Official OSA COVID-19/Corona Virus Thread

[CHenry]

It would seem that many have forgotten how their mother would always tell us to cover you mouth when you sneeze, cough, yawn, etc. The spreading of germs is not something new, it is common courtesy and concern for those around us. We seem to have forgotten that concept while declaring "they can't tell me what to do, I have rights".

I dont see people not covering to cough or sneeze. I sometimes have my hands full and and cough or sneez comes on so instead of covering, I turn my head away from any persons near me as welll as aim it at the gound.

 

[DavidMcmillan]

You are a model citizen.

 

[cktad]

It appears the CDC has been lacking in investigating when the Carona virus first appeared in the US.
The first confirmed coronavirus case in the U.S. was reported on Jan. 19 in a Washington man after returning from Wuhan, China, where the first outbreak of COVID-19 occurred.

Now, data from a new government study paints a different picture — the coronavirus may have been silently spreading in America as early as December 2019.
Researchers with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention collected 7,389 blood samples from routine donations to the American Red Cross between Dec. 13, 2019 and Jan. 17, 2020. (bolding is mine)

Of the samples, 106 contained coronavirus antibodies, suggesting those individuals’ immune systems battled COVID-19 at some point.

A total of 39 donations carrying coronavirus antibodies came from residents in the western states of California, Oregon and Washington and 67 samples from the more eastern states of Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Rhode Island and Wisconsin.
The study, published Monday in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, adds to growing evidence that the coronavirus had been spreading right under our noses long before testing could confirm it.

“The presence of these serum antibodies indicate that isolated SARS-CoV-2 infections may have occurred in the western portion of the United States earlier than previously recognized or that a small portion of the population may have pre-existing antibodies that bind SARS-CoV-2,” the study reads.

However, the researchers say “widespread community transmission was not likely until late February.”

Some of these early infections may have gone unnoticed because patients with mild or asymptomatic cases may not have sought medical care at the time, the researchers explain in the study. Sick patients with symptoms who did visit a doctor may not have had a respiratory sample collected, so appropriate testing may not have been conducted.

But the researchers wonder if the detection of antibodies in these patient samples really does indicate a past coronavirus infection, and not of another pathogen in the coronavirus family, such as the common cold.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article247530705.html

This brings up several questions. If the CDC had these samples in hand in 2019 and knew it was spreading, why is the official date of the "first case" said to be in January?
Why is that information they had just now coming out?

August 2019 for China and Sept 2019 for Italy.

 

[CHenry]

You are a model citizen.

Are you being facetious

 

[DavidMcmillan]

Only you can answer that.

 

[C_Hallbert]

yes and how many will it kill at first?

LMAO!


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[ConstitutionCowboy]

I wonder ... Is this Covid vaccine like the one for shingles? If you take the shingles vaccine while it is active, it does no good so I've been told. If you have the Covid, will taking the vaccine make it worse?

Woody

 

[Aries]

I wonder ... Is this Covid vaccine like the one for shingles? If you take the shingles vaccine while it is active, it does no good so I've been told. If you have the Covid, will taking the vaccine make it worse?

Woody

I think the same is true for the flu vaccine... so I've wondered that myself.

 

[Okie4570]

I'm AB+ so they're after my platelets and plasma as often as I can donate, every two to three weeks. Negative antibodies every time since March but this last Wednesday donation came back positive, so I guess sometime in the last three weeks I had it. Curious to see if the next one is positive or if it was a false positive. I have been exposed three times over the last month.

 

[CHenry]

LMAO!


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somthing funny bout that?