Posted on 02/14/2020 4:45:21 PM PST by Vermont Lt
Happy Valentines Day.
There are currently 67,100 confirmed cases worldwide, including 1,526 fatalities.
Everyone holding onto the handrail. People really are stupid.
Brilliant, not. Placing the ship passengers in two parts of the nation instead of one.
Hospitals in the US are not going to be able to handle large numbers of cases using their current business model.
Their margins are so thin, and their reliance on fast turnover is so great, that IF there are large numbers, they will be turned into public utilities in a heartbeat.
Ro is a measure of how readily a pathogen spreads. The higher, the faster and extensive the spread.
Pretty good article by the former Director of the CDC, here, with a discussion including Ro:
This “spread factor” tends to lower for dangerous pathogens as time goes by, because humans alter their behavior (less travel, quarantines, develop vaccines, better hygiene, etc.) Eventually, the virus additionally can run low on new victims to infect, and THAT slows it down.
Suffice it to say that if a pathogen can maintain an Ro of 2 or better in the face of drastic containment efforts, AND has a significant mortality rate, we have a problem.
Vinegar is an acid. Alkaline kill viruses.
established animal vets would probably have a small supply so that would be accessible. There’s the shelf life, tho.
Looking at that SoCal vaccine company that did sars, the experimental ebola and mers, they were able to ‘vaccine design’ this new virus they said in 3 hours because the new sars is similar to the old sars. So, they’ve sort of proved, sure, we can sometimes build on the vaccines we already have and maybe save months. I think I read that company is going human trials next month and s/b ready by June? Or maybe it was human trials by June?
I’m going to try that!
I remember a cryptic post brought over to FR that said something evil scientist like, this disease is gonna be two stage and serious bad. I figured it was just some goofball punking.
But then I think that if this was just a lab accident, it’s not like China couldn’t hang a few hundred people in public as scapegoats and be enthusiastic about help controlling the disaster (wouldn’t even have to be researchers - could be murderers or rapists or organ transplantees - who knows who they are with hoods over their heads).
It’ll probably just be someone toured a bat cave where Sars has long been found (when was that article, 2013 maybe?), got pooped on, toured the wet market and boom. Natural transference.
Agreed. The truly unnerving part is the metadata tracking.
not a fan but he’s put up $100M to fasttrack the vaccine development - SoCal’s innovio and 4 others I think.
It was one of the first dailies. It was from some Adnan on 8 Chan.
It was supposedly some person in the NHS in Britain. He said it was a bio weapon with a kind of boomerang that came back after recovery.
The post sounded like a speech from a Bond villain. But parts of it are just ominous.
It was one of the first dailies. It was from some Adnan on 8 Chan.
It was supposedly some person in the NHS in Britain. He said it was a bio weapon with a kind of boomerang that came back after recovery.
The post sounded like a speech from a Bond villain. But parts of it are just ominous.
of course you’re right. I doubt medicare paid that much, too. But I almost had a heart attack over the heart attack bill until I saw the bottom line. Just kind of hard to digest that 4 hours in ICU, one day for an angioplasty/stent, and 2 days in recovery cost so much nowadays. That’s like, 3 cars or half a house! And I thought the vet was expensive! Two years ago a bill like that would have bankrupted us.
Which makes me wonder, these CV folks are in the hospital a minimum of 10 days for recovery and we’re going on 30 days for some of the others? The cost must be astronomical per patient.
*** Surgeon: “I’m sorry but your wife’s surgery is going to be delayed for a few hours.”
Husband: “Why? You told me her surgery was urgent!” ***
That brought to mind the Seinfeld episode where Kramer accidentally flipped the Junior Mint into the guy having surgery.
He revealed that just after delivery his mom's physician
came out to brief his dad.
"I'm sorry. We did everything we could, but he lived."
I've known of some hospitals that took losses on delivering
babies, to keep the family business.
Insurance companies will only pay X, when the cost of
deliveries are X+.
Greedy beyond the dreams of the robber barons of old.
"...And he also mentions discovering a live tick from a bat - parasites known for their ability to pass infections through a host animal's blood..."
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