2019-nCoV (Coronavirus)

[Geezer II]

And fully 1/3 of those are in NY! That moron Cuomo was sending positive elderly folks right back into the nursing homes... that move alone lays a lot of blame squarely on his shoulders. 25% of their deaths come from the nursing homes.

Yeah for sure - lot of blame can be delt out around the country - mayor of ny city for one but don't think the deck is big enough

Cuomo said nursing home could only take covoid paitents if they were equipped to care for them - - - well i'm sad to say that every nursing home i visited in ohio was just a warehouse for old tired sick people where it was wall ta wall - don't know how they could ever handle covoid

From 0 to over 1000000 in a matter of weeks is hard for my feeble mind to process

 

[Boarhead]

 

[Ohiosam]

 

[Ohiosam]

As of Sunday, April 26, states with Republican governors have experienced 57.53 coronavirus deaths per million of population, states with Democratic governors have 179.74 deaths per million of population. Even excluding the state of New York as an extreme outlier, states with Democratic governors have 138.58 deaths per million from coronavirus, still over twice as many coronavirus deaths per million as deaths in states with Republican governors.[1]

read the whole article here
https://lawliberty.org/virus-deaths-in-democratic-versus-republican-states/

 

[bowhunter1023]

And yet, Republicans are for smaller government. Imagine the irony and nuance...

 

[Outside]

Population density drives both outcomes (infection rates and party affiliations).


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[Ohiosam]

Population density drives both outcomes (infection rates and party affiliations).


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Compare Ohio and Michigan. Similar demographics and densities. Michigan -365 deaths per million, Ohio - 80 deaths per million.

 

[Clay Showalter]

First case at the lumber company where my wife works, hope there are not too many cases of it. She should be good because she doesn’t have much contact with the guys out on the yard.

 

[Ohiosam]

 

[Ohiosam]

meanwhile the flu

POLAND, Ohio (WKBN) – In the midst of COVID-19, Poland’s Kristin Fox has spent the past seven-and-a-half weeks hospitalized, fighting her own medical issues. What started as the flu ultimately left her a quadruple amputee.

“I’m getting stronger each day,” Fox said. “I’m trying every day to just keep fighting, and get home to my children, and get to therapy and start a new normal.”

The 39-year-old graduated from Springfield Local. She became an educator and is now the assistant principal at Campbell High School.

On March 9, Fox was admitted to St. Elizabeth’s with influenza A. She was tested for COVID-19 twice, but tested negative both times.

“I went to the doctor for A1 and ended up with double pneumonia, and strep, and staph and I woke up, and this is my life now,” Fox said.

She was on a ventilator and four different blood pressure medications, which ultimately saved her life, but there was no circulation in her arms or legs.


On March 27, Fox’s legs were amputated below her knees and on April 6, her arms were amputated below the elbows.

“It was pretty devastating,” said Lauren Baco, Fox’s sister. “But if there is anyone who can overcome this, it is my sister. She is the strongest person I know.”

“Something you think is very typical, the flu, turned into this host of other issues that now has kind of materialized into a life-altering situation that she’s in,” said Patrick Birch, Fox’s brother.

“I have to go get fitted for prosthetics on my legs and my arms, and go to physical therapy and I have to really strengthen my core,” Fox said.

She thanked a lot of people for helping out, especially Dr. Jason Delatore.

“He truly saved my life. If it weren’t for him, I wouldn’t be here. He told me more than once I shouldn’t be.”


https://www.wkbn.com/news/local-new...j7uhbhzHwvw7TwH0nuFL6LXpMvO_M_vAbv_Eu_fsAdRJU

 

[Ohiosam]

Amazon told its corporate employees working from home since early March that they “are welcome to do so until at least October 2,” raising the prospect that one of Seattle’s busiest neighborhoods could be largely deserted for another five months.

The extension of the work-from-home guidance applies to “employees who work in a role that can effectively be done from home,” according to a message the company sent employees Thursday, portions of which were viewed by The Seattle Times.

A company spokesperson confirmed the extension, adding, “We are working hard and investing significant funds to keep those who choose to come to the office safe through physical distancing, deep cleaning, temperature checks, and the availability of face coverings and hand sanitizer.”

