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*** OFFICIAL *** COVID-19 CoronaVirus Thread. Fresh epidemic fears as child pneumonia cases surge in Europe after China outbreak. NOW in USA (21 Viewers)
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JerseyToughGuys
Tough Guy
So we shouldn't be trying to "imagine 33 million people (10% of US population) heading to the hospital/emergency care etc for care" at the same time because that's not reality. Right?
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msommer
Footballguy
ONLY if age spread on the cruise ship is similar to the rest of the world's. My personal feeling is that the demographics of cruise passengers are older, but that may be prejudice.
Doug B
Footballguy
As a blanket assertion, for all hospitals everywhere in the U.S.? I disagree with you. It's a mixed bag, yes. But not a universally overwhelmed system at present.
I also don't think -- even at it's very worst -- that COVID-19 gets to the point that 35 million Americans (~10%) will need hospitalization all at the same time.
themeanmachine
Footballguy
Having been on a 2 week cruise in February before - the passengers skewed much, much older than the general population.
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JerseyToughGuys
Tough Guy
This is a misinformation campaign's (active or passive) wet dream. So much bad / half information being vomited out with very little filtering. (not accusing anyone here)
Doug B
Footballguy
Not really. Not to me, anyway. Just sounds like a vague prediction that things won't necessarily get as bad in North America ... essentially, that the U.S. and Canada would more or less absorb a certain level** of COVID patients. Up to a point, anyway.
** 'level' here meaning both 'a number, a headcount' and 'a level of severity of symptoms'.
msommer
Footballguy
Read somewhere that 200 passengers on Diamond Princess were 80 or older. That's about 5%
Redwes25
Footballguy
Lets say 2MM Americans get infected. I honestly, think that is a realistic number if the virus really has transmission factor between R2 and R4 (current estimates) and it does not end up contained. If 5% are critical and they need ICU care that is 100,000 people in need of ICU care. There are not enouch ICU beds available for that level of care. That is the biggest issue I think we face as a country. Our healthcare system sucks and won't be able to adapt. China just goes ahead and builds a hospital if they need one. We haven't been able to pull big public works projects off since the 1960s and you have to go back to WWII when we could do huge national moblizations that such a scenario presents.
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shader
Footballguy
There’s about 540k total hospital beds in US. 94k ICU beds.
The patients with severe cases last 3-6 weeks. Surely you can see where this could become a major problem if even one million people had severe cases.
Doug B
Footballguy
shader
Footballguy
msommer
Footballguy
This is an important point. Everyone won't get it at the same time. That said, it may still overwhelm the capacity available
JerseyToughGuys
Tough Guy
Where does this come from?
Sure, it could be a problem if one million people had to be hospitalized all at the same time. Why / how would that occur?
culdeus
Footballguy
Redwes25
Footballguy
https://www.sccm.org/Communications/Critical-Care-Statistics
Look at what happened in China. They built god damn hospitals in a week since existing framework couldn't handle it.
Info from link:
AHA data: According to the AHA 2015 annual survey, the United States had 4862 acute care registered hospitals; 2814 of these had at least 10 acute care beds and at least 1 ICU bed. These hospitals had a total of 540,668 staffed beds and 94,837 ICU beds (14.3% ICU beds/total beds) in 5229 ICUs. There were 46,490 medical-surgical beds in 2644 units, 14,731 cardiac beds in 976 units, 6588 other beds in 379 units, 4698 pediatric beds in 307 units, and 22,330 neonatal beds in 920 units. The median number of beds in medical-surgical, cardiac, and other units was 12, with 10 beds in pediatrics and 18 in neonatal. Fifty-two percent of hospitals had 1 unit, 24% had 2 units, and 24% had 3 or more units.
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JbizzleMan
Footballguy
And we have liftoff....
Capitol Alert
@CapitolAlert
Gov. Newsom says 28 people in California have tested positive for Coronavirus. About 8,400 people are being monitored because of their travel. "We knew this was inevitable," he said.
Capitol Alert
@CapitolAlert
Gov. Newsom says 28 people in California have tested positive for Coronavirus. About 8,400 people are being monitored because of their travel. "We knew this was inevitable," he said.
JerseyToughGuys
Tough Guy
Google is telling me there were around 900K hospital beds in 2017. Can't find accurate 2020 numbers.
shader
Footballguy
If 20 million people in the US had it at the same time, then 5% is 1 million. 20 million seems conservative
Doug B
Footballguy
Plus, "number of ICU beds" is not a finite number -- or necessarily even a relevant number.
A ready-built ICU room has A LOT of equipment not needed to specifically treat a COVID patient. If a facility needs extra "acute COVID care" wards/rooms, you set them up on the fly out of ordinary patient rooms or whatever floor space you have. (@Terminalxylem ?)
JbizzleMan
Footballguy
@CapitolAlert
Newsom:
@CDCgov
has assured state that it'll speed processing of #coronavirus tests. "We have just a few hundred testing kits in the state of California ... That is simply inadequate," Gov. Newsom says.
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Newsom:
@CDCgov
has assured state that it'll speed processing of #coronavirus tests. "We have just a few hundred testing kits in the state of California ... That is simply inadequate," Gov. Newsom says.
