Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

Some Doctors have been telling their Patients to take a baby aspirin a day. My last doctor I used before my last move recommended it. What I noticed right away was how much more I bled when I cut myself. Baby aspirin is a blood thinner. Would it be prudent to go back to taking a baby aspirin a day? I’m 67 and overweight.

 

Oh I think you know. I just hope lessons were learned. Wishful thinking.

 

Wasn't there a wave of "it's a blue state problem" posts earlier in this mess?
News Flash: It is a US problem.

 

interesting. Is there one for deaths?

 

We have controlled/minimized this thing too. Perhaps not as good as other places.
But to think that we have control over everything in nature is hubris IMO.

 

It depends on your medical situation. I wouldn’t take it if the thought was to minimize corona issues if you don’t have the virus. My cardiologist has me taking aspirin daily.

 

Interesting read on BI comparing seat belt push in the last century to never maskers today.
Before face masks, Americans went to war against seat belts

In a survey one year later, drivers said they thought the restraints were "ineffective, inconvenient, and uncomfortable."

Some argued — incorrectly — that it was safer to be thrown clear from a wreck than trapped inside one.

 

Everyone is different but my doctor had recommended a low dose aspirin a day to help reduce the risk of colon cancer (extended family has a history).
I am in my fifties, but am very active and a vegetarian but I am not opposed to doing things that may reduce my cancer risk. While it is a blood thinner, it hasn't been a problem for me even though I bang myself up pretty regularly.

Can a daily aspirin lower your cancer risk?.

 

Nice article. I guess there are 3 types of people when it comes to masks... community-minded, ornery, and people that don't want to smear his [sic] makeup.

 

Three possible reasons for the lower death rate. Individuals contracting the virus in the red states are younger and the virus is more lethal for older patients; the virus hit the blue states much earlier than in the red states and since then more effective therapeutic treatments have been developed especially for patients with the most serious cases of the disease, for example remdesivir and remdesivir combined with the anti-inflammatory baricitinib, resulting in increased survivability; and there is also the possibility that the virus may have mutated to a less lethal form. Also, reported deaths are a lagging indicator with increased deaths tending to follow reports of increased cases by around two weeks and new cases started spiking in the red states around a week ago.

 

History repeats itself. Some media posting 1918 editorials on masks not working and being a violation of rights....

 

Agreed. I cringed when @OklahomaGator highlighted the context-free comps. I predict many pages of discourse containing opinions in the form of facts. Maybe I'll just come back on Monday to avoid my inevitable ban.

That be said, I think your 3 possible reasons for difference in YTD death totals can easily be extended. For instance, hospital saturation. It would be an interesting endeavor to brainstorm a list of hypotheses to research. Perhaps in a more skeptical forum.

@buckeyegator drops the "C" word in 3, 2, 1...

 

Somebody is getting fired at CNN this morning...

Study finds hydroxychloroquine helped coronavirus patients survive better - CNN

 

Maybe a weakening virus, too. Let’s hope and pray!

 

Friend of mine who is a doctor (open heart and cardiovascular surgery) told me that the drug would work on patients without arythmias and he believes it should be given before cases become serious. Interesting take. And with monitoring, can be stopped if an arythmia develops. Anything that might work!

 

Not even sure it requires much drilling down. New York got hit first and got hit hardest based on travel/density. New York alone takes a huge chunk of any analysis. The rest of the country was just on a different curve, actually every state and every community basically has it's own curve. Just depends on where outbreaks pop up and what type of events can spread the virus.

I remember some predictive charts from MONTHS ago that predicted the different "peaks" in all 50 states, and I'm pretty sure even back then they had Florida in the July category while they had predicted New York on the downside of their curve. Here we are in July, and we are hitting new peaks just as those people predicted. Unfortunately I can't find these charts again, hopefully somebody else knows what I'm talking about and can relink them. It's not like they were definitive, and just like other models they are just "best guesses" - subject to change. But it at least did a good job illustrating how rates of transmission can mean different peaks in different states and the timeline those different peaks might happen in different states.