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Despite decades of commercial blockage and economic war, Cuba has an admirable healthcare system. They sent doctors to help the italians first than most first world nations. They also received a Cruise ship with infected spanish people that several countries rejected.

6 deaths and 200-smth cases so far.

And they'll go to the hospitals the Party keeps to themselves.
 
Despite decades of commercial blockage and economic war, Cuba has an admirable healthcare system. They sent doctors to help the italians first than most first world nations. They also received a Cruise ship with infected spanish people that several countries rejected.

6 deaths and 200-smth cases so far.
Lol, they're admirable....

...untill you see their own bathrooms are falling apart and beyond repair.

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Did your Cuban doctor wash his hands before shoving his hand up your ass? Well, now you know.
 
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I'd be truly delighted if you could be so kind as to educate me on where and even this survey was carried out - were other demographics identified?

It's bullshit - the rural area I'm in now has a very large population of black Americans and they were buying loads of it all too.

Lol, they're admirable....

...untill you see their own bathrooms are falling apart and beyond repair.

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Did your Cuban doctor wash his hands before shoving his hand up your ass? Well, now you know.

Come on, who wouldn't want to have open heart surgery in this state-of-the-art hospital?

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I hear the regime said that bits of old moldy ceiling tiles falling into your chest cavity promote good outcomes. Clearly it must be true - they would never lie.
 
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Probably, but 3M responded WH...


TLDR: 3M claimed WH is too stupid to understand how economy works in a very polite way...

Well, it may well be out of 3M's hands now.
 
Italy detail update for 4/2:


Total deaths listed: 12550 (+693)

0-29: 6 - x2.00 (+3, this doubled overnight, was just 1 for a long time)
30-39: 29 - x0.00 (+0)
40-49: 110 - x1.06 (+6)
50-59: 479 - x1.05 (+24)
60-69: 1448 - x1.06 (+81)
70-79: 4196 - x1.04 (+187)
80-89: 5029 - x1.06 (+286)
90+: 1251 - x1.09 (+106)


Percentage wise, the very young and very old grew the most, everyone else was increasing at the same rate. Total # wise, it's still the older people who are dying the most, but doubling the 0-29 group overnight is troubling, hopefully it was just an anomaly and not something we see happening more often.

Under 40 still seems like you'll be okay, but 40+ is getting risky.

Italy detail update for 4/3:


Total deaths listed: 13241 (+691)

They started breaking this down even further for young people.

0-9: 1 (New counting) - <0.1%
10-19: 0 (New counting
20-29: 6 (New counting) <0.1%
30-39: 30 - x1.03 (+1) - 0.2%
40-49: 114 - x1.04 (+4) - 0.8%
50-59: 506 - x1.06 (+27) - 4%
60-69: 1520 - x1.05 (+72) - 11%
70-79: 4412 - x1.05 (+216) - 33%
80-89: 5304 - x1.05 (+275) - 40%
90+: 1347 - x1.08 (+96) - 10%
Unknown: 1 (New counting) - <0.1%


Seems like more of the same. Interesting (and sad) that they need to break down the age groups more. Hopefully we don't see more children showing up in the reports.
 
It's so prima facie dumb that I can't believe anyone ever bought the whole "masks don't help" BS, especially when they throw in other info like "it only helps healthcare workers on the front lines" - really? Why is that? Does the mask conduct an interview before use and ask the owner what their occupation is and tailor its efficacy based on the response? Yes, you can put up all the graphics you want of the size of viral particles and the typical porosity of various scarves/masks, but obviously no one with any sense is saying that masks (any kind of mask, be it N95 or anything below that) will 100% protect you, only that they're beneficial to varying degrees. To state otherwise and suggest that "they don't help at all" is just utter stupidity to the point where I wonder if the folks who continue to peddle it are just doing so for their political/institutional allegiances (and in many cases this is obviously true).

