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INSUFFICIENT TESTS: “We’re not able to do the surveillance that we would want to do,” says heads CDC’s lab🧪 task force . Many labs are racing to develop antibody tests, which do not diagnose acute 🦠 cases—but clarifies questions about #SARSCoV2’s spread.
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2) “The world is in the dark about the epidemic’s real scale and speed, because existing tests have limited powers—and testing is far too spotty. “We are underestimating how common this infection is,” cautions Jeremy Farrar, head of the Wellcome Trust.”
3) Viral load even after symptoms disappear: Clemens Wendtner, who has been treating some of the German patients, said that of 4 #COVID19 patients he had been treating for four weeks, 3 were still PCR-positive even though based on symptoms they would have [seemed cleared].
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Eric Feigl-Ding
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Ummm, Hawaii🍍? “In Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, a man in his 60s who recently returned from a trip to Hawaii has tested positive for the coronavirus, the city govt said. He has not visited China recently.” Need more details on this #COVID19 🦠 case. mainichi.jp/english/articl…
2) according to another article, this #COVID19 case was in Hawaii from Jan 28-Feb 8th. Developed a fever 🤒 on Feb 3rd (6 days after arrival). 6 days is sorta in the range of incubation time - he could have brought it to Hawaii... really hard to say. 🤷🏻‍♂️www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/2020…
3) Clarification - the person developed a “cold” on Feb 3rd, and later a 39 Celsius fever on Feb 8th. Google translate misreading.
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Eric Feigl-Ding
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The story of poor Tian Bing has become a quite sad + almost comical saga -basically Mr Bing has been stuck on a Chinese freeway service station for 6+ days like a purgatory because he can’t get to his home nor his work cuz of 🦠 city lockdown. Poor guy 🙁. reuters.com/article/us-chi…
2) Mr Bing is now on his 7th night, and cops offered entry if he is quarantined for 14 days, but cruelly, cops demand he pays 300 RMB/night lodging out of his own pocket, which he can’t. So back to sleeping in his car on highway for 7th night! Sucks! 😞
3) TIAN BING Update: Good new, Mr Bing has now gotten into TaiXing and he won’t have to pay silly 300 yuan/night fee, but still 14 day quarantine. Better than sleeping on a highway! @Rover829 says he sends his thanks to everyone! 🙏 yay for happy endings!
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Eric Feigl-Ding
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Boy oh boy... Still trying to digest this. “14,840 new confirmed cases, almost 10 times reported a day earlier, and new deaths attributable to the contagion rose to 242, more than double on the day” We need to see #COVID19 trendline from new case method.🤔 scmp.com/news/china/soc…
2) So it seems most of the 14.8k new cases - 13.3k are CT confirmed pneumonia without lab🧪 test. I think China must have been pressured to release these since Hubei lab capacity is only 6k/day and couldn’t test all. Is this new definition going forward?🤷🏻‍♂️
3) So Dr @ScottGottliebMD thinks that the bulk of CT diagnosed cases may be somewhat more significant clinical cases. This is important since we want to know if these 13.3k extra cases are mild or severe. Case definition changes always makes stats tricky.
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THREAD: A brief review of Catch-22 when it comes to #Coronavirus and need for more diagnostic screening capability. Hospitals can roll out RT-PCR based test CDC developed. They all have Roche systems to run these tests. The technology is fairly straightforward. Here’s the rub 1/9
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The car is on fire and there’s no driver at the wheel. We are trapped in the belly of this horrible machine and the machine is bleeding to death. The country is collapsing and everyone knows it.
We know things are bad, things are crazy. And so many people right now want to stick their heads in the ground like so many ostriches. They say “I can’t do anything about it, please leave me alone. Let me stay home with my Netflix and weed and alcohol. Leave me alone, please”
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Some great research here by @TheSpeaker2018 on the Polaris Project, CGI & CF. Doing some digging I found more connections.

Joel Charney is on the BOD of Polaris Project.

Prior to joining NRC USA in March 2016, Mr. Charny was the Vice President for Humanitarian Policy and Practice at InterAction, the alliance of U.S.-based relief and development organizations.
He was responsible for leading InterAction’s work on humanitarian response, which involved engaging with the U.S. government, the United Nations.

Ties to the UN. Don't forget all the pedo scandals coming from these UN members.
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