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March 24th, 2020 at 12:42:50 PM permalink | |
terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11791 |
China contained it Wuhan is still under a lockdown. SK is not just doing testing testing testing, they are also doing tracking tracking tracking Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
March 24th, 2020 at 12:57:26 PM permalink | |
Tanko Member since: Aug 15, 2019 Threads: 0 Posts: 1978 | Cuomo is complaining about the lack of ventilators. In 2015, when NYS realized they were 16,000 ventilators short of the 18,000 necessary in a severe pandemic, the state health commissioner decided to save $575 million and devised a plan to ration them in the event of a pandemic. The state ‘triage officer’ would decide who lives or dies. "Patients assigned a red code will have highest access, and other patients will be assigned green, yellow or blue (the worst), depending on a “triage officer’s” decision." |
March 24th, 2020 at 2:37:41 PM permalink | |
RonC Member since: Nov 7, 2012 Threads: 8 Posts: 2502 | "Man Dead From Taking Chloroquine Product After Trump Touts Drug For Coronavirus" "Instead of the drug form of chloroquine phosphate, the couple ingested a chloroquine phosphate product that’s used to treat parasites in fish. : https://www.forbes.com/sites/tarahaelle/2020/03/23/man-dead-from-taking-chloroquine-after-trump-touts-drug-for-coronavirus/#6d1687cc72e9 What part of only take drugs prescribed by a doctor did they not get? It is sad that a man died and this should be used as an opportunity to warn people about using drugs without a prescription...but the media goes with the "Trump" thing... He ain't always right...by a long shot...but the media takes every opportunity to blame him for anything and everything. |
March 24th, 2020 at 2:49:13 PM permalink | |
kenarman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 14 Posts: 4493 | I can't find any official rating of the accuracy of the swab test, similar tests for other flu's have only 80% accuracy. The swab tests also can not tell if you have had a mild case and are recovered and virus free. This means you might have immunity from the mild case but won't know. The blood test for the antibodies in your blood stream can tell if you had the disease but it is slower for results, more expensive and not widely used yet. Factor these into your thoughts on the tests solving our crisis on their own. "but if you make yourselves sheep, the wolves will eat you." Benjamin Franklin |
March 24th, 2020 at 4:49:43 PM permalink | |
reno Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 58 Posts: 1384 | As I write this, there have been 703 coronavirus deaths in the United States. This article, (published on March 20) makes the following predictions for the United States: March 26: 800 deaths April 7: 12,800 deaths April 15: 20,000 deaths
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March 24th, 2020 at 6:26:22 PM permalink | |
SOOPOO Member since: Feb 19, 2014 Threads: 22 Posts: 4170 |
Wow. By April 15 it is expected that coronavirus deaths will be within 10,000 of flu deaths! A thought. If you are sick with fever, difficulty breathing, etc... you very well may have the flu. And the last thing you want to happen is to be placed on a hospital ward with 10 coronavirus patients. But where to put the thousands of patients nationwide that are very sick with the flu? Buffalo has EMPTIED an entire hospital to be used solely for COVID-19 patients. That makes sense. |
March 24th, 2020 at 7:20:48 PM permalink | |
petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | https://time.com/5808020/rikers-island-coronavirus/ That would be a frightening situation. The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |
March 24th, 2020 at 7:36:02 PM permalink | |
fleaswatter Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 3 Posts: 1087 | Nevada’s Democrat Governor Issues Emergency Order Barring Use of Anti-Malaria Drugs For Coronavirus Patients I wonder why he made this decision? Let's go Brandon |
March 24th, 2020 at 7:36:12 PM permalink | |
Dalex64 Member since: Mar 8, 2014 Threads: 3 Posts: 3687 |
It's a a Trump thing, partially, because that is where they got the idea. "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
March 24th, 2020 at 7:48:46 PM permalink | |
SOOPOO Member since: Feb 19, 2014 Threads: 22 Posts: 4170 |
I received an Executive Order from Cuomo prohibiting the use of Chloroquin unless you have specific governmental approval for using it experimentally. My ID friend says he would use the Gilead anti-viral drug, and is actually doing so in Nevada. He says there is no evidence the anti-malarial actually works. But since it IS being used experimentally we will soon find out. |