[DocSavage87]

Good post, thanks. That's a useful discussion. I like your summary too, because you seem to pick out a key nugget from a pretty dense article.

I just listened to a talk by Joe Derisi, the co-president of Chan Zuckerberg Biohub that's been doing a lot of the COVID-19 testing in the bay area.  In the Q&A he emphasized a couple of points.  One is the socioeconomic disparity in infection rates, particularly when they looked at particular areas of SF.  The rich remote working inhabitants had very low infection rates compared to their Latin-X neighbors.  So testing should be focused in those areas and made less burdensome (e.g., they shouldn't worry about their info being shared or used for non-medical reasons).  But another point he made was the social net so they could take off work when they were symptomatic, because many of these people don't have the option of just calling in sick.  That was one of the early things I saw in Sweden vs US -- the Swedes were quite progressive in forcing all employers to have paid sick leave and they even supplement that with government funds to cover the first day, which hadn't been covered before the pandemic began.  It was also really surprising to me that they simply don't put elderly or morbidly obese people in ICUs regardless of their conditions.  So the stats on ICU usage is very skewed.

[DocSavage87]

Good post, thanks. That's a useful discussion. I like your summary too, because you seem to pick out a key nugget from a pretty dense article.

I just listened to a talk by Joe Derisi, the co-president of Chan Zuckerberg Biohub that's been doing a lot of the COVID-19 testing in the bay area.  In the Q&A he emphasized a couple of points.  One is the socioeconomic disparity in infection rates, particularly when they looked at particular areas of SF.  The rich remote working inhabitants had very low infection rates compared to their Latin-X neighbors.  So testing should be focused in those areas and made less burdensome (e.g., they shouldn't worry about their info being shared or used for non-medical reasons).  But another point he made was the social net so they could take off work when they were symptomatic, because many of these people don't have the option of just calling in sick.  That was one of the early things I saw in Sweden vs US -- the Swedes were quite progressive in forcing all employers to have paid sick leave and they even supplement that with government funds to cover the first day, which hadn't been covered before the pandemic began.  It was also really surprising to me that they simply don't put elderly or morbidly obese people in ICUs regardless of their conditions.  So the stats on ICU usage is very skewed.