D&D Coronavirus thread

Healthcare workers lack protection now.

A good way to kill people is to not plan for what’s needed now and what’s needed tomorrow. Lack of forward planning and preparation is how we got into this crisis.

 

I'm very interested in seeing detailed COVID data by race and ethnicity. We are seeing how the black community is disproportionately affected - reference the article in the WSJ today about the black ski club getting COVID in Idaho and then going back to Chicago and Milwaukee and spreading it. I've seen statistics that 80% of Milwaukee's COVID deaths are black... and high percentages of Michigan and New Orleans COVID cases/deaths are black. Could have political implications going forward - will blacks in these cities be afraid to queue in line to vote? My guess is not, but something to watch. Could help Bernie near term in the primary since most of Biden's support is blacks?

 

This is horribly false. I know many doctors in NYC and they are saying its a **** show. At this point you are just making things up.

 

This is so wrong.

https://qz.com/1831969/coronavirus-fired-navy-captain-brett-crozier-broke-no-laws-just-protocol/

He was standing up for his troops.

 

Never ever put country over Trump.

 

No offense, but you're an absolute moron that has ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE as to what's going on in hospitals right now.

Montgomery county just asked for shipment of masks and was sent masks that expired ten years ago. The hospital my wife works at has ONE BOX of N95 masks left. They won't even test doctors that are convinced they have coronavirus for fear of losing their service for a few weeks.

Maybe you know business (doubtful). Maybe you're just a parody account (likely), but keep making a fool of yourself. We all know you've got no clue.

 

Thanks for the real truth from the trenches, and ensuring people spreading fake news are corrected.

 

That's not a shortage. An efficient supply chain delivers products WHEN THEY ARE NEEDED - no earlier and no later. It's called just-in-time inventory and it is a way of efficiently managing scarce resources. This is how the situation is being managed. They are not shipping to warehouses and they are not stockpiling excess resources at sites. They are delivering just in time. So while some people freak out, competent managers go about their job efficiently. Read a Dell case study for more on this inventory management process.

 

If there's no shortage, why are hospitals reusing N95s over and over and over?

If there's no shortage, why are we not testing more people?

Hell, if there's no shortage, why don't we just start testing everybody, and as their negative results come back, let them go back to work?


If there's no shortage, why aren't healthcare workers getting tested when they show a few symptoms? Right now they're not, unless they show ALL symptoms or need hospitalization.


If there's no shortage, why is Kushner up there talking like an idiot saying states need to not rely on OUR supply?


If there's no shortage, why are states paying $7 a piece for something that typically costs 85 cents?


Answer some of these questions, because they sure as hell point to either a shortage, a corrupt government, an unrelated government, or just a bunch of plain idiots running things in Washington. Or all of the above.

I could go on.

 

Heads up for people in the South Belt area.

 

No shortage...of GOP BS.

 

This. Hospital employees are involuntary super spreaders.

 

A novel virus emerges and you want millions of tests instantly available? That's just not a realistic expectation. It's amazing to me how fast Abbot has responded with their tests - let's celebrate that instead of looking for things to complain about. I'm quite impressed at how quickly private businesses, FEMA, and the states are marshaling resources quickly.

And N95s can and should be used more than once - a second usage, provided the equipment still functions, is not unduly endangering people.

 

The WHO needs new leadership or the US needs to pull out and create its a new organization This is largely their failure since they were a stop gap between the world and a totalitarian nightmare that let the virus leak through its borders despite knowing the severity.

 

Well, the government promised 37 million tests by the end of March, so I think that's a realistic expectation. Had they not thrown out the original test that other countries were performing, we'd probably have even more than that.

Also, if you were a healthcare worker, which you're obviously not, and you came into contact with a covid patient, you'd reuse your gown and n95 mask again? Now multiply that by 12 hours a day of constant contact with covid patients. Now multiply that by 5 12 hour shifts of constant covid contact. You'd still be wearing your same PPE without changing it?


Didn't think so.


That's what is happening in NYC right now.



Glad we have enough and there is no supply shortage.

 

Edit

 

Not happening

Yet we have only been able to test 1,391,528 people as of today? Our testing per million is far below a lot of countries.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

 

He said that it's "not realistic" to want millions of tests. My response was that the government itself promised 4 million tests by March 13th and reportedly up to 37 million tests by the end of March.

They obviously missed those marks, but I'm using them to show it is realistic to expect millions of tests.