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docjoctoo

docjoctoo

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steross said:
Have you been involved in the care of a critically ill COVID patient?
It is medically extremely easy to see the cause of death for the vast majority of them.
What makes you think that the people caring for them cannot differentiate a viral illness that fills the lungs full of fluid from obesity, heart disease, diabetes, or other lung diseases?

If an obese patient had a large stroke then died in the hospital, do you think it would be difficult for the medical team to figure out it was a stroke and not just obesity?
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Steross...as a person trained in internal medicine, having a fellowship in immunopathology, board certified in
Clinical and Anatomic Pathology and now as a practicing pathologist determining the primary (not associated cases of death) from contributing causes is often difficult if not impossible to untangle. I sent my previous post to a practicing pathologist friend in Texas whose only answer was "a-man". But let me add I salute you and other physicians who willingly go into harms way to care for the sick
 
docjoctoo

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OSUPsych said:
I can't tell if you're serious. CFR is case fatality ratio, a common term in epidemiology. It's what you appear to be trying to calculate as it's the proportion of identified cases that result in death. Early in the pandemic, people were taking the total deaths and dividing by the total identified cases to derive the original CFRs of 5%. You seem to be getting at the CFR for recent cases, but since the vast majority of people are NOT dying before or immediately upon diagnosis, you need the lag.

Worldometer is a data aggregating site and I applied the CFR to the entire US. Given your preference for using OSDH data (I'm assuming that's what you meant), they say there was an average of 13.9 deaths on a seven day rolling average on November 9 (the last date for which they put out that average). Lagging it a month, there was a 7 day rolling average of 1076 new daily cases on October 9. So, with roughly an average of a month between diagnosis and death, you would estimate about 1.3% of those diagnosed around October 9 have died. In other words, a rough estimate of the current CFR for Oklahoma is 1.3%.

I'm just using their COVID dashboard to calculate that if you want to check my sources or math. https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/0e8ccb659c804924b72ddc862ec0eadf
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Help me with these questions: 1. What is the definition of a "case" here in Oklahoma vs other reporting places in the US and around the world? 2. What is the definition of Oklahoma Covid-19 deaths? Is it anyone testing positive for the virus who dies in Oklahoma. Do all other places use Oklahoma's definition of Covid-19 deaths.
3. In Oklahoma a wide variety of tests for Covid-19 are used with various levels of sensitivity and specificity
making case definition difficult. What variety of tests are used in other reporting places?
 
steross

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docjoctoo said:
Steross...as a person trained in internal medicine, having a fellowship in immunopathology, board certified in
Clinical and Anatomic Pathology and now as a practicing pathologist determining the primary (not associated cases of death) from contributing causes is often difficult if not impossible to untangle. I sent my previous post to a practicing pathologist friend in Texas whose only answer was "a-man". But let me add I salute you and other physicians who willingly go into harms way to care for the sick
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Thanks for telling me your credentials again but that wasn’t my question. You made a very specific claim. You claimed that it is difficult to impossible to tell the cause of death. I strongly disagree the vast majority of the time. These patients come in with a distinct pattern and hypoxic respiratory failure. They have a positive test. They has specific lab abnormalities. What is the issue calling it death by Covid when they die with that?

I don’t know what “a-man” means. But, I know none of the people dying of Covid made me think, gee, I wonder if this horrific virus that they have filling their lungs full of fluid so they can’t get oxygen is their problem or is it their diabetes? Not once.

If you want to salute me, do not make misleading statements about what I do. I am seeing lots of Covid. It is not hard to diagnose at all and we aren’t misdiagnosing it as you claim. That is a political talking point for uneducated people trying to downplay the pandemic. It is not the reality that I am living.
 
cableok

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This is fairly balanced article. Title is “1 America, 1 Pandemic, 2 Realities”

Article compares South Dakota, which it describes as “having the fewest restrictions of any state” to New Mexico which the article describes as having “some of the toughest restrictions in the country”.

Couple of interesting nuggets:
* Unemployment:
* South Dakota is tied for third for the lowest unemployment rate in the country at 3.6%. SD is only 30 bps above pre-COVID.
* New Mexico has the 7th highest unemployment rate (only CA, NY, HI, NV, NJ, LA are higher). NM unemployment rate is up 330 bps from pre-COVID.

* Deaths per capita
* South Dakota: 88 per 1M residents
* New Mexico: 63 per 1M residents

* Cases
Article points out the SD has a lot of current cases, but then states,
“Although reports of new infections have started to level off in South Dakota, daily case numbers have more than doubled over the past two weeks in New Mexico.”

https://news.yahoo.com/1-america-1-pandemic-2-164142659.html
 
steross

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cableok said:
This is fairly balanced article. Title is “1 America, 1 Pandemic, 2 Realities”

Article compares South Dakota, which it describes as “having the fewest restrictions of any state” to New Mexico which the article describes as having “some of the toughest restrictions in the country”.

Couple of interesting nuggets:
* Unemployment:
* South Dakota is tied for third for the lowest unemployment rate in the country at 3.6%. SD is only 30 bps above pre-COVID.
* New Mexico has the 7th highest unemployment rate (only CA, NY, HI, NV, NJ, LA are higher). NM unemployment rate is up 330 bps from pre-COVID.

* Deaths per capita
* South Dakota: 88 per 1M residents
* New Mexico: 63 per 1M residents

* Cases
Article points out the SD has a lot of current cases, but then states,
“Although reports of new infections have started to level off in South Dakota, daily case numbers have more than doubled over the past two weeks in New Mexico.”

https://news.yahoo.com/1-america-1-pandemic-2-164142659.html
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Long term SD vs NM unemployment long term. Looks like the period just prior to COVID is the best NM does.
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cableok

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Prediction for this week: Social media will see a lot of virtue signaling tweets and Facebook posts about Thanksgiving. Color me not surprised that Chris Hayes already is leading the way.
https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1330360722300293124?s=21
 
cableok

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Binman4OSU said:
:facepalm::facepalm:
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1330360255449100294
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Gotta respect Cruz’s Twitter game. He is surprisingly clever with his tweets.
Although this tweet is like the Chris Hayes tweet on the previous page of this thread, just from the opposite side.
 
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