Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions?

Re:Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions? by natch on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @04:28PM (#22427539)

>most diagnosed cases in the US, are not actually showing any symptoms

Where did you hear this? Why would these people even be tested, much less diagnosed, if they are not showing symptoms?

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Re:Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions? by dfsegoat on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @04:43PM (#22427679)

See 1.

It's Because they were evacuated e.g. from Cruise ships with other symptomatic patients, and were quarantined + tested, it's a CDC standard protocol [2]. They even put one of them down the street from me as we speak [3]

1 - https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/quality/15th-us-corona...

2 - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/yellowbook/2020/posttravel-eval...

3 - https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/10751105-181/sonoma-count...

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Re:Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions? by pmoriarty on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @07:41PM (#22429184)

There have been reported problems with the CDC tests.

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Re:Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions? by garmaine on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @08:00PM (#22429319)

Those problems would cause false negatives, not false positives.

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Re:Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions? by natch on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @08:46PM (#22429574)

But that story (1) says they had sore throats. They do not consider a sore throat a symptom? So this is the new CDC? Ignorance is strength? War is peace?

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