The Coronavirus, not the beer

[msstate7]

Mississippi gets tired of having to always lead the way in this country. The rest of you need to pick it up...

Only state with an Rt value under 1.

https://rt.live/

[Krgrecw]

Mississippi gets tired of having to always lead the way in this country. The rest of you need to pick it up...

Only state with an Rt value under 1.

https://rt.live/

Mississippi is going to love it once The dems persuade Puerto Rico to join statehood

[sturg33]

[goldfly]

[57Brave]

Dolly ****ing Parton

[msstate7]

Dolly ****ing Parton

That's the same as 1000 deathes per million. Here's your current leaderboard...
1. NJ 1885
2. NY 1751
3. Mass 1503
4. Conn 1338
5. Louisiana 1324
6. RI 1206
7. Miss 1203
8. ND 1009

Everyone else under 1000

[thethe]

And there it is. Masks don’t work as he have been saying for a while.

[sturg33]

Guess we know why they were 4 months late releasing results.

Will our government listen to the science?

Hahahahahahahahahahaha good one, sturg

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817

[sturg33]

Whoa crazy the experts were wrong again

[thethe]

Guess we know why they were 4 months late releasing results.

Will our government listen to the science?

Hahahahahahahahahahaha good one, sturg

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817

Absolute absurdity that the benevolent scientific community would ever play politics with public health.

[Runnin]

Whoa crazy the experts were wrong again

Do you think people are going to get their vaccines this year?

[nsacpi]

People who think they were exposed to the coronavirus face a number of logistical obstacles in the United States to get tested: Many tests take days to produce results, require leaving quarantine to visit a medical professional, or — most likely — both.

That could change with Lucira Health’s “All-In-One” test kit, which on Tuesday became the first rapid, at-home test authorized by the Food and Drug Administration.

The California biotechnology company’s single-use home test kit, which it expects to sell for less than $50, requires a prescription from a doctor. As winter approaches and infections have surged in most states, the at-home test will allow people who are possibly infected to not have to go into clinics or hospitals to get tested, potentially spreading a virus that has already killed more than 247,000 people in the United States.

Unlike rapid antigen tests, which experts warn can be unreliable, the kit will test genetic material in a method similar to the laboratory tests that have become the standard for detecting the virus.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...rus-covid-fda/

[msstate7]

People who think they were exposed to the coronavirus face a number of logistical obstacles in the United States to get tested: Many tests take days to produce results, require leaving quarantine to visit a medical professional, or — most likely — both.

That could change with Lucira Health’s “All-In-One” test kit, which on Tuesday became the first rapid, at-home test authorized by the Food and Drug Administration.

The California biotechnology company’s single-use home test kit, which it expects to sell for less than $50, requires a prescription from a doctor. As winter approaches and infections have surged in most states, the at-home test will allow people who are possibly infected to not have to go into clinics or hospitals to get tested, potentially spreading a virus that has already killed more than 247,000 people in the United States.

Unlike rapid antigen tests, which experts warn can be unreliable, the kit will test genetic material in a method similar to the laboratory tests that have become the standard for detecting the virus.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...rus-covid-fda/

What's the benefit of a home test if you need a prescription?

[sturg33]

No comment on the Danish study.

I'm shocked

[nsacpi]

What's the benefit of a home test if you need a prescription?

It is not the ideal. But there are a lot of companies that are working to bring some version of this to market. I think we missed an opportunity by not making high frequency testing a bigger part of the national strategy. The federal government could have incentivized it in the same way it incentivized vaccine development. High frequency testing all along has offered our best opportunity for avoiding having to choose between lives and the economy. But we never grasped it.

[Dalyn]

Another outbreak at my job. I wasn't exposed this time, at least.

[nsacpi]

No comment on the Danish study.

I'm shocked

I took a quick look. Based on that my impression is the study evaluated how much protection wearing a mask offers to the person wearing a mask. The argument for mask wearing rests on preventing spread by the person wearing the mask.

[thethe]

I took a quick look. Based on that my impression is the study evaluated how much protection wearing a mask offers to the person wearing a mask. The argument for mask wearing rests on preventing spread by the person wearing the mask.

And since the particles are smaller than the cloth surgical masks it provide basically no prevention

Obvious to anyone and it has been for a while.

[thethe]

Figure you’ll just post it here nsacpi.

We have discussed this. Maybe mask wearing is effective for symptomatic people. I’ve said that from the beginning.

Makes no sense to make asymptomatic people wear masks.

[nsacpi]

And since the particles are smaller than the cloth surgical masks it provide basically no prevention

Obvious to anyone and it has been for a while.

Price: Many people argue that cloth masks can’t be effective because they can’t filter out viral particles, which are extremely tiny. But, as Larry explained, most of these particles leave the mouth and nose in much larger droplets that become smaller through evaporation as they move away from the body. Trapping droplets with the mask means not nearly as many viral particles escape. So, when all parties in a gathering are wearing well-constructed, well-fitting masks, it provides an extra layer of safety for everyone. If two people are wearing masks, the viral particles can travel about 5 feet away from each individual. When an infected person is not wearing a mask, those particles can floatthrough the air 30 feet or more and stay alive for up to 30 hours.

http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...uidelines.html