8 min agoUS soldier in South Korea tests positive for coronavirus An American soldier stationed in South Korea has tested positive for the coronavirus, according to a US Forces Korea statement. The soldier is a 23-year-old man stationed at Camp Carroll, and is the first US service member to test positive. He is currently self-quarantined at his off-base residence, said the statement.
“He visited Camp Walker on 24 Feb. and Camp Carroll 21-25 Feb. KCDC (Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and USFK (United States Forces Korea) health professionals are actively conducting contact tracing to determine whether any others may have been exposed,” the statement said.
13 min agoSouth Korea confirms 1 new death and 169 more coronavirus cases From CNN's Hyoungjoo Choi in Seoul South Korea has confirmed one new death in the southern city of Daegu and 169 additional coronavirus cases across the country, bringing the national total to 12 deaths and 1,146 cases. More than half of all South Korean cases are linked to a branch of the Shincheonji religious group in the south of the country. The 12th death was a 73-year-old man who had previously suffered from diabetes and was a member of the Shincheonji group, according to Daegu's mayor. A total of 134 of the latest 169 cases were also found in Daegu, according to the Korean Centers for Disease Control.
Only 12 US labs other than CDC have working coronavirus test kits From CNN's Ben Tinker & Jamie Gumbrecht The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is still working to make test kits for the novel coronavirus available to state and local labs. Some test kits initially sent out by CDC were flawed. Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said there are currently only 12 state and local labs in the US that can test samples other than the CDC.
“I am frustrated, like I know many of you are, that we have had issues with our test. I want to assure you that we are working to modify the kit and hope to send out a new version to state and local jurisdictions soon," she said. "There are currently 12 states and localities around the US that can test samples – as well as we are testing at CDC. Four hundred samples were tested overnight, and there is no current backlog or delay for testing at CDC."
Public health labs ask to create their own tests for coronavirus From CNN’s Nadia Kounang With only 12 state and local health laboratories able to test for the novel coronavirus, public health labs are asking the US Food and Drug Administration for permission to create their own tests for the virus. “We are now many weeks into the response with still no diagnostic or surveillance test available outside of CDC for the vast majority of our member laboratories,” the Association of Public Health Laboratories wrote in a letter to FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn on Monday. The association represents the 150 largest public health labs across the country and is asking the FDA for a special exemption to create its own diagnostics. “We find ourselves in a situation that requires a quicker local response,” the association wrote. While the CDC currently has no backlog or delay in testing, the lab association’s CEO, Scott Becker, told CNN that its concern is not about the current situation, but for when community spread of the virus increases. “We want to encourage and ensure that we have the test closest to the population,” Becker said. The CDC announced on Feb. 6 that 200 test kits would be distributed to labs across the United States. The kits needed to be verified by the local health laboratories to ensure they were working. Less than a week later, Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said some labs that had received the tests were getting inconclusive results, and components of the tests would need to be remade. The CDC has been working to resolve the testing kit issue but has yet to provide a timeline about when labs will receive new tests.
4 min ago American with coronavirus being transferred from California to Nebraska From CNN's Artemis Moshtaghian and Swetha Sharma An American coronavirus patient who was evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship is being transferred to Nebraska from Travis Air Force Base in California, according to a statement from Nebraska Medicine. The person is the spouse of another Diamond Princess evacuee, who arrived in Omaha for monitoring and treatment last week. This patient is scheduled to arrive at Omaha’s Eppley Airfield tonight local time. Their arrival brings the total number of people monitored at the University of Nebraska Medical Center to 15, according to the statement. Thirteen people have tested positive for the coronavirus while two people remain negative. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed 53 cases of coronavirus in the US.
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8 min agoUS soldier in South Korea tests positive for coronavirus An American soldier stationed in South Korea has tested positive for the coronavirus, according to a US Forces Korea statement. The soldier is a 23-year-old man stationed at Camp Carroll, and is the first US service member to test positive. He is currently self-quarantined at his off-base residence, said the statement.
13 min agoSouth Korea confirms 1 new death and 169 more coronavirus cases From CNN's Hyoungjoo Choi in Seoul South Korea has confirmed one new death in the southern city of Daegu and 169 additional coronavirus cases across the country, bringing the national total to 12 deaths and 1,146 cases. More than half of all South Korean cases are linked to a branch of the Shincheonji religious group in the south of the country. The 12th death was a 73-year-old man who had previously suffered from diabetes and was a member of the Shincheonji group, according to Daegu's mayor. A total of 134 of the latest 169 cases were also found in Daegu, according to the Korean Centers for Disease Control.
Only 12 US labs other than CDC have working coronavirus test kits From CNN's Ben Tinker & Jamie Gumbrecht The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is still working to make test kits for the novel coronavirus available to state and local labs. Some test kits initially sent out by CDC were flawed. Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said there are currently only 12 state and local labs in the US that can test samples other than the CDC.
She added that commercial labs will "be coming online soon with their own tests." "This will allow the greatest number of tests to happen closer to where potential cases are,” Messonnier said.
https://www.cnn.com/asia/live-news/coronavirus-outbreak-02-25-20-hnk-intl/index.html
不过想想也是，要检测能力有啥用，川大统领认为这都不重要，天天逼着FED放水把股市拉起来最重要
一半准确率的试剂盒，检测有啥意义。
不检测就永远也没有确诊， oh yay!