Coronavirus (COVID-19) is too exciting for adults to discuss (CLOSED)

[Taosman]

But if a hospital system gets overrun then people will start dying for lack of prompt care. (Wisconsin?)

 

[sparcboxbuck]

One of the things I'm curious about is what the death rates will be over time. it will be interesting to see that if over the next year or so the death rates may drop for a while, since many of the most vulnerable will have already died from COVID. Sort of like the spike in deaths from a major heatwave. Generally there is a spike during the heatwave month, but a corresponding dip over the next few months because if a hot day kills you, you statistically were probably not doing well anyway.

In marketing we call that pantry stuffing which merely pulls forward purchases that would have happened regardless of the promotional activity. Kinda the same concept... but not.

 

[Taosman]

British Health Secretary Matt Hancock said Monday that the government was gearing up to roll out a vaccine in early 2021, amid reports that an experimental candidate developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca triggered a promising immune response in elderly people.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...e-updates-us/#link-77Y4YJEHLBG5LKB6XCDWDGH5TA

 

[Taosman]

CNN Reporter Richard Quest No Longer Has Enough Antibodies From Original Illness

"Over the past five months my evanescent antibodies had dwindled to meaningless, and with it my bravado claim to protection. Now it seemed I was back to square one: vulnerable to Covid again.
When I told my infectious diseases doctor in New York, he wasn't one bit surprised. He referred to the latest studies showing that antibodies do indeed weaken and dwindle over 90 days -- no one has had a chance to do much research beyond that yet."

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/14/health/quest-covid-recovery-antibodies-intl/?hpt=ob_blogfooterold

 

[Taosman]

"We have to be the example to, I guess, bring awareness (of what can happen at a small gathering)," he said. After all six people -- Green, his partner and their parents -- at the weekend event got sick, eight more people in their families tested positive, bringing the total to 14. (2 deaths)
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/12/heal...c-turned-survivor-guilt/?hpt=ob_blogfooterold

 

[buckeyebri]

Illinois/Chicago shutting internal dining down. Here’s the current numbers driving their decision.

 

[desert_buckeye]

No opinion on the video, but found the data to be interesting ............. especially the herd immunity in Sweden

 

[Taosman]

Even now the longer you can prevent Covid the better your chances will be of a good outcome.

"What was true about flattening the curve in March is still true now. As the U.S. faces a third coronavirus surge, Horwitz warns that “these numbers are not static.” We are still learning about how to treat COVID-19, and truly game-changing therapies have yet to arrive. When hospitals become overburdened—as they are starting to in El Paso, Utah, Wisconsin—death rates may rise again.
The axiom from the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic still applies today. “If I have to choose to have it, probably the later, the better,” says Sanja Jelic, a pulmonologist at Columbia University Medical Center."

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/...ll-better-to-put-off-getting-covid-19/616919/

 

[Steve19]

Taos is right. When the numbers overwhelm and resources get stretched, things can get ugly quickly. I am not medical but I overhear the conversations from my spouse. I think one of the things that they are saying is that they have learned how the disease works across multiple organs. It isn't the flu and it isn't presenting in every patient as a respiratory illness like H1N1. The Oxford vaccine talked about above has been done in South Africa in collaboration with Wits University. I haven't heard anyone here talking about the results.

 

[gmen6981]

Well fuck.
Woke up yesterday with a splitting headache, a rough little cough and it felt like an elephant sitting on my chest.
Feel worse this morning, with the added bonus of chills and a 100.1 temp. Look like a call to my Dr. is in order this morning.
Were all of you in the game thread Sat. night properly distancing and shit? So help me God, if one you guys gave me this crap...........

 

[Steve19]

My bad. I typed the M word. Sorry.

 

[Taosman]

How and When Did The Pandemic of 1918 End?

https://time.com/5894403/how-the-1918-flu-pandemic-ended/

 

[Zippercat]

Might be time to buy a cheap(er) fur coat?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-denmark-mink-idUSKBN27K1X6

 

[BayBuck]

We kept our daughter home from hybrid school with just basic cold symptoms, but that meant the school nurse sent both our girls home until she received a negative Covid test. So that was the first test in our family, down at the Fairgrounds for drive-thru test. She took the nose swab like a champ.

Fortunately...

 

[heisman]

We kept our daughter home from hybrid school with just basic cold symptoms, but that meant the school nurse sent both our girls home until she received a negative Covid test. So that was the first test in our family, down at the Fairgrounds for drive-thru test. She took the nose swab like a champ.

Fortunately...

Much love man, but why fortunately negative? Serious question, and no offense meant. Build that immunity and incredibly safe in that age group.