https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/05/01/a-state-by-state-look-at-coronavirus-in-prisons A State-by-State Look at Coronavirus in Prisons The Marshall Project is collecting data on COVID-19 infections in state and federal prisons. See how the virus has affected correctional facilities where you live. Click the link for the data I fully expect that American prisons will become the lab rats for herd immunity.
pretty spot on. ever changing narrative 8 weeks ago: * Masks are useless * Not enough ventilators * Hospitals will be overrun * Lockdown until flattened curve Now: * Must wear masks * Stop using ventilators * Hospitals near empty * Lockdown until vaccine
I wonder if people like Clay and Commodore who believe in this idea would be willing to intentionally infect themselves? If 10-20% of the country believes this and does so, that would go a long way towards herd immunity, right? Why wait for it to spread on its own if we can speed up the process and save lives of the people at risk?
https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(20)30238-2 Summary Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a major comorbidity of COVID-19. However, the impact of blood glucose (BG) control on the degree of required medical interventions and on mortality in patients with COVID-19 and T2D remains uncertain. Thus, we performed a retrospective, multi-centered study of 7,337 cases of COVID-19 in Hubei Province, China, among which 952 had pre-existing T2D. We found that subjects with T2D required more medical interventions and had a significantly higher mortality (7.8% versus 2.7%; adjusted hazard ratio [HR], 1.49) and multiple organ injury than the non-diabetic individuals. Further, we found that well-controlled BG (glycemic variability within 3.9 to 10.0 mmol/L) was associated with markedly lower mortality compared to individuals with poorly controlled BG (upper limit of glycemic variability exceeding 10.0 mmol/L) (adjusted HR, 0.14) during hospitalization. These findings provide clinical evidence correlating improved glycemic control with better outcomes in patients with COVID-19 and pre-existing T2D.
I would just say, from what I understand, there is lab work happening in the world that is not necessarily a good idea, and there are scientists worried about it. And viruses have escaped from labs before, from what I've read. In the article I posted from Science News, the team of people who investigated this virus were very serious about the possibility of a lab (artificial or modified) origin of the new coronavirus. But then they stepped through it and find basically no evidence that it could be, just based on the viral RNA. But the fact that they took it seriously both bolsters the worry in general and also should, for those who believe in science, kind of end the theory that it came from some sort of lab. I still think, given the way the lab-origin theory is being used, it's best housed (regretably?) in one of the ongoing D&D threads that are specifically about those conspiracy theories. But I was totally overboard in my last post. Very grumpy today. I keep trying to be optimistic but am having one of those days where it is a little tough. #hugs (6 ft) #rainbows
Awesome awesome news, if they make it somewhat affordable. (That was always the worry.) This is tool #1 and there will be more on the way.
It's likely you and I have already been infected. Viruses are ubiquitous. We can't sanitize the universe.
so, we're only allowed to get tested once? why's that? Influenza A, B, C, D tests are pretty common and fast, no?
sure, but how often do asymptomatic people get that test? You would get the test once you have symptoms so you know how to treat it.
I think businesses (esp factories, consumer-facing businesses) would like that to happen regularly, no? (They'd advertize it in compettive fashion, maybe even). Military? Hospitals/Clinics as part of scheduling elective surgeries/procedures. at least for a few months I could go on
April 10: 500+K total infections April 17: 700+K total infections April 24: 900+K total infections Any guesses the CV infection total this Friday? May 1: 1100+K total infections People, we suck at social distancing.
People who appear to be very bad at math ... We have added 55+K to the US death toll in the month of April (as reported in the above video). Somehow the death toll will only be 74K by the beginning of August. As I write this, the current death toll is 65K. 7 days ago, it was 50K. We added 15K in the last week. I expected the same for next week. We have added 200K new infections per week, for the last 3/4 weeks. Those 200K represent about 10-20K future deaths. So we appear to be grinding on a 200K infections/week plateau ... waiting for a white knight (therapeutic, vaccine, herd immunity) to arrive.
