Posted on 03/07/2020 5:44:35 PM PST by redgolum
the 36-year-old Omaha woman who has tested positive for COVID-19 visited Fremont on Feb. 29 according to a release from the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services.
State and local officials are requesting basketball players, coaches and team staff who participated in the Special Olympics event at the Fremont Family YMCA on February 29, 2020, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. to self-quarantine to limit exposure to others and monitor themselves for development of COVID-19 symptoms as listed below until Saturday, March 14, 2020.
“We’re asking for basketball players, coaches, and team staff who participated this event on February 29, 2020 to either self-report to the Nebraska public health online system at http://dhhs.ne.gov/Pages/Coronavirus.aspx or contact their local health department for guidance and next steps. Informing the local health department is the most direct way to ensure timely medical care if needed and to minimize the potential risk to others,” said Dr. Gary Anthone, Chief Medical Officer and Director of Public Health for DHHS.
Spectators of the Special Olympics events and other people who were in the YMCA facility that same day are at much lower risk than the direct participants. Non-participating individuals can self-monitor and contact a local health department or their health care provider if they develop symptoms.
Earlier in the day, the Fremont Public School district tweeted on their official Twitter page that they are monitoring the situation a statement.
Fremont Public Schools is aware of the news that Nebraska's first confirmed case of COVID-19 was in Fremont on February 29. We are confirming other details and will release a statement shortly.
The woman is believed to have contracted the virus while traveling with her father in the United Kingdom from Feb. 18-27, according to Dr. Robert Penn, an epidemiologist at Methodist Hospital.
Symptoms of COVID-19 can appear 2-14 days after exposure to the virus. The most common symptoms reported are fever of greater than 100.4F, cough and shortness of breath or difficulty breathing.
Evidence to date suggests that this virus doesn’t stay in the environment for an extended period of time. Without ongoing contamination from ill people, the facility where the event was held isn’t a risk for ongoing exposure.
Currently, there is not a vaccine or an antiviral (medicine) to protect against COVID-19. Most people with mild illness will recover on their own by drinking plenty of fluids, resting, and taking pain and fever-reducing medications to relieve symptoms while isolating to prevent spread to others. However, people can develop pneumonia and require medical care or hospitalization.
Methodist Hospital in Omaha where the woman was first treated has asked more than 30 employees to self-quarantine for 14 days after being exposed to the patient, according to a press release from the hospital.
The Centers for Disease Control and state health officials recommended the move, and the hospital continues to work with the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services to identify employees and others who may have been exposed to the patient before they were placed in isolation, according to the release.
One health care worker was unable to self-quarantine because of living arrangements and has been placed in quarantine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
Penn said the woman started developing symptoms Feb. 24, and that her illness remained mild until Thursday, when she was brought to Methodist Hospital and diagnosed with a pneumonia-like infection and low blood-oxygen levels.
Doctors put the woman into a negative-airflow room — similar to those available at the University of Nebraska Medical Center's biocontainment and quarantine units — and screened her for common community viruses.
Tests showed she was positive for COVID-19, Penn said, and chest scans showed she has pneumonia-like symptoms seen in other patients with the disease.
Working in conjunction with UNMC, the woman was moved Friday evening from Methodist to the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit.
Which had an inubation period of. ....???
You see, one of the big reasons we have feral pig problems in many states is because the gestation period is so short. Short incubation accelerates population growth. Long incubation retard it. Covid-19 has up to a 400-500+ percent longer incubation time w/r to H1N1. That has a huge effect on how fast is develops and shows observable spread. You can’t compare the two as of now.
Likelyhood is low if you are not exposed. Shove someone with it in your face and likelyhood is high. Very contagious. Gotta qualify your remarks.
“I’m laughing at your pathetic panic and your idea that the sky is falling. You absolutely are wrong I think the way you are attempting to pad the death rate. I’ll continue to mock you for it and there is nothing you can do about it.”
I’m not the one panicking. I am saying not to panic, but to prepare and watch what’s happening. You are the one redefining terms and changing the rules to suit your hysteria. Carry on, everybody realizes you are ridiculous at this point.
“Doesn’t that just burn you up inside?”
No, because I am right and you are wrong.
Yeah, I think she says don’t panic in her tag line. You’re mischaracterising at best.
So will you take my open bet? By July 1, 2020, if this hasn’t matched the 1918 Spanish Flu in deaths, you agree to leave the site and never post here again.
