be honest are you worried about corona
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I see totals each day, means nothing. Of course it will be higher than the day before. I see cases per day, again meaningless because testing is increasing so of course cases per day will increase. What I can't find is cases per day per 100k tests. Has anyone seen this so we have an idea if cases are still increasing, leveled off, etc? I can find it by country on one given day, useless. Can't find it on a daily calendar over the past couple weeks or a month. Be nice to find it on a state level, or better, county level. So my worry is not knowing what's REALLY going on. The data given seems tailored to have us believe it is now getting worse so we need to go back to a hard lockdown again. I'm not buying it til I see useful data with a denominator that puts the numbers in perspective with the testing variable.
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@markn6262 How's this? https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Somehow I doubt cases could be confirmed without testing...Maybe the US can dump some of those 29M hydroxychloroquine doses they bought in error to those countries affected by malaria.
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@provels Certainly cases can’t be reported without testing. The link just provides more totals. No numbers are denominated to the # of tests done. Example, if 1 confirmed case in 10 tests on day 1. Then 10 confirmed cases with 100 tests on day two well 10 is worse than 1 right? No, the rate of new cases is the same on day 2 compared to day 1. Maybe this simplification may clarify my worry.
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@markn6262 Perhaps I misunderstand, but what's wrong with the charts?
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@provels 10% is 10%. Have you seen a chart showing "Daily New Cases per 100k Tested"? This chart is missing the denominator so it provides no perspective to the testing variable. It would be an accurate representation of new cases if from Jan22 til Jun24 they tested exactly the same number of people each day.
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Yes, having only positive cases without knowing the total tested is only partially revealing. Percentage of tests positive is potentially more revealing. Problem is the ridiculous, stupid, relaxation of the standards that has allow every testing outfit/pharma corp to dump an unproven test (PCR and Antigen) into the market. At this point I would trust the judgement of a presumptive positive diagnosis by a clinician over the highly selective but not very sensitive testing crap that is out there. The negative test results aren't worth reporting as they are likely to be false negative.
The random nature of testing is also problematic. The sample of people being tested isn't a representative sample. Well insured white people get tested. Others not so much. A coordinated, statistically valid, testing strategy (a good, sensitive, antigen test) of the population is need to establish a baseline and then that sample group needs to be repeatedly tested over time. That's been done in some states, NY and NJ, with good results. To not do this on a national level is scandalous, incompetent and just plan stupid.
Even hospitalization rates are not totally revealing. A significant percentage (~43% by one account I have seen) of deaths happen in managed care facilities. These facilities almost never move a resident to the hospital, so not counted as a hospitalization. More profitable to treat in place.
Dead is dead. Or is it? We may never know the actual death rate as many states only report the death if the person was tested before death. Too many people only seek care once they are in respiratory distress. They die before getting tested and presumptive Covid deaths are often not tallied.
At the end of the day the biggest danger right now is BS. BS is BS and you can't BS your way out of a pandemic. Are we great yet?
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Followeth The Money
By Gemma Correll
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No. I am not worried about the 'rona.
Watch it magically disappear as a problem on 2020-11-04. Wait for it.
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@Derelict LOL, what date format is that? November 4 or April 11??
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is like Hungarian
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YYYY-MM-DD. Pretty sure it's an RFC. Not sure which one.
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@Derelict
I say, Hungarian (I was born there) -
All I know is it is the only unambiguous way to represent a date. For you non-US folks that is the day after the next election of the CEO of the federal government of the United States.
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the Hungarian people - logical people
We have 14 a Nobel laureate Not to mention Neumann He was born there toohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann
we fully agree with that "next election of the CEO" .......................
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@DaddyGo said in be honest are you worried about corona:
CEO
I'll miss the twitter entertainment ....
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@markn6262 @jwj
I'll plead ignorance, but why is the denominator so important when the positive cases are so massive? It's not like this is some lab experiment with a control group, etc. Areas like FL, TX, AZ, CA, can barely keep up as is. People are generally getting tested because they have symptoms, it's not an end to end testing of the population. I haven't been tested, have you folks? -
@provels It's not. You're certainly not ignorant! The cases are massive and the accounting is incomplete. Particularly in the US we are approaching this with our heads stuck completely up our butts. Just try to be smart, avoid the fools. See a bunch of non mask wearing people in the bread aisle? Wait a few minutes for them to leave and then go in and get your bread.
Yes I have been tested, twice.
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@jwj
Why were you tested? Assuming you presented no symptoms?
At least the deaths/tested is falling.
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The number of deaths in my state has also plummeted as a percentage of positive cases compared to late March and very early April- even while the number of new cases has increased ("surged" to use the favorite word of this week
). It's interesting to see the number of hospitalizations decrease also (in the majority of locations) and the number of deaths decrease rather sharply (in pretty much every location). Either the virus that folks are catching now is some mutated less deadly form, or the treatments have dramatically improved. I'm thinking it is probably the latter. Learning that a cytokine storm was a big contributor to the deaths of many victims was key in my opinion. Now doctors are alert for that and can administer counteracting drugs quickly if required.I have not gone off searching for one on the web, but it would be interesting to see what ratio of the folks getting positive test results are asymptomatic. As more and more folks are getting tested due to the availability of so many free testing sites, surely some asymptomatic folks are being detected. You would also hope that blood banks and doctor's offices are screening routine blood draws for coronavirus antibodies to see what percentage of folks exist out there who have likely developed an immunity, or at least a resistance to the cornavirus.
To me there are only two paths for this virus. The best case path is a safe and effective vaccine is quickly developed and widely deployed and cornavirus joins the ranks of polio as a largely elminated threat. The other path is one where no effective vaccine is developed. If that is the case, then coronavirus will wind up being treated like all the other flu-like diseases. The falling death rate seems to indicate that the seriousness of the illness is declining for the majority of the population. You probably will still have to protect the truly vulnerable, but that's no different than before the outbreak where folks with seriously compromised immune systems kept themselves isolated (think cancer patients on chemo, for example). The rest of society operated normally.
