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Re: Good Coronavirus / COVID-19 Article
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2020 4:43 am
by Holy Cowboy
Fox News. Love it or hate it don't care. New rapid test.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbiCwYhZnGo
Re: Good Coronavirus / COVID-19 Article
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2020 4:59 pm
by xandorxerxes
Yep. We're finally catching up to other countries. South Korea has had rapid testing for over a month.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandso ... t-and-free
Re: Good Coronavirus / COVID-19 Article
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2020 6:39 pm
by San Goku
Nice, a Canadian company made something similar. I forgot the name.
Edit
Spartan Bioscience is the name.
Re: Good Coronavirus / COVID-19 Article
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2020 4:32 pm
by xandorxerxes
Re: Good Coronavirus / COVID-19 Article
Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2020 5:38 pm
by xandorxerxes
Came across another potential issue today - hospitals are still slammed. If the virus outbreaks again thanks to these protests/opening early, not only will they be overwhelmed, but we're approaching the time that med students/residents/fellows rotate in June-July. Essentially people who have been treating COVID all this time will be moving to new jobs/roles, and people who have never treated COVID will become the new front line responders.
Re: Good Coronavirus / COVID-19 Article
Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2020 5:45 pm
by Holy Cowboy
Old ones may be able to be instruct via the 'home computer' method. What is a list of all those degrees that were essentially 'take a student loan and wind up with only debt' like I hear 'Gender Studies' ?
Re: Good Coronavirus / COVID-19 Article
Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2020 6:28 pm
by xandorxerxes
Holy Cowboy wrote: ↑Sun Apr 19, 2020 5:45 pm
Old ones may be able to be instruct via the 'home computer' method. What is a list of all those degrees that were essentially 'take a student loan and wind up with only debt' like I hear 'Gender Studies' ?
Unfortunately they'll be doing other things. Residents are the primary front-liners and they'll usually specialize in fellowship. Your general med resident might be an ENT fellow... assuming they even stay at the same hospital. A lot of them change hospitals each time.
What's even worse is that we have more med school slots than residency slots, so there are doctors that probably could help but didn't get matched into residency and thus are sidelined.
Re: Good Coronavirus / COVID-19 Article
Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2020 12:54 pm
by Colep924
So I’m pretty sure I’m just about free of this thing, but I gotta say, this shit really does suck. My symptoms never got so bad that I was scared or anything, but it really felt like I was breathing through a straw at some points and that was horrible. I can’t imagine how someone with severe symptoms must feel, this shit is not to be taken lightly.
Re: Good Coronavirus / COVID-19 Article
Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2020 3:06 pm
by xandorxerxes
Colep924 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 20, 2020 12:54 pm
So I’m pretty sure I’m just about free of this thing, but I gotta say, this shit really does suck. My symptoms never got so bad that I was scared or anything, but it really felt like I was breathing through a straw at some points and that was horrible. I can’t imagine how someone with severe symptoms must feel, this shit is not to be taken lightly.
Really glad you're feeling better!
Re: Good Coronavirus / COVID-19 Article
Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2020 4:46 pm
by Holy Cowboy
When you get fully get through it, have you given thought to getting tested for antibodies? If you got them, might be able to work out a $$$ deal with hospital for 'em.
Re: Good Coronavirus / COVID-19 Article
Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2020 11:22 pm
by San Goku
Holy Cowboy wrote: ↑Mon Apr 20, 2020 4:46 pm
When you get fully get through it, have you given thought to getting tested for antibodies? If you got them, might be able to work out a $$$ deal with hospital for 'em.
That's what I'm saying don't volunteer that shit, you should get paid. No different than a pharmaceutical company.
Re: Good Coronavirus / COVID-19 Article
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2020 1:19 am
by Colep924
Thanks a lot man @xandor. I actually got a call from my doctors office today about setting up a test somewhere.
Re: Good Coronavirus / COVID-19 Article
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2020 2:55 am
by Holy Cowboy
If it is an antibody test and you have them, you first need to find out if you have any medical debts, etc. Take away anything that could be negotiable in their favor. If you do have debts, they may be more than willing to 'make them go away' if you are willing to share antibodies.
Re: Good Coronavirus / COVID-19 Article
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2020 3:22 am
by San Goku
Holy Cowboy wrote: ↑Tue Apr 21, 2020 2:55 am
If it is an antibody test and you have them, you first need to find out if you have any medical debts, etc. Take away anything that could be negotiable in their favor. If you do have debts, they may be more than willing to 'make them go away' if you are willing to share antibodies.
yup, after all we're in this together is how the saying goes.
Re: Good Coronavirus / COVID-19 Article
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2020 2:07 pm
by xandorxerxes
You can try, but there are lots of people with antibodies and there are no treatments involving them yet. They're still testing to see how effective they are. Assuming you want to negotiate with them, you have the upper hand - just don't push them too far and make them walk away. Given that hospitals are bleeding money at the moment and how vicious they can be, they may not listen to you.
You don't have to charge them either, if you don't want to. I won't blame you either way.
Re: Good Coronavirus / COVID-19 Article
Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2020 1:22 am
by San Goku
xandorxerxes wrote: ↑Tue Apr 21, 2020 2:07 pm
You can try, but there are lots of people with antibodies and there are no treatments involving them yet. They're still testing to see how effective they are. Assuming you want to negotiate with them, you have the upper hand - just don't push them too far and make them walk away. Given that hospitals are bleeding money at the moment and how vicious they can be, they may not listen to you.
You don't have to charge them either, if you don't want to. I won't blame you either way.
If you have no medical bills or struggling it would be a good idea to volunteer as well.
Re: Good Coronavirus / COVID-19 Article
Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2020 2:12 pm
by xandorxerxes
Apparently our first Corona-related deaths are actually in early February, way before we originally detected it.
Re: Good Coronavirus / COVID-19 Article
Posted: Fri May 01, 2020 5:02 pm
by xandorxerxes
Fun new milestone - even with all of the quarantine measures in effect, we've passed the flu in deaths.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieport ... a-century/
Hopefully May won't be as bad as April, but who knows.
Re: Good Coronavirus / COVID-19 Article
Posted: Sat May 02, 2020 2:02 am
by superbob
I don't doubt that if you went back a bit further than early february, you would see that there were earlier covid deaths. There's no way that just shutting down travel in early february would have been effective to slow or stop the spread.
Re: Good Coronavirus / COVID-19 Article
Posted: Sun May 31, 2020 1:08 am
by ames
yes my biggest fear too...and then before you know it, flu season is here.
Stay safe everyone.
xandorxerxes wrote: ↑Sun Apr 19, 2020 5:38 pm
Came across another potential issue today - hospitals are still slammed. If the virus outbreaks again thanks to these protests/opening early, not only will they be overwhelmed, but we're approaching the time that med students/residents/fellows rotate in June-July. Essentially people who have been treating COVID all this time will be moving to new jobs/roles, and people who have never treated COVID will become the new front line responders.