One US citizen tests mildly positive for hantavirus, another has mild symptoms

How does one test "mildly positive"? Isn't this sort of thing a yes or no question? I didn't know "eh, kinda...' was an option.

Both were in the boat

The title could honestly be the start of a medical exam question: "One patient was tested mildly positive for virus A, while the other patient has mild symptoms for virus A. What is the difference? \[5 points\]"

Mildly positive.. like pregnancy test barely showing two lines at 7 weeks mark?

Article text in case anyone needs it with the paywall: > May 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said on Sunday that one of the 17 Americans being repatriated from a hantavirus-struck luxury cruise ship has tested mildly positive for the ‌Andes strain of the virus while a second has mild symptoms. > All the U.S. citizens are being airlifted to the United States, and the two passengers with symptoms are travelling in the plane's biocontainment units, HHS added. The second symptomatic passenger has not yet been confirmed as having the virus. > Hantaviruses ⁠are a group of viruses that are usually spread by rodents but in rare cases can be transmitted person to person. Health authorities have said the risk of the virus spreading is low. > Eight people no longer on the MV Hondius have fallen ill, according to a World Health Organization update from Friday, with six of them confirmed to have contracted the virus. A Dutch couple and a German national have died. > The Andes strain of hantavirus, identified in the ship's ‌outbreak, ⁠can cause severe lung illness that can be fatal in up to 50% of cases, according to the WHO. > The U.S. State Department's airlift will transport passengers to the ASPR Regional Emerging Special Pathogen Treatment Center (RESPTC) at the University of Nebraska Medical Center ⁠in Omaha, Nebraska, and the passenger with mild symptoms will be taken to a second RESPTC, the HHS said. > On arrival at the facilities, each individual will undergo clinical assessment ⁠and receive care based on their condition, HHS added. > Spain and France have evacuated their citizens from the MV Hondius, which is anchored near Tenerife, the ⁠largest of the Canary Islands, officials said. Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Turkey, the UK and Ireland are also flying home nationals who were on the ship.

Quite a bit riding on Mild here.

I’m slightly pregnant? Hand me that piano. Mostly pasteurized

He's only mildly dead, sir.

This Harvard professor says the official messaging that prolonged contact is needed to spread isn't accurate. The research paper be references contact traced the last outbreak and had transmission happening in passing at a birthday party. https://youtu.be/rO4Xd5PfIo0

Mildly positive? “I may have committed some mild treason” gif

I'm mildly positive that a positive is a positive

Right up there with "alternative facts." Trump said his admin had COVID under control in late January 2020, same shit he's saying now about hantavirus. We're better off getting facts from anywhere except the US Government.

Self-monitor?!? No no no, not after symptoms. Their asses need to stay in quarantine. Sorry, but how's that fair to everyone else? Its nit about creating panic, its commin sense. People have already died. If someone is in quarantine and breaks that quarantine, especially if they are symptomatic, they should be charged. I cancel appointments if I have a cold, and no one will potentially die from that, how irresponsible. Smh

They should have left them all on the boat and parachuted in assistance as needed.

Is “testing mildly positive” kind of like being “mildly pregnant”?

This keeps getting mildly worse.

What a stupid time to have RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary.

Why does this shit only happen while we have idiots running the country?

Mildly positive! Since when is that a thing? You can have a "mild" case of something, but the virus is either present or not present. What a weird headline. It's not even mildly possible to test "mildly positive" on *any* test. Even if they were quantifying, the quant will differ by tissue tested.

What the f*** is mildly positive, you either have it or you don't This is what happens when Trump appoints the dumbest people to run our health department

Covid 2: Hantavirus Bugaloo

"Mildly positive"? Is that like being "mildly pregnant"?. Good grief, what journalistic garbage. You are either positive or not. And I really feel that this whole outbreak has been mismanaged and will spiral.... Every single person should have been isolated for a prudent amount of time.

