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Are all the COVID cases getting sent to a few hospitals, or spread evenly across all of them?
My English training at work also got cancelled. I waited months for it, because I wanted to take the chance to work on my horrible pronounciation when speaking English. Had one great first training last week, but now its cancelled for a while. I have a C2 level certificate, but I really don't sound like it when speaking English.
Are all the COVID cases getting sent to a few hospitals, or spread evenly across all of them?
"regular" patients and staff are now testing positive to COVID-19... :facepalm:
Are all the COVID cases getting sent to a few hospitals, or spread evenly across all of them?
So, given the above...the data has to be horribly skewed. Why? For people in the first two groups, why would anyone be tested?
Ok, I'm going to be blunt, I trust neither the cdc nor the who over this insanity. Why? Their data doesn't add up.
Fact: For most people it manifests as a bad cold and nothing more
Fact: In many people there may be no symptoms period
Fact: We're told this is serious because it has a much higher mortality rate than the flu
Fact: The vast majority of deaths are people with compromised immune systems that would likely succumb to the flu or a bad cold anyways
So, given the above...the data has to be horribly skewed. Why? For people in the first two groups, why would anyone be tested? If I get a cold, even a bad one, I sure don't run to the doctor, nor does anyone I know. So this right here (third point) would drive the mortality rate down substantially if the rate really is just the deaths divided by infections. Then the common refrain I'm hearing is "not enough people being tested." Well who do you test? Anyone that coughs once? Anyone with a fever? Which goes back to the first two points.
To the fourth point, someone who dies from corona (more accurately complications due to corona) is just as dead if they did from a cold or the flu. My own dad is one of these people at greatest risk, he's had pneumonia since April and has been on oxygen ever since on top of diabetes, high blood pressure, sarcoidosis, overweight, and probably something I'm forgetting. If he dies, does it really matter to us what he dies of? He's just as dead and gone. So far I haven't seen anything to suggest that corona is particularly worse for these people than contracting the flu is. If he caught either one, with the state he's in, he's probably done.
If this were ebola, I could understand as every manifestation of the disease is horrifying, but...this isn't the case with corona. If I catch it, I might sneeze, if my dad catches it, he probably dies, just like if he caught the flu. So what exactly am I missing???
Ok, I'm going to be blunt, I trust neither the cdc nor the who over this insanity. Why? Their data doesn't add up.
Sometimes it's easier to see the difference in fatality rates visually rather than just numbers. HANNAH RITCHIE AND MAX ROSER, OUR WORLD IN DATA
In China, the fatality rate for adults over 80 was about 15-18%, roughly one in six. Even people in their 50s were three times more likely to die than those in their 40s in China. By comparison, the annual seasonal flu killed about 0.8% of all US adults over 65 who got it in 2018-2019.
bar graph showing fatality rates of COVID-19 in China
Deaths from COVID-19 sharply increase above age 50. OUR WORLD IN DATA
In Italy, three out of five patients with COVID-19 who died were over age 80, according to the Wall Street Journal’s figures from Italy’s disease control agency. Another 1 in 3 were in their 70s.
Even in South Korea, which has very effectively managed the disease, the death rates are sobering. Among adults over age 80, the rate of death was 7.2%, so 7 of every 100 people with COVID-19 died. About 1 in 25 adults in their 70s with the disease died. The overall fatality rate in South Korea is 0.77%, but only one person in their 30s and one person in their 40s died. More than 99% of the deaths were people age 60 and older.
Ok, I'm going to be blunt, I trust neither the cdc nor the who over this insanity. Why? Their data doesn't add up.
Fact: For most people it manifests as a bad cold and nothing more
Fact: In many people there may be no symptoms period
Fact: We're told this is serious because it has a much higher mortality rate than the flu
Fact: The vast majority of deaths are people with compromised immune systems that would likely succumb to the flu or a bad cold anyways
So, given the above...the data has to be horribly skewed. Why? For people in the first two groups, why would anyone be tested? If I get a cold, even a bad one, I sure don't run to the doctor, nor does anyone I know. So this right here (third point) would drive the mortality rate down substantially if the rate really is just the deaths divided by infections. Then the common refrain I'm hearing is "not enough people being tested." Well who do you test? Anyone that coughs once? Anyone with a fever? Which goes back to the first two points.
To the fourth point, someone who dies from corona (more accurately complications due to corona) is just as dead if they did from a cold or the flu. My own dad is one of these people at greatest risk, he's had pneumonia since April and has been on oxygen ever since on top of diabetes, high blood pressure, sarcoidosis, overweight, and probably something I'm forgetting. If he dies, does it really matter to us what he dies of? He's just as dead and gone. So far I haven't seen anything to suggest that corona is particularly worse for these people than contracting the flu is. If he caught either one, with the state he's in, he's probably done.
If this were ebola, I could understand as every manifestation of the disease is horrifying, but...this isn't the case with corona. If I catch it, I might sneeze, if my dad catches it, he probably dies, just like if he caught the flu. So what exactly am I missing???
CDC recommends canceling all events of 50 people or more until early May
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Sunday that people throughout the U.S. should avoid events of 50 people or more for the next eight weeks.
The announcement comes as some major cities have already banned large events and ordered bars and restaurants to close.
The CDC said in its release that it "recommends that for the next 8 weeks, organizers (whether groups or individuals) cancel or postpone in-person events that consist of 50 people or more throughout the United States."
The main issue is healthcare system capability.if you look at death rate you might seem to be right, and everybody is doing this mistake. Let me tell you what the real point is please.
most patients who get into this path, will require ventilatory assistance.
From the CDC (the United States Center for Disease Control) yesterday:
More information in the article.