One thing folks may not understand. Hospitals may be at capacity and on divert, but many of them are at that state not because of covid, but because they have nursing shortages.
Ayup. My XYL is an RN. She's about to start doing travel nursing, as it pays more per week than she's been getting in two weeks. Only drawback, is she'll be gone for 13 weeks at a time. First stop, Worcester, Mass.One thing folks may not understand. Hospitals may be at capacity and on divert, but many of them are at that state not because of covid, but because they have nursing shortages.
Ohio is currently averaging (7-day average) 7,621 new cases per day. Yesterday there was 8,707. Deaths are averaging 61 per day. Hospitals are virtually all on diversion, our newspaper headlines are that there are 9 to 12 hour wait times before being seen at local ER departments (in hospitals that, pre-covid, advertised ten minute waits). The Cleveland Clinic hospital system announced that they are postponing all "non-essential" surgeries (such as knee and hip replacements, or anything non-life threatening) because they're all over capacity. It's not a good time to get sick... with anything.update on the numbers. The numbers in Georgia are rising again and we may have had a huge bump today. Prior to today, Influenza numbers were higher than Covid for many locations in the state but today we had over 1900 infections of Covid. Hopefully, it is a short and low spike.
Protect yourself and enjoy your holidays.
Yup.
The story is essentially the same everywhere: the unvaxxed are driving the pandemic and clogging the hospitals.
Yup.
And here's a notable quote from it:
Unvaccinated people make up 87 percent of COVID-19 patients who are in an intensive care unit in the state, she said, and 88 percent of COVID-19 patients who are on a ventilator are unvaccinated. More than 70 percent Michiganders age 16 and older have had at least one shot of a Covid vaccine, she said
The story is essentially the same everywhere: the unvaxxed are driving the pandemic and clogging the hospitals.
"Horse paste" Gotta love it!But they're taking HCQ and vitamins and eating horse paste. Surely it can't be them!
Does anyone have an estimate of how many “man-years” of life have been lost to the pandemic in the US?
I know that many of the dead were elderly, so not too many years of life left, or they were already sick with something else, and maybe their lifespan was already going to be diminished. But there are also people who likely had a lot of years left.
If 800,000 people have died and on average had about 1 year left to live if they hadn’t caught covid, that would be 800,000 years of life lost. Or “about a million” years. But it’s likely on average people died earlier than that with more years left. What do you think? Could it be 5 million years lost? Or 10 million?
I get daily FDA updates for devices and pharma.
This afternoon the latest update was the following, quoted from the FDA email message:
"The update added new information about tests with S-gene drop out, specifically:
That seems to indicate some tests may falsely report negatives/positives for omicron. We obviously have a lot to learn still about identifying this variant.
- Not all patient samples with the omicron variant display the mutation that leads to an S-gene drop out; and
- The presence of the S-gene drop out detection pattern is not a definitive confirmation of the presence of the omicron variant."
This is likely the sort of research project that will, one day, be a thesis project for a doctorate in sociology.I do not. No idea how you would do that. It is not really clinically relevant.
This is likely the sort of research project that will, one day, be a thesis project for a doctorate in sociology.
Perhaps so. But to most of us, about as relevant as how many person-years of life are spent on X or Y activity. Maybe useful info to some theoretician, but the regular guy? Forget about it.
I interpret it to mean that S-gene dropout is not a suitable criteria for distinguishing omicron from other variants.Not sure what that means. I did ask my subject matter experts. They shrugged their shoulders.
My wife spent the beginning of last week converting her med-surg unit to a COVID unit.Update: In the Southern US, we are at a crossroads. The numbers are increasing and may skyrocket in the coming weeks or it might peak where we are. It really depends on public activity and the infectivity of Omicron over the next 6 weeks. This is the first time where I feel unarmed to make a prediction.
My wife spent the beginning of last week converting her med-surg unit to a COVID unit.
Last I heard they are now full and diverting.
I wonder if we will ever get factual numbers out of China, Russia, N. Korea, Iran most of the African Continent etc. even India, though for different reasons
There's a big difference between some of those. China likely knows, or could have known, but chooses not to tell the truth in order to save face. Generally speaking, much of Africa simply doesn't have the infrastructure, medical capacity, or money to count deaths, let alone virus cases. North Korea and India, to varying degrees, are likely to have both problems. Russia just doesn't play nice with others so I could be either of those, or both, or something else altogether.I wonder if we will ever get factual numbers out of China, Russia, N. Korea, Iran most of the African Continent etc. even India, though for different reasons
There's a big difference between some of those. China likely knows, or could have known, but chooses not to tell the truth in order to save face. Generally speaking, much of Africa simply doesn't have the infrastructure, medical capacity, or money to count deaths, let alone virus cases. North Korea and India, to varying degrees, are likely to have both problems. Russia just doesn't play nice with others so I could be either of those, or both, or something else altogether.
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