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COVID Update April 28: Today I had a crash course in what we can learn from the HIV crisis, what’s going on in Indian Country, employer based coverage & what’s next out of Congess.
Will start now & finish after @ChrisCuomo at 9:30 E on @cnn. 1/
Will start now & finish after @ChrisCuomo at 9:30 E on @cnn. 1/
QUIZ:
In Shenzhen China the median time to recovery from symptom onset was 1, 2, 3, or 4 weeks?
Who is the better De governor in combatting Coronavirus— Santis or Wine?
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In Shenzhen China the median time to recovery from symptom onset was 1, 2, 3, or 4 weeks?
Who is the better De governor in combatting Coronavirus— Santis or Wine?
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Started the day with calls from a few sports leagues whi want to know what to do. Then Indian Country. Then the Hill. Then with people who wrestled with HIV/AIDS like we are now.
I’ll give it to you as it came to me. But by the end I need to find some deep connection points. 3/
I’ll give it to you as it came to me. But by the end I need to find some deep connection points. 3/
Cause we’re all about finding the deep connection points. (I’m with the slippers.) 4/
Football is going to have Fall camp come hell or high water. They believe every player has been socially distancing. Hmmm.
I think not all their offensive linemen are in perfect health. 5/
I think not all their offensive linemen are in perfect health. 5/
The NBA is more circumspect. They have had family losses. They know how bad this can be. They have smart people. 6/
My advice:
1- As you do, youth sports does. Include them & set the right example because they don’t have the training facilities, etc & many live with sick family members
2- Test your fans before yourself
3- Help is honor who we’ve lost 7/
1- As you do, youth sports does. Include them & set the right example because they don’t have the training facilities, etc & many live with sick family members
2- Test your fans before yourself
3- Help is honor who we’ve lost 7/
Pine Ridge reservation has somewhere between 25,000 & 35,000 people over 100x100 miles in South Dakota. It’s home to the Ogala Sioux.
Life expectancy is 48 for men. 50 for women. 8/
Life expectancy is 48 for men. 50 for women. 8/
With the COVID crisis, a state of emergency was declared. But to get money they need to match it with money they don’t have.
They did get clean water from the government which they were all too grateful for. 9/
They did get clean water from the government which they were all too grateful for. 9/
There is one hospital run by the Indian Health Service. They have 6 ventilators. Their COVID-19 Council estimates that absent a vaccine, they will have over 2000 hospitalizations.
Otherwise people will need to be airlifted to a hospital 100 miles away. 10/
Otherwise people will need to be airlifted to a hospital 100 miles away. 10/
They reminded me that what is coming to America— hunger, unemployment, poverty, despair— is their way of life. 80% unemployment, 98% below the poverty line, $4000 annual income. 11/
Health status on Pine Ridge is also not good
-4x the level of diabetic amputation
-4x the teen suicide rate
-5x infant mortality rate
Alcoholism, meth, opioids. Despair, hopelessness, but a sad resolve. Anyone I know who has been to PR leaves sad, angry & confused. 12/
-4x the level of diabetic amputation
-4x the teen suicide rate
-5x infant mortality rate
Alcoholism, meth, opioids. Despair, hopelessness, but a sad resolve. Anyone I know who has been to PR leaves sad, angry & confused. 12/
As Iron Eye Slaw reminded me, they have experience with plagues. And so after the first positive COVID-19 test in late March what did they do?
Kicked the person (a visitor) out & set up check points. They don’t believe SD Govenor Noem will protect them. (Few in SD do). 13/
Kicked the person (a visitor) out & set up check points. They don’t believe SD Govenor Noem will protect them. (Few in SD do). 13/
They’ve gotten no test kits even though they have asked for them. As far as they know, they haven’t seen more cases. If they do, it could happen fast.
As for food, their reserve supply are 400 Buffalo. 14/
As for food, their reserve supply are 400 Buffalo. 14/
They know that large death tolls would go unnoticed & I responded to.
So they go without deliveries or commerce or leafing the reservation. Once cases come, they expect nothing by way of help. So they hunker down. 15/
So they go without deliveries or commerce or leafing the reservation. Once cases come, they expect nothing by way of help. So they hunker down. 15/
6 weeks into COVID-19 and we hunger for answers. We know little about who gets it, the symptoms, how the disease progresses, what happens from the virus— and how it works.
So I called a friend who was an intern at SF General in when the first AIDS patients started dying. 17/
So I called a friend who was an intern at SF General in when the first AIDS patients started dying. 17/
I was most struck by one thing he said about the AIDS crisis & what they were seeing.
“We knew within a short time what this was. Like within a year or 2.”
We’ve been at this for weeks. 18/
“We knew within a short time what this was. Like within a year or 2.”
We’ve been at this for weeks. 18/
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