Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

House opens investigation of pandemic ventilator purchases overseen by White House

A Washington Post investigation found that the 11,200 ventilators made by a well-connected company were ill-suited for covid-19 patients and remain in a warehouse

https://www.washingtonpost.com/tech...t-medical-ventilator-investigation-contracts/

 

I'm sure this will be very popular.


China rolls out anal swab coronavirus tests, saying it’s more accurate than throat method

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...284f56-6054-11eb-a177-7765f29a9524_story.html


SEOUL — Months-long lockdowns. Entire city populations herded through the streets for mandatory testing. The people of China could be forgiven for thinking they had seen it all during the coronavirus pandemic.

But now they face a new indignity: the addition of anal swabs — yes, you read that right — to the testing regimen for those in quarantine.

Chinese state media outlets introduced the new protocol in recent days, prompting widespread discussion and some outrage. Some Chinese doctors say the science is there. Recovering patients, they say, have continued to test positive through samples from the lower digestive tract days after nasal and throat swabs came back negative.

Yet for many, it seemed a step too far in government intrusions after a year and counting of a dignity-eroding pandemic.

“Everyone involved will be so embarrassed,” one user in Guangdong province said on Weibo, a Chinese social media platform, on Wednesday. In a Weibo poll, 80 percent of respondents said they “could not accept” the invasive method.

 

The Roaring Twenties came in between, so my totally intuitive WAG is, probably not much. Although the Twenties weren't really that "roaring" in other nations besides the US, which had the monumental good fortune to not have one bullet of WWI fired anywhere near its territory.

 

This seems like it is similar to covid prediction in the sewer system. Great idea.

 

something something donald trump something something studio 54 bathroom stalls /starman

 

Does no one think through the logistics of these things?

 

New York severely undercounted virus deaths in nursing homes, a report says

 

Well, this is eye-opening. Important to note that the data collectors are HS football coaches. There's a reason analytics people are consultants and not coaches (yet.) But the numbers here are so huge that they're probably far greater than those in previous years.
Coaching community collects alarming data in area that opted for no fall football

 

With no hoops, Tulane's best player went home during a break last year and killed someone.