At least this made CNN's COVID-19 feed:
Lawmakers in DC advised to use "Star Trek" greeting instead of shaking hands
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-outbreak-03-10-20-intl-hnk/h_8a1db6d5a986a287bf55df91d03285dd
"Live long and prosper" seems quite fitting, as well. :mrgreen:
Gov. Inslee to ban crowds of 250 or more in Seattle amid coronavirus outbreak
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is expected to ban gatherings of 250 or more people in King, Pierce, and Snohomish counties.
https://www.king5.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/gov-inslee-to-announce-social-distancing-plans-for-washington-residents-amid-coronavirus-outbreak/281-c8db691c-6a10-428f-bcdf-829cc1d05226
King County contains cities like Seattle, Kirkland (where the infamous nursing home is), Redmond (Microsoft HQ is there), Bellevue.
Hadn't realized what https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/10/massachusetts-declares-emergency-as-coronavirus-cases-double-overnight-with-51-new-infections.html says
“Today there are 51 new presumptive positive cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of confirmed or presumptive positive cases in the commonwealth to 92,” said Marylou Sudders, secretary of Massachusetts’ health and human services.
Sudders said 70 of the total cases all stem from a meeting of senior managers at Biogen Inc. in the Boston area late last month. Presumptive positive cases have been confirmed by state or local labs, but not by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Coronavirus testing starts for Life Care Center employees - this is from March 10th! This is nuts!
https://komonews.com/news/coronavirus/coronavirus-testing-starts-for-life-care-center-employees
Life Care Center of Kirkland employees are being tested for coronavirus, nearly a week and a half after the first COVID-19 death in what is considered the epicenter of Washington state's outbreak.
The Life Care Center of Kirkland has been asking for days for testing for its employees, Right now just 17 percent of employees have been tested.
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And, we still don't know if any employees may be contagious.
Elevent days into the outbreak and employees at the epicenter are finally being tested for the deadly virus.
"Testing has begun on employees in earnest, " said center's spokesman Tim Killian.
Out of 180 employees, 64 have symptoms of the virus. Thirty have been tested but there have been no results yet.
Diary of a maybe-coronavirus patient in Seattle who tried to get tested
https://www.kuow.org/stories/diary-of-a-maybe-coronavirus-patient-in-seattle-who-could-not-get-tested from March 7th is crazy, but not surprising. This isn't the first story like this that I've seen/skimmed.
How the Biogen leadership conference in Boston spread the coronavirus (if you hit a paywall, try Googling for the headline then clicking thru)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/11/nation/how-biogen-leadership-conference-boston-spread-coronavirus/ - CRAZY!
There were 175 execs there for a two-day conference and
Within days, though, the Biogen conference would be infamous, identified as an epicenter of the Massachusetts outbreak of Covid-19, with 70 of 92 coronavirus infections in the state linked to the conference as of Tuesday night, including employees and those who came into contact with them. That doesn’t include a cascade of individual cases in Tennessee, North Carolina, Indiana, New Jersey, Washington, D.C., and Norway, and suspected cases in Germany, Austria, and Argentina.
