CALIFORNIA Data points update from this morning:
Over the past four days, the number of
intensive care patients in the state has tripled — from 200 to 597 [up from 410 on Sat]
the number of hospitalizations has nearly doubled, from 746 to 1,432 [up from 1066 on Sat].
The confirmed cases climbed to more than 6,400 [7,404 after print]
and deaths to 142 [144 after print].
Dr. Mark Ghaly, California’s secretary of health and human services, said modeling suggests the state will need 50,000 new hospital beds by mid-May.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/hospitalizations-spike-as-california-tries-to-slow-coronavirus-spread/ar-BB11WbYE?ocid=spartanntp
I hope Ghaly is wrong.
Taxpayers Paid Millions to Design a Low-Cost Ventilator for a Pandemic. Instead, the Company Is Selling Versions of It Overseas.
This past September, with the design of the new Trilogy Evo Universal finally cleared by the Food and Drug Administration, HHS ordered 10,000 of the ventilators for the Strategic National Stockpile at a cost of $3,280 each.....
...“We sell to whoever calls,” said a saleswoman at a small medical-supply company on Staten Island that bought 50 Trilogy Evo ventilators from Philips in early March and last week hiked its online price from $12,495 to $17,154.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/taxpayers-paid-millions-to-design-a-low-cost-ventilator-for-a-pandemic-instead-the-company-is-selling-versions-of-it-overseas/ar-BB11W0Cl?ocid=spartanntp
not only did Dutch Royal Phillips do us wrong, but lookie at a price gouger who needs to have a little visit from the DA’s office.
CA has flattened, and therefore ELONGATED the curve.
And will peak a month after everyone else.