Also, my 17 year old babysitter's mother went from being a healthy 40 year old nurse to being hospitalized with bronchitis, pleural effusions and hyponatremia in a matter of three days. She's tested negative for covid 3 times during her admission. But it's a hospital developed test. AND she's hospitalized on the same floor that these two employees tested positive on. So, we're out a babysitter. Mom wants her daughter staying at home and I can't blame her.
Oh damn. I’m really sorry man. All my best. Knowing you you’ll bounce back fast if the right opportunity is there for you.
@B-Bob https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.06199.pdf Being peer reviewed currently. Was this what you were referring to?
Sorry to hear that. I'm an owner in my company so can't get laid off but I had two major projects get on hold in April and I make my money by billable hours. It's been picking up somewhat in the last week and just started a new project. Hopefully things work out for you. In the meantime don't wait to apply for unemployment. There are some long wait times so it's best to apply as soon as you can.
Texas DSHS has finally decoupled antibody tests with viral nasal swabs tests from their data dashboard. https://txdshs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/0d8bdf9be927459d9cb11b9eaef6101f A couple of take aways I get out of this - viral test positivity rate will be a little higher than we thought since the antibody tests were dragging down positivity rates. However since the amount of antibody tests is still small compared to viral tests, the impact should not be huge. - the uptick shown for 5/19 and 5/20 is most likely due to removal of the antibody tests. Since the positivity number on the graph is a rolling 7 day average, I'd expect the positivity rate on the graph to increase for 7 days until the antibody test data is washed out completely. - I really really hope the sharp dip on 5/13 and plateau afterwards is not only an effect of the antibody test and that the upward slope from 5/10-5/12 is only due to the cluster of meat packing cases in the panhandles rather than a statewide trend. We'll have to wait for a few more days to see. - Antibody test positivity rate is 4.29% (2114 positive / 49313 tests). That number is both encouraging and discouraging. We are still extremely far from herd immunity, but since the documented cases only account for 0.2% of the population, there is a very large amount of people that were asymptomatic or had very mild cases. Though one caveat is that 4.29% is likely an upper bound of current antibody prevalence. Those who would get antibody tests now are going to skew towards those who suspected they had already contracted and recovered from coronavirus and those who came in close contact with a positive person (healthcare worker, family member of a positive patient etc.) both of which will skew positive.
so whats going on with the virus? things getting better/worse i have no idea how to gauge the severity of this through news. i have covid news fatigue, much as i had trump news fatigue not to long ago
I figured I wouldn’t include the discussion part here so we don’t have to go down that rabbit hole just yet but it is very interesting.
okay, I read that paper and... meh. No lab work, per se. just molecular simulations on a computer. I am most sympathetic to computational biology when it is married to lab work of some kind. but anyway, the spike protein has something curious going on, as I’m hearing it.
Sorry to hear that. My company (large multi-national) cut everyone's salaries by 20% this month. 2020 just suuuuuucks
If you listen to the local news there's too much fear mongering, if you watch the stats they're too vague. Either way you're misled.
We just got a cut too. Only 5%, but they also cancelled our 401K match and essentially our bonus plan as well. Cuts are supposed to be dependent on when we reach a certain EBITDA level, and we're not projected to hit it anytime soon. Companies are probably actually looking at these pay cuts as "the new normal".
