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I was at a funeral last weekend.I couldn't do it guys. I couldn't deny handshakes/hugs when people are balling their eyes out. See you boys on the other side.
Ditto, I understand.
I was at a funeral last weekend.I couldn't do it guys. I couldn't deny handshakes/hugs when people are balling their eyes out. See you boys on the other side.
Sorry, can't link this, but the bolded addresses the fact that this will be fast-tracked (hopefully) by the FDA. I do not know what sort of time frame is involved normally, but am hopeful that emergency use authorization means ASAP.Mayo Clinic develops test to detect COVID-19 infection
Mayo Clinic has developed a test that can detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus in clinical samples. The SARS-CoV-2 virus causes COVID-19.
The test, "Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS CoV-2), Molecular Detection" has been fully validated. Data from this test will be submitted to the Food and Drug Administration for review and emergency use authorization.
"This test should help ease some of the burden that is currently being felt at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state public health laboratories," says William Morice II, M.D., Ph.D., president of Mayo Clinic Laboratories. "We are doing everything we can to help relieve the burden during this time to provide answers for patients here in Rochester and around the world."
The real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test can identify SARS-CoV-2 from a variety of clinical samples. It has been validated to test respiratory samples collected from suspected COVID-19 patients. The samples can be collected using nasopharyngeal swabs, sputum, throat swabs, bronchoalveolar lavages, and bronchial washings.
Mayo Clinic will follow CDC's recommended guidelines for SARS-CoV-2 testing, allowing U.S. health care providers to send testing directly to Mayo Clinic. For existing Mayo Clinic Laboratories clients, the SARS-CoV-2 assay will be offered in the U.S. and abroad.
Faster turnaround time for SARS-CoV-2 result
"An individual can now receive his or her result for SARS-CoV-2 within 24 hours," says Matthew Binnicker, Ph.D., Clinical Microbiology, who is director of the Clinical Virology Laboratory at Mayo Clinic in Rochester.
Through collaborations with clinicians at Mayo Clinic and health care providers around the world, Mayo Clinic's sub-specialized laboratories are a critical component to patient care.
Mayo Clinic has been in close contact with officials from the Minnesota Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"We have the expertise to create tests such as this one, and we felt it was our obligation to help ease the burden that the CDC and public health laboratories are feeling at this time," Dr. Binnicker says.
All positive samples will be sent to the Minnesota Department of Health or CDC for appropriate follow-up testing and confirmation. Then test results will be communicated with public health officials, per their respective guidelines.
Simethicone : $7/100FBG26 said:Rice and beans can produce a lot of natural gas, which can then be used to heat the house. Natural gas also tends to keep people away, and nobody wants intruders.
Conversely, you could get in early before the resources are taxed.Mr. Ham said:By the way, I expect that my family and I will get this. I just don’t want us to have it when healthcare resources are taxed. Strategy is to avoid getting it at least before June.
The Catholic Diocese of Cleveland has granted dispensation from the obligation of attending Sunday mass for the next 3 weeks.
As more restaurants get shut down, I am firming up my plans to turn my basement into a speakeasy.krista4 said:I was getting pretty tired of all the individual posts about "my kid's lacrosse tournament was postponed" or whatever, but I just received word that my favorite winery's tasting room is closed because they can't accommodate social distancing. Now I understand.
Don't say it twice.BassNBrew said:Anyone know how to stop an iPhone from doing this with voice to text?
Generally I don’t think that they’re testing unless you are in a high risk category. I know of someone in the NYC area that doesn’t fall under a high risk category that almost certainly has it and they won’t test him. And this person has plenty of money and a very influential/high powered job, so it’s not that he’s a nobody.mcintyre1 said:Got my first personal story of someone who was exposed to a known coronavirus case, got sick, and was refused testing (in TX) last week. They went to the ER, got a test for flu (negative), were turned down for not meeting testing criteria, and were sent home with some drugs. They were not instructed to quarantine or anything else, but did so on their own.
I played pickup basketball Tues and Wed night this week.Amazes me that people are still going to gyms or that they're even open. All the sweat and shared equipment seems like ground zero for the virus.
Same. I gave in to the panic and hate myself for it. This was after I already made a mid-day trip to Costco. My 8:00 PM trip to Kroger found the following things out of stock:JoeSteeler said:Left the grocery store and it was a mad house x 1000
busiest I have ever seen it
Just Wednesday night for meI played pickup basketball Tues and Wed night this week.
One of my friends has a family member in Austin with symptoms similar to coronavirus for a couple weeks, tested negative for flu, etc, but he is not being tested for coronavirus. I wonder how many other cases there are like this in Texas.mcintyre1 said:Austin
Diabetes?Dinsy Ejotuz said:For whatever you think it's worth...from a friend who spends her entire day on this stuff right now:
- Places with high rates of smoking or diabetes are likely to be the worst hit.
Thousands.. millions.One of my friends has a family member in Austin with symptoms similar to coronavirus for a couple weeks, tested negative for flu, etc, but he is not being tested for coronavirus. I wonder how many other cases there are like this in Texas.
No[icon] said:******* THE WIPE OFF *******ProstheticRGK said:Goldmine potential for new shuke videos: what to use when you run out of TP.
I work with Dialysis Access clinics daily.Dinsy Ejotuz said:For whatever you think it's worth...from a friend who spends her entire day on this stuff right now:
- Places with high rates of smoking or diabetes are likely to be the worst hit.
There is probably less than a thousand, but who knows since we are not testing.Thousands.. millions.
