Kolek planning to go pro
So there is a business opportunity here?
Do you mean the tests are no good?I'm fine with them charging more for scarcity in the short term, as long as its a valid test. I think it is up to people if they want to decide it is worth it.
All the tests have to be marketed with the caveat that they should not be used for clinical guidance. They are not that accurate. They are useful for epidemiologists in hard hit areas with a lot of infections (like NY), they are not that useful right now elsewhere. Related to this, a cool large study in NY. The NY study indicates that if we also include all the deaths that occurred in peoples homes, or on streets, (so not in hospital or nursing home), the mortality rate is likely around 0.8-1%, which is in line with the original estimates, but below the on paper reports from testing.
China flare up. I wonder if related to spread within China or with the proximity of NK coming from there. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/world/asia/china-coronavirus-new-infections.html
the outbreak in Harbin could be traced back to a woman who flew to China from the United States in mid-March, and that it had also spread to nearby Liaoning Province.Officials tested the woman four times, and each time the result came back negative. Later, after she had given the virus to her neighbor, she was confirmed to have been infected. Thus far, the outbreak has spread to at least 78 people, according to the authorities.
But would that stat also take into account everyone who had mild or no symptoms and never sought testing or treatment?
Now - she could have been wiser - if you have symptons, of ANY sickness, don't go socialize with your neighbor. And in these times - wait a few days after you feel better to unleash yourself on the world again.
In mid March China was quarantining anyone entering the country. Yet they blame The US and Russia? I’m not buying it.
I don't know what you're not buying - but of course China is going to try to blame others. It's way easier to do that than blame yourselves!
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-hhschief-speci/special-report-former-labradoodle-breeder-was-tapped-to-lead-us-pandemic-task-force-idUSKCN2243CEI honestly read this and thought it had to be the onion. Two quotes:"Azar tapped a trusted aide with minimal public health experience to lead the agency’s day-to-day response to COVID-19. The aide, Brian Harrison, had joined the department after running a dog-breeding business for six years.""Harrison, 37, was an unusual choice, with no formal education in public health, management, or medicine and with only limited experience in the fields."Yeah, and we wonder why testing was and still is a disaster.
Like a president putting in charge of FEMA a guy who breeds horses?
No need to spread rumors. He was a Labradoodle breeder.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-hhschief-speci/special-report-hhs-chief-azar-had-aide-former-dog-breeder-steer-pandemic-task-force-idUSKCN2243CE
I would strongly advise that no-one waste their money on this. The results have no clinical significance or value, and companies like these are being predatory, trying to profit off peoples fears, and in the process charging a massive fee, for a test that is pretty cheap to buy and run.
If it is cheap and easy to run then buy June 1 each state should start bringing people in to test each individual to see who has had the virus and run every few months maybe
States are doing this now. NY just released a major study on this.
Scary part of that article - reinforces that even WITH testing, this is hard to stop...Now - she could have been wiser - if you have symptons, of ANY sickness, don't go socialize with your neighbor. And in these times - wait a few days after you feel better to unleash yourself on the world again.
Which means if that is true, it doesn’t matter who is in charge this was going to overwhelm most institutions, especially democratic ones that believe in individual liberties. Your second paragraph is sound advice.
I think he is talking about “your doing a hell of a job Brownie”
If only we were a totalitarian state like Germany and South Korea.