COVID-19

[NTP66]

[Shyster]

COVID-19 May Strike More Cats Than Believed

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/2020091 ... RSS_PUBLIC

[Gaucho]

[eddy]

We had 30 cases on campus the last 2 days. I had to call state police twice last night to break up what appeared to be a rave at 2am. Music,lights, kids walking through backyards. It's getting close to me getting the paint ball gun out again.

[DigitalGypsy66]

We're at 1 student and 1 employee, so that's good.

[grunthy]

30% of the junior and seniors at my wife's school have had it or are in quarantine. They moved their whole office back to virtual for two weeks because the front desk person tested positive. It is burning pretty quick through her school. Wife hasn't gotten it yet.

[grunthy]

She works for a private school that doesn't give a ****. So they'll hit herd immunity at this place...

[NTP66]

We had 30 cases on campus the last 2 days. I had to call state police twice last night to break up what appeared to be a rave at 2am. Music,lights, kids walking through backyards. It's getting close to me getting the paint ball gun out again.

[NTP66]

[meow]

I. Am. Legend.

[King Colby]

Seems like the pause was a pretty common occurrence with phase 3 trials and no cause for concern. Everything is under a microscope since nobody has a frame of reference

[NTP66]

I. Am. Legend.

Shut it, dodint.

[offsides]

Looks like China is going ahead pretty strong with an experimental vaccine. Sure wouldn't mind if it works out, just don't want to be a test subject.

"A Chinese pharmaceutical company has injected hundreds of thousands of people with experimental Covid-19 vaccine"

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-inje ... 1599834029

[MWB]

30% of the junior and seniors at my wife's school have had it or are in quarantine. They moved their whole office back to virtual for two weeks because the front desk person tested positive. It is burning pretty quick through her school. Wife hasn't gotten it yet.

That’s pretty crazy. My daughters school has had 1 reported case so far, but they’re only 25% a day.

[grunthy]

https://m.startribune.com/broad-covid-1 ... 572396572/

A Canadian study this spring underscored his concerns, because researchers for the most part could not grow viral cultures from samples in COVID-19 patients whose positive PCR tests required more than 25 cycles or whose symptoms had occurred more than seven days prior to testing.

The takeaway shouldn’t be to reduce PCR testing or cycle thresholds, though, because all positive cases inform health officials as they conduct contact tracing and try to contain an outbreak, said Dr. Jared Bullard, a lead author and assistant medical director of the Cadham Provincial Laboratory in Winnipeg that conducts COVID-19 testing.

Cycle thresholds vary and are set by manufacturers based on the validated limits by which their tests are accurate.


The state lab uses a CDC-derived test with a threshold of 38, while a test derived at Mayo Clinic has a threshold of 35. Thresholds vary from 40 to 45 for three commercial platforms used by HealthPartners’ lab in Eden Prairie and by the private labs with which the health system has contracts.

A threshold also is just a maximum, Vetter said. Among 300 positive tests over the past three months, the state lab found that roughly 47% required fewer than 30 cycles to find one of two required viral targets in samples, while 21% needed 30 to 35 cycles, and 24% needed 35 to 38 cycles.

[Nuge]

I. Am. Legend.

I was thinking about that movie the other day with all of this vaccine talk. I think I decided that in that scenario, I’d rather be one of those mutant things than Will Smith

[NTP66]

I'll have no issues with a vaccine assuming that the scientific and medical community agrees that it's truly ready. If it's being pushed by any politician while there's pushback from science, it's going to be a hard pass.

[faftorial]

I'll have no issues with a vaccine assuming that the scientific and medical community agrees that it's truly ready. If it's being pushed by any politician while there's pushback from science, it's going to be a hard pass.

[Pavel Bure]

Well getting a Covid test sucks. My mother is positive and she watched one of the kids before finding out. Got my brain poked, now we wait.

[AuthorTony]

Hope it comes back negative and that your mom makes it through without issues.

[NAN]

Well getting a Covid test sucks. My mother is positive and she watched one of the kids before finding out. Got my brain poked, now we wait.

They still doing the pokey brain tests? Where I went they said they were getting rid of those, or at least there will be far fewer.

BTW, best of luck man. Hopefully the symptoms are minimal for your mom, and you guys if you are positive.

[NAN]

I'll have no issues with a vaccine assuming that the scientific and medical community agrees that it's truly ready. If it's being pushed by any politician while there's pushback from science, it's going to be a hard pass.

I'm down with this as well.

[Pavel Bure]

Thanks guys.

[offsides]

Well getting a Covid test sucks. My mother is positive and she watched one of the kids before finding out. Got my brain poked, now we wait.

Sure hope all comes out fine. Was your mother asymptomatic?

[Dickie Dunn]

Best wishes PB.