meka72
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Do you know if this is shipped from the US or elsewhere? I can’t seem to find that info. Thanks!
The Covid-19 Thread: News, Preparation Tips, Etc
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Jmartjrmd
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You're welcome. I did some reading up too seems that outside the US they removed the feature and on the newest models they removed the sensor all together. Lots of folks are upset. I had to delete the update and go back to a previous version but it all came back.
Sorry about that I thought if it was on one it would be on all.
Crackers Phinn
Either A Blessing Or A Lesson.
As if my nerves ain't bad enough we just had an earthquake. It wasn't a big one but it was a shaky one instead of a rolling one and those are scary.
Layluh
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Welp guess im not getting a check
dancinstallion
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Glad you are ok and it wasnt a big one.
I may not for other reasons not mentioned yet. Long story but changing the rules everyday is crazy.Welp guess im not getting a check
discodumpling
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Oxygen saturation test is embedded in the stress test on my Samsung 9+. So take the stress test and get both your heart rate and o2 sat stats.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/akwxwe/how-to-join-csa-community-supported-agriculture
Don't get your food from corporations find your local CSA
https://www.ams.usda.gov/services/local-regional/food-directories
Don't get your food from corporations find your local CSA
https://www.ams.usda.gov/services/local-regional/food-directories
HappyAtLast
Simplicity & Peacefulness
My son isn't getting a check even though he worked and filed taxes for 2019. The reason is because he was my dependent for part of the year while he finished school and even though he moved out in 2019 it doesn't matter. So you think they gave me the money for him? No! Nobody gets it!
HappyAtLast
Simplicity & Peacefulness
Thank you but it's not on my models.
Everything Zen
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Hopefully y’all ain’t out here trying to compare Abbott to Theranos... 
They went through one of the biggest FDA negligent fines in history years ago just for overstating what one if their drugs could do to doctors that wasn’t on the label. They spun off their entire Biologics and pharmaceutical side of the industry as another company because of it so they never got into that much trouble and faced that much risk again. They immediately went to the agency with this info about the false negatives and they also got approved for another instrument that can take a standard high volume of tests that you would see at a reference lab but the results take longer. It was approved under an Emergency Use. The same thing will happen with the first treatments and vaccines- the risks are weighed against the outcome so it becomes harder to enter the market over time as the quality of potential treatments improves. They ain’t trying to catch that smoke from FDA.
https://www.abbott.com/coronavirus.html
They went through one of the biggest FDA negligent fines in history years ago just for overstating what one if their drugs could do to doctors that wasn’t on the label. They spun off their entire Biologics and pharmaceutical side of the industry as another company because of it so they never got into that much trouble and faced that much risk again. They immediately went to the agency with this info about the false negatives and they also got approved for another instrument that can take a standard high volume of tests that you would see at a reference lab but the results take longer. It was approved under an Emergency Use. The same thing will happen with the first treatments and vaccines- the risks are weighed against the outcome so it becomes harder to enter the market over time as the quality of potential treatments improves. They ain’t trying to catch that smoke from FDA.https://www.abbott.com/coronavirus.html
Always~Wear~Joy
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I know you asked her but I wanted to know as well so I messaged them. They said the US warehouse is OOS so they are shipping from China.
meka72
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Thanks so much for sharing this info!I know you asked her but I wanted to know as well so I messaged them. They said the US warehouse is OOS so they are shipping from China.
vevster
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And can I just add ... I love all of you.
Thank you for the positivity, the invaluable information and just being uplifting sister friends throughout all of this madness.
