As of Friday, only 445 people have been tested for Covid-19 in the US. https://www.vox.com/science-and-hea...-coronavirus-in-the-us-cdc-diagnostic-testing My jaw dropped when I saw that. California alone should have tested thousands of people by now. We're monitoring 8,500. Only 445 people across the country have been tested? How is that possible? Esp. in light of the following: The woman was hospitalized more than a week ago but was not tested for several days because she did not fit screening criteria set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which include both symptoms of the virus and either a recent history of travel to China or close contact with another coronavirus patient. In response, Solano County declared a local emergency Thursday because of the virus. “We are taking this situation seriously and are taking steps necessary to protect the health and safety of Solano County residents,” Dr. Bela Matyas, the county’s health officer, said in a statement. “It is important to recognize that we have moved from containment to mitigation. We are investigating potential exposures and ensuring that proper evaluation and care are provided if they become sick.” https://www.latimes.com/california/...nia-for-others-exposed-to-coronavirus-patient How do you do containment and mitigation without testing? Obvious answer: you don't.
Yes, there has almost no testing in the USA, yet people in general along with Trump and Republicans feel and say there isn't and Covad here yet! Just like every other problem, hiding in the sand is the order of these days. And just like in China, there they had said there was no problem for their first month, it will be a month or more of claiming there is "No Problem"! One poster here who just blamed Mexico for the Virus, even though the USA has more cases, not counting all the people we haven't tested! Now that we finally check more people than just the people from China, expect the next week to have a sudden big jump in USA cases.
I'm guessing a person has to get out of his chair, drive to a place where they can do a test and the people just don't feel like doing it. Can't blame the government unless we want to go door to door and force people to be tested.
Vox is a poor source. Testing is nice for epidemiological tracking, etc-but the treatments are the same be it influenza, swine flu, corona etc.-as far as point of care testing that is rarely available, particularly at the bedside. Most who are in ever infected with Corona will never know it it looks like the flu, and recover quickly.
Maybe we could start doing it at fast food restaurants. Coronavirus: Drive through testing begins at Edinburgh hospital https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-51678008
Like most people had the misunderstanding of the fact we had NO testing ability - the fielding test that had been sent some weeks ago did not work. The only way the USA was testing for the viruses was to get a sample, sent it to Atlanta to their lab at the CDC, and send the results back to the sender. About three days! As of Friday Feb 29th, the USA now started to be test in the field For this time, until Friday night yesterday, the ONLY tests that were sent to the CDC in Atlanta were people who were from China or directly exposed to people who had with direct contact, basically the people on the planes or cruise ships. This crazy idea that people didn't get out of the cars to be tested were completely unclear on the concept. Even if someone had pneumonia and close to death, the CDC would NOT rest for the viruses even if the person drove directly to Atlanta, but even if this person, this person had pneumonia and 105 degree fever, would NOT be tested by the CDC. PERIOD! Until this week, ONE person was tested who was possibly not from known China sources, and that person has the virus. Tested one, and she was infected. That's bad odds. Now that field tests are being shipped out, it is likely there will be a sudden increase of positive cases. Also, we may start seeing how many may have died while we never tested so the deaths were called the flu or pneumonia. Hopefully, there weren't many!
sounds as though peeps are trying to make this a political smear campaign... its got nada to do with government... testing folks wont help the infected nor those exposed to the infected folk. flu & flu-like virus' kill 300,000-650,000 people worldwide every year for decades. the virus itself doesnt kill them, their own body's defense mechanism over reacts & kills the surrounding tissue (usually the lungs) which causes hypoxia then death. the only protection would be a vaccine, many never get them, then again theres too many strains of flu many not included in vaccines. best to get both pneumonia vaccines, but theres a hitch, they need to be administered a year apart. if everyone got there vaccines there'd be much less deaths. i'm glad they don't... darwin's winning...
