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Talk about a case of the worst timing ever: https://www.tmz.com/2020/05/07/2020-us-quarters-fruit-bat-bad-timing-coronavirus/

What I'm finding really interesting is that there are countries with extremely low case fatality rates. Singapore has 25,346 confirmed cases but only 21 deaths. That's a case fatality rate of only 0.083%. Qatar has 26,539 cases and only 14 deaths, for a CFR of 0.053%. Both of these countries...

Or it mutated into a strain which spreads even faster but is less lethal, and this displaced prior strains. From a Darwinian evolution standpoint this would make sense. In fact, as a general rule viruses generally mutate to less lethal forms, which in the long run could be good news for us. It...

:ROFLMAO::LOL: Trump is busy rewriting history to increase his chances of being reelected. Now I'm no fan of Biden, but I'll take him over Trump at this point. Last thing we need is someone in the White House in the middle of a pandemic who is clueless about science. Trump is a legend in his...

I'll go with the vodka. After all, it supports the opinion of that great medical expert our President that taking disinfectants internally might be a cure for this.

It sounds like our only option then is to remain in lock down forever. Without an effective vaccine we're not returning to normal. Getting to herd immunity is unthinkable given the mortality rate. So what's left? Hope the virus mutates to a much less lethal strain and that strain displaces...

That seems to be a conspiracy theory. A hospital can lose its license by making too many false reports. I doubt many will do that just to receive a little extra funding. On another note, I really feel parts of the country are reopening way too soon. Until we have widespread testing and contact...

That's entirely plausible, but this still doesn't means the virus couldn't have originated due to the conditions created by wet markets. Not sure what China would stand to gain from a deliberate leak though. This has hurt their economy as much as anyone else's.

Well, those have to go also. Along with factory farming. It's time to put a lot of R&D into cultured meat. It seems to be the only sustainable way we can continue consuming meat.

Maybe you don't understand that the term for farmer's market means something completely different in the US, and probably much of the rest of the developed world. Sure, we have farmer's markets, even in NYC, and they sell fruits and vegetables. They don't sell animals at all, much less a mixture...

I think the game changer here will be automation. Up until now the justification for having stuff made in China was cheaper labor and the fact it's hard to find American workers willing to do factory work at any price. Automation will change all that. Short term we'll probably continue having a...

I urge everyone here to sign this petition: https://www.change.org/p/us-congress-china-s-wet-markets-have-reopened-ban-travel-to-and-from-china-until-they-are-closed? First off, I can't believe they reopened the markets while the pandemic is still raging across the planet. If this wasn't a...

Still not a bad deal for $100. I would imagine for occasional non-occupational use, the cartridges last a long time.

I got one of these today. I'm surprised something like this is available given the short supply of PPEs.

I actually thought about a treatment involving light where you expose the inside of the lungs to enough light to kill the virus but not the lung cells. I've been trying to find who I might contact regarding this.

From here: New York State Governor Cuomo said that preliminary findings from an antibody study conducted on 3,000 people at grocery stores across New York State found a 13.9% had coronavirus antibodies, suggesting a 13.9% actual infection rate statewide (21.2% in New York City), which...

If you can get your monitor apart fairly easily it might not be a big deal to take it out. It looks to me like it's in between the backlight and the panel. Backlights are usually fairly easy to remove. Once you clean everything up maybe put a bead of silicone or some other sealant between the...

Just looked at this again: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page Here's a sobering statistic: In NYC the death rate per 100,000 people for people over 75 is 575. Nearly 0.6% of the over 75 population in NYC has already died from this, and we're far from done.

Thank you, Newtun. Needless to say, me and my siblings won't be having our usual Easter get together. Honestly, I think we'll be lucky if we're able to get together for Thanksgiving, or even Christmas. This is the new normal, and it's going to last a lot longer than most people think.

I meant just in terms of the number of deaths. Obviously the drastic actions we had to take to result in this number of deaths are something unprecedented.

My guess would go with better treatments and the fact the pandemic isn't hitting the entire country at once. Resource use in NYC peaked a few days ago but in most of the rest of the country the pandemic is just getting started. As a result, our hospitals weren't overwhelmed because we got help...

Well, the media got it wrong this time around, too. They were rallying around Warren but her campaign fizzled. Now they have Biden, whom I'm sure they're less than enthusiastic about. Maybe the media needs to acknowledge that a candidate's race or sex is less important than if they're the best...

I really hope their government isn't that callous. I know they generally don't give a shit about human life, but even by their standards restarting a pandemic is beyond the pale. And doing so will make things for them even worse on the world stage since the restarted pandemic will undoubtedly...

One negative side effect of the lock down: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52177587

New York State now has more confirmed cases than any other country except the US. Unbelievable how badly we botched this.

As far as I can tell, it seems to be mostly a precautionary measure so that he has access to care immediately should his condition become life-threatening. In other words, we can directly oxygenate blood but there aren't enough of these machines to make any significant difference in the impact...

