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by Animats
2236 days ago
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Yes, Stanford Hospitals actually sent about 20% of their staff home.[1] Stanford was prepared for a huge influx of coronavirus patients, but they only have 20-30 in the hospital. This despite a steadily climbing death toll. My own GP says, if you get it, go to Stanford; they have the investigational drugs, and they're not overloaded. Nationally, the US death toll continues to climb. Currently somewhere between 69,000 and 74,000, depending on the source. The SF Bay Area's shelter-in-place thing seems to have helped. We need to get more people wearing masks, though. Seeing too many people without masks. More of the good masks, too. You really need N95 or ASTM Level 3 masks to protect yourself; the cheapies only protect other people. That only works if almost everybody wears the things. What's happening outside the US? The Financial Times tracker, which has been updated every day for months, shows the US death rate flat. Most other countries have peaked and decreased substantially.[2] [1] https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/04/27/coronavirus-14000-sta... [2] https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-chart/?areas=usa&areas=gbr&cum... |
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