It’s sad because it was my first thought when I saw the cases spike. There is nothing in Yuma other than farming jobs or government jobs. The people working at the proving grounds aren’t getting sick.
Lol, nobody in bumblefuck Kentucky eats lettuce. Their "salad" is made out of marshmallows and jello.
Antibody testing negative. My horrible viral illness at end of February was not Covid and I’ve yet to be directly exposed despite being a healthcare worker. Womp womp
https://www.tampabay.com/news/healt...navirus-and-pneumonia-deaths-read-this-first/ Proposes that increased pneumonia deaths in Florida aren’t necessarily unreported covid deaths, but rather due to bad flu season
This is dumb. Excess deaths exists as a metric for a reason - to highlight a deviation and say “something major happened here.” We have excess deaths. We know that the “something major” is - sars-Cov-2. The virus is directly or indirectly responsible for the majority of those deaths. You can be super cautious scientist guy and say “well since the data wasn’t recorded for each of those patients, we can never really know,” but that is not how population wide statistical analysis works. For those deaths to be attributable to something other than the virus would require a massive near-impossible statistical anomaly.
Just had an antibody test today and will get the results Monday a.m. Had a few potential high risk exposures in January/February and got incredibly persistent conjunctivitis and an AWFUL sore throat/dry cough for about 3 weeks in February. I assume I didn't get it, but figured it was worth the test since it's more widespread now. The PA said the positive folks they've seen had other weird symptoms and while he agreed that he didn't think I had it, he said my symptoms made it a little more likely and he'd be interested to see the results.
These test are more accurate on the negative result side right? Do you know which test they used? Have seen the stuff on false positives and have finally wrapped my brain around the math. Although to get to that math it seems you need infected rate of population which it seems is impossible to know. Guess the only answer on the positive side is super accurate tests. Side question on the false positive. Why don’t they test samples a few times? If they ran three tests on one blood sample and they all came back positive, wouldn’t that bring the probability up to near certainty?
Negatives are reliable, positives are not in low prevalence areas (like mine). High NPV, medium PPV. High prevalence areas would have pretty good NPV and PPV. the issue is the sample not the single time they run it. The product insert documents rates of other viral illnesses and subsequent antibodies cross reacting and causing false positives. That’s rare but real. Science is hard.
“The data is confusing and people don’t know what they’re looking at”. The data couldn’t be more clear - deaths coded as pneumonia (J12-19) are at 5,500 since February 1st in Florida. We can easily use the CDC portal to pull the deaths coded as J12-J19 for 2008-2018 and see they are way up. What a stupid, misleading article
as of today, if you're outside and within thirty feet of someone who you don't live with, you must now dawn a face covering; this goes for runners and other people exercising outdoors, as well https://www.kron4.com/news/san-franciscos-new-face-covering-order-goes-into-effect-saturday/
SF trying to squash this completely I guess. Probably doing this in combo with reopening is their hope for offsetting.
herp derp Belgium Prince tests positive for the Coronavirus after attending a lockdown party COVID-19 bbc.com/news/w...
Belgium being dumber than we are was not something I anticipated. Then again, I don't think about Belgium much.
Didn't see this yesterday but they apparently extended the stat at home order indefinitely. Going on three months now
Santa Cruz County reopening dine-in restaurants and hair salons effective immediately Also says schools can reopen, the day after my kids' school finished up hashtagstagetwopointfive
These protests have a worthy cause but man the timing is potentially deadly as far as this virus is concerned.
Well Fuck we get to be quarantined they want roo tested for covid due to her wheezing, fever and fatigue.
My mom is a Labcorp lab supervisor, so one of her co-workers will meet us with a swab and we will have the results by hopefully Monday evening
great point. People wonder why we don’t have money to fight things yet we have local police forces armed more aggressively than most countries’ armies.