COVID-19

[grunthy]

Not a controlled study but looks very promising.

Looking at those embedded pages isn't very encouraging. It looks like the stuff "worked" as often as doing what they're doing without it.

All 53 patients got it. So there are no people doing without it.

[Kaiser]

Except everyone else not in the study. Am I missing something?

[Willie Kool]

Am I missing something?

[grunthy]

Except everyone else not in the study. Am I missing something?

It wasn’t a study. It was showing compassionate use patients. The fact that “only” 18% of the vent patients died when with standard of care only has 20-40% success rate is good.

[grunthy]

The IHME model has been good for the most part predicting states, except for Oklahoma on this last update has me confused (since I follow them the most living here). Oklahoma has consistently been under their predicted total deaths at such and such date, yet this last update had us experiencing more deaths than before.

[Kaiser]

Gotcha

[shafnutz05]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... -residents

In recent days, the police in Naples have intensified their presence in the poorest quarters of the city, where men tied to the Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia, have organised home delivery of food parcels. Magistrates have already begun an investigation against a group of people who were questioned while distributing food to local residents.

In Palermo, according to La Repubblica, the brother of a Cosa Nostra boss allegedly distributed food to the poor in the Zen neighbourhood, an area with an established mafia presence. When the news broke, the man defended himself on Facebook, claiming that he was only doing charitable work and attacking the journalist who first reported the news.

[Freddy Rumsen]

The government hates competition.

[shafnutz05]

No posts in over four hours? Is the bloom off of COVID-19's rose?

[Shyster]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... -residents

In recent days, the police in Naples have intensified their presence in the poorest quarters of the city, where men tied to the Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia, have organised home delivery of food parcels. Magistrates have already begun an investigation against a group of people who were questioned while distributing food to local residents.

In Palermo, according to La Repubblica, the brother of a Cosa Nostra boss allegedly distributed food to the poor in the Zen neighbourhood, an area with an established mafia presence. When the news broke, the man defended himself on Facebook, claiming that he was only doing charitable work and attacking the journalist who first reported the news.

Wouldn't be the first time the mafia steps up. Trivia: After the 1995 Kobe earthquake in Japan, the Yamaguchi-gumi mafia family, which is headquartered in Kobe, provided disaster-relief products such as food, water, blankets, and toiletries faster than the government did. The Yakuza also sent tons of relief supplies for the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

Mobsters on a mission: How Japan's mafia launched an aid effort
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 64031.html

[tifosi77]

Hearts and minds.

[tifosi77]

We live about a mile or so from the outer marker for Burbank airport, so we normally have a lot of low altitude air traffic overhead. Several weeks of relative silence is starting to get a little jarring. We are seriously down to maybe three or four flights a day, when normally that's the flow for any given 15 minute chunk of time during peak hours.

[tifosi77]

This is kinda cool.

[Sam's Drunk Dog]

New signs suggest coronavirus was in California far earlier than anyone knew

https://www.latimes.com/california/stor ... ssion=true

[Freddy Rumsen]

[DigitalGypsy66]

Sturgill Simpson retroactively tested positive on April 6th. He and his band were in Europe until early March, played his last us show on March 10th. He had severe chest pains, shortness of breath, and high blood pressure and went to the emergency room a day or two later, but they wouldn't give him a test until early April...

[MR25]

Guess he isn't well-known enough to get fast-tracked to testing.

[slappybrown]

Is there any information/reporting out there concerning the big picture testing ramp up for a post-crisis world? The only way to safely reopen the country on a large scale is to test and contact trace — particularly urban centers. What’s the game plan on scenarios where anyone at anytime can go get tested in any metro area of, say, 250k+ (around the size of Erie metro)? I’m not looking for the full suite of personal intrusion that places like SK/Singapore have introduced that Americans will rightfully be resistant to (required download of app, mandatory reporting to authorities of your current condition and symptoms, temperature readings on private property/businesses), but the testing on demand and mass production of N95 masks for the citizenry so they aren’t going for 50 bucks on eBay and can instead be bought for a couple bucks each are affirmative steps we need to open back up (and stay open), that are seemingly acceptable uses of federal power to most citizens. I haven’t seen any reporting on what’s being done to prepare for the immediate weeks after we lift the stay at home orders, which is probably going to happen by the end of May at the latest. Any links? Or are the folks that are in the health care field in this thread assuming this will continue to be eat what you kill, health system by health system and locality by locality?

