Dr. Dena Goffman, chief of obstetrics at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center talks with Rachel Maddow about a study she co-authored which tested asymptomatic pregnant women arriving to the hospital to give birth and found one in eight of them were positive for the coronavirus. Aired on 04/15/2020.
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Study Finds Startling Number Of Pregnant Women Test Positive For Coronavirus | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC
How can this happen in America? Incompetent leadership.
January – March:
“Not worried about a pandemic”
“Dem/media hoax”
“The risk to the American people is very low”
“We have it under control”
“It’ll go away in April with the heat”
“15 infected, and within a couple of days, it’ll be close to zero”
“It’ll disappear like a miracle”
“Only 22 deaths so far, no shutdown”
“Anyone who wants a test can get a test”
“I don’t take any responsibility at all”
“We have a problem nobody thought about a month ago”
April:
“There will be a lot of death”
“If less than 100,000 Americans die, we have done our job”
It has gone from 6 to 100.000 in a blink of an eye…RIP
Yes I know what the heck.
If you are blaming “America” and not China, that shows that the CCP propaganda campaign has already defeated you. You won’t survive the coming war.
Sunrise Sunset
Doubles every 6 days. Some places even faster.
Redwood Madrone as you’re collecting government checks while calling a billionaire president stupid.😂 Jokes on you, believe me.😂
Why even bother having scientists if we are to ignore them?
@Nicholas Miller currently this is the strain of Covid going around. You just pointed out other strands are not so infectious or deadly, but this current one is highly infectious, so if there are multiple strands and the one being passed around is highly infectious, probability is if you test positive for the covid virus, you’re testing positive for the highly contagious strand. That’s just like dealing with the flu, yes there are different strands, but the rate of infection tells you if it is a strand you’ve dealt with or not, if it’s more infectious, more virulent. So having tested positive for it, wisdom would be to keep you quarantined, until you no longer test positive.
@rastapatch Mail In saying that your promotion of the idea that Covid19 has something to do with Ft Detrick is drowning in the chorus of banjo twang coming out of tRump’s trailer park of inneptitude, incompetents and irresponsibility
@Michael Clagett i think i understand you.
I should have used “possibly” or ‘just as likely’ instead of probably, and might edit the comment.
@rastapatch Mail Poosibly on Mars
roof pizza
For histories sake.
I remember the TB vans, you were first given the test and if it was positive you were later
X-rayed.
Everyone should get test kits in the mail from their health care providers. No different than a hemacult.
They’ve been saying all along that the total number of cases is 10 times the number of confirmed cases.
Martin
For every person who developed paralytic polio, there were 99 other people who contracted the virus. 10 of those 99 developed some degree of encephalitis (ranging from mostly mild to one or two severe cases) but the majority, 89 out of 100, experienced no symptoms whatsoever. People are used to hearing about viruses like Ebola or HIV in which the majority of people who contract the virus get sick, but most viruses don’t work that way. Most viruses only affect a portion of the people who contract the virus.
龙卧
Not necessarily the case. It might turn out that the flu cases are being subsumed by the CV19 cases. CV19 is so much more contagious that those flu cases might be getting CV19 at the same time. It’s even possible that people with co-infections are more likely to be negatively impacted. But I have read comments by people who had flu and were diagnosed and treated for that. It’s more likely we’re just not hearing of those cases much. So there are probably a number of factors at play which make flu seem less prominent right now.
Zizhuo He
I was on a tweet thread of doctors and nurses where they were talking about severe “flus” in January that tested negative for flu. They all thought it likely that they were seeing early CV19 patients. It was probably here before mid January; possibly even December.
Make no mistake(, winter is here)
They say the IFR is .94%. That is basically 1%. That means since we have 37,154 deaths, we have 3,715,400 cases.
Where are all these wonderful tests that everyone was supposed to get if they asked to be tested? Yesterday, it was revealed we only have 6 tests at our local hospital and we have a population of 56,000.
https://youtu.be/4E92BmIwJCU
Joe Rogan said on his podcast yesterday that he’s had multiple tests. In the USA if you’re wealthy or famous you can get the test as often as you need. The rest of us…good luck! Nurses here can’t even get a test.
