Coronavirus (NO POLITICAL OR SOCIAL COMMENTARY PLEASE)

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Scottishguy

Age? Underlying health conditions? Don't take any anti inflammatorys if you start experiencing body aches.

I’m ok this morning. I think I might have just been tired from work and then started to worry when I felt warm last night. I think it was my mind playing tricks. Started to worry I had passed it on to my folks.

[AeroK]

This situation is also going to cause a shortage of blood donations, which was already an issue before all this.

[suitechicguy]

My job now has us split up into groups A and B in addition to being drive thru only. I'm glad they are really taking this seriously. We are alternating the days we work and luckily they came up with a PTO policy just for this whole situation. I do feel bad for my one co-worker who unfortunately got put on the "loser" team (that might sound mean, but you would have to work with these people to understand.) However we have to be thankful we have jobs and are still getting paid on the alternate days we are off.

[AeroK]

Bath and Body Works announced they were closing stores. This was the one store where we were able to find hand sanitizer although the bottles are tiny, pricey, and make you smell like a candle.

[FrodoBagginz]

[suitechicguy]

Originally Posted by AeroK

Bath and Body Works announced they were closing stores. This was the one store where we were able to find hand sanitizer although the bottles are tiny, pricey, and make you smell like a candle.

Aren’t they 90 percent glitter as well?

[Scarface32]

Originally Posted by neoz

We had a pandemic in 2009 with the swine flu. The main thing that was different and helped was we had a vaccine. Right now we don't have one. Testing will be starting soon but the best thing as MifuneFan said is the cull the curve. So stay inside if you are sick, use common sense, wash your hands, only go out if you have, and stop being a jerk and hoarding things.

Farmers didn’t like the name, so they changed it to H1N1

Did you know it started at Saint Francis Prep in Queens, NY? A few students brought it back with them from vacation and infected others at the school.

[MrHT]

Originally Posted by neoz

We had a pandemic in 2009 with the swine flu. The main thing that was different and helped was we had a vaccine. Right now we don't have one. Testing will be starting soon but the best thing as MifuneFan said is the cull the curve. So stay inside if you are sick, use common sense, wash your hands, only go out if you have, and stop being a jerk and hoarding things.

How is the Coronavirus worse than the Swine Flu? I remember that is was a pretty bad outbreak in 2009, but I don't recall such a panic back then that we shut businesses down like we are doing now.

[andantelise]

The first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in my city. I don't know whether to panic or watch a film.

[TheBoss062]

I don’t remember my thread being over 65 pages?

[Himmel]

Via Bloomberg..

In Coronavirus Testing Ramp-Up, U.S. Called Private Sector in Late

With reported cases rising rapidly, hospitals are anticipating a wave of sick patients and struggling to secure supplies of surgical masks, eye protection devices, and ventilators. States are now trying to limit the damage from the pathogen, which experts believe could infect at least half of the country's 329 million people, curtail economic and personal activity for weeks or months, and plunge the economy into recession.

“We’re so far behind this thing at this point. And the reason we’re so far behind is because we’ve had so little testing,” said Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute.

“This is such a rapidly moving infection that losing a few days is bad, and losing a couple of weeks is terrible,” Jha said. “Losing 2 months is close to disastrous, and that’s what we did.”

On Feb. 29, after weeks of criticism from state health officials, the Food and Drug Administration lifted a key regulatory hurdle and let lab companies and hospitals more easily test patients for the virus. The government’s tight initial control over who could do diagnostic work has been called a “failing” by Anthony Fauci, the director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Then, on Monday the agency went further, allowing states to clear tests from local labs — a move that will increase the number of tests, but give up part of the FDA's role. The new policy “does carry risks,” such as problems with tests, FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn said in a briefing with reporters Monday night.

“Our response is adapting as this public health emergency continues to evolve. And we believe being flexible is extremely important,” Hahn said.

