https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/01/health/u ... index.html...
Now, more data showing people without symptoms are fueling the spread has top officials rethinking whether the general public should be wearing masks.
New data from Iceland shows 50% of those who tested positive said they were asymptomatic.
In the US, an estimated 25% of coronavirus carriers have no symptoms, said the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"Information that we have pretty much confirmed now is that a significant number of individuals that are infected actually remain asymptomatic. That may be as many as 25%," CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield told NPR.
To prevent further spread, the top infectious disease expert in the US says health officials are reconsidering guidance on face masks.
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Boosting global N95 class mask production and supply chains to 100s of millions per day should be a top 5 global priority. Flood the market to avoid these games. Could also allow getting workforce back sooner.kboish wrote: ↑Wed Apr 01, 2020 10:00 pmhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisal ... i-learned/
This seems like a problem.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/joble ... =home-pageThe astonishing increase in new claims suggests the unemployment rate shot up to around 10% at the end of March from an official 3.5% rate in February that marked a 50-year low. Never before has the unemployment rate risen so much so quickly.
Not necessarily full time.
And btw, the take away here isn't that we need to increase the production of N95 masks and other PPE (although we should do that, because we will need more in the future), the take away is that there is no shortage, but rather merely an unwillingness of the US gov to use its authority to obtain needed supplies for domestic medical workers who are in crises.earthling wrote: ↑Thu Apr 02, 2020 6:56 amBoosting global N95 class mask production and supply chains to 100s of millions per day should be a top 5 global priority. Flood the market to avoid these games. Could also allow getting workforce back sooner.kboish wrote: ↑Wed Apr 01, 2020 10:00 pmhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisal ... i-learned/
This seems like a problem.
The writer gets into why that happened in the article. And it basically comes down to the federal governments inaction and laissez faire attitude. They are trying to push the blame down to states, but states can't get it done on their own.By the end of the day, roughly 280 million masks from warehouses around the U.S. had been purchased by foreign buyers and were earmarked to leave the country, according to the broker — and that was in one day.
