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Mask Efficacy |OT| Wuhan!! Got You All In Check
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Swaganizonda
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north korea has basically been in lockdown for decades now. And I bet infected people get terminated. It's a country of extremes.
Azzurri
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Ya, you know NK just kills the infected.
TheSadRanger
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/r medicine is worth a read if you guys want to know what's happening on the front lines in some places.
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hariseldon
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I think I’ll stay away - I have a feeling it would give me nightmares.
Red-N-Gold
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Man the videos inside those hospitals are rough. Heroes in the hospitals right now fighting this thing. Hopefully not too many of them pay the ultimate price.
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Captain Zyrain
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Anecdotal evidence.. But my dad said the beaches here in Southern California were busier than most summer days. People clearly not social distancing!
Robot Carnival
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so, I got a letter a while ago for jury duty sometime around end of the month, beginning of April (Los Angeles). I can just ignore that now with the shutdown right?
Red-N-Gold
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I'm in Oregon and the park by my house is super busy. I know exercise and getting outside is important but the actual playground equipment is swarming with kids. Whole green space not being used, the message has clearly not been heeded unfortunately.
NeoIkaruGAF
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This is, to put it bluntly, a crock of shit.
State-paid Italian doctors get good, even very good, salaries. It's actually those in the private system that work for peanuts in many cases. If you work in the private sector in Italy, you're either a very important and well-publicized specialist (preferably a "primario", ie the director of a hospital ward who can also work in the private sector, or a university professor - one can be both) or you usually have to work your ass off in more than one place to get a decent salary. Also the biggest problem in Italy isn't even the salaries, but the impossibly high taxes. It's virtually guaranteed at this point that when the Covid situation is behind us, loss of income and unemployment will go hand in hand with a tax boost for those who still have a job.
There's a lot of brilliant doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers in Italy, and their education, contrary to popular belief, is not worse than the education you can get in America.
Therefore, this sentence:
is complete bullshit. Pure slander.
Death cause reporting is less straightforward than you'd think.
In the case of AIDS, yes, the cause of death if a person dies from infection is almost always considered AIDS, because AIDS is the primary cause of the immune deficiency that belies infection. Similarly, if you have hypertension and get a hemorragic stroke, the primary cause of the event is hypertension. Death cause reporting must take into account the primary cause and all its consequences.
This is why there's a lot of debate in Italy these days to distinguish people who died "because" of Covid and "with" Covid. Covid pneumonia may be the "final" cause of death, but if you had COPD, cancer or end-stage diabetes or renal failure before getting infected, your previous conditions play a primary role and should be considered the so-called "initial" cause of death. If the "final" cause of death was reported as the actual cause of death every time, you'd have no casualties from diabetes or hypertension because it's not those conditions that actually kill you, but their consequences (stroke, heart attack, infection, etc).
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hariseldon
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Coronavirus: Thousands of extra hospital beds and staff https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51989183
A useful development.
A useful development.
SushiReese
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Earlier in the week India was claiming that none of their cases were community spread and it was pretty obvious there was no way that could be true
How many tests did India conduct? Why the number in India is so much lower than most of world consider of its location and large population?
Dense popularization + many religion gatherings+ undeveloped medical system would be a hot spot for virus to spread.
How many tests did India conduct? Why the number in India is so much lower than most of world consider of its location and large population?
Dense popularization + many religion gatherings+ undeveloped medical system would be a hot spot for virus to spread.
Forsete
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Note to self. Do not travel during a pandemic event.
This is a thing that happens (hopefully) once in a lifetime. Not the time to whine.
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Deleted member 17706
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Yep. "We stopped it, but you fuckers didn't listen to our warning and brought it back!" will be the messaging. Transparent as hell.
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Deleted member 17706
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I don't see how that's a partial answer unless I'm misunderstanding. You're just saying there are a lot of people getting tested because they have similar symptoms from other causes. Sure, that will reduce the number of positives, but the numbers should still be biased towards positive results because Coronavirus testing is, for the most part, only happening for people who show symptoms, not the general population who feel fine. If we expanded the tests to *everyone* I would imagine the infection rate would be even lower.
I guess I don't see how what you're saying helps explain the claims of exponential growth of infections. Sorry if I'm misunderstanding.
Rentahamster
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Don't be stupid people, wait for confirmed data before taking matters into your own hands, especially if you're not a doctor yourself.
www.bloomberg.com
Nigeria Has Chloroquine Poisonings After Trump Praised Drug
Nigeria reported two cases of chloroquine poisoning after U.S. President Donald Trump praised the anti-malaria drug as a treatment for the novel coronavirus.
www.bloomberg.com
Red-N-Gold
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Don't be stupid people, wait for confirmed data before taking matters into your own hands, especially if you're not a doctor yourself.
www.bloomberg.com
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Everyone by now should know to fact check everything that comes out of trumps mouth lol. Hopefully not too many people made that mistake.
Don't be stupid people, wait for confirmed data before taking matters into your own hands, especially if you're not a doctor yourself.
Nigeria Has Chloroquine Poisonings After Trump Praised Drug
Nigeria reported two cases of chloroquine poisoning after U.S. President Donald Trump praised the anti-malaria drug as a treatment for the novel coronavirus.
www.bloomberg.com
Everyone by now should know to fact check everything that comes out of trumps mouth lol. Hopefully not too many people made that mistake.
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Deleted member 17706
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This is fucking stupid. He said he was hopeful, not to go out and chug pills.
Rentahamster
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He optimistically praised preliminary data coming out of recent research, and said they're still looking into it. Nothing false about that.
Red-N-Gold
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Well my point still stands! But this isn't about him, I feel bad for the people that were in such a desperate state of mind to have to do that.
