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Post by teen persuasion on Mar 15, 2020 11:07:36 GMT -5
Watching the county press conference now. Three unrelated confirmed cases in 3 different towns/city. One returned from Italy, one visited the Westchester area (big cluster), one IDK, all in 20s or 30s, all quarantined at home (not hospitalized). Tracking down contacts, so expect quarantine numbers to increase. Declared a state of emergency in that county (so that's all the counties surrounding mine!) and closing schools to students Monday but staff report and will reassess for Tuesday. They don't want to blanket close schools indefinitely, because hospitals have told them they will lose 20% of staff due to childcare issues. Also sternly warning that school closures don't mean take your kids to Chuckie Cheese, it means STAY HOME! Still waiting on my county - will they follow everyone around us, or only capitulate when there is a confirmed case here? Our school district hasn't cancelled the musical yet - should have, by sheer numbers and the governor's orders to cancel events over 500 and cut numbers to half for everything else.
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Post by NastyWoman on Mar 15, 2020 11:08:26 GMT -5
As of last night there were 92 confirmed cases in my county, including the first community spread case. The steaming brown stuff has hit the fan. This weekend is much the same as others for me since I like solitude after a long week of peope- ling. Tomorrow will be different though since it will be my first day ever of wfh. Not something I look forward to as I have always carefully kept my home a workfree zone. Already received a number of text from upper management to make sure they have my cell phone number despite the fact that I send out an email telling half the company (it feels like) that my call were forwarded to my home.
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Post by teen persuasion on Mar 15, 2020 13:29:57 GMT -5
And my county has declared a state of emergency and closed all schools indefinitely.
DH got the call that his school is closed one week, and will reevaluate. Spring break is in jeopardy, obviously.
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Post by GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl on Mar 15, 2020 14:43:30 GMT -5
And my county has declared a state of emergency and closed all schools indefinitely. DH got the call that his school is closed one week, and will reevaluate. Spring break is in jeopardy, obviously. Ugh. Do you have any kids still in k-12? Does that include your Library?
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Post by ken a.k.a OMK on Mar 15, 2020 16:17:33 GMT -5
First confirmed case in my county and libraries are closing. Talbot County, Md.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Mar 15, 2020 18:46:33 GMT -5
I just learned that there is a confirmed case in the city I work in.
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Post by teen persuasion on Mar 15, 2020 19:09:01 GMT -5
I've never watched so many press conferences in the same day. The county one went over an hour, local news recapped briefly, then swapped to the governor's press conference.
After 5pm, DH turned the tv back on, and Trump was having a press conference. While Pence was speaking, the station switched (mid sentence with no warning) to another local press conference(obviously more important), this time the #2 city school Superintendent. He scrapped his plan from Friday (teachers work Monday to get 3 week handouts ready to give to students Tuesday with meds and chromebooks, hotspots, for remote learning) - all city schools closed to April 20.
End of the 6pm news, breaking news, all schools in that county and mine are closed to April 20! Come back from commercial, and clarify that county schools closed to April 20, my county is closed indefinitely.
More decisions are trickling in via email from assorted individual libraries. One nearest #3 city has closed. One small one will be closed 1 week, and reevaluating. One bigger city library with 2 branches called all hands on deck for cleaning and shelf walking and pulling holds; only foyer open to patrons, not computers or programs or stacks, even. Guess it's place holds, pickup holds, no browsing. My director called a staff/board meeting for 9am - the board meeting had been for 8pm. The way things are accelerating today, it's likely we'll be closing sooner rather than later.
Just wondering what closing actually means. Patrons can still use e-services. I can manage website and social media from home. But someone will likely still need to go in to empty book drop, get mail, periodicals, deliveries ordered weeks ago, process acquisitions. Still work to do, even without patrons physically there, ironically.
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Post by teen persuasion on Mar 15, 2020 19:59:36 GMT -5
Newspaper website just reported 4 more confirmed cases this evening (total now 7). All had been travelling outside the area.
Not sure if this indicates little community spread yet, or just that the travelers are being questioned and referred for testing, so they are the ones confirmed.
Definitely ramping up testing now.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Mar 15, 2020 20:35:41 GMT -5
Now I found out there is a case in the local hospital. I got a text from my friend, so I'm trying to find an official statement online.
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Post by happyhoix on Mar 17, 2020 21:03:24 GMT -5
The one case in our area was an episcopalian priest. I know two people who go to that church, and the whole church is self quarantining. Man, that priest has to feel like God is specifically smiting him.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Mar 17, 2020 21:41:15 GMT -5
My good friend's 20-something daughter went to the ER tonight with flu-like or covid19 symptoms. She's cursing on FB because she was doing social distancing.
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Post by teen persuasion on Mar 17, 2020 21:43:37 GMT -5
Now that testing is rolling, they are confirming cases left and right.
