outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

Kerala (pop 35 million) was first in India to get COVID. For past 2 days they have no new cases. The Communist controlled state has implemented “test, trace, isolate, support” & delivers free food & support to homes. In fascist controlled Indian states pandemic continues to grow.

— a$hok (@broseph_stalin) May 5, 2020

what happens in the commie nazi states?

huh, he's actually learned something?

"I used to say 65k and now I’m saying 80 or 90 and it goes up and it goes up rapidly"

Trump: That’s one of the reasons we’re successful, if you call losing 80k-90k people successful
Bret: That number has changed Mr. President. You said 60
Trump: I used to say 65k and now I’m saying 80 or 90 and it goes up and it goes up rapidly pic.twitter.com/v4FbbygF5Q

— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) May 3, 2020

If u call losing successful
Im a winner

things are gonna change, i can feel it

if assholes could fly this place would be an airport

a deep cut for the true heads:

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-05-at-9.14.07-AM.png

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/05/05/calibration-and-recalibration-and-more-recalibration-ihme-forecasts-by-publication-date/

the IHME model is garbage. we shouldn't have trusted it a month ago, and we shouldn't trust it now.

Just spent about 48 hours in the hospital due to a low platelet count -- basically, it's when chemo turns you into a bleeder in very frightening fashion. And my count isn't too high now, either. :/

I was given the swab test, am COVID negative.

ugh, get better Morbs :(

morbs <3

sounds hard and unpleasant. wish you the best morbs

Morbs glad you’re on the other side. Did you get any sleep?

Bon courage, Morbs. <3

that sounds shitty, and also i'm glad you tested negative. be well morbs

Fuck, that's scary, hope you are ok

Yikes — take care, Morbs.

Did you get any sleep?

That's always a fun morning question from the nurse when they've been waking you up every 2 hours to measure your vital signs.

(I can't even sleep when I know they're gonna do that.)

I wouldn’t either :(

I haven’t been woken up in the middle of the night as a patient, but I know from seeing it on the other side how people don’t really get any sleep in a hospital

shit Morbs, thinking of you

get better dr. m

Get well, Morbs!

been in enough hospitals to know its a shitty experience made slightly better by the fact you're getting help and the nurses understand it's a shitty experience and try to soften it a bit. glad you've been released, cuz that means the general trend is up, not down. get well(er), morbs.

actually the reason I was given for my release is "we can't wait/watch for it to happen," and indeed the problem has returned on a so-far-incidental scale.

Best wishes for better days

Best wishes Morbs

Take care, man.

best wishes Morbs

oof, best thoughts Dr. M.

take it easy morbs, feel better soon

thanks all

most amazingly I got a bed w/in 20 minutes of walking into the ER

Be well and maintain your crank, Morbsy.

good wishes morbs :)

Virtual hugs until I can give you a real one, Dr. Morbius!

Hope you feel better soon, Morbz

sending you good wishes Morbs

Good luck Dr. M

best wishes dr m

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/may/07/peru-jungle-iquitos-coronavirus-covid-19

A hospital in Alsace reports that they had a case of the virus already on 16 November.

I saw Goody Sibber with the virus in November

I saw Goody Proctor with the virus in August

Not sure how credible miscellaneous French doctors are, as a class or individually.

t'inquiètes, j'ai un ordonnance pour ça

I can't imagine a chest CT scan that reveals bilateral interstitial pneumonia would have much specificity - there are other diseases that have similar presentations. If there was a preserved blood sample from that 16 November patient for a rtPCR test, which has pretty much perfect specificity, though lackluster sensitivity, I'd give the report more credence.

i liked my joke better

lol

this is depressing as hell, passing along in case DJP or the late Fred B may find interesting
https://www.middleclassartist.com/post/nats-panel-of-experts-lays-out-sobering-future-for-singers-no-vaccine-no-safe-public-singing

I've been mostly avoiding CNN lately--Doomsday Central, which I hate; do not in any way take that as cutting slack for Trump--but I just watched the whole of this segment from last night's weekly town hall, Laurie Garrett, and she's really good.

http://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2020/05/08/entire-may-7-coronavirus-town-hall-part-4-sot-vpx.cnn