posted June 20, 2020 12:49 PM            

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posted June 21, 2020 01:05 AM            

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This is not Memphis, which you’ve made a claim about. Hopefully you know that Memphis is in Tennessee and not Florida.

posted June 21, 2020 01:06 AM            

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Do you..or Newsweek know the difference between a coronavirus case...and a hospitalization for coronavirus? Do you understand that testing positive for coronavirus is not a hospitalization statistic?

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Apparently not.

posted June 22, 2020 01:27 PM            

The relevant questions are not the number of "cases" but the implication that have for the healthcare system and society in general. So here are the relevant questions:

1. is the test reliable or it gives too many false positives

2. in case someone tests positive, is this person symptomatic?

3. if Symptomatic, how different are those symptoms from any other annual influence?

4. what is the mortality rate among those testing positive?

5. is the mortality rate higher than any other annual influenza?

6. are people hospitalized because they have the virus or because the have other pre-condition (which would be exacerbated either by influenza, corona, etc)

7. are people dying without any pre-condition? if someone with CANCER in terminal stage dies and happened to have the virus, would you say he died because of the virus of because of CANCER?

8. how many people of the symptomatic people who has NO PRECONDITION has died?

posted June 22, 2020 03:16 PM            

Total Deaths are cross-checked by comparing Average Death Rate in past 5 years for a month compared to Deaths in April 2020, May 2020 and so on. This will more or less match the 120K deaths.

Thus, Fatality Rate is 5.4%, and it checks out with Brazil where Trump Buddy Bolsanaro is doing a great job as well keeping infections below the dangerous 10 million mark.

If this were just another Flu, we would have seen 50-60 million infections in USA alone, with deaths below 60K.

posted June 23, 2020 04:03 PM            

This says that testing was opened up to everyone here, last week. Now I need to get over my squeamishness, and get this done when I can.

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Reported deaths from the virus increased by 31 since Monday, above the daily average of 23 deaths reported over the past three weeks. There were 87 new coronavirus hospitalizations reported since Monday, above the average of 57 new hospitalizations reported daily in recent weeks.

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Still, DeWine said in order to grow the economy and get people back to work, “It is imperative that we not see significant spikes in the coronavirus.”

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More Ohioans were tested last week than any week since testing began in early March, according to data provided by the Ohio Department of Health.

There were 89,580 people tested within the last week with 4,059 of those testing positive, according to a Dispatch analysis of the data.

The previous high for testing during a seven-day period was 72,515 the first week of June.

Despite the increased testing, the rate at which people tested positive remained at about 5%. That has been the average rate for the last month, according to the data.

The state tested about 12,800 people per day in the last seven days, an increase of 2,600 tests per day compared to the previous 14 days.

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posted June 24, 2020 10:25 AM            

But this is the real situation in Arizona.
Not only do Arizona hospitals have enough capacity to treat a surge...if it occurs, in covid 19 hospitalizations, they have sufficient capacity to continue receiving patients for elective surgeries as well.

"While the number of Covid-19 patients in Arizona's hospitals has continued to increase since the beginning of June, hospital executives say they have enough capacity."

"We continue to have capacity to care for Covid and non-Covid patients, including elective procedures and emergencies," said Keith Jones, communications manager for Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare Corp.'s Arizona operations. "Our hospitals have taken the appropriate steps and are prepared to care for additional patients should a surge occur, working closely with state and local public health and the [U.S. Centers for Disease Control] to respond appropriately for our community."

"Meanwhile, care should not be delayed, especially in an emergency because it could contribute to additional health complications, Jones said."

"Scottsdale-based HonorHealth also continues to offer elective, medically necessary procedures, with no plans to stop doing elective procedures."

"We are continuously monitoring bed, ICU and ventilator capacity, as well as staffing and our supply of PPE," said a spokesman for HonorHealth. "These factors do not support ramping down elective surgery at this time, however, we remain prepared for any surges of Covid-19 patients."

"While currently having sufficient bed capacity, equipment and PPE, HonorHealth staff is prepared for a potential surge in Covid-19 cases. Its visitor restrictions implemented in March are still in place"....

posted June 24, 2020 03:06 PM            

BREAKING: 1 OF 3: Florida announced yesterday they're not counting the icu bed availability anymore, a key element in keeping things open, so the state can proceed to the next phase by July 4.

BREAKING 2 OF 3 I have multiple sources at DOH who have just told me they have been instructed this week to change the numbers and begin slowly deleting deaths and cases so it looks like Florida is improving next week in the leadup to July 4, like they've "made it over the hump."

posted June 24, 2020 04:52 PM            

People who don't know anything are all over Twitter and Facebook spouting bullshiite.

posted June 24, 2020 06:27 PM            

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The CDC says .26 percent, and that rate becomes smaller as testing increases.

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posted June 24, 2020 07:03 PM            

What's True

The Woodstock music festival took place in August 1969. The H3N2 influenza pandemic lasted between the winter of 1968 and the early months of 1970.

What's False

The 1968 pandemic does not compare to the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of lethality. Also, Woodstock did not take place during one of the Pandemic's seasonal peaks, but in the summer of 1969 when there was practically no reported H3N2 flu activity in the United States.

posted June 24, 2020 09:55 PM            

U.S. hits highest single day of new coronavirus cases at 36,358, breaking April record