General Corona virus updates

[4112]

Invisible company owned by Rudy Giuliani got taxpayer-backed PPP money — but where did it go?

Rudy Giuliani's invisible company got PPP money — but where did it go?

Giuliani's payroll company got a PPP loan from a Trump-friendly bank — but lists no employees. Was it fraud?

www.salon.com

Giuliani initially told Salon he was ignorant of the purpose of this company, which has handled payroll needs across more than 18 years and lists him as CEO. Financial experts tell Salon that one of two scenarios is likely true: Either Giuliani directly employs a number of people through this unknown company, and pays them substantial salaries, or the company misrepresented its finances to the government when it applied for the loan — which would likely constitute fraud, a felony.

Kamala Harris did this as well
Kamala Harris Rocked By Herbalife Pay To Play Scandal, Should Doom Her 2020 Campaign

 

[Freeloading Rusty]

Kamala Harris did this as well
Kamala Harris Rocked By Herbalife Pay To Play Scandal, Should Doom Her 2020 Campaign

A bunch of crooks, all of them.

whatever happened to draining the swamp?

oh and it just happens Ivanka Trump sits on the board of Rudy’s shell company.

 

[4112]

A bunch of crooks, all of them.

whatever happened to draining the swamp?

oh and it just happens Ivanka Trump sits on the board of Rudy’s shell company.

Oh I agree they're all crooks. It's hard to drain the swamp when those Gator's have been in that swamp for decade's. Also those Gator's put laws in place to keep themselves safe when it gets drained. Hunter Biden does the same except with communists.

 

[BeardOfKnowledge]

Hunter Biden does the same except with communists.

No.

 

[Rambo John J]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZihSqv14TDs


*****U triggered?*****
***** Are you a science denier?*****

 

[jerk]

"Below is a breakdown of how much funding per COVID-19 case each state will receive from the first $30 billion in aid. Kaiser Health News used a state breakdown provided to the House Ways and Means Committee by HHS along with COVID-19 cases tabulated by The New York Times for its analysis."

Spoiler

Alabama
$158,000 per COVID-19 case


Alaska
$306,000


Arizona
$23,000


Arkansas
$285,000


California
$145,000


Colorado
$58,000


Connecticut
$38,000


Delaware
$127,000


District of Columbia
$56,000


Florida
$132,000


Georgia
$73,000


Hawaii
$301,000


Idaho
$100,000


Illinois
$73,000


Indiana
$105,000


Iowa
$235,000


Kansas
$291,000


Kentucky
$297,000


Louisiana
$26,000


Maine
$260,000


Maryland
$120,000


Massachusetts
$44,000


Michigan
$44,000


Minnesota
$380,000


Mississippi
$166,000


Missouri
$175,000


Montana
$315,000


Nebraska
$379,000


Nevada
$98,000


New Hampshire
$201,000


New Jersey
$18,000


New Mexico
$171,000


New York
$12,000


North Carolina
$252,000


North Dakota
$339,000


Ohio
$180,000


Oklahoma
$291,000


Oregon
$220,000


Pennsylvania
$68,000


Rhode Island
$52,000


South Carolina
$186,000


South Dakota
$241,000


Tennessee
$166,000


Texas
$184,000


Utah
$94,000


Vermont
$87,000


Virginia
$201,000


Washington
$58,000


West Virginia
$471,000


Wisconsin
$163,000


Wyoming
$278,000

State-by-state breakdown of federal aid per COVID-19 case

HHS recently began distributing the first $30 billion of emergency funding designated for hospitals in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act. Some of the states hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic will receive less funding than states touched relatively lightly, according to an...

www.beckershospitalreview.com

 

[jerk]

Data to date show that a person who has had and recovered from COVID-19 may have low levels of virus in their bodies for up to 3 months after diagnosis. This means that if the person who has recovered from COVID-19 is retested within 3 months of initial infection, they may continue to have a positive test result, even though they are not spreading COVID-19.

There are no confirmed reports to date of a person being reinfected with COVID-19 within 3 months of initial infection. However, additional research is ongoing.

COVID-19 and Your Health

Symptoms, testing, what to do if sick, daily activities, and more.

www.cdc.gov

 

[jerk]

Harris County City Council meeting.

Citizen claims massive testing errors.

http://fcassets.curry.com.s3.wasabisys.com/enc/1600372865.775_harriscountycitycounciltestingscamrevealedhoutonsurge.mp3

 

[RaginCajun]

 

[Freeloading Rusty]

"Below is a breakdown of how much funding per COVID-19 case each state will receive from the first $30 billion in aid. Kaiser Health News used a state breakdown provided to the House Ways and Means Committee by HHS along with COVID-19 cases tabulated by The New York Times for its analysis."

