Coronavirus Death Toll Estimation USA

by that same standard, nearly EVERY offensive adjective becomes a slur. This would include words like 'fat', 'old', 'ugly','thief','racist', 'rapist', 'spineless' etc. etc. Everything cant be a slur.

My mother has a friend she used to work with who's daughter works at a nursing home. Their 93 year old relative just passed in that nursing home last week of Alzheimer's complications. They marked her Death Cert as "Covid 19 related" even though she did not have Covid, at all.

They questioned the home about this and supposedly, they receive a $1,300 "bonus" from Medicare if they mark them as a Covid death and the home asked the family, "So, do you mind if we leave it that way?" The family of course refused.

Now I know this is a he said, she said, second hand source thing, so, I did a small (5 mins) amount of research to see if this is even in the realm of possibilities, as it sounded too easy to be true to me. I came across this...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/04/24/fact-check-medicare-hospitals-paid-more-covid-19-patients-coronavirus/3000638001/

Sounds like I answered my own question the other day when I asked, "Now why would they test for Covid and list them as a Covid death if they had something obvious like physical trauma?"

Got it in one! Being serious for a moment: do you think that matters? If you drop an n-bomb on some white guy, do you think that context is in any way relevant to whether or not it's a slur?

Fair enough. Please report it if you see it. If I have to get out the text replacer, no one is going to enjoy what I do with it.

Do, it, I dare you!

Nah. Using it as a joke is just as bad as using it as an insult.

Like idiot boy?

They at least have to have a ventilator around somewhere. I am open to the possibility that some facilities might try to pass a shop vac off as a ventilator.

The R word was unofficially outlawed a while back.

Republican?

If idiot referred to a specific class of condition, sure. Last I checked, it's used to mean an otherwise normal person doing something unwise, though, which falls in the "personal choices" bucket and not the "genetic/developmental problem outside of one's control" bucket.

But sure, pick fights with me, it's real popular today.

My mother has a friend she used to work with who's daughter works at a nursing home. Their 93 year old relative just passed in that nursing home last week of Alzheimer's complications. They marked her Death Cert as "Covid 19 related" even though she did not have Covid, at all.

They questioned the home about this and supposedly, they receive a $1,300 "bonus" from Medicare if they mark them as a Covid death and the home asked the family, "So, do you mind if we leave it that way?" The family of course refused.

Now I know this is a he said, she said, second hand source thing, so, I did a small (5 mins) amount of research to see if this is even in the realm of possibilities, as it sounded too easy to be true to me. I came across this...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/04/24/fact-check-medicare-hospitals-paid-more-covid-19-patients-coronavirus/3000638001/

Sounds like I answered my own question the other day when I asked, "Now why would they test for Covid and list them as a Covid death if they had something obvious like physical trauma?"

Want to know why "medical expenses" are stupendously high in the USA? One word, Medicare.

ever watch one of his videos?

He may be the liberal's hero today, but tomorrow he will be their worst enemy.

That's how they are. Remember Comey?

volkom said: »
ever watch one of his videos?
I don't watch ANY videos.

why would someone spend hours and hours reading news articles or anything else?

why would someone spend hours and hours reading news articles or anything else?

I enjoy reading and the information flow is quicker than listening.

I do not enjoy passively watching. Perhaps the odd movie but I have to hide the remote from the roomie.

I can filter the signal to noise ratio when I read, I can't while watching.

Disturbing new revelations that permanent immunity to the coronavirus may not be possible have jeopardized vaccine development and reinforced a decision by scientists at UCSF and affiliated laboratories to focus exclusively on treatments.

Several recent studies conducted around the world indicate that the human body does not retain the antibodies that build up during infections, meaning there may be no lasting immunity to COVID-19 after people recover....

With coronavirus antibodies fading fast, vaccine hopes fade, too
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TLDR: We are ****ed. We are well, truly, and thoroughly ****ed.

“To look at just one part of the immune response is woefully incomplete, especially if many COVID patients rely more on T cells,” said Eric Topol, a cardiologist and the founder and director of the Scripps Research facility. He pointed me to a study from France’s Strasbourg University Hospital, which found that some people recovering from COVID-19 showed strong T-cell responses without detectable antibodies. “There is a chance that if a similar longitudinal study looked at T-cell response, the outcome would be far more optimistic,” he said.

Second, the virologist Shane Crotty told me that while the decline in antibodies was troubling, it was hardly catastrophic. “It’s not unusual to have fading antibody response after several months,” he said. “The drop-off isn’t that surprising. When you look at something like the smallpox vaccine, you see the antibody response is down about 75 percent after six months. But that’s a vaccine that works for decades. We need a study like this to look at COVID patients six months after infection to really know what we’re dealing with.” It’s been six months since the first American COVID-19 patient went to the hospital. Those studies will surely come.

Third, low levels of antibodies can still be enough to knock out COVID-19, because they can prime a larger immune response some time later. “It’s possible that previously-infected people could utilize [immunological memory] responses to produce new antibodies in case they are exposed to SARS-CoV-2 again,” Pamela Bjorkman, a biochemist at the California Institute of Technology, wrote in an email. “So I would not conclude yet that people infected with SARS-CoV-2 are not protected from another infection.”

watch some of his content. Might appreciate some of it