Kolek planning to go pro
That is absolutely damning."Mr. Trump was walking up the steps of Air Force One to head home from India on Feb. 25 when Dr. Nancy Messonnier, the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, publicly issued the blunt warning they had all agreed was necessary.But Dr. Messonnier had jumped the gun. They had not told the president yet, much less gotten his consent.On the 18-hour plane ride home, Mr. Trump fumed as he watched the stock market crash after Dr. Messonnier’s comments. Furious, he called Mr. Azar when he landed at around 6 a.m. on Feb. 26, raging that Dr. Messonnier had scared people unnecessarily."FEBRUARY 25!!!!
We desperately need the CDC to take over to minimize the damage. Will he ever allow it?!?
Take over what exactly?
The testing and contact tracing - our best chance to reopen the country in any reasonable timeframe. See my earlier post where the CDC itself described its role in the H1N1 outbreak, and prevented the disaster we’re living with today. And ask yourself why it isn’t doing the same thing today.
Agreed. I don’t understand how people can ignore such clear evidence of callous self-interest at the expense of human lives and our economic well-being. People are dying and the economy is collapsing.We desperately need the CDC to take over to minimize the damage. Will he ever allow it?!?
WI Dept of Health is doing the contact tracing, at least in Madison/Dane Co.
I agree regarding testing and contact tracing and frankly have no idea how the CDC hasn't been running that from the start. Totally bizarre.
And we see how well national vs local contact tracing works by comparing the H1N1 outbreak with COVID-19.
I'm not sure what that comparison is .. but in the end, it's always the local municipality's health department (in conjuction with the state) doing contract tracing.Sure .. the CDC can do contact tracing for XX cases, but they do not have the manpower in every city and state in the country. It's up to the localities.
Milwaukee hospitals at critically low levels of personal protective equipmenthttps://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/milwaukee-hospitals-at-critically-low-levels-of-personal-protective-equipment
Plasma transfusionhttps://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2020/04/11/milwaukee-man-stable-after-experimental-coronavirus-plasma-transfusion/2977352001/
This is the quickest way back to normal life. The bigger the pool gets the faster we can go back to normal.Itll also he a great stopgap until a vaccine
This has been my treatment of choice for awhile. While it also is/was not a guaranteed positive treatment. There is solid precedence of this approach working in other viral diseases with great success (see Ebola). It would have been nice if weeks ago, we were talking about the importance of those that have recovered donating blood/plasma as much as possible so we can save a lot of lives, instead of focusing on a different drug with little to no proven efficacy.
Do the plasma transfusions have to be coming from a person who has had, and then recovered from, covid 19? Wouldn’t that require much more testing than we have available for that to be scalable to the point it can help us open things back up?
The questions have to do with whether the plasma from someone who had a mild case have the same antibodies, the same volume of antibodies, and do you want plasma from someone who survived a mild case or severe case.