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Post by factorychef on Apr 9, 2020 6:07:36 GMT -5
Just asking. I don't know of anyone personally who has.
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Post by paleo on Apr 9, 2020 6:45:01 GMT -5
I have a friend in Cedar Rapids that was tested. Turned out negative. Another friend in Iiwa City, who was told, she probably had it but wasn't sick enough to get tested.
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Post by brucemacneill on Apr 9, 2020 7:06:09 GMT -5
No one I know. Only have had 2 cases in the county and they brought it in from traveling somewhere.
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Post by drlj on Apr 9, 2020 7:15:45 GMT -5
We know 7 people who tested positive. One died. One is in the hospital on a ventilator. The other 5, though quite sick, have isolated at home.
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Post by theevan on Apr 9, 2020 7:42:24 GMT -5
I failed.
What test?
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Post by aquaduct on Apr 9, 2020 8:14:08 GMT -5
Last I saw only about 400,000 some odd in this country has been tested. In a population of 330,000,000 I can't imagine many folks know anybody who's been tested. Neither my wife or I have been and neither of us ever intend to be. And nobody I know cares.
So, like Evan, what test?
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Apr 9, 2020 8:25:12 GMT -5
Neither my wife or I have been and neither of us ever intend to be. And nobody I know cares. Wrong again Peter. I care. And you know me. Sort of. What I’d really like to see is widespread testing to see who has antibodies of the Virus because those people presumably would be safe to go out and do stuff from shopping to... Also there is some therapies using plasma from people who have antibodies that looks promising, although it’s too early to be sure. I think it’s safe to say that the virus is much more widespread than we know. If we could get widespread antibody testing, we would have a better picture for a better response. Mike
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Post by aquaduct on Apr 9, 2020 8:56:01 GMT -5
Neither my wife or I have been and neither of us ever intend to be. And nobody I know cares. Wrong again Peter. I care. And you know me. Sort of. What I’d really like to see is widespread testing to see who has antibodies of the Virus because those people presumably would be safe to go out and do stuff from shopping to... Also there is some therapies using plasma from people who have antibodies that looks promising, although it’s too early to be sure. I think it’s safe to say that the virus is much more widespread than we know. If we could get widespread antibody testing, we would have a better picture for a better response. Mike No, I'm not wrong. We're in the middle of the pandemic crisis and nothing's waiting for testing. It's like installing smoke detectors in a house that's already burning. Completely useless in fighting the fire. And what we're seeing already is that the whole pandemic has been obscenely over estimated, at worst for cheap political purposes. The projected death toll in this country is already down to about 150% of the total number of flu deaths last year. As the numbers continue to decline we are likely to see that the big scare really hasn't been that scary at all. At the end of the month we'll likely lift restrictions for the 80% of the country that's not a big city and get back to living our normal life. And since testing won't provide me (and most people) with any useful information going forward, it will die peacefully. That's just the way it is for those of us who still have to earn a living at least.
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 9, 2020 9:09:29 GMT -5
I haven't been tested.
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Post by howard lee on Apr 9, 2020 9:13:28 GMT -5
My patience is being tested, every day.
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Post by Don Clark on Apr 9, 2020 9:45:52 GMT -5
My patience is being tested, every day. Beat me to it.
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Post by millring on Apr 9, 2020 9:54:28 GMT -5
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Post by howard lee on Apr 9, 2020 9:59:31 GMT -5
My patience is being tested, every day. Beat me to it.
Fellow Pisceans think alike.
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Post by Hobson on Apr 9, 2020 12:36:11 GMT -5
Have not had a reason to get tested. However, I recently learned that a couple on the street behind us have tested positive. She's at home. He's in the ICU. I was with him in a meeting 17 days ago. We sat far apart on the patio at our HOA's clubhouse.
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Post by billhammond on Apr 9, 2020 12:42:43 GMT -5
Have not had a reason to get tested. However, I recently learned that a couple on the street behind us have tested positive. She's at home. He's in the ICU. I was with him in a meeting 17 days ago. We sat far apart on the patio at our HOA's clubhouse. There's a meatpacking plant in Sioux Falls, SD, where EIGHTY employees have tested positive -- they're closing for a while for some cleaning.