That just doesn't seem fair -- also why are 17 year olds not included? They are still minors!Welp guess im not getting a check
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ThirdEyeBeauty
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Not comparing but these companies know the rules will be loose at the beginning and as long as they follow the rules they will receive a long portion of the business funding. Just like "small" (but large) businesses who are not hurting received money that could have gone to the truly small businesses that are hurting. Just like the temporary hospitals quickly built but wasn't really needed (but just in case) received funding. That's how the game works.Hopefully y’all ain’t out here trying to compare Abbott to Theranos...
https://www.abbott.com/coronavirus.html
naturalgyrl5199
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Agreed----I wouldn't trust ANY antibody test right now or in the fall when the cold and flu season comes. Pretty much most colds are some coronavirus or rhinovirus. Where I live, we got our first FLU hospitalizations in August. AUGUST when the weather is still in the 90's in my part of FL! It takes a LONG time to validate these things and I'm sure this little bugger has mutated. Thats what happens when you don't have people with credentials running the agencies.
dicapr
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Working in a lab I know how long it takes for us to validate a test that is already FDA approved. And sometimes we have to adjust things based on the conditions of our lab and our patient population.
There is no way on earth they developed a good enough test in 2 months to make me feel good about it. Plus POCT testing is not as accurate as regular lab testing for so many reasons! Nope not buying it at all!
naturalgyrl5199
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I remember when my ex-micropreemie (ya'll e-niece) was a year out of the NICU...I used to watch her breathing like a hawk. I remember one night she woke up fussy but not in pain or visual distress when she was doing these super duper subtle retractions. I remember pacing the hallway in the middle of the night about one minute and I woke DH up and I was like---WE GOING to the ER. Girl my baby's sats were in the low 80's!!! Those people were like OMG get her back here! They were like she don't even look distressed. She had an ear infection.....an EAR infection. Thats it. No strep, no flu, (it was like November and 40 deg in FL), no nothing. But the infection and overall stress to her system caused her sats to drop. I said all of that to tell everyone: Watch your kids breathing!
My youngest (now 2) had her sats drop like a year ago due to some coldvirus. Same thing....subtle change in breathing but her chest was caving in a bit too. Lethargic. Fever....we got moving.
naturalgyrl5199
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I'm glad you are alright.
TrulyBlessed
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Imagine that, smh. Add to the list of reasons our people are at a disadvantage with this virus.
Detroit man with virus symptoms dies after 3 ERs turn him away, family says: "He was begging for his life"
Updated on: April 22, 2020 / 8:14 AM
A Detroit family is mourning a man they say was turned away from getting tested for the coronavirus three times.
"He was begging for his life, but no one would help him at all. Like they just kept sending him away," said Keith Gambrell, the stepson of 56-year-old Gary Fowler.
Gambrell said he was concerned his stepfather had coronavirus. He took him to three different emergency rooms and said each time, Fowler was not admitted and not tested, despite having many of the symptoms.
"I honestly believe it was because my father was black. They didn't honestly take his symptoms serious enough to give him a test," Gambrell told "CBS This Morning" national correspondent Jericka Duncan.
The day before Fowler died, his father, David, died from COVID-19. Soon after, Fowler's wife, Cheryl, began having symptoms of her own, landing her in the hospital.
"They put her on the ventilator. I'm just thinking like, man, this is it. I'm about to lose my mom too," Gambrell said.
Gambrell was concerned other family members could be next, so he called his cousin, State Representative Karen Whitsett for help.
Whitsett, who visited the White House last week to speak about surviving coronavirus, made sure her family was tested.
Asked if she thinks her family would have been tested if she were not a state lawmaker, Whitsett said, "Absolutely not."
"And that sickens me to have to use that title to be able to have to get my family tested," she said.
Gambrell and his brothers Troy and Ross all tested positive, he said.
On Monday, Michigan's governor created a state task force to investigate racial disparities in the pandemic.
Lieutenant Governor Garlin Gilchrist, who is the chair of the task force, said it will address "the fact that there may indeed be medical bias present when it comes to testing, as in who will even get a test, as well as in how treatment is administered."
Gambrell, who has mild symptoms, is now focused on caring for his mother, Cheryl. She had been sent home from the hospital but was readmitted late Tuesday night on what would have been her 25th wedding anniversary.
Asked what he would say to people who are losing loved ones back-to-back, Gambrell said, "Just pray. You just got to continue to fight for them and live the life that they will live and be their voice. Someone has to speak for the people that can't get medical attention the proper way, and I feel like that's my duty now."
