L.A. mayor considers banning outdoor sports.....

[Steve Polhill]

I’ve lost 4 good friends directly to COVID. Weeks in intensive care, in a coma with a tube down your throat so you can breathe. That’s no way to leave this world. I also have two Nurse friends that commute from Canada to Detroit everyday to help in their hospitals because they are overrun with COVID cases. So I’m sorry if I don’t buy into you theory of all is wonderful, or that this has been blown out of proportion by hospitals looking for more money.

[farmco r/sa]

Originally Posted by Steve Polhill

I’ve lost 4 good friends directly to COVID. Weeks in intensive care, in a coma with a tube down your throat so you can breathe. That’s no way to leave this world. I also have two Nurse friends that commute from Canada to Detroit everyday to help in their hospitals because they are overrun with COVID cases. So I’m sorry if I don’t buy into you theory of all is wonderful, or that this has been blown out of proportion by hospitals looking for more money.

Truly sorry to hear about your friends Steve. Some hospitals and doctors in America unfortunately may be put out of business by this crisis.

[Stan Weiss]

Interesting Read.


Stan


Work of Los Alamos scientists suggests COVID-19 can turn really bad again much faster than it got better

Los Alamos scientists estimated how fast the curve is flattened in 51 countries. They determined that arbitrarily re-opening societies can allow COVID-19 to undo that progress much faster than it took to achieve it. Widespread testing would help to manage the difference.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/work-o...&cid=717806076

[Stan Weiss]

The 25,000 to 69,000 numbers that Trump cited do not represent counted flu deaths per year; they are estimates that the CDC produces by multiplying the number of flu death counts reported by various coefficients produced through complicated algorithms. These coefficients are based on assumptions of how many cases, hospitalizations, and deaths they believe went unreported. In the last six flu seasons, the CDC’s reported number of actual confirmed flu deaths—that is, counting flu deaths the way we are currently counting deaths from the coronavirus—has ranged from 3,448 to 15,620, which far lower than the numbers commonly repeated by public officials and even public health experts.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com...es-to-oranges/


Stan