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Post by sidheguitarmichael on Apr 9, 2020 13:40:41 GMT -5
I know a decent number of people who’ve been tested, but that’s skewed by the fact that I’ve given guitar lessons to people from 3 different families who have members directly employed fighting this virus since the end of Jan/early Feb. Plus a few miscellaneous nurses and PT people on top of the special path and ICU personnel. The guy who hired me at GU is married to a nurse with direct exposure; she got tested; he got a mandatory 14-day homestay
There is a non-trivial chance that K and I had this; as miserable as we felt, we weren’t anywhere near sick enough to rate a test.
The testing itself is now being viewed as iffy; of the almost 4k folks tested in my area, only 3.9 percent dame back positive, and, again, only emergency personnel and folks who are sicker than hell could even get tested before the recent Abbott roll-out, so there are some smart people suspecting a good number of false negs.
As an aside, if one wants some unfiltered data coming directly from the people producing it (Fauci, Birx, various admirals) the white house youtube channel has posted a bunch of their coronavirus task force press briefing in their entirety. Absolutely fascinating, on several levels, and worth a watch, although I will admit to using the settings to watch a couple of them on 1.25 to 1.5x speed, depending who was doing the talking (Trump, for example, is better at 1.5; no problem tracking things at higher speed).
According to the briefing from a couple of days ago, we were already in the millions for testing at this point.
The real data will only come from the serum antibody test—which Dr. Fauci talked about in some detail.
FWIW.
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 9, 2020 13:57:24 GMT -5
I think availability of rapid and accurate testing may be the most critical component of workforce remobilization.
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Post by sidheguitarmichael on Apr 9, 2020 14:06:27 GMT -5
I think availability of rapid and accurate testing may be the most critical component of workforce remobilization. This. Absolutely this. One of the things that Fauci said is that the bottleneck is being *absolutely* sure that the serum test is accurate and conclusive. He said that the minute they know that, production can ramp up with astounding speed. He also discussed a test that Britain rolled out, only to discover that the results were bogus. He was adamant that the USA won’t be going down that road, more or less "if we tell you that you had it and are most likely immune, it’s imperative that we’re right." It’s in one of those briefings somewhere.
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Post by aquaduct on Apr 9, 2020 15:27:17 GMT -5
I think availability of rapid and accurate testing may be the most critical component of workforce remobilization. This. Absolutely this. One of the things that Fauci said is that the bottleneck is being *absolutely* sure that the serum test is accurate and conclusive. He said that the minute they know that, production can ramp up with astounding speed. He also discussed a test that Britain rolled out, only to discover that the results were bogus. He was adamant that the USA won’t be going down that road, more or less "if we tell you that you had it and are most likely immune, it’s imperative that we’re right." It’s in one of those briefings somewhere. The unemployment rate hit something like 10% this morning. There's no way we'll wait that long. Got to pull up our big boy panties and take a chance before a whole hell of a lot of human devastation actually takes place.
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Post by millring on Apr 9, 2020 15:33:52 GMT -5
I think availability of rapid and accurate testing may be the most critical component of workforce remobilization. This. Absolutely this. One of the things that Fauci said is that the bottleneck is being *absolutely* sure that the serum test is accurate and conclusive. He said that the minute they know that, production can ramp up with astounding speed. He also discussed a test that Britain rolled out, only to discover that the results were bogus. He was adamant that the USA won’t be going down that road, more or less "if we tell you that you had it and are most likely immune, it’s imperative that we’re right." It’s in one of those briefings somewhere. "We have a culture here in Germany that is actually not supporting a centralized diagnostic system," said Drosten, "so Germany does not have a public health laboratory that would restrict other labs from doing the tests. So we had an open market from the beginning." www.npr.org/2020/03/25/820595489/why-germanys-coronavirus-death-rate-is-far-lower-than-in-other-countries?utm_source=pocket-newtabIt doesn't seem to bother anyone else, but the thing that scares me the most about our reaction to this virus is that it has revealed the degree to which we are wholesale committed to blanket solutions to all our problems being dictated from a central government. The irony, of course, is that those who believe most religiously in the omniscience of that central government are not dissuaded a micron from that cocksuredness, despite the fact that their ultimate nightmare holds the central seat of power. You couldn't write that plot into a novel. It would defy credibility.
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