COVID-19 Talk

[ErinInTheSky]

14 minutes ago, mappy said:

Thank you! Happy Easter to you as well.

I took a gander at what MD put out today, and I'm not overly surprised by what I see. More populated zip-codes have the higher case counts. Zip-codes around DC and Baltimore in particular. 

My zip code has 0, which is reassuring. 

I'm glad they released that type of data, just gives a better sense geographically where the spread has been.

Looks like my area of Germantown has a fair number of cases but it's not as bad as down in the Silver Spring area.

[mappy]

2 minutes ago, supernovasky said:

Looks like my area of Germantown has a fair number of cases but it's not as bad as down in the Silver Spring area.

SS bumps up against the district right? 

[ErinInTheSky]

1 minute ago, mappy said:

SS bumps up against the district right? 

Yeah and either way they're likely getting a ton of cases from district commuters.

[pazzo83]

11 minutes ago, supernovasky said:

Yeah and either way they're likely getting a ton of cases from district commuters.

the corresponding ward in DC that is on that border (ward 4) has the most cases in DC.  Which is odd because in DC that is one of the less dense wards.  Wards 1 and 2, which are downtown and just north of there (Columbia Heights etc) actually don't have as many cases relative to the entire city.

[showmethesnow]

51 minutes ago, jaydreb said:

Where are you seeing 50% have no symptoms at all?  I don’t think that number has been determined yet.   

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/01/europe/iceland-testing-coronavirus-intl/index.html

[showmethesnow]

44 minutes ago, supernovasky said:

The Diamond Princess is probably the best data we have because it was a perfect pitri dish and it showed an 18% asymptomatic rate.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/coronavirus/publication/32183930

Perfect petri dish?

Average age on this cruise was 62 years of age. Considering the virus and it's symptoms are much more severe the older you get you don't think this would influence the numbers whatsoever?

[ErinInTheSky]

9 minutes ago, showmethesnow said:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/01/europe/iceland-testing-coronavirus-intl/index.html

Not an academic study and in fact many of the people who were “asymptomatic” in that sample ended up developing symptoms. Actually I remember when people were pointing to this finding and saying it meant the death rate was something super low and the death rate has since gone up a ton in Iceland because, again, the “asymptomatic” was really just people really early in their infection.

 

Iceland is awesome though, they are doing the right thing by testing widely.

[ErinInTheSky]

12 minutes ago, showmethesnow said:

Perfect petri dish?

Average age on this cruise was 62 years of age. Considering the virus and it's symptoms are much more severe the older you get you don't think this would influence the numbers whatsoever?

It's a perfect pitri dish because you know the input and the output perfectly. Models can adjust for age.

 

15-20% asymptomatic is, after reading the sum findings out there, probably the most realistic.

 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/coronavirus/publication/32171192 Found 13.8% looking at family clusters.

 

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.27.20043836v1 Found 21% among younger individuals in Tibet.

 

https://www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com/article/S1198-743X(20)30169-5/fulltext Found 4% asymptomatic among 328 patients.

 

There are more. Most of the academic sources are asymptomatic in the teens (in addition to that Diamond Princess one).

 

Note: Many of the above are awaiting peer review and nothing is super verifiable right now as it takes a LONG time for cases to progress from infection to symptoms in many people.

 

 

[ErinInTheSky]

Instacart pro tip: If you are having trouble getting same day and live in a populated area, every time you click “checkout” on your app and see a 4-7 day wait period, close the app. Reopen 5 minutes later and try again. You will eventually get a “within 5 hours” option.

[jaydreb]

50 minutes ago, showmethesnow said:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/01/europe/iceland-testing-coronavirus-intl/index.html

Interesting, but it’s a self-selected study, which means that you are not getting a true sampling of the population.  In addition, the article does not say how many of those people subsequently developed symptoms.  The head of the company running the study seems to think that at least some will later show symptoms. 

“What it means in my mind, is that because we are screening the general population, we are catching people early in the infection before they start showing symptoms," Stefánsson said.

 

[showmethesnow]

24 minutes ago, supernovasky said:

It's a perfect pitri dish because you know the input and the output perfectly. Models can adjust for age.

 

15-20% asymptomatic is, after reading the sum findings out there, probably the most realistic.

 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/coronavirus/publication/32171192 Found 13.8% looking at family clusters.

 

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.27.20043836v1 Found 21% among younger individuals in Tibet.

 

https://www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com/article/S1198-743X(20)30169-5/fulltext Found 4% asymptomatic among 328 patients.

 

There are more. Most of the academic sources are asymptomatic in the teens (in addition to that Diamond Princess one).

 

Note: Many of the above are awaiting peer review and nothing is super verifiable right now as it takes a LONG time for cases to progress from infection to symptoms in many people.

 

 

Models can not adjust for age when they have little to no samples (45 down to 0 years of age). Especially when you are seeing such large differences with covid between 45 and up and 45 and down. And this was the case here. Enough said on that front.

Now I am not going to debate you in regards to Chinese studies. You already know my opinion that they are nothing more then fantasy. In fact I think they are hurting studies now coming out that incorporate them into their studies. Now if you have other studies outside of these Chinese studies I am more then willing to look into them. Just not going to waste my time with those. 

