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Maybe my math is off, but isn’t 4,000 10% of 40,000?

It is quite odd. I have been following this since early Jan as we had an Asian Disney trip planned for Mar 26... which was today (sob), and have been following the pediatric aspect very closely as that is my field of practice. The best I can surmise is that because kids get anywhere from 4-7...

Given the speed at which this article was published (and this actually has not been published in Pediatrics yet) which is literally warp factor 10 in academia,I suspect the best they could do was do a quick chart review at best regarding the 2143 patients. They simply stated in their methods...

Yes. Agree. I deal with nothing but critically ill infants. I have yet to find any paper or article in which a child under the age of 10 has died from this. In the age group of less than 1, approximately 10 percent of infants were considered critical and 7 percent of the 1-5 age group in a study...

Yes we cruise many times a year and have been on a Noro Cruise. They definitely transmit faster than on land, but anecdotally I have more friends that have gotten sick at all inclusives and Disney than on a cruise ship. Just some bad luck. interestingly enough, despite all our cruising we have...

I hope you are right and I think in regards to land based vacations such as Disney they will restart much faster than the cruiselines. They have taken The brunt of the public relations beating from this due to the Diamond Princess and then the Grand Princess. There were many other smaller to...

I have discussed ad nauseum on here why examples of smoking, car wrecks, cancer, etc are terrible analogies. They do not increase exponentially. If they were increasing by 20 percent every day, you can bet there would be efforts to stop it. The fact that these deaths are incredibly stable...

If you think everything we are doing now is about the current stats and death numbers you clearly haven’t been paying attention.

I agree. Actual case count is very misleading. To get a better feel for how a state or country (assuming the country can actually test for Covid with some consistency) is death rate. I think deaths is truly the most telling factor of this whole outbreak. There are many asymptomatic people...

My brother lives in an Apt. just to the left when you get off that bridge in Covington. Glad to see people are taking it seriously unlike CA and DC.

Oh it happens all the time, just not on the scale we are dealing with here. Toyota’s great debacle with the brakes only killed 30 or so people. The IKEA dressers I think affected 40-50. Nothing on the scale of thousands of deaths. I agree in that those cases are much worse as it is an...

You keep saying people are dodging the answer but it’s not just a matter of lives we are analyzing in this situation. It’s so much more complex than that. I’ve said before and I’ll say it again, in order for us to get a better grip On this debate you need to have a firm number of deaths we...

There is obviously no easy answer to that, as a previous landlord (ironically of a second property single family home) myself I have been asking myself how I would have dealt with this if I still had my property at this time. If the government had frozen loans and I had no payments due on my...

I think how long we can last is going to depend on a number of factors. 1.) If the government actually sends out checks. As long as people have income and can eat that will calm a lot of fears. 2.) A big part of this is how severe this gets. In theory if we start having 10000 people a day...

You missed my point. I stated the study was from the beginning of this whole outbreak until Feb 29. Since Feb 29 there have been very few new cases in China and Wuhan, yet they have had a notable number of new deaths. Some days the deaths have been nearly equal to the number of new cases this...

Agree, We are also a much more litigious society which makes physicians hedge on the side of caution sometimes. If a patient feels they should have been admitted despite your best efforts to explain why they don’t and then they end up admitted later because their condition changed, depending on...

So sorry to hear about everything. As a fellow healthcare worker this is my greatest fear. You could always uptodate the malarial dosage and wing it a little. Really not ideal, but that dosing would at least be a known safe dosing level. Good luck with everything. Keep us updated.

100 percent agree. Post 9/11 there was a lot of solidarity to get out there and show the terrorists we weren’t scared. That we weren’t gonna let them beat us by ruining our way of life. There was American Pride. There were flags flying. The world started back up within a week to show the...

Lol. There are two constants in life. Death and Taxes. I totally agree, it there is a tax for getting corona it will be the true double whammy and they will find a way to keep it here for forever. That being said, we have no idea if this is a one off event or if this is just going to become...

My family in the Philippines lives in Quezon City. Which for all intents and purposes is basically Manila. It’s basically one huge city. That would be the island of Luzon. Where does your friend live. Based on their reports they are overrun. My cousin is not likely to lie about being...