Posted on 03/10/2020 5:22:41 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
Continuation of the thread.
Please use this thread to consolidate the discussion and stories.
“I think it’s the degree of exposure that determines what happens...A few drops of the virus, the body can handle, but if you are exposed to a certain amount it overwhelms the body...That’s why staying out of crowds is crucial.”
100% agree. If we couldn’t fight off the first (relative) handful of virons, we would have been wiped out at the amoeba stage. We can fight off the virons at a certain rate, and if we do, we don’t get infected (in any way) and never know it. If they start to build up in us, then they start to multiply...and so you have that added factor. Once they multiply faster than we can dispose of them, we are infected and the consequences, of course, vary greatly - from nothing to death.
So, yea, bottom line: If you’re in a cab with a vector for 20 minutes, you’ll probably get it, an elevator with a bad case, yep. But if you touch a shopping cart from someone else who didn’t sneeze on it recently - you wont. You may pick up a few virons, but your body will laugh it off (assuming reasonably healthy).
On the China bus, something like 14 people got it from the vector who sat in the back, but most didn’t get it...but you bet they all breathed it during that 4 hour bus ride!
“I have a bad feeling about GA”
That airport, man.
No checks from people coming in from Italy. Unbelievable.
Fulton cancelled schools today- 94000 students
They are screening per the airport director guy but what good does screening do for the asymptomatic spreaders.
Patient 0 was shedding virus during early stages while in hospital bed while testing negative if I read that Medical Revew journal correctly.
Not sure if they mentioned if he was shedding the virus in later stages...
There has to be a reason some are super spreading and others arent...and it cant just be attributed to SPACE and crowds
This study... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3074351/coronavirus-can-travel-twice-far-official-safe-distance-and-stay
Now the authors have retracted it, with no explanation. When Chinese researchers or doctors are forced to retract, it makes me think there must have been too much truth. All of the articles regarding airborne spread have become hard to find now.
NY
Number Of COVID-19 Cases In NYC Climbs Again Overnight
Another five people have tested positive, the mayor said.
By Adam Nichols, Patch Staff
Mar 10, 2020 8:56 am ET
NEW YORK CITY – The number of cases of the new coronavirus in New York City went up again overnight with 25 people now confirmed sick, the mayor said.
Statewide, the number of cases went up by 25 overnight, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on CNN. That number is now 165.
https://patch.com/new-york/new-york-city/covid-19-cases-nyc-increase-overnight
Now the authors have retracted it, with no explanation.
MASS
41 Cases Of Coronavirus In Mass., DPH Says
By State House News Service
March 10, 2020
The number of coronavirus cases in Massachusetts hit 41 on Monday, according to new Department of Public Health figures that also show four of those people have been hospitalized for their symptoms.
Thirty-two of the COVID-19 cases are related to the Biogen employee conference held in Boston in late February, four others are travel-related and the remaining five are under investigation, the DPH said.
By county, 15 of the cases are in Middlesex County, 10 each in Suffolk and Norfolk counties, five are in Berkshire County, and one is in Worcester County.
https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2020/03/10/41-cases-of-coronavirus-in-mass-dph-says
We bugged out from FL 10 years ago and just finally was able to say to the wife the other day, “moving to the boonies is finally paying off”. I actually grew up hanging out on the hilly woods so it’s nice to be back to it.
LOL! Show me where I hinted 360 million people should be tested right now and I support throwing quarantine out the window. You are making up stories.
Too much drama, too much panic, tossing common sense out the window and sending people running to hospitals rather than calling local health department for medical advice and direction.
If you were exposed to a co-worker who subsequently tested COVID-19 positive, you ought to know what day you were most likely exposed. With that info, you contact your health department for direction.
2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)
FL
as of 7:46 a.m. ET 3/10/2020
Positive Cases of COVID-19
14 – Florida Residents
5 – Florida Cases Repatriated*
1 – Non-Florida resident
Deaths
2 – Florida Residents
Number of Negative Test Results
222
Number of Pending Testing Results
155
Number of People Under Public Health Monitoring
319 – currently being monitored
1161 – people monitored to date
http://www.floridahealth.gov/diseases-and-conditions/COVID-19/
Age breakdowns
State govt. Channel: MD. comments the ratio of 1/3 containment goal. ie: keep the one infected away from potentially infecting 3 more.
I’ve seen conflicting stories between Mississippi and Kansas. Either is likely because of the proximity of troops and pigs.
It really doesn’t matter where it started. It ended badly.
Coronaviruses suck.
But it’s just the flu, bro.
The R naught has been said to be over 2. Vs barely 1 for the flu.
GasBuddy shows $1.40/gallon in Texas so it’s not all bad news!
GERMANY
As the number of coronavirus patients in Germany rose to 1,295 this morning (up to date as of midday local time), and after the first two deaths in the country of a 78-year-old and an 89-year-old announced yesterday, Jens Spahn, the health minister, urged people to show solidarity towards each other despite the restrictions to their daily lives.
FRANCE
https://www.bfmtv.com/sante/direct-c...eyland-ecoles/
The essential:
• The assessment of coronavirus in France has once again been revised upwards: the epidemic has now infected at least 1,412 people and left 30 dead.
• A first case in government: Franck Riester has been tested positive. He had spent time in the assembly, where several cases were confirmed.
• Italy is confined from this Tuesday: the approximately 60 million inhabitants are asked to stay at home, in accordance with a decree issued by the government.
bkmk
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