NSR: Coronavirus: A global Pandemic.

ALL CAPS? TRUMP MOMENT?

That is good news, though.

 

I was reading on a different blog that Easter is a massive money making day for churches, with attendance doubling or tripling. Apparently donations on Easter are five times that of other Sundays apart from Christmas. So it makes all more sense now.

 

UnitedHealthcare has been offering telehealth to its members for years, even the Medicare and Medicaid recipients.

 

To be fair the Swedes do take their civil liberties pretty seriously. For example they had to draft a new law that enables the government to even enact the measures that other countries have already imposed. The new law will only be valid for a few months and still doesn't cover general curfews for example.

Meanwhile in Germany the constitutional court has ruled that all imposed measures by local or federal politicians are covered by the preexisting infectious disease laws and are not unconstitutional, things could actually be escalated even further.

Sweden might have been unwilling to impose some things but apparently they also had a lack of legislation to enable them to do so quickly as well.

 

But what are the numbers on utilization?
How much primary care needs to bebrick and mortar?

 

Maybe they will end up alright for that. Sweden's numbers have been rising but better today, and they are FAR better than those of Belgium, which has a similar population. So, who knows?

 

That's a much larger and more complicated question than you probably wanted it to be.

 

Cleveland Clinic has been doing forms of it for a while.

 

Yeah,we are taking part in a grant for our houses.
My point is this crisis is an opportunity to ramp this up and scale it specifically for people who are chronically ill and need regular monitoring .
My fear is this is taking a rent out of someone's pocket and they will lobby lawmakers to make it difficult to implement

 

Yes, but the point remains that some of virus patterns remain unexplained. Belgium went into lockdown 3 1/2 weeks ago and is getting whacked far more than Sweden. It's a curious thing given that the two countries are a similar size, have similar wealth, and are geographically fairly close.

 

Almost certainly that is one of the explanations.

 

Note this article is from October 2019, well before the COVID-19 outbreak.

https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/pa...ata-analytics-digital-tools-for-its-nearly-6m

It makes sense for all parties to do telehealth. The issue I have had with my clients specifically is having the technology available to them because not everyone has a computer/smart phone.

 

Belgium
- Area: 30,689 km2 (11,849 sq mi)
- Density: 376/km2 (973.8/sq mi)

Sweden
- Area: 450,295 km2 (173,860 sq mi)
- Density: 23/km2 (59.6/sq mi)

From just Wikipedia.
Not saying that it explains it all, but "distancing" looks a little easier in Sweden, doesn't it?

(Also: for records, Netherlands have an even higher density than Belgium. Anyway, I guess it's clear that there are a lot of factors involved in the spread of the virus and it's difficult to factor all of them in for each country. My density argument was just a mere exemple of the complexity laying beneath).

 

Daily show on coronavirus and black people.

Black America is getting hit disproportionately hard by the coronavirus pandemic. Here’s why: pic.twitter.com/4tQvc9l5wa

— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) April 11, 2020

 

It's an issue particularly in rural areas.
Also,in my case,I had to go for lab work but that took 5 minutes as it's around the corner from work and I was the only one there.

 

Yet another almost certainly correct explanation. The density numbers aren't effectively that dramatic, because large parts of Sweden are unoccupied, so the occupied part looks somewhat more like Belgium's numbers. But certainly even that part is less densely populated than is Belgium.

 

Obviously some things, like bloodwork, require an in-person visit.

As for access in rural areas, I work in Appalachia quite frequently and rarely have wireless access issues with my iPad.

 

No he won't. Or, more precisely, you'll think he did, but the majority of American voters won't.

Most people here don't care about facts. They don't care if you're eloquent. They don't care if you know what you're talking about. It's much more important to be someone that people can't look away from.

 

<cries in Adirondack Park>

 

I dunno. I think of Milton as someone who is doing a lot of interesting things and is getting more and more attention. Just like Frederick Douglas.

 

I saw a headline, not a single patient went there, how long was it working?