https://www.npr.org/2020/03/25/81994...=1585346094646
You have lots of ICU beds on average, however they are distributed so unevenly some places are truly fucked. Also your hospitals are private so their equipment isn't available to everyone.
OK, so in other news. Apparently Ministry of Health released an open source app to cross patients location tracking data with your GPS history (since the moment of installation), so it can notify you if you were near known patient at any time, even before he got confirmed.
They received emergency powers to track known patients' historical locations using counter-terrorism capabilities. The app uses a service that crosses your location history and time with that data for all patients.
Naturally it only works in Israel, because it crosses with the data from Israeli MoH.
Source code: https://github.com/MohGovIL/hamagen-react-native
Looks like this:
We do, it's what's intended for.
Basically we have our own NSA and government temporarily makes use of it for this purpose.
Here's some extra info: https://govextra.gov.il/ministry-of-...p/download-en/
Last edited by Gaidax; 2020-03-27 at 10:04 PM.
It's humid as fuck in Louisiana.
Guess where the most rapid spike of cases in the US is right now?
Take this shit with a grain of salt. Unless we are absolutely sure that these tropical countries are doing widespread testing, and unless they are being completely honest about their results, the reason for lower rates of COVID-19 cases is just as likely (perhaps more likely) to be because we don't actually know how many people are infected in those countries.
The weather might help or hinder the virus, but it wont stop it. So its largely pointless.
Also its not like we can ask the weather to be hotter or colder even if it did.
Imagine if Trump got the virus today, Boris and Trump in one swoop. That would be quite the world event.
Comes a time when we all gotta die...even kings.
This is a Jewish website, but they claim; Coronavirus Update #11: Rate of Infections Falling Steeply
This specific locale is in Brooklyn.
US will certainly run out of medical supplies like ventilators.
Why make extra ventilators that you dont normally need when making money is the main goal. The money spent on ventilators sitting around in normal times could be better spent on share holders!
Comes a time when we all gotta die...even kings.
Deaths:
Today 234 (+89, latest count)
Yesterday 145 (+55)
Thursday 90 (+20)
Wednesday 70
Steady progression.
As for cases, part of the reason I guess is that the testing is ramping up.
Thursday's noon count was around 10.5k, the current (Friday's late evening ) is 13k. Given that lately we were doing around around 2k tests per day, with them restricted to peoples at risk mistly, with statistics of around 12% positives since the beginning of the outbreak, I'd say they were able to significantly ramp up testing.
Maybe also that antibody blood test they've been talking about has started being used, so number are getting inflated with mild cases and healthy carriers. Especially since they were talking about doing those in priority on care givers.
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~ Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang, "Ethics for Tomorrow"