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  • Bulldawg1982Bulldawg1982 Posts: 4,573 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    I'm waiting on results but showing symptoms. I was tested yesterday evening. If ya haven't been tested for covid-19 yet, this is how it's done...

    Crazy because I could've sworn they were just swabbing mouths in South Korea.

  • CaliforniaDawgCaliforniaDawg Posts: 674 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    As we think about global responses to Covid-19, there will be much to be learned from this graph. Today, we don't have enough information on most countries. In one month, we will. This graph will tell us which countries responded well to Covid-19 and which ones didn't.

    I think it will be important for us as a world to look at best practices in the countries that did respond well and use this knowledge to respond better to the next pandemic. I'm very curious what South Korea has done as they seem to be the country that has best managed the Covid-19 outbreak.

    What's scariest on this graph is the average across countries of a 33% increase in deaths by day. That is a staggering statistic. I wish all the party goers on the beaches in Florida would have it beaten into them (not literally) that their actions today affect all of us tomorrow.

  • razorachillesrazorachilles Posts: 1,273 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    I liked it - but LOVED the commenters tearing into him because it's inconsistent with what they read elsewhere. Literally laypeople criticizing a layperson for presenting a different pespective other than what they see on Twitter...the author may be wrong on some (or most) of his conclusions, but I would argue that the blanket rejection of new ideas during this period is not the best way to respond.

    One point one of the commenters made which I haven't seen published yet but have heard raised with colleagues in some of these countries/regions is the impact of smoking history. While being older with a weaker immune system almost certainly puts one at higher risk, the fact that a majority of people over the age of 50 in Italy and China were regular smokers for most of their lives certainly could be a contributor to the higher death rates vs other countries.

    Granted - many more Boomers smoked for longer periods of their lives vs the younger generations, so the same principle would apply here in the US for that generation but is interesting to consider given the relatively low # of cases in under 50s.

    In simpler terms - a patient who already has reduced baseline capacity will likely be more severely impacted once the virus triggers cytokine storm syndrome. Admittedly a hypothesis, but certainly reasonable to suggest.

  • Bulldawg1982Bulldawg1982 Posts: 4,573 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    When you say "smokers" do you mean all of the above or just tobacco/nicotine smokers?

    ....asking for a friend.

  • DestinDawgDestinDawg Posts: 689 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    USA is on the same trajectory as Italy


    We have to ramp things up


    We need the testing kits


    we need to protect our front lines now

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