re: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) ***W.H.O. DECLARES A GLOBAL PANDEMIC***

86 Vanderbilt Medical Center employees test positive.

If they all come out unscathed this might be good. They’ll be over it by the peak.

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The nurse is in my room with a bag of iron to put in my iv. Apparently I have anemia though not sure it is related. The liquid in the bag is brown. It freaks me out that it is going to be dripping into my bloodstream.

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I think they tested everyone

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I think they tested everyone

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Field like that is high risk for exposure.

Hope one of those eggheads puts out some data on what they find from asymptomatic to hospitalized from their data.

Haven’t seen this in here yet, but another person in Wuhan has been disappeared, this one was a doc who spoke to 60 minutes

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Just two weeks ago Dr Ai Fen, director of the emergency at Wuhan Central hospital, went public in the Chinese magazine, Renwu, saying she had been disciplined and silenced in December 2019 after alerting her superiors to the unknown virus afflicting her patients. "If I had known what was to happen," she said. "I would not have cared about the reprimand. I would have f**king talked about it to whoever, wherever I could." President Xi ordered her interview erased from the internet. Dr Ai Fen herself has disappeared, whereabouts unknown.

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The hospital told FOX 17 News that 37 of the 86 employees passed a mandatory quarantine period and have returned to work. Forty-nine other employees are still at home self-isolating.

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Vandy..

Great news!

This may have been posted already, but this is good to see. Still pretty nasty, but definitely better than previously thought.

CNN - Coronavirus death rate is lower than previously reported, study says, but it's still deadlier than seasonal flu

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The research, published in the medical journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases, estimated that about 0.66% of those infected with the virus will die.

That coronavirus death rate, which is lower than earlier estimates, takes into account potentially milder cases that often go undiagnosed -- but it's still far higher than the 0.1% of people who are killed by the flu.

When undetected infections aren't taken into account, the Lancet study found that the coronavirus death rate was 1.38%, which is more consistent with earlier reports.

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The study found that it could take weeks for people to recover from coronavirus, which could magnify potential health care shortages: The longer it takes for people to get better, the longer they may need precious hospital space and resources.

The average time from onset of symptoms to hospital discharge was about 25 days, researchers found, although patients might not have been hospitalized during the early days of their illness. Among those who succumbed to the virus, death came about 18 days after people started showing symptoms.

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The study found that it could take weeks for people to recover from coronavirus

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I'm hoping we start seeing a sharp rise in recoveries soon. It's been a couple weeks now.

As of today, from reported numbers (accurate or not) worldwide roughly:

1 out of every 10,000 people has been declared a case
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1 out of every 200,000 people has died

In the US only, those numbers are roughly:

1 in every 2,000 people
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1 in every 100,000 people

So for a very mobile US population, 5 times more cases but only twice as many deaths.


In Louisiana, those numbers are roughly 1,160 and 25,300


1 in every x population...

Area: cases , deaths
World: 10,000 , 200,000
USA: 2,000 , 100,000
Louisiana: 1,160 , 25,300

US is doing well per capita; Louisiana not so much

Well I guess I’m hoping wife comes home and says they shipped someone out of ICU in something other than a body bag. They haven’t been moving from what I’ve been told.