But a review of the government's regulation of testing up to this point reveals an even more troubling conclusion: Washington missed an early opportunity to leverage the resources of the private sector, states and top-flight academic institutions to do what other countries have done to contain the virus — test as many people as possible. Instead, health authorities were left with a diagnostic tool developed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that ran into weeks of problems, hobbling efforts to track and control the virus at a time when it might have been contained.

The technical problems with the CDC test have been well-chronicled, by everyone from local labs struggling to use it to frustrated patients who have shown up at the hospital with symptoms only to be told that they couldn’t be checked. Less well-known is the behind-the-scenes effort by companies like Swiss medical giant Roche Holding AG, which as early as January was working on a process to run thousands of coronavirus tests at a time. [Full Article]

[Scarface32]

Originally Posted by MrHT

How is the Coronavirus worse than the Swine Flu? I remember that is was a pretty bad outbreak in 2009, but I don't recall such a panic back then that we shut businesses down like we are doing now.

Because H1N1 was a new strain of influenza (flu). Whereas SARS-CoV-2 is a new strain of SARS. I'm not sure if you're aware, but that stands for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.

They wouldn't put "severe" in the title if it wasn't really bad.

[Lee A Stewart]

Regeneron aims to have coronavirus antibody treatment ready for human testing by early summer

Biotech giant Regeneron said it aims to have doses of a potential drug for COVID-19 ready to start human clinical trials by early summer.

The approach involves creating antibodies to the virus that could be used to treat the disease and to prevent it, Regeneron said in a statement Tuesday.

The company had previously said it aimed to have hundreds of thousands of doses ready for human testing in late summer, so the new goal is a significant acceleration. Regeneron said it plans to start large-scale manufacturing by the middle of next month and still plans to ramp up to hundreds of thousands of preventive doses a month by the end of summer.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/tops...cid=spartanntp

[pwarner184]

Damn, was planning to finally get around to catching a quiet afternoon screening of Dark Waters on Thursday... turns out all cinemas are now closed up in the UK :/

But as long as the staff are paid a fair wage and people stay safe then that's all the truly matters in the end.

Gives me an excuse to catch up on blus instead haha

[MifuneFan]

[TAC]

Originally Posted by Captain Flint

How would a mandatory nation-wide quarantine work? Is it even possible to keep over 350 million people inside their homes at all times? Especially without retaliation? All this talk about one sounds dumber and dumber the more I hear it.

Martial Law?

[Scarface32]

Packages from Japan should be fine, right? I have one being delivered Wednesday.

[Lee A Stewart]

Damn . . . they closed all the libraries here until April 15. That hurt. I am an avid reader. Plus we get the free DVD rentals. Guess I will have to fall back on my private stash. Been collecting for close to 40 years. Have about 1100 books, all hardcover, all fiction.

Told my son yesterday we needed to go the Dollar Tree to pick up a couple of items. And once again we walked out spending $35. We are under a no plastic bags given at retail stores edict. We bought these heavy duty reusable ones for 10 cents each. Now when ever we go shopping we have to carry a backpack filled with empty bags. I load the groceries on the conveyer, he bags them.

[Scarriere]

I have to fly to get to work and have now been been made aware that they'll be screening before letting us on the plane. They'll be taking our temperature and if it's above 38C, we'll be denied.

[zman73]

Originally Posted by Scarface32

Because H1N1 was a new strain of influenza (flu). Whereas SARS-CoV-2 is a new strain of SARS. I'm not sure if you're aware, but that stands for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.

They wouldn't put "severe" in the title if it wasn't really bad.

It’s not as bad as all the doomsday chicken littles are making it out to be, unless you are older. Swine flu infected millions and killed people of all ages with no prejudice. I’m not saying the postponement of sports etc is a bad thing, I can live with that, but many people have had symptoms synonymous with this current pandemic and got through it, after receiving negative flu tests. I think it’s been around a lot longer than we know. I don’t think all businesses need to shit down to contain it, common sense and good hygiene will take care of a lot of this.