Suffice it to say this is all very complex and a ton of admin expense
results from the complexity.
Basically hospitals make all their money on outpatient surgery. My hospital
loses money on most medicare admissions, so an extra 20% on pneumonia
admissions isn't going to go very far when all
The Abbott machines are point of care and single test bandwidth. Minimal
impact on overall case numbers.
Most tests go to labs where larger machines run them in batches. That is
how we can do 300k/d or whatever we are doing.
On Tue, May 26, 2020, 7:44 PM Clay via Mercedes
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> Abbott Labs
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Abbott Labs test machines are turning out to be very unreliable, so the
infection numbers are inaccurate.
Then we have racial disparity related to infections
Men comprise the majority of the 100,000 U.S. victims of COVID 19.
On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 10:44 PM Clay via Mercedes
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> Abbott Labs test machines are turning out to be very unreliable, so the
> infection numbers are inaccurate.
>
> Then we have racial disparity related to infections and
Abbott Labs test machines are turning out to be very unreliable, so the
infection numbers are inaccurate.
Then we have racial disparity related to infections and outcomes.
On Tue, May 26, 2020 4:57 pm, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote:
> It seems to me that hospitals get money from the Federal Govt to pay for
> care for COVID patients while everything else has to go through insurance
> or the hospital has to eat it. That puts hospitals under immense pressure
> to
understand what is happening to the nation, and
why.
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Sorry I have n
It seems to me that hospitals get money from the Federal Govt to pay for care
for COVID patients while everything else has to go through insurance or the
hospital has to eat it. That puts hospitals under immense pressure to designate
as many deaths COVID related as they can. It would blow my
Maybe not with precision but you get the picture: 100,000 give or take...
On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 4:19 PM Meade Dillon via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> I read an article earlier today that talked about the roles of who decides
> if a death is counted as COVID or not. The Doctor
I read an article earlier today that talked about the roles of who decides
if a death is counted as COVID or not. The Doctor signs the death
certificate, and that is the official cause of death, and I'm sure Karl is
right in that the vast majority are doing the right thing and making the
best
g
> nursing home and prison numbers and for increasing the general population
> numbers.
>
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> What should it be recorded as? The person died in the hospital.
>
> There will always be data irregularities but the idea the hospitals are
> somehow syst
sing home and prison numbers and for increasing the general population
> numbers.
>
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What should it be recorded as? The person died in the hospital.
There will always be data irregularities but the idea the hospitals are
somehow systematically having doctors
As usual, the rich get richer ...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/wealthiest-hospitals-got-billions-in-bailout-for-struggling-health-providers/ar-BB14yqFM?li=BBnbfcN
On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 2:41 PM Rick Knoble via Mercedes <
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> >The hospital doesnt get
>The hospital doesnt get paid any more or any less >whether someone has
>pneumonia from covid or >another virus.
Sorry. Gotta call bullshit on that one.
Key paragraph:
It is true, however, that the government will pay more to hospitals for
COVID-19 cases in two senses: By paying an
What should it be recorded as? The person died in the hospital.
There will always be data irregularities but the idea the hospitals are
somehow systematically having doctors enter fraudulent codes on death
certificates is pure BS. 1) it's a felony, with no benefit to a doctor to
do that, 2) we
Yet another distortion of the numbers: If a nursing home patient in NY gets
COVID but is moved to a hospital before he/she dies it is not recorded as a
nursing home death.
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by the grandchild who then burnt the home down, Covid. The car wrecks, Covid.
Suicides, Covid. The massive (multi Million$) unemployment fraud that the
governor wanted kept quiet, but Secret Service disclosed the
On Sat, 23 May 2020 10:34:20 -0400 Meade Dillon via Mercedes
wrote:
> https://disrn.com/news/washington-officials-admit-to-counting-gunshot-victims-as-covid-19-deaths
>
> This is just one of several news stories. In NY state, there are
> on-camera explanations by coroners / morticians that
Speaking as someone who conducted graduate level research, anyone who deals
with data collection on this scale expects errors. The statistical error given
in the article’s dataset is 0.005, hardly statistically relevant.
The expectations that any numbers will be dead nuts on the money at this
https://disrn.com/news/washington-officials-admit-to-counting-gunshot-victims-as-covid-19-deaths
This is just one of several news stories. In NY state, there are on-camera
explanations by coroners / morticians that they count every death as Wuhan
Red Death.
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