“What’s the point of the survey? It’s real.”
Just curious what Freepers say.
I’ve known roughly 500 or so people with it. Some did well others did not. I expect that if the 500 or so known positive cases I have treated is 10% of the cases we know of statistically, then i suppose 5000 people I have run across out and about have had it.
What this thread demonstrates is exactly what we know about the disease. The vast majority of people have mold and self limited symptoms. They do fine. Some people inexplicably suffer greatly. And some die. Sounds just like every other virus on the planet particularly that it wipes out the old and informed. Unlike H1N1 Which had a predilection for the middle aged
I also know that decadron seems to work very well. Remdesivir is unimpressive and convalescent plasma is unimpressive. I know that the death rate from ventilators is around 38% which is exactly the same death rate with ARDS of any other disease. So vents in fact do not kill people.
Finally I know that in my hot zone we peaked approximately July 10. My own hospital had 141 known cases in house with numerous positives that were sent home from the ER with enhanced monitoring. Today there are 43 in house. I worked the last three days and only one admission. The time line holds that every other region demonstrates. Namely from start to finish it takes about 80 days to work it’s way through a community.
There is excellent evidence to show that herd immunity takes place at 20% or so because of partial immunity conveyed by other corona virus infections previously encountered. I believe we are at herd immunity in NY NJ, Fl, AZ and getting close in Tx and Ca. I believe this whole thing will be past not later than December 1 regardless of vaccine or treatment as this is the natural life of a pandemic
Everything else is political.