Virus Testing Status In USA & Importance Of Social Distancing
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For updated global info & data on COVID-19, please click HERE.
For COVID-19 cases and death counts in USA by state, please click HERE.
For COVID-19 cases in Florida, please click HERE.
On Friday, March 13, 2020, President Trump said, “I don’t take responsibility at all” despite slow roll-out of coronavirus tests, in the video “Number of COVID-19 Cases Likely Much Higher Than Tests Reveal, Meet The Press, NBC News“, below:
Officials working to slow down the coronavirus spread have started “drive-thru” testing. NBC’s Chris Pollone reports, in the video “New Rochelle Starts Drive-Thru COVID-19 Testing, MSNBC“, below:
Gov. Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) and Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-Ill.) talk to Meet the Press about how their state’s are responding to the coronavirus outbreaks and calls for social distancing, in the video “‘Every Day Counts So Much’ Gov. DeWine And Gov. Pritzker Outline State Responses, Meet The Press“, below:
Rep. Mark Green and Rep. Buddy Carter react to the White House’s coronavirus response, in the video “Trump enlists private sector to expand COVID-19 testing“, below:
During the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in China this January, victims of this virus were suffering from fever, cough, shortness of breath and even severe pneumonia. But these are only symptoms which could also be caused by other diseases. How do we test for a virus that we haven’t seen before? In the video “Science Behind Virus: How to test for new coronavirus“, below:
Despite President Donald Trump’s reassurances, travelers from Europe confirm not being tested upon arriving in the United States, in the video “Frustration mounts over COVID-19 testing“, and President Trump was not tested for COVID-19 as of Thursday, March 12, 2020, below:
President Donald Trump declared a national emergency on Friday, March 13, 2020, with the House voting overnight to approve a massive aid bill with unemployment benefits and free virus testing, and President Trump has been tested negative for COVID-19 by Saturday, March 14, 2020, in the video “Trump reveals he has been tested for COVID-19“, below:
Test kits have been one of the main ways to determine if a patient has coronavirus, but results from throat-swab tests can be inaccurate. WSJ visited a lab in Singapore to see how the kits work and find out why there are questions over accuracy. Photo: Crystal Tai, in the video “How Coronavirus Test Kits Work, WSJ“, below:
Microbiologist and epidemiologist Dr. Allison McGeer explains how COVID-19 testing works and what you should do if you think you might have been exposed, in the video “What to expect if you need to be tested for COVID-19“, below:
NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel talks with Yasmin Vossoughian about a German lab that has produced a quicker way to test for the coronavirus, but is still waiting for approval from the FDA, in the video “German Laboratory Ramps Up Production Of New COVID-19“, below:
Dr. Marty Makary, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, on whether it would have made a difference if our government had acted earlier to prevent the spread of coronavirus. President Donald Trump plans to declare a national emergency over the coronavirus pandemic, administration officials told NBC News. The declaration would free up as much as $40 billion in financial resources to assist Americans affected by the outbreak. The president has scheduled a 3 p.m. ET news conference Friday at in the Rose Garden at the White House. He will be joined by Vice President Mike Pence, who is leading the Trump administration’s coronavirus task force. The conference is set to occur shortly after Trump is scheduled to meet at the White House with major laboratory company executives about the response to the coronavirus outbreak. A White House spokesman declined to comment when asked about the plan. The Senate’s top Democrat, Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, cautiously voiced support for such a declaration, provided Trump doesn’t “overstep his authority or indulge his autocratic tendencies.” Trump’s emergency designation is expected to fall under the Stafford Act, which allows for two types of presidential declarations, in the video “Every household should be ready to hunker down for 3 months: Expert“, below:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday gave details about a coronavirus response bill called Families First Coronavirus Response Act, in the video “Pelosi says the most important parts of coronavirus bill are “testing, testing, testing“”, below:
As of March 12, 2020, Dr. Matthew Binnicker oversees Mayo Clinic’s laboratory response in developing a test to detect COVID-19 in clinical samples. A process that usually takes six months to a year, was accomplished in under a month, thanks to a dedicated team working around the clock. The test should help ease the burden currently being felt at the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and state health labs. That will also mean faster turnaround times for results. Patients can expect results within 24 hours of when samples are collected and sent to Mayo Clinic Laboratories. Initially, Dr. Binnicker says the laboratory has the capacity to run between 200-300 tests daily. Additional equipment has been ordered to double that capacity in the coming weeks, in the video “Mayo Clinic develops test to detect COVID-19“, below:
As of March 15, 2020, New Coronavirus (Covid-19) testing developed by Johns Hopkins microbiologists Karen Carroll and Heba Mostafa, look to test as many as 1,000 suspected Covid-19 cases per day in the Johns Hopkins Health System, in the video “New Coronavirus (COVID-19) Testing, John Hopkins Medicine“, below:
As of March 11, 2020, Robert Redfield answered questions from Congress about why it’s taking so long to get COVID-19 test kits to health care providers and condemned people who refer to it as the “China virus.” in the video “CDC director testifies on delay of coronavirus test kits as concerns grow, Nightline“, below:
As for individual citizens, please wash your hands often, stop shaking hands, be sure to get sufficient rest, be well nourished, exercised, drink plenty of hot water and ginger tea, and decrease unnecessary social contacts.
