Right. I’m using back of napkin math on the reporting (85 positives reported/less than 10 hospitalized). I am not suggesting it it rigorous or precise; it is neither.
If you prefer, I could say “looks from this small sample report that hospitalization is roughly on par with the range for adults”, which is more vague but probably fair. In either case, I’m not claiming high accuracy, which I thought is what I articulated in the original post.
Also, kids and infants are not the same and are not necessarily in the same “immunity bucket”.
Could be either. Haven’t reviewed the paper yet, but the increased binding affinity of the spike protein to ACE2 receptors over flu and SARS was theorized early on to lead to a very low threshold for infection.
“the Public Health England daily death totals announced to the media include anyone who has ever tested positive for Covid-19 — even if they recovered completely.”
Oh, yeah. Once it became politicized any chance of rational understanding got chucked out the window, shot on the way down and eaten by dogs when it landed.
I didn’t know or perceive that there was any hierarchy to the preventive measures, but that they should be used concomitantly.
I’m just wondering, how exactly do the define that? Do you have to be kept overnight or something or just examined by doctors, like “admitted for treatment”? If it’s the latter then I could see the fact that they are so young as a factor, if someone has a baby that is sick with a virus that has been killing a large number of people then even if symptoms aren’t severe I could imagine them freaking out and running to the hospital.
I’m just trying to make sense of what this actually means.
Unfortunately no way to tell from the reporting I linked. I am hopeful that some studies are done on it. Unfortunately my time for surveying the literature on topics unrelated to work is decreasing lately so I don’t know what is out there, if anything.
I would say in the vast majority of cases this far, it seems once admitted for covid you are there for more than a day and most times it seems several
If they are admitted to ICU then yes, but like I’m saying could just as easily be anyone who shows up in the ER with any degree of COVID symptoms and gets examined by a doctor. A couple times I went to the ER with small cuts that wouldn’t stop bleeding, but only because they happened at work. I was admitted as a patient and given one of those bracelets, does that mean I was hospitalized?
These days I’m more skeptical than ever of stuff I see in the news because over and over they are telling half truths and pushing the virus fear mongering, there isn’t a lot of rational thinking on either side of any virus-related debate it seems.
I personally disagree, considering how I know our local hospital works and records things. It could be possible.
I don’t disagree with that, they do a poor job of context. But in this case the numbers themselves aren’t dependent on the news. In other words, you should have more faith in the medical system – which reports the numbers – than the news.
I understand there are different ideas about what that means though. My dad wouldn’t take us for any type of medical treatment (doctors visits, anything) growing up. It has taken a while for me to adjust to what regular people do in that regard.
No. It means you were treated and released as an ER visit.
When I was in the ER recently they did make the distinction by saying “You will not be admitted tonight, but if symptoms get worse don’t hesitate to come back, etc.”.
Yeah but the question is what criteria this article bases its info on, and so far we don’t have anything. How many visited the ER vs. hospitalized vs. ICU? That would mean something.
So you’re saying you haven’t currently encased the Mrs in a layer of disposable plastic? That proves you are both a prude and don’t wish to defeat the virus!