Move………..please.
Trump dosent want mass testing, his numbers you know! But congrats Trump, you win, you now have 1/2 of a million more cases than any other country in the world! Sick sick man.
@Squirrel Nutz pointless
Holy Cats!
One in eight!
Lots of people don’t know they are spreading the virus.
@StonyJoe not even, only 1 in 8 pregnant women!!!
1 in 8 pregnant women!! Not 1 in 8 of all people. This news channel tries to fool you to make it sound worse and spread fear. They even say what if 1 million new Yorkers (implying 1 in 8 new Yorkers are infected even tho their own news article here just said 1 in 8 pregnant women) have the virus unknowingly. This is mass mis-information at its finest. And any sheeple saying “omg, 1 in 8 have it and are spreading it without knowing it, omg!”” You’re already brain-washed and incapable of thinking for yourself
More testing needed.
@龙卧 site your sources ease. I’d like to read them.
@citizenxgen that would definitely be all good, but thousands are dying. It is still horrific. Not often are us hospitals flowing over capacity. It still needs to be treated very seriously.
youve tested 1% of the population. the U.S has no clue how many covid cases there are.
@Michael Clagett This one?
https://khn.org/news/a-colorado-ski-community-planned-to-test-everyone-for-covid-19-heres-what-happened/
Last result I see is 1000 tested and that was 15 days ago. Looks like about 33*8 = 264 potentially infected at that time?
@Mac Mcleod Check out the Atlantic article also
@Mac Mcleod The Atlantic: Why a Tiny Colorado County Can Offer COVID-19 Tests to Every Resident
The Atlantic: Why a Tiny Colorado County Can Offer COVID-19 Tests to Every Resident.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/03/coronavirus-tests-everyone-tiny-colorado-county/608590/?utm_source=feed
@Mac Mcleod The Guardian: I’m an epidemiologist. When I heard about Britain’s ‘herd immunity’ coronavirus plan, I thought it was satire.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/15/epidemiologist-britain-herd-immunity-coronavirus-covid-19
@Downright Dutch link to CNN document please?
Rachel always asks her guests if she got anything wrong. Invariably the answer is no.
A very serious problem and pregnant women with virus need special care
why….we are all equal right.
foetuses are not human and gender is a social construct.
@citizenxgen I don’t get your point If you are male criticism is not helpful If you are religious then again this isn’t relevant my comment was based on the increased anxiety having the virus and giving birth so what is the point talking about foetus only your dumb brain will know
@Movie magic reviews Ignore citizennxgen – it’s obviously a 12 year old troll. Not worth your time. You are, of course, correct. Pregnant women will absolutely require special care, when diagnosed with Covid. Their immune systems are compromised, in the first place, not to mention the other effects of pregnancy.
Once again, Rachel brings vital information to us!
I don’t like anything racist .I just like truth .The US claimed ALL sick cases as American Common Flu before the Wuhan outbreak .Now ,ALL cases turn into Covid 19 overnight leaving NOT A Single case as American Common Flu .And yet ,nobody feel weird about it .
@龙卧 – I already answered you. You keep repeating the same comment. It’s just false. They are reporting people who died from flu and pneumonia and those people are not being included in the totals for COVID-19. Only people who tested positively are being reported.
Lotta Sunshine this person has repeated the same reply over and over. I don’t like anything racist! Probably not the best way to start! Lol
you must be brain dead
like trump’s tax returns….lol
Many of us have known from the start, that the cases are 10 to 30 times higher and hidden. Not only in New York but Worldwide so get ready for a long nightmare.
Lol no you didn’t Bill Nye
@endintiers Who said recovering from covid19 gives you an immunity?
Even IF, how long it will protect you? As long as an immunity to a common flu? In S. Korea recovered were tested positive AGAIN.
@Mariusz Furman Younger people with stronger immune systems clear the virus before developing many antibodies – this is shown by testing the plasma of people who have recovered – the titers vary wildly.
People with low titers of the antibodies can get it again, but older people who recover have very high antibody levels and are immune.
