John Mixon, 86, a retired law professor, said he waited nearly two hours at Kennedy International Airport after arriving from Amman, Jordan, missing his connecting flight to Houston because of the slow screening process.Mr. Mixon said he and his wife were shuffled into a packed room with more than 100 others for hours before a few C.D.C. officials came in and asked everyone if they had been to China or Italy. Only one man raised his hand, and everyone else was told they could leave after getting their temperatures taken, Mr. Mixon said.
Mr. Mixon said he and his wife were shuffled into a packed room with more than 100 others for hours before a few C.D.C. officials came in and asked everyone if they had been to China or Italy. Only one man raised his hand, and everyone else was told they could leave after getting their temperatures taken, Mr. Mixon said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/15/world/coronavirus-news.html
i guess...i'm glad they're trying to some sort of screening now...?
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 15 March 2020 05:50 (four years ago) link
not looking forward to flying home from Querétaro through Houston on Monday
― Dan S, Sunday, 15 March 2020 05:55 (four years ago) link
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― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, 15 March 2020 08:01 (four years ago) link
mvp
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 15 March 2020 09:17 (four years ago) link
Florida's in trip digits: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article241206241.html
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Sunday, 15 March 2020 09:56 (four years ago) link
Outbreak Seine-Saint-Denis styleMême certains dealers du département semblent désormais prendre leurs précautions face à leurs nombreux clients.« A la cité, ils jettent les barrettes de shit aux clients et il faut laisser l'argent par terre », jurait hier un client rencontré dans un café à Pantin.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Sunday, 15 March 2020 11:21 (four years ago) link
Joke's on them, in Canada you can order weed online legally, 100% human contact-free.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Sunday, 15 March 2020 12:19 (four years ago) link
There was plenty of panic buying of ice in the alley behind woolies this afternoon. However our local dealers don’t seem to have adopted any new protocols.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 15 March 2020 12:22 (four years ago) link
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3075249/coronavirus-donald-trump-trying-poach-german-scientists-working
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 15 March 2020 13:28 (four years ago) link
Teaneck NJ told to self-quarantine (just across the bridge from NYC)
https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/bergen/teaneck/2020/03/14/coronavirus-nj-teaneck-mayor-asks-all-residents-self-quarantine/5051974002/
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 15 March 2020 13:55 (four years ago) link
Um, if you are only allowed to go out for food and necessary supplies, who do you get that food and those supplies from?
― Lipstick Traces (on a Cigarette Alone) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 15 March 2020 13:58 (four years ago) link
I guess maybe you can go over to the next town over, if it isn’t quarantined (yet)
― Lipstick Traces (on a Cigarette Alone) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 15 March 2020 14:00 (four years ago) link
Maybe they expect workers to quarantine themselves in their shops and restaurants?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 15 March 2020 14:07 (four years ago) link
quite an expectation
Jerseyans will drive to the next town til they keel over
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 15 March 2020 14:31 (four years ago) link
Apparently there were just over 3700 people on the Diamond Princess which is about as close to a petri dish as you can get. Only 696 people have been confirmed with the virus and seven of them have died.
In those conditions so far that's an infection rate of around 18% and a mortality rate of around 1% with a heavily ageing population.
I've no idea if the number of cases among those people is continuing to climb and how quickly but that's actually faintly reassuring?
― Matt DC, Sunday, 15 March 2020 16:04 (four years ago) link
so, Fauci seems like he's doing an ok job with this, all things considered. Is he like the only competent person in the administration?
― akm, Sunday, 15 March 2020 16:18 (four years ago) link
He's amazing
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Sunday, 15 March 2020 16:18 (four years ago) link
i fear he's gonna have a derogatory nickname by the time this is all over, sadly, but yes it's been nice to have one person on-stage who has command of the facts
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 15 March 2020 16:20 (four years ago) link
Speaking as a lifelong NJ resident, we don't really need Teaneck for anything. The Isley Brothers did all their good work in the 70s.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 15 March 2020 16:24 (four years ago) link
A friend of my parents is a nurse in E Tennessee. He says there are no tests available yet in primary care settings in TN. He says only the Dept of Health will do them and even then you basically have to be dying to get one. He expects that to change in the next week.
He sent this JAMA video. A doctor tells the story about what happened in Lombardy, right from the beginning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKS1pahoPRU
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 15 March 2020 16:26 (four years ago) link
fauci is a boss, long been an admirer
― gbx, Sunday, 15 March 2020 16:35 (four years ago) link
Speaking as a lifelong NJ resident, we don't really need Teaneck for anything. The Isley Brothers did all their good work in the 70s.― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, March 15, 2020 12:24 PM (eighteen minutes ago)
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, March 15, 2020 12:24 PM (eighteen minutes ago)
― Lipstick Traces (on a Cigarette Alone) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 15 March 2020 16:46 (four years ago) link
Very simple but effective animated models here to see how social distancing and isolation slows and flattens down the curve.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/corona-simulator/
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Sunday, 15 March 2020 16:47 (four years ago) link
In Holland: Schools, pubs, restaurants, sports- and fitness, swimming pools, sports. All closed/shut down for 3 weeks.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 15 March 2020 16:50 (four years ago) link
I did a bunch of work for NIH in the 90s; I've always liked Fauci (then at NIAID). He's only "in the administration" by accident; his stature is such that he will always be at or near the top of his field, no matter who the president is.
