So let’s take the 2.5 billion guess you made on the cost. I’m sure it’s not that much but let’s run with that. We are spending billions right now on lost work hours.. wasted hospital visits for testing etc. even if I give you the 2.5 billion spent on the tests, it still will move the needle in saving money. I agree that it’s not enough tests. The more we can send out, I believe the more we will save.
Yeah, its going to be the mask/TP thing again with everyone picking up anything available. I doubt they can ramp production enough until omicron subsides
500 million tests for a population of 350 million is inadequate.
That is definitely true regardless of cost. If they can move the needle, 1.5 tests per person over six months certainly won't.
What is: “people who are wrong for $200, Alex?”
They work just fine. The problem with the rapid tests - all variants - is you can get a false negative if you’re not carrying enough viral load. The pcr picks that up regardless.
$2.5 billion is absolutely nothing…
Oh, and blood banks across the country are also nearly empty. If someone hemorrhages, or needs a transfusion during a severe illness, they might be out of luck.
I don't think the changes in case rate are really valid data in the peak vicinity due to the positivity being so high. I zoomed in on the CDC data for FL just for the Omicron outbreak and, if you look at the seven day average of new COVID hospitalizations (which track as a pretty constant percentage of infections), it definitely looks like the curve is bending and is about to peak.
You mean they don't have hyperspace drive? They need to stay at the star wars hotel and pull the lever!Don't fret- that's not until September of this year! The DART Mission. It was sent to space in November, but won't reach destination until September.
Hope no one has trips planned in October!
I saw that last night on the news. Red Cross says that the usual supply of 4 days is down to 1 which is a bit concerning.
I was. And yes. They did a crap job creating a strong supply of treatments that are useful.
Why not vaccines and treatment? Why must we choose only one? They did poorly with testing availability. They did poorly with contact tracing. They did poorly with treatment availability. Outside of vaccines, we pretty much don’t do anything properly. As I said many times, failed strategy.
In what scenario would treatment be better than prevention?
Because people are refusing the prevention arm, which is then overwhelming our ability to actually treat sick people!!! The prevention arm is simple, cheap, and widely available. The treatment arm is extremely expensive, and much more difficult to scale up. We can't snap our fingers and just produce more nurses, doctors, pharmacists, lab workers, respiratory techs, or instantly hire all the skilled workers that would be needed to ramp up production of the new treatments. And all these people ending up with a (in most cases) preventable hospitalization are chewing up resources that are affecting everyone else's care. Why is this so hard to understand?
After one contracted the disease seeing there is no 100% effective method of prevention.
