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03-28-2020, 06:02 PM #9226
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03-28-2020, 06:02 PM #9227Banned
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03-28-2020, 06:03 PM #9228
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03-28-2020, 06:05 PM #9229
Damn well, I'd say.
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03-28-2020, 06:12 PM #9230
‘From defense to offense’: Top health officer unveils new anti-coronavirus strategy
Mississippi State Health Officer Thomas Dobbs unveiled a new strategy to slow the spread of COVID-19 on Thursday, focusing on aggressively finding and isolating people who have been exposed to the virus.
Gov. Tate Reeves said with the new strategy the state “would be shifting from playing defense to playing offense.”
Dobbs said the strategy would be based in part on the processes used successfully in South Korea and Singapore to not only treat and quarantine a person who contracts the coronavirus, but also to identify that person’s contacts and isolate them.
“It’s a hugely labor intensive effort to make sure you find every case and that you have eyes on them to make sure they’re properly isolated,” Dobbs said. “But from there, we want to do an intensive contact investigation to identify that second tier of individuals who are likely to be the next generation of infection and make sure they understand their quarantine obligation to make sure it doesn’t spread beyond that level.”
Dobbs and Reeves introduced the plan Thursday during an hour-long news conference on the grounds of the Governor’s Mansion – a location, though sunny and unseasonably warm, where reporters and news conference participants could exercise safe distances.
The new strategy can be most effective if officials can ramp up testing, Dobbs said, which is costly and time consuming for the already strapped Mississippi State Department of Health. Though the state lab is running tests for free for providers who order them, the health department hasn’t had the resources to be more aggressive with testing and demands that develop from each positive test, such as tracing all known contacts, who should also be isolated and possibly tested, Dobbs said. He also mentioned staffing, lab supply and personal protective equipment, or PPE...
...As the state increases testing and with it, isolating spread, the Department of Health has the authority to issue legal quarantine orders to those who might be susceptible to spreading contagious diseases. Dobbs said on Thursday that the department would issue those orders as they implement the new strategy.
Dobbs said officials would have introduced the plan earlier if the resources had been available. Reeves said funds from the massive federal legislation that is expected to pass Congress and be signed into law by the president this week could be used to pay for the costly strategy.
At the onset of the new strategy, Dobbs said testing would be reserved for those showing symptoms of the virus. He said implementation of the strategy would take cooperation of the state health department, the University of Mississippi Medical Center, the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency and others. Those partnerships will be in place Friday for the second stage of state-sponsored drive-thru testing pop-ups, in Clarksdale and Olive Branch. Both Coahoma and Desoto counties have seen quick case growth but not widespread testing availability.
Other health care experts on the national level have argued it is too late to enact the model in the United States because there are too many cases, making it impossible to finds all of an infected person’s contacts. Dobbs, however, said it is not too late to try the model in Mississippi.
Earlier this week, Mississippi Today reported the state had the 12th highest rate of confirmed cases per capita. Based on nationwide case results aggregated by researchers and vetted against the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention numbers, as of 4 p.m. Thursday, that rank remains. Mississippi currently has 16 cases per every 100,000 people. New York has the most outright cases and the most cases per capita, at 191 cases per 100,000 people. Neighboring Louisiana is battling a hot spot of cases in New Orleans, and currently has the nation’s third highest rate of cases per capita, at 50 for every 100,000 people.
Reeves said he was in full support of Gov. John Bel Edwards’ recent actions to combat coronavirus spread in Louisiana. Edwards issued a stay-at-home order earlier this week. “What happens in New Orleans is going to have an effect and an impact on the Mississippi Gulf Coast,” Reeves said. Though Reeves noted what’s happening in New York and California (34th most cases per capita at eight cases per 100,000, or half of Mississippi’s), he said Louisiana’s cases concern him.
Dobbs said the state’s cases are fairly spread out across Mississippi, and suggested the reason for the high rate of cases per capita could be due to the high number of tests performed, adding he wants to see more cases as testing continues to ramp up, because it means those cases are identified and can be isolated.
“Certainly we’ve had more cases and we’re watching it very closely, if you look at the map you see we’re distributed throughout the state so we don’t really have, except for a couple areas if you look at concentration, it’s pretty well distributed,” he said. ...
https://mississippitoday.org/2020/03...irus-strategy/
So last week, Mississippi [where I own some land] was rated last in CV response, with rates in the 75th percentile of the nation.
