The drive-through test at the Mayo Clinic is apparently based on cheek swabs, not up the nose. That has to be more pleasant.
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There are a variety of tests coming online. The PCR test the federal test uses is kind of time and labor intensive. The one UVA is developing is based on mass spectroscopy and should have much faster throughput. I donât know what strategy CA is using nor Mayo.
ETA how civilized countries do it
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Wahoo wah!
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College of Naturopathic Physicians says any claims about preventing or treating virus are âinappropriateâ
Why? Thatâs never stopped them before.
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See what itâs like to get a Coronavirus test
Their two faces were what, about two or three feet apart, breathing and talking at each other?
If sheâs there getting a test, does that mean sheâs presumed infected?
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Well, I can rule out one. I do get spring allergies, but thatâs a stuffy head, not chest.
Swap in âCommon Coldâ for seasonal allergies, and itâs back in business, though.
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I noticed the lack of mask as well as face shield. This is not acceptable, and how we lose HCW.
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Wish us luck, we may have a senator with real perspective next year:
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The health care worker seems to be wearing a full protective suite, including face protection. Am I missing something?
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He may be using a powered air-purifying respirator (PAPR). Theyâre pretty comfortable when you have to be in level C protection for a long time.
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It took this catastrophe to get London to treat homeless people with some level of compassion
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By my math, that would match up to $13.75A/hr for full time employment, or $8 US/hr ($16k/$A27.5k annual salary equivalent), so a doubling of benefits would still put it beneath minimum wage in a lot of places (barely over it for US federal).
A lot of people are going on unemployment insurance now in the US, and theyâre in for the shock I had when I went on it nearly two decades ago: unless you were making minimum wage at the time, it was a pale fraction of your usual income. I had cheap rent (for SF) and ate ramen noodles and still only got by because of significant savings.
And if I remember correctly, my payouts amounted to about $10/hr. 20 years ago. So thatâs crazy. And I donât get the sense Australia is a cheap place to live.
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Another critical item in short supply:
Could it be 3D-printed?
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Out of plastic? I assumed it already was.
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Great to see Maggie again!!! Been too long.
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The Oz social security net has been massacred over the last few decades.
Local activists have been screaming for years that the government needs to raise the rate; theyâre only doing it now because it looks like significant numbers of middle class white people might need to depend upon it.
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