If you won’t take the bet, it only shows that you don’t believe the trash you are peddling.
“Actually, if he caught it, the likelihood is at the high end, because of his age.”
80% of the deaths are people over 65. That does not mean an 80% chance of death for people over 65.
The President has the best health care in the world so he has virtually a zero chance of dying from this were he to catch it. Could he? Sure. Statistics doesn’t play favorites.
But even so, he HAS to be out doing what he’s doing. Setting an example, keeping the people calm, showing he’s in control, even if that made it virtually certain he’d be exposed.
“the likelihood of anyone in this Country catching this, is very low.”
You are probably going to eat those words, FRiend. Case count in the US is still climbing sharply and testing is only just starting. I hope you are right, but I am sure you are wrong.
She’s the moron redefining terms. Crude fatality ratio is a calculation of deaths versus confirmed cases, not deaths versus recovered patients.
CFR has an accepted scientific definition and she’s the one claiming that I’m redefining terms. It’s laughable on its face.
It’s one thing to say “don’t panic” it’s another to actually practice what you preach.
Or that you don’t understand incubation periods.
Panic is not defined by erroneous definition advocacy.
So what do you think should be done? Martial law and a mandatory nationwide 30 Day quarantine?
Not one of you “sky is falling” types ever lay out a detailed and realistic plan.
Let me guess, you won’t take the open bet either.
“So will you take my open bet? By July 1, 2020, if this hasn’t matched the 1918 Spanish Flu in deaths, you agree to leave the site and never post here again.”
That’s not the bet you offered before. I guess you thought you might lose. Classic liberal ploy, moving the goal posts.
“If you won’t take the bet, it only shows that you don’t believe the trash you are peddling.”
Pray, tell, when did I ever predict this would be like the Spanish Flu? By the way, if it falls 1 death short of the Spanish Flu, is that an acceptable outcome to you?
You are being a total idiot. Are you even old enough to play on the internet without supervision? Your early claims about this have been proven wrong and now you are hysterically trying to recover. Get over it. At least you aren’t putting 3, 5, 17 exclamation points after each and every hysterical statement anymore.
Tell you what, I bet that in a week (00:01 on 3/15) we have over 1,000 confirmed cases in the US. Wanna take that bet, miss can’t-be-wrong? You’ll leave the site forever if I’m right? Yeah, I didn’t think so.
What a stupid sort of wager, trying to bully people you can’t beat in an argument into leaving so you don’t have to face them.
Rotf!!!
If you can’t go all next week without trying to censor someone’s 1st amendment rights will you agree to hold your breath for 10 minutes?
We’re not posting w/r to the Covid-19 to debate a national or even state plan. We’re posting and reading to ready ourselves for virus avoidance, possible isolation, quaruntine or self-treatment if hospitals are overwhelmed. Just trying to navigate life with this and not get caught in a crowd.
Your interpretation of posters goals is way out of whack.
you must live your life.....
take reasonable precautions....
but I'm here in vegas and just watched an epic bb game that ended at 11:45 pm with thousands of other people....we yelled, we clapped, we stood.....we got more lung exercise then sitting at home watching the boob tube....
Let’s agree on a specific date. How about July 1, 2020? If this hasn’t boiled out of control by then, then would you agree never to post on the forum again? For the control, let’s use the Spanish Flu. Thesis: “If the Corona Virus is not as bad as the Spanish Flu, would you agree to leave?” Are you willing to take that bet? I am willing to bet that none of those peddling the doom would take that bet. You won’t do it either. Why?
You can't even keep the posters straight, let alone the fact that you are trying to redefine CFR to fit your agenda.
I say that people shouldn't panic, just prepare and be vigilant.
You say it's all an evil plot to overthrow Trump and the Constitution. usually with multiple exclamation points after every sentence.
Then you try to bully people who won't cower before your almighty tinfoil paranoia. And attribute things to them they never said.
And my definition of CFR is THE definition of CFR. deaths over (deaths plus recoveries). You are trying to misrepresent the current statistics to "prove" your agenda. You don't get to change the definition of things so you can "win" an argument. That's a liberal idiot trick. With a whole lot of projection thrown in.
You can shove the lying, bullying and liberal goal post moving and assorted other idiocy. It doesn't work
You wouldn't take my bet. Why? If the bet is not reversible it's not a reasonable bet. Yours is absurd. And I am not afraid to face people that disagree with me.
He, not that it matters.
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