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Coronavirus Coronavirus: In-Iowa General Discussion (Not Limited)
Refining your statement: goal is to not have more patients than beds/ventilators and not overwhelm hospitals. -
Coronavirus Coronavirus: In-Iowa General Discussion (Not Limited)
Question to those asking for SIP or supporting non-SIP. What is/was your trigger point? - X new cases per day? - X new cases hospitalized per day? - X deaths per day? My thinking is something around X hospitalized compounded by X growth in hospitalized. (i haven't researched the numbers... -
Coronavirus Coronavirus: In-Iowa General Discussion (Not Limited)
Sorry, there are too many self conflicting statements in your posts to debate with. -
Coronavirus Coronavirus: In-Iowa General Discussion (Not Limited)
I have not seen any model that shows shelter-in-place eliminating the spread completely. It is to flatten the curve, IE delay the spread, not eliminate/stop the spread. If it stopped the virus completely, everyone would agree to lock themselves up for 2 weeks and be done with it. -
Coronavirus Coronavirus: In-Iowa General Discussion (Not Limited)
She said she couldn't lock people in their houses. -
Coronavirus Coronavirus: In-Iowa General Discussion (Not Limited)
You still have a trigger point whether it is 1 or 100, it just has to be more predictive than today's actual number. Maybe it's current + rate of growth, but there is a point. I believe that is why she can say it is still in play. -
Coronavirus Coronavirus: In-Iowa General Discussion (Not Limited)
Please don't read my questioning as not believing the situation: My family is in near lock down. Wife and I are working from home, have gotten take out a couple times from a local restaurant, have been to a local softball diamond for hitting and exercise with my daughter, and groceries once in... -
Coronavirus Coronavirus: In-Iowa General Discussion (Not Limited)
Yeah, that isn't much. How many are available and how many are in use with COVID patients right now? I wonder what the right trigger point is. I don't know that we have enough information to have an informed opinion at this point. -
Coronavirus Coronavirus: In-Iowa General Discussion (Not Limited)
No, the point is that even with ventilators, some will die. Some die from the flu too. And, that the question in my previous post: what rules are we playing by? I don't think that any expert has said that locking everyone up will make it go away. This virus will make its way through our... -
Coronavirus Coronavirus: In-Iowa General Discussion (Not Limited)
I understand why you might think that. Last Thanksgiving I had a fever for 5 days and had absolutely no motivation to do anything. I could extrapolate that it was the virus, however, I believe it wasn't until December that there was ANY news from China about this. Also, if I had it why aren't... -
Coronavirus Coronavirus: In-Iowa General Discussion (Not Limited)
Catching up from yesterday's conversation here. What is the intent of a stay-at-home order? My understanding is that it is to minimize the number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 at any given time. If you believe the intent is anything else, please explain. It looks like we are currently... -
Coronavirus Coronavirus: In-Iowa General Discussion (Not Limited)
If you think the news is too biased, I think you'll have a similar reaction to feedback on this site as well.. ;) -
Coronavirus Coronavirus: In-Iowa General Discussion (Not Limited)
It might be a lagging metric, but you can extrapolate forward as to where it will be. I assume she is projecting from where it is headed today, not where it actually is. What other metric could you use? -
Coronavirus Coronavirus: In-Iowa General Discussion (Not Limited)
In addition, I watch the number of new patients in hospitals. In the end, IMO, if we are trying to protect hospitals from being overrun, that is the number (growth) to watch. -
Coronavirus Coronavirus: In-Iowa General Discussion (Not Limited)
Is that a political statement? 'Cuz my response sure would be... ;) -
Coronavirus Coronavirus: In-Iowa General Discussion (Not Limited)
And a total of 23 Iowans hospitalized. -
What Will You Spend Your $1,000 Stimulus On?
Saw it in earlier drafts, but in the final draft, did they take out he provision that airlines that get assistance have to fully offset their annual carbon emissions by 2025? (sorry for the format, but I copied the text from a link in an earlier post) "24 the enactment of this Act, the... -
Coronavirus Coronavirus: In-Iowa General Discussion (Not Limited)
********* = "awesome!!" ? and if not, why not? -
Anyone using extra time to read more?
Not really. I was thinking about this today as to why not... - I am still working (albeit remotely) so most days for me will be almost normal - Wife and daughters are with me at home. Seems like when I am not working, I am talking, playing, hanging out with them. - Have been catching up on...