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Anonymous wrote:I know this isn't helpful, but maybe if I vent here, I will feel better.

Is anyone else mad at China? All this death and suffering because of unsanitary markets that should have been shut down after SARS. Plus initial government dishonesty.

Just seems so unnecessary .

I am.

Thank you! Yes I am mad at China. Also this acts a lot like a bio weapon that got loose. Now we are praising them because so many people died off over there? But politics and our dependence on cheap stuff from China ...

Are you an expert on bioweapons? Thought not.

As a matter of fact I am.

Uhh please tell me more about this!!

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Anonymous wrote:One positive note. I've been tracking the numbers pretty closely on the worldometers.info website. The percentage of cases designed as critical has actually been declining steeply -- it was at about 18% for a long time, and now it down to 9%. It is probably due to increased testing, but still is somewhat encouraging. The death percentage just crept up a bit, though -- it had been remarkably steady at 6% of resolved cases (so only about 4% of all cases, but 6% of the cases that were resolved through either death or recovery) and is not at 7%.

Many countries seem not to be reporting the number of critical or serious cases. USA’s number has been stagnant for days. I think that statistic is not longer close to accurate.

That you think the statistic is not longer close to accurate is entirely your opinion. Which I can't place much weight into.

I have been watching the news very carefully and reading the reputable papers. No one (so far) is reporting a critical surge of hositalization. New York has 300+ positive people in the greater NYC region but the only hospitalization I can find a record of is the first man who came down with it three weeks ago and was in critical care. He hasn't died (yet) and it's now three weeks later. Almost all the hospitalization in Seattle are related to the one nursing home where the virus broke out.

This is very encouraging so far. All the deaths, outside the Seattle nursing home, are isolated cases here and there and not connected to a pattern (ie multiple people from the same family or same office).

Virginia has 30 cases and 10 are hospitalized, so your dismissal of the severity appears to be very wrong.
http://www.vdh.virginia.gov/surveillance-and-investigation/novel-coronavirus/

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Anonymous wrote:A ray of hope for the US, our high number of critical care beds.

Lol, I wish.

That’s not even close to remotely accurate.

See: https://data.oecd.org/healtheqt/hospital-beds.htm

That’s a different metric. Your numbers show hospital beds per thousand. The chart shows critical care beds (which is what matters most now) per 100,000. I’ve seen the same numbers cited by multiple sources.

There are a total of 46,500 ICU beds in this country. Total, not currently empty. If 30% of americans get the virus then by current estimates that means 5 million will need intensive care.

According to this, the number is 94,000+. And the point of social distancing is to spread out the infection curve, so everyone who needs to go to ICU doesn’t do it all at the same time. Most Doctors don’t really want to say this out loud, but we’re not going to stop this virus, and it’s not really a good idea to try. People have to come out of quarantine eventually, and the virus will just explode again. We need to slow it down, to keep the hospitals from being overwhelmed, but we’ve got to build up herd immunity, and right now, the only way is for “some” people to get the virus.

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Anonymous wrote:One positive note. I've been tracking the numbers pretty closely on the worldometers.info website. The percentage of cases designed as critical has actually been declining steeply -- it was at about 18% for a long time, and now it down to 9%. It is probably due to increased testing, but still is somewhat encouraging. The death percentage just crept up a bit, though -- it had been remarkably steady at 6% of resolved cases (so only about 4% of all cases, but 6% of the cases that were resolved through either death or recovery) and is not at 7%.

Many countries seem not to be reporting the number of critical or serious cases. USA’s number has been stagnant for days. I think that statistic is not longer close to accurate.

That you think the statistic is not longer close to accurate is entirely your opinion. Which I can't place much weight into.

I have been watching the news very carefully and reading the reputable papers. No one (so far) is reporting a critical surge of hositalization. New York has 300+ positive people in the greater NYC region but the only hospitalization I can find a record of is the first man who came down with it three weeks ago and was in critical care. He hasn't died (yet) and it's now three weeks later. Almost all the hospitalization in Seattle are related to the one nursing home where the virus broke out.

This is very encouraging so far. All the deaths, outside the Seattle nursing home, are isolated cases here and there and not connected to a pattern (ie multiple people from the same family or same office).

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder why more states aren’t cancelling school. Michigan and Ohio have for the next few weeks and they don’t have many cases (12 and 5). Why aren’t Washington state, Oregon, California, and those states with much higher numbers doing the same?

