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Trump should schedule these pressers for the morning. Trump exhibits many characteristics of "sundowning" where demented persons show late day confusion. Trump is always sharper in the morning when he does impromptus on his way to Marine One.
Good point.
Is there a ratings reason he does these rambling rants at the time he does?
It makes more sense to do it late in the afternoon just like it makes more sense to broadcast the national news at the end of the day, like they do on TV.
A bat can transmit to a human. A human can transmit to a cat. What makes you think a cat can’t transmit to a human? Cats rub up against everything. Stopping the transmission of coronavirus isn’t animal cruelty.
Because the scientific evidence for the FEW cats that have tested positive for Covid-19 so far suggests that they either got it from (in the zoo) their human handlers, or in the home their owner, who had the virus. The other cat whose owner did not have the virus probably got it outdoors from another outdoor cat. Typically cats can transmit to other cats, not humans. That's why it's very important to keep domestic pet cats indoors so they won't be infected by outside cats - but they won't transmit it to their humans.
here's the problem - now we're going to hear this 90% all over the place, and it induces panic.
when they only did a limited study/survey. How many people were on a ventilator, and over what period did they study? We KNOW that a hell of a lot more than 320 vents were being used.
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Eighty-eight percent of the 320 covid-19 patients on ventilators who were tracked in the study died.The mortality rates in the JAMA study only include patients who died or were discharged. About half of patients treated during the period of the study were still hospitalized when the analysis was conducted so their final outcomes were unknown.
And while notable/measurable, the difference from BEFORE Covid are only 10%:
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But the numbers diverge more for the critically ill put on ventilators. Eighty-eight percent of the 320 covid-19 patients on ventilators who were tracked in the study died. That compares with the roughly 80 percent of patients who died on ventilators before the pandemic, according to previous studies
Yeah. I have no idea what Trump was talking about. The context clearly was the public. He just rambles on. Several days ago, the Federal Government DID distribute about 1.5 million cloth masks to New York for public use. Some local jurisdictions are attempting to help. The main source - other than folks being left to their own devices - appears to be businesses that provide various types of masks to employees.
Contrast that to Taiwan where the government ensured surgical mask production was ramped up. As of a few weeks ago, it was high enough to provide 2 masks a week to each member of the public. No doubt it is now higher yet.
Surgical masks offer the best combination of filtration protection of larger particles (n95s handle smaller) and breathability - by far. But the U.S. is radio-silent even as they want folks back out to consume. Are we even trying? This really makes me mad.
I guess it would be hard for Trump to announce some effort while at the same time he's trying to spin covid-19 has been defeated and maybe won't be back in the Fall. He's all about the message.
I saw a video from Spain where they had what I am assuming a police officer handing out surgical masks on the street. (it may not have been a police officer, but it was a person in uniform) It's amazing how some countries have not only enough for their hospitals, but enough to hand out to the public while we in "the greatest country in the world" are told to use a scarf or bandanna.
I saw a video from Spain where they had what I am assuming a police officer handing out surgical masks on the street. (it may not have been a police officer, but it was a person in uniform) It's amazing how some countries have not only enough for their hospitals, but enough to hand out to the public while we in "the greatest country in the world" are told to use a scarf or bandanna.
For profit healthcare does not stock up for a pandemic. So government should have done it, but did not. Failure at every level.
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