Posted on 03/22/2020 4:26:06 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
March 22nd, 2020
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Governor Gretchen Whitmer, D-Mich; Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin; Dr. Tom Frieden, a former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Panel: Karl Rove, Donna Brazile and Marty Makary. “Power Player of the Week” segment (rerun): Lisa Marie Riggins (substitute anchor: Fox News’ John Roberts).
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Peter Gaynor; Gov. Larry Hogan, R-Md.; former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson. Panel: David French, Jeh Johnson, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Kristen Welker.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; FedEx Chairman and CEO Fred Smith; former White House adviser Gary Cohn; Richard Pollack, president and CEO of the American Hospital Association; Scott Gottlieb, a former Food and Drug Administration commissioner. Panel:
THIS WEEK (ABC): Gaynor; Govs. Phil Murphy, D-N.J., and Whitmer; former White House homeland security adviser Tom Bossert; former acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan. Panel: Chris Christie, Rahm Emanuel, Mary Bruce and Tom Bossert.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Gaynor; Rep. Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla. Panel: Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.), Vivek Murthy, Jennifer Lee and Lanhee Chen.
SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES (FNC): Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf; Peter Navarro, Director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy; former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon; Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.); Alex Gorsky, CEO of Johnson & Johnson.
*NOPE = “Never Obtain the Presidency, Ever”
You don’t have to go that far just go to Islamorada.Good food good fishing not a bad place at all.
Goes up year by year
You could well be correct, but I felt fine except for the days when i couldn’t draw a breath. That had never happened like that before.
The dry cough that wouldn’t leave was also new and different.
No temperature either, which would have indicated flu., so I’m not convinced either way.
There are many possibilities for that but the current coronavirus is not plausible. But there could have been mutations. Another possibility is that the prior bronchitis, pneumonia and flu is leading to a higher lethality for the current virus. I read somewhere that the combo of flu and corona is especially bad.
The oddest symptom by far was after a week or so, everything tasted bland/terrible. I lost weight because I didn't feel like eating. It wasn't nausea, but there was some of that at the beginning.
It appears that South Korea has figured out how to beat the wuflu simply by being very careful and doing tons of testing.
they didn't have to destroy their economy just use lots of common sense and dont be fool hardy.
‘Maximum power’
In South Korea as in Italy, an early case of COVID-19 was identified when a medical officer followed their intuition, rather than the official guidelines, on testing.
The country’s first case was a 35-year-old Chinese woman who tested positive on Jan. 20. But the largest outbreak was detected after the 31st patient, a 61-year-old woman from South Korea’s southeastern city of Daegu, was diagnosed on Feb. 18.
Like the patient named Mattia in Italy, the woman had no known links to Wuhan, the Chinese province where the disease was first identified. And as in Italy, the doctors’ decision to recommend a test went against guidelines at the time to test people who had been to China or been in contact with a confirmed case, said Korea Medical Association’s Choi Jaewook.
“Patient 31,” as she became known, was a member of a secretive church which Deputy Minister for Health and Welfare Kim Gang-lip said has since linked to 61% of cases. Infections spread beyond the congregation after the funeral of a relative of the church’s founder was held at a nearby hospital, and there were several other smaller clusters around the country.
Once the church cluster was identified, South Korea opened around 50 drive-through testing facilities around the country.
In empty parking lots, medical staff in protective clothing lean into cars to check their passengers for fever or breathing difficulties, and if needed, collect samples. The process usually takes about 10 minutes, and people usually receive the results in a text reminding them to wash their hands regularly and wear face masks.
A total of 117 institutions in South Korea have equipment to conduct the tests, according to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC). The numbers fluctuate daily, but an average of 12,000 is possible, and maximum capacity is 20,000 tests a day. The government pays for tests of people with symptoms, if referred by a doctor. Otherwise, people who want to be tested can pay up to 170,000 won ($140), said an official at a company called Seegene Inc, which supplies 80% of the country’s kits and says it can test 96 samples at once.
There are also 130 quarantine officers like Kim Jeong-hwan, who focus on minute details to track potential patients. The 28-year-old public health doctor spends his whole working days remotely checking up on people who have tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus.
Kim, who is doing military service, is one of a small army of quarantine officers who track the movements of any potential carriers of the disease by phone, app or the signals sent by cell phones or the black boxes in automobiles. Their goal: To trace all the contacts people may have had, so they too can be tested.
“I haven’t seen anyone telling bad lies,” Kim said. “But lots of people generally don’t remember exactly what they did.”
