COVID-19

[Pavel Bure]

Starting to see a resurgence of idiots posting on Facebook about this being a hoax and how it’s socialists keeping us on lock down and moving towards a communist state...

[meow]

Was this "Coronavirus reactivation" stuff posted here yet? Sorry, if it was...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... n-cdc-says


Med folks: What's more likely? "Reactivation" or "Faulty testing"?

I'm going to go with "faulty testing", but not in the sense you may think. It's not that the tests suck, per say, but that you be deemed "recovered" you need to negative test results within 24 hours of each other. I doubt that is happening with the stress on the limited number of tests available.

[dodint]

Take some tests from the tigers.

[Gaucho]

Starting to see a resurgence of idiots posting on Facebook about this being a hoax and how it’s socialists keeping us on lock down and moving towards a communist state...

Such a shame that the virus is indiscriminate.

[NTP66]

Take some tests from the tigers.

[Kaiser]

Starting to see a resurgence of idiots posting on Facebook about this being a hoax and how it’s socialists keeping us on lock down and moving towards a communist state...

"Now is not the time for fear!"

Unless you're afraid of your absurd profits slowing down.

[nocera]

It looks like Etna has this whole thing under control.

[Morkle]

All they needed was an ETNA STRONG slogan.

[meow]

****ing right, brothers. Etna knows what's up

[King Colby]

Added a 17th day to my Allegheny county chart and the R2 value increased from .9868 to .9889

Another day added. R2 is now .9907

Why is Birx citing Pittsburgh as a potential upcoming hot spot? Perfectly linear growth over a nearly 3 week period seems to suggest otherwise.

Cases doubling in 7.5 days.

[nocera]

Source of the post Why is Birx citing Pittsburgh as a potential upcoming hot spot?

When did she say that?

[Troy Loney]

I thought Philly and DC were the next hot spots.

[King Colby]

Source of the post Why is Birx citing Pittsburgh as a potential upcoming hot spot?

When did she say that?

One of the evening pressers within the last couple days. Sounded like more of a "maybe" but I remember getting irritated by it

[MrKennethTKangaroo]

shes probably not aware of etna's dedication to the fight

[pens9192]

That doesn't make sense, I mean the data doesn't really support that prediction..? Someone told me we would soon end up like NYC and I challenged them on that and they only said it was because of the roads that connect to NYC.

[nocera]

There is zero data that supports that prediction. We are a few days from our peak resource use and it's not looking like we're going to be anywhere near capacity at the hospitals. Hospitalization numbers are really the best way to judge since everybody knows testing numbers aren't super accurate.

[slappybrown]

I dont think Pittsburgh was ever mentioned in those briefings. I think it would have been front page news on every local news station/site/newspaper if Birx said that. King Colby is downgraded to Duke Colby for this fake news. And no, I will not accept footage of a deep fake Dr. Birx saying Pittsburgh is an emerging hot spot. I'm dug in.

[Shyster]

I see some news articles saying that PA in general and Philadelphia in particular were mentioned as potential hot spots, but I don't see anything that says that Pittsburgh was specifically mentioned in that context. There are a lot of new cases in Philly and in the counties along and close to the NJ and NY borders, such as Bucks and Northampton. Also a lot of cases in Luzerne County (Wilkes-Barre).

[NTP66]

Philly hospitals have seen their share of NY patients, FWIW.

[King Colby]

I dont think Pittsburgh was ever mentioned in those briefings. I think it would have been front page news on every local news station/site/newspaper if Birx said that. King Colby is downgraded to Duke Colby for this fake news. And no, I will not accept footage of a deep fake Dr. Birx saying Pittsburgh is an emerging hot spot. I'm dug in.

The Duke might have a lower title but he's really the one that does all the work!

[King Colby]

Why would there be an upcoming "surge" in PA anywhere that isnt already ongoing?

NY had its first case 39 days ago, PA 34 days ago. NY is slowing yet PA is expected to surge?

[Troy Loney]

It's believed that the NYC spread was taking place in February. Pittsburgh is 3.5 weeks into social distancing, but it does seem like we're clear of big community spread.

[willeyeam]

coming down with a cold and this is not a good time to feel sick

[Troy Loney]

This is good.

[LITT]

speak of birx, what's wrong with her neck that she feels the need to wear those huge scarves all the time