It's not complex, but sort of like pizza dough it's an experience is better than a recipe at getting the consistently right sort of thing. The good news is it's not nearly as picky and you can top off ingredients on the fly.Originally Posted by Balisong
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Well, at least keep these posts for future reference. You may not realize it but you're an observer with a unique insight on why a million people may die in this country. Just something to think about.
In the P-F basket of deplorables.
Email from City of Houston this morning:
We have no clue whatsoever how many of our fellow citizens in the area are sick.Houston’s first free COVID-19 drive-thru testing site will broaden services to people of any age with chronic illnesses on Sunday, March 22, 2020.
People with chronic illnesses experiencing cough, difficulty breathing and fever, the common COVID-19 symptoms, can call the Houston Health Department’s COVID-19 call center at 832-393-4220 between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. to get screened. They will receive a unique identification code and instructions on where to go for testing.
Examples of chronic illnesses include heart disease, asthma, chronic lung disease, cancer, HIV/AIDS. Transplant recipients, people with weakened immune systems and pregnant women are also eligible for COVID-19 testing.
The site will only accept people with a unique identification code obtained through the screening process. People who show up without an identification code will not get tested.
Previously, only healthcare providers, first responders and people 65 and older with symptoms received COVID-19 testing at the site.
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Something for all the computer nerds out there - Folding at home now more powerful than the top 7 super computers combined.
https://www.tomshardware.com/uk/news...virus-covid-19
I don't think this site has been posted. It has an interactive graph showing their predicted hospitalization numbers for different suppression efforts. It's broken down by state. I didn't dig into the model itself and don't know how close their numbers are to other models. Much like the Imperial College report they are showing drastic differences in outcomes depending on the suppression efforts taken.
https://covidactnow.org/
I don't think anyone else does either. We knew about CVD here first and there still hasn't been any mass public testing. If we had mass public testing people who are positive could self quarantine and the rest could go to work. I suspect that we haven't been told to shelter-in-place here (a term that state disaster management uses) by the governor because it would shut Boeing down. Tests would be nice and I would probably get one if I could. I self quarantined a week ago so I'm taking this pretty seriously. I feel like I'm walking around with a target on my back.
In the P-F basket of deplorables.
The model I used to estimate 35k infected by April 1 had baked in to its assumptions a "moderate" degree of public health intervention (social distancing etc). We're at 25k today with over a week to go. "No intervention" projected 65k cases by April 1, and it looks to me like we're going to end up closer to 65k than 35k.
While I agree with the premise, and the advocacy for taking action, I find the data a bit fishy, because it seems so generic.
When I look at the graphs for CO, WY, and MI, for example, the curves look identical, and peak on the same dates. The only things that change are the numbers on the Y-axis, due to (I presume) differences in state populations. Since the known infection numbers in those states are different today, I have difficulty believing that they’d all peak at the same time. CA is a little different, but not enough to impress me with the “granularity” of the data.
To be clear - I am far from a “COVID-19 denier” - I just think that playing too fast and loose with the data to make a point doesn’t help the credibility of the scientific case.
Thoughts from others? (Especially those with medical backgrounds)
The Jordanian military and police are patrolling the streets and are supposed to take anyone who's out (other than fuel delivery, etc.) to jail. From the videos what they are actually doing is berating them, spinning them around, and literally kicking them in the ass (shalute, in Arabic) to hurry them along back home. Essentially enforcement via public humiliation. My wife: "See? I told you shalute is important!"
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Watching the news, I see that the state of New York is in the process of securing several tens of thousands of doses of Azithromycin (Zithromax) and Hydroxychloroquine and Chloroquine (both are common anti-malarials) for trial of the combination therapy amongst those infected with SARS-CoV-2 in the state.
Given that Hydroxychloroquine is not effective against all strains of malaria, I am left wondering if other anti-virals (such as Mefloquine, Pyrimethamine with Sulfadoxine, Primaquine, Doxycycline, Proguanil with/without Atovaquone, etc.) might prove more effective as a candidate prophylactic or a curative for SARS-CoV-2 due to the differences in their respective pharmacodynamics and possibly warrant concurrent trials.
Any of the doctors here care to weigh in?
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