Labs in the US Will Start Looking For the New Coronavirus This Week (theverge.com) 64
Six public health labs in the US plan to start monitoring the general population for the new coronavirus this week. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that the risk of the virus still remains low for the general population. But activating the disease surveillance network will allow the CDC and other public health officials to find any undetected virus circulating through the country. From a report: "It's important because right now, all the efforts are focused on people who have a direct link to China, or a direct link to lab-confirmed cases. There's no system in place to detect low-level transmission that might be under the radar," says Edward Belongia, the director of the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Population Health at the Marshfield Clinic Research Institute. The six labs -- in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, and New York City -- are already part of the nationwide influenza surveillance network, and they conduct regular monitoring of all types of viruses. At the labs, samples from sick people are tested for various pathogens, creating a big-picture look at how much various diseases are spreading through the community. Surveillance hasn't started yet, in part because of problems with the test for the novel coronavirus developed by the CDC. The test that will be used for surveillance that was designed to diagnose people who have symptoms of the illness caused by the virus called COVID-19. It was distributed to public health labs around the country last week, but the majority of the labs had trouble running it. The CDC says this often happens during the rollout of a new test, but it has not specified what the reasons for the errors are.
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Stay in your houses (Score:1)
The Amazon drone robot will be visiting shortly to gather a blood sample for testing.
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If the Amazon drone is manufactuered to look like a fembot AND a semen sample is sufficient... then... maybe.
Re: Stay in your houses (Score:1)
A larger tissue sample may be needed. Do not be alarmed by the rotating cutting mechanism.
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LOL. "level 4 biolab". Nah, I think it was a "level 3", or maybe "level 6". I love how crackpots always start out with "We already know". Yeah, right.
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Sure. I don't see any issue with the fact that the lab exists.
But not sure how you nutters make the instant leap to "ipso facto we know it was bioengineered". You're missing a few layers of actual evidence there, Kooky McGee...
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Exactly. You have to claim the most ridiculous part of the story is axiomatic or "established", otherwise, you couldn't justify the rest of it.
I have listened to a lot of cranks over the years, I have to admit, they fascinate me, they possess some remarkable skills in some cases, despite the batshit crazy.
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TRY AGAIN, RETARD.
It's a level 4 biolab. The virus originated from there. It's literally across the street from the public market they tried to pin it on.
Re:State manufactured plague (Score:5, Insightful)
What we already know is that the virus samples from the early patients are genetically identical to a coronavirus found in bats, and those patients had been at a marketplace where they sell live bats. Previous coronavirus outbreaks like SARS and MERS also originated in bats. It requires a real stretch of imagination to insert a bioweapon lab between these connections and Occam's razor.
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Wrong.
The biolab across the street had bats, and used them in testing, and a worker there was bitten by a bat (also pissed on by a bat previously).
It has nothing to do with the public market.
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Well, yeah, both Youtube and InfoWar confirmed it.
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Brietbart concurs, so there's 3 totally believable 'sources'.
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The source for this is speculation from the New York Post, Washington Examiner, and the Daily Mail, based on the fact that the Wuhan Institute for Virology was the first to isolate and genetically sequence the COVID-19 virus.
The Institute, founded in 1956, happens to run China's sole civilian BSL-4 research facility. Having level four facility is not necessarily sinister; the US has fifteen of them, six of which are privately operated.
It seems like a remarkable coincidence that this virus emerged in the ci
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"The source for this is speculation from the New York Post, Washington Examiner, and the Daily Mail,"
You forgot the National Enquirer.
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"The source for this is speculation from the New York Post, Washington Examiner, and the Daily Mail,"
You forgot the National Enquirer.
You forgot Slashdot.
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The Coronavirus was manufactured by China as part of WMD research and it's virulance is not a fluke... it was programmmed in and we should just all thank our lucky asses that it wasn't mixed with a strain that had 100% mortality
I'll play your "Pass the Story" game, it'll be fun! My addition: The U.S. is in on the scheme, having reduced funding for, or closed up shop in several Agency departments that conducted, in part, preparations for pandemics. This is meant to reduce the population, per the Georgia Guidestones.
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In addition, the U.S. government is controlled by aliens and they are trying to clear out the Earth for repopulation.
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Again, everyone misses the obvious, I pity you.
REPTILIANS!!
Wrongo (Score:3, Informative)
The test that will be used for surveillance that was designed to diagnose people who have symptoms of the illness caused by the virus called COVID-19.
Beyond not being an actual sentence, the DISEASE is COVID-19. The virus is "Coronavirus", "the coronavirus", or "nCoV" or "2019-nCoV" or similar.
COVID-19 is a a shitty WHO hackronym for "Coronavirus Disease, 2019".
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Go check it for yourself, or kill yourself.
I get that this is a touchy topic, but goddamn things are escalating quickly around here.
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You seem upset
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No, Coronavirus is the family of viruses named do to their crown like appearance., Covid 19 is a strain, the common cold is another. GO DO FUCKING RESEARCH BEFORE YOU MAKE IDIOTIC CLAIMS!
The common cold is a collection of symptoms. There isn't a common cold virus.
Have a clue before swearing at people in all caps...
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FIY, the virus was renamed "Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2" (SARS-CoV-2), from 2019-nCoV, which was a placeholder name.
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Yes. They classified it as such.
Most people know it as "the coronavirus" (as in, the one that's going around now), or the novel (new) coronavirus, or nCoV, or nCoV-2019, etc.
nCoV-2019 and similar are the original, specific names for this virus. A new specific name doesn't change that. And claiming COVID-19 is the name of the virus is just completely incorrect. It's like mixing up AIDS and HIV.
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Coronavirus is a group, COVID-19 is a specific member of the group
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"Apropos of nothing but was the virus name changed because a certain Mexican beer company objected to the association?"
There is no bad publicity.
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Only Six? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Only Six? (Score:4, Insightful)
It's a start and it's a reasonable start - these things have to ramp up.
Thankfully companies have been researching China alternatives for the last 18 months as the US has been curtailing dependence upon Chinese manufacturing.
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Whooosh! Or should I say, "Woof"?
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"not automatically keep the reigns of power"
LOL
I think you mean 'reins of power'
as in the things you pull on to control a horse..
A king reigns , but the Donald wasn't elected King (yet)
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Holi is an idiot. He thinks "COVID-19" is the name of the virus.
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About zero.
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You may disagree with Trump on policy (I certainly do) but he's not an existential threat to the US. He's just another president. Dislike his personality. Fine. But this "oh the end of the world is here sh!t" is boring.
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You may disagree with Trump on policy (I certainly do) but he's not an existential threat to the US. He's just another president.
He actually is. He's dismantling what is the US - the state institutions, the intelligence services and the law enforcement.
None of them are enshrined in the constitution (Score:2)
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They are just agencies they can come and go.
No, they really do not. Once you destroy a functioning agency it's very hard for it to come back. The institutional knowledge will be lost and competent people will scatter.
And DHS is not relevant here, it was just basically an amalgamation of renamed departments that retained their previous jobs.
Upcoming PSA (Score:2)
whut (Score:2)
"Labs in the US Will Start Looking For the New Coronavirus This Week"
If they're looking for it, I know a few countries where they can find it.