Spoiler

Alabama
$158,000 per COVID-19 case


Alaska
$306,000


Arizona
$23,000


Arkansas
$285,000


California
$145,000


Colorado
$58,000


Connecticut
$38,000


Delaware
$127,000


District of Columbia
$56,000


Florida
$132,000


Georgia
$73,000


Hawaii
$301,000


Idaho
$100,000


Illinois
$73,000


Indiana
$105,000


Iowa
$235,000


Kansas
$291,000


Kentucky
$297,000


Louisiana
$26,000


Maine
$260,000


Maryland
$120,000


Massachusetts
$44,000


Michigan
$44,000


Minnesota
$380,000


Mississippi
$166,000


Missouri
$175,000


Montana
$315,000


Nebraska
$379,000


Nevada
$98,000


New Hampshire
$201,000


New Jersey
$18,000


New Mexico
$171,000


New York
$12,000


North Carolina
$252,000


North Dakota
$339,000


Ohio
$180,000


Oklahoma
$291,000


Oregon
$220,000


Pennsylvania
$68,000


Rhode Island
$52,000


South Carolina
$186,000


South Dakota
$241,000


Tennessee
$166,000


Texas
$184,000


Utah
$94,000


Vermont
$87,000


Virginia
$201,000


Washington
$58,000


West Virginia
$471,000


Wisconsin
$163,000


Wyoming
$278,000

State-by-state breakdown of federal aid per COVID-19 case

HHS recently began distributing the first $30 billion of emergency funding designated for hospitals in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act. Some of the states hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic will receive less funding than states touched relatively lightly, according to an...

www.beckershospitalreview.com

Brutal. Not partisan at all.... NY is taking it raw with no Vaseline.

 

[Deleted member 1]

"Below is a breakdown of how much funding per COVID-19 case each state will receive from the first $30 billion in aid. Kaiser Health News used a state breakdown provided to the House Ways and Means Committee by HHS along with COVID-19 cases tabulated by The New York Times for its analysis."

Spoiler

Alabama
$158,000 per COVID-19 case


Alaska
$306,000


Arizona
$23,000


Arkansas
$285,000


California
$145,000


Colorado
$58,000


Connecticut
$38,000


Delaware
$127,000


District of Columbia
$56,000


Florida
$132,000


Georgia
$73,000


Hawaii
$301,000


Idaho
$100,000


Illinois
$73,000


Indiana
$105,000


Iowa
$235,000


Kansas
$291,000


Kentucky
$297,000


Louisiana
$26,000


Maine
$260,000


Maryland
$120,000


Massachusetts
$44,000


Michigan
$44,000


Minnesota
$380,000


Mississippi
$166,000


Missouri
$175,000


Montana
$315,000


Nebraska
$379,000


Nevada
$98,000


New Hampshire
$201,000


New Jersey
$18,000


New Mexico
$171,000


New York
$12,000


North Carolina
$252,000


North Dakota
$339,000


Ohio
$180,000


Oklahoma
$291,000


Oregon
$220,000


Pennsylvania
$68,000


Rhode Island
$52,000


South Carolina
$186,000


South Dakota
$241,000


Tennessee
$166,000


Texas
$184,000


Utah
$94,000


Vermont
$87,000


Virginia
$201,000


Washington
$58,000


West Virginia
$471,000


Wisconsin
$163,000


Wyoming
$278,000

State-by-state breakdown of federal aid per COVID-19 case

HHS recently began distributing the first $30 billion of emergency funding designated for hospitals in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act. Some of the states hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic will receive less funding than states touched relatively lightly, according to an...

www.beckershospitalreview.com

To be clear, while the out of context statement makes a calculation of bailout per case...the funding does not get calculated per case. There is no "covid case = X dollars" funding. Actually hospital asked for that arguing need for more funding for more care. Then mad they didn't get that setup.


This was hospital bailouts during lockdown for when things like elective procedures were banned.

Furor Erupts: Billions Going To Hospitals Based On Medicare Billings, Not COVID-19 - KFF Health News

In the first round of emergency relief, some states will get more than $300,000 per COVID-19 patient, while hard-hit New York gets just $12,000 per patient.

khn.org

 

[ThatOneDude]

 

[jason73]

 

[jason73]

 

[Sex Chicken]

View: https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1307829829669093377?s=20

 

[ThatOneDude]

Many Texas businesses in specific regions are opening to 75% capacity today. Hopefully this doesn't bite us in the ass. The metric they are using is if a region has less than 15% of hospital beds being used by covid patients, than they can open. @Splinty should I agree with this plan?

 

[member 3289]

Many Texas businesses in specific regions are opening to 75% capacity today. Hopefully this doesn't bite us in the ass. The metric they are using is if a region has less than 15% of hospital beds being used by covid patients, than they can open. @Splinty should I agree with this plan?

Crazy how places just make up metrics in order to justify reopening.

<5% positivity for new tests for 14 days should be the national standard

 

[Deleted member 1]

Many Texas businesses in specific regions are opening to 75% capacity today. Hopefully this doesn't bite us in the ass. The metric they are using is if a region has less than 15% of hospital beds being used by covid patients, than they can open. @Splinty should I agree with this plan?

I'm not sure if that's wise or not. Kind of out of my lane when drawing lines in the sand on exactly how much or which metric to use.

