Covid - 19 - Louisiana Edition

[Guisslapp]

This statement kills me "Hopefully, Louisiana will meet the White House criteria and move to Phase 1 on May 15, provided symptoms, new case counts and hospitalizations decrease and the state continues to surge testing and contact tracing capacity. "

So if we surge testing (I'm assuming test more people), won't you expect to find more cases, either a-sym or mild. So we have more cases therefore we're not going to open until again we can ramp up testing and see decreases in the number of cases. Seems like a vicious circle.

Hospitilizations should be the metric, IMO. That would rule out the increased cases due to increased testing.

They still aren’t really testing asymptomatic people in the area even if they have had direct exposure to a known positive. You can probably get the test under those circumstances, but they aren’t generally going to encourage you to if you are asymptomatic. We are way too short on tests to test asymptomatics.

[tech70]

I am hoping that means if we have a rise in numbers we can then do large count testing to find and quarantine the sick and not the well. What a novel idea. I understand with little reliable test kits and no domestic manufacturers of reliable tests the only way to protect the hospitals was to shut things down but now we should do what has been done for 100’s of years and quarantine the sick.

[PawDawg]

Trumps fault for not “rolling out” the tests

[tech70]

Everything is his fault ,he stopped travel to soon and now not soon enough. He allowed us citizens to come home and now he let people come in after the ban.

[Guisslapp]

I am hoping that means if we have a rise in numbers we can then do large count testing to find and quarantine the sick and not the well. What a novel idea. I understand with little reliable test kits and no domestic manufacturers of reliable tests the only way to protect the hospitals was to shut things down but now we should do what has been done for 100’s of years and quarantine the sick.

That was always the idea. Case counts drop then open (while social distancing) and test and contract trace when new cases arise. But that relies on way more testing capacity than what currently exists.

[Guisslapp]

More on region 8.

https://www.knoe.com/content/news/NE...569989591.html

[dawg80]

More on region 8.

https://www.knoe.com/content/news/NE...569989591.html

Meanwhile Tensas Parish is still sitting on their ONE case. Surely Tensas can reopen.

[detltu]

What I know is not encouraging.

Just thought this was a funny quote from Guisslapp. Made me chuckle. Carry on everyone.

[dawg80]

April 27

27,068 cases with 17,303 recovered 1,697 deaths testing rate at 18.4%

1,683 in hosp 262 on vents

April 28

27,286 cases 1,758 deaths testing rate 16.0% (big drop in positive testing) (no update on the previously reported # recovered)

1,666 in hosp 244 on ventilators

[Guisslapp]

Just thought this was a funny quote from Guisslapp. Made me chuckle. Carry on everyone.

Good one.

[PawDawg]

April 28

27,286 cases 1,758 deaths testing rate 16.0% (big drop in positive testing) (no update on the previously reported # recovered)

1,666 in hosp 244 on ventilators

Has anybody in Louisiana died of anything other than the China virus over the last four weeks? I’m pretty sure ALL deaths in region 8 have been due to the China virus.

[dawg80]

Just thought this was a funny quote from Guisslapp. Made me chuckle. Carry on everyone.

Good one.

Narcissist alert.

[Guisslapp]

Narcissist alert.

For acknowledging detltu’s noticing how my statement could be turned around on me?

[detltu]

Narcissist alert.

Just messing around. I think he took it in the right spirit. Nothing wrong with that.

[dawg80]

Delivered another 750 masks to the NRMC today. They are labeled as disposable, each individually wrapped. The nurses love the ones we brought last week and were glad to see these. They say they are comfortable and they are wearing them in conjunction with other masks, depending on what they are doing and how close they work with patients. My wife and one of her techie professors used a 3D printer to make some mask adjusters. They allow the wearer to better adjust the mask, taking the pressure off your ears. The nurses love those too.

Dr. Pan emailed saying unless we were desperate this was the last of the shipments. Many vendors are providing masks now, so that will probably be the last ones from Shenzhen.