Link. Turning Japanese.
Daily Archives: March 28, 2020
“Los Angeles and San Francisco “must have had multiple introductions” of the virus … but few cases…
Link. We do not understand.
World may run out of oil storage.
Link. Not the Peak Oil we expected.
Augmented Text Editing on Mobile iOS 13.
Link. @mjtsai promised me these were better but I’ve tried and tried and I hate iOS 13 text editing. The i8 is too small for pinch and I don’t think I’ll ever get the timing right.
“Disbanding the unit exacerbated a trend that was already prevalent after two years of Trump – an exodus of skilled and experienced officials who knew what they were doing”
Link. Trump loyalists took over. The Atlantic has re ent article with details.
Critical Care for the Non-ICU Clinician.
Link. You too can run a vent. A guided collection of their usual teaching materials. It’s wrong level of detail, if I’m operating a vent it’s going to have to be a LOT simpler.
COVID-19 ToolBOX
Link. Resource site. Personal site. I think I know by who.
Recommended Guidance for Extended Use and Limited Reuse of N95 Filtering Facepiece Respirators in Healthcare Settings – NIOSH Workplace Safety and Health Topic
Link. Some very good material here.
“In three to four weeks, there will be a major shortage of chemical reagents for coronavirus testing, the result of limited production capacity, compounded by the collapse of global supply chains when the epidemic closed down manufacturing in China for we
Link. We will need governors to act where Trump cannot.
“Dr. Birx, they think, is more willing to be patient with the president’s interruptions and theorizing about medicine.”
Link. NYT relatively sympathetic to Dr Birx peculiar comments.
Sweden’s COVID approach is … odd.
Link. I thought it was “herd immunity”, but it sounds less coherent than that. Seems to be coming from their public health agency.
Denmark: “government covering 75 to 90 percent of all worker salaries over the next three months, provided that companies refrain from layoffs.”
Link. UK similar.
“About 80% of people who get sick will have milder symptoms and won’t need much medical care”
Link. This framing is technically true but widely misinterpreted. That 80% is a spectrum including people with weeks of misery, an even longer recovery process, and some residual lung damage.
IHME US and state hospital resource projections (U Washington)
Link. At least for Minnesota more optimistic than some.
“nucleic acid tests used in China were accurate at identifying positive cases of the coronavirus only 30%-50% of the time.”
Link. Even here false negatives are common. Bronchoalveolar lavage is gold standard. I think false positive less common. One reason why testing prior to hospitalization may not be wise.