youthathletics wrote: ↑Mon Apr 20, 2020 7:07 pm
MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 20, 2020 6:24 pm
youthathletics wrote: ↑Mon Apr 20, 2020 6:16 pm
RedFromMI wrote: ↑Mon Apr 20, 2020 5:50 pm
6ftstick wrote: ↑Mon Apr 20, 2020 5:40 pm
Trinity wrote: ↑Mon Apr 20, 2020 5:23 pm
They’ve tested a wide sample including asymptomatic subjects. We’re still wiping our ass with rocks.
Total test south Korea 559K as of 4/19
Total US tests 2.688.766 million as of 4/12
SK had only 10661 cases as of that date.
Current test number for US about 3.6 million, and 788,000 cases. Factor of more than 10 in number of cases - and about 6 in testing. And since we are still not testing enough - no one knows the actual case count in the US.
NYT on 4/17 published an article saying the experts think we need to triple our daily capacity for testing...
This massive early testing everyone complains about really makes little sense, why? because we would have completely wiped out our PPE stock pile in a very short time, then been left with very little for those that need it to treat sick people. There HAD to be a slow roll out, in order to stock pile PPE.
HUH?
No, we needed to keep the cases low, the infections suppressed so that we didn't have health systems overwhelmed. Including use of PPE.
But of course we also needed to do emergency runs of PPE in parallel.
And that is exactly why they wanted people to stay home with symptoms and to call their doctor to discuss IF they needed a test....they needed to build the stockpile of PPE and keep sick people off the streets.
You are glossing over the point. We all saw the mad dash and damned near depletion of PPE for hospitals early on. Which is why we had to have multiple vendors ramp up production of PPE....hell, we even had to ask China to ship us stuff. Our company has had an order for 12k 95 masks for over 3 and 1/2 weeks.....still not here....even just surgical masks have been on 2-3 backorder.
If you are a nurse or a dr in a hospital and you have a line out the door for tests, then in the middle of testing you run out of PPE, with that line still out there door, who takes care of those that are sick? Who takes cares of those already admitted or those that need admitted when you are out of PPE?
You don't send a soldier into battle with 2 bullets and 10 guns.
well sure, but we had a window of opportunity to ramp up every aspect. That's the whole point of the 'missing 6 weeks'.
Had we jumped on it hard from the outset, told everyone to make themselves a mask if they didn't already have one and nationalized/federalized purchasing, production and distribution of PPE's simultaneously to adopting the swiftest approach to mass testing, we'd have not had the scale of spread.
Not remotely as much spread.
Heck SK managed to do it with no stay at home, just intense individual social distancing, everyone with a mask, and test and contact trace and isolate. Targeted.
So way less economic cost as well as well as fewer deaths per capita of impacted regions. It's not as if Seoul isn't very, very dense!
So, this is where we need to get to in order to re-open the economy...flattened curve, lots of PPE, lots of individual precautions, and test, trace and isolate EVERY case.