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No negative pressure ventilators are iron lung type devices. [0] What's in that video look like just oxygen hoods which surround the head in very high oxygen air. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_lung
It's both high concentration, and high pressure.
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Seems likely. Italy is currently seeing a 13% increase per day while the US is now very close to a 50% increase per day. There are news reports showing beaches and bars in the US are still fully packed. It probably relates the US culture of disregarding expert advice and doing the opposite to "own the scientists"
People stop very fast when people they know start to get sick and die.
Previously it has been communicated that 99% of deaths are to people with existing health problems.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-...
There are two people in my life I expect to die of the virus: my sister who is in her late 20s, with a lifetime history of Anorexia/Bulimia, who is currently in stage 5 kidney failure. Secondly my Aunt, a lifetime smoker, who currently has terminal lung cancer.
Both of these people, speaking personally, are going to die sometime this year. Will their deaths be accounted against the Coronavirus death toll or to their underlying conditions?
Is there any point to shutting down everything for 18+ months so that they can live another few months, doing so under lockdown conditions and general panic, with nobody able to visit them? And at the end of it all, many of the people who care for them will be unemployed.
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> Cross contamination is not a concern when someone is dying here and now and likely has the same disease as the guy next to him who is also dying If COVID evolves into multiple strains, then there is a real risk of cross-infection that would make the immune system forced to work harder? Moreover, a lot of the pneumonia deaths are not due to covid itself but rather due to opportunistic infections (often bacterial) th…
But it doesn't have to be covid patients. There will still be people who need a ventilator but aren't part of the epidemic, freeing up ventilators for covid patients.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
The Ventilator just keeps them alive for a few days, but there are other bodily systems failing and causing death.
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Tangentially (this is HN after all) I also feel like "half a dozen" gives a more fuzzy confidence interval than a regular number ("6"). Of course, half a dozen literally means the amount 6, but am I the only one that reads them slightly differently? I almost see an implicit "about" before the phrase: "[about] half a dozen".
It's a technique you can use in software estimation too. There's an implied difference between saying something will take about 2 months vs 8 weeks vs 57 days, even if they're all technically the same amount of time.