Posted on 03/05/2020 12:39:11 PM PST by Kaslin
NASHVILLE, Tenn (CLARKSVILLENOW) – Governor Bill Lee announced on Thursday, March 4, that a case of Coronavirus has been confirmed in Williamson County, the first confirmed case in Tennessee.
According to Tennessee Health Commissioner Lisa Piercey, the individual in question is a 44-year old resident of Williamson County who recently traveled out of state, though not internationally.
The patient in question has been back in Tennessee for four to five days. Though the patient’s symptoms are considered mild, he is currently quarantined at home, along with his family.
“We have been anticipating identification of COVID-19 cases in Tennessee,” Piercey said in a statement to WPLN. “We are now working closely with the CDC and local health partners to identify this patient’s contacts and contain the spread of this disease in our community.”
Governor Bill Lee recently announced the formation of a COVID-19 Task Force, to enhance Tennessee’s efforts in preventing, identifying and treating potential COVID-19 cases in the state.
“Tennessee was one of the first first states to begin COVID-19 testing and we continue to remain confident in our ability to prevent the spread of this infection in our state. We are actively engaged in our COVID-19 task force,” said Gov. Lee in a statement to WKRN.
“While this is a serious situation, I urge Tennesseans to keep this illness in perspective as the vast majority of cases are mild and manageable.”
Representative Mark Green also issued a response on the matter, urging Tennesseans to remain calm:
“As an emergency medicine physician, I can say with certainty that the risk of infection to the general public remains low. The United States is the most capable nation in the world to handle a health crisis. There is no need to panic, only to take the normal health precautions.”
Local and CDC officials have offered guidance to Americans, stressing the importance of regular hand washing and staying home when sick.
For more information on COVID-19 and its prevention, Click here.
How do they identify COVID-19 from to other corona-type viruses?.....................
It’s called a microscope
There are many types of corona virus.................
I understand one of the reactants in the test kit is specific for COVID-19.
What failed in the test kit that was first sent out is that control reactants that were supposed to show negative if it was other coronaviruses, were showing positive.
So they were getting a positive result that yes this is coronavirus-19 but they were also getting a positive control that wasn’t supposed to occur if it was CV19.
So they stopped testing and then two weeks later they realized going with the main reactant and presuming the person was positive and then letting the CDC confirm was better than not testing at all.
So places like Italy can get tested but America can’t even get this right
CDC is a joke no matter the President
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Did he fly out of state or drive? Did he go through BNA? If he did, what airline?
It doesn’t say. I live in TN, but I don’t even know where Williams county is.
Coronaviruses are named for the crown-like spikes on their surface. There are four main sub-groupings of coronaviruses, known as alpha, beta, gamma, and delta.
Human coronaviruses were first identified in the mid-1960s. The seven coronaviruses that can infect people are:
People around the world commonly get infected with human coronaviruses 229E, NL63, OC43, and HKU1.
Sometimes coronaviruses that infect animals can evolve and make people sick and become a new human coronavirus. Three recent examples of this are 2019-nCoV, SARS-CoV, and MERS-CoV.
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