Covid-19 at a homeless shelter in Boston: Implications for universal testing

Re:Covid-19 at a homeless shelter in Boston: Implications fo... by Retric on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @04:48PM (#22882858)

Iceland’s peak was significantly more recent than China or South Korea which continued to have regular deaths over a month after their peak. So, my expectation is their deaths will likely double in the next three weeks. Which would be consist with ~1/2 their ICU cases dying. That said it’s a small sample size so significant variability is possible.

Just compare new cases vs new deaths here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_S... vs new cases here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_I...

On the positive side, they seem to have contained the virus extremely successfully which was likely aided by a low population density, early reaction, and good testing.

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Re:Covid-19 at a homeless shelter in Boston: Implications fo... by phillipseamore on Thursday April 16, 2020 @05:26AM (#22887595)

Just a point on the comment "~1/2 their ICU cases dying".

The University Hospital handles most of the cases (and all except two deaths). According to their statistics* a total of 25 have been in ICU ("Á gjörgæslu frá upphafi"), total of 13 on ventilators from the beginning ("Í öndunarvél frá upphafi"), with as-of yesterday 3 still on ventilators ("Í öndunarvél") and 6 deaths ("Andlát samtals vegna Covid-19"). So that's less than a quarter of ICU cases dying and half of those on vents.

* https://www.landspitali.is/default.aspx?pageid=b629a8e0-b262...

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Re:Covid-19 at a homeless shelter in Boston: Implications fo... by Retric on Thursday April 16, 2020 @08:09AM (#22888558)

Interesting, putting that may people in ICU that don’t need vents likely relates to a less stressed medical system. But the numbers are low enough it could just be statistical noise.

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Re:Covid-19 at a homeless shelter in Boston: Implications fo... by yters on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @07:22PM (#22884325)

I wish the media would focus more on the outliers of the doomsday narrative, as well as the long term consequences of the lockdown solutions being pushed.

covid-19 is bad, but seems nowhere near comparable to what much of the developing world faces on a daily basis (4000 kids die a day from malaria?!?)

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Re:Covid-19 at a homeless shelter in Boston: Implications fo... by Retric on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @07:43PM (#22884499)

I have almost exclusively used Wikipedia for keeping track of the outbreak. Media has become really bad at communicating complex issues that are rapidly changing over time especially as different groups are trying to shape messages to the public.

Face masks for the general public being the most obvious example.

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