On March 4, as the enormity of the coronavirus pandemic was dawning on the region, Amazon joined other large Seattle-area employers in recommending that employees work from home.

The company had confirmed its first COVID-19-positive corporate employee in one of its South Lake Union buildings the day before.

While the economic fallout from the pandemic is severe across the economy, restaurants and shops that catered to the company’s tens of thousands of programmers, engineers and corporate staff in Seattle and Bellevue were among the first to see their business evaporate.


Amazon has taken steps to support small businesses surrounding its South Lake Union and Bellevue offices, providing $10 million in grants and rent relief to more than 800 small businesses, it said as part of its quarterly earnings announcement Thursday. A company spokesperson had no updates on the disposition of these programs going forward.

The company had also pledged to continue paying contracting companieswho employ some 10,000 people to clean, secure and staff reception desks at its corporate offices during the work-from-home period. The spokesperson said Thursday it will continue paying for that work.

Amazon chief financial officer Brian Olsavsky said in a conference call with reporters Thursday that, “by and large, I believe, we’ve been able to make progress even with our work-from-home situation with office staff.”

He said some specific activities, such as video production at Amazon Studios, and development of new hardware device features, has “slowed down by not being in the office.”
https://www.seattletimes.com/busine...e-option-for-employees-through-early-october/

 

[finelyshedded]

meanwhile the flu

POLAND, Ohio (WKBN) – In the midst of COVID-19, Poland’s Kristin Fox has spent the past seven-and-a-half weeks hospitalized, fighting her own medical issues. What started as the flu ultimately left her a quadruple amputee.

“I’m getting stronger each day,” Fox said. “I’m trying every day to just keep fighting, and get home to my children, and get to therapy and start a new normal.”

The 39-year-old graduated from Springfield Local. She became an educator and is now the assistant principal at Campbell High School.

On March 9, Fox was admitted to St. Elizabeth’s with influenza A. She was tested for COVID-19 twice, but tested negative both times.

“I went to the doctor for A1 and ended up with double pneumonia, and strep, and staph and I woke up, and this is my life now,” Fox said.

She was on a ventilator and four different blood pressure medications, which ultimately saved her life, but there was no circulation in her arms or legs.


On March 27, Fox’s legs were amputated below her knees and on April 6, her arms were amputated below the elbows.

“It was pretty devastating,” said Lauren Baco, Fox’s sister. “But if there is anyone who can overcome this, it is my sister. She is the strongest person I know.”

“Something you think is very typical, the flu, turned into this host of other issues that now has kind of materialized into a life-altering situation that she’s in,” said Patrick Birch, Fox’s brother.

“I have to go get fitted for prosthetics on my legs and my arms, and go to physical therapy and I have to really strengthen my core,” Fox said.

She thanked a lot of people for helping out, especially Dr. Jason Delatore.

“He truly saved my life. If it weren’t for him, I wouldn’t be here. He told me more than once I shouldn’t be.”


https://www.wkbn.com/news/local-new...j7uhbhzHwvw7TwH0nuFL6LXpMvO_M_vAbv_Eu_fsAdRJU

Wow!!!! If that’s not a testament to the kinda fighter and positive thinker Mrs. Fox is I don’t know what is!!!! God bless her and her doctors who helped save her! Hope she full recovers from this and adapts greatly with her new normal...

 

[giles]

Amazon told its corporate employees working from home since early March that they “are welcome to do so until at least October 2,” raising the prospect that one of Seattle’s busiest neighborhoods could be largely deserted for another five months.

The extension of the work-from-home guidance applies to “employees who work in a role that can effectively be done from home,” according to a message the company sent employees Thursday, portions of which were viewed by The Seattle Times.

A company spokesperson confirmed the extension, adding, “We are working hard and investing significant funds to keep those who choose to come to the office safe through physical distancing, deep cleaning, temperature checks, and the availability of face coverings and hand sanitizer.”

On March 4, as the enormity of the coronavirus pandemic was dawning on the region, Amazon joined other large Seattle-area employers in recommending that employees work from home.

The company had confirmed its first COVID-19-positive corporate employee in one of its South Lake Union buildings the day before.

