Re: All things COVID-19
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2020 9:52 pm
i've been monitoring worldometer for several weeks bc it seems to have the most updated numbers, and breaks it down, you can track.Cooter wrote: ↑Fri Mar 20, 2020 8:37 pmSo far, the coronavirus in the US is not causing enough serious or critical cases.RedFromMI wrote: ↑Fri Mar 20, 2020 8:31 pmLook farther down the page and find the total number of cases in the US. Still exponential growth. You are deluding yourself.Cooter wrote: ↑Fri Mar 20, 2020 8:10 pm This site
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
Has the active cases at 18,984 with only 64 as serious or critical.
This low number of serious or critical cases indicates that we should end the lockdown.
Deaths are up to 256.
Switch the view to log plot. Straight line=exponential. The threat is GROWING
Needs a little more emphasis...and yet -- we've so far spent trillions and destroyed trillions more bc we don't have test kits. read that again.
Agree. I have finished my calculations for the past 24 hours and we continue to see 24 hour infection growth of more than 45% - shown on your first graph above. More states moving into the over 1 death per million, and growing category. I will post all of this later.RedFromMI wrote: ↑Fri Mar 20, 2020 8:31 pmLook farther down the page and find the total number of cases in the US. Still exponential growth. You are deluding yourself.Cooter wrote: ↑Fri Mar 20, 2020 8:10 pm This site
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
Has the active cases at 18,984 with only 64 as serious or critical.
This low number of serious or critical cases indicates that we should end the lockdown.
Deaths are up to 256.
Switch the view to log plot. Straight line=exponential. The threat is GROWING
So NY,CA & WA are dumbass states ?ardilla secreta wrote: ↑Fri Mar 20, 2020 9:19 pm We have smart states and dumbass states. Unfortunately, we have an ununited states that’s allowing the spread. If a national enemy were invading the US there would hopefully be a strategic plan led by the president. So, why doesn’t the president shut down the USA instead of waiting for the backward states to take it for real? They are literally killing us.
The fat cats deserve plenty of blame.Jim Malone wrote: ↑Fri Mar 20, 2020 10:29 pm One patient per hour passing in NYC per last report in NY Post minutes ago. And, it is just the beginning. Folk can blame Trump all they want but the Administrators of these large health plans knew this was coming and got caught short too! The fat cats who pull in the do re me!!
New York City is in serious trouble. Gov. Cuomo waited too long to shut down the city.jhu72 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 20, 2020 10:43 pmAgree. I have finished my calculations for the past 24 hours and we continue to see 24 hour infection growth of more than 45% - shown on your first graph above. More states moving into the over 1 death per million, and growing category. I will post all of this later.RedFromMI wrote: ↑Fri Mar 20, 2020 8:31 pmLook farther down the page and find the total number of cases in the US. Still exponential growth. You are deluding yourself.Cooter wrote: ↑Fri Mar 20, 2020 8:10 pm This site
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
Has the active cases at 18,984 with only 64 as serious or critical.
This low number of serious or critical cases indicates that we should end the lockdown.
Deaths are up to 256.
Switch the view to log plot. Straight line=exponential. The threat is GROWING
For now I am updating on what is going on in one of the largest national HMOs (wife's employer). They have already cut back their daily patient load by canceling appointments for preventative care in preparation for a huge influx. In those parts of the country where they have not started seeing that influx, they are forcing clinicians to take vacation days on a rotating basis to rest up for the coming battle. They are conducting most of their patient exams via telemedicine so as not to degrade the work force through patient interaction at this time. They have decided to despecialize so that when the battle begins non-internist physicians will work under the direction of the internists (internal medicine specialists) in the groups. This is a force multiplier for the internists, the most capable in handling this type of disease. HMO management has notified their physicians that they under no circumstance are to prescribe the Trump anti-malaria ("he feels good about them") drugs.
As I have indicated the past few days, Louisiana appeared to be a growing problem based on the per capita data. Today Louisiana made news that they are indeed in trouble, so we will start hearing more about them. Florida also looks like they are soon to be in the crosshairs based on the Kinsa networked thermometer data. Probably a week away. They have not started reporting large per capita infections, but they will.
It has been reported that Ivanka tested negative after contact with Australian carrier. The meeting was reported (I posted) a few weeks ago. Ivanka was there with Barr. Radio silence on Barr.
We need more of it all ... much, much more testing ... much, much more PPEs ... much, much more lockdowns.old salt wrote: ↑Fri Mar 20, 2020 11:19 pmSo NY,CA & WA are dumbass states ?ardilla secreta wrote: ↑Fri Mar 20, 2020 9:19 pm We have smart states and dumbass states. Unfortunately, we have an ununited states that’s allowing the spread. If a national enemy were invading the US there would hopefully be a strategic plan led by the president. So, why doesn’t the president shut down the USA instead of waiting for the backward states to take it for real? They are literally killing us.
in the big picture, i understand the need for testing (contact tracing & community spread mapping),
but we're facing a triage crisis in PPE for our healthcare workers, ...which was known & forecast.
How much of our PPE stockpile was consumed doing testing, yielding 90% negatives,
...when we were headed for social distancing & lockdowns anyway ?
Thanks for this useless snark.
Around 100,000 tests have been done in the US so far. The PPE need is in the tens of millions.
Not a fun story, and very sorry for your and your mom’ troubles. Hang in there, and good luck.Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Sat Mar 21, 2020 12:58 am Here a fun story:
So my mother who lives alone in a small house w maybe one friend nearby (also older lady) is in the hospital bc she fell down at home after having been at an emergency room and release night prior. Hadn’t eaten in two days and now has a broken arm. In addition, though I have to verify, she told me and my sister she has liver cancer (unofficially diagnoses by an MRI not sure dr seems convinced but biopsy is weds). They’ve made the decision she can’t live alone and won’t release her that way so I’m driving up mom or Tuesday to Binghamton. Town is shut down I’m told and I have to go up get her out and find her a ALF facility as fast as possible. All while this virus pandemic is going on. Should be fun. Not even sure I can visit ALF joints right now. Bad time for any other stuff to happen in life suffice to say bc this wouldn’t be easy without the virus. Thank whoever I can do my work remotely and have a contract with a partner that rolls a few months on this work.
Here is some of the text, for whose who hit a paywall:Trinity wrote: ↑Sat Mar 21, 2020 7:48 am “Inside the White House, Trump’s advisers struggled to get him to take the virus seriously.”
A compelling case for gross negligence and dereliction of duty in ignoring the clear warning signs of the coming pandemic.“
Michael Bromwich, SDNY vet
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national ... story.html