I don't see how it could possibly be that low.There is probably less than a thousand, but who knows since we are not testing.
Was sore throat a symptom? You checked all the other boxes. Dry cough, headaches, fever, fatigue, chest tightness, sometimes diarrhea or vomiting, and minimal or no runny nose.culdeus said:Ok here's a run-down of my symptoms. You tell me if this fits with narrative
Week of 2/24 - Exposed to people coming back from West China after their 14 day quarantine
Day 0 2/24 - First day with upper respiratory symptoms. Began OTC medicine treatment in day and before bed
Symptoms continue, and get worse/better over next 8 days. some days have zero symptoms at all.
Day 11 3/8 3/9 - Crippling Diarrhea. I mean crippling. Started Immodium. still coughing
3/11 - Low fever 99.4 stayed home more OTC. Tried to get flu test (not COV test) was declined. Fever too low
Day 17 Today 3/12 - Staying home, OTC medicine working fine, feel much better cough gone.
Throughout this have had - Minimal if any runny nose. At times extreme chest tightness. Coughing is non productive, meaning can't get any crap out. Fatigued. Needing a lot of coffee.
Diagnose me dr. fbgs
Worked great for Italy and Iran.I don't see how it could possibly be that low.
Not testing is a great thing.
Worst thing that could happen right now imo. Look how everyone laps up the apocalypse narrative without any numbers.
https://www.cleveland19.com/2020/03/12/cleveland-clinics-new-coronavirus-testing-capabilities-will-deliver-results-within-hours/Sorry, can't link this, but the bolded addresses the fact that this will be fast-tracked (hopefully) by the FDA. I do not know what sort of time frame is involved normally, but am hopeful that emergency use authorization means ASAP.
Sure.. what is testing going to do?Worked great for Italy and Iran.
We have numbers in many other countries except....this one.I don't see how it could possibly be that low.
Not testing is a great thing.
Worst thing that could happen right now imo. Look how everyone laps up the apocalypse narrative without any numbers.
I'd say millions is a forgone conclusion.We have numbers in every country except....this one.
Othet countries are testing everyone they can.
Millions in the USA is virtually impossible based on what we know, unless we’ve been lied to
Unless the governments are engaging in a massive cover-up, something I don’t believe in, we have the stats for what this thing is, what is does, how fast it spreads, how many it kills, etc.
I was watching this too. But they may be picking up positive results from dead virus cells.There's a dude from the SF ship has been in quarantine since Feb 4. In Omaha NE since Feb 17, put in a biocontainment center in there for 10 days, now still locked up, can't open the window, go outside, waiting to shed the cv. He's in a clinical trial too. He was retested today and still is positive after 28 days.
So you can't assume it's just a 14 day thing.
This is like when people start off a sentence with "look, I'm not a racist but...." (Prepare to hear some heavily racist talk)Big League Chew said:No political objective
Ya, just caught that.I was watching this too. But they may be picking up positive results from dead virus cells.
Isolating cases and slowing down the spread.Sure.. what is testing going to do?
Is there a cure?
Are you sure you're not talking about the Japan ship, not the SF one? The SF one has not even finished disembarking people yet (which is a travesty in and of itself).There's a dude from the SF ship has been in quarantine since Feb 4. In Omaha NE since Feb 17, put in a biocontainment center in there for 10 days, now still locked up, can't open the window, go outside, waiting to shed the cv. He's in a clinical trial too. He was retested today and still is positive after 28 days.
So you can't assume it's just a 14 day thing. Omaha requires 3 clear tests before you're released.
Very interesting. I can’t figure out how to line that up with Italy, but I may have to look at that tomorrow. Rough quarantine night of Oreos Netflix and whiskey has me tired.Pretty wild Data model sheet of Coronavirus in the US.
Uses the King County case as ground zero and runs numbers that do manage to line up pretty well with our death rate (48 deaths as of today).
The only downside is it projects us as having 167.898 cases in America right now.
Tomorrow 204,000
One Million by the 22nd / 333 dead / 22.7k Hospitalized / 3.1k ICU)
10 Million by April 2nd (2800 deaths / 192k Hospitalized / 29k ICU)
It even includes a convenient "Cluster Sheet" that you can run your own model on your area.
These all assume a constant Ro which HOPEFULLY is much lower with everything being cancelled.
Maine has at least one tooFirst positive Alaska coronavirus case identified as person from cargo flight
Scratch Alaska off the list.
Ya, sorry. SF on the brain.Are you sure you're not talking about the Japan ship, not the SF one? The SF one has not even finished disembarking people yet (which is a travesty in and of itself).
Gym manager guy here. Wichita area. Shutting it down tomorrow or Saturday. Amazingly low amount of questions/concerns so far. But the fact we’re closing down is inevitable in my mind and we want what’s best for our staff and customers. Better to close voluntarily than a quarantined situation. Keep the ball in my court so to speak. Want to keep admin/full time staff around to manage. Plan to pay hourly/part time as long as we can. We are much like a ymca so pissing away a lot of spring program revenue but it’s happening regardless. Rather be on the front end than too late. That’s what reserves are for. Million decisions to make. 100+ ft/pt employees. Keep the pool running or shut it down and avoid utilities? We still gotta mow the ballfields and facilities. How do you figure what you’re paying variable hour part time employees? Accounting remotely. In the middle of a remodel project. They didn’t teach this class in college. Stress. Stress. Hang in there errybody. Thank you guys. This place is a major resource for me. Love.Amazes me that people are still going to gyms or that they're even open. All the sweat and shared equipment seems like ground zero for the virus.