So the secret to a long life is alot of kids? I guess I need to get a new wife as no way I can talk her into 11 more. I don’t think I could handle anymore anyhow.
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So the secret to a long life is alot of kids? I guess I need to get a new wife as no way I can talk her into 11 more. I don’t think I could handle anymore anyhow.
My coworker has siblings all over the planet. Ethiopia, Canada, Sweden and Australia are the few countries that I can remember.
No the secret is to have a lot of sex.
Interesting graph from the CDC on infection period as well as to the positivity rate, given that has been given a lot of news lately as schools and colleges open.
That's interesting about the 12 weeks and I'd assume is tied into the 'reinfections' that pop up occasionally although I think a few still had some symptoms.
I agree on the reinfections piece, this helps explain that some . 12 weeks was the real kicker and how that could impact positive rates.
2 days in a row that cases and deaths down considerably. Hope the trend holds.
nationwise.
nationwise.
Cases seems like a positive, but unfortunately it looks like the deaths is just a result of the way they are reported. I say that because even though the deaths were way down, the 7 day average barely moved, indicating that they were way down a week ago as well.
As far as cases, the southern states that saw this out of control are really dropping quickly. Seems there are a few states that aren't seeing much gains yet, Iowa being one of those. Maybe it's because we haven't seen the extreme highs needed to have the populous take this seriously like states such as Florida, Alabama, and Louisiana have. We're just pushing along in the bad but not overwhelming our services level.
Helpful perspective along the lines of positive rates and re-testing.
Has anyone found a good source for nationwide hospitalization rates? I get why everyone keeps talking about confirmed cases, since that information is readily available, but it just doesn't tell us much. You can look at deaths, but that data essentially only tells you what happened 2-3 weeks ago. I mean, look at Sweden. By their "positive cases" things peaked in June. But, their deaths peaked in early April. To base any policy decisions on their case counts would have been insane.
I'd also like to know how things are going for death rate of the elderly/high risk...haven't been able to find much. Is it improving? As we find more cases and have found more treatments the overall death rate has gone down, but if we could get a bead on the elderly/immunocompromised it would be help a lot.
Case numbers going up imo is good for getting a good lead on what we're looking at for severity, deaths, etc. and so long as people aren't totally stupid, if we find out who has it they know to stop in their tracks even with a mild case or no symptoms.
I think if this T-Cell test becomes readily available, there will be A LOT of people finding out they had it and I wonder if that would impact our ability to return to some form of normalcy.
Good data on age impacts for Iowa. And given the CDC’s own thought of actual infections being nearly 10x what is found via cases, that could more like 500k, thus driving the CFR even lower.
Agree-cases and positivity rates are not the best indicator. I think ER visits and/or hospitalizations for Covid Like Illness is good measure of current severity. And the last I looked the CLI rates were dropping or very low across the country.
So if I'm reading this right there's only one day where you don't have symptoms that you're infectious - correct? If so as long as people self isolate upon symptoms then the window to transmit is just one day.
Possibly, I’m sure there are exceptions to that like most things. But I would think the severity of the case would play a part ( mild or severe).
Twitter thread on herd immunity, and the very real possibility that it's essentially been reached in most of Europe and the U.S. From what I've read/herd, this doesn't mean the virus "goes away", just that we shouldn't see massive future spikes. It will still be around, but spreading very slowly.
Could this simply be due to more accurate recording? Regardless, this is good news either way in that it A: was not as bad as earlier thought or B: it is actually dropping.
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