03-14-2020, 03:04 PM
From: https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2020/03/14...s-confirm/
2 visitors who tested positive for coronavirus on Kauai also exhibited symptoms on Maui
Where in part it reads..
Gov. David Ige released the following details on their itinerary:
• The two traveled from Indiana on a direct United Airlines flight to Maui on March 2.
• They stayed in Lahaina from March 2 to 8. Shortly after their arrival, however, one of the visitors developed a fever, shortness of breath and cough. That visitor went to an urgent care facility.
• On March 7, the second visitor also started developing symptoms and went to urgent care.
• A day later, both of the visitors flew to Kauai on Hawaiian Airlines Flight 149.
• They’ve been on Kauai since then, and were staying at the Kauai Marriott until being placed in an isolation facility provided by the county.
• Ige said that on March 9, one of the visitors — the first to get sick — visited an urgent care facility on Kauai. The visitor was prescribed antibiotics.
• Then, on Thursday, the visitors went to Wilcox Medical Center. At that point, the two informed health care workers that they’d had close contact with an individual who had tested positive for coronavirus.
Late Friday, the two tested positive for the coronavirus, also known as COVID-19.
So we're in the sweet spot for a bloom. We have two cases on the streets staying in hotels and using public transportation. Flying from Maui to Kauai on March 8. In a nursing home in Washington Sate that timeline would have us at the beginning of some kind of Stephen King horror story.. the virus from hell. But here?
I'm starting to scratch my head, wondering where is the bloom we are rightfully expecting. In general, without this one, now known, case and with our porous borders and lack of any accountability my instincts are screaming OMG! But with each day that passes without a surge in cases, and yeah we don't do testing but people getting severely ill push the data, tests follow. So where's the outbreak?
Maybe, just little ol' maybe, Hawaii's climate is working in our favor against good ol' #19. Consider..
From: https://europepmc.org/article/med/22312351
The Effects of Temperature and Relative Humidity on the Viability of the SARS Coronavirus.
Where the abstract begins..
The main route of transmission of SARS CoV infection is presumed to be respiratory droplets. However the virus is also detectable in other body fluids and excreta. The stability of the virus at different temperatures and relative humidity on smooth surfaces were studied. The dried virus on smooth surfaces retained its viability for over 5 days at temperatures of 22-25°C and relative humidity of 40-50%, that is, typical air-conditioned environments. However, virus viability was rapidly lost (>3 log(10)) at higher temperatures and higher relative humidity (e.g., 38°C, and relative humidity of >95%). The better stability of SARS coronavirus at low temperature and low humidity environment may facilitate its transmission in community in subtropical area (such as Hong Kong) during the spring and in air-conditioned environments. It may also explain why some Asian countries in tropical area (such as Malaysia, Indonesia or Thailand) with high temperature and high relative humidity environment did not have major community outbreaks of SARS.
I am not suggesting we don't have #19, but maybe this shedding, this aerosol of droplets, this life span on surfaces, all the things we are to protect ourselves against, maybe they aren't as threatening because of our climate?
OMG would that be wonderful.
With the report of the two new cases on Kauai, and the details of their becoming sick on Maui and days later flying to Kauai still being in the wild the whole time, it is remarkable that alone hasn't already sparked a bloom of cases. Though we probably still have more time, a few days, a week before the window on that happening begins to close.
Anyways, just a thought.. not that I am suggesting any more than OMG wouldn't it be nice if paradise came with protection?
2 visitors who tested positive for coronavirus on Kauai also exhibited symptoms on Maui
Where in part it reads..
Gov. David Ige released the following details on their itinerary:
• The two traveled from Indiana on a direct United Airlines flight to Maui on March 2.
• They stayed in Lahaina from March 2 to 8. Shortly after their arrival, however, one of the visitors developed a fever, shortness of breath and cough. That visitor went to an urgent care facility.
• On March 7, the second visitor also started developing symptoms and went to urgent care.
• A day later, both of the visitors flew to Kauai on Hawaiian Airlines Flight 149.
• They’ve been on Kauai since then, and were staying at the Kauai Marriott until being placed in an isolation facility provided by the county.
• Ige said that on March 9, one of the visitors — the first to get sick — visited an urgent care facility on Kauai. The visitor was prescribed antibiotics.
• Then, on Thursday, the visitors went to Wilcox Medical Center. At that point, the two informed health care workers that they’d had close contact with an individual who had tested positive for coronavirus.
Late Friday, the two tested positive for the coronavirus, also known as COVID-19.
So we're in the sweet spot for a bloom. We have two cases on the streets staying in hotels and using public transportation. Flying from Maui to Kauai on March 8. In a nursing home in Washington Sate that timeline would have us at the beginning of some kind of Stephen King horror story.. the virus from hell. But here?
I'm starting to scratch my head, wondering where is the bloom we are rightfully expecting. In general, without this one, now known, case and with our porous borders and lack of any accountability my instincts are screaming OMG! But with each day that passes without a surge in cases, and yeah we don't do testing but people getting severely ill push the data, tests follow. So where's the outbreak?
Maybe, just little ol' maybe, Hawaii's climate is working in our favor against good ol' #19. Consider..
From: https://europepmc.org/article/med/22312351
The Effects of Temperature and Relative Humidity on the Viability of the SARS Coronavirus.
Where the abstract begins..
The main route of transmission of SARS CoV infection is presumed to be respiratory droplets. However the virus is also detectable in other body fluids and excreta. The stability of the virus at different temperatures and relative humidity on smooth surfaces were studied. The dried virus on smooth surfaces retained its viability for over 5 days at temperatures of 22-25°C and relative humidity of 40-50%, that is, typical air-conditioned environments. However, virus viability was rapidly lost (>3 log(10)) at higher temperatures and higher relative humidity (e.g., 38°C, and relative humidity of >95%). The better stability of SARS coronavirus at low temperature and low humidity environment may facilitate its transmission in community in subtropical area (such as Hong Kong) during the spring and in air-conditioned environments. It may also explain why some Asian countries in tropical area (such as Malaysia, Indonesia or Thailand) with high temperature and high relative humidity environment did not have major community outbreaks of SARS.
I am not suggesting we don't have #19, but maybe this shedding, this aerosol of droplets, this life span on surfaces, all the things we are to protect ourselves against, maybe they aren't as threatening because of our climate?
OMG would that be wonderful.
With the report of the two new cases on Kauai, and the details of their becoming sick on Maui and days later flying to Kauai still being in the wild the whole time, it is remarkable that alone hasn't already sparked a bloom of cases. Though we probably still have more time, a few days, a week before the window on that happening begins to close.
Anyways, just a thought.. not that I am suggesting any more than OMG wouldn't it be nice if paradise came with protection?