OT - Covid 19 - a # of Fairfield County Schools closing

[Drumguy]

Westport just closed the public schools, Wilton also, waiting to hear on New Canaan from my teacher wife. I heard Japan closed the schools and all the kids gathered publicly anyway thus defeating the purpose.

 

[jostar1]

HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) - Health officials confirmed a third case of coronavirus in Connecticut on Wednesday.

The announcement was made during a news conference Wednesday afternoon.

Officials said the patient is an elderly man who lives in New Canaan.

The case is not connected to any known cases in the state, and Dept. of Public Health officials are assisting medical professionals to conduct the contract trace investigation.

As of Wednesday afternoon, the state laboratory has tested 74 individuals, with three of them being positive.

 

[Edward Sargent]

Norwalk Hospital has 50 staff members test positive. They are running out of staff. Now of course someone will say I'm being hysterical by reporting this!

 

[Stinger92860]

Norwalk Hospital has 50 staff members test positive. They are running out of staff. Now of course someone will say I'm being hysterical by reporting this!

I’ve not heard this. I’m not sure they have 50 test kits. If true, they have done a good job withholding this info from the rest of the medical community. I’m always suspicious of round numbers. Why 50, why not 52 or 47.

I do know Wilton may be an interesting position. I know at least one family who had indirect contact with the family who tested positive. They are concerned. Let’s hope it’s not jumping and the original patient pulls through.

 

[Palatine]

Norwalk Hospital has 50 staff members test positive. They are running out of staff. Now of course someone will say I'm being hysterical by reporting this!

Not good hospital for elder care. I hope they are moving or isolating their elderly patients.

 

[Palatine]

Here's a chart you won't see on CNN.

How to beat back the coronavirus

The virus is stifled by early and aggressive action and half-measures appear to only make things worse.

www.axios.com

 

[uconngb]

Norwalk Hospital has 50 staff members test positive. They are running out of staff. Now of course someone will say I'm being hysterical by reporting this!

So 50 of the 3 confirmed positive cases in the entire state are all in Norwalk Hospital?? Makes sense

 

[formerlurker]

My sister's boys go to Red Bank Regional HS in NJ and they just had a student test positive. All kids are home schooling until at least 3/23.

 

[Letsgohuskies11]

Here's a chart you won't see on CNN.

How to beat back the coronavirus

The virus is stifled by early and aggressive action and half-measures appear to only make things worse.

www.axios.com

because it's on axios.com?

 

[Lucelab113]

Norwalk Hospital has 50 staff members test positive. They are running out of staff. Now of course someone will say I'm being hysterical by reporting this!

Is this true?

 

[uconngb]

Norwalk Hospital has 50 staff members test positive. They are running out of staff. Now of course someone will say I'm being hysterical by reporting this!

A simple google search indicates that ONE.......ONE. Confirmed case of an individual that works at several hospitals including a Norwalk. This kind of BS rumor mongering is exactly what I’m talking about. Hysterical or not, you are just spreading false info and further contributing to the panic. Un friggjng Real

 

[uconngb]

Is this true?

Of course not. But why let the truth get in the way of a runaway freight train

 

[Adios]

Only 3 test positive out of 74? Hope they are using these kits wisely.

 

[boba]

Only 3 test positive out of 74? Hope they are using these kits wisely.

The "kit" is a collection of solutions, and is used to to run multiple reactions. As I understand it, a kit can do 100 reactions, and two per patient is desired. Moreover, the "kits" are scarce because the FDA / CDC insisted on developing its own. I could assemble a kit and run the reactions here if I wanted to (ayup, I gotta rtPCR machine, don't you?) but then I would be running afoul of medical ethics and regulations. So if push comes to shove, the States can tell the CDC: " we're buying the buffers and primers, and building the damn things ourselves." I'm pretty sure our governor already has this plan in place.

 

[auror]

Here's a chart you won't see on CNN.

How to beat back the coronavirus

The virus is stifled by early and aggressive action and half-measures appear to only make things worse.

www.axios.com

Pretty sure this is exactly what is being suggested here and everywhere. Aggressive testing and social isolation, like getting rid of fans at the NCAA tournament games.

Unfortunately we may be already too compromised in too many places. We'll see.

 

[UConnKev]

Greenwich shut down too per my sis who’s a teacher at the high school

 

[Huskybass]

Norwalk Hospital has 50 staff members test positive. They are running out of staff. Now of course someone will say I'm being hysterical by reporting this!

What are you basing this on? I find this incredibly hard to believe when every media outlet is saying 3 confirmed cases in CT.

I found 1 employee of Norwalk Hospital who lives in New York in all the articles I found. Where is the 50 coming from?

 

[Bomber36]

there are only 600 test kits available in the state. I was told this by PA who works at Bristol Hospital.

 

[Palatine]

Pretty sure this is exactly what is being suggested here and everywhere. Aggressive testing and social isolation, like getting rid of fans at the NCAA tournament games.

Unfortunately we may be already too compromised in too many places. We'll see.

Look at the South Korea line.

 

[auror]

Look at the South Korea line.

Yes... they did extreme testing and social isolation. Which is what we want to happen here in America. But our government has yet to do it.. Did you read the article?

 

[Palatine]

there are only 600 test kits available in the state. I was told this by PA who works at Bristol Hospital.

That changes daily and they are spread between hospital labs and university labs. There are private kits that are getting into the hands of physicians but that is hit and miss.

 

[Bomber36]

That changes daily and they are spread between hospital labs and university labs. There are private kits that are getting into the hands of physicians but that is hit and miss.

Hope you’re right.

 

[Bomber36]

The state’s capacity to detect COVID-19 doubled over the weekend with the receipt of a second test kit from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Each kit allows the testing of 600 samples, with a recommendation of two test samples from anyone suspected to have the virus. Private labs are also now testing, with LabCorp taking samples and Quest Diagnostics following soon.

 

[Bomber36]

This is a good article on the state situation. 2 days old, but seems sensible.

Connecticut takes steps to contain COVID-19 as 2nd case confirmed

Social, economic and public-health challenges posed by the COVID-19 coronavirus loomed larger in Connecticut on Monday.

ctmirror.org

 

[Huskygrad88]

there are only 600 test kits available in the state. I was told this by PA who works at Bristol Hospital.

Each kit does hundreds of tests...so that means there is the capacity to tens of thousands of tests.