Corona Virus Daily Thread #29

[Mariner]

Yesterday's thread here:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3828581/posts?page=1

[PA Engineer]

Lawyers are going to be very busy when this is over.

[justa-hairyape]

Hope no one needs any non Corona health care in the next decade.

[RummyChick]

at least he wasnt imprisoned like that Chinese Dr

[blueplum]

lol! someone took your joke about gloving up for the store seriously?? That’s hilarious.

who has the pix of the Chinese gals fully suited up goggles in Costco and eating samples? That’s going to be me if I have to leave the ranch. Or a Sleeping Beauty costume. Although my beauty has gone to sleep!

[RummyChick]

that pic was hilarious...as they lifted up their protective gear to eat their samples that had people breathing all over them.

Btw, I do glove up to go to grocery store..but its the Drs office where I went almost full geared up. Left off the goggles. No tyvek suit was considered. LOL

[blueplum]

hoarding by doctors and healthy people for “just in case”.

good point. Likely some foreign patient/clients, too.

[amorphous]

Daily percentage of new Corona virus deaths to previous day's total by country. 25% = total deaths double every 3 days, 20% = every 4 days, 15% = ever 5 days.

Data from https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries.

UK has caught up to the US (deaths in both countries double every three days). Italy will probably have over 10,000 dead by tomorrow afternoon. But Italy only has a doubling rate of about week, lower than everyone else on this chart except South Korea. France and Spain both are at about a five day rate.

Scary numbers. This is a long way from being over. Barring a miracle cure, quarantine having an effect, or some other positive turn in our favor, which forces our US number lower, we in the US may see the greatest number of deaths from this.

Stay safe and take all necessary precautions out there.

[blueplum]

sister ship empty? then that’s a good idea

[justa-hairyape]

Speaking of funny.

Warning to China Bots - Dont watch this video.

[Solson]

If this isn’t a bioweapon, I don’t know what is. It mutates rapidly, shows different symptoms and overwhelms health care systems.

[EarlyBird]

(GA) They put up the deaths by county today:

About time! I was wondering about deaths by county.

Dougherty County: 13

That’s the highest number, if I’m reading this correctly.

All from one funeral. Wow

[blueplum]

no boils, no rashes, and it’s not chronic for months like bronchitis can be. Check.

[justa-hairyape]

Good night all. I leave you tonight with a tale from the Just a Flu Bro Files. It appears that the Bros are going to experience some embarrassing revelations in the future. Take Flu Bro Sadiq for example.

Flu Bro Sees the Light at the end of the Tunnel.

[RummyChick]

btw,I just noticed an warning in that University of Michigan study suggesting getting a g6pd test for the new “miracle” drug.

and here we go with the poor Iranian Jews again

Prevalence of beta-thalassemia trait and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency in Iranian Jews.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18164966

I am too tired to wrap my head around this but dang it...did malaria evolution issues cause me to have thalessemia,
Lactate dehydrogenase deficiency (mine is 70!!!) ..AND then unlucky enough to get stuck with a male disease of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency

going to have to look at all that mess later

[mrsmith]

Surprised no one has posted this.
Icefilms site is still down. (Best film/movie link site).
Could sure use it now.

[blueplum]

Mardi Gras was Feb 25, right? Well, the admin did do something. It was up to the governor to act. The MSM knows this because they reported it:

NYT:
Feb 25; C.D.C. Officials Warn of Coronavirus Outbreaks in the U.S.
Clusters of infection are likely in American communities, health officials said.

WaPo:
Feb 25, 2020 · Health officials in the United States warned Tuesday that the spread of the novel coronavirus in the country appears inevitable

[RummyChick]

So since the beginning of this I have been wondering various issues about red cell blood disorders and wondered if those in the Thalessemia Belt could have more of an issue.

I dont have the answer to that yet...BUT did see the following. The “miracle” drug may or may not be appropriate for people with red blood cell disorders

http://eurobloodnet.eu/news/99/covid-19-infection-and-red-blood-cell-disorders

The correct treatment and management of infection by Coronavirus (COVID-19) in patients affected by Red Blood Cell disorders, as hemoglobinopathies (sickle cell disease and thalassaemia), enzymopathies or membranopathies, may be challenging given the rapid spread of the pandemia and limited literature so far, especially in some countries.

[Mariner]

“PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center”

They screwed the pooch and will face the consequences.

[RummyChick]

Immediate withdrawal of hydroxychloroquine is essential if toxicity is suspected because of the early reversibility of cardiomyopathy.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25475472

[mrsmith]

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/doctor-note-herd-immunity-solve-coronavirus-200324152419919.html
Covid “herd immunity” = about 60%.