Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[SvennoJ]

Trumpstyle said:

SvennoJ said:

Florida may or may not be running out of ICU beds
https://www.newsweek.com/multiple-florida-hospitals-run-out-icu-beds-coronavirus-cases-spike-1511934

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/health-care/article243655502.html

As Florida reported another record day of new confirmed COVID-19 cases on Friday, with 3,822, Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed back against suggestions that the state may become the next epicenter of the nation’s coronavirus pandemic and that it’s quickly running out of hospital beds to care for patients.

Mary Mayhew, secretary of Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration, which regulates hospitals, accused the news media of overlooking the ability for hospitals to boost the number of staffed beds to handle a surge of patients.

Here are some quotes for you @Trumpstyle :)

“Our hospitals have an incredible ability to rapidly increase their capacity,” she said. “That is often overlooked by the media as they focus on current capacity.”
“The trends are absolutely favorable,” Mayhew said. “The acuity is down.”

Florida numbers has been pretty good so far, so long they don't overburdens their hospitals I can't see anyone complaining, if fewer patients are needing icu beds and they can rapidly expand beds there should be no issue. I think Florida and much of United states never needed to do a shutdown/lockdown, they would have been just fine.

That ron desantis dude seems to be capable.

Also I want to update you that Sweden won't be giving any numbers during weekends anymore (saturday/sundays), friday was a holy day here in sweden no numbers this friday either. They will from now on giving on monday.

Ah they were missing on purpose. Sure why not take a 3 day break while numbers are nice and high. Spain has taken a permanent break on reporting deaths, seems to be a working strategy for them. It has been saying this on worldometers for over a month

The discrepancies that may appear with respect to the total case data previously reported are the result of the validation of the same by the autonomous communities and the transition to the new surveillance strategy. This discrepancy could still persist for several days.

I see worlsometers gave up waiting and smoothed out the +280 deaths spike that were reported end of May, distributing them in a nice downward slope to no deaths while Spain should still be around Italy and France between 35 and 45.

The best strategy for the pandemic:
- Test more to bring down your positivity rate
- Add Immunity tests to boost numbers.
Wait a week
- Test less to see a good decline
- Re-open economy