Posted on 04/01/2020 9:55:37 AM PDT by Mariner
Yesterday's thread here:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3830232/posts?page=1
“is that what we’re finding in our testing? or was this china numbers?”
I’m gonna say China numbers. Probably to lull us into a false sense of security. The real number based on analysis of DP and SK numbers and discussion with my doctor friend involved in this is around half show no symptoms. 55%, but more than 1 significant figure is pushing it. If we go by China’s numbers, half the asymptomatics are not counted and still run around spreading the virus.
I’m still in the TEST EVERYONE camp. Just to be sure.
The LA Mayor have face masks for his millions of citizens? Fresh one every day? No? hmmm.
Be afraid
“Acute Hemorrhagic Necrotizing Encephalopathy”
Of all the symptoms, that is the one that terrifies me. Even more than dying.
Does this guy not understand they sell these things at Home Depot, Lowes, and pretty much any large hardware store. Not to mention Amazon? I've been using N95's and N100's for years for various shop and home improvement jobs. If I ever decide to wear one in public, why should the doc be offended? Maybe he will frown at me if I use a nitrile glove at the gas pump too. If he finds out I have scalpels, hemostats, bone files, etc in my toolbox, he might call the cops.
Is the Chj Coms created the virus in a lab and know every single bit of its DNA, wouldn’t it be relatively easy to create a vaccine?
22 million dead in china, fake? Or is it? Seriously this is just getting started. God bless.
Home depot doesn’t sell them anymore. Last time I saw them was in early Feb.
“The LA Mayor have face masks for his millions of citizens? Fresh one every day? No? hmmm.”
I think just having a few is enough, if they only see very light loads - like an hour or two of shopping each week, where you often won’t even run into any vectors. Just let them sit for a few days in between us. They’re probably good for a year that way.
Now, if you work in a hospital, you do pretty much consume the mask in one shift, unless you have a way to clean it.
We didn’t have that many gunshot injuries here to start with but car accidents and sports injuries definitely are down. I parked within sight of an ED and it seemed — well — dead.
Legitimate. My wife works at a distribution center and she got hers and passed out the letters to her staff on both shifts. She had a long day that day.
I’m sure they’re washable.
RIP, Ellis Marsalis.
We are losing many great people from the oldest generation.
good responses in the thread:
Tsai Ing-wen
Today I announced three major areas where #Taiwan will contribute to the global fight against #COVID19:
Donating 10 million face masks to countries in need.
Increasing production of quinine.
Sharing our use of technology to trace & investigate outbreaks.
Phil Hackemann
In return, the EU should finally endorse the WHO membership of the Republic of China (”Taiwan”), instead of keep bowing to the PRC, which even caused this whole mess in the first place with its deception campaign...
Bartoz Rys
#Taiwan will donate 10mln face masks
to its friends around the world, including #European countries! A much appreciated and generous gift in these difficult times
Nathan Law
//Taiwan’s foreign ministry said 7m of the masks would go to the EU and particularly hard-hit EU member countries as well as the UK and Switzerland, a pledge more than three times the amount China promised the EU.//
NYC law guy/writer David Lat was discharged from NY hospital today after being critically ill with the virus. He’s now back tweeting after: “2 ER visits, 16 hospital nights (mostly in the ICU), 1 intubation, 6 days on a ventilator, tons of oxygen”.
Interesting the medicines they gave him. He says: “I was also given Kevzara, hydroxychloroquine plus azithromycin, and Remdesivir. Which worked? Who knows!” Sounds like he also got clazakizumab and tocilizumab (Actemra) under “right-to-try” because he was not expected to live otherwise.
Kevzara is a new name in the medical war against covid19. It’s the drug sarilumab, used to treat rheumatoid arthritis. Whatever drug cocktail he got, it worked for David Lat in the end. He has asthma issues, which is why he figured the coronavirus hit him so hard.
Have you seen this one? It has dates and you can drop the menu to pick individual states or just do the entire US.
http://covid19.healthdata.org/
Says my state of Missouri will peak May 22. Seems such a long time to deal with it...
They’re just out of stock (like toilet paper and hand sanitizer), and temporarily forwarding all they can find to HHS. Last I saw them was early March, and those were N100’s. They will have them in stock again once manufacturing and demand settle out. Maybe 6 months.
I know if I worked in ICU right now, I would want something more substantial than a flimsy N95.
Good, gosh....
From your link....
(NYC) City officials have released stark new guidance to equally overworked ambulance crews, effective immediately, if they can’t resuscitate a patient in the field, they must withhold CPR and declare the person dead.
They can no longer continue to the hospital.
“These orders are binding and the FDNY will devise a plan for implementation,” said Deputy Fire Commissioner Frank Dwyer.
The new approach shows how stretched thin EMS and hospitals are.
“When you’re doing the CPR, you’re pushing really hard on the patient’s chest and they’re expelling some air in the process as well, so if they are COVID patients, they’ll be spreading it all around,” said Dr. Vinayak Kumar with the Mayo Clinic. “This is the risk-benefit math you have to take into account.”
The orders to stop CPR in the field is shocking to veteran doctors who are used to doing whatever it takes to save a life.
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Following THAT shocking story, was a report about a teacher, in Yonkers, who tested positive. She self isolated, at home, for THREE times the recommended time....she isolated for 21 days.
Her first trip outside of her house, was to donate plasma, for testing. They re-tested her, for COVID...and, she tested POSITIVE, again.
She said that it’s been like living a science fiction movie. She asked why...how could she STILL be positive...and, they told her, We don’t know. We’re still learning about this disease.
https://twitter.com/menracar/status/1245207931307597825
“11 years ago during the H1N1 influenza epidemic, for the same reasons as today, in Costa Rica all community-acquired gastrointestinal, and respiratory illnesses and all health-care associated infections (including C-diff) drop...they remained low for about 2 years.”
Because… Hand washing!
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