"You see your friend here is only **mostly** ~~positive~~ dead."

I’m a pcr analyst. When I test for a virus, it is either positive or negative. There is no mildly positive. There are times it barely crosses the threshold for a positive, but that doesn’t mean you can call it a mild positive.

How can a test be mildly positive? It either positive or negative. 

Ahhh but see he’s only mostly dead, which is much different than completely dead!

I love the mild positive, just like a little cold is all.

What the f*** even is "mildly positive"? So they're positively mild???

“Hantavirus is a hoax” - Donald Trump

I tested "mildly positive" for West Nile Virus when I was absolutely sure I had it along with all of the symptoms for west Nile after getting like 100 mosquito bites in California. They just called it "mildly positive" because I was the first case in my county and they wanted to be sure before starting a scare.

Only mildly not breathing

WHO said there will be more cases.

"mildly positive" fits right into George Carlin's "Near Miss" skit. For those not enlightened, educate yourself on George Carlin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1kK-_o_-tY

so they mildly have a 30 percent chance to die from an infectious virus?

Donald Trump in 2020 regarding COVID: 'We have it totally under control. It's one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It's going to be just fine," Trump told CNBC's Joe Kernen. This comment was made just one day after the CDC (now gutted) confirmed the first case of the virus in a Washington state resident who had returned from Wuhan, China.

I cannot do this again

F*** his liberties. I wanna live. Quarantee that guy.

If you test mildly positive for weed, do you get to keep your job?

Cool, where are they going on their national tour 1st?/s

I hate that they are taking them to two separate places. Because now two different transport teams, two centers twice the chance of spreading. That's just my dumb math.

Guys relax, WHO said its not a big deal same as when corona virus came out

Is rhis info from the government? If so they are lying. The citizens are deathly ill.

Good thing our current admin is known for brilliantly handling massive outbreak situations /s

Oh it is so over for us

So they are positive and SHOULD STAY THE F*** TO THEMSELVES!!!!

STOP TESTING IF UOU DONT TEST YOU DONT HAVE SICK PEOPLE!!11!1!1 /s

This is the dumbest headline…you’re either positive or negative…you either have it or you don’t…there’s no “mild positive” bullshit, this is gaslighting

What exactly is mildly positive? Either you are or you are not. Once again our government is playing games, there is hantavirus infection and RFK Jr is in no way going to handle this.

They must have taken him to Miracle Max …. He only partially dead !

What’s the difference between, mildly positive, medium positive and real positive? /s

Man, did they get that shit or not? Mildly my ass

Is this like testing just a little bit pregnant.

RFK Jr. should be able to deal with this for Donald Trump. Right? Right????

It's cool y'all, just a mild case. Nbd! 👌

You know, I was just thinking it had been almost a week since we had another disaster thrown at us here in the US.

That's at least TWO people then... Math is hard

Mild pretty mild headline mild. I mild wonder mild if mild they mild could mild have mild inserted "mild" any mild more mildly. mild.

Kind of sort of maybe positive 

“mildly positive” wtf does that mean? Positive is positive and can spread.

The light is 'mildly' on.

Just like being a little pregnant?

Must have been diagnosed by RFK himself.

Are you shocked that statement came from a department spokesman? Imagine the brainstorming session that led to that! What got passed on?

Well that's a relief. Imagine if he was spicy positive.

The universe is literally throwing plagues at us every time Trump is in office.

No one tests mildly positive.  It's positive or not. 

I'm so glad that the USA is being led by amazing and intelligent people, who will definitely contain and take care of this situation really well, and they will continue to lead the WHO. I'm so glad that the US secretary of health is such am intelligent guy who doesn't eat road kill and doesn't peddle misinformation, and that the US president is the most stable genius who has passed so many cognitive screening tests... / Sarcasm if unclear

The rats are on the ship.

Don't worry guys, your orange prez will keep you all safe

Phew, only mildly positive. We'll get away with just a sorta pandemic