Subj : Re: Pandemic
To   : Lee Lofaso
From : Dale Shipp
Date : Fri Mar 20 2020 01:40 am

 -=> On 03-19-20  23:25,  Lee Lofaso <=-
 -=> spoke to Dan Cross about Pandemic <=-

 LL> What will be needed is field hospitals, using tents as rooms.
 LL> And converting hospital beds to ICU beds.  Otherwise, it will
 LL> be a lost cause.

I saw in the news tonight that a county in Washington state is
converting an empty soccer field into a 200 bed hospital.  More of that
sort of thing will be needed (but that is not all that is needed by any
means).

 LL> To give you an idea as to how many test kits are available,
 LL> just look at the numbers.  The state of Louisiana has four and
 LL> a half million people.  The highest number of tests it has been
 LL> able to do is 172.  A total of 669 tests over 7 days.

 LL> Look at total tested and total cases -

 LL> Total tested   - 805 over 8 days
 LL> Total positive - 347 over 8 days

 LL> That is rate fast approaching 50%.

That sounds like they are only testing people who are already showing
signs of infection.

 LL> Think about how many folks who have the coronavirus who
 LL> have never been tested.  And might never get tested.

In some areas of mass testing in Europe, about half of the people who
tested positive showed no symptoms.

                               Dale Shipp
                  fido_261_1466 (at) verizon (dot) net
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