Coronavirus 2019-nCoV

[revenge_of_shocka_khan]

Thank you for the wonderful compliment. You are such a good contrarian.

[MikeKennedyRulZ]

Thank you for the wonderful compliment. You are such a good contrarian.

You are welcome. I call em as I see em.

[pinstripers]

Serious question.......didja ever hear anybody say, "yeah, I got that China virus. I remember 6 days ago, there was this guy at the next gas pump, sumbitch weren't wearin no mask...."

[wichshock65]

Serious question.......didja ever hear anybody say, "yeah, I got that China virus. I remember 6 days ago, there was this guy at the next gas pump, sumbitch weren't wearin no mask...."

Why were you in Arkansas?

[Aargh]

My Sis works for Tabor College. Tabor and the nearly bankrupt hospital in Hillsboro joined forces and purchased a system that can process 40 - 50 CV samples an hour. The entire student body of Tabor can be tested and the results known within 2 days. That capacity gives Hillsboro the ability to test 100% of their population with the results ranging from an hour to around a week. That's considering 8 hour days, no overtime, and no work on weekends.

Overall in Kansas, we're getting maybe 10% of the populatin tested and results take from 1 to 2 weeks to get results. We can do better.

[wufan]

My Sis works for Tabor College. Tabor and the nearly bankrupt hospital in Hillsboro joined forces and purchased a system that can process 40 - 50 CV samples an hour. The entire student body of Tabor can be tested and the results known within 2 days. That capacity gives Hillsboro the ability to test 100% of their population with the results ranging from an hour to around a week. That's considering 8 hour days, no overtime, and no work on weekends.

Overall in Kansas, we're getting maybe 10% of the populatin tested and results take from 1 to 2 weeks to get results. We can do better.

I think you are misunderstanding something here. You have to grow the virus, then test it. That growth phase is usually 24 hours, so it takes 10 minutes to set up 10 samples. 24-48 hours later they are ready to be read, then distributed. The reading and reporting takes time, plus you have to have someone review the data, then the results can be distributed. Usually, people that pitch these ideas don’t plan for the reading and distribution, which is where the backlog occurs. Unless they are using a rapid testing system, they aren’t going to have results back in an hour, and if they are using a rapid testing system, then they aren’t processing 40-50 samples an hour.

That said, Yes we can do better.

[wufan]

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Im just glad you are doing your part to dismantle the patriarchy in this very not political virus situation.

[wufan]

My Sis works for Tabor College. Tabor and the nearly bankrupt hospital in Hillsboro joined forces and purchased a system that can process 40 - 50 CV samples an hour. The entire student body of Tabor can be tested and the results known within 2 days. That capacity gives Hillsboro the ability to test 100% of their population with the results ranging from an hour to around a week. That's considering 8 hour days, no overtime, and no work on weekends.

Overall in Kansas, we're getting maybe 10% of the populatin tested and results take from 1 to 2 weeks to get results. We can do better.

A couple more things:

The population of Hillsboro is just shy of 3000. The student body population is probably 500 or so. Let’s call it 3000.

With 500 students, and 50 tests an hour, that means you have to process 50 people through a specific area every hour. You can get them all in and out in 10 hours. Then the rest of the population has to go through. That’s another 50 hours. So 7.5 workdays of constantly shuffling everyone through the same area. You need at least 3 receptionists and 20 test administrators. Two lab techs, an engineer, a couple of warehouse guys, and three medical billing professionals, a supervisor, and a doctor. Also, you have to specially outfit a wing of the hospital for this. About 50 people to serve 3000. To get this to every other day on the population (this all assumes that they are running 200 rapid test machines). You need 200 people working. About 8% of the population doing nothing but facilitating testing, and the dutiful population spending 1-2 hours a week getting a swab in the schnoz.

[WuDrWu]

WHERE ARE THE NUMBERS??!!!

[Aargh]

About 8% of the population doing nothing but facilitating testing, and the dutiful population spending 1-2 hours a week getting a swab in the schnoz.

So, with unemployment above 10% we have the capability to do this on a national level, even with your rather pessimistic staffing requirements. 20 test administrators for 50 tests an hour on a single machine? How many of them are merely observing?

[wufan]

So, with unemployment above 10% we have the capability to do this on a national level, even with your rather pessimistic staffing requirements. 20 test administrators for 50 tests an hour on a single machine? How many of them are merely observing?

Well, you have to train all those folks, but yeah you just solved unemployment.

Tell me how the instrument they purchased works. The rapid testing machine tests a single sample in about 15 minutes, so if you are doing 50 an hour, you need at least a dozen of them. I’m assuming this isn’t the case. It’s more likely that you run a panel of 10 samples an hour and you have five of those. The one I’m familiar with requires the virus to be grown for a day or two prior to running.

As to the test administrators, when I got my test someone put me in a room and shoved a swab up my nose. That took about 10 minutes. One person could do about 5 an hour, but they were also taking you to the room, dismissing you, and checking your paperwork so I doubled the time.

[ShockingButTrue]

This guy just took something called Hydroxychloroquine and claimed it saved his life:

https://nypost.com/2020/08/08/nyc-co...d-19-recovery/

Do any of the experts know anything about this? Have other countries used it?

[wichshock65]

This guy just took something called Hydroxychloroquine and claimed it saved his life:

https://nypost.com/2020/08/08/nyc-co...d-19-recovery/

Do any of the experts know anything about this? Have other countries used it?

I believe it is illegal to use that drug on COVID-19. He should be jailed, after he recovers of course (we're not animals).

[Kung Wu]

I believe it is illegal to use that drug on COVID-19. He should be jailed, after he recovers of course (we're not animals).

Well that happened in March before it was illegal.

[wufan]

Well, you have to train all those folks, but yeah you just solved unemployment.

Tell me how the instrument they purchased works. The rapid testing machine tests a single sample in about 15 minutes, so if you are doing 50 an hour, you need at least a dozen of them. I’m assuming this isn’t the case. It’s more likely that you run a panel of 10 samples an hour and you have five of those. The one I’m familiar with requires the virus to be grown for a day or two prior to running.

As to the test administrators, when I got my test someone put me in a room and shoved a swab up my nose. That took about 10 minutes. One person could do about 5 an hour, but they were also taking you to the room, dismissing you, and checking your paperwork so I doubled the time.

Aargh, Any updates?