At least I can somewhat understand the CDC/Gov't saying there's no need to use masks, because they wanted to preserve the supply for those who most need it and likely realized that there was no other way to ensure that in the short term if their official guidance to the public was to use masks. Not sure if they ever said that were ineffectual, though (one is outright misinformation, the other not). Maybe they did, maybe they didn't. But these media outlets and "independent" reporters who peddle clear falsehoods have no excuse. The message from the beginning, both from the government and "independent" media, should have been that yes, masks offer varying degrees of protection, but that in this time of national/global emergency we need to ensure that those most vulnerable and most exposed on the frontlines have an adequate supply. Talk to people like adults and respect their intelligence and generally they'll respond well. And yes, the gov't should have started the process of procuring these masks for healthcare professionals and shoring up the supply line much sooner.

Agreed. Anyone able to do a few minutes of independent research can verify the efficacy of masks here, or simply observe how both surgical and n95 masks are valued by health care professionals. The government and media pushing an anti-mask position hasn't exactly engendered trust in these institutions.
 
Connecticut reports more than 1,000 new coronavirus case

Connecticut has 1,090 new coronavirus cases and 19 new deaths, Gov. Ned Lamont announced Friday.
The state now has a total of 4,914 cases and 131 deaths. 909 patients are currently hospitalized.
"Our number of positives went up about 29%, which is probably more than we've seen in the past and a little disturbingly, the percentage of tests that resulted in people positive spiked up at 64%," Lamont added.


my state is why too small to be this high beating out many countries
 
I'm not sure why the Trump administration is holding up California as a model for success. It's a model of epic failure and makes me question the people in charge of this crisis. Not only has California conducted the least amount of tests per capita, California has conducted 90,000 tests and 60,000 tests are pending. It has only processed 30,000 tests and has the worst backlog in the country. California has more pending Coronavirus tests than results. We have no idea what is going on in California. This new partnership with the private sector and "whole of America approach" isn't exactly working in California.

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It's bullshit - the rural area I'm in now has a very large population of black Americans and they were buying loads of it all too.



Come on, who wouldn't want to have open heart surgery in this state-of-the-art hospital?

hospital-4.jpg


I hear the regime said that bits of old moldy ceiling tiles falling into your chest cavity promote good outcomes. Clearly it must be true - they would never lie.
 
You could have just started and ended there. We get it. You hate everything about the guy.

I dont, when he won I was the first that made a thread congratulating him, I thought he'd do a good job, and he did on some fields, I just think hes doing an awfull job right now and focusing too much on his beloved economy, his response has been slow and completely clueless which will cost the lives of thousands if not millions of americans.
 
I have to wonder how we'd feel if every single non-COVID death was reported all day for the masses.

People die in such high numbers that it would make our heads spin.

But the recovery column would be births though. That would take the edge off.
 
There is no way this is lasting till July, the world wont let it happen.

I am not saying we will be back to pre COVID days. But if this goes on until the summer people will be dying of starvation in their homes. And on top of that countries will run out of food and supplies.

Something is going to have to be figured out how to function still with this virus. We will also have way more data by then so we can probably smartly figure out a way to live with this.

Odds are old people will be stuck at home until a vaccine comes out. Everyone else will wear masks, social distance, wash their hands. Bars/Resto's etc will be all opened in a limited fashion. Malls and arean's will be empty. Tourism will be mostly dead.

Its not feasable for the entire world to sit at home. I don't want people dying, but at some point food becomes an issue.
 
I think what happens first is more effective treatment methods will be found to reduce the risk of death and pneumonia. Then they may eventually decide to fast track vaccines not just because of the pandemic but because of the global economy. Test trials for patients volunteering may happen and if they respond well they may run them out sooner than expected, though I'm not an expert, I don't know the ramifications of that.

Small things adding up like those, plus flattening the curve a bit and as more people getting infected, becoming immune and/or unfortunately dying means less people to spread the virus, I think will mitigate some of this. But I don't think it will be truly carefree safe for a while. Like 2021.
 
Found some general purpose masks that I had recently, does anyone know the best place to purchase any kind of masks?

Doesn't have to be N95 as those are probably sold out everywhere, but looking for anything really.
 