*Drive-by testing is speedy, effective, and necessary in order to help reduce the spread of COVID-19. Paid leaves are also helpful in reducing the spread. Please contact your state legislators (Senators) to speak in support of these two measures.
Some of the basics needed in prepping for potential self-quarantine:
- Hand cleanser (soap & water & hand sanitizer)
- Cleaning products: for cleaning household surfaces such as countertops, faucets, door knobs, drawer pulls, light switches, telephone, handles of brooms, mops, etc., for reference list suggested by CDC, click HERE.)
- Laundry detergent
- Food (at least 3 weeks worth of staples:beans, pasta, rice, canned vegetables, frozen food, canned soup, shelf-stable milk, or dehydrated food, etc.)
- Water (be it in bottled water form or activated carbon filter pitcher and/or distiller)
- Face masks
- Prescription meds (talk to your doctor as to how much of your prescription meds need to be stocked)
- Over-the-counter medicine (acetaminophen, ibuprofen, cough medicine, etc.)
- Thermometer
- Robust WiFi
- Video conferencing services
- Entertainment (check out: Netflix’s Pandemic & Amazon’s Contagion)
- Exercise guides or equipment
You may be interested in these podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/worldaffairs/id101215657
You may also be interested in these articles/posts below:
- Florida Declares Public Health Emergency & All Florida Orange County State Schools Will Be Closed Until March 30
- President Trump Declares National Emergency Due To Global COVID-19 Outbreak
- Bernie Sanders Doubles Down On Medicare For All, In Light Of COVID-19 Or Coronavirus
- Former Vice-President Joe Biden Offers His Roadmap For Coronavirus
- CDC Director Redfield Testifies In Coronavirus Hearing On 3/11/2020
- President Trump Addresses The Nation About COVID-19 & W/Additional Travel Restriction, WHO Declares COVID-19 A Pandemic
- Listen To The Experts, About COVID-19 or Coronavirus
- What’s Been Done & Need To Be Done To Stop The Spread Of COVID-19
- Update On Coronavirus, COVID-19, 3/10/2020
- Italy Extends Nationwide Quarantine & U.S. Dramatic Market Drop
- Stay Informed Of Updated COVID-19 Info, 3/9/2020
- How & What To Prepare For Emergency Food & Supplies
- Alternatives To Handshake
- Global Town Hall: Coronavirus – Facts & Fear & What To Prep For
- U.S. Senate Homeland Security Committee Meeting On Containing The COVID-19
- Congress Agrees On $8.3 Billion Funding To Combat COVID-19 Or Coronavirus
- How To Prevent The Spread Of COVID-19, Novel Coronavirus
- COVID-19 Is Here In Florida, 2 Confirmed Cases, Gov. DeSantis Lays Out Plan
- First Death In USA Due To COVID-19, In King County, Washington State
- Global Economic Impact Of COVID-19
- Masked Mass Wedding in Philippines
- Thank You, Medecins Sans Frontieres (aka: Doctors Without Borders)
- Difference In Opinion Between Trump Administration & Scientists On COVID-19
- Americans Should Get Ready: It Is Not A Question Of “If” But “When” COVID-19 Will Spread In USA
- Understanding Pandemic Of COVID-19
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- Update Of COVID-19 Or nCoV-2019, As Of Feb. 19, 2020
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- World Health Organization Declares Coronavirus Outbreak An International Emergency
- Wuhan Coronavirus News Update-January 29, 2020
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- What To Do To Prevent 2019 n-Cov (aka: Wuhan Coronavirus) & Help People in Wuhan
- Update on 2019 nCoV (2019 Coronavirus) Global Impact & How You Can Help Wuhan Hospitals Directly
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- Latest Update Of nCoV On 2/10/2020
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