[Mick]

Man does that interview drive home just how much the CDC failed to do its job.  Might as well be called the Center for Disease Growth and Economic Destruction.

The most useful planning nugget I got from Dr. Cody was that 5% of infections require hospitalization. That's what Italy's numbers now show, but I wonder if Italy is bringing more people into the hospital than the U.S. is. I've heard two stories from people who are quite sick and I think under normal circumstances would be taken in by hospitals, but now have been told to stay home basically until they can't breathe.

Italy reports many of its transmissions have occurred at hospitals, so in addition to preserving capacity, it may the the U.S. is adopting a strategy to only deal with the most critical patients at hospitals as another way to reduce spread. Critical status would be those who have a blood oxygen of less tan 94% and need external oxygen or ventilator to breathe.

Makes sense, I suppose. I've gone to the E.R. twice with severe breathing difficulty over the past few years (variety of reasons). I couldn't speak, could barely breathe, and in one instance I literally crawled to the ER front desk. I didn't get near an oxygen tank or a ventilator. I wonder what the threshold is for that type of assistance now?

[Mick]

Man does that interview drive home just how much the CDC failed to do its job.  Might as well be called the Center for Disease Growth and Economic Destruction.

The most useful planning nugget I got from Dr. Cody was that 5% of infections require hospitalization. That's what Italy's numbers now show, but I wonder if Italy is bringing more people into the hospital than the U.S. is. I've heard two stories from people who are quite sick and I think under normal circumstances would be taken in by hospitals, but now have been told to stay home basically until they can't breathe.

Italy reports many of its transmissions have occurred at hospitals, so in addition to preserving capacity, it may the the U.S. is adopting a strategy to only deal with the most critical patients at hospitals as another way to reduce spread. Critical status would be those who have a blood oxygen of less tan 94% and need external oxygen or ventilator to breathe.

Makes sense, I suppose. I've gone to the E.R. twice with severe breathing difficulty over the past few years (variety of reasons). I couldn't speak, could barely breathe, and in one instance I literally crawled to the ER front desk. I didn't get near an oxygen tank or a ventilator. I wonder what the threshold is for that type of assistance now?