NuttMegg
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the tests were not approved by FDA. You can read at the WH press release from yesterday. MooStill waiting to hear why Trump turned down the WHO (World Health Organization) Corona Virus test packets, about 2 months ago. WHO supplied a multitude of tests for South Korea and 49 other countries, but Trump turned it down. SK tested thousands of people a day, and kept the curve down to avoid complete catastrophe on their health system.
Yet in the USA we turn down the same tests?
U.S. Lags in Coronavirus Testing After Slow Response to Outbreak
Coronavirus cases have dropped sharply in South Korea. What’s the secret to its success?
"Behind its success so far has been the most expansive and well-organized testing program in the world, combined with extensive efforts to isolate infected people and trace and quarantine their contacts. South Korea has tested more than 270,000 people, which amounts to more than 5200 tests per million inhabitants—more than any other country except tiny Bahrain, according to the Worldometer website. The United States has so far carried out 74 tests per 1 million inhabitants, data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show."
South Korea’s experience shows that “diagnostic capacity at scale is key to epidemic control,” says Raina MacIntyre, an emerging infectious disease scholar at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. “Contact tracing is also very influential in epidemic control, as is case isolation,” she says."
Sorry, but I'm not going to eat brown, wilted, old produce. Just joking, but I'll leave that stuff for you.Maybe starvation can induce you to lower your expectations?
I'm joking, but maybe this isn't the time to be overly picky about your produce. It is what it is.
Much like Boris Johnson's press conference of Monday. That was very well done and lacked the...hyperbole.... that mars some of the US presentations.There are a few things that I like about Trudeau's pressers. He's always outside, always stands alone without a ridiculous bunch of people standing too close behind him. He addresses the main concerns and speaks in a reassuring voice.
You don’t even want to think about restaurant ice machines, or soda fountains. MOO.I'm somewhat ashamed to admit this but I will in case anyone else hadn't considered it. Hubby and I drink lots of ice water. When our glass is empty we automatically put that glass up to the ice dispenser on the frig door. So we have been continuously spreading our germs on that ice dispenser.
Must be why WH presser delayed.
Well, heck if "panic and fear are disconnected" don't guess they need help. They might want a give the mayor of NY a call, he's singing out of a different hymn book.
Presdent on now.
I feel so sorry for Beatrice and all the other couples whose wedding plans have been ruined.
I can't see turning down tests when there was and still is no mass substitute. The president had and still has the power to overrule the FDA. I'm sorry I can't believe most of what I hear in those conferences, like 5 minutes ago (18-3-2020) when Pence just said there is no need to test anyone if they don't have symptoms.Because
the tests were not approved by FDA. You can read at the WH press release from yesterday. Moo
High school kids in my area are going. Smh why would a parent allow/fund a vacay at this time.I get angry that some college kids are still flocking to the beach for their Spring Break!!! We are dealing with a serious situation and the curve needs to get flat . My college kid cancelled his beach plans then so can others. SMH
I already told my sister that if I die, she'd better throw out all the food from her chest freezer, cause I'm renting it until I can get a funeral with all my family attending. Maybe they can have a small ceremony in the grocery store, because at least more than 10 people can attend. I'll choose it to be held in the flower section!Funeral recommendations in Illinois - no more than 10 people.
WRMJ Audio: Funeral & Visitation Recommendations In Response To COVID-19 Pandemic
I can't see turning down tests when there was and still is no mass substitute. The president had and still has the power to overrule the FDA. I'm sorry I can't believe most of what I hear in those conferences, like 5 minutes ago (18-3-2020) when Pence just said there is no need to test anyone if they don't have symptoms.
A person can be virulently contagious before that same person develops symptoms. Sometimes those very contagious people never develop symptoms themselves, but a slight dry cough. They will go on blithely infecting other people because of the information they just received from VP Pence.
High school kids in my area are going. Smh why would a parent allow/fund a vacay at this time.
IMO you can't deny testing to all people because some will be false negatives, or negatives before infection. If you stop testing people because there may be negatives, that means our country misses all the true positives.I post this daily, from Dr. Birx:
So if you have any respiratory symptoms, you want to protect yourself and treat yourself, but you also want to protect others. And so let’s everyone assume, when they have a respiratory illness, that you have a contagious illness because if it isn’t allergies, it’s contagious. And let’s use those precautions across the board, and let’s — when you get a negative test, that means you’re negative that day. That doesn’t mean that you couldn’t get the virus spreading overnight, because it replicates in your nose and your nasal secretions, and you would have a positive test tomorrow.
So if you have a negative test, that doesn’t mean that you can discontinue precautions. It doesn’t mean you can start taking risks because you were negative. So let’s ensure that if you had symptoms, you are contagious; let’s treat yourself as being contagious. And if you have a negative test, let’s make sure that you’re still protecting others from whatever you do have and that doesn’t reassure you personally and you take additional risk.
I heard someone on CNN "Stop thinking "me" and think "we.The "me" generation.