Covid - 19 - Louisiana Edition

[dawg80]

May 11

31,815 cases 2,242 deaths testing rate at 14.4%

1,310 in hosp 157 on vents

May 12

32,050 cases 2,281 deaths testing rate at 14.1%

1,320 in hosp 146 on vents

[Guisslapp]

Nursing homes are already isolated. Test the employees. Problem solved.

Assisted Living facilities are not isolated. Many of the residents still drive.

For some reason the media is lumping them together along with senior housing that has no ADL requirement at all.

These are three totally different housing arrangements, but a nursing home is the only one that is captive (at this point).

Nursing home residents aren’t isolated from each other. Once a worker brings it in, and people aren’t tested after a worker tests positive, it spreads fast. Happens over and over and over again throughout the US and in Louisiana...

[HogDawg]

That is good news.

[PawDawg]

Nursing home residents aren’t isolated from each other. Once a worker brings it in, and people aren’t tested after a worker tests positive, it spreads fast. Happens over and over and over again throughout the US and in Louisiana...

It’s an easy fix. Rapid test the employees daily. Inside of 15 minutes and they have fixed the false negative Problem.

[Guisslapp]

It’s an easy fix. Rapid test the employees daily. Inside of 15 minutes and they have fixed the false negative Problem.

Yeah, if enough rapid tests were available.

[PawDawg]

Yeah, if enough rapid tests were available.

They will be eventually. They've just now perfected them. No need in mass producing something that does not work properly.

[dawg80]

Fauci just underscored this point to the Senate. Maybe he is reading my posts.

Narcissist alert!

[PawDawg]

BTW. the regular testing is overdone at this point. In many areas testing centers are sitting idle.

Over production of testing, over placement of vents and hospital beds. Trump sucks!

[DawgyNWindow]

Oh my God that's funny!

[dawg80]

May 12

32,050 cases 2,281 deaths testing rate at 14.1%

1,320 in hosp 146 on vents

May 13

32,662 cases 2,315 deaths testing rate at 13.7%

1,194 in hosp 147 on vents

[tech70]

For reference Number of deaths of persons age 65 and over: 2,067,404
Deaths per 100,000 population:
65-74: 1,790.9
75-84: 4,472.6
85 and over: 13,573.6
Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2017

[dawg80]

Natch Parish is lifting the 10PM curfew, effective this Friday. Get ready...crazy morons will go nutso around here. They are taking this as a license to party hardy without any regard for...anything or anyone.

[Guisslapp]

Nursing homes are already isolated. Test the employees. Problem solved.

Assisted Living facilities are not isolated. Many of the residents still drive.

For some reason the media is lumping them together along with senior housing that has no ADL requirement at all.

These are three totally different housing arrangements, but a nursing home is the only one that is captive (at this point).

Apparently the rapid test from Abbott Labs might produce an alarming amount of false negatives.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnb...udy-finds.html

[PawDawg]

Apparently the rapid test from Abbott Labs might produce an alarming amount of false negatives.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnb...udy-finds.html

Old news. This is not the only “rapid test”

[dawg80]

Apparently the rapid test from Abbott Labs might produce an alarming amount of false negatives.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnb...udy-finds.html

Just another example of unreliable testing. Back in February the tests were returning a ton of false positives. If you have any trace of past flu infection, and most people do, probably like over 90% of us, the tests were showing positive for C-19. False negatives, of course, is unacceptable. Which is why I just shake my head at all the idiots out there...do you know of one?...who fussed at President Trump for not having a widespread, fool-proof testing system for every effing person on the planet!!!! waaaaaaaaaaaaay back then in February. Stooooooooooooooopid! There is still no such testing system...and we're in May now.

But, I don't blame medical science. As experts say as a novel virus C-19 was going thru rapid mutations...it has begun to stabilize some, although it will continue to mutate from now to the end of eternity. Saw a virus expert on TV the other day explaining "that's what viruses do."