 

[showmethesnow]

22 minutes ago, jaydreb said:

Interesting, but it’s a self-selected study, which means that you are not getting a true sampling of the population.  In addition, the article does not say how many of those people subsequently developed symptoms.  The head of the company running the study seems to think that at least some will later show symptoms. 

“What it means in my mind, is that because we are screening the general population, we are catching people early in the infection before they start showing symptoms," Stefánsson said.

 

Could very well be the case. Just one study and it has it's flaws. There are many variables that are not taken into account. But it does sort of fit in with the study of 80% with little to no symptoms. There are others out there as well. So I just used it to give a rough ballpark figure of what we were probably seeing. 

[mappy]

3 hours ago, supernovasky said:

Yeah and either way they're likely getting a ton of cases from district commuters.

Thanks

[Inverted_Trough]

In case anyone is interested, here's a PDF containing 80 pages of e-mails between public health officials from late January through mid March.  The e-mails were obtained by a FOIA request.

https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/6879-2020-covid-19-red-dawn-rising/66f590d5cd41e11bea0f/optimized/full.pdf#page=1

It appears the public health community raised the alarm very early.  Started advocating for social distancing in early February.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Not sure if it has been discussed here but saw some articles yesterday and today (Reuters/USA today) that many recovered covid19 patients in Singapore, S Korea, and China have contracted the virus yet again. Was a rather significant % too. I'm wondering 1) if there is factual proof irt these articles and 2) if this is true, im curious (hopefully wrong) if it will continue affecting people once they have gotten it ie weaken their immune system further every time until it kills them. That would be a horrible and downright frightening finding. Scientists keep saying they are learning new "interesting" things about covid19 every day.

[jaydreb]

9 minutes ago, Ralph Wiggum said:

Not sure if it has been discussed here but saw some articles yesterday and today (Reuters/USA today) that many recovered covid19 patients in Singapore, S Korea, and China have contracted the virus yet again. Was a rather significant % too. I'm wondering 1) if there is factual proof irt these articles and 2) if this is true, im curious (hopefully wrong) if it will continue affecting people once they have gotten it ie weaken their immune system further every time until it kills them. That would be a horrible and downright frightening finding. Scientists keep saying they are learning new "interesting" things about covid19 every day.

The view of most scientists, including Fauci, is that these results are almost certainly the result of testing errors or people being let out of the hospital too soon.  

https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/487436-can-you-get-coronavirus-twice

[Ralph Wiggum]

8 minutes ago, jaydreb said:

The view of most scientists, including Fauci, is that these results are almost certainly the result of testing errors or people being let out of the hospital too soon.  

https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/487436-can-you-get-coronavirus-twice

Cant find the date on that article but it does state at the time of the article there were 137,000 cases globally. So the article is quite old now. Who knows what new findings scientists are seeing?

[jaydreb]

13 minutes ago, Ralph Wiggum said:

Cant find the date on that article but it does state at the time of the article there were 137,000 cases globally. So the article is quite old now. Who knows what new findings scientists are seeing?

Sorry for the undated article.  Here’s a few from the other day.

https://www.newsweek.com/anthony-fauci-coronavirus-reactivation-get-it-twice-immunity-1497246

https://metro.co.uk/2020/04/10/top-coronavirus-expert-skeptical-claims-people-reinfected-12536333/

Fauci also said the same thing at the briefing just a few days ago.

[Ralph Wiggum]

3 minutes ago, jaydreb said:

Sorry for the undated article.  Here’s a few from the other day.

https://www.newsweek.com/anthony-fauci-coronavirus-reactivation-get-it-twice-immunity-1497246

https://metro.co.uk/2020/04/10/top-coronavirus-expert-skeptical-claims-people-reinfected-12536333/

Fauci also said the same thing at the briefing just a few days ago.

Not doubting Fauci one bit. But he has also said as have many others that this virus is one of the most interesting that they have ever studied but none have gone into detail about what exactly is so "interesting" and fascinating about it. What arent we hearing?

[jaydreb]

43 minutes ago, Ralph Wiggum said:

Not doubting Fauci one bit. But he has also said as have many others that this virus is one of the most interesting that they have ever studied but none have gone into detail about what exactly is so "interesting" and fascinating about it. What arent we hearing?

I don’t know for sure but he could be referring to the number of asymptomatic carriers and the long incubation period.  

[40westwx]

I guess one good thing about the pandemic is that open container laws have gone to the waste side... lots of folks in fells point yesterday enjoying beers and crushes with their carryout on the sidewalks outside of #Kooperstavern and other pubs... it was a neat site to see.. kids playing in the square.. people drinking and enjoying themselves.. there was even a guy with an acoustic guitar :) singing.  Of course every one was social distancing themselves properly.  

[Baltimorewx]

15 minutes ago, 40westwx said:

I guess one good thing about the pandemic is that open container laws have gone to the waste side... lots of folks in fells point yesterday enjoying beers and crushes with their carryout on the sidewalks outside of #Kooperstavern and other pubs... it was a neat site to see.. kids playing in the square.. people drinking and enjoying themselves.. there was even a guy with an acoustic guitar singing.  Of course every one was social distancing themselves properly.  

