"As of 11 a.m. today (3/17/2020), there have been 33 cases of COVID-19 reported in 14 counties in North Carolina. One person has been hospitalized.
The state laboratory has conducted 329 tests, Tilson said, and can test an additional 1,300 people.
Commercial and hospital labs have expanded their testing as well.
However, some people have reported to the media that they have been denied testing, even though they have symptoms: cough, fever, and a negative test for flu.
Tilson said DHHS has been “developing more health provider guidance,” which includes submitting tests to laboratories that can handle the workload.
“We know there’s a demand for testing,” Tilson said. “We’re in a better place today [in terms of barriers to testing] than we were yesterday.”
Although the number of reported cases has increased by only one over the last day — the latest being a student at Campbell University — Tilson said it’s important not to read too much into the pace of the disease’s spread.
“We’ll probably see more and more cases,” she said.
DHHS’s coronavirus hotline has been overwhelmed with calls from people, many of which have not been returned. “We’re working on tackling that,” Tilson said.
http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2020/03/16/state-lab-can-test-1300-people-for-covid-19-health-director-says-well-see-more-cases/
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The state laboratory has conducted 329 tests, Tilson said, and can test an additional 1,300 people.
Commercial and hospital labs have expanded their testing as well.
However, some people have reported to the media that they have been denied testing, even though they have symptoms: cough, fever, and a negative test for flu.
Tilson said DHHS has been “developing more health provider guidance,” which includes submitting tests to laboratories that can handle the workload.
“We know there’s a demand for testing,” Tilson said. “We’re in a better place today [in terms of barriers to testing] than we were yesterday.”
Although the number of reported cases has increased by only one over the last day — the latest being a student at Campbell University — Tilson said it’s important not to read too much into the pace of the disease’s spread.
“We’ll probably see more and more cases,” she said.
DHHS’s coronavirus hotline has been overwhelmed with calls from people, many of which have not been returned. “We’re working on tackling that,” Tilson said.
http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2020/03/16/state-lab-can-test-1300-people-for-covid-19-health-director-says-well-see-more-cases/
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Berkshire Hathaway is the 1st or 2nd biggest shareholder of Delta, Southwest/United. The airline bailout will be Warren Buffett's third major bailout after Salomon in the 1990s & Wells Fargo, BofA, etc in 2008. Why do we keep bailing out one of the richest people in the world? pic.twitter.com/65Fc8AwfVL— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) March 16, 2020
Remember when the biggest companies repurchased trillions and trillions of dollars in stock buybacks the last couple of years?— Nomi Prins (@nomiprins) March 16, 2020
Wonder what they could be doing with that money now. pic.twitter.com/5wqjDuXrCB
— Bear Market Ramp Capital (@RampCapitalLLC) March 16, 2020
So we spend >700bn on imaginary risks from listening to IYI geopoliticians & journos when in fact the true enemy is a virus you pick up doing high five with the bartender.— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) March 16, 2020
Time to fire the Foreign Affairs/Think Tank establishment, close political "science"depts & reset.
Reset.
Airlines spent huge amount of cash on buybacks to help shareholders in past ~10 years. Now they want $29B in grants (gifts) and $25B in loans, plus tax breaks. Gov't should insist this cash goes to employees, not shareholders. https://t.co/jKjz81b6Yc— Henry Blodget (@hblodget) March 16, 2020
Quarantine day 6. pic.twitter.com/er652Oy3Ki— jamie (@gnuman1979) March 16, 2020
Rolling over.— Otavio (Tavi) Costa (@TaviCosta) March 15, 2020
Number of full-time employed people contracting.
Blame it on the virus?
Folks, this data was already falling in January.
Wait until you see March. pic.twitter.com/B07wk31awt
"Even the normal Democrat-loyal New York Times took the unusual step of shellacking Pelosi’s bill for not living up to its promise of delivering paid sick leave when in fact it covers only 20% of all workers.— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) March 16, 2020
I know the Fed watchers are hyper aware of this, but for those that are not, this chart speaks volumes— 𝕮𝖍𝖎 🛢️ (@chigrl) March 15, 2020
Level of T-bill holdings and repo operations by the #Fed (week ending 13 March) pic.twitter.com/UuUZQCH25R
The actual gist of this story is that there is strong (and readily available) evidence that presymptomatic and asymptomatic people are driving the spread of the virus but U.S. officials are effectively denying this for some reason. https://t.co/ca193Tmtu3— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) March 14, 2020
It’s almost as if TSA and CBP and DHS and airport administrators don’t have a fucking clue. https://t.co/dr4Rcb4Vta— Ben Hunt (@EpsilonTheory) March 15, 2020
— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) March 15, 2020
A Seattle lab uncovered Washington's coronavirus outbreak only after defying federal regulators https://t.co/MwWD4GvU3v via @Yahoo— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) March 15, 2020
Many of us do not have an intuition for exponential growth. Before the curve rises, we think there is no issue. But when the curve slams into us, it's too late to respond effectively. Hence the many full restaurants and bars I saw while walking home today in NYC.— Brian Greene (@bgreene) March 15, 2020
Coronavirus and the Sun: a Lesson from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic by Richard Hobday https://t.co/oLsXSulgHA— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) March 13, 2020
Study in the Lancet finds that #COVID19 viral shedding can be UP TO 37 DAYS, with an average of 20 DAYS.— Seth Bannon 👨🔬 (@sethbannon) March 13, 2020
*Patients may still be contagious during that time*
VERY BIG DEAL because current guidelines recommend only a 14 day (2 week) isolation time. 1/nhttps://t.co/UoX8BnqzJO
Gold -3.60%— MONETARY MAYHEM™ (@MONETARY_MAYHEM) March 12, 2020
Silver -5.44% pic.twitter.com/TakPFO4jRX
Companies are maxing out unused credit lines for extra liquidity. U.S. banks had a total of $2.5 trillion of credit commitments to companies that weren’t used at the end of 2019, with two-thirds of provided by JPMorgan, BofA, Citi & Wells Fargo. https://t.co/yWKGzHwcwM— Lisa Abramowicz (@lisaabramowicz1) March 12, 2020
When a danger is growing exponentially, everything looks fine until it doesn’t https://t.co/uHzBUFUH3y— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) March 11, 2020
"This is not the end.— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) March 11, 2020
It is not even the beginning of the end.
But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
Winston Churchill
— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) March 9, 2020
— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) March 9, 2020
Maybe all those CEO's & execs who borrowed trillions to enrich themselves with share buybacks at record highs should've put something aside for a rainy day.— Rudy Havenstein, good thing we're not overindebted (@RudyHavenstein) March 8, 2020
They'll be the first ones in line for free stimulus money, like Immelt in 2008.@federalreserve @stevenmnuchin1 https://t.co/M2QWF7ZOpj
This is negligence by our government. https://t.co/R4UQATBdU5— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) March 8, 2020
Should the ACC and NCAA eliminate the audiences for the upcoming tournaments? There has been a failure to test and track Covid-19 and other observations. https://t.co/0x9kGwRBX9— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) March 8, 2020
