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PA has done the same

The entire country is going to be on lock down soon.

Next will be grounding domestic flights.

I think the suggestions to limit interaction have failed .. and the curve has not been flattened enough (or at all)

Closing essentially all entertainment/activity options is another step in quarantining everyone.

Much too soon to tell. Save it for the Gameday threads, man.

save what?

j/c...

We're doomed.

lol I’ve never said we’re doomed at all? Maybe you’re confusing me with somebody else in this thread. It’s all good!

which the scary part is, we are on the Italy side of things right now with testing. . .

j/c...

Just leave the lakes open so I can go fishing, by myself.

stay safe everyone. please stay safe.

whatever we have all said to each other, from heated arguments to placing some on ignore to whatever, none of that crap matters.

take care of yourself, your family, and your assets. just stay safe.

Even me? (hey, I'm down to only 1 person on ignore now)


Haven't been shopping in a while. Stopped at a local dollar store to get food for my cat. I won't say his name. Decided to check out the toilet paper aisle, not that we need any, just to see if there WAS any. Nope. Canned food sections full as can be, just, no t.p.

The good news: I have enough Natty Light to last 2 weeks.

The bad news: I have enough Natty Light to last 2 weeks.

So, at least 1 factory around here has gone to this: Taking the temperature of every employee prior to work, and doing so again later in the day.

Yes, even you.

I don’t give a damn what was said between us, I never want anything bad to happen to you or your family, or anybody else’s.

I’ve heard of this done in a few places here as well

It's better than nothing, but it's also kinda pointless because it won't do anything for detecting asymptomatic carriers.

The fraction of carriers who are asymptomatic (and the R0 of asymptomatic carriers) is by far the biggest uncertainty in how this all plays out.

Whatever is in the water in Montenegro and West Virginia needs to start being researched HEAVILY.

Still no cases in either.

Almost 20,000 cases in the last 24 hours, deaths are over 7,000. I can't recall, but I feel like we just hit 6,000 yesterday.
Things are definitely accelerating.

Ireland currently has 169 cases.
The Irish PM expects them to have 15,000 by the end of March.


British actor Idris Elba tests positive

The Taj Majal is closed.
In case it wasn't mentioned, Canada has closed their borders.


Italy virus deaths surpass 2,000
Italy has reported 349 new deaths, taking its total since last month to 2,158.

They just topped 1,000 on Thursday.

Italy now has 27,980 infections, compared to 15,113 four days ago.

Afghan patients break out of quarantine
Dozens of Afghan patients held in isolation, including at least one confirmed to have the coronavirus, escaped from a quarantine facility in western Afghanistan after breaking windows and attacking hospital staff, officials said.

Dr. Abdul Hakim Tamana, head of the health department of Herat province, said the 38 people who escaped had all recently returned from Iran.

The EU is proposing a non-essential entry ban to the union.

UK PM tells Britons to stop non-essential contact

Iraq suspends flights at domestic airports

Russia bans entry of foreign nationals until May


France's Macron orders strict restrictions on movement
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced strict reductions in movement starting from midday (11:00 GMT) on Tuesday, for at least 15 days, saying "we are at war". In a televised address to the nation, Macron said people should stay at home and only go out for essential activities. He said that anyone flouting the restrictions would be punished.

Same to you swish

j/c...

This is absurd...

So dumb.

Yep.

This america. A bunch of people who will do the complete opposite of what is advised, because “rebels”.

Wait didn't people of color do the complete opposite of what they were advised to do many, many years ago?

Someone should start a thread on what city in what state has products on the shelves, and not just toilet paper.

Tomorrow I think the Govoner is going to outlaw dancing! #Footloose

uh What state were you in actually? Curious? They have canned food there?

What are you talking about

Ohio.

Canned tuna, chicken, soups of every kind, etc. Seems people are only concerned with t.p.

I am talking about the government doing a bunch of assinine things just like they did back in the day.

Please. Give examples. I’m confused as to how you’re clearly trying to make unrelated correlations to a freaking virus.

Edit: post in the other other thread so we can keep this informative.

AP Exclusive: Coronavirus vaccine test opens with 1st doses
https://apnews.com/76b614811eef32955180c8260188bc24

EATTLE (AP) — U.S. researchers gave the first shots in a first test of an experimental coronavirus vaccine Monday, leading off a worldwide hunt for protection even as the pandemic surges.

With careful jabs in the arms of four healthy volunteers, scientists at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Research Institute in Seattle began an anxiously awaited first-stage study of a potential COVID-19 vaccine developed in record time after the new virus exploded out of China and fanned out across the globe.

“We’re team coronavirus now,” Kaiser Permanente study leader Dr. Lisa Jackson said on the eve of the experiment. “Everyone wants to do what they can in this emergency.”

