Posted on 03/11/2020 9:27:35 PM PDT by hapnHal
An elderly patient in a northern California assisted living facility has died of the novel coronavirus, sparking fears of an outbreak among other residents of the facility and renewing concerns about statewide availability of testing kits to detect the virus.
Sacramento County health officials announced Tuesday that a patient in her 90s was the county’s first fatality from COVID-19.
The Sacramento Bee identified the facility as Carlton Senior Living.The woman was among about 140 patients of the facility in Elk Grove, the same suburb where all public schools were closed this week after two family members with students in multiple sites tested positive for the coronavirus.
Yesterday, the district announced that an elementary age student in that family had also tested positive.
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Reported this case yesterday. Patient was alive, now dead.
So sad. RIP
this is a basketball game chaos as an NBA player was tested positive
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https://twitter.com/DanWeiner/status/1237909108071809030
“An elderly patient in a northern California assisted living facility has died of the novel coronavirus...”
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Perhaps more accurately described as “died WITH the novel coronavirus “.
How did she get the Corona virus? Did she really have the common flu?
A bad cold can kill a person in their 90s. Jack Lalanne was fit as could be, he got pneumonia and died one week later.
Normalcy bias, Cleopatra.
Just because it has some points in common with the flu doesn’t make it the flu. Wuhan is still a ghost town.
90’s! Are you kidding me? Can we please get two counts? One under 75 and one over 75. We are literally destroying the economic future of our children over people that would have probably been dead with in a year or so.
Let me introduce you to the term Recency Bias.
over 80s have a 20% death rate for coronavirus. For under 40s it is 0.2%
the death rates right now, 12 march are
under 10 —> 0%
10 to 40 —> 0.2%
40 to 60 —> 0.4%
60 to 80 —> 8%
80+ —> 20%
“Yesterday, the district announced that an elementary age student in that family had also tested positive.”
Youngster with virus gave it to great meemaw...sad!
It's the clustering in given areas that is overwhelming hospitals in Northern Italy & Iran where the hospitals can treat hardly any non-virus patients.
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The term is a good one. That said, I think it is better applied in situations where one has a fairly long track record with something and an unusual run happens (five heads do come up in a row a little under 2% of the time) than in something that is being grappled with for the first time and one has unreliable data.
Chinese, North Korean, and Iranian data is flawed, and some of the western data has problems too. The Chinese reaction speaks very loudly.
Does this have the potential to overwhelm ventilator capacity, then ICU capacity, and then hospital capacity? The evidence seems to say yes.
But they're sure the victim passed from the virus? If testing is suspect, how do they know?
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