Video: "New York City doctor says he has to ‘plead to test people’ for coronavirus"
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/02/coronavirus-new-york-city-doctor-has-to-plead-to-test-people.html Lots of interesting technical comments in the video portion. This doctor thinks there are thousands of undiagnosed cases in the U.S. He seems to be an expert who knows what he is talking about. He think the S. Korean data is the best indication of the actual mortality rate for a first world country, and I suppose for China now that they have a handle on it. S. Korea has done a lot of testing. Their numbers are: 28 deaths / 4335 cases = 0.6% mortality. They do not list many critical cases: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ QUOTES from text portion: “Before I came here this morning, I was in the emergency room seeing patients,” he said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “I still do not have a rapid diagnostic test available to me.” “I’m here to tell you, right now, at one of the busiest hospitals in the country, I don’t have it at my fingertips,” he said. “I still have to make my case, plead to test people. This is not good. We know that there are 88 cases in the United States. There are going to be hundreds by the middle of the week. There’s going to be thousands by next week. And this is a testing issue.” The team at New York-Presbyterian Hospital is isolating suspected coronavirus patients and taking proper precautions to prevent the spread, McCarthy said, but “they’re hamstrung.” . . . “They’re testing 10,000 a day in some countries, and we can’t get this off the ground,” McCarthy said. “I’m a practitioner on the firing line, and I don’t have the tools to properly care for patients today.” . . .
