They’re basically designed to deploy to foreign theaters where there’s large-scale ground combat and tons of infantry getting wounded.
I was wondering how that got for Chloroquine, but apparently it’s also sold to clean aquariums.
The LD50 for it is like 2g. Normal dosage is 500mg.
Who knows how much those idiots took. Probably a lot.
Ah nice… Was this posted yet? Only the best people…
Trump’s Spiritual Adviser Paula White Is Using the Coronavirus Crisis to Bankroll Her Church
Listen to that podcast above and that study is just dumped on. The sample sizes are tiny, and the control group was determined by asking people if they wanted to participate in the drug trial. Generally, the ones who volunteer for the drug trial are the ones who are in desperate shape. The only fatality in the study was getting the drug!
I don’t think the military is going to be a huge source of medical personal. Roughly 40% of the US Armed service of Reserves. A disproportionate number of them are specialist like medical corp, engineers, and logistics. It really does very little good to take doctor or RN from San Diego and send them up to San Francisco.
My wife’s company is doing something pretty cool. She’s Executive Director at a senior living community and corporate rolled out a plan where every building is ordering enough food to send one meal a day home for each employee. In addition to waiving the cost of eating two meals a day during their shift, this means that every employee will have three free meals a day on days they work, dramatically cutting down trips to the supermarket. Obviously they still have to eat on their days off and their families need to eat but it will hopefully go a long way towards reducing infection risk for their employees.
Meanwhile, my mother’s assisted living facility just got its third case, this time in the dementia wing. They’re separated from the rest of the residents but it’s harder to isolate them from one another so I would imagine it’s going to ravage the folks in that wing :(
Single-day fatalities in the US has exceeded 100 for the first time.
There wasn’t much to report on for the midday testing numbers from the COVID Tracking Project. Lots of site redesign and whatnot.
But the 5pm ET data lock-in looks set. Biggest day of testing nationally yet.
Yesterday: 228,216 reported tests nationally.
Today: 294,056 tests reported nationally.
Nearly 66,000 tests reported in the last 24 hours.
471 deaths cumulative as of today’s numbers.
398 Yesterday.
322 the day before.
NOTE: these numbers are ahead of officially released CDC numbers, though the CDC likely also has their own internal record-keeping that shows higher numbers of tests daily, as well as deaths, hospitalizations, etc.
Is this an Apple to Apple comparison of deaths with the more detailed stats?
If so that’s a leveling off of the deaths. (With the caveat one day very unlikely to be statistically significant.)
It’s based off (mostly) state health department reports. If some states don’t update in a timely manner, that may skew things slightly.
The CPT tracks from 4pm to 4pm so that they’re looking at things for 24-hour windows. Which probably means that to notice leveling off, you should wait for a 3-day period of that activity to be sure.
What’s also significant: the number of tests listed under “Pending” jumped from 2842 to 14,571. Not sure if that’s because of more robust data breakouts from states, or if it reflects that the ability to process tests right now is pretty much capped at 50,000 per day…or if there’s some shortage in the field of components to test patient samples on.
Accounting only for completed tests, still the biggest day-over-day jump in testing so far:
Death numbers today are up to 520.
On a different note, here’s this guy.
If the virus actually worked the way right wingers fantasize, then maybe we could consider it…
Except it doesn’t work that way. At all.
It infects everyone, and kills plenty of people below 70, below 60, below 50, etc. In addition to overwhelming the hospitals so more routine issues could also become deadly.
This poor guy was a healthy 32-year-old man. He was in the hospital for 19 fucking days, and now he’s on oxygen for who-knows-how-long.
And of course the severe/critical population is not the majority. Once people are stablized or in recovery, they don’t need the same kind of care. If we can get some individuals to tend to the less dire in need population.
I am told a local system is trying to get an off-site facility set-up for that very purpose, some place to transition people to to free up needed beds but still provide care that is needed to those not quite ready to go home.
Donald Trump is going to kill us all.
Fauci is not on stage during the coronavirus briefing… But Barr is?
Trump basically saying he’s going to tell us all to get back to work in a week.
Barr looks like death.
Holy shit we’re doomed.
We need the coronavirus to kill these guys fast before they can kill the entire country.
What’s the hold up on the next bill? Republicans want to let Trump distribute it as he sees fit (to himself) and Democrats don’t want that?
Pretty much.