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Coronavirus
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2020 1:47 pm
by Leisher
Coronavirus
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2020 1:52 pm
by Troy
Yeah, this is a bad plan. Don't put any more people on cruise ship without serious addressing their air filtering systems...
Coronavirus
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2020 1:54 pm
by GORDON
Can you double-get it?
Coronavirus
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2020 2:00 pm
by Troy
GORDON wrote: Can you double-get it?
Dr. Fauci said they assumed not, but said that nobody knows yet. Could be a yearly thing, like certain flu strains.
Coronavirus
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2020 2:18 pm
by TheCatt
Coronavirus
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2020 2:27 pm
by TheCatt
UK shutsdown.
Coronavirus
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2020 2:41 pm
by GORDON
I care not for stats from around the world. Most countries aren't comparable to US facilities. When I see hospitals around the USA overflowing with patients, not just in climate controlled overflow tents, but actually dying on the curb, then I will admit to being wrong.
Coronavirus
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2020 3:55 pm
by TheCatt
Remdesivir seems to be working, but it's early, data is still limited. Sure hope they can make gallons of that stuff quickly.
Coronavirus
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2020 5:25 pm
by TheCatt
Government has failed to provide enough tests, so who knows what's going on
Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak said they still don’t know the full extent of the danger the state is facing from coronavirus because they still don’t have enough testing kits.
“The Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health received a notice yesterday that all of Nevada’s requests to the federal government [for test kits] are on an indefinite backlog without any estimate of a timeline for delivery,” he said at a news conference Friday.
Sisolak said the state has made “countless calls” to ask and “even beg” for more testing materials, but the government has no guidance for when the backlog will be cleared.
In the meantime, Sisolak is responding with a new emergency order taking previous guidance for non-essential businesses to close, and now making it mandatory.
Nevada closing.
Coronavirus
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2020 5:48 pm
by Leisher
Illinois and Connecticut are now closed.
Coronavirus
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2020 6:07 pm
by Leisher
Trump still doesn't think a national lockdown is needed despite his own expert saying NY and CA are doing the right thing, literally, a few minutes before Trump spoke.
Coronavirus
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2020 6:10 pm
by Leisher
Coronavirus
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2020 6:29 pm
by thibodeaux
Why are we still waiting on The Government to produce these tests? WTF. In WWII we had jukebox manufacturers making guns. Ford Motor Co could crank out a GODDAMN HEAVY BOMBER in less than an houir. I bet there's a dozen labs in RTP alone that could produce these tests.
SRSLY WTF
Coronavirus
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2020 6:58 pm
by TheCatt
thibodeaux wrote:
Why are we still waiting on The Government to produce these tests? WTF. In WWII we had jukebox manufacturers making guns. Ford Motor Co could crank out a GODDAMN HEAVY BOMBER in less than an houir. I bet there's a dozen labs in RTP alone that could produce these tests.
SRSLY WTF
Well, then, where are those tests?
Coronavirus
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2020 7:13 pm
by thibodeaux
That's what I'm saying: why aren't companies making them? Is it regulations? Patent/copyright?
Coronavirus
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2020 7:32 pm
by Troy
Lack of reagents I think. The specific part that is needed appears to be the kits that extract RNA from the virus sample. My old biotech company makes them. The "Walmart" like company out there that makes them is Qiagen. A lot of the chemicals were made in China, or made with help from China, even at our Georgia lab, 10 years ago. The owner was Chinese.
There are some domestic companies that do it too - Promega. My old company was called "Omega Bio-tek". Their twitter says they are cranking extraction kits out, especially those that are used in high-throughput ThermoFisher instruments. You could probably cannibalize all the other kits they make to make more. They are doing that, I believe.
Here is the protocol and product manual:
https://ensur.omegabio.com/ensur/conten ... 67.4713676
Coronavirus
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2020 7:39 pm
by TheCatt
thibodeaux wrote: That's what I'm saying: why aren't companies making them? Is it regulations? Patent/copyright?
I feel like we had longer to prepare for ww2 before hitting your milestones.
Coronavirus
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2020 8:34 pm
by TheCatt
NY hospitals are starting to get overwhelmed and running out of ICU beds.
Large number of the sick are under 50
Coronavirus
Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2020 8:46 am
by TheCatt
Remember when Musk rushed to build an impractical sub for the soccer team rescue that no one wanted? But he's slow-playing this?
Coronavirus
Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2020 6:08 pm
by Leisher