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Apr 7, 2020
COVID-19 Update
Growth Rates
It makes some sense that they've been warning us over the last couple of days that this week could be pretty grim.
Cases:The increase in cases is slowing here in the US - doubling in 8 days instead of every 3-5. Unfortunately, since the growth in number of cases is a leading indicator, it can mean the increase in deaths could accelerate for a while, because that's a trailing indicator.
1.05 - World
1.09 - USA
Dead:
1.06 - World
1.14 USA
It makes some sense that they've been warning us over the last couple of days that this week could be pretty grim.
Trying to look ahead, the main problem I see is that President Stoopid will again start pressing for "re-opening the country" before it should, which could make recovery more difficult, and set the stage for another outbreak in the fall and winter, which could be made worse than it has to be because we jumped back in too soon.
The kicker there is that the longer we wait, the more likely it is that lots and lots of jobs won't be there when it's time to go back to work.
But then again, risking your life for someone else's business has to be worth quite a bit more than 10 bucks an hour.
Apr 6, 2020
Honor The Warriors
Someone finally got around to it.
There will be a goodly number of memorial-worthy people before we're done, but none have shown their strength of commitment - and honor - more than the people who step up, risking their own lives to help strangers, when they could just as easily follow the example of a fucked up "leader" and try to duck their responsibilities.
MedScape:
Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center.
As front-line healthcare workers care for patients with COVID-19, they commit themselves to difficult, draining work and also put themselves at risk of infection. Hundreds throughout the world have died. Medscape wants to make sure they are not forgotten, and we will update this list as — sadly — needed.
Medscape needs your help to ensure this list is complete. Please submit names with an age, profession or specialty, and location through this form.
A
Isaac Abadi, MD, 90, Founder, Professor of Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, Escuela de Medicina Luis Razetti, Hospital Universitario de Caracas, Miami, Florida
Musa Fath Abadi, age unknown, Emergency Medicine Specialist, Tehran, Iran
Abdullah Abbasi, age unknown, Infectious Disease Specialist, Gorgan, Iran
Luigi Ablondi, 66, Epidemiologist, Former General Manager of the Crema Hospital, Cremona, Italy
Tahmineh Adibi, age unknown, Nurse, Bandar-e Anzali, Iran
Abdel Sattar Airoud, 74, General Practitioner, Piacenza, Italy
Vincenza Amato, 65, Medical Director Responsible UOS Hygiene Public Health of the Department of Hygiene and Health Prevention, Bergamo, Italy
Afshar Amiri, age unknown, Psychiatrist, Tehran, Iran
Abdulshakur Hazhir Amiri, age unknown, Pharmacist, Rasht, Iran
Larrice Anderson, 46, Nurse, New Orleans East Hospital, New Orleans, Louisiana
Hassan Arbab, age unknown, Hospital Staff, Mashhad, Iran
Malik Ashtar, 50, Nursing Staff, Gilgit, Pakistan
Gaetano Autore, 68, General Practitioner, Naples, Italy
Madhvi Aya, 61, Physician Assistant, Emergency Medicine, Woodhull Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York
Saeid Azizi, age unknown, Ophthalmologist, Zabol, Iran
Ramin Azizifar, age unknown, Nurse, Tehran, Iran
B
Samad Babazadeh, age unknown, General Practitioner, Babol, Iran
Israel Bactol, 34, Cardiologist, Philippine Heart Center, Metro Manila, Philippines
Domenico Bardelli, 75, Dentist, Lodi, Italy
Manuel Barragan, 63, General Practitioner, Cordoba, Spain
Kamran Bayat, age unknown, Surgical Technician, Tehran, Iran
Nilufar Esmail Beigi, age unknown, General Practitioner, Tehran, Iran
Anusheh Beikian, age unknown, Obstetrician, Rasht, Iran
Diego Bianco, 47, Paramedic, Lombardy, Italy
Jean-Marie Boegle, 66, OB-GYN, Mulhouse, France
Massimo Borghese, 63, Specialist in Otolaryngology and Phoniatrics, Naples, Italy
Giuseppe Borghi, 64, General Practitioner, Lodi, Italy
Araceli Buendia Ilagan, 63, ICU Nurse, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Florida
Antonio Buonomo, 65, Medical Examiner, Naples, Italy
Antonino Buttafuoco, 66, General Practitioner, Bergamo, Italy
It goes on for 5 pages.
There will be a goodly number of memorial-worthy people before we're done, but none have shown their strength of commitment - and honor - more than the people who step up, risking their own lives to help strangers, when they could just as easily follow the example of a fucked up "leader" and try to duck their responsibilities.
MedScape:
Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center.
As front-line healthcare workers care for patients with COVID-19, they commit themselves to difficult, draining work and also put themselves at risk of infection. Hundreds throughout the world have died. Medscape wants to make sure they are not forgotten, and we will update this list as — sadly — needed.
Medscape needs your help to ensure this list is complete. Please submit names with an age, profession or specialty, and location through this form.
