by Bob Walsh
Italy, which has a base population of 60 million, hit 793 Covid-19 deaths in just one day. For the U. S. that would equal about 4,400.
CA has leased two empty hospitals to set up for new patients if necessary. It probably will be.
We should know in about another 2-3 weeks if the home lockdown orders will manage to "flatten the curve" of the infection. Assuming the Chinese are to be believed (dubious at best) they have now gone for 2-3 days with no new infections noted. If the home lockdown orders are not effective the infection population in large, urban areas will double about every four days. If we can go several cycles WITHOUT that happening it will look promising.
There is still a modest pissing contest (a very polite one) going on between Donald Trump and the medical professionals. The pros think he is maybe putting too much emphasis on the maybe-possibly aspect of some of the new drug treatments. While they LOOK promising the studies are way too small and the potential downside of the medicine way too significant (or unknown) to be touting them as a silver bullet, at least yet. I hope Trump turns out to be right. I am not betting on it.
In the meantime I am not licking the hand rails at Taco Bell. Even if I wanted to, I can't. They are all shut down in CA except the drive-thru.
2 comments:
If something is effective but hasn't been "adequately studied", is it still effective?
Maybe. Then again, maybe not. You are old enough, do you remember Thalidomide? It was effective, but........
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