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I do not know right off hand what the specificity of the test to which you are referring is, but it is not 100% so there are some who test positive but are negative. This is from the package insert of a new test. Accuracy, sensitivity and specificity? SureScreen’s new coronavirus lateral flow test uses antibodies that are specific for immune glycoproteins that are produced by infected individuals in response to the new coronavirus. These glycoproteins are called Immunoglobulin M and G (IgM and IgG). Immunoglobulins are normally produced by the immune system in response to bacterial or viral infections and act to 'flag' the pathogen, so that other immune cells can detect and kill it. The IgG/IgM that the test detects are specific to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, so a positive result would indicate the patient has contracted COVID-19. Since there are two analytes of interest (IgM and IgG), there are two test lines on the strip. Only one test line needs to be seen for a positive diagnosis (as well as the control line). Two test lines would also indicate a positive result. The new test has the following specifications: IgG - sensitivity = 100%, specificity = 99.5%, accuracy = 99.6%, IgM - sensitivity = 91.8%, specificity = 99.2%, accuracy = 97.8%. This is the data they are sending out for a new rapid test. Test to be done with 3 to 7 days of symptoms but can be used for screening. This is not an endorsement of the product just information in regards to the 70& value given elsewhere which may have been true for early prototypes of the tests. This figures do look too good to be true so take then with that caveat.

By the way, I did not say that food deliveries were unsafe, just that the hospital had curtailed the food deliveries from restaurants to the hospital. This had to do with delivery personnel in the hospital, which was not considered safe. Subsequently, the administration changed that to allow delivery to a back door for pick up by the ordering staff members.

Let me make this clear so even you can understand it. There are no deliveries of restaurant food to the hospital but the staff could go out and get themselves food. This was modified so that the staff can get food delivered to a back door but delivery persons cannot come in the hospital. It should be obvious even to you that having restaurant food delivery people walking around the hospital would not be a good idea. The cafeteria is closed so that there are not large groups in the cafeteria. The restaurants and delis are sending food free. I have no idea why you have trouble believing this since you seem to believe all the trash a certain pumpkin president has to say. Perhaps I was not as clear in my explanation as you need. In any case, I still have not gotten an answer from you about your willingness to tell my patients that, hell, this is not the bubonic plague. That dismissive remark says more about you that you could reveal in a Bible length biography.

Several of the local restaurants and sandwich shops have been sending food to the hospital at which I work. The hospital itself closed down the cafeteria and was not allowing deliveries in the hospital. The local businesses have sent people over and has had them wait at a back door for staff to come and get the free eats. When you are working long hours and have not had much to et you would be surprised how good a Jersey Mike's sandwich tastes. Also local bakeries sending in baked goods and bagel shops sending in bagels and coffee. There is hope for us. Of course the federal government has not sent anything in, not even masks or gowns.

Is this like offering a condemned man a final meal?

An escort I hire regularly and who I hired three weeks ago has been contacting me. We get all the time. It seems likely he has coronavirus. I saw him just outside the window of contagion but while he is a healthy man in his 40s, I am, like it or not, in the high risk group. So that was the final point in the decision I was ready to make anyway,

From the New Christy Ministrel's to The First Edition to a solo career with many hit singles and duets. My favorite is from the first edition. He is hardly recognizable in this video but his voice is easily recognized.

I last hired 6 days ago. It was already scheduled and I decided not to cancel. I will not be hiring again until things are clearer.

And getting it to flip open once it was in was a bitch.

So I guess it is more correct that it is not the good who die young but in this case the Young who died young,

May you live in interesting times. I did not realize that this may have been a translation a Chinese curse and is usually used in an ironic manner. So without irony I suggest. May you live interesting lives.

By the way, about 1/4 of the people with coronavirus do have some diarrhea. It is not a major symptoms but it is definitely a higher than expected association

Realistically I knew I was going to have to cancel, but the vague hope that maybe things would brighten kept it a bit easier to see each day through. This is the right decision but it is one that just brings the nature of this into closer sight. So Oliver, I suggest you set the date for 2021 so that we may start the countdown to that joyous reunion. We all need a little hope these days and seeing that date might be just the bit of hope that makes it easier to get through this. Thanks for your efforts through the years. This event has brightened my life and let me be myself more than I am any other time of the year.

You guys have a large enough group that you could band together and tell the manager the meeting is yearly and perhaps have him consider putting aside a block of rooms for 2021 at a major discount

He was here on Monday and I must say, he looked terrific. It would be indiscrete to go into the details as I would have in a review in the past. Lets just say that one comforter, two sheets, four pillow cases and 2 pillows were put into the wash when we recovered as the sweat and the other fluids drenched them. We started out the first 10 minutes in a steam shower and after that the sweat was flowing and after we retired to the boudoir the sweat continued unabated for the full two hours plus that he was here.

