I agree. This thread should remain a community resource to share verifiable information about the progress of the disease, outcomes, treatments, directives from health officials, and so forth. And a place to ask questions.
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So people can criticize other countries's responses but not the US's?
And a place to report on brand new press briefings from the US president and CDC about the virus. I agree.
This report (in Japanese) about a person from Osaka getting reinfected seems interesting:
大阪 ツアーガイドの女性 再び陽性に ウイルス増殖か 再感染か | NHKニュース
大阪府は、先月、新型コロナウイルスへの感染が判明したものの、症状が回復し、陰性が確認されていた大阪市の40代の女性が、再…www3.nhk.or.jp
- Visited Wuhan in the middle of January
- Tested positive for the virus on January 29th
- Discharged February 1st, tested negative on February 6th
- Throat discomfort and chest pain on February 19th, visited medical institute a few times
- Tested positive (again) on February 26th
Could be that the person got into contact with a carrier again or that the virus was not completely eliminated in the first place. The body might have not produced enough antibodies.
Let me add some to it:
- Lady is the tour guide who greeted customers from Wuhan, so she did not go to Wuhan. She was one of first patients in Japan who aren't related to the cruise ship.
- When she was discharged, she was diagnosed negative. Then, she quarantined herself in her house until now. This means she is not re-infected, but it is morel like virus remained within her, to the point she is tested negative, but is possible to spring back to become positive again.
Any vaccine for this would be covered by an ACA-mandated plan.
If the ACA is struck or you have a cheap Trump plan, then you would have to pay full price or whatever co-pay required by your insurance at that time.
Nobody can say what will happen.
Right now, if you have to go, just take whatever precautions you can, and try to stay safe.
But the situation could very well be different this time next week.
That's what I'm thinking. It's just hard to predict how things might escalate over the coming weeks. I'd be lying if I said it didn't make me at least a bit anxious, given that I've got a young daughter and would hate for her to get sick because I went on vacation and brought something home.
Thanks for the reply.
This is a thread about Coronavirus news, and people's reaction to coronavirus news stories. The leader of the United States just provided a press conference on the country's response to coronavirus; that's news. And people are reacting to that news. THat's all there is to it. Anyone who cannot take such reactions, may want to exercise their own right to read something else for the time being.
Perhaps make a thread to specifically address that? Maybe let's keep this clean of that potato and use it as a repository for new developments regarding the virus?
Local politics can't be divorced from this anymore. If the US's approach to the virus is bungled it's absolutely going to be discussed because it's critical news.
You cant choose the news related to the virus we talk about. Leave the thread then.
How the US is officially planning to respond/react to this virus is a new development, what the?
CDC people also spoke there, plus the secretary of health and human services.
CDC people also spoke there, plus the secretary of health and human services.
Yea I don't get the uproar, everyone was doing the same when that Iran minister said everything is fine and then tested positive the next day.
Young children are among the least at-risk population groups. As terrible as this thing is it isn't really killing kids.
Of course, keep an eye on the news regardless. The virus is and will continue to evolve and deadlier strains may manifest.
The interesting question here would be if one would still be able to spread the virus if one still has it while testing negative and being considered cured.
The thread is for worldwide coverage of the outbreak.
Because there is a press briefing from the president of the United States just ending, there will be a couple pages discussion of it.
It should be gone by the time you wake up tomorrow. Just wait it out.
So obviously if that case in N. California isnt from a person that just flew in, there might be a problem there. That's the whole point with doing more tests. If you are only doing strict testing on a limited scope who the heck knows where the virus is until its too late.
Ugh I'm supposed to fly to Las Vegas next week and I'm really not looking forward to it. Most likely I'll be fine but on the other hand covid-19 is one sneaky virus.
I wonder how they even knew to test a random person in North Carolina since there is no known vector
feel like this is how it started in Italy and they never identified patient zero as far as I'm aware
Let's not forget how yesterday San Francisco (California) declared a State of Emergency. Could be related.
