In less than positive news:
https://www.livescience.com/cat-infected-covid-19-from-owner.html?fbclid=IwAR2sN9OVWEtTUNpOXgFSxSWXgfPUXkv05KhjcMU9PMLu3kT67ZU3wmqHfro
This is a solid news source and was posted by a solid academic who studies epidemics. I reluctantly think it is true.
You think WHAT is true?
Thanks for the link, I like the site.
I think we ARE "really on top of this thing",quoting Dr Jha...
Dr Ashish Jha - asked about the projection of 100,000 dead:
"That's a (sigh) pretty high number and obviously I think we should do everything we can to lower that number - but that may be the reality - unless we really get on top of this thing"
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Jha talking like 100K dead is more of a worst case.
More excellent progress
The hospital started recruiting donors from approximately 250 patients who have tested positive for COVID-19. Recruitment started as soon as the F.D.A. announced regulatory guidelines for the study last week, according to the statement.
“Convalescent serum therapy could be a vital treatment route because unfortunately there is relatively little to offer many patients except supportive care, and the ongoing clinical trials are going to take a while,” Dr. Eric Salazar, a physician scientist and principal investigator at the Methodist’s Research Institute, added in the statement. “We don’t have that much time.”
https://www.foxnews.com/science/coronavirus-pandemic-houston-hospital-plasma-transfusion
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Columbus-based Battelle’s system that can decontaminate thousands of masks a day, according to a statement from the company.
Battelle on Sunday night said that the approval is for the use of the technology at “full capacity.”
We do have a substantial lead in critical care and ICU neds per capita. It's something like 50% ahead of the nearest other countries.Sourceless information.
But among the factors involved are these:QuoteFirst are distinct differences in patient populations. Data comparing middle-aged Americans with a similar population in the United Kingdom demonstrated a higher burden of chronic illnesses among the American cohort –double the rate of diabetes and a third higher rate of hypertension. Such comparisons are essential to understanding the relative healthcare needs of populations. Frequency of interventions and surgical procedures may also impact the need for intensive care. For example, patients who receive a liver transplant will require a stay in an ICU. This need for intensive care is, therefore, driven not solely by disease, but also by management choices. An older study comparing admissions to intensive care in Alberta (Canada) and western Massachusetts (US) found that ICU days per million population were two to three times higher in western Massachusetts, primarily due to a higher ICU incidence (i.e. percent of hospitalized patients treated in the ICU). This discrepancy was driven by all of the factors described above.
And in addition to having 50% more beds than Canada, they cost 85% more per bed.
(figures used are 2012. It is likely worse since then.)
First are distinct differences in patient populations. Data comparing middle-aged Americans with a similar population in the United Kingdom demonstrated a higher burden of chronic illnesses among the American cohort –double the rate of diabetes and a third higher rate of hypertension. Such comparisons are essential to understanding the relative healthcare needs of populations. Frequency of interventions and surgical procedures may also impact the need for intensive care. For example, patients who receive a liver transplant will require a stay in an ICU. This need for intensive care is, therefore, driven not solely by disease, but also by management choices. An older study comparing admissions to intensive care in Alberta (Canada) and western Massachusetts (US) found that ICU days per million population were two to three times higher in western Massachusetts, primarily due to a higher ICU incidence (i.e. percent of hospitalized patients treated in the ICU). This discrepancy was driven by all of the factors described above.
