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Tag Archives: testing
The Scale of Testing Compared to the Scale of the Outbreak
Fox News, Trump (and Zeldin) are blaming the current resurgence of Covid-19 cases on increased testing. So let’s have a look at the data! I highly recommend this website: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-testing. The following graphs come from this site which has data … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, Health Care, public health, Trump, Uncategorized, Zeldin
Tagged COVID-19, pandemic, resurgence, testing
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Children with Coronavirus Produce the Same Amount of Virus as Adults
We all know that kids seem protected against the coronavirus (SARS CoV-2) that causes COVID-19 disease. They rarely get ill, although there are reports of serious and deadly disease. A different issue, is whether children can be asymptomatic carriers … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, Uncategorized
Tagged children, COVID-19, infection, infectious, kids, testing, vectors
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Rampant Asymptomatic COVID-19 in a Homeless Shelter
I have previously written about “the forgotten” and why Coronavirus infection in these populations affects us all. I am talking about people in prisons, people in nursing homes and people in homeless shelters. Outbreaks of COVID-19 in these populations do … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, Health Care, Poverty, Uncategorized
Tagged asymptomatic, COVID-19, homeless, outbreak, pandemic, shelter, testing
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Are we Failing our Seniors by not Providing COVID-19 Testing?
Laura Ahearn just released the following: STATEMENT FROM STATE SENATE CANDIDATE DEMOCRAT LAURA AHEARN (SD-1) Nearly Half of Suffolk County COVID-19 Deaths Occurred at Nursing Homes and Assisted Living Facilities – Transparency Will Bring Needed Resources – “On Monday April … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, Health Care, Uncategorized
Tagged assisted living, COVID-19, nursing homes, RT-PCR, testing
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Kinsa’s thermometers
This is probably the most exciting thing I have read related to COVID in some time. This from the NYT “Kinsa’s thermometers upload the user’s temperature readings to a centralized database; the data enable the company to track fevers across … Continue reading
Why is COVID-19 Testing Important?
Earlier today, March 28, 2020 and According to News 12 Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone says 4,138 people in the county have tested positive for coronavirus. Bellone also says 409 people are hospitalized due to coronavirus, with 139 in the … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, Cuomo, Health Care, Uncategorized, Zeldin
Tagged Coronavirus, COVID-19, nursing home, Peconic Landing, testing
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Velocity of COVID-19 spread
This is a measure of how fast the COVID-19 virus is spreading in different countries: from the Financial Times by Steve Bernard, Cale Tilford and John Burn-Murdoch The steeper the slope, the faster the virus is spreading. When the slope … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, Health Care, Trump, Uncategorized
Tagged case trajectories, China, COVID-19, crowd control, cumulative cases, spanish flu, testing, trendline, Wuhan
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Still no COVID testing available?
THIS REPORT IS RIGHT ON – Here is the real problem. After Trump promised ‘anybody’ can get coronavirus testing, patients and doctors still complain of roadblocks – By Shawn Boburg, Emma Brown, Derek Hawkins and Amy Goldstein March 12, 2020 … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, Health Care, Trump, Uncategorized
Tagged COVID, COVID-19, testing
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COVID-19 is here!
We now have a confirmed case admitted at Southampton Hospital. It is time to reassess. Although there is but a single patient confirmed on the South Fork of Long Island, suspicion is running high. (update 3/11: 6 cases in Suffolk … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, East Hampton, Health Care, long island, Medicaid, medicare, Trump, trumpcare, Uncategorized
Tagged cost of test, COVID-19, economy, pandemic, testing
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