My wife is still not scheduled to get tested yet. Local news has said testing in our area has come to standstill because of a lack of testing kits. A few days ago on the news they showed a drive through testing area they setup less than 10 mile from our house, but they haven't opened it up yet since there is no way to test the swabs.I’m fine. 2 weeks ago my wife was rushed by ambulance to the hospital because of a very large and infected kidney stone. The infection caused her to go septic. She was in the hospital for four days and developed cough/respiratory issues. She had option to go into isolation at hospital or home. At the time the reality of the covid outbreak hadn’t reached our area, so it wasn’t considered that she had it since neither of us had traveled or had contact with anyone who had.
We chose to bring her home. Her symptoms have not gotten better despite different courses of antibiotics. Since coming home the outbreak has become real in our area. I work for a company that supplies desiccants for the pharma industry, so I can’t return to work until she is tested negative. In the meantime I’m supposed to work from home but I can’t really do my job from home. We are self quarantining at home until she can get tested.
She does have a point in that quote there. Nefarious people will use a pandemic for their own gains, regardless.
The daily mail mentions a difference in how the statistics are being collected. I guess Italy is testing post mortem and Germany is not. They also said that a younger population is presenting in Germany in contrast to other countries. I think this also reflects some differences in collecting statistics. Maybe Germany is tricking the system somehow. I don't know why.I am going to put this here again so that hopefully someone with better scientific or biological knowledge then me can look into...
Germany has thousands more cases then the USA, their fatality rate is less then a quarter of ours. Of all the countries they have the least fatality rate. What are they doing that no one else is doing?
Thanks @rainerannThe daily mail mentions a difference in how the statistics are being collected. I guess Italy is testing post mortem and Germany is not. They also said that a younger population is presenting in Germany in contrast to other countries. I think this also reflects some differences in collecting statistics. Maybe Germany is tricking the system somehow. I don't know why.
The article also mentioned that Germany has a lot more ICU beds. I found this to be an interesting way of creating a comparison that could possibly explain it, so I looked up how many icu beds there are in other places. It seems like it is easier to find the total number of hospital beds to use for comparison.
So I just made ratios with a search of a rough estimate of population size and the number of hospital beds that I could find, and it seems like Germany does have an advantage in this regard. There is about 1 hospital bed per 174 people in Germany, while Italy is at about 1 hospital bed per 300 people and New York is about 1 hospital bed per 333 people. So I guess we will know soon enough if the number of hospital beds influences the ability to recover from the coronavirus or whether Germany is fudging their statistics in some way.
How Germany is beating the coronavirus survival odds
The figure is significantly lower than that of Italy (8.3 percent), China (4 per cent) and Britain (3.9 per cent) with possible explanations including early testing and access to intensive care beds.www.dailymail.co.uk
Haven't heard anything lI just heard that my state is trying to put a ban on out of state travel and trying to get Trump to send in the national guard to prevent people from leaving the state. Has anyone else heard of this? I live in Louisiana.
Washington had 136 new cases today, not 2. I live here and everyone is hearing rumblings of a lockdown, but now official word yetWashington state only had two new cases today.. and their numbers still haven’t hit 2000, considering they were the first place this started - that’s somewhat encouraging.
Meanwhile NY has going on 9000 cases - an increase of almost 3000 from yesterday.
Ahh I see.. the corona tracker I look at a couple times a day said two. My apologiesHaven't heard anything l
Washington had 136 new cases today, not 2. I live here and everyone is hearing rumblings of a lockdown, but now official word yet
Could have been deaths. The majority of deaths from our state have been from the initial retirement center, probably 75%.Ahh I see.. the corona tracker I look at a couple times a day said two. My apologies
Do you think your numbers are so much less then ny because you have less cases or less testing?
Are you joking or no?I see nobody went in on my foodborne illness theory.
Maybe this is too much information, but every time I walked into a public bathroom at work today, someone was taking a dump. I'm like, dude...WTF?? In my mind, this is all the evidence I need. Theory confirmed!
Are you joking or no?
I did see somewhere that early symptoms could include gastro issues.. but idk. What food do you think it’s in?