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Originally posted by 18DAI:
A relative in the local medical field told me that if they admit a COVID19 patient, they get $13K from the feds.

And if that patient goes on a ventilator, they get $39K. Just like in white collar crime investigations, follow the money. Regards 18DAI

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Originally posted by leavemebe:
On a different note, good news from the front line in PA: "UPMC doctor argues COVID-19 not as deadly as feared, says its hospitals will shift back to normal"

Dr. Yealy, UPMC

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A UPMC doctor on Thursday made a case the death rate for people infected with the new coronavirus may be as low as 0.25% — far lower than the mortality rates of 2-4% or even higher cited in the early days of the pandemic.

Dr. Donald Yealy based it partly on studies of levels of coronavirus antibodies detected in people in New York and California, and partly on COVID-19 deaths in the Pittsburgh region. The studies found that 5-20% of people had been exposed to the coronavirus, with many noticing only mild illness or none at all, he said.

“We’ve learned that way more people, far, far more people have actually been exposed to the infection without any knowledge of it. That makes the overall death rate much lower,” said Yealy, who is UPMC’s chair of emergency medicine. “Many people just didn’t feel sick at all and recovered without difficulty.”

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“During that period of time, that six-week interval when they were hiding this virus from the world, China went from a net exporter of personal protective equipment, they are the largest producer of that in the world, to a large net importer,” he said. “They basically went around and vacuumed up virtually all of the PPE around the world ... and what that did was leave people in New York, Milan, and everywhere in-between defenseless when it came time to have that PPE.”

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo confirmed elements of the DHS report on Sunday during an interview with Martha Raddatz on This Week on ABC.

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Originally posted by roberth:
China 'intentionally concealed the severity' of coronavirus outbreak to hoard supplies: DHS report

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“During that period of time, that six-week interval when they were hiding this virus from the world, China went from a net exporter of personal protective equipment, they are the largest producer of that in the world, to a large net importer,” he said. “They basically went around and vacuumed up virtually all of the PPE around the world ... and what that did was leave people in New York, Milan, and everywhere in-between defenseless when it came time to have that PPE.”

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo confirmed elements of the DHS report on Sunday during an interview with Martha Raddatz on This Week on ABC.

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Originally posted by SIG228:
I posted that article from a few pages back by a local physician to my Facebook page. Within an hour it was removed, and not by me.

Google, Facebook, Youtube are all deleting anything that doesn't fit the leftists agenda.

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Originally posted by wcb6092:
'Divisive and disrespectful': San Francisco bars police from wearing 'thin blue line' face masks...

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San Francisco bars police.

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Originally posted by wcb6092: He noted that the department would be providing personal protective equipment to officers soon and said they will no longer be allowed to wear any other face coverings once the department is supplied.

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Originally posted by Rightwire:
And now the media has sparked the panic buying of meat. Awesome!

What next, brussel sprouts? How about tofu?

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Originally posted by holdem:

I have a good friend, a cyclist, he has been riding all over Orlando . . . Last week he happened to ride by a drive through testing site. There was not a single car in line, all of the health cares workers were standing around with nothing to do, so he rode his bicycle up and asked, "Can I get tested?" The response was, "You have to make an appointment." So he pulled out his cell phone and called the appointment number. They offered him an appointment x number of days in the future. He said, "But I am here now, and there isn't a single person currently being tested." And to them, it did not matter, so he did not get tested.

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I do not have enough blood pressure medicine.

This is a shameful waste of our tax dollars. Health care non-workers being paid to stand around with their thumbs up their asses, totally idle, but refusing to do their jobs because a tax paying citizen has to make a ridiculous request for an appointment to have . . . shit, this is so aggravating, I can't even think straight.

Every one of these bastards should be fired.