Probably my largest critique that I can come up with as I just read this for the first time is that the covid-19 utilization rate in a hospital doesn't really speak to the overall resources available in that hospital. During flu season 15% might push most hospitals over the edge. During the summer it might not. I don't know where the 15% came from to make more critique, but it doesn't seem like a metric based on actual utilization. Just kind of arbitrary and disease-specific instead of resource-specific.

 

[ThatOneDude]

I'm not sure if that's wise or not. Kind of out of my lane when drawing lines in the sand on exactly how much or which metric to use.

Probably my largest critique that I can come up with as I just read this for the first time is that the covid-19 utilization rate in a hospital doesn't really speak to the overall resources available in that hospital. During flu season 15% might push most hospitals over the edge. During the summer it might not. I don't know where the 15% came from to make more critique, but it doesn't seem like a metric based on actual utilization. Just kind of arbitrary and disease-specific instead of resource-specific.

Thanks for the info, I now feel it's a stupid metric.

 

[Deleted member 1]

You guys ready for today's insanity in medicine talk?

You would think that I could just put in my chart that I am worried about covid and that would be enough to run a test that would pay me for the visit and the test. Maybe because coding and US medicine is a little screwy I would have to put down suspected covid positive or suspected covid negative... Oh no my friends it must be much worse for no good reason. There are only two outcomes positive or negative. And yet here's the flow chart for which code needs to go in the chart or I will not get paid and have to eat the cost of the test myself...


1. Patient presents for COVID-19 evaluation


2. Patient with confirmed exposure or suspected exposure, not ruled out


3. Patient with suspected exposure, ruled out


4. Patient with no known exposure


— Sunita Varghees, MD, PhD, CMQ, and Vinita Magoon, DO, JD, MBA, MPH, CMQ, of Baylor Scott & White Health, Temple, Texas

 

[Lukewarm Carl]

You guys ready for today's insanity in medicine talk?

You would think that I could just put in my chart that I am worried about covid and that would be enough to run a test that would pay me for the visit and the test. Maybe because coding and US medicine is a little screwy I would have to put down suspected covid positive or suspected covid negative... Oh no my friends it must be much worse for no good reason. There are only two outcomes positive or negative. And yet here's the flow chart for which code needs to go in the chart or I will not get paid and have to eat the cost of the test myself...


1. Patient presents for COVID-19 evaluation


2. Patient with confirmed exposure or suspected exposure, not ruled out


3. Patient with suspected exposure, ruled out


4. Patient with no known exposure


— Sunita Varghees, MD, PhD, CMQ, and Vinita Magoon, DO, JD, MBA, MPH, CMQ, of Baylor Scott & White Health, Temple, Texas

Seems nice and simple. Nothing odd about our medical billing system at all.

 

[ThatOneDude]

You guys ready for today's insanity in medicine talk?

You would think that I could just put in my chart that I am worried about covid and that would be enough to run a test that would pay me for the visit and the test. Maybe because coding and US medicine is a little screwy I would have to put down suspected covid positive or suspected covid negative... Oh no my friends it must be much worse for no good reason. There are only two outcomes positive or negative. And yet here's the flow chart for which code needs to go in the chart or I will not get paid and have to eat the cost of the test myself...


1. Patient presents for COVID-19 evaluation


2. Patient with confirmed exposure or suspected exposure, not ruled out


3. Patient with suspected exposure, ruled out


4. Patient with no known exposure


— Sunita Varghees, MD, PhD, CMQ, and Vinita Magoon, DO, JD, MBA, MPH, CMQ, of Baylor Scott & White Health, Temple, Texas

That's so fucking stupid.

 

[Rambo John J]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQpfYAxfiak

 

[member 3289]

Pay attention to FL, boys. We're gonna fuck this shit up again by making the same mistake we made last time (reopening bars too early).

September 14: Bars reopened (in 64/67 counties)

September 22:

Florida breaks 10-day streak of COVID-19 infection rate below 5%

Florida health officials reported a slight increase in coronavirus infections, deaths and hospitalizations on Tuesday after 10 days with an infection rate below 5%.

www.clickorlando.com

From another article that I didn't link bc it's behind a paywall:

The data show that 5.88% of people swabbed tested positive for the first time, in the latest results. The rate was 4.31% in the previous day’s report, and the number of test results were similar for both days at around 44,000.

Fortunately my county is run 100% by Democrats so we are one of the 3/67 that have kept bars closed.

 

[ThatOneDude]

Pay attention to FL, boys. We're gonna fuck this shit up again by making the same mistake we made last time (reopening bars too early).

September 14: Bars reopened (in 64/67 counties)

September 22:

Florida breaks 10-day streak of COVID-19 infection rate below 5%

Florida health officials reported a slight increase in coronavirus infections, deaths and hospitalizations on Tuesday after 10 days with an infection rate below 5%.

www.clickorlando.com

From another article that I didn't link bc it's behind a paywall:

The data show that 5.88% of people swabbed tested positive for the first time, in the latest results. The rate was 4.31% in the previous day’s report, and the number of test results were similar for both days at around 44,000.

Fortunately my county is run 100% by Democrats so we are one of the 3/67 that have kept bars closed.

Sounds like Florida needs a Covid Czar.