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Latest as of today, April 3...
10,297 cases, 370 deaths, still 61 of 64 parishes with a case, positive test rate climbed to 19%. In theory, with an "open to anyone who wants it" testing, this rate should be trending down. It ain't. The 50-59 and the 40-49 age groups have the most cases, but the 70+ group has the most deaths, by far. 54% of the cases are women, which bucks the national trend, 40% men, and apparently 6% who don't know what they are.
Mayo's is running for Mayor right now, the classy guy that he is. His photo op turned into a PR nightmare. He offered a public apology for it yesterday.Originally Posted by dawg80
Do you want to reword this, or are you saying they were trying to cause people to spread the virus?
Why do you say "open to anyone who wants it"? I've been hearing just he opposite. DO NOT take tests unless you have symptoms. Fever is not a symptom that should generate a test. Based on this (what I thought was happening) it should be trending up since we still are getting confirmations of the virus with the tests at this point. Even those who have been exposed are not given the tests until they get past the incubation period and have signs of the virus.
If possible, I'm waiting on something other than the swab to the brain test. I've heard it was HORRIBLE.
I wonder how many will die because we will not test exposed people until they are very sick and the virus has already got a firm footing and doing damage to the organs it attacks
I've not heard that as a concern.
They are protecting testing and testing supplies imho. I just think that it’s bad to wait that long. The incubation period can be so long that may drive this. But I think that after a known exposure any one who is at high risk should be tested . Just my thoughts and I am not a medical expert. Just that if some of these treatments do work it would seem that starting sooner in a treatment would give a better outcome.
This should get some experts to comment.
I wasn't even born yet, but I was there. Remember it like it was yesterday.I think everyone alive in the region in 1970 was at that game. I was only 2 and living in Ohio at the time, but for some reason my dad took me to the game, so I was in that 500k+.
That was an amazing kick though. TD's story was/is great. Hope he makes it through this. His family was visiting him everyday before this situation arose.
I understand. One of my relatives was exposed. They asked her to self quarantine and said that unless she began showing symptoms she would not be tested. I didn't word my post well, but I assume if an exposed person gets sick (showing symptoms) they will test to confirm and treat accordingly.
I haven't been to any of the drive-thru testing locations, and don't plan to go either, but it's based on self-diagnosis. Because the test is simple, quick, and I guess relatively inexpensive, they are not doing much in the way of triage. If you are paranoid, think you might be infected, just drive on up. That's what one medical staffer told me last night. They were figuring on doing some type of pre-screening, other than, "Do you have fever or feel icky?" Even if the medical staffer thinks, this person is not infected, they are not making them get out of line and go home. But, I have not witnessed this for myself.
If somebody is paranoid enough to be "thinking" they have it I bet they change their mind when that swab is reaches the vital area. One person we know who tested positive said the test was worse than the virus.
No sarcasm emoji required. The picture I saw had people lined up like they were boarding Space Mountain.Do you want to reword this, or are you saying they were trying to cause people to spread the virus?
Okay...just saw a video from a testing sample...no thanks! I survived the sub-Sahara flu, with 104F fever, just 5 years ago. I think I can survive this too. If not...it's been fun y'all!
No different from being tested for the flu. Not fun.
The antibody test is scheduled for rollout on Monday. Two different groups have tests, but it appears the ability to have large numbers of individuals tested is weeks away
"Theel also says Mayo hopes to have the tests available next week, but because of a limited supply, will be doing a slow roll out and hope that commercial manufacturers will speed production in the next few weeks."
https://www.biospace.com/article/fda...antibody-test/
Oh, yes it is different!
Abbott labs' 5 minute test shipped Thursday and should be in the field by now.
Unfortunately, Abbott can only produce about 50,000 tests per day at the current time. They also seem unwilling to license out the test to other labs for manufacturing. Last night on Fox (4/3) Steve Forbes put it blundly: "We have to create 500,000 of these tests per day. License it out and get it done."
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2020/04/0...rus-tests.html
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