COVID-19 (Wuhan Novel Coronavirus) Pandemic Master Thread

[moish]

That is why hospitalization and deaths are the only real indicators.

How exactly are those indicators of what's happening at the current moment?

[chulent613]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/bald-men-higher-risk-severe-case-covid-19-research-finds/

I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that those in my family that have a tendency for thinning hair/hair loss had more severe/longer lingering symptoms.

I am very bald and never had any symptoms. Got tested by refuah/Mount Sinai and have very high antibodies.

Go figure.

[PlatinumGuy]

I am very bald and never had any symptoms. Got tested by refuah/Mount Sinai and have very high antibodies.

Go figure.

A lot of antibodies can mean your body put up a good fight.

[moish]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/bald-men-higher-risk-severe-case-covid-19-research-finds/

I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that those in my family that have a tendency for thinning hair/hair loss had more severe/longer lingering symptoms.

Could it be that people who are bald are generally older? I wonder what the results would be if they studied the rate of Covid among people who wear their pants above their waists.

[AsherO]

Could it be that people who are bald are generally older? I wonder what the results would be if they studied the rate of Covid among people who wear their pants above their waists.

Pants above the waist also correlated to obesity which is a COVID risk factor.

[CountValentine]

Just another article trying to bash Desantis.

So giving the actual numbers is now bashing?

[Afrages6]

So giving the actual numbers is now bashing?

Number of new cases isn’t an indicator. Percentage of positive cases hasn’t spiked.

[PlatinumGuy]

Number of new cases isn’t an indicator. Percentage of positive cases hasn’t spiked.

So if 10x people get infected, but testing increased 20x, it would be good news according to you

[CountValentine]

Number of new cases isn’t an indicator. Percentage of positive cases hasn’t spiked.

Everyone has different metrics but I see no bashing.

[Afrages6]

So if 10x people get infected, but testing increased 20x, it would be good news according to you

It is likely that the number of infections were the same the whole time. NY is in much better shape now then 3 months ago. But they have the same number of confirmed positives as they had three months ago.

[Afrages6]

Everyone has different metrics but I see no bashing.

Could give the actual numbers without making it look like desantis is doing the wrong thing by reopening

[aygart]

Could give the actual numbers without making it look like desantis is doing the wrong thing by reopening

If you want numbers to use and check them according to what you want to see you are best off looking for them yourself.

[Afrages6]

If you want numbers to use and check them according to what you want to see you are best off looking for them yourself.

Just trying to point that every article he posts has around a 2 percent truth rate

[CountValentine]

Could give the actual numbers without making it look like desantis is doing the wrong thing by reopening

Some believe he is going the wrong way.
One might look at the testing numbers and say at the beginning they only tested those they thought that had it. Now they are testing anyone with a heartbeat. The % testing positive now should have a big drop now but it doesn't.
So it is better they report the real numbers and then we can all play our games with them.

[CountValentine]

Just trying to point that every article he posts has around a 2 percent truth rate

That article was accurate. Not sure what you are talking about.

[PlatinumGuy]

But they have the same number of confirmed positives as they had three months ago.

Huh?

[biobook]

Could give the actual numbers without making it look like desantis is doing the wrong thing by reopening

Could you clarify which words in the article make it look like DeSantis is wrong to reopen?  All I see is this sentence, which seems to be a statement of his decision without any criticism of it:

"Despite the increase in cases over the past three days, Governor Ron DeSantis will continue to move the state through phase two of its reopening plan, which begins on Friday."

[Afrages6]

Huh?

They were doing two thousand tests a day with  a 50 percent positive rate and and now they are doing 60k tests a day with a positive rate around 1 percent. But basically the same amount of confirmed positives

[CountValentine]

They were doing two thousand tests a day with  a 50 percent positive rate and and now they are doing 60k tests a day with a positive rate around 1 percent. But basically the same amount of confirmed positives

So what do the numbers mean? Everyone can put there spin on them but all you did is report them the same as the article did. You didn't bash anyone the same as the article didn't.

[shapsam]

https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1270039481110888449

Can we go back to normal life, open everything and just screen for symptoms?