COVID-19 Pandemic (Coronavirus)

[krackdagawd]

Stop spreading alt right misinformation:
Fact check: COVID-19 death toll likely undercounted, not overcounted
Social Media Posts Make Baseless Claim on COVID-19 Death Toll
Are CDC Guidelines for Reporting COVID-19 Deaths Artificially Inflating Numbers?

Its crazy how this site has become overrun w these alt right weirdos

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

The huge issue with Trump is this. Sure he asked a dumb ass question but set that aside. The real issue is he didn't have the decision making ability to know to ask that shyt behind the scenes. He asked that shyt in front of a camera during a nationally aired press event.

That's Homer Simpson / Peter Griffin level decision making ability. That's something either of them would do on their shows and people would laugh at it for the comedy it would be. This is our president. People's lives depend on the decisions he makes and he doesn't have enough sense to not ask shyt like that in front of a rolling camera.

That's becauze he's rarely in those meetings. Probably too boring for him. He's all about ratings and twists and cliff hangers, so he opens his big stupid mouth while the camera are rolling for the surprise factor. But in his peanut brain be probably thinks he's being clever. Definitely homer Simpson in the flesh without the heart.

 

[Keep_It_Hip_Hop_Fam]

The numbers reported by the CDC for that season were originally 34000-65000. They used the lower boundary because unlike with this corona panic, they now do not count every death from a complication as a likely flu death. If they did that, the number for that season would be 50000+.

Even your 50'000 guesstimate, coronavirus' official figures has surpassed. fukk out of here.

B-b-but it's just the flu

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

 

[Stir Fry]

Does the size of a viral dose make a difference? That is, if you're exposed to lots of viral particles, will you get sicker?

While there is a lot we don't know about SARS-CoV-2, experts believe they can answer this question with confidence: Yes – the amount of virus a person is exposed to makes a difference in whether they get sick and how sick they get.

"Dose is important in everything we are doing in life," says Peter Palese, a leading virologist who is professor and chair of microbiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. "The same is also true for coronaviruses. It makes a lot of sense because if you have a lot of virus [in your environment], such as when you are working in an intensive care unit, then you get many more virus particles in your system and the disease is usually much worse."

"Most viruses, there's some form of graded response depending on how big your initial exposure is," explains Dr. Joshua Rabinowitz, a professor of chemistry and genomics at Princeton. "Every virus, if you get one particle of virus, you're likely to never know it – you're also likely to really never get sick and never develop an immune response. And for most acute viruses, there is a gray area where you get some version of sick but not horribly sick — and develop an immune response that is protective against the virus in the future."


There have been cases of young, healthy health-care workers getting severely sick with COVID-19. That's what scientists would expect with a virus in which dose plays an important role.

"If you have someone working in an intensive care unit and the poor physician or the poor nurse gets a hefty dose, then the severity of the disease really is much worse than if one just gets a single particle," says Palese.

But there are still some unknowns in the matter of dose. Rabinowitz says researchers don't yet know exactly how the symptoms of the current coronavirus correlate with the size of the initial dose. Nor is it known how much of a viral dose causes a person to get sick from COVID-19, though "we have very good reason to believe that it requires many virus particles," he says.

Understanding the role of dose is important, he says, because during an epidemic where much is out of one's control, individuals can act to reduce the risk of high-dose exposure — through social distancing and protective measures like masks. While six feet of distance is recommended, even four feet is better than two feet, Rabinowitz says. "They're probably radically different in terms of both your chance of getting sick and your chance of getting horribly sick if you do get sick."

And masks, even if they're far from 100% effective? "They're likely to be super important," says Rabinowitz, "because they're dose-reducing agents."

 

[Counter Racist Male]

Nikkas don't be at the beach like that, especially now.

Yeah a lot of Florida cats don't go to the beach. I find it a little bizarre.

 

[Theo Penn]

Federal Government continues to steal supplies from mayors and governors. This shyt is ridiculous.

San Francisco mayor says city's PPE orders have been diverted, confiscated: It 'blows my mind'

San Francisco Mayor London Breed (D) said Friday that her city's orders for personal protection equipment (PPE) have been diverted to other U.S. cities and foreign countries.

"We've had issues of our orders being relocated by our suppliers in China," she said at a press conference. "For example, we had isolation gowns on their way to San Francisco and they were diverted to France. We've had situations when things we've ordered that have gone through Customs were confiscated by FEMA to be diverted to other locations.

"We know everyone is dealing with a serious challenge," she continued. "Through Customs, we've had situations where those items have been taken and put out on the market for the highest bidder, putting cities against cities and states against states."

Breed said San Francisco has purchased 15 million pieces of PPE and received other tools from the federal government but still does not have the equipment necessary to adequately combat the coronavirus outbreak in the city.

"We wanted to make sure as you hear about some of these challenges, you're aware of why they are challenges," she said. "I know it seems as though it should be a lot simpler: We have the money to purchase the PPE, why can't we purchase the PPE?"

Breed's remarks come as states scramble, and in some cases compete, for PPE from the federal government and other sources. The mayor said the fact that states are still lacking equipment so deep into the outbreak "blows my mind."

 

[Crude Abolitionist]

The nurses warned y'all.

They told y'all so many times...

These cacs are going to learn the hard way... they going to show up to the hospital and die.

 

[CouldntBeMeTho]

 

[Stir Fry]

There are many who fell for Trumps anti-establishment talk, they know what he truly is now and on top of that he is handling this pandemic the worst way possible.

I can admit that I was cautiously optimistic when he initially got elected.

 

[Rell Lauren]

Florida is ass backwards in their thinking
The bytches are wack
Florida is the bullshyt south

Y'all keep focusing on Florida instead of keeping the pressure on New York.

 

[23Barrettcity]

I can admit that I was cautiously optimistic when he initially got elected.

Why

 

[goatmane]

nikkas getting unemployment & a extra 600 a week. Why am I still working ???!!!!

tell the doc u feeling sick, say u aint got a thermometer but u feel a fever, coughing, gget a Doctors note and self quarantine for 14 days hopefully u get fired or they deny u paid leave and u can apply

u might have to wait like 6-8 weeks for ur money tho

 

[NYChase718]

You gotta b one special type of person to drink bleach

Muthafukkas is replacing

And using this instead

 

[Stir Fry]

Why

He wasn't a "traditional" member of establishment and seemed to play by his own rules. This system was broken af before he got elected, so I didn't think it could be much worse than it already was . I never believed that he was a billionaire, but I also never imagined that he was such an idiot, nor a such a staunch believer in white supremacy. He had more of a democratic background from what I had known of him. I knew he was easily swayed and hoped that if the right people got in his ear, maybe some good could come from his being elected. I wanted Bernie because he's the one person that's ever ran that I would like to believe couldn't be bought, so for a somewhat similar reason, I wanted to hope that Trump being somewhat of an outlier could be a good thing. But instead we got this version of him, which is just a weak, insecure, entitled, failed businessman, that's trying to snake his way into the old boy's club, not realizing that he'll never have a seat at the adult table, no matter how much he bends over and tries to please them.