First confirmed case of COVID19 in Brazos County
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KidDoc said:
All of the confirmed cases at this point are going to have travel or a known contact or are in the hospital. We are being expressly told to ONLY test those cases.
Other than a shortage of test kits, what is the possible rationale for this? We know the virus is highly contagious. We know there is community spread in many places already. Infected people need to be quarantined. Why would they tell you not to test people who are exihibiting symptoms?
Likely because the CDC is still behind the curve and scrambling to catch up. I expect those limitations to be lifted in the next day or two.nought said:KidDoc said:
All of the confirmed cases at this point are going to have travel or a known contact or are in the hospital. We are being expressly told to ONLY test those cases.
Other than a shortage of test kits, what is the possible rationale for this? We know the virus is highly contagious. We know there is community spread in many places already. Infected people need to be quarantined. Why would they tell you not to test people who are exihibiting symptoms?
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Because the SKY IS FALLING PEOPLE....... c'mon... join the hysteria... we're all DOOMED.......
cavscout96 said:
Because the SKY IS FALLING PEOPLE....... c'mon... join the hysteria... we're all DOOMED.......
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https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data/
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Patients who have been tested for SARS-CoV-2 are disproportionately those with severe
symptoms and bad outcomes. As most health systems have limited testing capacity, selection bias may even worsen in the near future.
Two more cases, one assumed from travel, the other local transmission.
https://www.kbtx.com/content/news/First-case-of-COVID-19-community-transmission-confirmed-by-BCHD-568967161.html
https://www.kbtx.com/content/news/First-case-of-COVID-19-community-transmission-confirmed-by-BCHD-568967161.html
"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - Sir Winston Churchill
Hincemm said:
my old man got his positive test result back this morning...he is not yet in these reports, fwiw...
Any chance you wanna share how he might have gotten it or from where?
Four more cases, all travel related according to KBTX.
One is the A&M employee mentioned by the university's press release.
One is the A&M employee mentioned by the university's press release.
"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - Sir Winston Churchill
We're learning a valuable lesson for the future. ALL travel needs to be shut down EARLY. Sure it would have been a little inconvenient for the few that got caught in the wrong place but not near as inconvenient as it is now.
My dad works with the one reported yesterday as the first community spread case in Brazos Cty. He was told around lunch yesterday that they were all off until two weeks from Monday, but it wasn't until last night he found out it was because a guy tested positive who was last at work on Tuesday.
Sounds like the guy has a side job of working at a local grocery store and that's the suspected place he got it.
Sounds like the guy has a side job of working at a local grocery store and that's the suspected place he got it.
Which storetlh3842 said:
My dad works with the one reported yesterday as the first community spread case in Brazos Cty. He was told around lunch yesterday that they were all off until two weeks from Monday, but it wasn't until last night he found out it was because a guy tested positive who was last at work on Tuesday.
Sounds like the guy has a side job of working at a local grocery store and that's the suspected place he got it.
Red logo grocery store where everything's better. Not sure which location.
Scary. So, since it apparently lasts for a few hours in the air and up to a few days on surfaces, does that mean we're screwed if we've shopped there?
while technically true, this is very much out of context. It stems from a New England Journal of Medicine study, but this statement, in and of itself, does not paint the whole picture.threecatcorner said:
Scary. So, since it apparently lasts for a few hours in the air and up to a few days on surfaces, does that mean we're screwed if we've shopped there?
Below is a commentary from Johns Hopkins re: the study
https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/03/20/sars-cov-2-survive-on-surfaces/
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What's getting a lot of press and is presented out of context is that the virus can last on plastic for 72 hourswhich sounds really scary. But what's more important is the amount of the virus that remains. It's less than 0.1% of the starting virus material. Infection is theoretically possible but unlikely at the levels remaining after a few days. People need to know this.
While the New England Journal of Medicine study found that the COVID virus can be detected in the air for 3 hours, in nature, respiratory droplets sink to the ground faster than the aerosols produced in this study. The experimental aerosols used in labs are smaller than what comes out of a cough or sneeze, so they remain in the air at face-level longer than heavier particles would in nature.
Most likely transmission is from "close contact," with an infected person, hence, the 6' recommendation
Up to 21 total cases. 2 in hospital. Per KBTX.
Does anyone have the numbers on the total number of people we are testing in Brazos Valley / County? What's the percent positive? Is our local testing capacity increasing?
I doubt we'll get anything else from the BCHD. They seem to be giving nothing anymore but number of cases.nthomas99 said:
Does anyone have the numbers on the total number of people we are testing in Brazos Valley / County? What's the percent positive? Is our local testing capacity increasing?
"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - Sir Winston Churchill
Well, this happened at some point yesterday. Becky Gates Children's Center employee tested positive.
https://bgcc.tamu.edu/covid-19-updates/?fbclid=IwAR2M7Eiy-03zV9tYbFkQOeQ96KtVkjhvMfGoy3mcj1L3csxmlYMSLjA44hY
Hey, guess where my kid's roommate happens to work?
https://bgcc.tamu.edu/covid-19-updates/?fbclid=IwAR2M7Eiy-03zV9tYbFkQOeQ96KtVkjhvMfGoy3mcj1L3csxmlYMSLjA44hY
Hey, guess where my kid's roommate happens to work?