@sh76 said🤞can’t come soon enough for a 63yr old with type 2 and mild COPD I’ve heard about recent advances but the worry is when it ceases to be a problem for the developed world will the other two worlds be left to deal with what becomes a fatal regional epidemic.
When Johnson got it, the understanding of COVID and how to treat it was at a small fraction of what it is today.
Edit: Perhaps this deserves another thread, but I think the Regeneron monoclonal antibody treatment (currently in Phase 3 trials) and perhaps similar MAB treatments currently being tested by other companies, is going to reduce COVID to the status of a flu within 3-6 months.
02 Oct 20
@no1marauder saidF your ad hominems.
Hi, Eladar how ya been?
This type of argument has aged poorly.
Read the Covidview link. Or you can just look at the graphs.
02 Oct 20
@sh76 saidThere is also what they are calling “Long Covid” which can leave much younger patients with long term debilitating respiratory conditions. There are not many health systems even in the developed world that will not be compromised by covid for the foreseeable future.
Go ahead. I never said I was sure the Stanford study was right. I cited it, perhaps optimistically. And I was very cautious about the IHME model. I never predicted that it would be right.
Anyway, the over-all IFR was probably never more than about 0.6 or 0.7 except for some isolated cases where the hospital systems were strained and where people live on top of each other wit ...[text shortened]... lots of people get it, some are going to die from it. But the risk to most individuals is miniscule.
02 Oct 20
@sh76 saidTrump and your "so what if a few hundred thousand Americans die of a disease" position isn't that popular; his handling of the pandemic gets a minus 16% rating.https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/coronavirus-polls/
Go ahead. I never said I was sure the Stanford study was right. I cited it, perhaps optimistically. And I was very cautious about the IHME model. I never predicted that it would be right.
Anyway, the over-all IFR was probably never more than about 0.6 or 0.7 except for some isolated cases where the hospital systems were strained and where people live on top of each other wit ...[text shortened]... lots of people get it, some are going to die from it. But the risk to most individuals is miniscule.
02 Oct 20
@no1marauder saidTrump never said "So what if a few hundred thousand die".
Trump and your "so what if a few hundred thousand Americans die of a disease" position isn't that popular; his handling of the pandemic gets a minus 16% rating.https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/coronavirus-polls/
02 Oct 20
@earl-of-trumps saidLooks like you're correct and I'm wrong.
Phranny brought up a good point, viv. I am not sure you are correct.
If Pence becomes president before the election, I think Pence get his own votes nit not Trumps'. My opinion.
https://inews.co.uk/us-election-2020/what-happens-presidential-candidate-dies-before-us-election-2020-donald-trump-covid-19-test-positive-674661
Apparently, the party will have to pick a new candidate. Any votes already cast for the deceased wouldn't count.
02 Oct 20
@vivify saidCould they vote again?
Looks like you're correct and I'm wrong.
https://inews.co.uk/us-election-2020/what-happens-presidential-candidate-dies-before-us-election-2020-donald-trump-covid-19-test-positive-674661
Apparently, the party will have to pick a new candidate. Any votes already cast for the deceased wouldn't count.
Another kettle of fish, that is.
02 Oct 20
@sh76 saidLet's hope the Prince of Whales sends him a get well soon card. That'll cheer him up.
I trust this is self-evident, but this is a massive boon for Trump's re-election chances.
Most likely scenario:
In two weeks, he'll have a whole ceremony in the Rose Garden where he and Melania exit quarantine and he'll announce that just like he and Melania did, the country as a whole is beating COVID. That will also take a bite out of the silly narrative that cases, in a ...[text shortened]... t position that COVID isn't worth shutting the economy down over.
The schadenfreude is premature.
02 Oct 20
@earl-of-trumps saidhttps://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/trump-doubles-down-encouraging-supporters-vote-twice-which-illegal-n1239265
Nahhhh. Only democrats get to vote multiple times.
Trump doubles down on encouraging supporters to vote twice, which is illegal