Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[tsubaki]

Until you can tell us who should replace whom we don’t really have an option .......

then good luck with that

 

[Tipp blue]

22% of ICU admissions in US have no co-morbidly which still seems frighteningly high to me for anyone to conclude yet “they were going to die soon anyway” especially as those still in ICU have uncertain outcomes.

I wouldn't bother looking too much into stats from the US health care, over there it's not about who's sickest but who the hospital can make the most money from, so you are going to have alot of people over there who are quite sick but have stellar insurance the hospitals will take those in before taking in a sicker person with underlying conditions who has not so good insurance or no insurance.

 

[LinekersLegs]

If you combine that with those in ICU that then go on to die, it's overwhelmingly with co-morbid conditions. Not exclusively, but it is a huge factor.

And that's before you even take into account those who had completely undiagnosed conditions when they died of COVID-19, which will be quite a few.

But some of those co-morbiities are fairly common things like diabetes (10% of US population) and asthma (7% of US population) that people live for years with.

 

[LinekersLegs]

I wouldn't bother looking too much into stats from the US health care, over there it's not about who's sickest but who the hospital can make the most money from, so you are going to have alot of people over there who are quite sick but have stellar insurance the hospitals will take those in before taking in a sicker person with underlying conditions who has not so good insurance or no insurance.

I have to as I live in the US and that is the healthcare my family and I will receive if we get sick.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Still horrendous figures but definite progress

 

[GwladysBlue]

Am I a miserable sod or is anyone else getting really sick and tired of seeing people recording/posting their streets dancing, people singing on their door steps (and of course recording/posting it), posting photos of themselves with captions along the lines of ‘Quarantine Day 4 and this is what we’ve resorted to’ etc?

Roll on the end of all this.

 

[roydo]

I have to as I live in the US and that is the healthcare my family and I will receive if we get sick.

You have to pay for urgent care???

And I have watched every Scrubs at least twice.

 

[GwladysBlue]

Still horrendous figures but definite progress

No way that China figure is accurate.

 

[peteblue]

It would be interesting to know, that of the people who have died of Covid19, how many were previously diagnosed and how many were not. That way we may have a slightly better understanding of any forecasts....

 

[scratchnsurf]

Am I a miserable sod or is anyone else getting really sick and tired of seeing people recording/posting their streets dancing, people singing on their door steps (and of course recording/posting it), posting photos of themselves with captions along the lines of ‘Quarantine Day 4 and this is what we’ve resorted to’ etc?

Roll on the end of all this.

You are a miserable sod.

 

[Pittsburgh Footy]

Am I a miserable sod or is anyone else getting really sick and tired of seeing people recording/posting their streets dancing, people singing on their door steps (and of course recording/posting it), posting photos of themselves with captions along the lines of ‘Quarantine Day 4 and this is what we’ve resorted to’ etc?

Roll on the end of all this.

You're a miserable sod.

Most people would just scroll through and ignore those posts

 

[summerisle]

 

[GwladysBlue]

You're a miserable sod.

Most people would just scroll through and ignore those posts

That’s all well and good but it’s flooding the television news channels, too. A lot of people wanting their 5 minutes of fame.

 

[Walken]

No way that China figure is accurate.

If the numbers aren't then the trend most likely still is, and the shape of the graph still useful to process for nations behind the curve

 

[roydo]

Difficult to argue with that.