yes, everyone is going to get hit with as many bills as they can figure out how to generate. people are going to be in debt for the rest of their lives based on this.
I could see a relief bill at some point - with the people who never became an official statistic (red staters mostly) getting screwed.
This has to suck for hospitals. Half of their $300k bills are going to go to dead people. They’ll get a bailout too.
The problem with this is even if the benevolent government (lol) offers some sort of relief to those who can’t afford it, those who’ve paid in and don’t qualify for relief will object and demand their cut. See also: pensions crisis.
There was a link to the business center website on the main website.
Im kind of annoyed with this site - which I’ve been watching closely to monitor new hospitalized cases in the states that report them (which is most by now).
But a couple days ago the reported a nearly double increase in NY State hospitalized cases:
However that doesn’t gibe with what Cuomo is saying in press conferences (which is literally where the covidtracking.com site says it’s getting its #s)
These sites make mistakes all the time. But they usually fix them within a few hours. Now I’m wondering if I should even be looking at it at all. :(
Suzzer, did you get a part time gig consulting w/ the NCAA?
https://twitter.com/Ourand_SBJ/status/1243950159844782081?s=19
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Not sure I agree with this headline but the study seems promising. And from what I read last week, a couple of companies are massively increasing production of these drugs.
In 80 in-patients receiving a combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin, the team found a clinical improvement in all but one 86 year-old patient who died, and one 74-year old patient still in intensive care unit. The team also found that, by administering hydroxychloroquine combined with azithromycin, they were able to observe an improvement in all cases, except in one patient who arrived with an advanced form, who was over the age of 86, and in whom the evolution was irreversible, according to a new paper published today in IHU Méditerranée Infection.
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They say that they didn’t have a control group, so still a bad experiment.
There’s a LC thread please post your thoughts there
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Are they designing shitty trials just for speed?
I mean, France is one of the better countries my company works with when conducting clinical trials (operationally), so I kind of assumed they would know at least a little something about study design.
USA#1
US records first infant death
The US has recorded its first death from an infant who tested positive for coronavirus.
The baby died in Chicago, Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr Ngozi Ezike said.
“There has never before been a death associated with Covid-19 in an infant. A full investigation is under way to determine the cause of death,” Dr Ezike said.
“We must do everything we can to prevent the spread of this deadly virus. If not to protect ourselves, but to protect those around us.”
The death of a child less than a year old with coronavirus was previously reported in China, but that child had a pre-existing condition.
Just to be clear my position on this - do I think hot weather instantly kills the virus or stops the spread? No, obviously not. Do I think based on everything I’ve read and what we’ve seen that it’s likely the virus prefers colder, dryer weather? Yes.
If we do get a summer pause, people will probably say it’s the weather. But imo it would likely be some combination weather, better social distancing and hand-washing, masks (hopefully!), the measures we’ve already taken, some herd immunity, and hopefully (!) not re-opening virus meccas like bars, gyms, poker-rooms, large sporting events and concerts, etc. - basically anything where you spend more than an hour in a combined airspace with multiple people. Bonus if it involves touching like poker rooms, bars (glasses, drunks), and gyms.
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Apparently DeSantis is the one whispering in Trump’s ear that he needs to quarantine all of New York State, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Gonna get real interesting when the peak is over up here, and then the much worse peak hits Florida because their deplorable governor still hasn’t shut down the state.
Not that I care that much about a quarantine I guess, because where am I going anyway, but I can literally walk across a state line from where I live so good luck with that.
11 percent of the NYPD are currently out sick.
the author seems to have said having a control group would be unethical. Which, given the lack of other treatment options and the low risk from a short course of very old drugs, seems plausible.
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Florida continuing to look worse and worse on the thermometer map. If it doesn’t end up worse than NY it’s likely only due to population density, or maybe lower R0 due to hot humid weather - if that ends up being a thing.
https://twitter.com/travisakers/status/1243990179557359616
How about DeSantis fix his own state as well?
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