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(sick time)? If so, I’d be asking for the documentation and telling him to have the testing site (hospital?) email him the results to show his employer.
Anyone in close contact with that kid since he was exposed needs to wear a mask, quarantine themselves and notify anyone they have been around. Contagiousness is at it's peak in the 48 hours PRIOR to feeling any symptoms. That's why it's so hard to stop, people are spreading it while they feel fine. Take care of yourself and your loved ones by doing the right thing.
Here's something from the FDA on testing: https://www.fda.gov/media/138094/download
Get your information from the CDC, the FDA, your local health department, your Dr. or your hospital. Don't listen to me or anyone else online.
Confirm if that was a true positive. He should retest with the PCR. If PCR comes back negative, rapid was a false positive.
I’m a bit of a pessimist when it comes to dealing with people. We’ve had quite a few people claim they were in contact with people who tested positive just to get off work. Then someone would see them out running errands.
BUSTED!!! Construction sucks sometimes and they’ll do what they can to get a little vacation to avoid the hard days.
Stay safe as well.
I’ve showed up a 1/2 hour early everyday for the last 23 years.
Now as a foreman myself, when I see an apprentice show up at the same time, that tells me a lot.
New inactive cases? WTF? Looked it up and the term “recovered” has been changed to “inactive.” I guess saying “(insert number) recoveries today” just sounded too fucking positive.
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This is presented as neutral as it gets...Again, ALL CAUSES, year over year comparison (thanks to APLMAN99 for the idea a few pages back). Let's pretend Covid wasn't known and someone showed you this. What would your first thought be? What would you want to know?
As it stands, there are currently ~227k more deaths in 2020 compared to the same time in 2019. The numbers from recent weeks will continue to revise upward as data trickles in from around the country.
This data is readily available for anyone to download and interpret to their heart's desire. I found tables going back to the 1960s, and I'm sure there is more than that.
FYI, the light blue line spiking at the early part of 2018 was from our worst flu season in over 40 years iirc.
The messaging of "flatten the curve" and applying that to the country as a whole never made sense to me. It gave false hope and expectation for everyone. We even opened up quite a bit out here in CA for a couple weeks in July... That didn't turn out well, as we quickly found out.
That dip at the end of the yellow line is not going to be as pronounced (any may not even exist) in the coming weeks as the data is recorded. Hell, it could go up.
So, does a flat line that is 10k deaths above 2019 every single week mean we are "ok"? What is the appropriate response? Stay hunkered down a bit longer until we get a vaccine? Or, just open it all up let things spike? Obviously the answer depends where you live, but for places that are open/opening soon, probably keep massive events (concerts for example) off the table and keep an eye on air travel to/from "hot" states. Just my opinion.
Quick head math tells me if we maintain 5-10k deaths per week over normal until the end of the year, we are looking at 310-400k additional deaths for 2020. I could only imagine how things would look if zero restrictions were ever put in place.
Here’s the predictions with universal mask use and easing restrictions. It’s important to remember that for really the first 3 months of the year, there were virtually no deaths so the predicted total deaths on January 1, 2021 is essentially for a 9 month period.
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