COVID-19 Info and Statistics only thread

My hunch is that nobody knows yet, especially since some people are becoming reinfected.

 

hahahahaha

 

You can probably find a dozen different articles on each of those questions, with 13 different answers for each question.

We'll know more in about a year. Til then, anything & everything is pure conjecture.

 

OMB- Destroy the economy, unemployment apps. skyrocket, and wait, who runs this narrative/media crap again?

 

Y2K software bugs is an apt comparison.

Thousands upon thousands of competent people handled the situation so it didn’t stop the planet and a bunch of morons after the fact said “What a joke. All hype.”

 

It's fuuny. I specifically remember the first time I heard about the y2k bug. That same day I changed the clock on my computer and ran it that way for a day. Lol

 

The comparison kinda falls apart when 38.6 jobs weren't lost for every y2K glitch that DID occur, and each glitch DIDN'T cost the US economy about 140 MILLION DOLLARS.

The above based on 9,955,000 initial unemployment claims over the past two weeks... and estimated $38TRILLION dollars of wealth gone to money heaven over the past 5 weeks, all for (last I saw) some 270,000 cases of the beerSARS.

 

Most of the "work" done on the y2k hype was to look at the systems, laugh and deposit checks - and of course let the clients know that it was a good thing they called, but they are safe now. But it brought in thousands of dollars monthly the last half of 1999 for my little company at the time.

 

New guy contribution:

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51979654

 

Some of our our internal protocol, CDC based.




Discontinuation of Transmission-Based Precautions Related to COVID-19/PUI Patients
(Meeting criteria for discontinuation of Transmission-Based Precautions is not a prerequisite for discharge)
Strategies for Determining the Discontinuation of Transmission-Based Precautions For COVID-19 + Patients:
• Prior to discontinuing isolation: Clinical staff must call physician or APP for order. Please consider the clinical condition of
the patient. This will determine whether to continue or discontinue precautions regardless of a negative test result.
Recommended Populations:
• Hospitalized patients
• Severely immunocompromised patients (ie: medical treatment w/
immunosuppressive drugs, bone marrow or solid organ transplant
recipients, inherited immunodeficiency, poorly controlled HIV)
• Patients being transferred to a long-term care/ALF
Test-Based
• Resolution of fever without the use of fever-reducing medications AND
• Improvement in respiratory symptoms (e.g., cough, shortness of breath)

AND

• Negative results of an FDA Emergency Use Authorized COVID-19 molecular assay for detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA from at least two consecutive nasopharyngeal swab specimens collected ≥24 hours apart (total of two negative specimens)
Non-Test Based
• At least 3 days (72 hours) have passed since recovery defined as resolution of fever without the use of fever-reducing medications and improvement in respiratory symptoms (e.g., cough, shortness of breath) AND
• At least 7 days have passed since symptoms first appeared
Recommended Populations:
• Non-hospitalized patients
• Patients without severe immunocompromise
Strategies for Determining the Discontinuation of Transmission-Based Precautions For COVID-19 + Patients:
• Prior to discontinuing isolation: Clinical staff must call physician or APP for order. Please consider the clinical condition of
the patient. This will determine whether to continue or discontinue precautions regardless of a negative test result
Recommended Populations:
• PUIs placed under Transmission- Based Precautions that test negative for COVID-19
• Pts for whom testing is needed for discharge (ALF/SNF/Long Term Care)
Test-Based
• Negative results from at least one FDA Emergency Use Authorized COVID-19 molecular assay for detection of SARS-CoV-2.
o If a higher level of clinical suspicion for COVID-19 exists, consider maintaining Transmission- Based Precautions and performing a second test for SARS-CoV-2
• At least 3 days (72 hours) have passed since recovery defined as resolution of fever without the use of fever-reducing medications and improvement in respiratory symptoms (e.g., cough, shortness of breath) AND
• At least 7 days have passed since symptoms first appeared
• If a higher level of clinical suspicion for COVID-19 exists, consider maintaining Transmission-Based
Precautions and performing a second test for SARS-CoV-2
Recommended Populations:
• Patients never tested for COVID-19 and testing is not required for transfer at discharge
Non-Test Based

Revised 4/2/2020

 

Jesus, you went on vacation just last month…

 

You DO NOT know that for a fact. Hence why your thread is bullsheet.

 

To give just a little perspective on the job losses...

 

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With the obvious proven manipulation of the numbers we are seeing now, this thread is useless.

 

Fatality rate is not as high as early estimates, but still far higher than the flu.

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200331/covid-19-death-rate-drops-still-deadly-to-seniors

 

Not that apt.

Y2K is something we were well aware of far in advance (in fact some indications as far as 12 years in advance of 2000), and in response to its impending arrival lots of diligent folks spent inordinate amounts of time re-coding and fixing potential issues before the bug had a chance to cause any problems they theorized.

That isn't what happened here. In this case the world was lied to for weeks being told it's not going to be any kind of a big deal. So everyone waited until after NYE and by then the shit had hit the fan already and now all those developers are trying to do all the software re-coding after everything has already gone haywire and systems are crashed/crashing.

If this was like Y2K we would have closed our borders, stocked up on sufficient medical supplies and whatever else would have prepared us well in advance of China's screw up....clearly that's not what happened here.

 

"just like the flu" crowd watch

 

You guys might want to reconsider the video dumps…