2020.03.21 08:52
2020.03.21 09:15
2020.03.21 13:03
This is a good example of how inefficient and idiotic the healthcare system is.
The medical facilities are, at least, doing an excellent job of getting the insurance information
of the patient and a form for the waiver of their liability for themselves.
They spend more time on their business paper works than medical care.
I have been feeling this stupid stuff every day during this winter.
I will tell you. Their primary goal is not medical care. They are for their profit and money collection.
Imagine the mentality of being proud of having no coronavirus case while they have not given
even a single test for diagnosing the disease. That's West Virginia all right...a perfect match!
This lady in the story was smart enough not to spread the disease all over West Virginia and Virginia.
As a senior in this society, I feel lonely even though we have all the insurance coverage.
2020.03.21 13:37
Coronavirus pandemic will be an excellent stress test for both the American health care system
that depends on the private sector and the European one that is socialized medicine. Italy is failing
to control the epidemic partly because of her broken health care system. Both are not perfect,
but I think American one based on the free market will come out as a winner. I would like to point out
that excessive spending on welfare like what Italy has been doing will make people lazy and
cripple the country because of budget deficits due to insufficient revenue. There would be
no money left to take care of unexpected crises like the epidemic.
2020.03.21 20:56
"The number of undetected cases is 11 times more than has been officially reported, researchers at Columbia University estimate. Their analysis offers a stark warning: Even if the country cut its rate of transmission in half — a tall order — some 650,000 people may still become infected in the next two months." NYTimes, March 22, 2020 Of note, I said in the above "common sense tells us ten times the confirmed number 25000", and this morning NYTimes said, "the experts estimate the undetected cases to be 11 times the confirmed number" which is close enough to my common sense. |
2020.03.22 03:00
The total number of confirmed cases worldwide passed 320,000.
Ten times of that number would be 3.2 million, the appropriate real number,
which continues to grow exponentially at this time.
If this is not the Pandemic with the explosive potential worse than the 1918 Pandemic,
what else? We still cannot see the end of this Pandemic without a vaccine.
It is truly a World War, virus attacking humanity.
Every human being on earth must do his share in this War of the century
for the sake of Homo sapiens.
"(CNN)If you want to get a test for the novel coronavirus, you're in good company.
"One of my sisters called me yesterday [and said], 'I have to have my daughter tested for coronavirus,'" New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said at a press briefing Wednesday.
The governor's niece had a fever and flu-like symptoms. Yet he told his sister "there's no reason for a test" since her daughter hadn't traveled to a coronavirus hot spot or been in contact with anyone who had tested positive for the virus.
Across the United States, physicians are sending the same message: Not everyone who wants a test will get a test."
2020.03.22 03:42
Space Photos of the Week: Earth Looks Peaceful From Up Here
https://www.wired.com/story/pale-blue-dot
2020.03.22 04:14
So, my question is now if anyone like my wife who lives in Virginia for example wants to get the test
when they want, can they have it anytime and where they should go to have the test done?
BB Lee
2020.03.22 05:01
To be honest, anyone who is not sick enough with flu Sx yet wants to have a coronavirus test
can have it done faster by flying to Korea and have the drive-thru test than trying to have it
done here in America.
At least that is the reality here in California.
That reality can change though as happened in West Virginia thanks to the great woman in the story,
which is incredible yet true, at least partly all over the USA with ten thousand variations depending upon localities.
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I have an answer for you, Dr. Lee, in my new entry, breaking news.
Starting tomorrow you can buy home testing kits at a cost of $165 out of your pocket, in a usual American capitalistic way.
2020.03.22 11:46
So, money talks, after all, Dr. Lee!
Well done!
BB Lee
The number of coronavirus cases in the USA passed 25000.
After you read the story, your common sense will tell you that
the real number would be more like at least ten times that,
250000.
The story sounds so familiar to someone like me who spent 43 years
in medical practice dealing with the complicated health delivery system.
There was a well-known story of an old professor at Wayne State University
Hospital(Receiving Hospital), Detroit, who used to tell new interns every July of the year
that "one thing all of you must remember every day is that at this hospital
everything goes wrong every day unless you do something."
The American health system is so complex and so complicated that indeed
everything goes wrong every day unless every American does something every day
as this poor lady bravely persisted to correct what's wrong.
I am so proud of her. What an intelligent and courageous lady she is! She saved her husband
and others.
And you realize how blind and ignorant or plain stupid and heartless
so many people and some politicians can be out there in the real world.