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2020-04-17 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Homeless Shelter in Boston: 50% positive, 0% showed symptoms

BOSTON ‐ The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now "actively looking into" results from universal COVID-19 testing at Pine Street Inn homeless shelter.

The broad-scale testing took place at the shelter in Boston's South End a week and a half ago because of a small cluster of cases there.

Of the 397 people tested, 146 people tested positive. Not a single one had any symptoms.

Posted by lord garth 2020-04-17 08:09|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 A complete gene sequence of the virus infecting these people should be done to determine if this is an asymptomatic daughter species of the standard China virus or if a large percentage of the human populace just doesn't experience non-trivial symptoms during a standard China virus infection.

Also all should be tested for antibodies.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2020-04-17 11:10|| 2020-04-17 11:10|| Front Page Top

#2 First, use another test - from another manufacturer, Elmerert - because (IMO) there may not be a novel coronavirus.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-17 11:26|| 2020-04-17 11:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Matches the sewage test they did in Boston. Infected people are some 100 times higher than reported. Which means most people will have no or very mild symptoms. Good news for opening the economy back up.

Posted by DarthVader 2020-04-17 11:46|| 2020-04-17 11:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Multiple coronavirus tests return false positives

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-17 11:53|| 2020-04-17 11:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Let me guess. All under 50, not black, no co-morbidity.

Posted by KBK 2020-04-17 12:38|| 2020-04-17 12:38|| Front Page Top

#6 True, but we are seeing many of these stories by may different sources and techniques of testing.

More people have antibody for COVID than thought-LA

Posted by DarthVader 2020-04-17 12:39|| 2020-04-17 12:39|| Front Page Top

#7 How can the frontline state of California, with 40m population, a third of them impoverished, many with bad health -- and with the nation's largest homeless population -- how does CA have only 347 cases?

That's one of the lowest fatality rates in the world.

Can it be true that millions of coastal Californians were not exposed to the virus? There were about 10,000 travelers from China to California every single day between December and March 11 of this year -- and thrice-weekly direct flights from Wuhan itself to San Jose!

The lockdown is not the main reason for California's success. Californians living and working in the main employment and tourist centers were exposed continuously for at least 10 weeks at the beginning of the year.

How

Posted by Lex 2020-04-17 12:50|| 2020-04-17 12:50|| Front Page Top

#8 * 347 deaths

Posted by Lex 2020-04-17 12:50|| 2020-04-17 12:50|| Front Page Top

#9 Calif had about 1000 official deaths from the Wu as of today. That's about 25 per million population.

Texas, which hasn't been locked up anywhere like California, had about 500 official deaths for a rate of about 15 per million population.

Utah, which was locked up less than Texas, had about 20 official deaths, for a rate of about 7 per million population.

Posted by lord garth 2020-04-17 13:13|| 2020-04-17 13:13|| Front Page Top

#10 I'm trying to comment here.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-17 13:17|| 2020-04-17 13:17|| Front Page Top

#11 Nope. Doesn't work

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-17 13:19|| 2020-04-17 13:19|| Front Page Top

#12 Funny.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-17 13:21|| 2020-04-17 13:21|| Front Page Top

#13 ^ No Mod trix that I know of

Posted by Frank G 2020-04-17 13:28|| 2020-04-17 13:28|| Front Page Top

#14 A qualitatively similar result from Germany:

250 workers in a meat processing plant were tested. Most of the test results were sent to the health department yesterday.

"Significantly more" than 90 are infected.
"Nearly none" of the infected is showing any symptoms.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2020-04-17 13:30|| 2020-04-17 13:30|| Front Page Top

#15 Well, machines have their quirks - but the Lex's California question is interesting.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-17 13:30|| 2020-04-17 13:30|| Front Page Top

#16 Fred has a secret stash of forbidden words that prevent posting, most related to sp4m. There is also the rule that no more than two links are permitted per comment. Possibly you ran into either of those, g(r)omgoru.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-04-17 13:31|| 2020-04-17 13:31|| Front Page Top

#17 #14 That's why I prefer "tested positive" to "infected".

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-17 13:32|| 2020-04-17 13:32|| Front Page Top

#18 #16
"California", "Congestion", "Genetics", "Diet"?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-17 13:33|| 2020-04-17 13:33|| Front Page Top

#19 What is 'Fusion Cuisine'?

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-04-17 16:19|| 2020-04-17 16:19|| Front Page Top

#20 "Hair-plugs"?

Posted by Lex 2020-04-17 16:24|| 2020-04-17 16:24|| Front Page Top

#21 What is 'Fusion Cuisine'?

High temp BBQ.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-17 16:58|| 2020-04-17 16:58|| Front Page Top

#22 Fusion cuisine is cuisine that combines elements of different culinary traditions that originate from different countries, regions, or cultures.

It does not include the preparing and cooking of food by the nuclear combining of hydrogen (deutrium and tritium) atoms into helium. This is what is called culinary overkill.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2020-04-17 18:06|| 2020-04-17 18:06|| Front Page Top

#23 Like onigiri with jalapeno jelly filling?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-17 18:20|| 2020-04-17 18:20|| Front Page Top

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