Cancelled my trip to Seattle next month, so far I got a full refund on the hotel and the train, just waiting if I can get a refund on my wrestling ticket I bought..... but even if I don't there 2/3 ain't bad
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The complete and utter incompetence of this administration is so fucking astonishing sometimes I'm at a loss for words.
There is a pretty simple way to make those people believe in the corona virus.
I would relax fever is the most common symptom from the WHO report. If you notice your symptoms worsening and fever starting, or shortness of breath difficulty breathing then start to worry.
not sure the government could afford it to be honest. Development, human trials, and then the FDA NDAs all cost a bunch. It's usually why most of the funding falls on speculative investors shoulders.
it'a one instance where I feel the market is better at handling this because there's a point you have to cut off funding otherwise it could become a very expensive rabbit hole.
edit: been investing in speculative biotechs for a decade now
Maybe not in this state, no, but that's why the healthcare sector needs to be reformed in America, and tax structure too, so the government can be the R&D strong arm.
for profit companies should not be the ones deciding where the cost cut off is, because they are motivated by shareholders, not public health. The government (and non-profits) are the only entities purely capable of making decisions for public health over profit.
City of Austin holding a press conference at 3:30pm local time (hasn't started yet as of the time of this post) regarding SXSW and COVID-19
http://www.austintexas.gov/page/watch-atxn-live
http://www.austintexas.gov/page/watch-atxn-live
Absolutely madness. We are so unprepared
The ominous days leading up to the coronavirus outbreak in the Seattle area
It was odd, the firefighter thought, how many calls were coming from the Life Care nursing facility in Kirkland.www.kuow.org
jfc.
I was thinking about this just today. I think it would be real bad if everyone who thought they have this descends on their local urgent care. I really feel every municipality needs to set up a coronavirus hotline and subsequent testing facility (or facilities)
I guess I think this way because I strongly feel like people will go to stores and buy OTC medication to treat the symptoms of this virus without actually realizing that its the coronavirus
I think if you have mild symptoms you stay home. That's the bad part about testing. You put others at risk just going out there.
US will turn into the new Italy if they don't get their shit together.
You're already exporting cases ffs.
The government isn't in the drug development business and they aren't the experts on determining "if we only threw another $100 million at this we would cure this".
Panic seems natural when you have people involved that failed/created other health crises situations, lied about something as silly as crowd size, and tests/supplies/health care may be lacking. This might be a bit of a chicken/egg situation, but calling panic dumb seems to ignore the disease that caused the symptom.
Costa Rica twitter is talking about this, so take it with a grain of salt.
But it is being said that the infected US tourist had suspicion of being infected on the first place, but traveled to Costa Rica due to cheaper health services.
But it is being said that the infected US tourist had suspicion of being infected on the first place, but traveled to Costa Rica due to cheaper health services.
What measures would stop asymptomatic people from traveling? Even if you test 100,000 people per day, if someone doesn't have symptoms, they're not going to go in for a test, right?
How does Costa Rica Twitter know this?
For those of you who live in areas where schools are closed, does staff still have to report?
I've recently changed to a commercial position within the events industry (from a science/technology company) there is a whole backend that supports things like E3 and GDC and MWC.
These trade shows , Expos and conferences are being cancelled all over the world. This in turn is making everything very uncertain, businesses who would be attending are apprehensive to attend or continue planning to attend for fear of losing huge sums of money should the event be cancelled or that the future the concern is great enough to reduce visitor attendance significantly.
I'd literally put down a deposit for a new car, which I will be cancelling. So the knock on Effect continues :(
In all fairness, the company has done the right thing but to spell out the things that could be coming our way (reduced working weeks, mandatory leave, redundancies) so at least people within the organisation who are in a worse financial position than I am can plan for hard times, should it come to it.
The government is in the public health business and drugs and vaccines arguably fall under that umbrella. And are you aware that most health science is funded by the NIH grants? University labs nationwide design new drugs and vaccines and patents, funded by government dollars. We just also have a system that allows certain drugs and cures to be decided by pharma companies' own R&D, and that needs to change
4000 precautionary quarantines (so expect a percentage won't do so) and 44 mandatory quarantines in NY state. Expect these number to rise across the US as more testing is done...
www.independent.co.uk
Number of coronavirus cases in New York rises as 4000 put in quarantine
'The number of people who will be infected will continue to increase. It is going to be dozens and dozens and dozens'
www.independent.co.uk
We've had a case come up from Seattle to BC already. People worried about China and Iran when the real threat to health in the province is driving up the I-5
The US government invests a ton of money in drug research and development. They also employ some of the best experts in the world in the field.
I'm asking myself.
There is no hard proof. Some random said that the medical teams spoke with the SO.
But as I said, take it with a grain of salt.
I am perfectly okay with the government claiming domain over a vaccine that could prevent or cure this. It's exactly why a company named Inovio was up over 50% today on the stock market. The government announced an $8b bill to put towards fighting this. I suspect any vaccine showing sufficient promise will get a sizable chunk of that.
Honestly panic isn't our biggest problem right now. We have people that continue to downplay the situation and provide terrible guidance to the public at large. People buying up toilet paper is trivial to the down players
Absolutely madness. We are so unpreparedThe ominous days leading up to the coronavirus outbreak in the Seattle area
It was odd, the firefighter thought, how many calls were coming from the Life Care nursing facility in Kirkland.
Jesus, that was a harrowing read. As someone who has family in facilities like this, I can't imagine being in a situation like this and really hope this doesn't play out similarly elsewhere in the country.
This did raise a question in my mind: I wonder what sort of lawsuits in sue-happy America are going to land when this is all said and done? I would be shocked if this care center isn't sued into oblivion soon.
Man, from a public health perspective it's the only move but economically it's going to be a disaster.
This is going to be brutal for the local entertainment industry that is already under massive stress as Austin gets more expensive every year. Had to be done though.
Travis County judge is signing off on a7-day festival ban for anything that could attract attendees from areas with confirmed human-to-human transmission of Covid19 that will be up for renewal until Covid19 is no longer a threat. So that's much more than just SXSW, though that's the big one and the first one.
This isn't accurate. 99% of University research labs don't design new drugs and vaccines, they do not bring deliverable theraputics to market. They research cellular pathways, design new structures to interact with pathways and research how virus interact with out cellular biology to help understand how a vaccine could be created.
Most of the drugs and vaccines that come from this research is done by licensing these patents and discoveries to drug companies to see if any actual deliverable theraputics could be created.
They really need to ramp up testing kits for states. It's very likely already in all 50 just waiting to be tested. Let's get those tests out there so we can start working from home
They absolutely do need to ramp it up. This is because republicans ruin everything they touch. I think much more people have it, but we cannot verify because we barley test.
I used to be in the Corral Club Committee. Things aren't looking 100%. I'm cautiously optimistic we will have a show this year. The thing is we draw vendors from all over the world. But no one has pulled out yet.
If the US is already exporting cases, then it might be just about to take off in South America as well.
Yup. Many will lose their jobs/savings. But its an understandable call.
A Gap in Tribeca, NYC is closed because a worker tested positive....
Yea good luck containing it now.
Yea good luck containing it now.