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03-21-2020, 12:17 PM | #8521 |
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03-21-2020, 12:18 PM | #8522 | |
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https://www.dailybreeze.com/2020/03/...redondo-beach/
This is Assisted Living Facility is few blocks from me. Hopefully this isn't like other places where a few positive tests means it's been running wild for weeks. This is a ritzy one too - so you'd think they have good protocols. This is why massive testing is so important imo. People who work in these places need to know if anyone in their household is positive. Quote:
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03-21-2020, 12:18 PM | #8523 |
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03-21-2020, 12:23 PM | #8525 |
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03-21-2020, 12:24 PM | #8526 |
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At this point if we're talking about living in current conditions for 2+ years then having a supply of masks wouldn't be "panic" or "hoarding".
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03-21-2020, 12:24 PM | #8527 |
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03-21-2020, 12:25 PM | #8528 |
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03-21-2020, 12:25 PM | #8529 |
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03-21-2020, 12:26 PM | #8530 | |
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03-21-2020, 12:28 PM | #8531 |
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On my way over to Warren Buffet's house now...
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03-21-2020, 12:29 PM | #8533 |
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03-21-2020, 12:30 PM | #8534 |
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This is a good start. Start getting these private labs to start doing these serology tests so we can so who's had it and then we can start making decisions. |
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03-21-2020, 12:31 PM | #8535 |
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As many as 70,000 Americans could be confirmed as infected with coronavirus by the end of next week, marking a “pretty dramatic” increase in the number of confirmed cases, the director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins, told his employees in an agency-wide conference call on Friday.
But, Collins cautioned, “that doesn’t mean necessarily that the outbreak has exploded at an even more rapid rate.” “It just means we’re now able to find out who’s out there, who is infected,” because “testing is now going to be much more available across the country,” he said. As director of NIH, Collins oversees the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, whose own director, Dr. Anthony Fauci, has become a trusted authority during the coronavirus crisis. According to Collins, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases inside the United States currently stands at about 14,000, and, “We will probably see four, five times that number of cases a week or 10 days from now." Johns Hopkins University reports an even higher number of currently confirmed cases in the United States, nearing 17,000. An estimated 225 Americans have died. "When will we be out the other side of this?” Collins asked rhetorically on the Friday call. “I have no crystal ball. ... Will we be back [to normal] by July or August or September? I have no idea." Collins made clear that “social distancing” is vital to stemming the spread of the deadly disease, even as he derided the popular phrase. “I really don’t like the ‘social distancing’ term,” he said. “It sort of implies that we have to get apart socially. We really have to get apart physically. This may be a time where we ought to try every other means to stay together socially, linking up by virtual means … to support each other, to share experiences, to make sure that needs that are out there can be addressed somehow.” People need to follow the guidance being provided by authorities, according to Collins. “The greatest concern we should all have is for those most vulnerable, who if they get infected could be in real trouble,” he said. “The best thing we could do to prevent that is to not be a vector ourselves, and the best way to not be a vector is to get apart [from each other].” "We are going to have to be in this for the long haul,” warned Collins, who noted that tens of thousands of NIH employees may have been joining his discussion. |
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