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- Dec 15, 2014
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Nickname:. Woody??
If he's an enforcer who doesn't fight everyone... spot picker. But e instead of i.
Nickname:. Woody??
On the bright side, it goes great with lyme disease.
On the bright side, it goes great with lyme disease.
I just got back from the States on Tuesday.
The media is blowing the Corona Virus completely out of the water, it's actually quite disgusting how overblown it is.
The media is only interested in having you consume more media. Clicks and ad revenue baby.The media is blowing the Corona Virus completely out of the water, it's actually quite disgusting how overblown it is.
Not really. Current data indicates somewhere between 15 to 20 percent of those infected will require hospitalization. If the estimates on the spread turn out to be accurate (40-70% of the total human population could be infected), then if anything, this isn't being taken seriously enough.
To spell it out, it would mean roughly three million Canadians would require prolonged emergency care within a relatively short time frame (~6 months) if those predications are correct. So while everyone seems to focus on the CFR, the real danger lies in the economic ruin of an unchecked proliferation of the virus. Not that the deaths aren't an issue, but there's no country on this planet that can handle even 15% of their population needing urgent medical care at the same time.
So wash your hands.
Don't go to California...it's infestedHope is that China could be a model (and they aren't fudging the numbers). Otherwise, we are totally f***ed. As someone who is asthmatic, my body is not ready lol.
I'm also going down to California in a few weeks. How exciting...
LODI, Italy — One infectious-disease doctor said coronavirus had hit "like a tsunami" at his hospital, where more than 100 out of 120 people admitted with the virus have also developed pneumonia.
Another hospital nearby is facing staff shortages as doctors have become patients.
Doctors, virologists and health-care officials on the front line of Italy’s battle against coronavirus, in more than a dozen interviews, described a health-care system stretched to its limits — a situation other countries may face as the virus spreads.
In an effort to cope, Italy is graduating nurses early and calling medical workers out of retirement. Hospitals in the hardest-hit regions are delaying nonessential surgeries and scrambling to add 50 percent more intensive-care beds.
“This is the worst scenario I’ve seen,” said Angelo Pan, the head of the infectious-disease unit at the hospital in Cremona, noting the prevalence of pneumonia complications. He said 35 patients in his hospital required intubation or mechanical ventilation to breathe.
Italy has been conducting extensive testing for coronavirus, including testing people who do not exhibit any symptoms of covid-19, the disease it causes. As of Tuesday evening, 2,263 people had tested positive. Of those, 1,263 were hospitalized, including 229 cases in intensive care. Seventy-nine people had died.
Yeah ignorance - that's the real concern. I just got back home on late Tuesday night from south Florida (via Toronto, small airport not a lot of people) For the last couple of days, I most likely* have been battling a cold, that under normal circumstances I'd take to work and spread it around.But clearly the flu is so much worse folks. And remember, the most important thing about any problem is to always wait until after it becomes a crisis before doing anything about it.
You seen the shit coming out of Italy? And that additional 2000 pt drop from the djia? And the 20% drop in oil today?
Might be a bad situation, but at least the economy is doing well
The coronavirus could hit 35 to 70 per cent of the Canadian population, making “a huge number of people ill,” many critically, and makeshift hospitals and quarantine centres could be needed to shore up a health system that has virtually no give, experts predict.
According to a disease-transmission model developed by University of Toronto researchers, the virus’ overall attack rate in Canada, without public health interventions, could exceed 70 per cent. That number drops sharply, by about half, “if we add modest control,” said epidemiologist Dr. David Fisman, one of the model’s creators, but it will take “aggressive social distancing and large scale quarantines” to reduce it further, he said.
“That’s still a huge number of people ill, and critically ill people are a large fraction in this disease,” Fisman said in an email. “I’m not going to share more specific numbers because I think they will scare people to no particular end.”
Fisman’s team has experience dealing with SARS, H1N1 and Ebola and recently reported that the outbreak in Iran was far larger than originally reported. Among other data, their model estimates basic reproduction numbers — how many other people one infected person is likely to infect — as well as the number of mild and asymptomatic cases that are flying under the radar, believed vastly higher than reported case counts.
“China’s epidemic was controlled through massive quarantine, enforced via threats of death penalty, and with lockdown of 750,000 people at peak,” Fisman said.
Studies suggest 80 per cent of cases in China are mild. Those who die take 25 days to die on a ventilator. Those who survive are off ventilators after two weeks, but then spend another two weeks hospitalized.
Coronavirus could infect 35 to 70 per cent of Canadians, experts say
Hmmm, random internet posters or an expert epidemiologist? Expert epidemiologist or random internet posters? Such a tough decision on who to side with.