I'm in CA and schools in my region are cancelled. They're doing it district-by-district, which is the correct way to do it.

No cancellations for us in the South bay, California.

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder why more states aren’t cancelling school. Michigan and Ohio have for the next few weeks and they don’t have many cases (12 and 5). Why aren’t Washington state, Oregon, California, and those states with much higher numbers doing the same?

I'm in CA and schools in my region are cancelled. They're doing it district-by-district, which is the correct way to do it.

It isn't not the correct way. All schools in Ca need to close. There are barely any test kits in CA so the number of people officially diagnosed with corona virus is artifically low. We just don't know how many people have it here.

Plus people feeling fine spread it. Waiting until someone tests positive just allows mass spreading.

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Anonymous wrote:I know this isn't helpful, but maybe if I vent here, I will feel better.

Is anyone else mad at China? All this death and suffering because of unsanitary markets that should have been shut down after SARS. Plus initial government dishonesty.

Just seems so unnecessary .

I am.

Thank you! Yes I am mad at China. Also this acts a lot like a bio weapon that got loose. Now we are praising them because so many people died off over there? But politics and our dependence on cheap stuff from China ...

Are you an expert on bioweapons? Thought not.

As a matter of fact I am.

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder why more states aren’t cancelling school. Michigan and Ohio have for the next few weeks and they don’t have many cases (12 and 5). Why aren’t Washington state, Oregon, California, and those states with much higher numbers doing the same?

I'm in CA and schools in my region are cancelled. They're doing it district-by-district, which is the correct way to do it.

It isn't not the correct way. All schools in Ca need to close. There are barely any test kits in CA so the number of people officially diagnosed with corona virus is artifically low. We just don't know how many people have it here.

Please see my post at 12:03 on what my MD hospitalist cousin in CA is saying that confirms this.

Louisiana has become the first state to postpone its presidential primary.

Where are the tests???

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder why more states aren’t cancelling school. Michigan and Ohio have for the next few weeks and they don’t have many cases (12 and 5). Why aren’t Washington state, Oregon, California, and those states with much higher numbers doing the same?

I'm in CA and schools in my region are cancelled. They're doing it district-by-district, which is the correct way to do it.

It isn't not the correct way. All schools in Ca need to close. There are barely any test kits in CA so the number of people officially diagnosed with corona virus is artifically low. We just don't know how many people have it here.

Anonymous wrote:One positive note. I've been tracking the numbers pretty closely on the worldometers.info website. The percentage of cases designed as critical has actually been declining steeply -- it was at about 18% for a long time, and now it down to 9%. It is probably due to increased testing, but still is somewhat encouraging. The death percentage just crept up a bit, though -- it had been remarkably steady at 6% of resolved cases (so only about 4% of all cases, but 6% of the cases that were resolved through either death or recovery) and is not at 7%.

Many countries seem not to be reporting the number of critical or serious cases. USA’s number has been stagnant for days. I think that statistic is not longer close to accurate.

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder why more states aren’t cancelling school. Michigan and Ohio have for the next few weeks and they don’t have many cases (12 and 5). Why aren’t Washington state, Oregon, California, and those states with much higher numbers doing the same?

I'm in CA and schools in my region are cancelled. They're doing it district-by-district, which is the correct way to do it.

It’s not the correct way to do it. You need to shut them before anyone has it. If you wait until someone is testing positive, it’s too late. The virus is extremely contagious.

Here are some questions I have that I will throw out in the internet, as I haven't seen anything close to answers for them:

1) What steps are being taken to ramp up domestic production of masks and other PPE? A month or so ago someone posted that 3M was on it, and increasing production at its US factories, but there still seems to be no availability. Is someone working on this? Is there a way to retool other factories to start production? In WWII, we retooled a massive number of factories to serve the war effort. Is anything being done here, or is everyone just waiting until it's back in stock through amazon?

2) Is there any way to increase the number of vents that we do have in America? Who makes these and where are they made? Can we make them here? Is it time to start ordering government diversion of resources to make the stuff we actually need, instead of the crap we don't need?

Anonymous wrote:I wonder why more states aren’t cancelling school. Michigan and Ohio have for the next few weeks and they don’t have many cases (12 and 5). Why aren’t Washington state, Oregon, California, and those states with much higher numbers doing the same?

I'm in CA and schools in my region are cancelled. They're doing it district-by-district, which is the correct way to do it.