the most populous of those states?

However, Ohio will put you on trial for murder if you get an abortion or use some forms of birth control.

 

[margarita25]

Pass the bubble wrap please (with clean hands)

 

[Henry2326]

I just landed at JFK after reporting on #coronavirus in Milan and Lombardy —the epicenter of Italy’s outbreak— for
@vicenews
. I walked right through US customs. They didn’t ask me where in Italy I went or if I came into contact with sick people. They didn’t ask me anything.

Julia Lindau on Twitter

So 2 different airports and nothing....I have no faith in our ability to best this....

 

[zecats]

FIVE states in the US are NOT testing for coronavirus AT ALL | Daily Mail Online

5 states not testing for coronavirus -

Ohio
Alabama
Maine
Oklahoma
Wyoming

Guess which is the most populous of those states?

However, Ohio will put you on trial for murder if you get an abortion or use some forms of birth control.

Starts with an "O" and ends with an "o" ??

 

[SAMS]

So 2 different airports and nothing....I have no faith in our ability to best this....

Sadly, me either. Ugh.

 

[Betty P]

So 2 different airports and nothing....I have no faith in our ability to best this....

New York was supposed to start checking on this. What's up with Andrew Cuomo? He must have pals in the airline industry who are leaning on him.

 

[margarita25]

It seems there is an Italy connection to a Colorado case:

First coronavirus case confirmed in Colorado, patient being treated in metro Denver

 

[Henry2326]

Germany's Morgenpost is reporting that, based on figures from the health minister, the number of coronavirus cases has risen to 545, which would be a sharp increase from 400 about 9 hours ago. No official confirmation so far.
BNO Newsroom on Twitter

 

[SAMS]

Cliff Levy on Twitter

JUST IN: 2,733 people are under coronavirus quarantines in New York City, officials say

 

[margarita25]

@otto , since you were asking about vodka

Sorry, Tito’s Vodka says it doesn’t meet the CDC’s requirements for homemade hand sanitizer

 

[margarita25]

Cliff Levy on Twitter

JUST IN: 2,733 people are under coronavirus quarantines in New York City, officials say

 

[SAMS]

WOAH.

“If this facility is safe enough for my father-in-law I want Mike Pence in that facility.” -Kevin Connolly of the Life Care Center in Kirkland that currently houses his health father-in-law, and where over half the coronavirus deaths in the US stem from.

Omar Jimenez on Twitter

 

[Henry2326]

***Maryland has its first confirmed cases of #COVIDー19. @GovLarryHogan will hold a press conference tonight at approximately 8:00 p.m. at the State House.***
Mike Ricci on Twitter

 

[otto]

@otto , since you were asking about vodka

Sorry, Tito’s Vodka says it doesn’t meet the CDC’s requirements for homemade hand sanitizer

Thanks! I'll have to drink it instead then.

 

[margarita25]

I just landed at JFK after reporting on #coronavirus in Milan and Lombardy —the epicenter of Italy’s outbreak— for
@vicenews
. I walked right through US customs. They didn’t ask me where in Italy I went or if I came into contact with sick people. They didn’t ask me anything.

Julia Lindau on Twitter

Seriously????

What the...

 

[margarita25]

Thanks! I'll have to drink it instead then.

Hahahahaha

I was joking with the clerk at the liquor store that I better not buy any Everclear ahahahaha.

ROTF

Thanks for the laugh

 

[Henry2326]

Daily #covid19 sitrep from @who is up (numbers as of 10am Geneva time):
China:
80565 (+143) cases
3015 (+31) deaths

Outside China:
14768 (+2103) cases
in 85 (+5) countries
267 (+53) deaths

Kai Kupferschmidt on Twitter

 

[beatrixpotter]

Hmmm, well now that I think about it, you are absolutely right! I don’t think there was any vaccine specifically for Scarlet fever that she’d received....

NOTE: Scarlett fever has no vaccine, do not pay any attention to MJPeony’s incorrect recollection!!
A Group A Streptococcal Infection | CDC

I suppose in my head I must have thought it was somehow related to the measles virus.... well now I feel dumb because I’m certain the pediatrician explained the strep connection at that time to me My brain doesn’t retain medical information like it used to. Thank you for setting me straight beatrixpotter.

Oh, it's ok! I just wondered if there was something I missed or if there was some other means vaccinations helped with strep that I just didn't know about. A strep vaccine sounds nice! I really got SO sick from that as an adult. I got it again last year and was terrified over how my body might respond but I actually did really well. Phew! Unfortunately one of my friends lost 50% of her kidney function last year due to strep. :/

 

[Henry2326]

Ireland reports first coronavirus community transmission, cases hit 13 Ireland reports first coronavirus community transmission, cases hit 13 Reuters on Twitter

 

[SAMS]

A California man who self-quarantined after returning home from China amid the coronavirus outbreak said he is '100x more concerned' for his health in the US than he was in China

• A Bay Area resident visited Kunming, in China's Yunnan province — about 1,000 miles southwest of Wuhan, where the coronavirus outbreak originated — on January 25.
  
  
• He said that he saw more safety precautions being taken in China than in the US and that officials understood the gravity of the situation.
  
  
• Seeing how differently the Chinese and US governments handled the outbreak convinced him that he felt safer in China than he does on American soil.
  
  
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A 36-year-old US citizen from Cupertino, California, visited Kunming, China, almost 1,000 miles southwest of Wuhan, where the coronavirus outbreak originated, on January 25.

When the Bay Area resident and user-experience designer — who requested to stay anonymous but whose identity was verified by Business Insider — visited China, there were at least 217 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus.

And following his trip, he observed just how differently the governments of both countries dealt with the growing outbreak of the virus that has now infected more than 94,000 people and killed more than 3,200 other people.

He told Business Insider that he saw locals and Chinese officials understanding the severity of the outbreak and taking safety precautions. That contrasted heavily with his colleagues' blasé attitudes back in the US and a disorderly experience at San Francisco International Airport upon his return on February 2.

In China, he told Business Insider, he noticed precautions being taken.


Cathay Pacific Airways flight attendants wore masks aboard, as did many Chinese residents, he said. The man said locals likely remembered what it was like experiencing the 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, and knew how to prepare.

(While masks can help prevent people who are already sick from spreading the illness, they're not very effective for healthy people trying to avoid getting it. Health experts recommend washing your hands thoroughly and avoiding close contact with people who are sick.)



A California man who self-quarantined after returning home from China amid the coronavirus outbreak said he is '100x more concerned' for his health in the US than he was in China