And the Republicans are just as pissed off as the Democrats.
Why? “Government is incompetent” is their jam. They should be happy to be validated.
And the Republicans are just as pissed off as the Democrats.
Why? “Government is incompetent” is their jam. They should be happy to be validated.
Why? “Government is incompetent” is their jam. They should be happy to be validated.
Why? “Government is incompetent” is their jam. They should be happy to be validated.
Can't wait for us to all bootstrap ourselves out of a pandemic. 'MERICA!
Tmurp’s germophobe nature (he just doan wanna hear abouddit, okay?).
He can't bully a virus or twitter it out of the news cycle. Bummer.
-cb
It would be supremely ironic if he catches it.
Expect a tweet storm when the NIH tells him no more rallies for him for a long while...
Do you think he’d heed such advice?
Trump announced at a news conference that Vice President Pence will take over the White House’s coronavirus task force.
Do they not understand that shit like this scares people from getting tested if they have Covid-19 symptoms??
The Atlantic said:...
Severe illness caused by viruses such as H5N1 also means that infected people can be identified and isolated, or that they died quickly. They do not walk around feeling just a little under the weather, seeding the virus. The new coronavirus (known technically as SARS-CoV-2) that has been spreading around the world can cause a respiratory illness that can be severe. The disease (known as COVID-19) seems to have a fatality rate of less than 2 percent—exponentially lower than most outbreaks that make global news. The virus has raised alarm not despite that low fatality rate, but because of it.
Coronaviruses are similar to influenza viruses in that they both contain single strands of RNA.* Four coronaviruses commonly infect humans, causing colds. These are believed to have evolved in humans to maximize their own spread—which means sickening, but not killing, people. By contrast, the two prior novel coronavirus outbreaks—SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) and MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome, named for where the first outbreak occurred)—were picked up from animals, as was H5N1. These diseases were highly fatal to humans. If there were mild or asymptomatic cases, they were extremely few. Had there been more of them, the disease would have spread widely. Ultimately, SARS and MERS each killed fewer than 1,000 people.
COVID-19 is already reported to have killed more than twice that number. With its potent mix of characteristics, this virus is unlike most that capture popular attention: It is deadly, but not too deadly. It makes people sick, but not in predictable, uniquely identifiable ways. Last week, 14 Americans tested positive on a cruise ship in Japan despite feeling fine—the new virus may be most dangerous because, it seems, it may sometimes cause no symptoms at all.
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Also, wash your phones, people. Er, not in water, but with a clorox/lysol/alcohol-based wipe; doesn't harm anything and it should be at least somewhat effective.
It amazes me that people carry their phones around all day, wash their hands, and pick the same phone back up and never wipe it down.
We still don't know exactly how long the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 can survive on surfaces. But Stephen Morse, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University Medical Center, says what we know from other coronaviruses is that most household cleansers — such as bleach wipes or alcohol — will kill them.
Even wiping down surfaces with soap and water should do the trick, he says, because this coronavirus has a lipid envelope around it — like a coat that keeps the RNA inside the viral particle. And soap is a detergent that can break down lipids. "We use them to take grease and oil, which is a lipid, off our dishes," he notes.
If COVID-19 does start circulating in your community or there's someone sick at home, plan on cleaning surfaces that get touched frequently — such as kitchen counters and bathroom faucets — several times a day, says Dr. Trish Perl, chief of the infectious disease division at UT Southwestern Medical Center. That advice, she says, comes from studies on other diseases "where they've shown that if you do clean up the environment, you can actually decrease the amount of virus that is on hard surfaces significantly."
Something's not right with this story.Man gets slapped with $3,500 bill for Coronavirus test in the US. I just can't with the US and its twisted, broken healthcare system. Do they not understand that shit like this scares people from getting tested if they have Covid-19 symptoms??
When public health provides vaccines or testing, the provider is only allowed to charge a set amount for administering the test or vaccine.Only the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other public health labs are authorized to provide testing for COVID-19 in the U.S.
Testing revealed Mr Azcue had the flu, not the coronavirus. But his limited health insurance left him with a bill of $3,270 two weeks after his test. He will be responsible for $1,400 of that bill.
"How can they expect normal citizens to contribute to eliminating the potential risk of person-to-person spread if hospitals are waiting to charge us $3,270 for a simple blood test and a nasal swab?" Mr Azcue told the newspaper.
How do they know how long it will take before there's a vaccine?