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Deleted member 17706
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Yes, you should always fact check just about anyone. People are full of shit in general.
Either way, hard to blame the guy for people self medicating with chloroquine pills just because he said "hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin taken together could be a game changer." Didn't even take the same stuff he said...
MetalAlien
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I found Potatoes, Raviolis, and waffles today! Still no ground beef.Congrats guys! Now we can prepare the ultimate feast!
At this rate. U.S confirmed cases would be suppress 30000+ by the end of weekend, NY could conduct more testings so we see a drop in the fatality rate from 3% to 1.9%, if any other state's fatality rate is higher than 2 %, that means that state is not testing enough,
Scary numbers. I'm proud of my state/city (NYC) in that it has managed to have nearly half of all known cases in the US, but only a .5% CFR. Shouldn't be a surprise, because the doctors and hospitals in NYC are second to none. That means that the rest of the country outside of NY actually has a CFR somewhere around 1.8%.
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Red-N-Gold
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Meat is hard to come by for us too. Luckily we always have a lot of frozen chicken for backup. We pretty much always have 2 weeks of food on hand but by the end we will be living on tuna and pickles lol.
MichaelRR1989
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You guys seen this?
Lake Worth Beach, Florida city commission. Mayor Pam Triolo is acting like the absolute fucking cunt that she is.
Lake Worth Beach, Florida city commission. Mayor Pam Triolo is acting like the absolute fucking cunt that she is.
Insane Metal
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Brazil yesterday: +45% cases. Today: +12%. Hum what?
TheSadRanger
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Red-N-Gold
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Need more people like him right now to take a stand.
Come On Tars
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Damn TDS is real. Were all hopeful, his medical adviser is saying the same thing, hes hopeful the malaria drug can help people. Drugs been out for 20 years. We're accelerating testing. Of course with any drug there are outliers, pros and cons, and retards in Nigeria.
DeepEnigma
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How many are being tested?
Sejan
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Maybe because it’s the weekend. No telling.
autoduelist
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Functioning economies provide food and medical care for billions of people daily.
Captain Zyrain
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mango drank
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The number of CV cases worldwide will pass the number of views for this thread soon. C'moooon thread views.
In other news, what do you guys make of the thinking that you can't get CV from infected takeout food? People are saying the virus doesn't infect your digestive system and can't survive in there anyway, but what about food you put in your mouth that deposits virus particles there, which then travel down your windpipe and into your lungs? It sounds like people are saying they think this thing is mostly airborne, i.e. you get infected mostly by breathing in the virus particles. So touching your face / mouth with virus-laden fingers might be a much lower risk? So many unknowns.
In other news, what do you guys make of the thinking that you can't get CV from infected takeout food? People are saying the virus doesn't infect your digestive system and can't survive in there anyway, but what about food you put in your mouth that deposits virus particles there, which then travel down your windpipe and into your lungs? It sounds like people are saying they think this thing is mostly airborne, i.e. you get infected mostly by breathing in the virus particles. So touching your face / mouth with virus-laden fingers might be a much lower risk? So many unknowns.
gamerMan
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Talked to a friend on the frontlines. The guidelines for protection for Coronavirus are full eye shield mask, face shield, full gown, and N95 mask. Healthcare workers have none of the required protection and are now forced to reuse masks. They have sent Trump and Pence and open letter. https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/healthcare-workers-need-protective-equipment-now
Captain Zyrain
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Hawaii is closed
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Jtibh
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But tomorrow....
- Massive surge in number of deaths and cases in UK, Germany, Spain, Italy, and France
- New York, New Jersey deaths, cases accelerate
- Italy goes under full lockdown
- NY Gov Cuomo: "months, not weeks" to control virus
- Ukraine declares total quarantine
- Belgium sees 25% jump in cases
- Saudi Arabia reports 10% spike
- German gov't ends years of fiscal restraint with 365 billion euro aid package
- NYC airspace closed after positive Air Traffic Controller test
- NJ declares full state lockdown; "will take action" for people not following precautions
- FDA authorizes first 45-minute COVID-19 test
- US Fiscal Aid package around $2 trillion (10% of GDP), Kudlow
- Officials increasingly calling for the cancellation of the Tokyo Olympics
But tomorrow....
Captain Zyrain
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I do feel like the weekends are slower news days.
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Cunth
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Orange man good
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SLoWMoTIoN
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You know shit is fucked when Trump is asking for advice from this dude.
Captain Zyrain
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Kazza
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For anybody curious about what life in China (outside of Wuhan) is like right now, I can't recommend this 10 minute from a Japanese reporter highly enough:
I don't live in Nanjing (where this was filmed), but the situation is exactly the same in the Chinese city where I am living. Note that the situation was very different last month, where pretty much everything was closed except for food markets etc. As you can see from the video, right now there is a kind of semi-lockdown in place. Only time will tell if this will be enough to prevent a resurgence of the virus here.
I don't live in Nanjing (where this was filmed), but the situation is exactly the same in the Chinese city where I am living. Note that the situation was very different last month, where pretty much everything was closed except for food markets etc. As you can see from the video, right now there is a kind of semi-lockdown in place. Only time will tell if this will be enough to prevent a resurgence of the virus here.
Setzer
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Well, what do you think is going to happen when you take more than the recommended dosage?Don't be stupid people, wait for confirmed data before taking matters into your own hands, especially if you're not a doctor yourself.
Nigeria Has Chloroquine Poisonings After Trump Praised Drug
Nigeria reported two cases of chloroquine poisoning after U.S. President Donald Trump praised the anti-malaria drug as a treatment for the novel coronavirus.
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