Wondering if there was coordination with WAPO breaking the story and the 6pm presser tonight, to manage panic.
Ok Coronavirus people, I went on twitter and read this thread and now I'm super freaked out. I live is Socal and usually go to a weekly game night at a bar during the week, and have a few music festivals coming up next month. Should I skip them? Should I just not go outside again until this has passed? My Flight instincts are kicking in hard lol
You would know if you had any of these serious "pre-existing health conditions", which is just a fancy way of saying chronic health problems that require frequent medication or other treatments.
If you had a chronic health problem but had not yet been diagnosed you would be having noticeable symptoms. So basically if you are having any health issues that don't go away please go to the doctor and get it checked out. The worst possible outcome would be if you had one of these health problems, didn't get it checked out, and then got sick and doctors would be having to deal with your unmanaged health problem plus a virus at the same time.
Some experts say this is going to be around like he flu. Take precautions and live your life.
Do you have any pre-existing health problems, specifically respiratory issues, diabetes, or are immunocompromised?
Are you over age 60?
Does anyone in your household have serious health problems?
If you answer no to those questions then you will be fine.
Wash your hands WITH SOAP frequently, use hand sanitizer before you eat/drink anything when you are out and about, and practice not touching your face. Buy some lysol/cleaning wipes and wipe down your cell phone and door handles when you come home at the end of the day. That's what you can do.
In unprecedented move, Israelis advised to avoid all travel over virus fears https://t.co/obll52Ilbq
My city just put up a letter on Facebook about being prepared for this. I understand people needing to be informed, but still pretty unsettling. Like we are all sitting here in the calm wondering when the storm is going to hit.
RE hypertension is when your blood pressure is dangerously high. So high that if it went unchecked your blood arteries could weaken and then you could develop an aneurism
Was just having this conversation with my Israeli friend out here. We frequent the rock bar scene here in Tokyo and she'll be goin back next month. She's getting worried about cancelled flights and whatnot. Hell even I'm wary of being stuck in quarantine or something flying back into SF this weekend. Hoping all this doesn't wreck my vacation this year.
California has roughly 40 million people and there are 10 people with the virus in it. So 0.000025% of the population of California has the virus. If you walk outside right now you have a 0.00014% chance of getting struck by lightning, that's 5x higher than the amount of people with the virus.
Thank you for applying perspective here. I feel like a lot of people are rushing to panic.
Its probably going to be with us the rest of our lives, much like H1N1, aka Swine Flu, is now a part of our seasonal flu cycle. its why there was such an intense need to block the transmission from crossing out of China when it happened, now that's its got human to human transmission with more and more inability to track where they come from, I just don't see it getting better. Its a matter of when, not if, it hits most communities I think. Again waiting on the vaccine at this point and until then being cautious, and most importantly if you feel sick get checked on by a doctor and stay home. I am hopefully going to be fine considering my age and health, I live by myself, the worst thing I can do is help spread it in my office to people who are much, much worse off from contracting it.
People shouldn't panic, but they also should be preparing for when it might spread to a local community, just because you have an extremely small chance of getting it in a local community 'at this time' does not mean it will stay that way, that's the whole point communal spread, once it hits enough location, full wall/no travel is likely going to be the only way to stop it from entering a community eventually. Its just going to be a matter of our lives going forward and we will have to move on do what we can.
There are 10 detected cases. The state has ordered over 7000 people to self quarantine over the past few weeks. It's just that the CDC has been refusing to test people, so the numbers haven't been going up.
I don't think we're going to see an explosion like in Wuhan, that was like a perfect storm, but there will definitely be clusters of outbreaks ongoing.
Vaccine does not automatically mean cure...Depends on how it mutates and endures. Influenza has a vaccine for example but changes every year.
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Ha ha, precisely. It's small wonder people are getting nervous when the official response has been this bad pretty much the world over.