The worldwide figures are reasonably accurate. In developed countries where testing and medical care are on a par with the US, they are about 15 times higher than the official US figures show. It’s been obvious for some time that the US has a hidden problem.
Well a fairly short night mare if there are that many infected. As soon as we prematurely end quarantines, it will rapidly finish infecting the rest of the population. Most deaths will follow 2-3 weeks later.. and then we are done.
At that intensity, we’ll have twice as many deaths.
I have been concerned about asymptomatic carriers for some time. From reports around the world, it seems that those in their 20’s and 30’s are more likely to be symptomatic than not. Senior citizens appear much less likely to be asymptomatic, so the one in eight ratio may only apply to young adults. I have no data on children, but I think it would be wise to find out before we open schools again.
Children are the vector
Did everyone forget about “Typhoid Mary”?
There is absolutely no idea of the spread of the coronavirus in the US opening up before the spread is ascertained is absolute lunacy.
***MAN HEALED FROM COVID19 in a week through A MEDITATION TECHNIQUE**
MEDITATION TECHNIQUE LINK https://youtu.be/Feg-7Kxsi-A
News Article link https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/man-credits-meditation-for-quick-recovery-from-covid19/1798967
@Naman Goyal Yes people have been telling us for decades they’ve healed themselves by meditating just like others tell us the end of the world is nigh which means I’m immortal as I’ve lived through quite a few world endings.
A 28 year old pregnant nurse who worked as long as she could to help people has now died of C-19. They managed to save her baby. So sad that she gave up so much because she was worried about other people.
28 year old pregnant nurse? don’t blame richard madcow
That’s horrific, Margaret Nicol. I’m so sorry to hear it.
Yeah they usually dont test people no tests we are most likely all infected
This was predictable. The infection started last december and people kept travelling
In our consumer based society ,packages ship worldwide in less than a week. Either way it could happen through contact, A quarantine is a control on a sick population and or individuals,not on the entire healthy population of earth,that will be oppression in full effect.
I’ve heard it really started with an uptick in pneumonia cases in October and it took a while for Chinese doctors and researchers catch on it was a novel virus. It takes a while to identify a pattern. I’d be careful on blaming this totally on China even though the doctor who warned us died. I don’t know enough about that to have an opinion but am curious. Trump didn’t warn us and more unconscionable, he didn’t quietly reassemble the team he fired and upgrade production of supplies. We can’t blame China when we know what trump failed to do.
@millieo Just as likely started in Ft Detrick MD. Which would explain why USA is delaying testing, and why NYC is epicentre
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/health/germs-fort-detrick-biohazard.amp.html&ved=2ahUKEwjouPrc8uroAhVUZM0KHcIlAk0QFjAAegQIBBAB&usg=AOvVaw2gn17ST1Y8dMv31pF0P-qz&cf=1
More likely September or October. The communist regime really screwed the world on this one. Not only that, but the mortality rate is probably much more like the flu near .1%.
I think it may have been even earlier than that. Is that possible?
Thank Rachel Maddow you really tell it like it is! Keep on it!
Exactly. It is more about having a 100% testing of a group of people than it is about being pregnant.
she’s missing the larger point here: pregnant women could be more likely to be asymptomatic…if so, pregnancy protects you from the virus!
From what I understand pregnant women actually do have a reduced immune system so that their body tolerates the presence of the baby.
Yes, but most of these women were asymptomatic, so it appears, at the time of testing anyway, that their immune systems were doing fine.
“Is there anything that I explained there wrong or that I misunderstood about what you and your colleagues have done?”. This. This is credible reporting demonstrated in a sentence. Absolutely fantastic.
THAT’S R.M. FOR YA !!!………..a delight to hear speak !!!
she does that regularly. bc she’s amazing. giving the guest a chance to correct or clarify … yeah, “credible reporting”
That delay of the checks just so someone could make sure his name was on the check???? What about the babies and toddlers who need baby diapers and formula and baby food? What about all the pregnant females in our country? Trump needs to be REMOVED. Not impeached, not fired, not asked politely to retire. Someone needs to show up with handcuffs and with very strong people (bring the orange prison uniform-he’ll need it). He’ll kick and scream and make a big scene. But he needs to removed.