[Cambium]

Also...... 3100 tests performed. 2,877 did not have it. Guess that's good news in there or are we wasting test kits?

[Reilly1017]

People saying we are overreacting and yet are numbers are “low” and they don’t see why we are taking so many extreme stances (shutting down most things)

Apparently the link between taking action and reducing hospitalizations isn’t making sense.

Please read this story:
[url]https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/21/us/west-virginia-coronavirus-patient-one-test/index.html[/url]

many people won’t be recorded as a test because they will stay home and get thru it. However, if we just ran “business as a usual” then they would be out and about spreading it.

[BPt111]

Originally Posted by Reilly1017

People saying we are overreacting and yet are numbers are “low” and they don’t see why we are taking so many extreme stances (shutting down most things)

Apparently the link between taking action and reducing hospitalizations isn’t making sense.

Please read this story:
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/21/u...est/index.html

many people won’t be recorded as a test because they will stay home and get thru it. However, if we just ran “business as a usual” then they would be out and about spreading it.

If we didn’t take action we would had over 5 million cases in the country by now

[RoundTableKnight]

Originally Posted by Cambium

Also...... 3100 tests performed. 2,877 did not have it. Guess that's good news in there or are we wasting test kits?

Sorry if I missed it but is there a source on that?

News never reports on testing that comes back negative it seems.

[CT_Native]

Originally Posted by Cambium

Another thing that catches me eye....

Fairfield County... 140 Cases.. 15 Hospitalized. 15???? How were we worried about overloading hospitals and running out of beds?? Is that right?

Those numbers are the goal in putting a shutdown in place.

Connecticut has just two hospital beds for every 1,000 residents. It is the 11th lowest ranking state in the country, according to an analysis of 2018 data by Kaiser Family Foundation, and has fewer beds per 1,000 than any other New England state. Connecticut is also below the national average – which was 2.4 beds per 1,000 in 2018 – and lags behind neighboring New York and New Jersey (2.7 beds and 2.4 beds per 1,000 residents, respectively).

[...]

The state had a total of 8,540 available hospital beds in 2018. Of those, 63% were occupied on a typical day.

[...]

On Wednesday [03-15-2020], state officials said they had about 1,200 available beds across the hospital system, though not all of them were set up for COVID-19 patients. Hospitals were working to reconfigure spaces to absorb a swell of cases.

https://ctmirror.org/2020/03/19/conn...licating-that/

https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/OHS/oh...eport_2018.pdf


Let's see what happens in NYC. The US Army Corps of Engineers is currently working to convert spaces to temporary hospitals to prepare for a surge. Maybe we'll have the opportunity to see a failed hospital system in the city. One school of thought is to simply let these things run rampant, as they did for most of human history. Survival would rely on hardcore genetic and environmental fitness, but modern society isn't satisfied with that and modern society just happens to be the time that we're living in. Not defending or criticizing it (the perspective), so don't kill the messenger.

New York has roughly 54,000 total hospital beds, and 3,100 ICU beds. The New York City region, defined as New York City along with Westchester, Rockland, Orange and Putnam counties, has 36,000 beds and 2,100 ICU beds, according to the New York State Department of Health.

[...]

New York will need somewhere between 18,600 to 37,200 ICU beds to meet the coming wave of coronavirus cases, Gov. Cuomo said.

The downstate region currently has 2,136 ICU beds.

https://www.lohud.com/story/news/loc...ge/5068189002/

[CTartist]

Originally Posted by BPt111

Why Covid-19 is worse than the flu, in one chart

https://www.vox.com/science-and-heal...mparison-chart

Thank You.

[Cambium]

Originally Posted by CT_Native

Connecticut has just two hospital beds for every 1,000 residents.

3,560,000 population. Divided by 1000 x 2. We have 7100 hospital beds in the state? Sounds better to say that then use 2 beds per 1000, doesnt it? People see 2 beds and panic.

[Solstodur]

Originally Posted by Cambium

3,560,000 population. Divided by 1000 x 2. We have 7100 hospital beds in the state? Sounds better to say that then use 2 beds per 1000, doesnt it? People see 2 beds and panic.

Better to have us asking questions exactly like that, than the opposite. We fared far better than our neighbors so far, in part due to the state govts. response and the fact that we aren't a major international hub.

Take a look at New York, going south fast. ~1600 hospitalized so far with that number only going to go up, that's a big strain on the system.

https://apnews.com/48740e4bdefbb0e2459359a5eda2fdd6

[BobNJ1960]

Originally Posted by Cambium

We werent the "epicenter" so shouldnt take as long. But that's if an infected NYorker doesnt come into our state. Or a Nutmegger doesnt bring it back into our state.

That is why I'd like Metro North to cut train capacity down 2/3rd.

Run 1 train every 90 minutes, each direction, New Haven line, just 4 cars, just the stops that existed 25 years ago. That still allows every town MN access, without having what-4?-in Fairfield.

A little less convenience may mean a tad fewer New Yorkers in Ct at this time.

[Stylo]

Originally Posted by BPt111

If we didn’t take action we would had over 5 million cases in the country by now

I don’t think you get it. We probably do. Mass testing does not exist, despite what the president says.