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Please explain how vaping pertains to what this thread is about?
Smoking/vaping weaken lungs. Puts one more at risk of complications is how it pertains.
So do other things that put people more at risk. Not just vaping. Lets stay on topic as @Kasey has asked numerous times.
Wasn't discussing. You asked a question. I simply answered it.
Gotcha...makes sense. Probably not worth it in either context.
There are a number of issues specific to Italy, they include:
I also agree with you about the long-term global impact of how we function as individuals and as a society: the ripple effect of this pandemic will change many things in the future (for better and worse).
Spain is also pretty bad. From what I've read it's from the hospitals being overwhelmed. Not enough ventilators to go around so medical ethicists having to decide who gets to live and die. New York seems to be close to this point.
Edit: @razorachilles makes good points to why Italy specifically has such high death rates. Spain has a high median age as well which may be contributing to high amounts of hospitalizations.
One of the things that is kind of terrifying is that back when all of this was first starting millions of people fled Wuhan. Where they went...??? I wonder how many went to NYC? Might explain why NY has about 20Xs the confirmed cases as any other state.
https://www.businessinsider.com/5-million-left-wuhan-before-coronavirus-quarantine-2020-1
Cuomo and DeBlasio also both kept harping on testing rather than prepping the hospitals. Now everyone went in for a test when they should’ve stayed home. More testing will reveal more cases.
I think nyc would have higher count regardless, but the testing push is what drove this high number imo
"Escaping the outbreak may have been the cause for some people fleeing the city. But it also coincided with the Lunar New Year, China's most important holiday in which city workers return to their hometowns.
Lunar New Year is the largest annual human migration, with Chinese citizens making a combined 3 billion trips during the season.
Chinese workers get a week off work, from January 24-30. For many, it's the only time they get to go home during the year, which may explain the desperation to leave Wuhan in the face of an impending quarantine."
Yeah testing needs to be done in a smart way. Either at home or drive thru testing. The greater Seattle area is trying an at home testing kit, so we'll see if that works. My only concern is people doing the swab wrong, or messing up some other part of the test. It's hard to make anything idiot proof.
We have people from France in our offices all the time, and now we get a lot from Germany. Those people love to smoke. Our site made a smoking area away from where everyone goes in and out of the main building and the French pitched a fit about it because they thought they should just be able to light up anywhere and any time they desire. You sit beside one of them in a meeting and all that stale smoke and then they aren't big on daily baths, it is awful.
I've been on the phone with suppliers in Europe all morning and off this thread. On one hand, it is nice not to have the expense/time of having my guys fly to Europe, on the other hand, there is some stuff that is so much more efficient in person like testing an electrical cicruit. I guess we are adapting to different times as we work through this stuff.
@pgjackson the comment about an epidemiolgist not being "the" source is 100% true. Experts often disagree. The info from this epidemiologist seemed in line with what I have heard from other epidemologists, but then again all of them could be wrong, so in the end, I was sharing the best info I could.
@christopherules Glad to see another California dawg. Stay safe down there brother!
@texdawg I also feel we have more in common than we have in difference. I'll stop there so not to go too far off topic.
To all dawgs on the forum, being able to read about the dawgs and recruits and Covid-19 with everyone is a welcome opportunity and I appreciate all of y'all!
With literally 1/2 of the known cases in the US coming out of NY, is it a matter of NY testing more people or is there a serious issue up there?
One recent COVID-related change that already has the potential to dramatically change the way healthcare consultations with physicians and NPs is in the area of telehealth. Some may have missed this detail in one of the daily COVID debriefs last week:
In short- the FDA has agreed to cover telehealth (Zoom, Skype, Facetime, etc.) under Medicare & Medicaid, as well as halt HIPPA violation enforcements as it pertains to use of electronic devices by physicians.
Essentially - rather than having at-risk patients travel to the doctor for regular check ins for blood pressure monitoring, review blood level readings monitored at home, etc., this can now be done via a phone or tablet from the patient's home.
Telehealth options have been in use in some forms for over a decade in the US but a key sticking point has been between health care providers and insurers, with the latter reluctant to compensate the providers for the full price charged to their customers for an in-office visit. The impact post-COVID crisis could be long-lasting with consumers getting a taste of this new way of receiving healthcare services (and preferring in some cases not having to go to the doctor in person).