― love will keep us apart (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 15 March 2020 16:54 (four years ago) link
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― lag∞n, Sunday, 15 March 2020 17:07 (four years ago) link
It sounds like the Governor of NY is ... not happy that people are congregating at bars right now.
― Ainsley James Gryffyd Lowbeer Holdsworth (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 15 March 2020 17:11 (four years ago) link
Speaking as a lifelong NJ resident
This explains a lot
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 15 March 2020 17:17 (four years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/15/nyregion/coronavirus-new-york-update.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage
― Ainsley James Gryffyd Lowbeer Holdsworth (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 15 March 2020 17:34 (four years ago) link
Italy at 1809 deaths, 24 747 cases. 7.3%. Keep expecting that CFR to fall.
― Sanpaku, Sunday, 15 March 2020 17:35 (four years ago) link
If you’re looking for a textbook example of panoptic asymmetry, here it is: A Big Brother season in Germany where the participants have not been told about corona and won’t be unless someone gets sick. It’s unbearably literal. https://t.co/OfvSjHX2ex— Yuliya Komska (@ykomska) March 14, 2020
― ymo sumac (NickB), Sunday, 15 March 2020 17:43 (four years ago) link
basically have to be dying to get one. He expects that to change in the next week.
I'm starting to think that this change will coincide with Infrastructure Week.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 15 March 2020 17:50 (four years ago) link
All pubs in Ireland to close until the end of the month. End of days
― groovypanda, Sunday, 15 March 2020 18:07 (four years ago) link
That's it, we're doomed.
― God gave toilets rolls to you, gave toilet rolls to you (Tom D.), Sunday, 15 March 2020 18:29 (four years ago) link
Wife’s cousin is in ICU now in AZ. Being tested for it. Has a pulmonary infection. He’s in his fifties.
― omar little, Sunday, 15 March 2020 18:32 (four years ago) link
So shocking how quickly this has become a story about people we know and love. Horrible news, hoping for the best outcome omar
― ymo sumac (NickB), Sunday, 15 March 2020 18:43 (four years ago) link
From the NYT:
"The coronavirus continued its assault on Italy, the hardest hit country outside of China, with officials on Sunday reporting the number of deaths rose to 1,809 — a 25 percent increase over the day before and the largest one-day uptick yet of any country.
The 368 deaths Italy reported exceeds the highest single-day number China reported at the height of its outbreak. China’s highest daily toll was on Feb. 13, when the country reported 254 new deaths, according to the World Health Organization."
― Ainsley James Gryffyd Lowbeer Holdsworth (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 15 March 2020 19:37 (four years ago) link
Jesus, DeWine just said all Ohio restaurants and bars will close at 9:00 tonight.
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 15 March 2020 19:43 (four years ago) link
Wish all other states would follow suit.
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 15 March 2020 19:49 (four years ago) link
Grim milestone: according to the Johns Hopkins global tracker, there are now more COVID-19 cases in the rest of the world than in China. They have 81k cases in a population of 1.45 billion. Italy has 21k cases in a population of 60 million.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 15 March 2020 19:59 (four years ago) link
Wishing continued strength to all the doctors, nurses and other medical caregivers on the front line of this all around the world. Nurses especially. They are almost all amazing people, ime.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 15 March 2020 20:04 (four years ago) link
Sleeve, iirc my work OH's guidance said two weeks after you stop exhibiting symptoms, but that if the cough is the only remaining symptom and it's been two weeks you can stop, as it can persist for several weeks after you stop being infectious
I double checked this and was actually one week for the record:
Staff return to work criteria Staff who have been symptomatic can return to work: on Day 8 after the onset of symptoms if clinical improvement has occurred and they have been afebrile (without fever) for 2 days. If a cough is the only persistent symptom on Day 8 the staff member can return to work (post-viral cough is known to persist for several weeks in some cases) Section 2
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Sunday, 15 March 2020 20:14 (four years ago) link
thx again >3
― sleeve, Sunday, 15 March 2020 20:41 (four years ago) link
All bars and restaurants in Illinois to close for two weeks.
― Jeff, Sunday, 15 March 2020 20:53 (four years ago) link
Any reports of hysteria over this beyond the panic buying? How long before people legitimately flip out?
― akm, Sunday, 15 March 2020 20:59 (four years ago) link
Does anyone know what's likely to happen to global shipping over the next few weeks? Like seriously what happens if ships carrying all kinds of vital things (food, commodities, medicine, whatever) from certain countries aren't allowed to dock?
― Matt DC, Sunday, 15 March 2020 21:10 (four years ago) link
Have we even seen the ripple effect yet from Chinese manufacturing slowing down radically while major regions of the country were on lockdown?
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 15 March 2020 21:14 (four years ago) link
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/global-shipping-holds-its-breath-as-the-coronavirus-continues-to-spread/
(as i literally just read a tweet claiming you can tell yr not infected if you can hold yr breath and comfortably count to ten this headline appealed to me, even tho the article is a bit dated)
― mark s, Sunday, 15 March 2020 21:15 (four years ago) link
as someone who spent one whole shift working at the docks in 1990-something, my expert opinion is that the ship could dock for unloading but nobody allowed to disembark. all containers are lifted off by crane anyway, only risk is if virus can survive on impermeable surfaces for extended periods xps
― ymo sumac (NickB), Sunday, 15 March 2020 21:18 (four years ago) link
also it apparently takes six to eight days to cross the atlantic in a boat so that time would serve as some sort of control measure in itself
― ymo sumac (NickB), Sunday, 15 March 2020 21:24 (four years ago) link