Wonder why all the elites, hollywood stars and other big politicians keep coming down w this stuff? It's either everywhere or ?? Who knows ? AC in the planes ?aginlakeway said:
https://nypost.com/2020/03/17/four-nets-players-test-positive-for-coronavirus/
"Kevin Durant was among four members of the Brooklyn Nets who tested positive for the coronavirus, the superstar told The Athletic."
beerad12man said:
The high proportion of celebrities testing positive lets you know the total number reported are likely extremely low in comparison to the actual number.
fullback44 said:Wonder why all the elites, hollywood stars and other big politicians keep coming down w this stuff? It's either everywhere or ?? Who knows ? AC ?aginlakeway said:
https://nypost.com/2020/03/17/four-nets-players-test-positive-for-coronavirus/
"Kevin Durant was among four members of the Brooklyn Nets who tested positive for the coronavirus, the superstar told The Athletic."
Yep, the celebrities just have access to tests that random people don't.beerad12man said:
The high proportion of celebrities testing positive lets you know the total number reported are likely extremely low in comparison to the actual number.
"The Nets paid a private company to conduct the tests for team members."bay fan said:Yep, the celebrities just have access to tests that random people don't.beerad12man said:
The high proportion of celebrities testing positive lets you know the total number reported are likely extremely low in comparison to the actual number.
That's the way the whole world works, not just health care or preventive medicine.bay fan said:
Yep, access that others don't. Those tests are in demand no matter who conducted them.
Bingo... I believe the same thing..PneumAg said:
Personally, I think this has been in the U.S. since about early December, and hundreds of thousands if not millions have already had it.
7 in the NBA, which is pretty high considering there's only 500 nba players.AustinAg2K said:
Have that many elites tested positive? I can think of only a few.
HotardAg07 said:7 in the NBA, which is pretty high considering there's only 500 nba players.AustinAg2K said:
Have that many elites tested positive? I can think of only a few.
Those three without symptoms never would have gotten tested if they didn't play in the NBA, so there's no telling how many of us probably already have it and will never know.Quote:
"Of the four, one player is exhibiting symptoms while three are asymptomatic," the team added in a statement.
PneumAg said:
Personally, I think this has been in the U.S. since about early December, and hundreds of thousands if not millions have already had it.
Jet Black said:
WGAS
fullback44 said:Bingo... I believe the same thing..PneumAg said:
Personally, I think this has been in the U.S. since about early December, and hundreds of thousands if not millions have already had it.
This stuffs everywhere... most cases don't even register, but some will be serious and require serious hospitalization.. but not very many
This happened to my family in February. Both my daughters and my wife got the flu. The girls each missed 4 days of school and my wife was down for a week. I never got it somehow.zooguy96 said:
Anecdotally, every person I've talked to from work (I'm a teacher) has described the same phenomenon with themselves or family members (as well as our nurse, who said something viral was going around in January / February from people who normally did not get sick, but it knocked them on their butts for a week or two).
If that was true, you'd see a large up tick in hospitalizations for pneumonia. If 80% of the cases are serious, and there are millions infected, then you'd expect 200,000 hospitalizations. Likely, those would have been in population centers, and not spread out of the country, so you'd see a lot more people already hospitalized in NY, SF, Chicago, etc.PneumAg said:
Personally, I think this has been in the U.S. since about early December, and hundreds of thousands if not millions have already had it.
Celebrities are also more likely to travel to Europe/Italy. I bet George Clooney has had the coronavirus nine times.FrioAg 00 said:
Celebrities are using their status and resources to the front of the lines for testing, and many are showing up positive.
I agree with the poster above - to me this indicates the virus has spread much much further than people realize. However, the good news is that the severer symptom rate, hospitalization rate and mortality rate are all also much lower than the numbers being reported.
People keep pointing to Italy and Wuhan as the nightmare scenarios - but like 1/2 of the males in Wuhan are heavy smokers and 23% of Italy's population is over 65%.
Let's see how many of these celebs and pro athletes have anything beyond a slight fever.
