They might want to get him tested again to make sure it was correct. Now my bother had it and was in ICU. They traced it back to the Doctors office where he caught it.
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It would have made a difference early on, which certainly could have reduced deaths in New York and Italy and other places it hit early, but at the end of the day, I'm not sure they could have prevented a respiratory virus like this from spreading. Of course it could have made it much less economically painful to hold off until a vaccine is available, but I'm not sure the resources get thrown towards a vaccine the same way if it didn't explode to begin with. Maybe we also don't have the panic though so we don't throw a bunch of economic damage from our response on top of the economic damage from the virus.
Jacklambert, how long did it take your brother to recover? This is really a strange virus. I had a cousin catch COVID and then his wife caught it. One recovered with no problem at home, while the other ended up in the hospital for a week (Not in the ICU, however.)
I was just looking into our (MS) testing stats bc I hear we're leading the country in posi %, and I noticed this...
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https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/...es/mississippi
Now this was just clicking random dates, so I'm not sure how many days like this there are. Think 3655 positives in 3655 total tests can skew positive %?
No, that's you that is wrong. Your definition does not require that a person be immune for life for there to be some level of herd immunity as Liverpool claimed. Liverpool is defining herd immunity to be basically something that's never achieved. We have a pretty good measles vaccine and most people would say we have herd immunity, but we still occasionally have outbreaks (mostly because of morons, but some of those outbreaks presumably include people whose vaccine just did not give them immunity for one reason or another). There is a level where it's fair to say the resistance is so low that it's a misnomer to call it herd "immunity."
I think that would be a fair criticism of the definition you used with respect to something like the flu. Yes, we have resistance to the spread of the typical flu because of some cross immunity and vaccination, but we're still going to have 5-7% of the population get it most years. I think it's fair to say that's not any type of immunity, even if there is a resistance to spread.
I get that there are days that have dumps of prior tests. But why do you think they include just the negatives from days where positives were already reported? It doesn't seem far fetched to me that that would happen. I could see labs reporting positives as they come up, and then doing a weekly dump of the rest. But I wouldn't just assume that happens. Has MDS said that's what happening? Or do you see something in the data to suggest it?
There have been more than a few private clinics that were not reporting negative tests. That was remedied last week or two weeks ago I believe.
Maybe so, but our neighboring states have wild fluctuations in test numbers, but they report total tests each day they report cases.
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Here comes Spain... over 5000 new cases today for first time since April 24th. 26 new deaths is most since June 5th.