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? You're comparing a prison to a nursing home Another data point, ~12k healthy foreign workers in Singapore have tested positive. The city-state has only 12 de
by not_a_moth 6y ago
? You're comparing a prison to a nursing home
Another data point, ~12k healthy foreign workers in Singapore have tested positive. The city-state has only 12 deaths total (all elderly, not the foreign workers). In Singapore the foreign workers may have already been asymptomatic for weeks.
Based on NYC data, LA city data, Stanford's Santa Clara data, Singapore, Danish blood donor data, a picture is emerging that the virus is not particularly dangerous to healthy people.
- pavlov 6y agoPrisoners in America are not in great health. Many untreated conditions, often inadequate health care since birth.
- arcticbull 6y agoI'm curious if these specific diseases actually make them more susceptible to COVID or not but this is fact. - Over half of state prisoners and up to 90% of jail detainees suffer from drug dependence. - Hepatitis C is nine to 10 times more prevalent in correctional facilities than in communities. - Chronic health conditions, such as asthma and hypertension, and mental health disorders also affect prisoner populations at rates that far exceed their prevalence in the general population. - About 40% of all inmates are estimated to have at least one chronic health condition. With a few exceptions, nearly all chronic health conditions are more prevalent among inmates than in the general population. [1] With that said, the average age is much younger than the general population [2]. Age is by far the biggest factor in outcomes, followed by co-morbidities. [1] https://issues.org/correctional-health-is-community-health/ https://issues.org/correctional-health-is-community-health/ [2] https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_age.jsp https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_age.j...
- monadic2 6y agoIn addition, concentrated and extended exposure to the virus, like what you see in prisons where it is impossible to maintain distance between yourself and other inmates during meals and in bed, is known to affect people of all ages. Look at the effects the virus has had on medical professionals who do not have access to PPE—eg Usama Riaz.
- __s 6y agoAlso they're malnourished to the point that you can reduce prison violence by giving vitamin supplements https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-nutrition-multivitamins-prisoners-prison-tb-wheat-germ-1222-story.html https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec...
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- wonnage 6y ago1. Most of these cases were diagnosed in the last two weeks 2. Over 5000 (roughly 40%) have been hospitalized https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3080492/coronavirus-cases-surge-can-singapores-health-care https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/30... Data from antibody tests can so far be summarized as garbage: - https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/coronavirus-antibody-test-santa-clara-los-angeles-stanford https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/coronavir... - https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/04/19/fatal-flaws-in-stanford-study-of-coronavirus-prevalence/ https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/04/19/fatal-flaw... I guess the TL;DR of all of this is, this picture you're talking about is a fallacy premised on bad data