Re:Johns Hopkins CSSE Covid-19 Global Case Dashboard
by makomk on Friday March 06, 2020 @01:28PM
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I think the CDC has been rolling SARS-CoV-2 testing out to the US influenza surveillance system. They actually tried to do this in mid-February but ran into problems with the testing kits. Obviously this would have left the US in a much better position to monitor it, though I doubt that'd stop wild theories about how it was everywhere spreading virally.
Re:Johns Hopkins CSSE Covid-19 Global Case Dashboard
by alexandercrohde on Friday March 06, 2020 @12:25PM
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Fascinating. I'd love to see a system like that in America.
A very similar test allocation might also be running in America without anyone but a few experts taking notice. Here in Germany it has technically been on the news but it was completely drowned out by the pointless shouting match between "it cannot be worse than a cold" (because it would interfere with my precious vacation plans) and "our healthcare wouldbe just as overwhelmed as in Wuhan" (because, I don't know, maybe I'm just not racist enough to assume that it will somehow only be bad in China)