Well yes of course but the greater concern are the people that are infected who aren't "sick."Rapier108 said:Except all it takes is a few idiots to go out when sick.tysker said:
Interestingly the worst cases in the US are localized in a nursing home where the infected didnt appear to attend any public gatherings or have unnecessary intermingling.
The person in New Hampshire, who intentionally broke quarantine, and the lawyer in NYC are just two examples.
The NH individual infected at least one person, and exposed an many more at some event. The NYC lawyer has infected 5 others (his family and neighbor) but exposed who knows how many others. His son attended college classes while sick.
tysker said:
If my math is right, we'll have >45million cases worldwide in the next 43 days assuming the infection rate stays the same.
i'm fairly confident that 90% of the men in my building didn't wash their hands. The trash in the bathroom was never full. this past week, the trash has been full of wet paper towels by lunch each day.Its Not Rocket Surgery said:
Here's a nice BBC Reel video on proper hand washing for all of you newly minted hypochondriacs and those recently introduced to the idea of scrubbing after taking a wee.
https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p084zgcf/why-you-re-washing-your-hands-wrong
the big thing this article neglects is the proportion of younger healthy people at time zero (with bed capacity) that will still need some form of O2 supportQuote:
This still largely comes down to hygiene and isolation. But in particular, we need to focus on the right people and the right places. Nursing homes, not schools. Hospitals, not planes. We need to up the hygienic and isolation ante primarily around the subset of people who can't simply contract SARS-CoV-2 and ride it out the way healthy people should be able to.
Yes, this disease is real. And, yes, there truly do appear to be vulnerable patients among us, those far more likely to develop critical illness from it. And that relatively small subset, if infected in high numbers, could add up to a tragically high number of fatalities if we fail to adequately protect them.
The good news is that we have huge advantages to leverage: We already know all of this and have learned it remarkably quickly. We know how this virus spreads. We know how long people are contagious. We know who the most vulnerable patients are likely to be, and where they are.
link?eric76 said:
WHO is reporting that the mortality rate is 3.4%.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/03/who-says-coronavirus-death-rate-is-3point4percent-globally-higher-than-previously-thought.htmllead said:link?eric76 said:
WHO is reporting that the mortality rate is 3.4%.
Two different sets of cases. The earlier ones were the lawyer's family and neighbor.IrishTxAggie said:Cuomo is slow. This was out hours agolunchbox said:
NYC confirmed cases up to 11.
I always wash my hands unless there is no place to wash them. (When taking a link on a fence post, there is often no place to wash your hands.) What I hate is washing my hands and then having to open the door to leave with clean hands. It makes me want to wash them again. If they have paper towels, I use the paper towel for the door handle and then toss the paper towel in the trash after the door is open.TexasAggie_02 said:i'm fairly confident that 90% of the men in my building didn't wash their hands. The trash in the bathroom was never full. this past week, the trash has been full of wet paper towels by lunch each day.Its Not Rocket Surgery said:
Here's a nice BBC Reel video on proper hand washing for all of you newly minted hypochondriacs and those recently introduced to the idea of scrubbing after taking a wee.
https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p084zgcf/why-you-re-washing-your-hands-wrong
Hell me either. I've never left my y2k bunker, only peek out now and again. And to think they call me crazy when I built it.Mr.Infectious said:
Ain't no virus getting me in the deep underground bunker.....
tysker said:
Very rough back of the envelope calcs but approx 1.155. 339^1.155 for 43 days gets you to about 93k. The next 43 days gets you to to over 45MM. Probably doing it wrong but a fun exercise
I like this one better.Its Not Rocket Surgery said:
Here's a nice BBC Reel video on proper hand washing for all of you newly minted hypochondriacs and those recently introduced to the idea of scrubbing after taking a wee.
https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p084zgcf/why-you-re-washing-your-hands-wrong
Most men do not wash their hands after using the bathroom. I saw a study several years ago that confirmed this.TexasAggie_02 said:i'm fairly confident that 90% of the men in my building didn't wash their hands. The trash in the bathroom was never full. this past week, the trash has been full of wet paper towels by lunch each day.Its Not Rocket Surgery said:
Here's a nice BBC Reel video on proper hand washing for all of you newly minted hypochondriacs and those recently introduced to the idea of scrubbing after taking a wee.
https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p084zgcf/why-you-re-washing-your-hands-wrong
