Loooooooool awesome
No idea why I made the assumption that going home = not going to die wrt coronavirus
Wonder if the CR will do the same. It’d be nice to see recoveries at home added too.
Many on late stages of chemo in UK, now being told not to come in for treatment as danger of getting COVID and no beds left.
I believe the problem with virus being in community for ~3 weeks before testing begins results in many late stage cases that are now largely untreatable turn up at hospitals and are sent home whilst awaitng results (US). Almost dead before they’re confirmed infected and now the family makes the test positives.
TL;dr NY’s COVID tests conducted daily count accurate but how can the ‘positives’ be accurate on a daily basis when tests takes ~4 days to come back and many people need testing twice?
https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1244641759839358977
About once a year I have to check just to assure myself that this is really Rex Chapman the basketball player, and not just a name coincidence who also happens to be a top 10 maybe top 5 twitterer.
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IrishRunner, found it.
It’s in Czech and Google Translate doesn’t work for some reason. So I had to feel my way through.
Anyway if it’s any consolation, Ireland is 11th in cases per million
Should be kept in mind that that data only goes back to the 17th of March. So it’s just the last 2 weeks.
Testing data is a bit less reliable as all of the dates vary. For example, Ireland is 8th in tests per capita but the last date data was given was the 24th. Meanwhile, the Czech Republic’s last update was the 29th. Since we recently jacked up testing, our rate is gonna look nicer.
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Rudy saved us all!
https://twitter.com/AdamMilstein/status/1244327792524677120
https://twitter.com/AdamMilstein/status/1244457164762042375
Maybe?
4050 new cases and 812 new deaths in Italy . Total cases surpass 100,000 [source]
Lowest number of new cases in the last 13 days (since March 17)
Italy man, longest peak ever.
I guess recoveries spiking is to be expected since even patients with good survivability need the vent for what - 1-3 weeks?
Resolves in 4-6 hours? No way.
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Something is up with that; maybe due to weekend data gathering? Or just not testing people who come in needing ventilator and not counting them?
Might have only been dealing with mild cases.
I mean he’s a family practitioner not working at a hospital.
I’m very skeptical
Also he has treated 699 tested positive patients?
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I took antibiotics once and went from extreme bronchitis to feeling fine in a matter of hours.
Obviously this is different. But it doesn’t sound like he’s treating intubated patients who already have serious complications. Just people who come in with shortness of breath.
I believe this is the treatment Chinese doctors have also recommended?
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- Italy has had 812 more deaths in the past 24 hours - bigger than yesterday’s rise of 756. In total, 11,591 have died in Italy, the government says. But there is a hopeful sign: there was a 2.2% rise in new infections, less than half yesterday’s 5.4%. Italy reckons the peak will come in just over a week’s time.
As everyone should be.
Yeah it’s purely anecdotal at this point. None of it is publishable. I sincerely doubt this guy has been taking enough relevant data to conclude that this is actually working.
This kind of flew under the radar. I thought people in this thread would show more interest… Maybe a few more details would pique some curiosity?
A Mount Vernon choir went ahead with rehearsal. Now dozens have coronavirus and 2 are dead.
Sixty singers showed up. A greeter offered hand sanitizer at the door, and members refrained from the usual hugs and handshakes.
“It seemed like a normal rehearsal, except that choirs are huggy places,” Burdick recalled. “We were making music and trying to keep a certain distance between each other.”
Nearly three weeks later, 45 have been diagnosed with COVID-19 or ill with the symptoms, at least three have been hospitalized, and two are dead.
The outbreak has stunned county health officials, who have concluded that the virus was almost certainly transmitted through the air from one or more people without symptoms.
“That’s all we can think of right now,” said Polly Dubbel, a county communicable disease and environmental health manager.
In interviews with the Los Angeles Times, eight people who were at the rehearsal said that nobody there was coughing or sneezing or appeared ill.
Everybody came with their own sheet music and avoided direct physical contact. Some members helped set up or remove folding chairs. A few helped themselves to mandarins that had been put out on a table in back.
Experts said the choir outbreak is consistent with a growing body of evidence that the virus can be transmitted through aerosols — particles smaller than 5 micrometers that can float in the air for minutes or longer.
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I thought that was well understood. Someone quoted some apparent expert (longer than an hour ago = nfc exactly when, we’re on COVID-time) saying they believed smear transmission (human-to-surface-to-human) was a relatively minor vector and that droplets of saliva etc were likely the main one.
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