Latest Coronavirus - Yikes

[Stew Cook]

I'm out..

Happy Easter VNPF

 

[Rocky_Top_Vol13]

Is this cause for an Easter celebration? pass the cup, pass the purell... god is good. who made this mac and cheese?

Easter is always a cause for an Easter celebration! Happy Easter everyone!

 

[FLVOL_79]

Georgia new cases and deaths have been going down for the past 6 days. Might have peaked on the 6th of April. Next week should be interesting to see where we are headed.
Coronavirus in Georgia: COVID-19 Dashboard

 

[GAVol]

GA, sit down and think about this for a moment. How many people in a country of 330 million do you think should have been tested in the last 30 days?

I’ve already answered that it was impractical.

 

[newyorkvol]

NYS testing per million now lags only these countries...

Faeroe Islands
Iceland
UAE
Luxembourg
Gibraltar
Falkland Islands
Malta
Bahrain
San Marino
Liechtenstein
Norway
Estonia

 

[NurseGoodVol]

Can we get a comment on this from our medical team posters?

That's funny, you take the peep (pressure) down on a ventilator and Covid positive pts PaO2 takes a dive. I've seen this in practice because I worked closely with respiratory therapy on my covid pts. Once you decrease the pressure their work of breathing goes up too.

 

[Volsfaninva917]

That's funny, you take the peep (pressure) down on a ventilator and Covid positive pts PaO2 takes a dive. I've seen this in practice because I worked closely with respiratory therapy on my covid pts. Once you decrease the pressure their work of breathing goes up too.

English please

 

[Volsfaninva917]

 

[Volsfaninva917]

 

[Volsfaninva917]

Flu Outbreak Plagues California With 16 New Deaths

 

[lawgator1]

I'll ask you the same question I asked GAVol. In a country of 330 million people, how many people, in your opinion, should have been tested in the last 30 days?

Ideally 330 million.

But assuming that to be impractical, I would think that the scientific community working on this could come up with a model to tell us how prevalent it is or is not within a given area based on randomized testing.

 

[evillawyer]

Stupid socialist never-Trumper lib commies.

 

[evillawyer]

"Alabama was hanging 17 on us per quarter. Now it's up to 20. But they hung 24 on Georgia. Bama is getting its ass kicked."

How do you challenge that reasoning?

 

[allvol123]

Flu Outbreak Plagues California With 16 New Deaths

Totally believe this has been here prior to Jan.

Which would be a good thing.

 

[Volsfaninva917]

"Alabama was hanging 17 on us per quarter. Now it's up to 20. But they hung 24 on Georgia. Bama is getting its ass kicked."

How do you challenge that reasoning?

In short, I think he's trying to say the virus isn't spreading as fast in Tennessee as it is in other places

 

[Volsfaninva917]

Totally believe this has been here prior to Jan.

Which would be a good thing.

Stanford thinks it's been here as early as October

 

[allvol123]

Stanford thinks it's been here as early as October

Which would mean we completely effed this up.

 

[hUTch2002]

When Fauci and Birx were citing 100k-250k, that was not from the IHME model. I don’t know what model that came from.

The IHME model’s actual mean estimate was never over about 94k. And for weeks was in a narrow range of 80-95k.

It wasn’t until it used new data to refresh its view on how many hospitalizations were required in the US vs the international data they used to seed the original model (their paper isn’t entirely clear on where the initial assumptions came from for hospitalization rates, but it mentions elsewhere they use Wuhan and Italy data initially because we didn’t have a lot of US data yet) and then process that through the full model that you saw the death counts drop from that range down to 60k. I believe that is because hospitals in many areas of the country were no longer being overwhelmed in the model whereas before they were.

EDIT: Looks like they updated their model today and it rose from 60k to 62k.

Forget the death rate, I never understood where their forecasted infection rate numbers were coming from. They were forecasting 30-70% of our country would be infected. Let’s take the 30% number times 330M which yields 99M. Everyone said Italy was the best example of how not to handle the virus. They have roughly 152K people with a population of about 60M. If you apply that same infection rate to our population (330M) you get less than 900K cases. Granted, the virus isn’t done but the math doesn’t add up no matter what you do and it never has.

 

[Volsfaninva917]

Which would mean we completely effed this up.

Yeah if they could prove that it would be bad

 

[GAVol]

"Alabama was hanging 17 on us per quarter. Now it's up to 20. But they hung 24 on Georgia. Bama is getting its ass kicked."

How do you challenge that reasoning?

What’s the point of crapping all over hope? It’s effectively the same thing that Gov Cuomo said yesterday about New York. It’s tough but it’s flattening.

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

Ideally 330 million.

But assuming that to be impractical, I would think that the scientific community working on this could come up with a model to tell us how prevalent it is or is not within a given area based on randomized testing.

You didn't answer the question. But thanks.

 

[Volsfaninva917]

What’s the point of crapping all over hope? It’s effectively the same thing that Gov Cuomo said yesterday about New York. It’s tough but it’s flattening.

Because some are cheering on the virus because in their eyes it's another reason to hate Trump

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

Stanford thinks it's been here as early as October

Then doesn't that shoot a hole in the Wuhan origination story timeline? I was thinking they were talking about November/December timeframe.

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

What’s the point of crapping all over hope? It’s effectively the same thing that Gov Cuomo said yesterday about New York. It’s tough but it’s flattening.

She is rooting for this to drag on so that it hurts Trump even more in November. It's obvious.

 

[hUTch2002]

All of this could've and should've waited. Everything you see here is a way to kickback money to them. Not surprising considering the amount of money they're behind with donations compared to President Trump's campaign.


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I agree 100% and the same is true of anything else the Republicans added. The stimulus bill should have only been about the virus but we all know that isn’t how the back scratching, under-the-table system of politics works.