Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

well that sucks. maybe it is like Tamiflu and only works when given soon after infection/symptoms? holding out hope here

looking more and more like plasma may be the ticket right now. Our hospital Lee County has joined with Mayo to run plasma trials.

 

Like anyone can trust anything coming out of China?

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/me...virus-are-counted/ar-BB135Oh6?ocid=spartanntp
The 54-year-old Melbourne man usually doesn't go to the doctor.

But his cough apparently concerned him enough that he reached out to his family to let them know he was sick, and headed to urgent care on April 6. The wait was so long he left.

Two days later he was found dead at home.

Pellettiere was never tested for COVID-19.

He had multiple health conditions that put him at high risk from the new coronavirus: he was overweight, had gout and was immunocompromised. But his father and brother will never know if COVID-19 contributed to his demise. His listed cause of death: heart attack. An autopsy was never performed and his body cremated last week.

Across Florida, medical examiners are responsible for investigating and confirming any possible COVID-19 deaths. Counting the coronavirus dead as accurately as possible is critical to assessing just how great a threat the virus poses.

But what constitutes a coronavirus death? The answer, it seems, changes depending on who's doing the counting.

 

New York ran what appears to be a better Coronavirus serology test and found about 10x cases. That seems reasonable. Would need to check the methodology details (they ran it at stores randomly), but this looks more realistic. Probably needs a larger sample to be able to fully effectively extrapolate, but that looks like a more reasonable reading of the misses.

 

did it eliminate other possible coronavirus strains?

 

Don't know. Like I said, limited information and the tests are still of questionable accuracy. Main thing is that the sample appears more, let's call it professionally, collected.

 

Unless we go the way of India and have cops walking around beating people with sticks who venture out...SMH

 

And Now Gilead has responded saying the trial was halted early due to low enrollment thus the "results" are underpowered.

 

Yep more info coming out

 

I don’t think bringing a stick to a gun fight would be smart. If you know what I mean?

 

What if we aren't aiming for herd immunity for the entire population? What if we want the low risk to develop immunity so it burns it self out of the population that is out and about freely moving?

So here's the basics, high risk stay home, others out and about with precautions, develop immunity so the virus burns out and can't pass from the mobile population.
That wouldn't require 70% getting it and not give those death numbers...….
In reality a vaccine is 12 months away best case.
Treatments may be quicker..

 

Just curious when and where did you graduate from HS?

 

Listened to NYC doc that said virus is causing problems with coagulation system and causing strokes in healthy people of all ages. New info to me

 

Unfortunate news to me sadly.

 

Seabreeze in 97’.

 

Small world, class of 98.

I travel all over the country for work, and it is insane the amount of people I meet that are either from Ormond or have lived here at one point in time.

 

Seabreeze 86'
Enjoy the next 10 years, you will blink and be like how did I turn 50!

 

Very cool. We’ve no doubt seen each other.

 

Oh cool. My brother was 84’ I think.

Yeah the more time that passes, the faster it seems to go.

 

That's what the Doc on Texags said too.