COVID-19 testing for all homeless?

[leilanidude]

County wants coronavirus testing for all homeless


Are they going to test all of the homeless, every single week? So what if you test them all today - what about tomorrow or next week or next month?

https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/202...-homeless/

[Durian Fiend]

I think it's a good idea. Test them ASAP, during lockdown. Far less likely to be contracting and/or spreading the virus in weeks to come.

[leilanidude]

the homeless tend to meander around. testing them today, does not mean they don't have it next week or the week after and so on. I doubt that the homeless are staying "at home".

[terracore]

I'll refer back to what the Hilo ER told us after urgent care's negative influenza test on the wife: "The tests aren't very accurate."

Even if a test that was just developed virtually overnight for a brand new virus is as accurate as the one we're using for a virus that has been around for 8,000 years it doesn't give me a lot of confidence. Even after the second negative flu test at the ER the doctor wasn't convinced that she didn't have the flu because "The tests aren't very accurate."

[kalakoa]

a test that was just developed virtually overnight for a brand new virus

If only we had funded more virology R&D instead of giving tax cuts to the wealthy.

[terracore]

Nice try. Maybe try posting that in the politics forum?

[Guest]

quote:

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Originally posted by kalakoa

a test that was just developed virtually overnight for a brand new virus

If only we had funded more virology R&D instead of giving tax cuts to the wealthy.

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And there it is, the central, the main, point in all these discussions. The closing of the already federally funded, in place and functioning, White House Pandemic Office by our current executive. And, to make matters worse its continued inability to take responsibility for everything that has followed has resulted, directly, in the deaths of thousands of Americas.

No, imo, that's not a political matter. That's just facts. And if we don't acknowledge them and adjust for the harm our inability to do so in the past has caused, we're destine to repeat this kind of blunder over and over again.

A politically divided, ideologically driven government where nothing happens but one side decides to stonewall the other and then when it is in power rape and pillage all we hold dear has left us at the mercy of covid19 like we never would have been if we were still guided by the administration that started the White House Pandemic Office.

I ran the White House pandemic office. Trump closed it.
By Beth Cameron

Beth Cameron is vice president for global biological policy and programs at the Nuclear Threat Initiative. She previously served as the senior director for global health security and biodefense on the White House National Security Council.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/n...story.html

When President Trump took office in 2017, the White House’s National Security Council Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense survived the transition intact. Its mission was the same as when I was asked to lead the office, established after the Ebola epidemic of 2014: to do everything possible within the vast powers and resources of the U.S. government to prepare for the next disease outbreak and prevent it from becoming an epidemic or pandemic.

One year later, I was mystified when the White House dissolved the office, leaving the country less prepared for pandemics like covid-19...

It really is a page turner. One of those real who-done-its.. fascinating how karma works. Utterly amazing.

Edited to add the substantiating snippet above and remind those that may have forgotten (and are otherwise internet challenged) there is no paywall, but instead, as is pretty much happening with every other publication during these trying times, this is free if you sign up for the Washington Post's Covid-19 Section..

[kalakoa]

White House Pandemic Office

SARS was our warning.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

If only we had funded more virology R&D instead of... tax cuts
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Nice try. Maybe try posting that in the politics forum?

Here’s another idea.
Instead of ignoring or hiding information which resulted in unnecessary death for tens of thousands of people, perhaps bring it to light, find out the details, and look into why the decision was made. Then if people, like relatives of the deceased or those permanently impaired find the explanation lacking in good, solid medical or health considerations, with the best interests of the average Hawaiian or American citizen at heart, they’ll be more informed when they finally do have a choice in the matter, perhaps this November.

[TomK]

"I ran the White House pandemic office. Trump closed it."

Just a couple of suggestions. It looks as though you wrote the above, which is clearly nonsense but in order to check that you have to click on the link. Unfortunately, it's behind a paywall so unless you are a paying customer, you can't check the accuracy of the statement.

At the very least, please use quotation marks when you quote someone. It's just common decency.

ETA: "hokuili" edited his post after my suggestion. Still can't get the concept of quotation marks though.