COVID-19 (f/k/a "the Coronavirus")

[injuryBug]

Wow. So 660,000 people tested in 28 minutes. Now, that's big time progress.

and 1 tiger tested as well!!

[pbiflyer]

and 1 tiger tested as well!!

Be accurate. You have no idea how many tigers they tested. One positive. They could have tested thousands of tigers. 

[injuryBug]

Be accurate. You have no idea how many tigers they tested. One positive. They could have tested thousands of tigers. 

sorry you are probably right.  especially if they hit the Tiger Kings zoo

[pbiflyer]

sorry you are probably right.  especially if they hit the Tiger Kings zoo

That truly made me laugh out loud. Thanks!

[Jockey]

I do enjoy the amount that warriordad posts when chicos is banned

I'm still waiting for my 200 dollars

He really tried hard to keep the charade going, but this is who he is.

[Jockey]

You can enroll anytime you have a life changing event. Such as losing your job, getting a new job. I did that last year.

You are 100% correct. The problem is that most people don't know about it.

[Jockey]

Widespread reliable testing. That is going to be a requirement to get back to any sense of normalcy. We need to be able to test everyone. We have tested about 0.3% of the population so far.

Liar. Liar. 

It's closer to .4%. But the other 99.6% can get the test any time they want it.

[GooooMarquette]

I agree it's testing, contact tracing and antibody blood testing.  Duh I guess. Where is our government on all these items?????

I don't mean to be flip or dismissive, but it's not that hard to figure out the path forward.  Doing it seems to be elusive.

Dunno where the government is on any of these, but Mayo Clinic is rolling out its antibody testing tomorrow.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/04/01/mayo-clinic-expects-covid19-antibody-test-to-be-ready-monday

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

I wish I could have a good deep dish pizza. Here in Charlotte, it's mostly a pizza wasteland, and certainly devoid of deep dish pizza.

I gave myself a 4-day timeout from this thread. I returned last night to see multiple ultra-partisan, hate-filled, screaming rants by one Scooper -- worse posts than anything I had seen from Scoopers on either side of the aisle in a long, long time.

I agree with you that we should discuss the topic at hand. Here in NC, it's just getting exponentially worse and worse. Every day, more sickness and death than the day before.

It's also getting worse in our neighboring state, Georgia, but the governor there just signed an executive order RE-opening the state's beaches. He did so against the wishes of the mayors of several beach-side towns. This is the same guy who didn't know until a few days ago that asymptomatic people could transmit COVID-19. Ignorance is bliss ... as long as you don't mind people dying.

Deep Dish Pizza???!!! 
MU82, you are forgetting your roots!

[MU82]

Deep Dish Pizza???!!! 
MU82, you are forgetting your roots!

Not ashamed to admit that Pequod's deep dish is my favorite pizza of all-time ... but I still like a nice New Haven-style too, sir!

[Galway Eagle]

Not ashamed to admit that Pequod's deep dish is my favorite pizza of all-time ... but I still like a nice New Haven-style too, sir!

Did you ever pop up to the original in Morton Grove? I've always been curious how it compares to the one in the city.

[MU82]

Did you ever pop up to the original in Morton Grove? I've always been curious how it compares to the one in the city.

Ate there once a few years ago, and it was superb, just like the Lincoln Park restaurant. We lived only a couple miles from LP, though, so that's where we went. The last couple of times we had delivery it was a disaster -- took nearly 2 hours. So from now on, we won't get it unless we can dine in. It's fresher that way, anyway.

[jesmu84]

How the unnatural carnal knowledge does a tiger get tested? What are we even doing?

[jesmu84]

Sweden stopped a hydroxychloroquine trial due to significant side effects.

[Coleman]

Fake News.
Despite the urging of many, including the insurance industry, and his own promise to do so, the president last week reneged and decided not to offer a special Obamacare enrollment for those who now need it.
This means that those who don't already have the coverage are excluded until next year.

Unless they lose their job, have a kid, get married, etc.

