re: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) ***W.H.O. DECLARES A GLOBAL PANDEMIC***

Why are markets in Europe way in the green but we are red???

Hell even Japanese markets were way up

frick this crap

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Disney is pretty near their bottom, stock has dropped from mid 140's to low 120's over the past week alone

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This was the exact post, do at and near mean the same things by chance?

Remdesivir: 24 out of 26 Cats With Feline Coronavirus Shown To Be Healthy Up To 44 Weeks After Initial Use

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This was a study done on 26 FIP-infected cats (31 initially, but 5 died before testing could be conducted). after dosing the infected cats with remdesivir up to 3 times over a 12-week period, 24 of the 26 cats were shown to be healthy at the 44-week mark.

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FIP is a coronavirus that causes lung infections in cats. This is the new antiviral being tested right now Remdesivir

It’s a cat study but I guess it’s better than nothing at this point.

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Feb 27: US CDC revises coronavirus testing criteria (no longer requires prior China travel or contact with an infected person) Previously, the US CDC required that the patient had either visited China or had been in contact with an infected person in order to qualify for testing. Effective today, a third scenario has been added: "No source of exposure has been identified."

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Can we all agree its ridiculous that it took so long to lower this criteria?

ETA: these are suggestions, not a rule

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Can we all agree its ridiculous that it took so long to lower this criteria?

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Apparently no one in the media asks this kind of question, but why did it take so long? Clearly the disease was spreading around the world. If nothing else, some kind of surveillance testing seemed appropriate. Now it sounds like the CDC is saying they had problems with their test kits and had very low numbers available. So how did China and South Korea and Italy manage to test so many patients? Even Iran seems to have tested more patients than the US early on.

Which person has the authority to lower the criteria?

Could the president have signed an EO or something?

The Washington Post has an article up about a whistleblower saying that HHS personnel were working with patients without PPE. Its behind a pay wall though.

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Apparently no one in the media asks this kind of question, but why did it take so long? Clearly the disease was spreading around the world. If nothing else, some kind of surveillance testing seemed appropriate. Now it sounds like the CDC is saying they had problems with their test kits and had very low numbers available. So how did China and South Korea and Italy manage to test so many patients? Even Iran seems to have tested more patients than the US.

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Me thinks that the CDC's position on this is "don't ask questions you don't want the answers to". They have to know, or at least suspect that we have significantly more than 60 cases here by now. Based on how clusters of the virus are popping up elsewhere with no epidemiological links to current cases, I would imagine its almost a certainty. Probably just trying to keep the panic to a minimum

With all of the threads that get a sticky on this board how is this thread not stickied?

Antibody test in Singapore

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In what appears to be a first, disease trackers in Singapore have used an experimental antibody test for COVID-19 to confirm that a suspected patient was infected with the coronavirus. The patient was one of two people who together formed a missing link between two clusters of cases that each occurred in a Singaporean church. Researchers around the world are racing to develop antibody tests, also called serological tests, that can confirm whether someone was infected even after their immune system has cleared the virus that causes COVID-19. The group that developed the test, at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore, is among the front-runners, although its assay has to be validated before it is taken into production and deployed widely. Current tests for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, look for genetic material of the virus, for instance in saliva or nasal, oral, or anal swabs, using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). They have one huge drawback: They only give a positive result when the virus is still present. The tests can’t identify people who went through an infection, recovered, and cleared the virus from their bodies.

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