COVID-19

[Dickie Dunn]

Spain has overtaken Italy for most cases per 1MM in population for countries with more than five people living in it.

[AuthorTony]

From the "take this with a grain of salt" file...
https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/healt ... d49d20bebf

'Pandemic' scientist says his team has discovered potential cure for COVID-19
Dr. Jacob Glanville's team took antibodies used to neutralize SARS and used technology in their lab to adapt them to recognize COVID-19.

Obviously this is unproven but I'll cling to any potential good news I can get.

[grunthy]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytime ... s.amp.html

This company apparently has been “predicting” which areas are going to be hit hard by COVID-19 prior to the positive tests starting to show up. Recently the data across the country has been showing massive decreases in fevers throughout the country, possibly showing we are close to our peak.

The turning point began on March 16, the day schools were closed. Bars and restaurants were closed the next day, and a stay-at-home order took effect on March 20. By March 23, new fevers in Manhattan were below their March 1 levels.

Last Friday, New York State’s own data showed the same trend that Kinsa’s fever readings had spotted five days earlier.

The state tracks hospitalization rates, not fevers. So many patients were being admitted to New York City hospitals, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said, that until March 20, hospitalization rates were doubling roughly every two days.

By Tuesday, the hospitalization rate took four days to double. This is roughly what the fever readings predicted, said Nita Nehru, a company spokeswoman.

Hospitalizations occur several days after symptoms like fever appear. “The cases being counted now had fevers five to 10 days ago,” she said.

[dodint]

[Gaucho]

Twitter is a joy these days. Yes, it's a shame that people are dying, but won't somebody please think of the people who are sitting at home and are really bored?

[Gaucho]

[RonnieFranchise]

2 dead, up to 25 affected and quarantined at Beaver County nursing home.

https://www.timesonline.com/news/202003 ... hton-rehab

[willeyeam]

my grandma is at a nursing home in Westmoreland county and these nursing home stories popping up are scary

[Morkle]

If I had the means/space to do so, I'd pull them out post-haste.

[RonnieFranchise]

Mine is at one in Williamsport. She has her own apartment and I think they are bringing her meals 'to her rather than sending them to a common area to eat but... yeah I hear you. She's 92 and while yeah, it can get claustrophobic being cooped up with my wife, two kids, a dog and a cat all the time, I feel bad for her and all the other at risk people who live alone and basically can't go out and interact with other humans.

She has age related dementia and can't accurately remember who people are anyway, I am afraid regardless of whether she gets it or not, this will really set her back. My mom and sister have been going over and talking to her out on her porch (6'+ away)

[willeyeam]

Yeah mine has her own apartment and they're keeping everyone separated. But she has to be there, she can't walk and needs the assistance. We tried at-home help but someone has to be with her 24/7. They aren't allowed to leave and no visitors are allowed but it just takes on worker to bring it in. Blah

[MrKennethTKangaroo]

My grandma has her own apartment, but thank goodness my uncles can take care of her. My three uncles have cabins up in venango county next to each other. one lives there permanently and the other ones go up there often. So she is going to go up there an hang on and have a good support system. She is in good health and is still pretty sharp mentally.

[Morkle]

Ugh, tough on both counts.

[DigitalGypsy66]

Daniel Dae Kim had COVID, and is recovering...slowly.

The toughest part about the end stages of this virus is that your loved ones can't be with you at death. I hadn't really thought of that, but someone posted a story from a doctor in Brooklyn that held his phone up to a 100 year old Holocaust survivor so her son could read the Jewish death rites.

[nocera]

It's the same for every death at the moment. A guy I went to school with died unexpectedly and unrelated to COVID. I wasn't close with him but I'm friends with those who were. His family can't even have a funeral for him right now.

[shoeshine boy]

doctors are being extra cautious with everyone right now that's hospitalized. a co-worker was in the hospital all last week for an attack of diverticulitis and he said that he wasn't allowed any visitors and only saw the doctors and nurses once a day. oddly though, they let him return to the office yesterday. when I questioned our office head about it I was told "he's on so many antibiotics that he can't catch anything right now." ummmm.....I immediately said I'd be WFH full-time for the foreseeable future.

[LITT]

It's the same for every death at the moment. A guy I went to school with died unexpectedly and unrelated to COVID. I wasn't close with him but I'm friends with those who were. His family can't even have a funeral for him right now.

a buddy of mine's uncle died of covid in washington state. they did a zoom funeral

[grunthy]

Based on the Kinsa Health, which seems to have been pretty accurate in finding hotspots before COVID statistically spikes in a region, it looks like social distancing is working. They are showing a 5-10 day lag from their data to state data. Based on their data the USA will peak in the next 5 days or so.

[count2infinity]

I hope so... would be great to get back to normal sooner than later. Unfortunately, I'm not very optimistic. I don't know why.

[obhave]

Based on the Kinsa Health, which seems to have been pretty accurate in finding hotspots before COVID statistically spikes in a region, it looks like social distancing is working. They are showing a 5-10 day lag from their data to state data. Based on their data the USA will peak in the next 5 days or so.

How did a model like this work in places like Italy?

[NTP66]

Source of the post I don't know why.

I do. You read this thread and sometimes watch the news.

[nocera]

I have a feeling once people start seeing the numbers go down, there is going to be an immediate call to end the stay at home orders. That would be the absolute wrong call.

[Morkle]

another COVID case at GE Pine Creek. Man.

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

It's the same for every death at the moment. A guy I went to school with died unexpectedly and unrelated to COVID. I wasn't close with him but I'm friends with those who were. His family can't even have a funeral for him right now.

imo this is the most depressing thing of all of this. People are dying alone; without family and friends to comfort them

[nocera]

325 cases for Allegheny County, +35 from yesterday.