10:45 AM · F
JerseyToughGuys
Tough Guy
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JerseyToughGuys
Tough Guy
shader
Footballguy
Yeah it looks like 900k seems more accurate. Perhaps the original numbers I had were wrong. Either way, nowhere near enough capacity if it breaks to 40-60% of the population.
JerseyToughGuys
Tough Guy
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Redwes25
Footballguy
Ok, even with some increase since 2015, I doubt we have more than 100K ICU beds in this country. Hopefully, it remains contained because if it doesn't it could be a huge problem. ICU beds are typically full of folks coming off of surgery/other issues. Not like there are 100k empty bed sitting around. A huge flux of folks coming in for this virus could be bad when you look at a system that is already heavily used. Of course, I hope I am wrong.
shader
Footballguy
Why would they not? Why are you downplaying the potential of this? There have been links and podcasts and scientists that have been provided in this thread that show that up to 40-60% of the population could get it.
Why would you expect that this virus would spread in a slow and steady way? China didn’t build 20 hospitals because they were bored.
Redwes25
Footballguy
JerseyToughGuys
Tough Guy
What exactly is an "ICU Bed" for the purposes of the bed count and what portions that setup are relevant to treating Wuhan virus?
Redwes25
Footballguy
Those statements are that in the next year the worse case 40 to 60% get it. Not that 40 to 60% get it all at once.
msommer
Footballguy
33 million infected at peak. that means 5m severe cases and 1m critical. So if 33m infected at the same time you might need 1m ICU beds.
But this supposes a lot on a flimsy basis. 33 million cases would mean that Covid-19 would infect as many in the US as the regular flu. Would the same amount of people get regular flu or would they get Covid-19 instead. Some get both? To which virus should hospitalization be counted etc etc. Per CDC
the US should be on the tail end of the usual flu season which ought to limit the spread in time at least
Redwes25
Footballguy
Intensive care units, link I posted explains it pretty well on numbers.
ETA - if you have ever been in an ICU or visited someone in ICU think you would understand the level of care is different in those units.
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JerseyToughGuys
Tough Guy
There are many many many reasons why 40 - 60 percent of the US population won't get the virus at exactly the same time. I was curious if you had anything specific you were basing that statement off of. Doesn't appear you do.
Just because 40-60 percent of the population could get it at some point doesn't mean they will get it at exactly the same time. I haven't seen your numbers mentioned anywhere. They seem pretty made up to me, or at best extrapolated from a mixture of sources and moving parts.
The "China didn't build 20 hospitals because they were bored" thing isn't terribly compelling evidence. China is a weird place and does weird ####. And we don't even know if what we are seeing is accurate in the first place.
JerseyToughGuys
Tough Guy
THAT makes sense. So we are talking about how many beds we have over the next 12 months.
msommer
Footballguy
Not sure. Regular flu peak season (see my earlier post) is Dec-Feb, i.e. now is late season. Sometimes flu season lasts until May but how many can be infected in that timeframe (we don't really know). In the floating Petri dish called Diamond Princess they managed 20% in about a month. Would that be achievable "in the wild"?
Doug B
Footballguy
The scientists that said this didn't mean "simultaneously". It was over some time period ... 2-5 years or so. I'll see what I can dig up.
JerseyToughGuys
Tough Guy
Right. Which elements are a dire necessity for a coronavirus patient? I get the point on "ICU Beds" but it appears a ton of nuance is being bulldozed in the fervor and fever.
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Smack Tripper
Footballguy
Since we have so many new to the thread I put this guy up earlier but I think him and Dr. John Campbell are doing good stuff to translate the medical literature to the lay person
https://youtu.be/xQwfuJgJ9lo
https://youtu.be/xQwfuJgJ9lo
msommer
Footballguy
Exactly. Even for severe cases is there anything to do other than hydration and cooling ? Once you get pneumonia (or other bacterial infections), different story, but also more treatment options.
Redwes25
Footballguy
I am mostly going with that podcast but my understanding is that critical cases need to be on ventilators with constant monitoring for several weeks. I think my number earlier about 2mm with virus and need for 100k beds is not unrealistic. I don't think we can handle that, which sucks. So I hope it remains contained.
Doug B
Footballguy
Preach on.
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The "not enough ICU beds!" thing must be a talking point somewhere -- I'm going to go so far as to say that number of ICU beds doesn't matter a whit.
A broom closet with a comfy bed and a ventilator ... that's your bare-bones COVID treatment room. I exaggerate, but little.
Redwes25
Footballguy
Jobber
Footballguy
hagmania
Footballguy
This number is closer to correct. 20% ICU I'm not so sure on, but that could be close too.
Doug B
Footballguy
The "hydration and cooling" folks, unless quite elderly, aren't going to have hospital stays. They've visit GPs or urgent care centers or similar. They will almost all convalesce at home.
The pneumonia/debris-in-lungs folks will require ventilators -- not necessarily place in an ICU room. Some Chinese communities have built COVID wards out of gymnasiums -- no private rooms or anything, just a bunch of bed+ventilator set-ups laid out in a grid. Some curtains separating some people, some other patients sharing floor space. Reminded me of a M*A*S*H unit set up indoors. I've seen pics, and can find them to post here.
TheIronSheik
SUPER ELITE UPPER TIER
What's the name of the podcast you're referring to? Sorry if you've already said. This thread is moving too fast to catch everything.
TIA
