Posted on 04/15/2020 2:51:53 PM PDT by RaceBannon
New Thread, starting 4/15/2020
Some of the more recent research on obesity and COVID-19:
2020/03/02
“Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of 112 Cardiovascular Disease Patients Infected by 2019-nCoV”
-see https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32120458/
2020/04/01
“Obesity and COVID-19 Severity in a Designated Hospital in Shenzhen, China”
- see https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3556658
2020/04/09
“Obesity in patients younger than 60 years is a risk factor for Covid-19 hospital admission”
-see https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaa415/5818333
2020/04/09
“High prevalence of obesity in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus‐2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) requiring invasive mechanical ventilation” -see https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/oby.22831
2020/04/11
“Factors associated with hospitalization and critical illness among 4,103 patients with COVID-19 disease in New York City”
-see https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.08.20057794v1
KY
Current as of April 16, 2020 at 5 p.m. Eastern time
Kentucky Coronavirus Monitoring
Number Tested: 29,747
Positive: 2,429
Deaths: 129
https://govstatus.egov.com/kycovid19
DE
Positive Cases 2,075
*Negative Cases 11,275
Last Update: 4/16/2020, 5:00 PM
Total Deaths 52
Total Recovered 378
Hospitalizations 209
https://coronavirus.delaware.gov/
CO
Colorado Case Summary (Updated 4/16/20 at 4:00 p.m.)
Note: This summary only includes data through 4/15 and does not reflect cases since then.
8,675 cases*
1,693 hospitalized
56 counties
41,830 people tested**
374 deaths
93 outbreaks
https://covid19.colorado.gov/case-data
Thanks for the stats for PA. My county looks good. Only 30 cases, and no deaths.
Rates of Co-infection Between SARS-CoV-2 and Other Respiratory Pathogens
David Kim, MD, PhD1; James Quinn, MD, MS1; Benjamin Pinsky, MD, PhD2; et al Nigam H. Shah, MBBS, PhD3; Ian Brown, MD, MS1
Author Affiliations Article Information
JAMA. Published online April 15, 2020. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.6266
We studied 1217 specimens tested for SARS-CoV-2 and other respiratory pathogens, from 1206 unique patients; 116 of the 1217 specimens (9.5%) were positive for SARS-CoV-2 and 318 (26.1%) were positive for 1 or more non–SARS-CoV-2 pathogens. Table 1 reports patient demographics and location of testing, stratified by presence of SARS-CoV-2 and non–SARS-CoV-2 pathogens.
Of the 116 specimens positive for SARS-CoV-2, 24 (20.7%) were positive for 1 or more additional pathogens, compared with 294 of the 1101 specimens (26.7%) negative for SARS-CoV-2 (Table 1) (difference, 6.0% [95% CI, –2.3% to 14.3%]). The most common co-infections were rhinovirus/enterovirus (6.9%), respiratory syncytial virus (5.2%), and non–SARS-CoV-2 Coronaviridae (4.3%) (Table 2). None of the differences in rates of non–SARS-CoV-2 pathogens between specimens positive and negative for SARS-CoV-2 were statistically significant at P<.05.
Harry’s mask is preposterous.
My bandanna rig was better than that.
On contact tracing—you are a critical worker and take mass transit into work.
You test positive.
Game. Set. Match.
Contract tracing is over.
That is good news, I hope it stays low :-) My county has about 250 cases and 8 deaths, but the death rate hasn’t risen significantly, and the case rate appears to be slowing down. I can’t say the same for the rest of GA tho
Why don’t you take off for somewhere else?
Three people now using the word “granular.” Quick, start contact tracing!
Protests Erupt After Deaths At U.S. Factories In Mexican Border Town
April 16, 2020
By Jose Luis Gonzalez
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) – Protests have erupted outside factories in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez in recent days after the deaths of several workers, including some employed by U.S. companies, from what the protesters said was the coronavirus.
So far, 82 people have tested positive for the new coronavirus in the city that lies across the border from El Paso, Texas, local authorities said on Thursday. A total of 19 have died, the city health department said.
Haha! :D
Dr. Bricks is contagious.
Last time I went into my Walmart in NW Florida, which was this past Friday, 6 days ago, there were no taped off sections anywhere, I walked the whole store.
So I’m not sure if it’s state govt or Walmart doing this themselves as a company or individually.
covid scam.
“The Better Business Bureau is also alerting people about text messages that claim to be from a governmental agency trying to get you to click a link to take an “online coronavirus test.” Consumer advocates say this is a way to get malware downloaded on your electronic devices.”
5.2 million more seek unemployment aid — bringing four-week total to 22 million (4/16/20)
We Are Fast Approaching COVID-19 Gut-Check Time (4/16/20)
Thousands Tuned In to This Runner’s Backyard Marathon Live on Facebook (UK, 4/15/20)
Sally Kipyego: Training, Waiting, Hoping for a Fall Marathon (Kenya, 4/14/20)
Mask making news....
Texas nurse works to develop masks with better filtration than N95
The chief executive nurse at University Health System has developed a mask that has better filtration than the N95 masks.
Nurse Tommye Austin used AC filter material she purchased at Lowe’s to create 600 masks as reserves as San Antonia, Texas, prepares for a surge in coronavirus hospitalizations that expect to occur in May, according to reports by KSAT.
“In the event that we get a surge of COVID-19 patients in San Antonio, which is predicted to happen in May, we are making sure we have adequate and sufficient equipment for employees,” Austin told KSAT. “Once we learned that the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] had given us the ability to create masks, rather than using a bandana or a handkerchief, we decided to look at creating our own N-95.”
Austin said the masks fit and resemble an N95 mask, but research and testing done by the Southwest Research Institute says that the new prototype actually has better filtration than the original masks,
“The mask has a filtration rate of 99.5 percent with one material and has a 97.8 percent filtration efficiency with another material we are using,” Austin said. “So if the N95 masks have a 95 percent filtration efficiency, that means it can eliminate at least 95 percent of the virus or bacteria trying to get through the mask.”
https://www.foxnews.com/health/texas-nurse-develop-masks-better-than-n95
Send them back to Cananda.
Thank you very much for the alert!
We can’t afford to close again, but we CAN open up gradually over the spring and summer, starting with ending the miserable home confinements in most of the country, and finally having a complete open by Labor Day, provided we keep our current extra bed capacity, more ventilators, etc. while making novel treatments widespread (HCQ/Z-pak/Zinc, for example) to deal with any outbreaks as we open up.
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