Sorry, I misread. You are correct. Top #s are from our state's Public Health Dept. The rest are our hospital system numbers. Mortality rate among hospitalized patients at our flagship hospital is ~11% (97/858).Originally Posted by scjbash
Sorry, I misread. You are correct. Top #s are from our state's Public Health Dept. The rest are our hospital system numbers. Mortality rate among hospitalized patients at our flagship hospital is ~11% (97/858).
Vaccine testing moving to "phase 3". Something something t-cells something something.
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Yup - this is good news.
Phase 1: Is the vaccine safe? Check
Phase 2: Might it possibly work as intended? Check
Phase 3: Does it actually work in an appropriately powered clinical trial? In progress.
Seems like the vaccine candidates have at least demonstrated that they generate a durable B-cell response which is great. The real question left to be answered by phase 3 trial is whether or not the vaccine will produce antibodies that protect against infection. I don't really know long the phase 3 trial will take but presumably at least on the order of several months, depending on how quickly they can enroll participants etc. I don't really know how vaccine trials are designed but thats my amateurish guess.
Put another log on the fire... Florida labs significantly inflating positive covid numbers.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/flori...ign=benshapiro
Anecdotally I am hearing from friends in AL and FL specifically that they are being pressured to NOT include COVID-19 in their reportable deaths.
Given all of the noise, I am going to assume that the aggregate statistics from reputable sources (e.g. John's Hopkins) are probably close enough to correct.
According to the article, they were not inflating the number of positive cases. They were not reporting the negative cases. That was skewing the percentage positive higher.
Last edited by peterb; 07-16-2020 at 05:31 AM.
The NYTimes published a very silly article today on treatment for COVID-19. Some of my favorite highlights...
Glad there is 'strong evidence' that mechanical ventilation is efficacious in the treatment of respiratory failure...
Looks like they're still trying to confirm whether or not RRT would be helpful for COVID associated AKI
Except the kids are more likely to get infected from staff than each other:
I'm not sure that figure is saying what you think it is.... it's a little hard to interpret without a little more context, but my interpretation of that graph is that there is not a significant difference between the mean log-transformed viral load (unclear what the base unit is there) across the different age groups represented in the sampled patient populationExcept the kids are more likely to get infected from staff than each other:
Viral load itself isn't really a helpful metric in the context of an acute respiratory infection, as far as i know, so not sure what the figure is trying to say ultimately.
It seems reasonable to assume that someone with a higher viral load in his throat sheds more particles and is better able to spread the disease. While young children do have the virus active in their throats, the distribution of children with high concentrations of virus is much lower (especially for the prepubescent):
https://medium.com/@d_spiegel/is-sar...s-8b4116d28353
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