Underlining their determination, quarantine officers told Reuters they located five cases after a worker in a small town caught the virus and went to work in a “coin karaoke,” a bar where a machine lets people sing a few songs for a dollar. At first, the woman, who was showing symptoms, did not tell the officers where she worked, local officials told Reuters. But they put the puzzle together after questioning her acquaintances and obtaining GPS locations on her mobile device.
“Now, quarantine officers have maximum power and authority,” said Kim Jun-geun, an official at Changnyeong County who collects information from quarantine officers.
South Korea’s government also uses location data to customize mass messages sent to cellphones, notifying every resident when and where a nearby case is confirmed.
Lee Hee-young, a preventative medicine expert who is also running the coronavirus response team in South Korea’s Gyeonggi province, said South Korea has gone some of the way after MERS to increase its infrastructure to respond to infectious diseases. But she said only 30% of the changes the country needs have happened. For instance, she said, maintaining a trained workforce and up-to-date infrastructure at smaller hospitals isn't’t easy.
“Until we fix this,” Lee said, “explosions like this can keep blowing up anywhere.”
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several points here
1. use common sense
2. test those who need it like mad
3. don't shut down the economy use it for benefit of killing off the wuflu.
4. there appear to be hot spots all over each and every country italy-the north,us broward/dade counties,NYC,other areas,key in on them and kill off lots of problems.
I suspect China will come to the same conclusion as did most of the former colonial nations of Europe after WW2...”It’s not worth it”.
There’s an independent movie out on YouTube about a Chinese project to build a paved road in sub-Saharan Africa, that moved about as fast as a snail on dry ice...the phrase that paid was from the Chinese project manager, describing working with African crews and suppliers...”It’s all so frustrating”.
Thanks You reminded me that I am an American, and so is my wife. And that is how I identified us on the census form. (It actually worked this time, so we have been censused. Hope the tabulation is accurate.......)
If 100,000 people are tested, that means 1000 positives. If the rate of infection is high, e.g. 10,000 out of 100,000 then that is ok. But if the rate of infection is very low, e.g.10 in 100,000, then there will be 1100 cases of which only 1000 are real. It will be a fake epidemic.
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The little fellow (Fauci) lies in multiple ways .... his most prevalent is 'by omission'.
He has shown a long line of behavior over the decades that allows him to remain in positions of power by not revealing the complete truth, truth of which he is well aware.
God .... the little fellow stood behind The President the other day with his eyes completely closed for at least a half of a minute, as he swayed forward and slightly left to right. I think Deborah Birx finally nudged the diminutive guy back to awareness.
My guess it that he won't be in sight much longer.
Perhaps if there is another, he can go back to the 'Aspen Ideas Festival' ..... and soak up the much needed adoration.
He started his life by delivering prescriptions for his father.
Maybe with some positive words to the nation from HIS HIGHNESS, he can actually help deliver again, this time for The President and for the sick among us.
We need (quickly) to use alternative cures for coronavirus. (jmo)
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I've been thinking the same thing as he pontificates like the people's best friend.
That would have been under the section for “RACE”
Nah.....we’re paisans.
Amazing how the experts are convinced that a solution to this current problem can only come after years of expensive research and lots of burned-up money. Anybody familiar with Cumadin/Warfarin should be aware of how many different ailments have been treated with that drug, which was developed (I think) in the 1940's. Not always the best solution, but it was approved and used.
This week I was picking up a scrip for the wife and the pharmacist was doing a consultation with somebody who was picking up Metformin for some reason. Wasn't diabetes, but the person was asking about the best known unpleasant side effect, diarrhea.
We will get through this. And the recovery will be unexpected as far as the experts are concerned.
Can you get one of those at a yard sale?
Her parents are Korean. he is very talented and brave. I fear she’ll come home to find her kids pet rabbit boiling in a pot on the stove.
I should not have posted #394.
My Grandfather who emigrated from Italy in 1908, HATED Italy. He HATED Europe. He said that Italy did nothing for this family. Everything our family is, is owed to America!
He would not have liked seeing me say that.
US death toll now up to 414 and 32,356 cases. NY added today 5,429 cases and 58 new deaths You can expect some big time finger pointing by Mario at the federal government.
If we tracked the generic flu like we are tracking the Wuhan virus, the country would go into a total panic. 231,000 tested positive so far for this flu season.
CDC estimates that influenza has resulted in between 9 million – 45 million illnesses, between 140,000 – 810,000 hospitalizations and between 12,000 – 61,000 deaths annually since 2010.
There’s yer goldarn four hunnert Larri.
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