#Hospitals

My “breadth” measure of US COVID cases, which is # of States with 1,000+ cases per day just hit a new high, 21 StatesLooking at UK and France having massive
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Today is exactly 14 days since Greece went into a lockdown much stricter than UK. Many rebuked it as premature, illiberal, precipitous, draconian and something the British - wot, wot
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Quite shocked to see so many usually reasonable commentators complaining about the UK lockdown being enforced and arguing their right to wander around outside. In Spain, we've been indoors for
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Don't ever let them tell you we didn't see this coming. The consultant class (starting with Deloitte) and hospital corporation executives (and the PE firms which increasingly own them) started
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Deep dive by @zeynep from a sociological perspective on what we who have studied airborne transmission for a while, have been observing. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/opinion/coronavirus-airborne-transmission.html?smid=tw-share /1 Ther
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Daily reports tell us what happened last week, 2 weeks ago, 4 weeks agoThis is why folks are worried about what's nextToday's 7 day moving avgs167K cases, 3600 new hospitalizations,
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privatized utilities and food supply chains = biopower? when i think of like, deloitte etc. being handed the keys to testing centers with the goal being optimization of process and
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A thread: So I attended this zoom meeting last Monday titled: DOH Job Hiring - the purpose of the meeting is to talk w/ DOH leaders re current hiring for
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Somebody please explain to Cryin’ Chuck Schumer that we do have a military man in charge of distributing goods, a very talented Admiral, in fact. New York has gotten far
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After giving a good thought, here are my views on vaccine pricing:While supply and sustainability of pvt manufactures are paramount - 1. The govt procurement price for both center and
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A dear friend of mine was scheduled to have a significant surgery next week. A surgery so important and time sensitive, that it was set to go ahead, in spite
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I urge the Senate and House to pass the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act with additional funding for PPP, Hospitals, and Testing. After I sign this Bill,
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NHS analysts and policy people. a short thread with some questions about the data the system collects. Why is it so irrelevant and so poor?... The government is currently ruminating
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1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 22@UCSFhospitals, 19 Covid pts, stable (Fig), with 9 in ICU, 4 on vents. ZSFG still @ 30 pts, 11 vents. Numbers quite stable overall. Relatively
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1) HI Dave. The reason you’re confused is because your president lied to you. If you looked at the models about how this would play out, staying at home was
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If this row about the Louisa Jordan hospital actually means more people will know about the Scottish Women’s Hospitals, Elsie Inglis et al, the NUWSS, and the fight women had
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