Ok. Just learned from an impeccable source that our local

[Laura PourMeADrink]

hospital is currently treating a corona virus patient.

BUT...there is nothing on news, Twitter, Facebook, internet, or paper.

Our county supposedly has zero cases.

Makes me think there's hiding going on.

[hlthe2b]

1. May be a patient with pneumonia suspected but not yet confirmed

State and local health departments will NOT announce (count) a case until they are PCR-confirmed.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

9. Well source said definitely corona. But hope you are

right...they are just waiting on confirmation test results.

[dewsgirl]

2. I see these stories all day everyday lately.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

10. DG...the reporting system has collapsed.

[dewsgirl]

14. They are trying their best to avoid a panic.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

15. That's a very generous point of view. I think moreover

in red States you can't ignore the motive of protecting the republican pResident.

[dewsgirl]

16. Oops.

I think somehow I answered in the wrong thread, I even had to check the date. Why I would respond as if this was a month ago is beyond me.
Of course they are. I'm in Fl. and we are on an inevitable crash course with complete disaster here. They have doing this shit, since late January.
Rumors have been coming from several states, since the beginning.
Kansas, NC, upstate NY and FL. all were using HIPPA to avoid reporting cases.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

17. It's all very confusing. CDC was controlling everything

And now they aren't. Couldn't find, for example, any kind of reporting on how many tests have been performed in Texas. Gov Abbott claims the state can perform 300 tests per day. But hell, he can just pull that out of his ass... nothing to match back to.

In addition, another confusing point. Say a local hospital somehow has a test. Does CDC have to approve the test again? That's what one of our counties said....they think positive but waiting on CDC to confirm.

I bet Florida IS a cluster with all those retirees too. I imagine wealthy people will do whatever to keep their illness secret too. There is a certain stigma.

[MartyTheGreek]

3. 3 Cases in Va Beach for a Virginia total 41, up 11 from yesterday. See links for monitoring...

Virginia Dept. Health

http://www.vdh.virginia.gov/surveillance-and-investigation/novel-coronavirus/

Global Sick Map

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

[Laura PourMeADrink]

8. Scary stuff everywhere.

[ekelly]

4. What county in TX?

[marble falls]

5. Someone returned from London to Austin and has been diagnosed as having corona ...

just had to get back to Austin.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

6. Yes..starting to think possible that Bell County guy

might be being treated in Waco ??

[marble falls]

11. We're in a red state, we're being given the 'mushroom' treatment. Knowlege is power ...

and we can't be allowed near that.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

12. I am an information nut. Reporting on cases seemed

legit on CDC and then they posted a disclaimer that they didn't have the right numbers because state and local not reporting to them anymore. Then it went to hell and a handbasket. Texas Tribune seems to be trying to keep up. Blue states probably accurate.

If anyone I love comes down with this virus and you can point to information being withheld as an indirect cause, I am suing every mother fucker I can think of.

End rant.

[marble falls]

13. We can thank our GOP overlords for that.