Coronavirus 2019-2020 thread (no unsubstantiated rumours!)

PiSigma

"the engineer"
Well Pompeo is now saying due to China gov secretiveness and didnt share info with USA that it put America's covid response behind the curve...

For context, Pompeo used to be CIA director and is now thinking about running for President in 2024. So its probably another political jab at China

This is truly next level projection/deflection

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Lol all information China gave is on the internet shared with WHO. Pompeo is suggesting the US government forgot how to google. Or the NSA and CIA that listens, hacks and steals everything just happens to not do it for corona.
 
Agreed.

Well, a good thing about Texas is that our public transportation system sucks big time. So we end up spending very little time trapped in subways or buses... To be honest, I feel very weird every time when I get on a subway or a bus when I go to another city. I’m not used to having so many people so close to me...

Agree with most of what you say, However, Wearing mask is not just about protecting yourself. It is also about etiquette and courtesy towards others. If in your own car, others do not care if you wear mask or not, But It is disgusting for someone to sneeze or cough in shared public space without showing any basic courtesy.
 

vesicles

Colonel
Agree with most of what you say, However, Wearing mask is not just about protecting yourself. It is also about etiquette and courtesy towards others. If in your own car, others do not care if you wear mask or not, But It is disgusting for someone to sneeze or cough in shared public space without showing any basic courtesy.

If you are sick, then yes you should wear a mask as a courtesy so as not to hurt others. Normal healthy people should not have to hide their faces.
 
If you are sick, then yes you should wear a mask as a courtesy so as not to hurt others. Normal healthy people should not have to hide their faces.

I think you missed the point. How are we supposed to know if you are sick or not until it is too late.
If you are sick, please do not mingle in public and forget about the mask in the privacy of your own space,
If you are potentially asymptomatic infectious as is everyone else, please wear a mask and spare us all the anxiety.
 

OppositeDay

Senior Member
Registered Member
Some very sobering numbers: in the last three days, 927 patients in serious/critical conditions have recovered and 89 patients have died in China.

Assuming all people who died were in serious/critical conditions, we see a 89/1016=8.75% death rate for serious/critical cases (I know the average days to recovery and average days to death are different, so just a back of the envelope calculation).

This is really scary considering most of these closed cases were in Wuhan, the place with the most advanced capacity and experience for treating COVID-19. Remember Wuhan now has less than 1% of China's population but 10% of China's ICU personnel, and China's healthcare system was good to begin with. Also massive numbers of ventilators, negative pressure isolation rooms and ECMOs. Even with all these, Wuhan's death rate is still significantly higher than the rest of China. No healthcare system, no matter how supercharged it is, is a match for exponential growth.
 

manqiangrexue

Brigadier
Assuming all people who died were in serious/critical conditions, we see a 89/1016=8.75% death rate for serious/critical cases (I know the average days to recovery and average days to death are different, so just a back of the envelope calculation).
I don't think that's how that calculation works. Death rate of serious cases is the number dead over the total number of serious cases. The total number of serious cases is NOT the number that died plus the number that recovered; it is the number that died plus the number that recovered plus the number still in serious condition. Besides, why get a 3 day calculation when you have so many other numbers to work with?
 
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