Vanity: CDC Flowchart to Decide who gets COVID-19 Testing

Vanity / CDC

[ClearCase_guy]

The author provided directions to wash your hands — multiples times. It was a theme. He was making a point. By repeatedly giving the best possible advice: wash your hands.

I asked the question because it amused me.

Sorry if that was confusing.

[Lazamataz]

I worked as a Federal Contractor for 7 years, for the CDC.

You’d be surprised how many ‘closeted’ conservatives and Republicans work there.

[Black Agnes]

The fact that you had to use the word ‘closeted’ tells me all I need to know.

[Lazamataz]

Well yeah. Conservatives and Republicans are closeted at ALL fed agencies. Less so these days, with Trump being there, but still careful.

[grey_whiskers]

- New Zealand confirmed its first #coronavirus case on Friday, according to its health ministry.

So much for the elites' hideaways.

[Black Agnes]

Right.

Like all those FBI/CIA and State employees who jumped up and down when ILLEGAL things were done to the Trump campaign.

Right?

All those employees?

I know these same people too. Went to school with that demographic.

[Sirius Lee]

I’m trying to tell FR members they need to prep.

You need to prep regardless as to whether it is pandemic or pantomime. See my tagline (refers to leftists in general)

[9YearLurker]

Likely. But we still have no idea—as they may well not—how many cases are out there undetected.

[null and void]

Make a guess. That ice is far too thin for this old, fat guy to venture..

[GOPJ]

Wash your hands often—before and after you eat, go out, work, train, etc. Use soap and water. Antibacterial soaps are a waste of time.

If you are sick, stay home. Take fluids, acetaminophen/paracetamol (if your health problems allow), and lots of rest.

If you can breathe and keep fluids down, then don’t go to the clinic to infect everyone else.

Call your clinic for advice if you need it, instead of visiting in person.

If you can’t breathe or can’t keep fluids down, then skip the clinic and go to A&E/the Emergency Department. Wash your hands when you return home.

If you are sick, and have to go out, wear a surgical mask.

If you are not sick, then don’t bother with a mask, as it won’t help you at all. The masks work only when they’re over the face of the infected.

Don’t waste masks, as shortages are expected—leave them for the sick and for surgeons. Wash your hands some more instead.

- There is (currently) no direct treatment or vaccine for COVID-19. Wash your hands.

Don’t forget to get the tips of your fingers and under your fingernails when you wash your hands.

- If you wonder if it’s a good time to wash your hands, then wash your hands.

Lastly, if you’re wondering who to listen to amidst the political gobbledygook, listen to Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, or any career scientist at the CDC. Their words on COVID-19 are as good as gold.

As we learn about COVID-19 and advice changes, and if you hear something from them that is different from what I’ve said, listen to them instead of me.

Excellent list Tiger...thanks for sharing...

[TigerClaws]

Another FReeper (medical professional) posted this:

CORONO TREATMENT

This bug causes a ‘cytokine storm’, like the Spanish Flu did. It will kill healthy young people as well. With a quickness.

From what I understand, the Spanish Flu (and by extension the new A-H1N1 variant) kills by provoking an immune system hyper-response, sometimes called the “Cytokine Storm” which severely damages the lungs and causes Acute Respiratory Distress (ARD) resulting in oxygen deprivation to the internal organs.

Here is an over the counter (OTC) formula that inhibits some of the major inflammatory mediators, and is now being suggested as a way to stave off ARD. All four factors must be included.

1a) A prescription ACE-2 inhibitor anti-hypertension drug.

(Note: Healthy folks w/normal BP would experience a crash in BP, fainting, et al. Those already on other types of BP lowering meds would experience the same.)

-or-

1b) If unavailable, 15,000 IU of Vitamin D (Note: 15,000 IU is a huge dose of Vitamin D, a fat soluble vitamin. This means excess Vitamin D is stored in the liver, rather being excreted. The half life of Vitamin D is roughly three weeks, and Vitamin D toxicity can cause serious problems)

2) Histamine-1 blocker. Benedryl or the equivalent.

3) Histamine-2 blocker. Tagamet or the equivalent (normally used to block acid reflux.)

4) Ibuprofen. Advil or the equivalent, a prostaglandin blocker.

In addition, it is also recommended to maintain just the MDAR of Vitamin A. Being short of Vitamin A is associated with having an excess of a very powerful inflammatory mediator called TNF-1. But it is easy to take too much Vitamin A, which is toxic. High doses of the provitamin Beta-carotene, which the body converts to Vitamin A, might work as well as straight Vitamin A, and are much less toxic.
Care should be taken to avoid “health foods” that can artificially enhance the immune system, something to be avoided when there is the prospect of ARD.
This was extracted from an earlier thread I’ve lost track of, with some comments on Vitamin D from NautiNurse, and on ACE-2 inhibitors

from reformedliberal added,

and a flat out guess on Beta Carotene from me...

PA Engineer added:

N-Acetylcysteine (NAC) is also well documented. I’ll post some of the studies later.
on 01/27/2020

[null and void]

I’m not a medical professional, but I did draw on advice of several to compile that.

[TigerClaws]

Thanks. I’ve shared it with a doctor friend. Will let you know when I receive feedback.

I’m surprised at the power of denial. Told many people two weeks ago this was something big and they ignored it as “another SARS.”

[TigerClaws]

Btw, this guy has a ton of good info/videos. Let me know if you are tracking any other Twitter feeds:

https://mobile.twitter.com/dailydigger19

[DouglasKC]

So, essentially, you can think of COVID-19’s effect as an extra flu season for the year. Whether concerns are overblown, or quarantine efforts are unsuccessful or unnecessarily actioned, only time will tell, but it seems clear that society will react with significant disruption over and above the direct disruption and threat COVID-19 poses, as predicted by prospect theory. Expect closings of school, work, public events, and such, even if they aren’t completely necessary.

It's weird that developed countries like Italy, Japan, Israel and South Korea would be taking such extreme measures to stop an "extra flu". Travel bans, mass quarantines, blockading of cities. Someone should just call them up and tell them it's just an extra flu. Oh and doesn't "extra" usually denote something that's a good surprise?

[TigerClaws]

There was an otherwise healthy nurse in Iran killed. Age 25. 3.53% kill rate, according to a Forbes article out today.

Oh, this is good fodder if anyone calls the bioweapon a ‘conspiracy theory.’

https://nypost.com/2020/02/22/dont-buy-chinas-story-the-coronavirus-may-have-leaked-from-a-lab/

[pfflier]

Well, the whole protocol assumes that somebody went to China. How about Chinese immigrants sneaking across the border?

[TigerClaws]

Or Iranians got it weaponizing it. Send 100 across our southern border and tell them to head to the NYC subways = cheap bioweapon. Almost too easy.

[sarge83]

Want to be China lol!

[Svartalfiar]

Yep. My only hope of anything approaching accurate is they are under reporting both the number infected and the number dead, and that the ratio is still fairly close.

Personally, I think they are understating both by a factor of 10.

Well, this gets into wild conjecture but if you go by those tencent leaked numbers from several weeks ago, China's numbers are actually 1/2 the reported recoveries, and 70x the reported deaths. I don't remember the modifier for total infected.

Either way, I don't think China even knows the correct numbers. There's gonna be a lot of bodies when they dig up all these concrete-encased apartment buildings. (This is half a joke.)