Latest Coronavirus - Yikes

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LouderVol said:
You would have to globally quarantine for at least 14 days, and up to 24 days consecutively.

Even still it wont work. No way to shut large areas.
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Imagine what it would do to the drug trade ... not the legal kind. Those boys have markets and they aren't fooling around when it comes to sales.
 
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AM64 said:
Imagine what it would do to the drug trade ... not the legal kind. Those boys have markets and they aren't fooling around when it comes to sales.
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I am also thinking that's a great way to transmit. Gets across borders, hard to check for, you know it's not sanitized, person to person contact, people with weakened immune systems.
 
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LouderVol said:
I am also thinking that's a great way to transmit. Gets across borders, hard to check for, you know it's not sanitized, person to person contact, people with weakened immune systems.
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And we also have the homeless. How are they going to react to attempted quarantine?
 
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AM64 said:
You and I are on the same wavelength. I was trying to find a good picture without a hand last night - and gave up. Only I was thinking that would be the solution coming out of the secret congressional briefings ... for the rest of us non-essentials and deplorables - but without the ventilation package.
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When H1N1 popped we had special negative pressure hoods that ran on battery and bunny suits we wore. I think we treated 4 positive with 2 ending up on ecmo and passing. Those sets cost about 10 g with a fully loaded cart of restock. Imagine what they would be now.

Edit I misspoke about the suits they were positive pressure.
 
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NurseGoodVol said:
When H1N1 popped we had special negative pressure hoods that ran on battery and bunny suits we wore. I think we treated 4 positive with 2 ending up on ecmo and passing. Those sets cost about 10 g with a fully loaded cart of restock. Imagine what they would be now.
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We wore similar protective gear in nuclear plants from time to time. Those plastic bunny suits get really hot ... especially in locations where it's over 100 degrees. Fortunately most of the time we got away with taped up cloth coveralls with a hood, face mask, rubber gloves, and plastic shoe covers.
 
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AM64 said:
We wore similar protective gear in nuclear plants from time to time. Those plastic bunny suits get really hot ... especially in locations where it's over 100 degrees. Fortunately most of the time we got away with taped up cloth coveralls with a hood, face mask, rubber gloves, and plastic shoe covers.
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This is the papr system we wore in viral negative pressure rooms.
 
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lawgator1 said:
I wonder why that is happening, honestly. I mean, if its just another version of the flu, even a highly contagious one, that doesn't seem reason to shut a country down. I worry that it is in fact much worse than is currently being revealed. Seems like it would be tough to keep a lid on it this long if it were.
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Since the first case of Coronavirus was reported in the US on January 30th and up until now there have been no deaths in the US from this virus. That supports a fatality rate of 2% and likely less.

Trump's thought of trying to keep out initial cases of coronavirus was actually a bad idea. It's better to let limited American patients with the virus back into the US for American doctors to have first hand experience in studying, and treating the patients. Otherwise you have no first hand experience with it and only published data to go off of and then suddenly you have an outbreak with no prepared medical professionals.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Found a decent article about it. You are close on the death rate, though this season the common flu is fatal about 0.5 %, so its not quite as dramatic a multiplier.
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You missed a decimal point. 0.05%, which equals 1 in 2,000. Remember also, that number is HEAVILY skewed upward by the oldest/most frail population.

IIRC, novel H1N1 flu was around 0.1% mortality.
 
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NurseGoodVol said:
When H1N1 popped we had special negative pressure hoods that ran on battery and bunny suits we wore. I think we treated 4 positive with 2 ending up on ecmo and passing. Those sets cost about 10 g with a fully loaded cart of restock. Imagine what they would be now.

Edit I misspoke about the suits they were positive pressure.
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Wow, that's crazy. We all wore N95 masks and treated patients in clinic all day with no problems.
 
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