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Absolutely true...test all that are suspected NOW and quarantine all positive tests to help contain the pandemic in America!
Looks like testing capacity is still limited in some counties.
Sacramento County just had a death at a senior living facility and they don't have enough test for everyone yet. https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article241080471.html
Sacramento County announced the first death related to the new coronavirus Tuesday evening, a woman in her 90s who was a resident at an assisted living facility.
Carlton Senior Living, which operates a facility in Elk Grove, announced Tuesday night the death was one of its residents who was recently diagnosed with the virus. The woman died of complications related to the virus, also known as COVID-19, according to Sacramento County Public Health.
“We have implemented isolation protocol for the next 14 days and have been commended for the proactive steps we have taken to prevent the spread of this virus to other residents and staff in our Elk Grove Community,” read the Carlton Senior Living press release.
The county has started focusing its limited testing ability on determining the health status of others residents at the senior living facility. Elderly individuals and people with underlying health conditions are the populations most likely to be affected by the COVID-19 virus.
“That’s the one priority that we’re using our 20 tests a day for,” Beilenson previously told The Bee. “I know they have more than 20 people there, and that’s part of the problem of not having enough tests, so we will do circles around the person who initially tested positive.”
I disagree with Trump on a lot, but on this one I'm solidly in Trump's corner. We are in greater danger from the flu. 70,000 deaths???? Flu and panic are the REAL crisis in this country. Also sold-out toilet paper. If supermarkets don't stock up soon I'm going to have to start using my finger.
This type of logic is ridiculous. Of course there's currently a lower death count. But that's because there are fewer infections. And of course there are currently fewer people infected with COVID-19 than the flu...it's a brand new disease.
Don't worry though, the count could easily match flu's numbers one day if people fail to take it seriously and keep letting it spread, because not only is COVID-19 significantly more contagious than the flu, it's orders of magnitude more deadly in terms of mortality rate.
You say that as if the flu is easily beaten across the board. In reality, even though there is a vaccine for it, according to CDC.gov, in the US an estimated 35,000 people got the flu 2018-2019 and 34,200 died from it.
The vaccine didn't prevent everyone from catching it or some from dying from it.
Only about half of the US population take the flu vaccine and it’s not perfect but it does reduce the mortality rate. We still don’t completely understand this virus and we have nothing to reduce the rate. Isolation of healthcare care workers for extended periods is not required for the flu.
More, traditionally, die from influenza, but this bug/virus is so much more deadly/virulent/dangerous so it's more serious from that standpoint. People don't have antibodies to fight it, like some influenza or cold strains. The elderly esp. can't fight it, their immune systems aren't strong enough to fight off new bugs. Not just elderly though, depends on your own constitution.
More, traditionally, die from influenza, but this bug/virus is so much more deadly/virulent/dangerous so it's more serious from that standpoint.
Not true. The coronavirus has a much higher rate of death than influenza. Stop spreading this lie, it's one of the reasons many people aren't taking it seriously enough.
DNC so desperate they released a biological weapon obtained thru one of the corrupt Obama admin's agency holdovers.
Intent to prevent Biden from havng to speak or debate publicly and hide his precipitous mental decline.
Existential effort by the left to save obama admin holdovers and former execs from prison by having their crimes revealed by the DOJ reformers.
DNC rigged the 2016 election, Obama had holder falsify a warrant to spy on journalists, so what they would not do to win in 2020 is anyone's guess. their demonstrated crimes read like a fiction spy story.
DNC so desperate they released a biological weapon obtained thru one of the corrupt Obama admin's agency holdovers.
Intent to prevent Biden from havng to speak or debate publicly and hide his precipitous mental decline.
Existential effort by the left to save obama admin holdovers and former execs from prison by having their crimes revealed by the DOJ reformers.
DNC rigged the 2016 election, Obama had holder falsify a warrant to spy on journalists, so what they would not do to win in 2020 is anyone's guess. their demonstrated crimes read like a fiction spy story.
I'll order you a tin hat.
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Flu and panic are the REAL crisis in this country. Also sold-out toilet paper. 
If supermarkets don't stock up soon I'm going to have to start using my finger. 