Now, after the horse has left the barn and the Trump virus has long since gained critical mass [and community transmission] in the state, in lieu of a Shelter In Place order, the intrepid Governor of Mississippi has unleashed a couple old guys with a shovel to quell this pandemic by employing the same Deep State cell phone tracking techniques employed in Chiner and Singapoor to track where every infected person has been the last week. They're only doing about 400 drive-up tests/day [only on doctor's recco & appointment], with about 40% positive...
Presumably they'll get in front of the exponential spread of the Trumpvirus after they get organized and rolling, which should be soon.
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03-28-2020, 06:13 PM #9231Registered User
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stole from FB but so true
same is true for fire season..
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03-28-2020, 06:17 PM #9232skier
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“Protecting yourself and your family from COViD 19 by dr David price”
Look it up , you might find it helpful.
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03-28-2020, 06:18 PM #9233
Tornadoes are just ramping up.
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03-28-2020, 06:20 PM #9234
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03-28-2020, 06:23 PM #9235
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03-28-2020, 06:30 PM #9236Funky But Chic
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03-28-2020, 06:31 PM #9237
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03-28-2020, 06:45 PM #9238
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/n...irus-ems.html?
"N.Y.C.’s 911 System Is Overwhelmed. ‘I’m Terrified,’ a Paramedic Says."
NYC's case density is 3,300 cases per million. https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/down...ta-summary.pdf
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03-28-2020, 06:55 PM #9239"We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully." - Randy Pausch
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03-28-2020, 06:56 PM #9240
American reporter for CBS interviewing an Italian doctor in a hospital--reporter in full hazmat suit, N95, face shield, gloves. Doctor in a surgical mask and street clothes.
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03-28-2020, 06:57 PM #9241
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03-28-2020, 07:35 PM #9242
trump aids urge more empathy.
the fat one struggles with "tone."
WTF??? FFS?... that's the "leader of the free world"?
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-h...-idUSKBN21F0UO
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03-28-2020, 07:46 PM #9243
Chinese Rat Flu
Just saw that American is only running 3 long haul flights? 1 to Tokyo, 2 to London. That’s crazy...
But at least we don’t have locusts,,
https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-51618188
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03-28-2020, 07:52 PM #9244
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03-28-2020, 08:00 PM #9245click here
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03-28-2020, 08:03 PM #9246
...and Cuomo won. That didn't take long.
Still would've preferred a CoronaDome deathmatch
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03-28-2020, 08:22 PM #9247
To all the public wearing masks naysayers:
PERSPECTIVE
Simple DIY masks could help flatten the curve. We should all wear them in public.
When historians tally up the many missteps policymakers have made in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the senseless and unscientific push for the general public to avoid wearing masks should be near the top.
The evidence not only fails to support the push, it also contradicts it. It can take a while for official recommendations to catch up with scientific thinking. In this case, such delays might be deadly and economically disastrous. It’s time to make masks a key part of our fight to contain, then defeat, this pandemic. Masks effective at “flattening the curve” can be made at home with nothing more than a T-shirt and a pair of scissors. We should all wear masks —store-bought or homemade — whenever we’re out in public.
At the height of the HIV crisis, authorities did not tell people to put away condoms. As fatalities from car crashes mounted, no one recommended avoiding seat belts. Yet in a global respiratory pandemic, people who should know better are discouraging Americans from using respiratory protection.
Facing shortages of the N95 masks needed by health-care workers, the U.S. surgeon general announced on Feb. 29 that masks “are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus,” despite significant scientific evidence to the contrary. This is not just a problem in the United States: Even the World Health Organization says, “you only need to wear a mask if you are taking care of a person with suspected 2019-nCoV infection.”
There are good reasons to believe DIY masks would help a lot. Look at Hong Kong, Mongolia, South Korea and Taiwan, all of which have covid-19 largely under control. They are all near the original epicenter of the pandemic in mainland China, and they have economic ties to China. Yet none has resorted to a lockdown, such as in China’s Wuhan province. In all of these countries, all of which were hit hard by the SARS respiratory virus outbreak in 2002 and 2003, everyone is wearing masks in public. George Gao, director-general of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention stated, “Many people have asymptomatic or presymptomatic infections. If they are wearing face masks, it can prevent droplets that carry the virus from escaping and infecting others.”
My data-focused research institute, fast.ai, has found 34 scientific papers indicating basic masks can be effective in reducing virus transmission in public — and not a single paper that shows clear evidence that they cannot.
Studies have documented definitively that in controlled environments like airplanes, people with masks rarely infect others and rarely become infected themselves, while those without masks more easily infect others or become infected themselves.
