Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

RIP · Mar 29, 2020

buckeyegator said: ↑

again take this with a grain of salt, according to worldmeter the last 4 days, from march 26 to today new cases have ranged from 18020 to 20986 a day, deaths from 260 to 620, with the 620 day abnormally high,so again, is this a trend or a slight blip?
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Nobody can know.

GatorNorth · Mar 29, 2020

g8rjd said: ↑

So no packed Easter churches? What. A. Shocker.
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He’s moved Easter back into May.

96Gatorcise · Mar 29, 2020

mutz87 said: ↑

Can't say with any certainty. The trend is def exponential overall but it's too soon to say anything about a slight change. Could be random variation, could be that it's starting to bend. We don't know. That said, for social distancing to be effective, we have to think considerably longer period of a flattening curve because we don't have any other weapons in the arsenal. Given the nature of infectious disease spread, there is a real possibility that we could see a second or third round of spikes if after we get the trend under some control.
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I think a 2nd wave is a given. The TA will call for a restart on the first sign of good numbers and it will be too soon.

GatorNorth · Mar 29, 2020

This was filmed this morning by a man in his car across from Brooklyn Hospital, about 2 miles from my daughters apartment. So glad she’s been out for 2 weeks:

RIP · Mar 29, 2020

Y'all pray for my sister. Just got this text from her:

...I went to intubate Nurse A's COVID patient with Nurse B because Nurse A was getting an admission. (Aerosolization is highest during intubations). Was in the room for an hour and a half. Put a Foley catheter, rectal tube, changed the linens, etc. Went to take my PPE off and realized there was a hole the size of a bowling ball torn in my isolation gown. Exposure is inevitable.

96Gatorcise · Mar 29, 2020

RIP said: ↑

Y'all pray for my sister. Just got this text from her:

...I went to intubate Nurse A's COVID patient with Nurse B because Nurse A was getting an admission. (Aerosolization is highest during intubations). Was in the room for an hour and a half. Put a Foley catheter, rectal tube, changed the linens, etc. Went to take my PPE off and realized there was a hole the size of a bowling ball torn in my isolation gown. Exposure is inevitable.
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Fingers crossed

g8rjd · Mar 29, 2020

RIP said: ↑

Y'all pray for my sister. Just got this text from her:

...I went to intubate Nurse A's COVID patient with Nurse B because Nurse A was getting an admission. (Aerosolization is highest during intubations). Was in the room for an hour and a half. Put a Foley catheter, rectal tube, changed the linens, etc. Went to take my PPE off and realized there was a hole the size of a bowling ball torn in my isolation gown. Exposure is inevitable.
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Prayers sent. Please thank her from us for everything she is doing and risking on the front lines.

RIP · Mar 29, 2020

Maybe some will see now why I get so pissed off at those who downplay this.

saltygator · Mar 29, 2020

RIP said: ↑

Y'all pray for my sister. Just got this text from her:

...I went to intubate Nurse A's COVID patient with Nurse B because Nurse A was getting an admission. (Aerosolization is highest during intubations). Was in the room for an hour and a half. Put a Foley catheter, rectal tube, changed the linens, etc. Went to take my PPE off and realized there was a hole the size of a bowling ball torn in my isolation gown. Exposure is inevitable.
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God please give extra protection to her and all of our medical professionals

mutz87 · Mar 29, 2020

RIP said: ↑

Y'all pray for my sister. Just got this text from her:

...I went to intubate Nurse A's COVID patient with Nurse B because Nurse A was getting an admission. (Aerosolization is highest during intubations). Was in the room for an hour and a half. Put a Foley catheter, rectal tube, changed the linens, etc. Went to take my PPE off and realized there was a hole the size of a bowling ball torn in my isolation gown. Exposure is inevitable.
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Oh my. Too real.

GatorNorth · Mar 29, 2020

RIP said: ↑

Y'all pray for my sister. Just got this text from her:

...I went to intubate Nurse A's COVID patient with Nurse B because Nurse A was getting an admission. (Aerosolization is highest during intubations). Was in the room for an hour and a half. Put a Foley catheter, rectal tube, changed the linens, etc. Went to take my PPE off and realized there was a hole the size of a bowling ball torn in my isolation gown. Exposure is inevitable.
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sorry to read this, will say a prayer for her.

GatorJMDZ · Mar 29, 2020

RIP said: ↑

Y'all pray for my sister. Just got this text from her:

...I went to intubate Nurse A's COVID patient with Nurse B because Nurse A was getting an admission. (Aerosolization is highest during intubations). Was in the room for an hour and a half. Put a Foley catheter, rectal tube, changed the linens, etc. Went to take my PPE off and realized there was a hole the size of a bowling ball torn in my isolation gown. Exposure is inevitable.
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Prayers sent....for you as well. It's tough worrying about a loved one.

