https://twitter.com/youbsanctioned/status/1243362484297158656?s=19
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I can’t remember whether I’ve posted this experience on here before, but an urgent care facility nearly killed me a couple years back. Basically, I had developed rhabdomyolysis after trying to get too many gainzzzz during an Orange Theory class. A doctor-friend told me I could take a puss test and if there was blood in my urine, I needed to go to the hospital. I got to a local urgent care place and get the test (after having to argue with the nurse to even give it to me) sure enough, blood. The nurse then tells me, we can do a blood test to find out for sure, if you want. I was like, sure, might as well, how long will that take? He responds, “you’ll get the results in 3-5 days.” Having talked to my friend, I knew rhabdomyolysis was a pretty serious condition that could cause kidney failure left untreated, so I was like, uh, no, I think I need to go to the ER. Went to the ER, they admitted me, hooked me up to an IV and took the blood test. I got the results in about an hour, The levels of the chemical they measure were extremely high (can’t remember exactly, but it was several orders of magnitude higher than the normal range (I think normal was like 1-200 Units, and I was in the 100K unit range). I spent 3 days in the hospital hooked up to an IV and, thankfully, made a full recovery. I asked the doctor what would have happened had I waited for the blood test, and without hesitation she says,” your kidneys would have shut down and you’d be dead.
So, yeah, do not trust urgent care to give you good medical advice.
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Probably one of those stupid knocking rods or whatever they pass around.
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Or a two sided A4 pdf covered in plastic 
It’s been an entertaining watch seeing Pence pass the gerrm infected placard to each member of the US Task Force during each shit show. So many hands on that podium too. Only a matter of time and honesty. I just hope Cuomo isn’t first.
It’s a self-selected sample, so not random.
I think the better option is not livestreaming the press conference at all, but to report on it in context. Otherwise it is just him doing the talking.
Biggest rise in Italy daily death toll so far
Italy has confirmed 969 more deaths from the coronavirus in the past 24 hours, taking the country’s total to 9,134.
There are 4,401 new infections, making a total of 66,414 current cases.
This is believed to be the sharpest rise in fatalities that any country has seen so far throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
Fuck man, the Swedes are supposed to be the smart ones.
1800 last I checked. 450 a week (before taxes.)
Having dealt with both the California and Washington unemployment divisions, its amazing how stark the difference is between the two. WA has a cap, but its closer to 800/wk than 450.
If you read that vaccine article that was posted earlier, the scary part is almost everyone chasing a vaccine is using a new technique to develop just a part of the virus. The old school method of trying to obtain a really weak strain of the virus to use as a vaccine is only being tried by a couple of labs, as opposed to 40 or so using the newer technique (which has never actually been proven in the field but which can potentially speed up the entire process significantly.)
I agree. There is stuff they can do but one should never visit urgent care as a replacement to the ER.
Really anything of any real concern or seriousness should not go there. If you get a broken finger or the sniffles, sure, otherwise, they just don’t process escalation of issues properly and don’t really have much responsibility to do so.
That is what I found annoying when they popped up everywhere near me. They tried to disguise themselves as legitimate emergency rooms. These urgent care places that popped up in the last ten years are much worse than the traditional doc-in-a-box places that have been around forever.
Where do you get that table from? Seems like a good resource to compare the grwoth in each country.
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Thanks, I already thought it might be worldometers but didn’t scroll down on the right page 
NYTimes sharing county-level data on COVID-19
would be cool to see an updated graph
Serious question. What is the advantage of living in the US vs. Canada?
What do we do better than they do? Finance bros? I literally can’t think of anything else other than make more money. I guess if you are in tech you pretty much have to be in the Bay Area?
Weather.
That’s all I’ve got.
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Grade school Canadians can’t say “My girlfriend lives in the US”.
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