While the economic fallout from the pandemic is severe across the economy, restaurants and shops that catered to the company’s tens of thousands of programmers, engineers and corporate staff in Seattle and Bellevue were among the first to see their business evaporate.


Amazon has taken steps to support small businesses surrounding its South Lake Union and Bellevue offices, providing $10 million in grants and rent relief to more than 800 small businesses, it said as part of its quarterly earnings announcement Thursday. A company spokesperson had no updates on the disposition of these programs going forward.

The company had also pledged to continue paying contracting companieswho employ some 10,000 people to clean, secure and staff reception desks at its corporate offices during the work-from-home period. The spokesperson said Thursday it will continue paying for that work.

Amazon chief financial officer Brian Olsavsky said in a conference call with reporters Thursday that, “by and large, I believe, we’ve been able to make progress even with our work-from-home situation with office staff.”

He said some specific activities, such as video production at Amazon Studios, and development of new hardware device features, has “slowed down by not being in the office.”
https://www.seattletimes.com/busine...e-option-for-employees-through-early-october/

I expect this to become very popular. These companies can drop some major overhead with people working from home.

 

[Jackalope]

From the governors covid update yesterday.

"Mass testing at the Marion Correctional Institution revealed that approximately 96 percent of inmates who tested positive for COVID-19 were asymptomatic,"

So if we assume that 96% are asymptomatic, and we've only been testing the 4% that are symptomatic when they show up seeking care, we can then take our current national 7% mortality rate and assume the true mortality rate is around 0.28%. (7% of 4% = 0.28%)

 

[giles]

From the governors covid update yesterday.

"Mass testing at the Marion Correctional Institution revealed that approximately 96 percent of inmates who tested positive for COVID-19 were asymptomatic,"

So if we assume that 96% are asymptomatic, and we've only been testing the 4% that are symptomatic when they show up seeking care, we can then take our current national 7% mortality rate and assume the true mortality rate is around 0.28%. (7% of 4% = 0.28%)

How much of the population was tested?

How much of the total population tested positive?

How many have died?

Seems like a controlled environment with the opportunity to learn a lot here.

 

[Schu72]

From the governors covid update yesterday.

"Mass testing at the Marion Correctional Institution revealed that approximately 96 percent of inmates who tested positive for COVID-19 were asymptomatic,"

So if we assume that 96% are asymptomatic, and we've only been testing the 4% that are symptomatic when they show up seeking care, we can then take our current national 7% mortality rate and assume the true mortality rate is around 0.28%. (7% of 4% = 0.28%)

Those numbers seem crazy to me. Our positive rate on testing peaked at around 30 % and has since decline to around 24%. And these are people that meet all of the criteria for testing, not just some random sample of people.

 

[Jackalope]

How much of the population was tested?

How much of the total population tested positive?

How many have died?

Seems like a controlled environment with the opportunity to learn a lot here.

Positive vs Negative doesn't really help as it's assumed that 100% of people is vulnerable.

Those numbers seem crazy to me. Our positive rate on testing peaked at around 30 % and has since decline to around 24%. And these are people that meet all of the criteria for testing, not just some random sample of people.

That's 96% of people who tested positive had no symptoms. Not 96% of the prison tested positive.

 

[Jamie]

and that is sample that is completely confined. I realize compared to the entire population of our state that a couple thousand inmates is a relatively small sample, but is there any evidence or argument that those results are not, or should not be, indicative of the expected numbers of asymptomatic people in the general population (outside of prison, I mean)? has been my suspicion all along that waaaay more people have had this virus than anyone making policy will ever admit.

 

[Geezer II]

Ohio 1000 covoid deaths - 1/3 in nursing homes

 

[Fletch]

Wow!!!! If that’s not a testament to the kinda fighter and positive thinker Mrs. Fox is I don’t know what is!!!! God bless her and her doctors who helped save her! Hope she full recovers from this and adapts greatly with her new normal...

Man.... God Bless this young lady..... Man life is so F---ed up it makes you wonder... Hope she makes the best of it and is somehow is rewarded big time in the future... She's got a tough nut to crack... I know I wouldn't want to be in her shoes.