Covid-19 in OKC (coronavirus)

[dankrutka]

FYI: You can also use sanitizer on rubber gloves just like with your hands. But, I agree, being mindful about what you're touching is just as important.

[jn1780]

pretty interesting stuff in this

https://news.yahoo.com/sweden-found-...103003618.html

If 25% and 50% of people are asymptomatic then its not surprising that lower populations would not noticed a problem. Its only the high density cities that get hit hard after having a smoldering fire for several week all of a sudden blow up into a raging inferno.

The post crisis analysis on this will interesting. An antibody statistical survey on the population would probably turn up interesting results.

[SoonerDave]

I don't think there's any question that population density is going to be a critical factor in the analysis of this event. From nursing homes at the micro level to cities like NYC at the macro level, I think there's going to be a fascinating difference in the distribution as a function of population density.

[OkiePoke]

I have noticed a lot more places have the pay-with-your-phone feature. That is great to prevent any contact with the machine, but then you have to press "yes", "yes", or on gas pumps, "zip code".

WOuld be nice if machine's could become pure contactless.

[Pete]

Numbers just updated for Tuesday.

As you can see, once you get past the weekend they start going up again.

[FighttheGoodFight]

16 new deaths. That’s awful

[jerrywall]

^ oof. There's our post weekend jump.

[ShadowStrings]

[mugofbeer]

Saw this yesterday at my local grocery store. I saw a guy get out of his car wearing surgical type gloves into the grocery store. As I was leaving, I saw the gloves on the ground at the place his car was. I suppose he may have accidentally dropped them but it seems he just took them off and dropped them on the ground for someone else to pick up. Unbelievable.

[Teo9969]

It's still a substantial improvement against previous weeks rates. The death toll its still pretty on par with a 5-day trailing average. The amount of cumulative hospitalized today should mean that in 5 days a little less than a quarter of those have passed away. It's been pretty consistent since we climbed over 100 hospitalized. As long as hospitalizations don't take off, I don't think we'll a crazy spike in mortality. Looks like we'll be over 100 either this weekend or early next week.

[jdizzle]

Yeah, he did, his order was for elderly and susceptible populations to isolate, very similar. I'm not sure, though, if Sweden's approach is scalable to our larger population and complexity - they have 10 million people, the US has 35 times that many, just as a starting point, not to mention more people coming in and out of the country, they don't have 50+ different states/territories that are all uncoordinated, all the political party BS here in the US, etc.. At least Sweden's method might be the way to get out of what we're doing currently.

I was meaning Stitt. He said the same thing Sweden did, and OK has 1/3 the population.

[kukblue1]

^ oof. There's our post weekend jump.

Why is this? No testing on weekends?

[jn1780]

Why is this? No testing on weekends?

Doctors offices are closed on weekends so people are never sent to be tested. That would be my guess.

Death rate lags so we are probably seeing that surge in hospitalizations from the beginning of the month show up now as deaths.

[TheTravellers]

I was meaning Stitt. He said the same thing Sweden did, and OK has 1/3 the population.

Yep, I know, I was just extrapolating Sweden's method to the entire US. Stitt did what Sweden did, but the other states around OK (except AR, which apparently still doesn't have a shelter-in-place order) were doing what the other countries in the EU were doing, very similar.

Saw a guy out walking some dogs today out on the median of Venice, he was wearing a bandanna, nobody within a block, much less 6 feet, logic and science just isn't being used. And I wonder how many of these bandannas are worn outside, then thrown on a couch or table (even worse) when they get home, after they've touched the entire mask while taking it off (as BBates said earlier)?

[d-usa]

Why is this? No testing on weekends?

The drive through testing locations also operate on weekdays only I believe.

[Edmond Hausfrau]

https://omrf.org/2020/04/07/medical-...tm_medium=OMRF

Some nice information from OMRF about applications they are doing for NIH grants as well as testing.

[TheTravellers]

Not sure of what other states are doing, but why can't all these numbers be available (from both private and state/public labs) from every state so we get the *entire* set of data:

Number of tests administered
Number of positives
Number of negatives
Number of hospitalized
Number of dead
Number of recovered/discharged from hospital alive

[BBatesokc]

Had a couple of friends get tested after coming into close contact with someone who is now hospitalized. Appears they were able to be treated privately for about $75 and got results in 20 minutes (negative). I'm glad to hear this is now an option. Unfortunately, I have other friends who have been quarantined for over a week now and still don't know their results.

[Laramie]

The problem is, people put on the gloves and then cross contaminate literally everything.

Example: A person puts on their little blue gloves as they get out of their car at the grocery store. Then they proceed to touch the cart and every item they put in your basket. In the mean time they are checking their phone for calls, texts, or to simply read their grocery list. They might also touch their face or any other part of their body or their clothing. They then head to the register and proceed to get into their purse and/or wallet, touch their money or credit cards. Then they touch the credit card scanner and put everything back into their purse. After that they head to the car - opening the car door and unloading everything into the car. Only after getting into the car do many people even bother to take the gloves. off. Too late folks, you've already done a dozen things completely wrong.

Same goes for the gas station, etc.

I'd rather wear no gloves - the virus isn't absorbed into the skin - and remain mindful that I need to constantly wash my hands and apply sanitizer. I see no benefit to the gloves other than in very specific situations; hospital setting or while directly caring for someone who is positive or in a high risk group.

One of the reasons I'm just a little skeptical of food preparers touching items wearing gloves not in their areas; most fast food restaurants assign workers to stations to avoid cross-contamination (raw meats & cooked meats) where you avoid illnesses like Gastroenteritis, Trichinosis, Salmonella, Escherichia coli (E-coli) and a host of others.

Recall a place called Sammy's Pizza on N.W. 10th back in the 70s, one of my favorite places following Blazers hockey games; stopped going there after seeing a worker eating directly from the bowls in the salad bar.

Gloves you want them to have as long as they are changing them on a regular basis. That's why I prefer restaurants where you can watch them prepare your food.

[happyday]

There are some current YouTube videos of walkabouts in New York City. It struck me that there are almost fewer people walking the streets in NYC than seen walking in downtown OKC these days.

[Jeepnokc]

I miss Sammys

[soonerguru]

I miss Sammys

I'll never forget discovering a presumably used Band-aid, encapsulated in melted mozzarella, in a pizza at the now defunct Pizza Inn on 23rd in OKC. That was a most unwelcome discovery on our junior high church youth group outing circa sometime in the early 1980s.

[soonerguru]

pretty interesting stuff in this

https://news.yahoo.com/sweden-found-...103003618.html

Interesting indeed. But when you hear that the solution to a global pandemic is "herd immunity" you know that you are royally screwed. While this article is allegedly "evidence based," there are Swiss-cheese holes in some of the arguments. And, I admit, having a serious, adult conversation about pandemic disease is way above my pay grade.

[BBatesokc]

There are some current YouTube videos of walkabouts in New York City. It struck me that there are almost fewer people walking the streets in NYC than seen walking in downtown OKC these days.

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[AP]

Interesting indeed. But when you hear that the solution to a global pandemic is "herd immunity" you know that you are royally screwed. While this article is allegedly "evidence based," there are Swiss-cheese holes in some of the arguments. And, I admit, having a serious, adult conversation about pandemic disease is way above my pay grade.

This guy referred to the virus as the Wuhan virus multiple times. There is nothing serious or adult about his discussions.