Two new cases in Santa Clara, California. We're up to three community transmission cases.
https://abc7news.com/health/additional- ... -/5974170/
Press conference (sorry for the Facebook link
):
https://www.facebook.com/abc7news/video ... cation=ufi
Highlights:
1. Wash your hands
2. Don't touch your face
3. Three cases are epidemiological unlinked
4. Recommending social distancing for employers (telecommuting, etc)
-- Don't specifically suggest immediate social distancing but suggest preparing for future continuity plans
5. Have a family preparedness plan for if you can't leave home for a week or two
6. CDC confirms virus can live on surfaces "more than days"
-- However person to person transmission is still most common route
7. CDC says Santa Clara lab has testing capacity now, and they're sending out more test kits as we speak
-- Hoping commercial tests become available
-- 8 Public health labs that conduct testing in CA now ready
-- Turn around time of 48 hours or less
8. Mostly concerned about "high risk contacts" first, like household members
-- Contact tracing is very resource intensive
9. Declared local public health emergency earlier in the month
Also, I did not know measles had a CFR of 0.1% for adults. Interesting how that's actually decently high for prior healthy adults, yet enough people forget how horrible measles is and insist the vaccine is worse to the point measles came back to the US.
ETA: @c_L - I don't work in medicine, so now you've got me curious. How big of a problem are these poorly managed, chronic conditions in terms of taking up hospital resources? Are these people not following doctor's directions to manages their conditions or are these people with undiagnosed conditions that go catastrophic?