The hospital I work at opened a 10 bed ER screen area for Covid and a 25 bed Covid inpatient unit yesterday. Today, both are full today. And it is only Tuesday.

As I have written elsewhere, I worked at St Vincent's Hospital in Greenwich Village at a time, late 1970s) when the AID epidemic would be measured in the hundreds of people with Gay Bowel Disease and GRID (Gay related Immunodeficiency). The panic was there for health care workers and gay men and their friends but mostly life went on as it always had even as the wards in St Vincent's filled up. It took several years to figure out the nature of the disease, the cause and eventually a treatment. Most statistics date the epidemic to 1981 though there are rare case reports of cases going back to the 1960s 1988 and 1989 were years of a large number of HIV related deaths, although globally 2004 was the peak year. Still, worldwide, even now, yearly more than 600,000 people die of AIDs related illness, the majority, more than 80%, in Africa, So, more than 40 years down the road, and that particular epidemic is still ongoing. To expect a simple end to this particular virus, coronavirus, is probably foolhardy. Immunity conferred is not complete and not long lasting. We will get better at diagnosing it. We will get better at treating it. We may even get to a point where there is a somewhat effective vaccine. This virus also may mutate to a less toxic form. But all of those things will take time. The world is a completely different place than it was when that first case occurred in Wuhan. It will never be the same again. But more than likely, advances will make it seem not so bad, just at the 1/2 million deaths a years from AIDS seems to be not so bad, AIDS Death in 2018 According to the WHO, 32 million people have died of HIV since the beginning of the epidemic out of the 74.9 million who have been infected (roughly 43 percent).1 Moreover, of the 37.9 million people living with HIV today, just over 770,000 died in 2018. All told, AIDS-related deaths have been reduced by more than 56 percent since the peak in 2004.2

Well the number of cases at the hospital at which I work doubled two days ago and then doubled again yesterday. Sounds ominous. We had one case, then 2 then 4. Not quite so ominous. The truth is, that we are preparing. We have contingency plans if there is a surge in cases. We will be testing in tents, We are telling people to stay home unless thy have a fever, shortness of breath and a cough. If you are not sick like that and you come to the ER, you will be sent home. In those cases, there is nothing medically to do but wait for you to get better or worse. For those who get worse, we have too few negative flow rooms. We have been using hep filters and we will be soon opening a floor of the hospital just for the Covid cases. The fact is, there are not enough people to work. Yesterday a doctor retired rather than care for Covid patients. I check my temperature twice a day as I have a chronic cough and chronic shortness of breath. If I get a fever, I am staying home, if not, hi ho hi ho it is off to work I go. I worked at St Vincent's Hospital in the late 70's and we had many cases of the "gay virus". No one knew how you got it for sure and no one knew for sure what the cause was. People were scared, People panicked. Slowly facts came to light. Precautions were taken, Some fiddled while Rome burned and others took heed. Take heed. Doing things to be safe ultimately will cost you less than if you don't and you wind up ill. If you live alone, have friends check on you. Sometimes the fever can be debilitating and can make it very difficult to be in contact with the outside world. Stay home if you can, Pronhub is your friend. Netflix is your friend. A good book is your friend. Seek out health care if you need it, Even if you become positive, you will likely do well. My guess is that once testing is widespread, the mortality rate will drop, though those at risk will still be at risk and those who get very sick will still need to get care. Resources will be strained and some are already in short supply. Panic does not help. Ignorant behavior can kill. Find you place between those two for the best way to handle this in a reasonably sane way with optimal peace of mind. Pick a number between 1 and 100. If the number is not 47 you survived like the 99% of the people who will eventually test positive for coronavirus. And I say, 99% because the number of positives will surge with further testing and mortalities will stay the same or decrease as a result of the testing. Therefore the rate will decrease but the danger is still there. Facts will eventually emerge. We will get better at this fast. We already have.

Glad I was not trying to get some rest in that neighborhood

He had quite the physique especially for those times when steroids were less readily available.

He hopes he is miserable

Live action character that is. Just about everyone on the symptoms has had a character for longer.

Retribution Drive. https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-dcola-015&hsimp=yhs-015&hspart=dcola&p=retrubution+drive+youtube#id=1&vid=d8004abb99f79bce2974a4d1f70fb555&action=click

Except for the Fire all your guns at once. I prefer sequential gun firing rather than simultaneous gun firings.

I am with Steppenwolf.