[DouglasKC]

From a local paper...

[DouglasKC]

Published about 20 minutes ago

[DouglasKC]

Detailed info about newest US patient...

[chris37]

It’s blowing around in the wind.

[Freee-dame]

If the patient is intubated, the patient is very sick.

[montag813]

The absurd overreaction continues apace. So reminiscent of the Ebola scare. Can’t wait to buy the bargains on Wall St.

[Sarah Barracuda]

So this person was already deathly ill(Already on a ventilator) on February 19th, probably a few days prior to do that..so that’s already what, 9 days..so if no one else gets infected in the next week or so Id say that is good sign

[nopardons]

How would this patient know if he or she had come into contact with someone who had this disease, since evidently there aren't symptoms, from it, immediately? And it's an airborne disease, so someone with it, could have been somewhere he or she was and sneezed or coughed into the air.

Not trying to be argumentative, just asking a question that probably has no answer.

[EinNYC]

It begins.

Cue the Da-dum. Da-dum. Da-dum-dum-dum music.

[Autonomous User]

The California Department of Public Health reported Wednesday the individual is a resident of Solano County who had no known exposure to the virus through travel or close contact with a known infected individual.

BS. There is a Chinamman in the woodpile somewhere. Count on it.

[JohnBovenmyer]

As was stated at Trump's press conference, for the moment our only defenses are general public health measures. Common sense personal hygiene, isolation when there is suspicion of risk and contact tracing. Not ideal, but NOT worthless.

California should recall the best example of not doing that, the initial public health non-response to HIV! I doubt anything Trump et al propose for this will receive nearly as loud a negative reaction as were proposals to apply standard public health measures to that population of interest. And I'm delighted to have heard one of the early true experts say he was wrong back then and admit a standard public health, rather than their radically PC, response could have saved a lot of lives. So far no one on the looney left has awarded this virus civil rights. Should they try to invent some, it should be stressed that Trump will want to treat their exposed precious homeless ethnic inventively pronouned druggies just the same as Trump treated all those exposed rich cruise ship passengers and world travelers.

Public heath measures can win us valuable time, during which treatments might be found. Some of the most promising treatments are already known to be safe so could be available quickly if we can prove they work. Randomized trials have already started. If Trump gets COVID-19 drugs out before the election TDS will clearly be the worse disease. They'll still try to hit him over Chinese supply train disruptions, but PDT already started treatment for that with his trade policies bringing more manufacturing back home.

[null and void]

the patient arrived at the medical center in Sacramento last Wednesday but was only tested for the virus on Sunday despite a request made by med center officials that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conduct a test when the patient was admitted.

“Today the CDC confirmed the patient’s test was positive,”

*sigh*

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[crz]

Here is how you combat it. Eat beans, lots of beans and pickled eggs. Top it all off with onions.

That’ll clear the air.

[FreeReign]

“This is not the first COVID-19 patient we have treated...".

Wait, what?

Did the patient enter the hospital with the Flu and then catch Covid-19 in the hospital?

[riri]

I just read on Natural News that a flight attendant tested positive in Orange County.

[Raycpa]

Maybe the virus has been here already,

[dragnet2]

UC Davis Medical Center will likely resemble a ghost town within 24 hours.

[Artcore]

Folks, in between your vapors, remind yourself that the vast majority of people who get infected with this WILL RECOVER. Take a deep breath and relax!

BTW, influenza is still killing lots more people. You should be more worried about that based of the number of deaths.

This mass hysteria is truly breathtaking to behold.

[Mom MD]

The patient arrived from another hospital..... I wonder what the exposure at that hospital was

[Artcore]

In other news, several Americans actually died from Influenza in the United States today!