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COVID19 Testing: Until this is fixed, nobody is safe
Panola Watchman ^ | Staff

Posted on 04/15/2020 3:31:19 AM PDT by eastexsteve

The Briarcliff Skilled Nursing Center in Carthage is now reporting two deaths related to COVID-19, as well as seven residents and five staff members who have tested positive, in an update Tuesday on their website.

The facility has had 28 people tested for coronavirus. Five residents tested negative.

The facility said eight residents and one employee had pending tests.

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; covid; nursing; testing
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To: eastexsteve
COVID19 Testing: Until this is fixed, nobody is safe

What a load of nonsense.
AIDS has been out for 40 years, how many people in the US are tested every year for AIDS?
Do they have a vaccine for AIDS despite tens of billions of dollars spent on it? Nope.
Have people stopped having unprotected sex because of AIDS? Nope.

21 posted on 04/15/2020 6:01:25 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: a real Sheila

I agree with you. The people who really need testing are:

- First Responders
- Health care workers
- Employees in nursing homes
- Employees in large facilities where they must work close together (i.e. that meat packing plant in South Dakota)

Testing all 350 million of us is logistically impossible.


22 posted on 04/15/2020 6:12:31 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: SmokingJoe

All valid points. What this really is about is a bunch of people with vested interests trying to grab massive chunks of Federal money while the gettin’ is good.


23 posted on 04/15/2020 6:13:32 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
I agree with you. The people who really need testing are:

- First Responders
- Health care workers
- Employees in nursing homes
- Employees in large facilities where they must work close together (i.e. that meat packing plant in South Dakota)

Testing all 350 million of us is logistically impossible

Totally agree with all your points. Very sensible.

24 posted on 04/15/2020 6:18:49 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: central_va

Yeah, they’ll be YOU


25 posted on 04/15/2020 6:25:58 AM PDT by Monty22002
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To: eastexsteve

Trump’s task force has said they are going to institute stringent testing for nursing homes. More regulations are also required in that current environment. But that has nothing to do with the majority of our economy opening up again. If anything these facilities should aid a reopening, because they cut down on the multigenerational households that so hurt Italy. But you are right, they need better controls.


26 posted on 04/15/2020 6:30:16 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: eastexsteve

Is everyone tested every year for anti-bodies to the raft of flu viruses, which kill millions every year?

And Covid-19 should be different, because???

How much is the “flu vaccine” protecting us and how much is the built up herd immunity to the flug bugs protecting us? Do they over sell the “flu vaccine” and under appreaciate the built up herd immunity to the seasonal flu bugs?

On a personal note, I have never ever had the flu vaccine and never ever had a serious flu illness.


27 posted on 04/15/2020 7:25:20 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: eastexsteve

While you wrote this post 3 people died of other causes. Stop your hyperventilating.


28 posted on 04/15/2020 7:30:47 AM PDT by TruthFactor (Hang em', Hang em' High.)
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To: TruthFactor
While you wrote this post 3 people died of other causes. Stop your hyperventilating.

If they did so by not getting a flu or pneumonia shot, then that was their choice. With this stuff, you don't have a choice. Too bad you don't know the difference. Hopefully, you won't learn it the hard way.

29 posted on 04/15/2020 7:51:10 AM PDT by eastexsteve
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To: SmokingJoe
Do they have a vaccine for AIDS despite tens of billions of dollars spent on it? Nope.

But, they do have an effective treatment. A BIG difference.

30 posted on 04/15/2020 7:52:18 AM PDT by eastexsteve
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To: Wuli
And Covid-19 should be different, because???

.. there is no vaccine or verified effective treatment.

31 posted on 04/15/2020 7:53:49 AM PDT by eastexsteve
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To: eastexsteve

OOOOH we’re all going to DIE.

Just what the a-holes want.

Keep believing.


32 posted on 04/15/2020 7:58:13 AM PDT by JayAr36 (The worthless dispicable party must be destroyed)
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To: eastexsteve
HCQ with zinc says “Hello”
Works at last as well as some of these AIDS treatments.
Professor Didier Raoult managed to get a 91% cure rate in a 1061 patient sample trial in just 10 days, with only 0.5 % deaths in that time span. What AIDS medicine can do that?
33 posted on 04/15/2020 8:04:54 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: eastexsteve

“there is no vaccine or verified effective treatment”

I think that is an answer from the CDC (we want to keep our jobs) “experts”.

I think herd immunity is the greater deterrant now with the seasonal flu than is the much touted flu vaccine, which still does not prevent many folks from getting the flu.


34 posted on 04/15/2020 8:37:03 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: eastexsteve

Extremely unlikely. There’s a higher chance of me dying of about 50 other causes.


35 posted on 04/15/2020 10:30:57 AM PDT by TruthFactor (Hang em', Hang em' High.)
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