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I'm beginning to wonder the prevalence of asymptomatic cases of COVID-19. I read an article back a few weeks ago interviewing Bruce Aylward from the WHO on China's COVID-19 response. He stated that the Chinese thought that asymptomatic cases were quite rare. However, we now have three instances of cases involving groups of people that were tested (whether sick or not), where individuals tested positive and were asymptomatic. Grand Princess (Japan), the Utah Jazz and now the Brooklyn Nets. Certainly a very small subset to look at, but each group had individuals that were asymptomatic COVID-19 cases. Since no country is testing all citizens, there's really no way to figure out how many cases end up being asymptomatic. I'm starting to think it is a great deal higher than what the Chinese found.
I get the slowing the spread but The majority of the herd is inside avoiding it. So to me it will be worse once we all come out to play. Warm temps have no impact. I do not see an end until the vaccine comes out several months from now.
By then there is a bit of herd immunity. Once again, the idea is to slow the rate of infection. We slow it to wait for the vaccine and to keep our health care system from being overrun. Once we can control or slow the outbreak enough, we can go back to normal life.Currently, there doesn't seem to be any evidence that people can become infected again once they have it. Now, I'm hopeful that this is the case, and it is more like chicken pox... but we could get really unlucky with this and it could mutate and make our antibodies ineffective. But that is something time will tell.
Here's a question:Why the unnatural carnal knowledge are tests being run on asymptomatic individuals who aren't high-risk or aren't in professions on the frontlines when we have a limited amount of tests right now?
The article states they went to private company and paid for them to be done.
Ha, its almost as if the Chinese government lies.
True, but the WHO seemed to support that claim. And, I know, the criticism of the WHO and China.If asymptomatic cases are common, thats both a big positive and negative.
Gotta admit, I’m curious to see if everyone singing Fauci’s praises and extolling his credibility will accept his claim that the problems with testing were not the President’s or CDC’s fault. Hell, CNN called him “Trump’s Coronavirus truth teller.”
That is fair criticism, but that may be political nonsense that he has to buy into to remain on the job. We've all seen our President's proclivity for firing people who say bad things about him. Also, to me, blame is currently inconsequential, and if it strokes Trump's ego enough to keep Fauci around, I am okay with it.
Anyone else notice how quickly the numbers are starting to rise on the Covid-19 dashboard?
Dudes, The local ICUs are starting to get patients. I’m a primary care provider in Milwaukee. It is only a matter of time before the state has our first of many deaths. I've been testing multiple patients a day and we were told today by our organization/the state to stop. We send our tests to the state lab and they can only handle 400 tests a day. They can't keep up. The state says the infection is already widespread and there is no point in testing mild illness or outpatients. Right now we're only going to test inpatients and critically ill patients. It seems if you are celebrity you can get a test too. We are grossly under prepared for this as a country as we don't have adequate testing and there is lack of protective equipment. I'm supposed to wear an N 95 respirator mask but I don't have one. I’m wearing a standard poorly fitted mask that doesn’t offer great protection. I have to wear the same damn gown every day for the same patients. Protocols to change protective equipment after each patient but we just don’t have the resources. It's madness. Don't let anyone tell you this isn't real. And it's definitely not just the flu. The flu doesn’t kill 20% of patients hospitalized with it. The flu doesn’t permanently destroy your lungs like this. Stay safe my friends
YOU stay safe.My wife was a nurse and was on the front lines at the start of the AIDS crisis. It was a very scary time not just for her, but for myself as well as early on, we didn't even know how the disease was spread from person to person. You, and thousands of other healthcare pros, put yourselves at risk on a daily basis doing what is right.
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