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California virus-fighting efforts hampered by data delays:
California has stopped removing or adding to a list of counties facing more restrictions on businesses and schools as it tries to resolve a technical problem with the state's coronavirus testing database, health officials said Wednesday.
The state has recorded a highest-in-the-nation 525,000 positive tests. But California health officials say the true number is even higher. They don't know how much so until they can add backlogged testing data and fix the problem with the California Reportable Disease Information Exchange, also known as CalREDIE.
The incomplete data in the nation's most populous state has hampered public health officials' ability to follow up with those who test positive and contact people who have been around them to limit the spread.
"Back in February and March when we didn't have enough testing, I would say we felt blind," said Dr. Sara Cody, Santa Clara County's public health director. "I would say now we're back to feeling blind. We don't know how the epidemic is trending."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2020, @07:13PM (2 children)
far right. Geeze what lies have you been reading. Step out of your bubble. You have built a world of hate. Those are your fellow Americans.
So I see the new narrative is the tests are useless. What the 'far right' have been saying for months now. The numbers are lies. It was painfully obvious. But now it is 'holy hell the tests are off by 4x. Ruuun for the hills!
You are too blind to see that would be *GOOD* news. That means this thing is not as bad as made out to be. It means most of us have it or have had it and did not notice. Or do we need to lock down further? Perhaps we can have magic robots deliver food from the central commissary also make sure you only take your ration. Perhaps we can do like in Cuba and North Korea and the Soviet Union and turn off peoples electricity and water when they do not agree with you politically. Oh wait LA did just that.
You are being told lies to manipulate you they use fear and hate to do it. The CDC is currently reviewing all the cases of death. Nearly 1/4th of the reported numbers were from other causes of people who also tested positive. You have a 80% chance of dying within 6 months of entering a nursing home. That is because usually by the time you are going to a nursing home it is not good. You can not take care of yourself. Anyone who has had to put a parent into one of these places can tell you that. Huge swaths of those numbers were reported as covid. HCQ is effective against SARS but not covid. That would be a *very* interesting discovery as they are very closely related genome wise! But instead we are to wait for this magic cure. Sometime next year. If HCQ is effective say 1% of the time. Why do we not let people take it under prescribed care? That would be 1% less death and suffering. Yet we wait to cling to a test where the doctors intentionally overdosed their patients to say HCQ is bad. In my eyes that would be evil.
You have this magic boogie man of the 'alt right' in your head that does not exist. The DNC are the fascists. They are the ones who want you locked up and controlled. You personally are letting them do it to you. You then go on to preach the good word that other should be cool with that. They are not cool with you stripping them of their freedom of choice. They are not cool with you stripping them of their voice on the internet. They are not cool with you want them dead and snickering about it. Yes you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2020, @08:07PM
We just DON'T KNOW!!1! Are you going to vote for Biden, or not?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2020, @08:16PM
The MSM and Democrat states are going by the line that "HCQ does not treat Covid-19!". But if it is useful for improving the general condition and prognosis of people with Covid-19 pneumonia complications, we should be encouraging the use of it. Regular treatment protocols appear to be of high mortality risk anyway.
In any case, we should not set up political barriers for physicians making a professional decision to provide it to a patient off-label.