[Kicksave]

Is there any information/reporting out there concerning the big picture testing ramp up for a post-crisis world? The only way to safely reopen the country on a large scale is to test and contact trace — particularly urban centers. What’s the game plan on scenarios where anyone at anytime can go get tested in any metro area of, say, 250k+ (around the size of Erie metro)? I’m not looking for the full suite of personal intrusion that places like SK/Singapore have introduced that Americans will rightfully be resistant to (required download of app, mandatory reporting to authorities of your current condition and symptoms, temperature readings on private property/businesses), but the testing on demand and mass production of N95 masks for the citizenry so they aren’t going for 50 bucks on eBay and can instead be bought for a couple bucks each are affirmative steps we need to open back up (and stay open), that are seemingly acceptable uses of federal power to most citizens. I haven’t seen any reporting on what’s being done to prepare for the immediate weeks after we lift the stay at home orders, which is probably going to happen by the end of May at the latest. Any links? Or are the folks that are in the health care field in this thread assuming this will continue to be eat what you kill, health system by health system and locality by locality?

[faftorial]

Is there any information/reporting out there concerning the big picture testing ramp up for a post-crisis world? The only way to safely reopen the country on a large scale is to test and contact trace — particularly urban centers. What’s the game plan on scenarios where anyone at anytime can go get tested in any metro area of, say, 250k+ (around the size of Erie metro)? I’m not looking for the full suite of personal intrusion that places like SK/Singapore have introduced that Americans will rightfully be resistant to (required download of app, mandatory reporting to authorities of your current condition and symptoms, temperature readings on private property/businesses), but the testing on demand and mass production of N95 masks for the citizenry so they aren’t going for 50 bucks on eBay and can instead be bought for a couple bucks each are affirmative steps we need to open back up (and stay open), that are seemingly acceptable uses of federal power to most citizens. I haven’t seen any reporting on what’s being done to prepare for the immediate weeks after we lift the stay at home orders, which is probably going to happen by the end of May at the latest. Any links? Or are the folks that are in the health care field in this thread assuming this will continue to be eat what you kill, health system by health system and locality by locality?

Working from home exclusively now?

[slappybrown]

Is there any information/reporting out there concerning the big picture testing ramp up for a post-crisis world? The only way to safely reopen the country on a large scale is to test and contact trace — particularly urban centers. What’s the game plan on scenarios where anyone at anytime can go get tested in any metro area of, say, 250k+ (around the size of Erie metro)? I’m not looking for the full suite of personal intrusion that places like SK/Singapore have introduced that Americans will rightfully be resistant to (required download of app, mandatory reporting to authorities of your current condition and symptoms, temperature readings on private property/businesses), but the testing on demand and mass production of N95 masks for the citizenry so they aren’t going for 50 bucks on eBay and can instead be bought for a couple bucks each are affirmative steps we need to open back up (and stay open), that are seemingly acceptable uses of federal power to most citizens. I haven’t seen any reporting on what’s being done to prepare for the immediate weeks after we lift the stay at home orders, which is probably going to happen by the end of May at the latest. Any links? Or are the folks that are in the health care field in this thread assuming this will continue to be eat what you kill, health system by health system and locality by locality?

Screenshot’d

[Shyster]

Is there any information/reporting out there concerning the big picture testing ramp up for a post-crisis world?

Not that I've seen.

[Troy Loney]

Is there any information/reporting out there concerning the big picture testing ramp up for a post-crisis world? The only way to safely reopen the country on a large scale is to test and contact trace — particularly urban centers. What’s the game plan on scenarios where anyone at anytime can go get tested in any metro area of, say, 250k+ (around the size of Erie metro)? I’m not looking for the full suite of personal intrusion that places like SK/Singapore have introduced that Americans will rightfully be resistant to (required download of app, mandatory reporting to authorities of your current condition and symptoms, temperature readings on private property/businesses), but the testing on demand and mass production of N95 masks for the citizenry so they aren’t going for 50 bucks on eBay and can instead be bought for a couple bucks each are affirmative steps we need to open back up (and stay open), that are seemingly acceptable uses of federal power to most citizens. I haven’t seen any reporting on what’s being done to prepare for the immediate weeks after we lift the stay at home orders, which is probably going to happen by the end of May at the latest. Any links? Or are the folks that are in the health care field in this thread assuming this will continue to be eat what you kill, health system by health system and locality by locality?

You know the answer.

[Sam's Drunk Dog]

The Best-Case Scenario for Coronavirus Is That It’s Way More Infectious Than We Think

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/202 ... ssion=true

[King Colby]

The Best-Case Scenario for Coronavirus Is That It’s Way More Infectious Than We Think

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/202 ... ssion=true

Read the headline only, but that's where I am with this thing. I wish there was more available on the "amount" of virus you get hit with and how that relates to symptoms. Good chance is that if it's as infectious as they're starting to say, most people are in contact with small amounts just by walking through a grocery store.