If you follow medcrams crucial breakdowns throughout this disaster you will see why people with diabetes need to take this seriously. Last night he brought up adamts13...which involve zinc...a search will show you diabetes people can have a problem with this enzyme..
I wish it had been disclosed if that broadway star who had to have his leg cut off has diabetes.
On Wednesday April 1 I began tracking the number of ‘serious, critical’ cases being reported in the USA.
These are the people who may likely die in the next few days.
If the ‘serious, critical’ number goes up, we will likely see more deaths. On the other hand if the various drugs being tested are effective in treating the virus, the ‘serious, critical’ number should go down.
Here are the numbers:
Apr 27 Mon 14186
Apr 28 Tue 15298
Apr 29 Wed 18671
Apr 30 Thu 15226
May 1 Fri 16481
May 2 Sat 16475
May 3 Sun 16139
May 4 Mon 16080
May 5 Tue 16179
May 6 Wed 15827
I have not posted these numbers for a few days as the number of critical/serious cases remains about the same.
I looked at the worldometer website to see how they collect the serious/critical data “ it represents for the most part the number of patients currently being treated in Intensive Care Unit (ICU), if and when this figure is reported.”
What we need to see is a slowdown in the number of people who are serious/critical and a slowdown in the number of people dying.
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I also truncated the data to keep this posting shorter. Earlier numbers are available in DoughtyOne’s tables.
I see that according to worldometer that the USA has now conducted 8 million corona virus tests.
What we do not know is how many people have been tested.
What we do not know is the number of people who have been tested multiple times.
Doctors, nurses, medical workers, police and fire personnel have been tested multiple times.
Politicians have been tested multiple times.
Patients infected with covid usually get tested a second or third time to determine they are no longer infected.
So yes, the USA may have conducted 8 million tests, but is the number of people tested more like 4 million or less??
No, remember that it takes generally 10-14 days for symptoms to appear and deaths. That places things back to when relaxation was just starting to be discussed. Implementation has only started in just the past few days.
Second - these increases should first appear in the states that are more forward in opening things up - is that the case?
Finally, there are still the persistent reports of inflated numbers, and increased test results of asymptomatic victims.
As of today, the following 10 states + DC are reporting more deaths per million than the 226 deaths per million in the USA as a whole.
The common thread linking these 11 states is Democrat Party leadership and bad management over the past decades.
Yes, I know that occasionally a ‘liberal’ Republican governor gets elected or a ‘liberal’ Republican legislature has the majority, but for most of the years, these 10 states + DC are Democrat Party strongholds.
The numbers speak for themselves. Bad management practices over decades produces bad results.
New York 1,323
New Jersey 965
Connecticut 759
Massachusetts 647
Louisiana 465
Michigan 427
Wash DC 405
Rhode Island 350
Pennsylvania 262
Maryland 239
Illinois 232
USA Total 226
FLORIDA-—Percent positivity for new cases
This percent is the number of people who test positive for the first time divided by all the people tested that day, excluding people who have previously tested positive.
Florida reported that 3.75% of those people tested for the first time were positive for covid.
FLORIDA results from all testing-——These counts include the number of people for whom the department received laboratory results by day. People tested on multiple days will be included for each day a new result was received. A person is only counted once for each day they are tested, regardless of whether multiple specimens are tested or multiple results are received. If a person has a positive specimen and a negative specimen in the same day, only the positive result is counted.
Whereas, 6.28% of all tests taken were positive.
FReepers, how is your state reporting testing? Is your state giving you similar information?
bkmk
Just realized I’m on your thread.
Very good info from you!
But... (there’s always a “but”) more testing = more cases.
Would help if you accounted for that.