There wouldn't be enough drivers for that to work. I don't think there's any easy answers here other than distributing N95 masks to anyone who still needs to go outside to work.

Latest data for NYC: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page It looks like keeping people home and social distancing is finally having an effect. The number of hospitalizations and deaths might be plateauing. However, look at the numbers of cases. We're approaching 1% of the...

We just passed 1 million cases worldwide. I knew it was going to happen, but still pretty disconcerting seeing that number.

Yeah, China and North Korea already found a cure for this which has a 100% success rate, prevents the spread, and costs well under a dollar. I'm sure China's actual death toll is much higher, but they're not counting those who tested positive and they shot in the official totals.

Blind support, meaning giving it to everyone who is hospitalized with the disease, no. But it should be given to those with severe enough cases to need ventilators. At this point those people basically don't have much to lose anyway. And if the treatment gets them off ventilators a little...

Hard to see how it wouldn't be. We're talking a city of 11 million people, probably packed in more densely on average than NYC. Just look at NYC's numbers, and where we're likely to be in a few weeks. And they probably waited until it was worse before ordering a lock down.

https://news.yahoo.com/wuhan-residents-dismiss-official-coronavirus-164859600.html Wuhan residents are increasingly skeptical of the Chinese Communist Party’s reported coronavirus death count of approximately 2,500 deaths in the city to date, with most people believing the actual number is at...

What do you expect from a completely incompetent buffoon like de Blasio? He was in over his head from day one but may well have bumbled through the last two years of his tenure if no emergencies happened. Trump's handling of this hasn't exactly been stellar, either, but compared to de Blasio he...

Glad you seem to be on the road to recovery, sed. Until this passes, every time people get sick they'll be suspecting the worst. Here's some state-by-state testing data for anyone interested: https://covidtracking.com/data/ About 1/3 of the tests in NY and NJ are coming back positive. Given...

Are there any ways to oxygenate the blood if a person's lungs are compromised to the point that a ventilator is ineffective? That might potentially be a big help here, keeping patients alive until they fight off the infection and their lungs heal enough to breathe without assistance. Another...

I've been guessing 0.3% to 0.5% is most likely BUT that's an evolving number as we learn better ways to treat this. I'm really hoping the true number is on the low end of the range you gave as that would imply about 4,500 deaths maximum in NYC even if everyone got it.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/27/822407626/mystery-in-wuhan-recovered-coronavirus-patients-test-negative-then-positive Under its newest COVID-19 prevention guidelines, China does not include in its overall daily count for total and for new cases those who retest positive...

The US is now at #1 in total cases, although a lot of countries are still way ahead of us in terms of cases per 1M population. Considering China has 1.4 billion people, they actually got through this fairly well.

Testing is the key here, both to avoid spreading it, and to minimize the hit on the economy. Those who already had it and recovered can go out and about at no risk to themselves, even if they must still take precautions to keep from transmitting it to others. As for the mortality rate, we know...

Well over 20K confirmed cases in NYC alone but I suspect that number will pass 50K within two weeks. Being that it's likely only those who develop serious symptoms have been confirmed, probably over two million have it or have had it but did/will have mild symptoms. We still would need to...

As much as I was looking forward to the Olympics, I realized over a month ago there is NO WAY it was going to happen. Let's put aside for a moment the foolhardiness of having large crowds at a time when the pandemic will likely be peaking, or not much past its peak, in some countries. The...

My brother is a pharmacy technician at Flushing Hospital. He said they have somewhere north of 10 cases just at his hospital. NYC is the epicenter of this for sure in the US.

The media are that way with every GOP President, although they've carried that to an extreme with Trump. What do you expect from organizations which have had a strong liberal bias for the last 50 years, if not more? If Fidel Castro suddenly rose from the grave and became President, they would be...

Normal for me as well since elderly people like my mother generally don't handle infections as well, even though as far as I can tell she has a great immune system. I was in the habit of washing off cans and bottles long before this happened simply because they were mostly genuinely filthy a lot...

In all fairness if you move ahead a few minutes it looks like their past history is playing a part. Let's not kids ourselves. For a lot of people in the media this is a sensationist's wet dream. That's doubly true because now the news networks have no competition from things like live sports, so...

There's a lot of misunderstanding and panic over that. We have to keep in mind the majority of cases we find in a week or so already existed. We just didn't know about them until we started testing. And speaking of testing, this administration needs to be hung out to dry over that. We knew about...

He should have did this at least two weeks ago when everyone saw what was happening in Italy. Better late than never, but most likely the end result is thousands of cases which otherwise wouldn't have existed.

If I had to be angry at China, it would be for not shutting down the wet markets for good after the SARS outbreak. You would think they would have learned their lesson but no. If I want China to do anything, it would be to publicly execute the officials who made that decision, along with the...

Now Italy is ahead of China in total deaths, despite having only 4.3% of the population. :cry: