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CDC says USA deaths are at 6,500 as of yesterday 4th April [1]Considering they were reported in the news[2] as 600 on Tues 23rd, 1000 on Thurs 25th, 2000 on Sat 28th, 3700 on Mon 31st, and the infecti...
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Let's presume this death rate is accurate to within an order of 2- 1.33% to 0.33%. We can use that to do some interesting estimates on the true infection rate.https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus...
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For a country with ~10% over 70 years old, and assuming infection fatality rate of ~6% among those, then IFR would already be 0.6%. So suppose that what you've read is the current statistics, it does ...
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I would just like to point out the nursing home facts below:The length of stay data were striking:the median length of stay in a nursing home before death was 5 monthsthe average length of stay was lo...
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We can argue about specific examples, but I think you can more easily accept errors in your estimate so:First, there are 12 not 11 known deaths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_Princess_(ship)Se...
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> Based on Diamond Princess data, where almost everyone was tested, the lower bound of COVID19's IFR (Infection Fatality Rate) should be > 0.5% for many/most countries.No, you can't compare a country'...
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show context + On: Covid-19: death rate is 0.66% and increases with age, study
Based on Diamond Princess data, where almost everyone was tested, the lower bound of COVID19's IFR (Infection Fatality Rate) should be > 0.5% for many/most countries.This uses a data source independen...
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No, the numbers are very bad.There's approx. 860 acute and ICU beds empty (from the text chart) for Santa Clara County, which has about 3-4 million people. So that will be full in about 1-2 weeks.In ...
show context + On: Silicon Valley Live Hospital Bed Data
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It's not an issue with the theoretical concept of private equity, it's an issue with what these vehicles are being used to do in the real world.https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/04/03/hospital-bailout...
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Here's a recent wastewater analysis study showing the prevalence of several illegal drugs in Europe.http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/topics/pods/waste-water-analysis......
show context + On: Sewage could reveal true scale of coronavirus outbreak
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We don't know yet. These numbers are still preliminary, but it helps us to understand better the impact of the workarounds that doctors have needed to use, to tell the CDC it's COVID, when the softwar...
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Before anyone goes collecting sewage samples, consider deriving your scaling factors from discrepencies in ICD-10 diagnostic encoding practices.- Stacked bar chart: https://twitter.com/OccupyWallSt/st...
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