COVID-19 Map worldwide, with statistics

[Highpower-FClass]

Hospitalizations seem to have stabilized in the Houston area, with ICU bed usage flattening over the last two weeks, or at least much lower rate of increase.







Fatalities for Texas are still on an increasing trajectory but since it is a lagging indicator it will hopefully flatten over the next couple of weeks.

 

[Brians356]

So even on conservative measures COVID is already the third biggest killer.

A distant third. Heart disease: 650,000. Cancer: 600,000.
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[Toby Bradshaw]

A distant third. Heart disease: 650,000. Cancer: 600,000.
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Per 5 months (by the end of July):

Heart disease: 270,000
"Cancer": 250,000
COVID-19: >150,000

Not-so-distant third, and SARS-CoV-2 still only has a market penetration of ~10% in the U.S. Lots of room to grow, with current doubling time for COVID-19 deaths at 135 days.

On any typical day, heart disease kills about 1800 Americans. COVID-19 has killed >2500 on quite a few days in April and May.

 

[SGK]

Big groups of diseases. One virus.

 

[Brians356]

Big groups of diseases. One virus.

Only one? Are you sure? I understand there are mutations, wouldn't they be genetically distinct?
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[Brians356]

Per 5 months (by the end of July):

Heart disease: 270,000
"Cancer": 250,000
COVID-19: >150,000

Not-so-distant third, and SARS-CoV-2 still only has a market penetration of ~10% in the U.S. Lots of room to grow, with current doubling time for COVID-19 deaths at 135 days.

On any typical day, heart disease kills about 1800 Americans. COVID-19 has killed >2500 on quite a few days in April and May.

Cardio and cancer deaths are pretty constant, and probably won't taper off the rest of this year. In fact they might accelerate owing to delayed discovery and treatment, plus economic and social stresses. Covid death doubling time might again stretch out. It's a horse race. You're probably reaching for your coin purse again, playing with house money as it were.
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[JimT]

Does anyone know the breakdown of hospital admissions with regard to government versus private insurance?

 

[JimT]

Per 5 months (by the end of July):

Heart disease: 270,000
"Cancer": 250,000
COVID-19: >150,000

Not-so-distant third, and SARS-CoV-2 still only has a market penetration of ~10% in the U.S. Lots of room to grow, with current doubling time for COVID-19 deaths at 135 days.

On any typical day, heart disease kills about 1800 Americans. COVID-19 has killed >2500 on quite a few days in April and May.

What is the incidence of COVID deaths with pre-existing conditions of cancer and heart disease?

 

[spaniel]

Since there's been no mention of CRISPR in this thread, I wonder if anyone here is aware of it . . .??? I've followed the CRISPR technology for a few years now marveling at what it's been able to do and for its high potential for solving many medical problems. From all I've read there's good work going on with it to combat covid-19 an any other covid virus. I'm optimistic that there will be solutions developed through the CRISPR technology coming on line within a relatively short time.

Here's an examples of some of the work that's going on:

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/research/stanford-team-deploys-crispr-gene-editing-to-fight-covid-19

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biote...hiv-and-other-viruses-gene-and-cell-therapies

https://synbiobeta.com/a-20-minute-...our-doctors-office-supermarket-and-workplace/

Vaccines and antibody therapies have a long history of success. So there is lower risk in applying them to COVID-19. These CRISPR based approaches are interesting, but introduce additional layers of risk. They may work, but it is more likely that we will see additional iterations in the clinic before they figure out how to make these work effectively. Look at mRNA vaccines...these are not new, Moderna, CureVac, and a few others have been on this for a decade...and we are only now seeing COVID-19 emerge as the proving ground for them.

 

[Toby Bradshaw]

What is the incidence of COVID deaths with pre-existing conditions of cancer and heart disease?

It's too soon to know for sure, but about 12% for heart disease and 1.5% for malignancy according to this study.

Hypertension and diabetes seem to be the most prevalent comorbidities in deaths from COVID-19.

 

[rwj]

It's too soon to know for sure, but about 12% for heart disease and 1.5% for malignancy according to this study.

Hypertension and diabetes seem to be the most prevalent comorbidities in deaths from COVID-19.

What physical attribute is often associated with hypertension and diabetes - excess body weight. Early on in the COVID epidemic, BMI was often cited as a comorbidity... wonder why it doesn’t seem to be cited anymore?

 

[Toby Bradshaw]

What physical attribute is often associated with hypertension and diabetes - excess body weight. Early on in the COVID epidemic, BMI was often cited as a comorbidity... wonder why it doesn’t seem to be cited anymore?

Obesity is still listed as a COVID-19 risk factor if you look at the CDC website.

 

[Dgd6mm]

How many posters on this thread are vulnerable to this virus due to health and age? And yes I'm speaking of death.

 

[rwj]

Obesity is still listed as a COVID-19 risk factor if you look at the CDC website.

Thanks for the link! Being weight is the only attribute in the “Strongest and Most Consistent Evidence” category that can controlled without medical intervention, I wonder why it isn’t getting more press coverage?

 

[Capt45]

Then there's stuff like this happening:


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Concerns arise as some receive positive COVID-19 results but never got tested



SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Coronavirus continues to spread quickly across the state. Plus, now, on the Suncoast, although testing has been made more available, many say there are some problems in really getting a handle on how much the virus is in our community.

© Provided by WWSB Tampa Concerns Over COVID-19 Test Results
It has nothing to do with being able to get tested, but instead the results. The quickest turnaround is about 48 hours, and the majority of the time, it can take about a week of finding out if you’re infected our not. However, the most recent issue is getting back results that aren’t even yours.


“I got a call asking for me, and they told me that I had tested positive. I was like, ‘Positive for what?” Then, the lady said for COVID, and I said, ‘That’s impossible. I never got tested, Ma’am,’” Mindy Clark said.

Clark had gone to the drive thru testing sight at Manatee Rural Health, but before she was able to get swabbed, she left the line because she realized it was for people with symptoms only.

“I told them they needed to take this off my record, and they said I had to prove it to them that I wasn’t positive,” Clark continued.

She tested negative just two days later, and also tested negative for the antibodies. Plus, according to many of our viewers, this hasn’t only happened to her.

Clark says if she and many others have been incorrectly identified as positive in the state’s system so easily, how accurate are the numbers that are released daily?

 

[Dgd6mm]

We're being scammed to a degree. I'm saying the virus is real, the numbers of infected are false.
The numbers of infected are actually lower!


Don Dunlap

 

[SGK]

How wrong do you think they are?

 

[Straightshooter1]

We're being scammed to a degree. I'm saying the virus is real, the numbers of infected are false.

Don Dunlap

I agree, the numbers we hear reported are not true and accurate. They're just numbers collected in a limited way and reported. If one could actually get the true numbers, the numbers would be way higher. The numbers are only as good as the ability to find, collect and report actual cases.

 

[Dgd6mm]

The numbers would be LOWER!

 

[Toby Bradshaw]

I agree, the numbers we hear reported are not true and accurate. They're just numbers collected in a limited way and reported. If one could actually get the true numbers, the numbers would be way higher. The numbers are only as good as the ability to find, collect and report actual cases.

Recent (published today in JAMA Internal Medicine) serology surveys indicate that the actual number of SARS-CoV-2 infections in the U.S. is 6-24 times larger than the reported number, as you suggest.