The Associated Press observed as the study’s first participant, an operations manager at a small tech company, received the injection in an exam room.

“We all feel so helpless. This is an amazing opportunity for me to do something,” Jennifer Haller, 43, of Seattle said before getting vaccinated. Her two teenagers “think it’s cool” that she’s taking part in the study.

After the injection, she left the exam room with a big smile: “I’m feeling great.”

Three others were next in line for a test that will ultimately give 45 volunteers two doses, a month apart.

Neal Browning, 46, of Bothell, Washington, is a Microsoft network engineer who says his young daughters are proud he volunteered.

“Every parent wants their children to look up to them,” he said. But he’s told them not to brag to their friends. “It’s other people, too. It’s not just Dad out there.”

Monday’s milestone marked just the beginning of a series of studies in people needed to prove whether the shots are safe and could work. Even if the research goes well, a vaccine would not be available for widespread use for 12 to 18 months, said Dr. Anthony Fauci of the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

At a news conference, President Donald Trump praised how quickly the research had progressed. Fauci noted that 65 days have passed since Chinese scientists shared the virus’ genetic sequence. He said he believed that was a record for developing a vaccine to test.

This vaccine candidate, code-named mRNA-1273, was developed by the NIH and Massachusetts-based biotechnology company Moderna Inc. There’s no chance participants could get infected because the shots do not contain the coronavirus itself.

It’s not the only potential vaccine in the pipeline. Dozens of research groups around the world are racing to create a vaccine against COVID-19. Another candidate, made by Inovio Pharmaceuticals, is expected to begin its own safety study next month in the U.S., China and South Korea.

The Seattle experiment got underway days after the World Health Organization declared the new virus outbreak a pandemic because of its rapid global spread, which has infected more than 169,000 people and killed more than 6,500.

COVID-19 has upended the world’s social and economic fabric since China first identified the virus in January, with broad regions shuttering schools and businesses, restricting travel, canceling entertainment and sporting events, and encouraging people to stay away from each other.

Starting what scientists call a first-in-humans study is a momentous occasion for scientists, but Jackson described her team’s mood as “subdued.” They’ve been working around-the-clock readying the research in a part of the U.S. struck early and hard by the virus.

Still, “going from not even knowing that this virus was out there ... to have any vaccine” in testing in about two months is unprecedented, Jackson told the AP.

Some of the study’s carefully chosen healthy volunteers, ages 18 to 55, will get higher dosages than others to test how strong the inoculations should be. Scientists will check for any side effects and draw blood samples to test if the vaccine is revving up the immune system, looking for encouraging clues like the NIH earlier found in vaccinated mice.

“We don’t know whether this vaccine will induce an immune response or whether it will be safe. That’s why we’re doing a trial,” Jackson stressed. “It’s not at the stage where it would be possible or prudent to give it to the general population.”

Most of the vaccine research under way globally targets a protein aptly named “spike” that studs the surface of the new coronavirus and lets it invade human cells. Block that protein and people cannot get infected.

Researchers at the NIH copied the section of the virus’ genetic code that contains the instructions for cells to create the spike protein. Moderna encased that “messenger RNA” into a vaccine.

The idea: The body will become a mini-factory, producing some harmless spike protein. When the immune system spots the foreign protein, it will make antibodies to attack — and be primed to react quickly if the person later encounters the real virus.

Full Coverage: Virus Outbreak
That’s a much faster way of producing a vaccine than the traditional approach of growing virus in the lab and preparing shots from either killed or weakened versions of it.

But because vaccines are given to millions of healthy people, it takes time to test them in large enough numbers to spot an uncommon side effect, cautioned Dr. Nelson Michael of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, which is developing a different vaccine candidate.

“The science can go very quickly but, first, do no harm, right?” he told reporters last week.

The Seattle research institute is part of a government network that tests all kinds of vaccines and was chosen for the coronavirus vaccine study before COVID-19 began spreading widely in Washington state.

Kaiser Permanente screened dozens of people, looking for those who have no chronic health problems and are not currently sick. Researchers are not checking whether would-be volunteers already had a mild case of COVID-19 before deciding if they are eligible.

If some did, scientists will be able to tell by the number of antibodies in their pre-vaccination blood test and account for that, Jackson said. Participants will be paid $100 for each clinic visit in the study.

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Neergaard reported from Washington, D.C.

Optimism grows that drugs from past outbreaks may treat coronavirus

Antivirals and other drugs created for past outbreaks like malaria, AIDS, and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) are being tested and showing early signs of success in treating the new coronavirus, experts say.

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https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/...Yh11VZ-tZhlYQQY

I think this is noteworthy.