Miscellaneous And Off Topic Subjects

[froot loops]

Froot, I worked at Grady Memorial ER in metro ATL(Level 1) and at a rural hospital ER in central GA (Level 2/3 depending on service needed). I can tell you that transport and placement of patient's who needed to be somewhere else for any number of reasons was a nightmare. That was before COVID-19.

What's disturbing to me is that our ER managers, nurses and Docs, all complained about this all the time to hospital administrators. Nothing was done. Ever, while I was working there...... and GA had a working centralized transport and placement system. It just sucked.

None of what Mr. Fox is mentioning is probably new to him. One of the MANY lessons learned here is that compared to hospital systems in other countries who were prepared for some kind of surge due to war or epidemics (not a whole lot of them actually it seems), the US, despite reports that it was well prepared, has fallen on it's ass.

Of course it's regional and the hardest hit systems in NY and Detroit are taking the brunt of this. It certainly gives a heads up to other metro and even micro areas to get ready. That can only help going forward.

I don't want to say too much because I don't think it's appropriate in this forum but this has been at least a week in the making. Fox may be talking about the state but he is speaking to the other systems.

[froot loops]

[AlabamAlum]

[iam416]

If you want encouraging news, you can look at this model: https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections

It's updated frequently, includes a long discussion on data and has FAQs and such. Anywho, they project 50K to 140K deaths.

Here's a description of the model:

State-by-state forecast shows projected number of deaths in each state and nationwide, measuring the impact on health systems: hospital beds, ICU bed shortages, and ventilators needed. COVID-19 forecasting model updated in real-time created by Dr. Christopher Murray and researchers in Washington state and used by the US Government.

[Dr. Strangelove]

This is great. This is fine

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/06/asia/china-coronavirus-tourist-warning-intl-hnk/index.html

[Dr. Strangelove]

If you want encouraging news, you can look at this model: https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections

It's updated frequently, includes a long discussion on data and has FAQs and such. Anywho, they project 50K to 140K deaths.

Here's a description of the model:

Huge shift in Alabama's projections since they went into lockdown. That model was calling for them to be completely overrun several times over at one point.

[froot loops]

I didn't even think about this but it was a unknown bullet averted.

[Dr. Strangelove]

The risible Peter Navarro was on CNN this morning, touting his "social science" degree as a reason we should give his medical opinions as much weight as Dr. Fauci or ANY doctor, really.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Florida poll out this morning. Sample size of over 3200 registered voters. A whopping 55% considered themselves born-again Christians.

Biden 46%, Trump 40%

Approve of Trump's handling of coronavirus? 45% approve, 53% disapprove

How about DeSantis? 51% approve, 46% disapprove

Do you think President Trump provides reliable information? 41% say yes. DeSantis is at 55%

What's kind of interesting if you look at responses by party breakdowns is that if you look at ONLY Republicans, Trump has greater approval and trust than DeSantis. But DeSantis is waaaaaay more popular among Dems and Independents so his numbers are better when you look at everyone combined.

https://www.unf.edu/uploadedFiles/aa...9%20Survey.pdf

[iam416]

The coronavirus saved the Ds. Sleepy Joe will win big. I'm sure DeSantis will be lucky to get re-elected. The entire country is going socialist.

[AlabamAlum]

Martin Luther on the Black Plague (might be apocryphal- came from twitter. Too lazy to verify):

[Ghengis Jon]

One data point is not proof, but if animals can spread the virus to humans, yikes.

https://apnews.com/0f47b8e4f883579712599690e1752c09

[AlabamAlum]

I heard of a symptomatic house cat with COVID last week.

[AlabamAlum]

https://www.livescience.com/cat-infected-covid-19-from-owner.html

[iam416]

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