Or Baltimore City police can’t enforce crap cuz the leaders at the top are so incompetent lol. But yeah, the carry out booze has been a nice touch. Lots of restaurants offering amazing deals on some damn good beer too

[snowfan]

Disney furloughing 40k+ employees

Smithfield is closing its largest plant for 2 weeks bc so many people were infected. Over 3k employees. The plant handles 5% of the countries meat supply.

Other meat factories in PA and CO temporarily closed.

[H2O]

If they can’t keep making bacon I’m going to riot

[Maestrobjwa]

22 minutes ago, H2O said:

If they can’t keep making bacon I’m going to riot

Meanwhile the vegans are quietly laughing with glee...lol

[showmethesnow]

Just found out yesterday that there is a good chance my 49 year old brother in VA Beach has the virus as well as some if not all of his immediate family. Little pissed that we had to find out about it on Facebook from a post my wife caught, but that is another story. He has been tested twice (first was a throat swab that from what I understand are very unreliable)(2nd one took 11 days to get back from the labs) and both have come back negative. But the doctors/specialists he has seen are pretty confident that he does in fact have covid despite these negative results.

At this point it looks as if he may have caught it at a work conference in late January from an individual that attended that lives/flew out of NY. This individual later tested positive for covid. He first started showing symptoms while on an early March skiing trip up in the Poconos with his wife. Symptoms became so severe so quickly that they cut the trip 3 days short so they could come back to VA just in case. By the time they did get back to VA he was so bad his wife rushed him to the ER where they tested him for covid and took an x-ray to find that he has pneumonia.  Since then his symptoms have been severe but not severe enough as of yet to warrant hospitalization despite a second recent visit to the ER. The way he tells it, is that there has been a waxing and waning of the severity of these symptoms. There are some days he is able to move around the house somewhat without major issues but then there are other days that just a simple trip to the kitchen/bathroom drops his oxygen levels so low that he is on the verge of passing out.

Now I am no expert when it comes to this but after dealing with the health issues and eventual passings of my Mother, Mother in Law and Father in Law these last 5 years I do have an idea what oxygen levels are acceptable, severe and critical. And the numbers he has thrown out for his down periods are at least border line if not in fact severe. These numbers would probably get someone admitted for treatment and observation and not sent home to convalesce on their own. This makes me wonder if we may see an unintended consequence of this fear of hospitals getting over run. Are we going to see that many are turned away when they should have probably been admitted where there was a much better ability to treat them? Only to have these same individuals come back later farther into the progression of the virus where it is much harder to treat and the probability of death increases greatly? 

Anyway, talking to him yesterday he was in one of his up periods as he tells it. And yet you could tell he was exhausted, short of breath and a little out of it. He has the ability to telework from home and has made several attempts to do so without much success. Considering we are now talking 6+ weeks without any resolution to this he is talking with his employers and they are trying to determine whether short/long term disability should be considered. He also tells me that his wife has had/continues to have the same symptoms as well though a good deal less severe. Both sons experienced symptoms as well but they were of a very minor nature and were gone within a couple of days.

[40westwx]

7 hours ago, H2O said:

If they can’t keep making bacon I’m going to riot

yikes!  Thats actually fairly significant if 5% of the nations meet supply gets impacted.  Naturally we will see an increase in prices, perhaps a significant increase.  

[showmethesnow]

This article sort of scratches the surface on why I give no legitimacy to any research/info that is coming out of China. Spent roughly a month initially pouring over the numbers/reports/studies and it became evident very quickly that the numbers made absolutely no sense. In fact two studies that I did see that actually were believable quietly disappeared a few days later. The CCP is firmly in control of all this information. So though I might sound like a hypocritical A-Hole for not accepting China data in any of our discussions on here this is for good reason in my mind. After all, how do you debate numbers that more then likely have been drawn out of a hat?

https://www.foxnews.com/world/china-coronavirus-research-block-narrative-documents

[40westwx]

Questions.. why does the flu oscillate with the weather.. is the "we spend more time outdoors" theory, the only reason or are there other factors at play?  And to tie this in to COVID-19, will we see this fluctuate with the warm weather? If COVID-19 does fluctuate with the seasons (which remains to be seen), how does this winter's warmth play in to the onset and spread of COVID-19 in the US and other regions that had an abnormally warm winter?

[showmethesnow]

4 minutes ago, 40westwx said:

Questions.. why does the flu oscillate with the weather.. is the "we spend more time outdoors" theory, the only reason or are there other factors at play?  And to tie this in to COVID-19, will we see this fluctuate with the warm weather? If COVID-19 does fluctuate with the seasons (which remains to be seen), how does this winter's warmth play in to the onset and spread of COVID-19 in the US and other regions that had an abnormally warm winter?

You are talking the seasonal type of flu that waxes and wanes over the different seasons. We see breakouts of it during the colder/drier months and it dies out with an increase in temps and humidity. These virus do not like the higher humidities.