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Here on nearby Long Island cases are popping up all over the place with no known links to other diagnosed cases, including 2 school bus drivers. Despite this,

Here on nearby Long Island cases are popping up all over the place with no known links to other diagnosed cases, including 2 school bus drivers. Despite this, barely anyone is being tested, even those who are symptomatic. This crisis is being terribly mishandled. https://www.fox5ny.com/news/two-long-island-bus-drivers-diagnosed-with-coronavirus https://www.fox5ny.com/news/two-long-island-bus-drivers-diag...

thearn4 7y ago
It's the lack of information and sense that there are no adults in the room among our leadership that is the most frustrating. It worries me more than the virus itself.
- deleted 7y ago
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- pjc50 7y ago
  Self-contradictory instructions and a lack of common sense: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article241046076.html https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article24...
- alexandercrohde 7y ago
  In a way that may be a good thing. I'm personally not very worried about this virus, and I think it does a great job of highlighting what various parties' motives are and efficacies are. (e.g. CDC, Bill Gates, NYC) I'm hopeful change will come out of this.
  - seilrse 7y ago
    You might not be worried, but millions of elderly and otherwise immunocompromised people are. Millions more are worried on their behalf.
taborj 7y ago
I've not been keeping up; what's the obstacle to getting tested? Insurance companies not covering? Hospitals not willing? Patients not going in?
- dforrestwilson 7y ago
  # of test kits. The US can currently test something like 7800 people per day as of yesterday. Some other system constraints to think about are: 1M hospital beds 70k ventilators
  - hangonhn 7y ago
    I don't know if this is still true but according to an article I read a few days ago, the US has the lowest testing rate of any affected country. Experiences of other countries seem to suggest that high testing rate may mitigate the need for measures like lockdowns.
    - throwaway5752 7y ago
      By an order of magnitude: https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-testing-covid-19-tests-per-capita-chart-us-behind-2020-3 https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-testing-covid-19...
      - DyslexicAtheist 7y ago
        CDC also stopped reporting number of tests each day (last week iirc).
      - adventured 7y ago
        That's misleading. The Feds state that they've sent several hundred thousand tests to private labs and hospitals which do not report their figures directly to CDC. They don't know how many have been used at this point (which is bad, but not as bad as them not sending out hundreds of thousands of tests). "Earlier on Tuesday, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said he couldn’t provide the figure. “We don’t know exactly how many because hundreds of thousands of our tests have gone out to private labs and hospitals that currently do not report in to CDC,” he said in a CNN appearance." https://news.yahoo.com/only-5000-americans-have-been-tested-for-the-coronavirus-so-far-151447195.html https://news.yahoo.com/only-5000-americans-have-been-tested-...
empath75 7y ago
It doesn't help that so many people keep downplaying it. It's almost like they have to see hospitals filling up first hand before they worry about it.
r00fus 7y ago
At what point does it become criminally incompetent? What's the endgame here for those who dally while the world burns?
dugditches 7y ago
They used to post the number of tests on the site. They've stopped. https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/health//health-topics/coronavirus.page https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/health//health-topics/coronavi... if you pull up the cached version, they reported 300 tests done as of yesterday morning.
- dillondoyle 7y ago
  Colorado has too. They said "I would assume that with testing ramping up it's no longer productive for the state to keep the number of administered tests count on a website as it will always be outdated."

thearn4 7y ago

It's the lack of information and sense that there are no adults in the room among our leadership that is the most frustrating. It worries me more than the virus itself.

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pjc50 7y ago
Self-contradictory instructions and a lack of common sense: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article241046076.html https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article24...
alexandercrohde 7y ago
In a way that may be a good thing. I'm personally not very worried about this virus, and I think it does a great job of highlighting what various parties' motives are and efficacies are. (e.g. CDC, Bill Gates, NYC) I'm hopeful change will come out of this.
- seilrse 7y ago
  You might not be worried, but millions of elderly and otherwise immunocompromised people are. Millions more are worried on their behalf.

taborj 7y ago

I've not been keeping up; what's the obstacle to getting tested? Insurance companies not covering? Hospitals not willing? Patients not going in?

dforrestwilson 7y ago
# of test kits. The US can currently test something like 7800 people per day as of yesterday. Some other system constraints to think about are: 1M hospital beds 70k ventilators
- hangonhn 7y ago
  I don't know if this is still true but according to an article I read a few days ago, the US has the lowest testing rate of any affected country. Experiences of other countries seem to suggest that high testing rate may mitigate the need for measures like lockdowns.
  - throwaway5752 7y ago
    By an order of magnitude: https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-testing-covid-19-tests-per-capita-chart-us-behind-2020-3 https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-testing-covid-19...
    - DyslexicAtheist 7y ago
      CDC also stopped reporting number of tests each day (last week iirc).
    - adventured 7y ago
      That's misleading. The Feds state that they've sent several hundred thousand tests to private labs and hospitals which do not report their figures directly to CDC. They don't know how many have been used at this point (which is bad, but not as bad as them not sending out hundreds of thousands of tests). "Earlier on Tuesday, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said he couldn’t provide the figure. “We don’t know exactly how many because hundreds of thousands of our tests have gone out to private labs and hospitals that currently do not report in to CDC,” he said in a CNN appearance." https://news.yahoo.com/only-5000-americans-have-been-tested-for-the-coronavirus-so-far-151447195.html https://news.yahoo.com/only-5000-americans-have-been-tested-...

empath75 7y ago

It doesn't help that so many people keep downplaying it. It's almost like they have to see hospitals filling up first hand before they worry about it.

r00fus 7y ago

At what point does it become criminally incompetent? What's the endgame here for those who dally while the world burns?

dugditches 7y ago

They used to post the number of tests on the site. They've stopped. https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/health//health-topics/coronavirus.page https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/health//health-topics/coronavi... if you pull up the cached version, they reported 300 tests done as of yesterday morning.

dillondoyle 7y ago
Colorado has too. They said "I would assume that with testing ramping up it's no longer productive for the state to keep the number of administered tests count on a website as it will always be outdated."