Masks don’t have to be complex to be effective. A 2013 paper tested a variety of household materials and found that something as simple as two layers of a cotton T-shirt is highly effective at blocking virus particles of a wide range of sizes. Oxford University found evidence this month for the effectiveness of simple fabric mouth and nose covers to be so compelling they now are officially acceptable for use in a hospital in many situations. Hospitals running short of N95-rated masks are turning to homemade cloth masks themselves; if it’s good enough to use in a hospital, it’s good enough for a walk to the store.
The reasons the WHO cites for its anti-mask advice are based not on science but on three spurious policy arguments. First, there are not enough masks for hospital workers. Second, masks may themselves become contaminated and pass on an infection to the people wearing them. Third, masks could encourage people to engage in more risky behavior.
None of these is a good reason to avoid wearing a mask in public.
Yes, there is a shortage of manufactured masks, and these should go to hospital workers. But anyone can make a mask at home by cutting up a cotton T-shirt, tying it back together and then washing it at the end of the day. Another approach, recommended by the Hong Kong Consumer Council, involves rigging a simple mask with a paper towel and rubber bands that can be thrown in the trash at the end of each day.
It’s true masks can become contaminated. But better a mask gets contaminated than the person who is wearing it. It is not hard to wash or dispose of a mask at the end of the day and then wash hands thoroughly to prevent a contaminated mask from spreading infection.
Finally, the idea that masks encourage risky behavior is nonsensical. We give cars anti-lock brakes and seat belts despite the possibility that people might drive more riskily knowing the safety equipment is there. Construction workers wear hard hats even though the hats presumably could encourage less attention to safety. If any risky behavior does occur, societies have the power to make laws against it.
Many authorities still advise only people with symptoms wear masks. But this doesn’t help with a disease like covid-19, since a person who does not yet show symptoms can still be contagious. A study in Iceland, where there has been unprecedented levels of testing, found, “about half of those who tested positive [for covid-19] are nonsymptomatic,” according to Iceland’s chief epidemiologist, Thorolfur Guðnason. In fact, in early February, National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony S. Fauci warned there was strong evidence covid-19 spreads even among people without symptoms. If we all wear masks, people unknowingly infected with the coronavirus would be less likely to spread it.
I also have heard suggestions that widespread usage of masks in the West will be culturally impossible. The story of the Czech Republic debunks this notion. Social media influencers campaigning to encourage DIY mask creation catalyzed an extraordinary mobilization by nearly the whole population. Within three days, there were enough masks for everyone in the country, and most people were wearing them. This was an entirely grass roots community effort.
When social distancing requirements forced a small bar in Prague to close, its owner, Štefan Olejár, converted Bar Behind the Curtain into a mask manufacturing facility. He procured sewing machines from the community and makes about 400 cotton masks per day. The bar employs 10 people, including a driver who distributes the masks directly to people who are not able to leave their homes.
There are “mask trees” on street corners around the country, where people hang up masks they have made so others can take them.
The most important message shared in the Czech Republic has been this: “My mask protects you; your mask protects me.” Wearing a mask there is now considered a prosocial behavior. Going outside without one is frowned on as an antisocial action that puts your community at risk. In fact, the community reaction has been so strong that the government has responded by making it illegal to go out in public without a mask.
When I first started wearing a mask in public, I felt a bit odd. But I reminded myself I’m helping my community, and I’m sure in the coming weeks people who don’t wear masks will be the ones who feel out of place. Now I’m trying to encourage everyone to join me — and to get their friends to wear masks, too — with a social media campaign around #masks4all.
Community use of masks alone is not enough to stop the spread. Restrictions on movement and commerce need to stay in place until hospital systems clearly are able to handle the patient load. Then, we need a rigorous system of contact tracing, testing and quarantine of those potentially infected.
Given the weight of evidence, it seems likely that universal mask wearing should be a part of the solution. Every single one of us can make it happen — starting today.
Jeremy Howard is a distinguished research scientist at the University of San Francisco, founding researcher at fast.ai and a member of the World Economic Forum's Global AI Council.
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03-28-2020, 08:32 PM #9248
Chinese Rat Flu
If only we could get masks. I would wear one.
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03-28-2020, 08:34 PM #9249
Seriously, WTF is wrong with them. There ARE no masks...
Forum Cross Pollinator, gratuitously strident
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03-28-2020, 08:37 PM #9250
Does Huckbucket have a chart for this thread compared to other threads? I think the rate of posts is exponential.
Does this indicate we are going to all die?
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