Posted on 03/04/2020 5:13:25 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has introduced a new policy which would allow specific laboratories to develop and use their own validated COVID-19 screening tests before receiving authorization from the agency, in a bid to accelerate testing capacity in the United States.
The move was announced by the FDA on Feb. 29, as three of four new confirmed coronavirus cases on the West Coast indicated community spread of the virus across the United States.
The first American to die from coronavirus, was a man in his 50s with underlying conditions in Washington state, officials said Saturday. A second American, a man in his 70s with underlying health conditions, also died on Saturday after contracting coronavirus, according to a Sunday press release from Seattle and King County Public Health.
As of March 1, 88 cases of the novel coronavirus had been identified in the United States, with New York’s first case confirmed on Sunday.
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How many of the Americans that died were healthy and reasonably Young? it’s a serious question. If it’s knocking those people off it’s exponentially much more dangerous.
lawyer in Ny is in serious condition...came back from Miami and then got sick. doenst mean he got it there,.could have gotten it on the plane or had it before.
Gee living in NY you’d think i’d know about that.
I was more concerned with that SHIP that docked in Bayonne 20 minutes away from my house on staten island.
Gee living in NY you’d think i’d know about that.
I was more concerned with that SHIP that docked in Bayonne 20 minutes away from my house on staten island.
That poor guy spread it around..synagogue, grand central terminal, etc.
His whole office should get it.
A dim witted hospital worker
he should be fitted with an ankle monitor
We need maps of where to get tested. And maps of where infected people have been and when.
China and N.Korea published apps that told people where the hot spots were.
The deaths in Washington have all been in old folks’ homes and hospitals.
Oh.
Realistically, they probably couldn’t have fought off your everyday pneumonia.
That’s sad.
Doesn’t matter how old somebody is to the family that loses them.
But I am relieved that Many cases in the US have ended with people being fine and a number even having recovered at home and not in a hospital.
A hospital is no place for a sick person.
And old-folks’ homes are Petri dishes.
I agree.
The lucky ones avoided ARDS.
Is this the beginning of the Zombie Apocalypse?
“FDA to Expedite Coronavirus Testing as Commissioner Joins Pence’s Task Force”
ya just gotta love how the Trump administration is demolishing ridiculously restrictive red tape across the board to accelerate common sense measures to help protect our nation ...
I’ve read or heard 100 stories that say “underlying conditions” but none say what they happen to be. What are those, specifically? Pneumonia? Asthma? Diabetes? Cancer? Heart murmur? Hypertension? Sleep apnea? Restless leg syndrome?
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