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Author Archives: David Posnett
Doctors Feeling Outrage
Coronavirus tragedy: Chinese doctor who postponed wedding to treat patients dies of infection. Feb 21,2020. From Norbert Goldfield (Ask Nurses and Doctors LLC, AND) Three updates from AND From Andrew Goldstein. If you read anything today – read this. … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, Health Care, Trump, Uncategorized, Zeldin
Tagged Coronavirus, isolation, pandemic, pleas from doctors
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Trump Shirks Responsibility
Letter to the Editor, The East Hampton Star, March 19 edition An Inspiration East Hampton March 16, 2020 To the Editor: When asked at a press conference last Friday if he takes responsibility for the lack of coronavirus test kits, … Continue reading
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The Terminology of Keeping Distance
The concepts of social distancing, quarantine and isolation are being interpreted in a variety of ways, not always correctly. Here’s a guide to help you make the right decisions. It comes mostly from a NYT article on ‘social distancing’ by … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, Health Care, Uncategorized
Tagged Coronavirus, COVID-19, isolation, quarantine, self-isolation, self-quarantine, social distancing
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The Economic Impact of the Virus
In the East Hampton Star: GUESTWORDS By John Tepper Marlin March 19, 2020 A monument near the office where I worked in Washington, D.C., until Sunday bears this quote by the Argentinean Jose Narosky: “In war there are no … Continue reading
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Tagged COVID-19, cuomo, east end, suffolk county
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COVID-19: What is the Best Mitigation Strategy?
Interesting and thorough paper on COVID-19 disease modeling in the UK and the USA with an emphasis on analysis of each mitigation strategy (quarantine, closing schools, etc) or combination of strategies. It is a 20-page paper. So I am reprinting … Continue reading
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Tagged case isolation, Coronavirus, pandemic, quarantine, school closures, social distancing
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Logarithmic Progression of COVID-19 Creates a Problem
This is a long post to basically say that we are going to run out of hospital beds, ICU beds and ventilators if we don’t enact very strict social distancing/isolation rules immediately. It is based on the known exponential growth … Continue reading
The Cry for National Leadership
By Perry Gershon Posted Tuesday, March 17, 2020 12:53 pm in the Long Island Advance Perry Gershon, Candidate for Congress NY-1 As President Trump flails in his attempts to lead our country through one of the most severe challenges … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, economy, Health Care, Trump, Uncategorized, Zeldin
Tagged cuomo, gershon, leadership, perry, WHO
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Hospital Beds Will Run Out
This is a great tool to check the future availability of hospital beds in your area. On Eastern Long Island we will nearly certainly run out: Infections are supposed to peak by early May which puts us in the … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, East Hampton, Uncategorized, Zeldin
Tagged beds, COVID-19, hospital
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Velocity of COVID-19 spread
This is a measure of how fast the COVID-19 virus is spreading in different countries: from the Financial Times by Steve Bernard, Cale Tilford and John Burn-Murdoch The steeper the slope, the faster the virus is spreading. When the slope … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, Health Care, Trump, Uncategorized
Tagged case trajectories, China, COVID-19, crowd control, cumulative cases, spanish flu, testing, trendline, Wuhan
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State of Emergency: COVID-19
Thank you East Hampton Star, for running the historical piece “Then and Now” on March 12th: “Dr. David Edwards, the town health officer in 1918, reported six cases of influenza in early October. A week later there were 35 cases, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1918, China, COVID-19, Hubei, influenza, spanish flu, Wuhan
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