My county just confirmed its first case.
Bigger metro area county to the south of us up to 20 tonight. First 3 on Sunday, 4 more by Monday, 4 more this morning including first community transmission, others were all travel related, and now 9 more this evening. There was some glitch in yesterday's batch that delayed things a bit.
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Post by Ryan on Mar 17, 2020 22:27:09 GMT -5
I had near identical conversations with my next door neighbor (earlier this week) and my sister (via text, this AM). both were sick back in Feb, and have considered the idea that they have probably had COVID-19 and recovered completely. neighbor J had been in SoCal for work, and came home sick. sis was sick after her boarding school kids came back from winter break, BIL as well. all of them had a lingering cough. from sis - she said it was near a month before the coughing finally went away, and that she had never experienced anything like it before. this woman is a HS teacher at a boarding school. she *lives* in a petrie dish and has a cast iron immune system. now that she's vocalized this question, I have to agree with her. I remember her cough, there were conversations where she could hardly speak. I'm really confused about this, I see so many articles saying it's been circulating around the country just complete unchecked. If that was the case, wouldn't hospitals have seen the uptick in this? Maybe they diagnosed it as as the flu, but if you can easily confuse it with the flu, is it going to end up being much different from the flu in the end? South Korea is credited with testing at a pretty high rate and, because of that, their mortality rate is .6%. The line of thinking is that they are including more people with milder symptoms as opposed to Italy that just tests the really sick.
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Post by chiver78 on Mar 18, 2020 6:45:26 GMT -5
I had near identical conversations with my next door neighbor (earlier this week) and my sister (via text, this AM). both were sick back in Feb, and have considered the idea that they have probably had COVID-19 and recovered completely. neighbor J had been in SoCal for work, and came home sick. sis was sick after her boarding school kids came back from winter break, BIL as well. all of them had a lingering cough. from sis - she said it was near a month before the coughing finally went away, and that she had never experienced anything like it before. this woman is a HS teacher at a boarding school. she *lives* in a petrie dish and has a cast iron immune system. now that she's vocalized this question, I have to agree with her. I remember her cough, there were conversations where she could hardly speak. I'm really confused about this, I see so many articles saying it's been circulating around the country just complete unchecked. If that was the case, wouldn't hospitals have seen the uptick in this? Maybe they diagnosed it as as the flu, but if you can easily confuse it with the flu, is it going to end up being much different from the flu in the end? South Korea is credited with testing at a pretty high rate and, because of that, their mortality rate is .6%. The line of thinking is that they are including more people with milder symptoms as opposed to Italy that just tests the really sick. my sister was tested for the flu, and it came back negative. that makes sense, because it *isn't* the flu. so if people see their doctor and get confirmation that it isn't the flu, they just suck it up and deal. that's what she did, anyway.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Mar 18, 2020 8:03:30 GMT -5
It's also been suggested that tests be run on the lab work of patients who have been hospitalized with unexplained pneumonia this winter, especially those who died.
Thinking it was probably Corona virus
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2020 15:29:24 GMT -5
Right now they tell people who are sick to only seek medical care if they develop problems breathing. In CA and OR, they are still telling people if you haven't been to Europe or China the CDC won't test you. There was an article in the paper about it today.
That means there are a ton of sick people out there "self-quarantining" without knowing what they really have.
Their relatives or whoever lives with them can easily become carriers.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Mar 18, 2020 15:39:34 GMT -5
I had near identical conversations with my next door neighbor (earlier this week) and my sister (via text, this AM). both were sick back in Feb, and have considered the idea that they have probably had COVID-19 and recovered completely. neighbor J had been in SoCal for work, and came home sick. sis was sick after her boarding school kids came back from winter break, BIL as well. all of them had a lingering cough. from sis - she said it was near a month before the coughing finally went away, and that she had never experienced anything like it before. this woman is a HS teacher at a boarding school. she *lives* in a petrie dish and has a cast iron immune system. now that she's vocalized this question, I have to agree with her. I remember her cough, there were conversations where she could hardly speak. I'm really confused about this, I see so many articles saying it's been circulating around the country just complete unchecked. If that was the case, wouldn't hospitals have seen the uptick in this? Maybe they diagnosed it as as the flu, but if you can easily confuse it with the flu, is it going to end up being much different from the flu in the end? South Korea is credited with testing at a pretty high rate and, because of that, their mortality rate is .6%. The line of thinking is that they are including more people with milder symptoms as opposed to Italy that just tests the really sick. It is for older people. With the flu vaccination in circulation, the flu does not have anywhere near the 14.8% mortality rate that Covid 19 does in those over 80. One possible reason that the mortality rate in SK is so much lower is that they tested a lot. If you look at the graphs, the greatest group of positives were 20-29 years olds. They got this group out of the population, as they are the ones most likely to spread the disease but the least likely to have effects from it.