OklahomaGator · Mar 29, 2020

RIP said: ↑

Y'all pray for my sister. Just got this text from her:

...I went to intubate Nurse A's COVID patient with Nurse B because Nurse A was getting an admission. (Aerosolization is highest during intubations). Was in the room for an hour and a half. Put a Foley catheter, rectal tube, changed the linens, etc. Went to take my PPE off and realized there was a hole the size of a bowling ball torn in my isolation gown. Exposure is inevitable.
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Prayers sent

duchen · Mar 29, 2020

This is Real.

I will insert my earlier quote. One of the Rabbis I mentioned I have known for 26 years. His son calls me "Uncle." My Rabbi calls me his brother. This Rabbi's brother is in ICU. I know his brother.

Yes. This is Real.

Real people. Real losses. Real pain. Real fear among people we know.

duchen said: ↑

Today, I received 2 emails about the deaths and funerals of members of the synagogue I used to go to in the upper east side in New York when I was married and stayed there. The brothers of 2 Rabbis I know are in the ICU in New York. So, while we debate abstractions, these are the real life consequences of those lies.
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duchen · Mar 29, 2020

RIP said: ↑

Y'all pray for my sister. Just got this text from her:

...I went to intubate Nurse A's COVID patient with Nurse B because Nurse A was getting an admission. (Aerosolization is highest during intubations). Was in the room for an hour and a half. Put a Foley catheter, rectal tube, changed the linens, etc. Went to take my PPE off and realized there was a hole the size of a bowling ball torn in my isolation gown. Exposure is inevitable.
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G-d willing, maybe not.

If you can, tell her to throw away her clothes.

RIP · Mar 29, 2020

duchen said: ↑

G-d willing, maybe not.

If you can, tell her to throw away her clothes.
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She's a hell of an ICU nurse so I'm sure she did.

philnotfil · Mar 29, 2020

Not the Onion.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/lar...shows America what real leadership looks like

President Trump is focused on keeping America great, and his campaign is still hard at work to reelect him this November. As part of our digital efforts, we are hosting a variety of virtual surrogate events, training thousands of supporters online, and activating our massive volunteer network to make calls on behalf of the president. I hosted a Women for Trump virtual panel to talk about our campaign efforts to stay connected during this time.

On the other hand, the weak Democratic front-runner Joe Biden is missing in action, and his record shows how ineffective his response was to the swine flu — he lacks leadership, vision and strength. Biden can barely hold a video conference and is spending more time criticizing the president than helping with solutions.

Every American can be confident that the president's top priority is to keep our families safe and healthy. When we defeat COVID-19 in the United States, our president is the one leader who will ensure that our economy will come roaring back.

Together we will continue our fight for America, work for President Trump’s reelection and look forward to the victories that lie ahead.
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philnotfil · Mar 29, 2020

Some interesting information about why Trump believes what he does about the coronavirus. The corrections in brackets are important.

The Contrarian Coronavirus Theory That Informed the Trump Administration

Epstein, a professor at New York University School of Law, published the article on the Web site of the Hoover Institution, on March 16th. In it, he questioned the World Health Organization’s decision to declare the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, said that “public officials have gone overboard,” and suggested that about five hundred people would die from covid-19 in the U.S. Epstein later updated his estimate to five thousand, saying that the previous number had been an error. So far, there have been more than two thousand coronavirus-related fatalities in America; epidemiologists’ projections of the total deaths range widely, depending on the success of social distancing and the availability of medical resources, but they tend to be much higher than Epstein’s. (On Sunday, Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, estimated that there could be between a hundred thousand and two hundred thousand deaths in the U.S.) In a follow-up article, published on March 23rd and titled “Coronavirus Overreaction,” Epstein wrote, “Progressives think they can run everyone’s lives through central planning, but the state of the economy suggests otherwise. Looking at the costs, the public commands have led to a crash in the stock market, and may only save a small fraction of the lives that are at risk.”
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Epstein has long been one of the most cited legal scholars in the country, and is known for his libertarian-minded reading of the Constitution, which envisions a restrained federal government that respects private property. He has also been known to engage with controversial subjects; last fall, he published an article on the Hoover Institution Web site that argued, “The professional skeptics are right: there is today no compelling evidence of an impending climate emergency.” Last Wednesday, I spoke by phone with Epstein about his views of the coronavirus pandemic. He was initially wary of talking, and asked to record his own version of the call, which I agreed to. During our conversation, which has been edited for length and clarity, Epstein made a number of comments about viruses that have been strongly disputed by medical professionals. We have included factual corrections alongside those statements.
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g8rjd · Mar 29, 2020

philnotfil said: ↑

Some interesting information about why Trump believes what he does about the coronavirus. The corrections in brackets are important.

The Contrarian Coronavirus Theory That Informed the Trump Administration
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Epstein is a piece of work.

g8rjd · Mar 29, 2020

Heart breaking.

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