[Coleman]

Not ashamed to admit that Pequod's deep dish is my favorite pizza of all-time ... but I still like a nice New Haven-style too, sir!

Looooooove Pequod's

[Coleman]

Did you ever pop up to the original in Morton Grove? I've always been curious how it compares to the one in the city.

Food is the same. Ambiance is night and day. Lincoln Park location is a busy, bustling sports bar atmosphere.

Morton grove is a sleepy little location. I'm sure it gets busy, but it is much smaller, not nearly as loud or as many TVs

[pbiflyer]

How the unnatural carnal knowledge does a tiger get tested? What are we even doing?

He wanted one. Anyone that wants one can get one. 

[MUBurrow]

How the unnatural carnal knowledge does a tiger get tested? What are we even doing?

Honestly from what I can tell, it was because he was coughing and lived in New York (I crap you not).

It seems frivolous, but there are probably a lot of good reasons to test if there was any kind of chance it would come back positive.  Animal welfare at zoos is on that list, yes, but so is buildling a knowledge base of interspecies spread and potential hazards of spreading across species with domestic animals and household pets.

[GooooMarquette]

Sweden stopped a hydroxychloroquine trial due to significant side effects.

Not terribly surprising...but do you have a link, or do you know what the side effects were? I did a google search and couldn't find anything....

[injuryBug]

Honestly from what I can tell, it was because he was coughing and lived in New York (I crap you not).

It seems frivolous, but there are probably a lot of good reasons to test if there was any kind of chance it would come back positive.  Animal welfare at zoos is on that list, yes, but so is buildling a knowledge base of interspecies spread and potential hazards of spreading across species with domestic animals and household pets.

And his main handler tested positive.  So yes it seems legit it was not one of Joe Exotic's tigers and may prove to help control things down the road

[forgetful]

Honestly from what I can tell, it was because he was coughing and lived in New York (I crap you not).

It seems frivolous, but there are probably a lot of good reasons to test if there was any kind of chance it would come back positive.  Animal welfare at zoos is on that list, yes, but so is buildling a knowledge base of interspecies spread and potential hazards of spreading across species with domestic animals and household pets.

It was multiple felines all with COVID like symptoms.

It is a big deal.

There is emerging discussion/evidence that COVID has been in humans form months, maybe a year or more. Where it has mutated slowly from a poorly communicative (in humans) disease to be more infectious and dangerous.

Part of that process might be multiple passages between animals and humans. They know that the version circulating in humans has mutations compared to those in bats/pangolins that make it more infectious in humans. We just don't know what reservoir this was circulating in before those mutations occurred.

Won't be surprised if we see China seize on this type of news, as it could mean it didn't start there, but simply the final mutated versions erupted there.

[GooooMarquette]

How the unnatural carnal knowledge does a tiger get tested? What are we even doing?

From the Bronx Zoo FB page:

From Dr. Paul Calle, Bronx Zoo chief veterinarian; "The COVID-19 testing that was performed on our Malayan tiger Nadia was performed in a veterinary school laboratory and is not the same test as is used for people. You cannot send human samples to the veterinary laboratory, and you cannot send animal tests to the human laboratories, so there is no competition for testing between these very different situations."

[pbiflyer]

Not terribly surprising...but do you have a link, or do you know what the side effects were? I did a google search and couldn't find anything....

https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/carl-40-fick-kramp-och-syn-problem-av-coronamedicin/

How's your Swedish?

[forgetful]

From the Bronx Zoo FB page:

From Dr. Paul Calle, Bronx Zoo chief veterinarian; "The COVID-19 testing that was performed on our Malayan tiger Nadia was performed in a veterinary school laboratory and is not the same test as is used for people. You cannot send human samples to the veterinary laboratory, and you cannot send animal tests to the human laboratories, so there is no competition for testing between these very different situations."

Yes. I know the lab that ran these tests. The tigers were not taking tests away from people. This is what these labs do in cooperation with veterinary doctors.