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They still use that in nuclear medicine. Had that too about 6-8 years ago for a bone scan.
Geezuz....all this talk of different procedures and then realizing how many of them I've had reminds me of exactly how broken I am lol.
Because we have been doing the right things.Let's not be like Italy or Iran.
It was never about the mortality rate. It's about flattening the curve and taking the stress off our hospitals and healthcare workers.
1.2% of all seniors and those with co-morbidities in Canada is still a lot for the healthcare system to handle all at once.
Not the deadly part it is the 15 percent that need hospitals we don't have 700000 beds available. Or ventilators. This early treatment can be done and the death rates stays low one we run out or beds and ventilators the death rate skyrockets.
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And that is the mortality rate with roughly infinite health care resources available to those patients. Once you pass the capacity of our system, cases that could have been survivable get the toe tag because there is no help available.
And that is the mortality rate with roughly infinite health care resources available to those patients. Once you pass the capacity of our system, cases that could have been survivable get the toe tag because there is no help available.
And not just COVID-19 cases. We still need resources for car accident injuries, burn victims, heart attacks, strokes, falls and other emergencies.
bigpoppa
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@Lightcycle gets it.
Roadghost
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Our hospitals are already overflowing into the hallways, mainly with seniors ready to die. Our hospitals are being used as nursing homes. As for Italy, a report released last week showed that the death rate they are reporting is people who died with covid-19, but not necessarily FROM it. A lot of those people were dying anyway. The report stated the statistics were being deliberately inflated.
Not saying it isn't a serious problem, but the panic and hysteria lack perspective. We don't need to shut down the country.
Then the video from inside an Italian hospital posted earlier is a bit weird as it showed all the patients face down being ventilated which is now the standard protocol for treatment of covid-19 patients requiring ventilation.
Are you sure you don’t want the country open by Easter too perhaps?
If you’re still not convinced then ask yourself this question....what kind of mass conspiracy would put more than 500,000 people out of work in Canada and crash the stock markets while ruining corporations, devaluing our currency and stopping life as we know it too....while simultaneously doing the same to every single nation on earth?
It's a liberal conspiracy to take away their guns.
What a surprise....
nationalpost.com
Putin sports hazmat suit as Moscow says virus outbreak is 'much worse' than it appears
Russia has far fewer cases than many other European countries — just under 500 — but Moscow is saying there are 'significantly more of those who are sick'
nationalpost.com
It's apparently gotten bad enough at the hospital that my wife is pressuring me to go find the tube of N95 masks I have in the garage so she can donate them. Frig me. I probably have five. If that makes a difference already, I am not looking forward to the stories in 8 weeks once the peak hits.
That math only works if all the cases recover. All you need is a few of the 592 who haven't died to pump that 1.2 up.....and that is still a lot. Most people know 200-250 or so people.. could you name 2-3 people you'd be ok with dying?
Yup, but that is never the way it works. The ones you want to keep around are the ones that go.
I watched this. The guy being interviewed was too focused on mortality rate. He's likening it to a "really bad flu", but failing to address the fact that:
1) SARS-CoV-2 (virus that causes COVID-19) is more contagious than the flu. R0 of the flu is 1.3 (for every person infected with the flu, 1.3 other people catch it). R0 of SARS-COV-2 is 2.5. It is almost twice as contagious as the flu.
2) SARS-CoV-2 carriers can be asymptomatic *and* still be contagious. This is unlike the flu, where contagion spreads only when symptoms set it. To complicate things, sometimes carriers *never* show symptoms and keep spreading the virus unwittingly.
3) There are vaccines for the flu. There is no vaccine yet for SARS-CoV-2.
Bottom line: COVID-19 is *NOT* just a "really bad flu". There are reasons for social distancing that have NOTHING to do with the mortality rate.
yeah my wife-to-be is an RT part time (was full time for 8 years), she usually does one weekend a month but shes been doing every other weekend lately. She told me shes planning to take a LOA from her current gig as a project manager and pickup full time hours somewhere; feels her skillset is being wasted on the side lines.
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