Coronavirus Coronavirus: In-Iowa General Discussion (Not Limited)

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isutrevman

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Up until recently part of the issue were the number of test. Times that they said they had 800 or so at the briefings. Today it was 10,588 so it is moving up.
Do they have the personnel to run all the tests, though? Genuinely curious. I don't know what it actually takes to run a test. Do they simply run your sample through a machine, so maybe personnel isn't an issue?
 

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Unfortunately, I don't see how we can test everyone any time soon. Just Iowa alone for example. If you were to try to test every person in Iowa for antibodies over a month long period. 3,155,000 / 30 days = 105,165 tests per day. There is just no way we have, or will have the infrastructure for that. We're struggling to perform 1,000-2,000 tests per day as it is. MAYBE if someone creates a do-it-yourself at home test that can mailed out. But then you are relying on people to do it correctly. I don't know what the solution is.

If they can come up with an accurate five minute test (big if given the first few attempts) have blood centers conduct them so that antibody positive folks can donate plasma on the spot.

They already have the tools to handle massive testing samples and provide discrete results and tracking. And they need blood donations badly right now. Both blood centers near me have been calling regularly to see if I can donate.
 

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Do they have the personnel to run all the tests, though? Genuinely curious. I don't know what it actually takes to run a test. Do they simply run your sample through a machine, so maybe personnel isn't an issue?

Yeah I thought about that as well. At like a factory, do you need someone there waiting at the door to test people as they come in?

I think I heard an idea the other day that a new job that could come up would be for people to be 'trackers' to track people down if tracing post-test happens. Can't think of the logistics but what are the qualifications to be basically stalk people? :)
 

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Not exactly sure.
Do they have the personnel to run all the tests, though? Genuinely curious. I don't know what it actually takes to run a test. Do they simply run your sample through a machine, so maybe personnel isn't an issue?


Yeah, no idea. Just figure if you don't have at least a million or so tests available for Iowa, the test everyone will not work. I would guess you could have mobile units, since some tests are almost immediately. Been involved in some basic things like that as an EMT (obviously a smaller scale). Think of it like voting, it takes you longer to get the ballot than to actually vote. It is a little similar to taking blood. Have all the paper pushers with clip boards upfront (whether drive thru or walk thru) and then go to X station and get the test.
 
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Not exactly sure.
This is what I've been going off of. I thought there were around 25,000 total tests done. Am I wrong?
https://kwwl.com/2020/04/17/april-1...qp9BTJmj-eBx2KR83smnrE9B1dSy6kSVkAKjd-xG-49Dg


here is the state site. It shows that around the first of the month, it started amping up. It is the easist and most direct spot to go to.

https://idph.iowa.gov/emerging-health-issues/novel-coronavirus

EDIT: Are you talking tests taking or test available? You replied to a post about available tests. I linked tests taken because that is kinda what your link was about.
 

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Here is the summary of a report on antibody testing that just came out of Santa Clara County, California. Basically, the number of people who had antibodies was 50-85 times higher than the number of reported cases in the county. Based on a sample of 3,330 people.

I thought the actual number of cases was probably 10-15 times higher than what's been confirmed. 50-85 times higher is significant.

That would be either bad news, or good news. Bad because it means we have under tested by way more than most people would have predicted, and the virus has infected way more people that previously though. Good, because it means the mortality rate is significantly lower than what has been "confirmed" so far, and the fact that a lot of people already have antibodies will help slow the spread. If 15% of the population are immune, it doesn't stop the virus, but it does slow the infection rate significantly.

Studies in other countries have produces similar results. We should be watching closely as more of these studies come out throughout the U.S.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v1
I haven’t been tested but am increasingly certain I had it in early February, directly, most likely, from someone who had just returned to U.S. from China.

It was unusual at the time, and this was before all the info available now that wasn’t yet at that time. I would not have thought and did not think at the time it was CV. My symptoms were mostly a persistent dry cough for 5-7 days — but with no fever and very little congestion, like the most mild cold I’ve ever had. This was all looked into later. The conclusion was that if it wasn’t just a cold, and instead CV, it didn’t matter by then as I was already well past any quarantine period. And checking with the stethoscope, my lungs were fine.
 
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the curve is really flattening!!!

I suspect you are being sarcastic, but it clearly is. About three weeks ago Iowa had 25-30% new cases in a day. Now with much more testing we have consistently seen single digit% new cases.

There have been outlier days, but we've largely seen the similar trends in # of deaths and the "currently hospitalized" numbers.

Meanwhile we have 88 in the ICU with COVID-19 and we have 566 ICU beds available. 52 on ventilators and 676 ventilators available.
 

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Time to open up Iowa. This was the biggest exaggeration of all time. University of Stanford has done the most in-depth review and they haven’t played party lines. They have continued to show the data that this virus is a complete overreaction.
 

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Time to open up Iowa. This was the biggest exaggeration of all time. University of Stanford has done the most in-depth review and they haven’t played party lines. They have continued to show the data that this virus is a complete overreaction.
It may very well turn out to be an exaggerated response, but you can't look at the situation in hindsight and say we're did the wrong things. We don't know what we're don't know.
 

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Time to open up Iowa. This was the biggest exaggeration of all time. University of Stanford has done the most in-depth review and they haven’t played party lines. They have continued to show the data that this virus is a complete overreaction.

Ha.
 

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August first start dates with a summer session probably. Don't plan a summer vacation if you have kids.

I'm perfectly fine with that if it can happen. There is going to be a needed remediation period to start the school year most likely, just think of all the things the kids are missing out on at the end of the school year that helps prepare them for the next grade.

I had a feeling this was coming with how things have trended recently. I'm a little sad today because our oldest is in kindergarten and just loved school and we've had some tough conversations with her about what is going on right now. She is a motivated learner and have been trying to keep her going with learning materials but it will never replicate the learning environment a school classroom with a teacher can provide.
 
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