Michigan says it could perform more than 11,000 tests each day if it had enough tests. State officials claim swabs and reagents are in short supply, so right now they are doing about half of that amount.
First published on April 22, 2020 / 8:10 AM
© 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-detroit-man-dead-turned-away-from-er/
Detroit man with virus symptoms dies after 3 ERs turn him away, family says: "He was begging for his life"
Updated on: April 22, 2020 / 8:14 AM
A Detroit family is mourning a man they say was turned away from getting tested for the coronavirus three times.
"He was begging for his life, but no one would help him at all. Like they just kept sending him away," said Keith Gambrell, the stepson of 56-year-old Gary Fowler.
Gambrell said he was concerned his stepfather had coronavirus. He took him to three different emergency rooms and said each time, Fowler was not admitted and not tested, despite having many of the symptoms.
"I honestly believe it was because my father was black. They didn't honestly take his symptoms serious enough to give him a test," Gambrell told "CBS This Morning" national correspondent Jericka Duncan.
The day before Fowler died, his father, David, died from COVID-19. Soon after, Fowler's wife, Cheryl, began having symptoms of her own, landing her in the hospital.
"They put her on the ventilator. I'm just thinking like, man, this is it. I'm about to lose my mom too," Gambrell said.
Gambrell was concerned other family members could be next, so he called his cousin, State Representative Karen Whitsett for help.
Whitsett, who visited the White House last week to speak about surviving coronavirus, made sure her family was tested.
Asked if she thinks her family would have been tested if she were not a state lawmaker, Whitsett said, "Absolutely not."
"And that sickens me to have to use that title to be able to have to get my family tested," she said.
Gambrell and his brothers Troy and Ross all tested positive, he said.
On Monday, Michigan's governor created a state task force to investigate racial disparities in the pandemic.
Lieutenant Governor Garlin Gilchrist, who is the chair of the task force, said it will address "the fact that there may indeed be medical bias present when it comes to testing, as in who will even get a test, as well as in how treatment is administered."
Gambrell, who has mild symptoms, is now focused on caring for his mother, Cheryl. She had been sent home from the hospital but was readmitted late Tuesday night on what would have been her 25th wedding anniversary.
Asked what he would say to people who are losing loved ones back-to-back, Gambrell said, "Just pray. You just got to continue to fight for them and live the life that they will live and be their voice. Someone has to speak for the people that can't get medical attention the proper way, and I feel like that's my duty now."
Michigan says it could perform more than 11,000 tests each day if it had enough tests. State officials claim swabs and reagents are in short supply, so right now they are doing about half of that amount.
First published on April 22, 2020 / 8:10 AM
© 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-detroit-man-dead-turned-away-from-er/
ThirdEyeBeauty
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I said the same. Hospitals should keep people who are very concerned about their symptoms especially with breathing problems and risk factors such as diabetes and obesity. Overwhelm the hospitals--transfer him to another one. New York had a nearly empty navy ship hospital ready for C19-like patients. Michigan hospitals and health care providers received 1 billion dollars in C19 aids.
vevster
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I am starting to wonder if they are purposefully not admitting patients now to keep the admissions down. They are quick to note that there are less admissions but why is there less admissions? Because less people need to be admitted? or because they are turning away people?
No, that isn’t listed in the features, but for just under $30, I don’t mind manually entering it.
meka72
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Anyone watching the mayor of Las Vegas lie and obfuscate on CNN with Anderson Cooper?
ETA: Anderson just told her that her statement was ignorant. Lol.
ETA2: She was talking nonsense and he took his glasses off and wiped his eyes. I think the mayor might be drunk or high. Lol.
ETA3: She basically said that it is not her job to worry about testing people, it was up to the employers. She told Anderson that he was alarmist.
ETA: Anderson just told her that her statement was ignorant. Lol.
ETA2: She was talking nonsense and he took his glasses off and wiped his eyes. I think the mayor might be drunk or high. Lol.
ETA3: She basically said that it is not her job to worry about testing people, it was up to the employers. She told Anderson that he was alarmist.
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UmSumayyah
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High dose vitamin c is effective and it's widely known.
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