A
Isaac Abadi, MD, 90, Founder, Professor of Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, Escuela de Medicina Luis Razetti, Hospital Universitario de Caracas, Miami, Florida
Musa Fath Abadi, age unknown, Emergency Medicine Specialist, Tehran, Iran
Abdullah Abbasi, age unknown, Infectious Disease Specialist, Gorgan, Iran
Luigi Ablondi, 66, Epidemiologist, Former General Manager of the Crema Hospital, Cremona, Italy
Tahmineh Adibi, age unknown, Nurse, Bandar-e Anzali, Iran
Abdel Sattar Airoud, 74, General Practitioner, Piacenza, Italy
Vincenza Amato, 65, Medical Director Responsible UOS Hygiene Public Health of the Department of Hygiene and Health Prevention, Bergamo, Italy
Afshar Amiri, age unknown, Psychiatrist, Tehran, Iran
Abdulshakur Hazhir Amiri, age unknown, Pharmacist, Rasht, Iran
Larrice Anderson, 46, Nurse, New Orleans East Hospital, New Orleans, Louisiana
Hassan Arbab, age unknown, Hospital Staff, Mashhad, Iran
Malik Ashtar, 50, Nursing Staff, Gilgit, Pakistan
Gaetano Autore, 68, General Practitioner, Naples, Italy
Madhvi Aya, 61, Physician Assistant, Emergency Medicine, Woodhull Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York
Saeid Azizi, age unknown, Ophthalmologist, Zabol, Iran
Ramin Azizifar, age unknown, Nurse, Tehran, Iran
B
Samad Babazadeh, age unknown, General Practitioner, Babol, Iran
Israel Bactol, 34, Cardiologist, Philippine Heart Center, Metro Manila, Philippines
Domenico Bardelli, 75, Dentist, Lodi, Italy
Manuel Barragan, 63, General Practitioner, Cordoba, Spain
Kamran Bayat, age unknown, Surgical Technician, Tehran, Iran
Nilufar Esmail Beigi, age unknown, General Practitioner, Tehran, Iran
Anusheh Beikian, age unknown, Obstetrician, Rasht, Iran
Diego Bianco, 47, Paramedic, Lombardy, Italy
Jean-Marie Boegle, 66, OB-GYN, Mulhouse, France
Massimo Borghese, 63, Specialist in Otolaryngology and Phoniatrics, Naples, Italy
Giuseppe Borghi, 64, General Practitioner, Lodi, Italy
Araceli Buendia Ilagan, 63, ICU Nurse, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Florida
Antonio Buonomo, 65, Medical Examiner, Naples, Italy
Antonino Buttafuoco, 66, General Practitioner, Bergamo, Italy
It goes on for 5 pages.
COVID-19 Update
The feeling is that the shutdown and distancing and the overall public information efforts are starting to take hold, but some dire-sounding warnings are coming from the people who know about such things:
WaPo:
Americans are being advised to steel themselves for one of the most agonizing weeks in living memory, as President Trump and his advisers predicted parts of the country were nearing a peak of cases of covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
The president at Sunday’s White House coronavirus task force briefing hailed numbers from New York showing a one-day decline in deaths while warning of New York and New Jersey, “they’ve really become a very hot zone.”
Still, Trump, along with Vice President Pence, projected confidence not matched by the White House’s medical advisers.
“We’re starting to see light at the end of the tunnel,” Trump said Sunday, even as Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-diseases expert, hedged earlier in the day, saying, “I will not say we have it under control. . . . We are struggling to get it under control.”
note: NYT and WaPo have lifted their pay walls on COVID-19 stories.
And the really shitty kicker is that because of this ridiculous slap-dash bullshit "response", there's no cohesion in the approach to this thing, and so we have the usual Cult45 clusterfuck, but on meth-infused steroids.
NYT:
WASHINGTON — A coroner in Indiana wanted to know if the coronavirus had killed a man in early March, but said that her health department denied a test. Paramedics in New York City say that many patients who died at home were never tested for the coronavirus, even if they showed telltale signs of infection.
In Virginia, a funeral director prepared the remains of three people after health workers cautioned her that they each had tested positive for the coronavirus. But only one of the three had the virus noted on the death certificate.
Across the United States, even as coronavirus deaths are being recorded in terrifying numbers — many hundreds each day — the true death toll is likely much higher.
More than 9,400 people with the coronavirus have been reported to have died in this country as of this weekend, but hospital officials, doctors, public health experts and medical examiners say that official counts have failed to capture the true number of Americans dying in this pandemic. The undercount is a result of inconsistent protocols, limited resources and a patchwork of decision making from one state or county to the next.
Growth Rates
Cases:
1.06 - World
1.08 - USA
Dead:
1.07 - World
1.14 - USA
Apr 5, 2020
COVID-19 Update
Growth Rates
Cases:
1.07 - World
1.01 - USA
Dead:
1.09 - World
1.19 - USA
Straight-line Projection
USA:
Apr 4, 2020
Today's Tweet
I wonder how many "conservatives" watch DumFux News just to jack off to their platoon of blond bombers.
Seems pretty obvious they aren't tuning in to be well-informed.
On the same day
Larry Kudlow said coronavirus was “contained” on Feb. 25th, Trump’s
campaign spox made an even more bold claim.
“We will
not see diseases like the coronavirus come here..and isn't it
refreshing when contrasting it with the awful presidency of President
Obama." pic.twitter.com/O0DDH3Rvkw
—
andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) April
4, 2020
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