Its not feasable for the entire world to sit at home. I don't want people dying, but at some point food becomes an issue.
government ran breadlines.
Found some general purpose masks that I had recently, does anyone know the best place to purchase any kind of masks?

Doesn't have to be N95 as those are probably sold out everywhere, but looking for anything really.
amazon has several types of masks available, though quality may vary.

I think what happens first is more effective treatment methods will be found to reduce the risk of death and pneumonia. Then they may eventually decide to fast track vaccines not just because of the pandemic but because of the global economy. Test trials for patients volunteering may happen and if they respond well they may run them out sooner than expected, though I'm not an expert, I don't know the ramifications of that.

We still don't know how the mutation rate will affect vaccines or herd immunity.
 
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I have to wonder how we'd feel if every single non-COVID death was reported all day for the masses.

People die in such high numbers that it would make our heads spin.

But that's not the point. The virus has characteristics and causes results that are not compatible with the way we live. According to the CDC, influenza has caused 24,000-63,000 deaths in the US this season out of a total of 39,000,000 - 55,000,000 cases.
The coronavirus spreads more easily and is therefore more infectious. Extrapolated, there would be about 50,000,000 - 90,000,000 million COVID-19 cases (this is calculated very conservatively) in the USA during one flu season. That would be 500,000 - 900,000 deaths (CFR 1,0%) with about 7,500,000 - 13,500,000 hospitalizations (15% rate of all cases).

TL;DR Numbers for the US for one influenza season (numbers are for 2019 - 2020):
Influenza cases: 39,000,000 - 55,000,000
COVID-19 cases: 50,000,000 - 90,000,000
Influenza hospitalizations: 400,000 - 730,000
COVID-19 hospitalizations: 7,500,000 - 13,500,000
Influenza deaths: 24,000-63,000
COVID-19 deaths: 500,000 - 900,000

Source: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm

The death count is not the problem. The number of deaths caused by COVID-19 are actually irrelevant and would disappear in the annual statistics of deaths. But, and this is just the big but, this number of deaths can only be guaranteed if each patient is also treated in the best possible way, similar what happens right now if you have the flu or pneumonia. So what does that mean? The high number of hospitalizations is the problem. Besides for many COVID-19 cases this number would also significantly increase the death rate for all illnesses and accidents (car accidents, accidents at home, ...), due to the hospital overloads. Cardiovascular causes of death and all other imaginable causes of death in the current top 10 would skyrocket. Non-important or non-life-sustaining measures and operations would be a rarity and, depending on the health system, would be reserved for rich people only. Just imagine 80 - 90% of all hospitals would suddenly close down. The scale of it, in all aspects of our lives, would be catastrophic.
 
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This is my arm chairing moment, but I feel like if we're going to have lockdowns to combat this shit, the best way would be to have the most hardcore lockdown possible for the shortest time possible. Quarantine city districts from each other, go block by block and make sure the virus is gone from any area you open up. I'm talking full Wuhan style martial law. The sooner this is over with the better.
 
government ran breadlines.

amazon has several types of masks available, though quality may vary.



We still don't know how the mutation rate will affect vaccines or herd immunity.

Who gonna make the bread? Get the wheat? package it?

Some places are going to have government rations, but at some point someone has to make and package these rations.

Say bye bye to PS5 and Series X
 


icu doc in nyc thinks we are dealing not with ARDS but something that more resembles high altitude pulmonary edema
 
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Who gonna make the bread? Get the wheat? package it?

Some places are going to have government rations, but at some point someone has to make and package these rations.

Say bye bye to PS5 and Series X
I assume processed food factories are quite automated, needing only a few technicians. The farms are heavily automated. And the trucks we could expedite autonomous ones.
 
I assume processed food factories are quite automated, needing only a few technicians. The farms are heavily automated. And the trucks we could expedite autonomous ones.

You assume wrong. You never seen a factory? They always have huge parking lots and employ 100's if not thousands of people. And even if you did get a mainly automated factory with as little people as possible, this would only be super rich countries. So poorer countries would still be SOL.
 


icu doc in nyc thinks we are dealing not with ARDS but something that more resembles high altitude pulmonary edema

HAPE is usually treated with supplementary oxygen though. It's not like they send COVID patients on ventilators directly, they do it when their O2 saturation is too low, despite the oxygen. I mean whatever, I'm not a doctor so...
 
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icu doc in nyc thinks we are dealing not with ARDS but something that more resembles high altitude pulmonary edema


So what I'm gathering from this is that the ventilators may be causing more harm than good due to forcing air into already pressurised lungs?

How else can they help get oxygen into lungs and help people to breathe without the ventilators?
 
So what I'm gathering from this is that the ventilators may be causing more harm than good due to forcing air into already pressurised lungs?

How else can they help get oxygen into lungs and help people to breathe without the ventilators?


Im just a layman here but it sounds like hes suggesting that the pressure they are using to pump air into the lungs is causing more damage than COVID itself
 
I'm not sure why the Trump administration is holding up California as a model for success. It's a model of epic failure and makes me question the people in charge of this crisis. Not only has California conducted the least amount of tests per capita, California has conducted 90,000 tests and 60,000 tests are pending. It has only processed 30,000 tests and has the worst backlog in the country. California has more pending Coronavirus tests than results. We have no idea what is going on in California. This new partnership with the private sector and "whole of America approach" isn't exactly working in California.

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I'm going to go with "deaths are comparatively low" as the reason. That's really all that matters in the end, no?
 
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icu doc in nyc thinks we are dealing not with ARDS but something that more resembles high altitude pulmonary edema


To follow up on my previous reply to this I just came across the following from a quick google search:


While not extensively peer reviewed, there does appear to be a number of similarities between HAPE and COVID-19 which would support what this doctor is saying.

What the hell is going on with this virus that could cause the lungs to pressurise like that? That's the bit I can't wrap my head around because the conditions in which HAPE typically occur are logical due to higher altitudes.

I guess the good news from this is that we could edge towards more effective and efficient treatment methods if this this investigated further.
 
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But that's not the point. The virus has characteristics and causes results that are not compatible with the way we live. According to the CDC, influenza has caused 24,000-63,000 deaths in the US this season out of a total of 39,000,000 - 55,000,000 cases.
The coronavirus spreads more easily and is therefore more infectious. Extrapolated, there would be about 50,000,000 - 90,000,000 million COVID-19 cases (this is calculated very conservatively) in the USA during one flu season. That would be 500,000 - 900,000 deaths (CFR 1,0%) with about 7,500,000 - 13,500,000 hospitalizations (15% rate of all cases).

TL;DR Numbers for the US for one influenza season (numbers are for 2019 - 2020):
Influenza cases: 39,000,000 - 55,000,000
COVID-19 cases: 50,000,000 - 90,000,000
Influenza hospitalizations: 400,000 - 730,000
COVID-19 hospitalizations: 7,500,000 - 13,500,000
Influenza deaths: 24,000-63,000
COVID-19 deaths: 500,000 - 900,000

Source: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm

The death count is not the problem. The number of deaths caused by COVID-19 are actually irrelevant and would disappear in the annual statistics of deaths. But, and this is just the big but, this number of deaths can only be guaranteed if each patient is also treated in the best possible way, similar what happens right now if you have the flu or pneumonia. So what does that mean? The high number of hospitalizations is the problem. Besides for many COVID-19 cases this number would also significantly increase the death rate for all illnesses and accidents (car accidents, accidents at home, ...), due to the hospital overloads. Cardiovascular causes of death and all other imaginable causes of death in the current top 10 would skyrocket. Non-important or non-life-sustaining measures and operations would be a rarity and, depending on the health system, would be reserved for rich people only. Just imagine 80 - 90% of all hospitals would suddenly close down. The scale of it, in all aspects of our lives, would be catastrophic.
I didn't mean anything by my post, but appreciate the deep response.

It was just a commentary at how closely we're all watching these stats go up. It's not good for us.
 
I have to wonder how we'd feel if every single non-COVID death was reported all day for the masses.

People die in such high numbers that it would make our heads spin.
On average 150k die each day. Maybe we should have charts for those # as well?
 
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