Welcome to Our Forums. Once you've registered and logged in, you're primed to talk football, among other topics, with the sharpest and most experienced fantasy players on the internet.
Hard to know, without some knowledge of your background. As for me, I’ve worked in a hospital setting for over two decades, directly cared for COVID patients and been involved in formulating local policy related to the pandemic.Your credentials aren’t better than mine.
I know you are trying to help, but you are only making things worse.
Here’s a quote for you:
“We are well managed to prepare for an increase in patient volume”
This is my local "go to" news source....they are pretty decent and keep their opinions out of the news for the most part. Of course, I wish they'd focus less on shootings etc, but beggars can't be choosers. I'd be pretty confident in their reporting. As I said up just a bit, the spin zone is in full effect here and the press conference yesterday was a complete train wreck. I don't see how anyone came out of that thing with a clear picture of anything so this sort of incorrect information doesn't surprise me at all. He's doing everything he can to explain away all the new cases and positivity rate going up and in doing so, it appears he's shooting himself in the foot. Oddly enough, if he'd just have stuck to the reality, it shines a much more favorable light on the situation than his attempt at spin.
Your credentials aren’t better than mine.
I know you are trying to help, but you are only making things worse.
Here’s a quote for you:
“We are well managed to prepare for an increase in patient volume”
I'm so glad I'm un-hiding your comments in this thread. Gold Jerry. Gold!
That would be interesting for sure. As for my kids' school/classes/teachers, one of them (the 1st grader) was on top of things e-learning wise, while the other (3rd grade) was a disaster.
I suspect that's a big portion of it. I know at the time that PA had their highest hospitalization rate, it was extremely difficult to get tested. The positive rate has been steadily declining here for weeks. There are definitely a ton of positives missing from the denominator. I've seen people try to extract the actual arrival curve based on testing rates, but it is not clear to me what assumptions they are making so it's hard to know if the end result has any merit. You would think the state health departments would be doing the same thing, but if they are it doesn't seem like they are sharing it with the public.
https://www.garlandisd.net/content/coronavirus-covid-19
Few thoughts on this:
A friend of mine is doing zoom learning this summer with a few of her 4 year old students whose parents want them to learn and be prepared for the next school year. Her preschool did virtual for about 6 weeks in March and April until the parents stopped paying. She learned alot from those 6 weeks. Her summer sessions are 2-3 times a week for 40-60 minutes, focusing on phonics, subitizing and arithmetic. With some robotics thrown in for fun. She loaned them a box of manipulatives, including Ozobot. She gives the parents lesson plans, so they can continue to teach at home.
I think this is a huge issue. We expected teachers to be engaging content creators like they are youtube stars or something.
Most people take a bar review course at the end of their third year that confirms that most of your time spent studying in law school was wasted.
I see it as the exact opposite but there are so many issues to solve I doubt any one group has an ideal situation
I saw this last night in the context of the health department suing the event.
Yea same here. I think high school teachers would have an easier transition to online learning than elementary teachers. I say that fro experience as a high school teacher and knowing many elemeyand high school teachers.
It's tough for Florida. I never try to excuse politicians, but he's in a tough spot. The budget is built around tourism and a huge portion comes in the summer. Now he's got Disney planning to open and the NBA planning to play in Orlando.
I'm not talking about transitioning to e-learning. I'm talking about centralizing the curriculum and separating independent teachers from e-learning. How does that work in high school? Good luck with your AP classes, kids!
Agreed. Now the spike is due to more testing and results piling up from a while ago. I don’t buy it since the documented positive cases are also increasing at a higher rate. It’s sad to me that if it’s old cases, then poor decisions were made a while ago. If they’re new cases, then the economy is more important. Bad form imo.
I'm stunned people are fixated at the high school level. That seems the easiest to solve. What am I missing?
He could have made this much easier on himself from requiring masks at all times to shutting things down to a level other areas of the country shut down. He can't hide the issues here...they are there for all to see. There's no point in trying to spin at this point. It just makes him look foolish.
How about doubling (or more) your daily case count and/or doubling(or more) your positivity rate?
Grades that matter for going to college? The fact that all 3rd graders are doing the same thing but high schoolers have 6 different classes? Having a “centralized” curriculum doesn’t work when you have a few hundred kids, all taking different schedules.
Meh. Hawaii is more dependent on tourism, and we’re taking a much more measured approach to re-opening.
Like I said, I expect it to happen and even expect a second wave. We should just reserve the heightened terminology for when it really happens, not a 1% increase.
Seems like a lot of the mayors are putting a mandate in place. I’d guess that if it’s hit or miss, some of the chain businesses will put a policy in place for the whole metro area.
Interesting talk. If it pans out, I think the challenge will be determining when to use leronlimab. There are a lot of inflammatory markers used in medicine, and tmk none of them are specific enough upon which to base targeted therapy. Maybe RANTES is different.
That’s the concern, but thankfully our leadership hasn’t caved into the tourism industry yet.
I’m sad to say that I know very little about how it works in Hawaii. I’d love to change that though!
Nothing definitive yet but I've heard talk of $1000-1500/dose. Most patients will require 2 does with some mild cases being fine with 1 and some critical cases needing 3. Each dose is 2 vials given subcutaneously to either side of the abdomen so a hospital stay isn't required for the mild/moderate cases. In terms of when to start therapy, mild/moderate cases are exhibiting 5x normal rantes levels so that could be a staring point for patients.
We are extremely dependent on tourism, going from near the lowest unemployment to highest in the nation since SARS-COV-2 arrived. Despite that, and a huge Asian population with ties to early hotspots, we’ve kept our numbers low. I attribute this largely to a more compliant population, with greater comfort wearing masks and following rules in the face of hardship. Additionally, we shut things down relatively early and are reopening more slowly than other places, nearly in line with the guidelines set forth by the federal government.
That would be incredible if those prices and production holds up, though it still may be a tough sell for more mild cases.
Well, it's not going 3%, 6% the next day, 12% the next, but we've had well over a thousand more cases a day this week (and end of last week) and a positivity rate was 9ish% yesterday and over 10% today (first time that's happened through this whole fiasco). Prior to Mem Day we were in the 700-800 range with a few days hitting 1K...now we are averaging over 1K per day. I think we hit over 2K today (need to verify, but thought I heard that on the news)
