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I don’t think one could sue a hospital based on limited ventilator capacity. Every procedure they offer is finite.
The fact the Fed doesn’t just buy some is infuriating. Make the DoD budget pay for it and store excess units at bases, along with all the excess medical PPE they should have for national disasters.
The fact the Fed doesn’t just buy some is infuriating. Make the DoD budget pay for it and store excess units at bases, along with all the excess medical PPE they should have for national disasters.
If some company is sitting on hundreds of ventilators/etc waiting for payment right now, they should be imprisoned.
I don't believe there are many/any out there to buy. Cuomo was on the NYT podcast yesterday talking about NY's attempts to buy used ventilators from China now that their outbreak is on the decline. Chinese production of parts used in US made ventilators is getting back on line, but new ones are still a ways out, and there's not nearly the production capacity to actually meet demand assuming anything but the most optimistic estimates are correct.
DoD has a couple thousand that have been pulled from the field and handed over the HHS. They're also mobilizing all their MASH tents and other field hospital equipment. Sitting under the flight-path to NAS Pt Mugu, there's definitely a whole lot of material moving around, never seen this many C130s and C17s moving in and out. May be a coincidence, but it is a designated quarantine site, so who knows.
Defense funding has totally dried up over the last few weeks, we've got an all hands meeting Monday, I may have some extra time to ride pretty soon, we shall see...
one thing about the NMPA/SFDA is that they always prioritize production for domestic use over production for export.
This comes from before they even knew patient zero.
The same site 1 month later posted this:
Mystery deepens over animal source of coronavirus
Pangolins are a prime suspect, but a slew of genetic analyses has yet to find conclusive proof.
www.nature.com
Some moron patent troll sued a company producing tests.
Also some ventilator part producer wanted to sue some people who 3d printed those parts for 1$
Trump is already robbing DoD funds to build the wall that Mexico was going to pay for. Say what you might about bloated military budgets, but taking more money from DoD sure as shit isnt going to come from Raytheon or Boeing.
hey federal govt.....anyone know how to use a 3D printer....
that turned out not to be true.
55 positives in my county. my township has the most with 10.
Colorado county issues shelter-in-place order
A county in Colorado issued a shelter-in-place order Wednesday in an effort to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus outbreak.
thehill.com
That turned out they sued the company before said company started working on the tests AFAIK but patent troll is a patent troll and it could hurt the company so still bad
no i was referring to the 3d printed ventilator parts. the manufacturer / patent owner wouldn't share their designs but they didn't threaten legal action.
I would anticipate the governor will make this a state-wide thing in very short order...Colorado county issues shelter-in-place order
A county in Colorado issued a shelter-in-place order Wednesday in an effort to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus outbreak.
Yes, but the genetic analysis still stands. The summary article you linked even says:This comes from before they even knew patient zero.
The same site 1 month later posted this:
Mystery deepens over animal source of coronavirus
Pangolins are a prime suspect, but a slew of genetic analyses has yet to find conclusive proof.
So far, the closest match to the human coronavirus has been found in a bat in China’s Yunnan province. A study 5 published on 3 February found that the bat coronavirus shared 96% of its genetic material with the virus that causes COVID-19. Bats could have passed the virus to humans, but there are key differences between the RBD sites in the two viruses. This suggests that this specific bat coronavirus did not directly infect people, but could have been transmitted it to people through an intermediate host, say researchers.
The study they cite as (5) is the one I linked to. Further noteworthy is that it is the only one so far that is peer reviewed.
So again the advice should be to request your bat is cooked to at least medium, no more rare or even worse blue bat servings from here on out.
my company's WFH directive was just extend until April 17th.
Senator Dumped Up to $1.6 Million of Stock After Reassuring Public About Coronavirus Preparedness — ProPublica
Intelligence Chair Richard Burr’s selloff came around the time he was receiving daily briefings on the health threat.
www.propublica.org
The plot sickens...Senator Dumped Up to $1.6 Million of Stock After Reassuring Public About Coronavirus Preparedness — ProPublica
Intelligence Chair Richard Burr’s selloff came around the time he was receiving daily briefings on the health threat.
That swamp won't fill itself.
Insider trading laws don't apply to Senators last time I checked. They wrote a law to make it illegal, then shortly there afterwards underwrote it.Senator Dumped Up to $1.6 Million of Stock After Reassuring Public About Coronavirus Preparedness — ProPublica
Intelligence Chair Richard Burr’s selloff came around the time he was receiving daily briefings on the health threat.
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So my brother filled me in on the two Navy “hospital” ships. One is up on blocks right now and not seaworthy. For either, it’s usually a significantly long process to stock and prepare for a sailing. One big issue, perhaps the biggest, is that these are staffed by Navy reserve, not activity duty sailors. Guess where naval reserve doctors, nurses and health professionals work? In civilian hospitals and health organizations, so staffing these takes away from those. Evidently the idea is to take some pressure off of a few hospitals with non-related patients, but that in of itself seems like a terrible idea given how easily this is transmitted and how easily things like boats magnify that transmission rate. Once you get one person on the boat that carries the infection, it seems like it would turn into a catastrophe on the boat.
I don’t care who you are, that right there is funny.
not everyone has the natural air filtration growing on their face like you do....
No, the advice for CDC is to stop searching for patient zero and instead just test Ozzy.
Friends of mine in New York are freaking out.
How bad is it there?
It probably has been bad but know one noticed. They have a huge spike in diagnosis, quadrupling over 48 hours. But that is primarily related to test availability and not a significant spike in the spread of the disease. I assume this is the case everywhere.
A 22 y/o coworker of mine is showing symptoms. He tried to get checked out. Since he is in a low risk group and was only showing mild symptoms he was told to go home and was not given a test.
Given that cases doubled in like 3 days pretty bad