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Post by daisylu on Mar 19, 2020 10:02:31 GMT -5
I was tested yesterday. Have had fever, dry cough, sore throat, & chest pain since Monday. At first, I was told I did not meet testing criteria because I have not been out of the country in the last 14 days. After testing negative for strep and flu, doctor sent me to mobile site to be tested. Said primary doc will call in 48-72 hours with results, so may not be until Monday.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Mar 19, 2020 12:14:28 GMT -5
That would not happen where I live.
Hope you do not test positive.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2020 13:28:39 GMT -5
It's also been suggested that tests be run on the lab work of patients who have been hospitalized with unexplained pneumonia this winter, especially those who died. Thinking it was probably Corona virus I'd be really annoyed if they were wasting test kits right now on people that are no longer alive or contagious.
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Post by tallguy on Mar 19, 2020 13:39:33 GMT -5
Good friends tested positive. They are both improving and will recover, although one was questionable for a while.
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Post by NastyWoman on Mar 19, 2020 21:37:29 GMT -5
Not feeling "special" anymore. As of midmight all of California is under Sheltering In Place orders. This stuff is getting more grim by the day
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2020 21:50:59 GMT -5
Not feeling "special" anymore. As of midmight all od California is under Sheltering In Place orders. This stuff is getting more grim by the day Yeah, thankfully the order says there is no police enforcement. My son's leaving Chico tomorrow morning headed for Oregon... Wonder how LA and some of the other gang infested areas are going to do with this crap. Scary.
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Post by souldoubt on Mar 19, 2020 22:17:45 GMT -5
The county I live in had an order starting 3/17 that was limiting to essential workers that they lifted a day later and told people to be smart and aware of social distancing. Living in the suburbs people seem to be following it and getting along just fine. No way would I want to be living in LA, San Fran or any other such city right now. I'm all for flattening the curve but I don't buy Gavin's claim that in 8 weeks 25+ million Californians will be infected. Then again he says that while asking for a $1 billion from the feds. Maybe take some of that bullet train money or the surplus from last year to help the state.
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Post by raeoflyte on Mar 20, 2020 7:12:40 GMT -5
It's also been suggested that tests be run on the lab work of patients who have been hospitalized with unexplained pneumonia this winter, especially those who died. Thinking it was probably Corona virus I'd be really annoyed if they were wasting test kits right now on people that are no longer alive or contagious. Yes, but the sooner we know who isn't carrying, the sooner we can get back to some semblance of normal. That means testing well people (testing those who already died can certainly wait till the worst is over). I dont know why Im surprised based on our society, but the overall consensus seems to be eh, I'll survive so I can't be bothered with extra precautions. And telling those who won't survive, oh well, you're either old so it's ok if you die or you must be sick already so dying shouldn't come as a shock.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Mar 20, 2020 7:24:20 GMT -5
Perhaps had our stable genius not fired our pandemic response department, we'd have plenty of test kits and medical supplies to go around right now.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2020 7:26:27 GMT -5
I'd be really annoyed if they were wasting test kits right now on people that are no longer alive or contagious. Yes, but the sooner we know who isn't carrying, the sooner we can get back to some semblance of normal. That means testing well people (testing those who already died can certainly wait till the worst is over). I dont know why Im surprised based on our society, but the overall consensus seems to be eh, I'll survive so I can't be bothered with extra precautions. And telling those who won't survive, oh well, you're either old so it's ok if you die or you must be sick already so dying shouldn't come as a shock. My point was there aren't enough tests to even test the sick people or those who may have been exposed.
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Post by raeoflyte on Mar 20, 2020 8:28:04 GMT -5
Yes, but the sooner we know who isn't carrying, the sooner we can get back to some semblance of normal. That means testing well people (testing those who already died can certainly wait till the worst is over). I dont know why Im surprised based on our society, but the overall consensus seems to be eh, I'll survive so I can't be bothered with extra precautions. And telling those who won't survive, oh well, you're either old so it's ok if you die or you must be sick already so dying shouldn't come as a shock. My point was there aren't enough tests to even test the sick people or those who may have been exposed. I know. I'm just getting so angry at the things that could and should have been done.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Mar 20, 2020 8:58:57 GMT -5
Perhaps had our stable genius not fired our pandemic response department, we'd have plenty of test kits and medical supplies to go around right now. Fixed
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Post by mollyanna58 on Mar 20, 2020 10:10:47 GMT -5
My 91-yo mother, who is scheduled for surgery next week, coughed at the doctor's office while there for pre-op lab work. The doctor sent her across the county to be tested. The testing location declined to test her, because the doctor's office did not indicate whether she had a fever, which is required for testing.
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