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‘It’s Just Everywhere Already’: How Delays in Testing Set Back the U.S. Coronavirus Response
NY Times ^ | March 11, 2020 | Sheri Fink and Mike Baker

Posted on 03/11/2020 5:55:44 AM PDT by C19fan

Dr. Helen Y. Chu, an infectious disease expert in Seattle, knew that the United States did not have much time.

In late January, the first confirmed American case of the coronavirus had landed in her area. Critical questions needed answers: Had the man infected anyone else? Was the deadly virus already lurking in other communities and spreading?

As luck would have it, Dr. Chu had a way to monitor the region. For months, as part of a research project into the flu, she and a team of researchers had been collecting nasal swabs from residents experiencing symptoms throughout the Puget Sound region.

To repurpose the tests for monitoring the coronavirus, they would need the support of state and federal officials. But nearly everywhere Dr. Chu turned, officials repeatedly rejected the idea, interviews and emails show, even as weeks crawled by and outbreaks emerged in countries outside of China, where the infection began.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: bureaucracy; coronavirus; covid19; panic; pleasepanic; usatestingfail; virus
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To: Pollard

its weird innit?


61 posted on 03/11/2020 6:39:58 AM PDT by kelly4c
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To: Mom MD

“Older folks are at higher risk with most diseases. Unfortunately that’s just the way it works”

Yes...I’m getting there myself (69) and trying my best to stay healthy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNFzfwLM72c

Either way, it’s been fun.


62 posted on 03/11/2020 6:40:37 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: C19fan; All

63 posted on 03/11/2020 6:41:27 AM PDT by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
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To: cuban leaf

“A simple rule: You only test those with symptoms.“
—————
With a POS test kit that creates 30% - 50% false negatives. Now we are Italy 2 weeks ago, and need to do a lockdown to stop this thing.


64 posted on 03/11/2020 6:42:04 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: 9YearLurker

You are arguing against the mathematical rules established eons ago?

Hehe, foolish you.


65 posted on 03/11/2020 6:43:52 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: Balding_Eagle

What mathematical rules am I arguing against?


66 posted on 03/11/2020 6:44:42 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: xkaydet65

Thank you for posting this first hand account. Unfortunately there are a couple here who will ignore it or even minimize Italy’s current situation.


67 posted on 03/11/2020 6:46:26 AM PDT by kelly4c
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To: Ancesthntr

That’s also assuming that in an untested population they correctly attributed all deaths. It also is not taking into account the time of the progression to death is slow while there is exponential growth in the number of new cases.

The idiocy on FR is getting pretty high this morning.


68 posted on 03/11/2020 6:47:21 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: C19fan

Trumps fault

Got this other NYT piece from a Trump basher:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/world/coronavirus-news.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share


69 posted on 03/11/2020 6:53:48 AM PDT by Bell Bouy II
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To: ClearCase_guy

Singapore is about 200 miles from the equator, and Oz is in its summer, and they have it. Why are we going to be different?


70 posted on 03/11/2020 6:56:06 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: 9YearLurker

When the numerator increases and the denominator stays essentially the same the percentage goes down.

We are in the early stages of a plunge in death rate percentages.

It’s going to go well under 1%


71 posted on 03/11/2020 7:02:42 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: Ancesthntr

They have it because people traveled to Italy. The disease is not burning through the populations you specify.


72 posted on 03/11/2020 7:03:03 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Mom MD

There was a Corona patient in the next room, and the door to the room was not always closed when I walked by. Regardless ... I was sicker than a dog for 3 days, and they kicked me out of the hospital because they did not want me to get anyone sick, but would not test me.


73 posted on 03/11/2020 7:07:18 AM PDT by RainMan (rainman)
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To: Balding_Eagle

But thw data is bad with all sorts of unaccounted for variables. That is why the proposed function is not operative.

The idiocy here is growing exponentially.


74 posted on 03/11/2020 7:07:29 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: kelly4c

and he/she hits every c-virus thread with it


75 posted on 03/11/2020 7:10:16 AM PDT by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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To: RainMan

I’m sorry you were ill. You did not meet test criteria with limited. i here if tests available. The good news is you appear to have recovered.


76 posted on 03/11/2020 7:10:25 AM PDT by Mom MD
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To: C19fan

The outbreak is probably beginning earlier than it needed to, because many were panicking and hysterical about what could have been more temporary fluctuations in markets. Too bad, with only about a month before warmer weather.


77 posted on 03/11/2020 7:16:38 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: MNJohnnie

That average age you are posting to all these threads is not supported by your supposed evidence thereof.

Stop posting blatant disinformation!


78 posted on 03/11/2020 7:24:47 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: cyclotic

Such BS. Nobody suggested every citizen in the US should have been tested at all, let alone in a week. But just look at the Biogen experience, they had exposure first to those coming down to symptoms and then those who had been diagnosed—and were refused tests.


79 posted on 03/11/2020 7:26:12 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: C19fan

The Dems and the media couldn’t have cared less when the China outbreak was going on. They were all impeachment, all the time for weeks on end.


80 posted on 03/11/2020 7:28:03 AM PDT by jersey117
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