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FACE MASKS
By Anonymous
I love freedom and personal liberty. But I also don’t want to contract or share COVID-19.
I wear a seat belt – I will comply with any mask requirement.
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All About “STERNUTATION”
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A Silly Question Until Covid-19!
A “Sternutation” is a sudden involuntary expulsion of air from the lungs through the nose and mouth due to irritation of the nasal passage.
A sneeze is not always related to an underlying medical condition. It may be caused by:
Self-treatment helpful in some less- serious cases include:
See a doctor if you notice the following :
See a doctor immediately if you notice:
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Now – Do You Get It?
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Including Substance Use Issues
By Dr. David E. Marcinko MBA CMP© and staff reporters
The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred—and aggravated—a range of mental health and substance use issues in the United States.
In this episode of Critical Point, Milliman’s Stoddard Davenport discusses the rising demand for mental health services and how different populations are being affected. Stoddard also highlights recent statistics on the topic and what the road ahead may look like for mental health in America.
PODCAST LINK: https://www.healthcaretownhall.com/?p=10186
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Social Determinant of Health: https://www.healthsharetv.com/content/webinar-recap-social-determinants-health-turning-potential-actual-value
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The State of MEDICAL TOURSIM in the USA
By Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA CMP®
SPONSORED: www.CertifiedMedicalPlanner.org
American businesses are extending their cost-cutting initiatives to include offshore employee medical benefits, and facilities like the Bumrungrad Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand (cosmetic surgery), the Apollo Hospital in New Delhi, India (cardiac and orthopedic surgery) are premier examples for surgical care. Both are internationally recognized institutions that resemble five-star hotels equipped with the latest medical technology.
Foreign countries where I studied medicine and surgery, and practiced briefly, such as Finland, England, Canada and Germany are also catering to the English-speaking crowd, while dentistry is especially popular in Mexico and Costa Rica. Although this is still considered “medical tourism,” Mercer Health and Benefits was retained a decade ago by three Fortune 500 companies interested in contracting with offshore hospitals and The Joint Commission [TJC] has accredited 88 foreign hospitals through a joint international commission.
To be sure, when India can discount costs up to 80%, the effects on domestic hospital reimbursement and physician compensation may be assumed to increase downward compensation pressures.
So far, so good; right? Thumbs Up!
But, then came the Corona Virus Pandemic!
India Today: https://www.indiatoday.in/coronavirus
INDIA RATIONING: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/who-to-be-saved-who-not-to-be-inside-a-hospital-during-indias-covid-19-crisis/ar-BB1golnK?li=BBnb7Kz
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If They Speak Out About Lack of Gear
By Staff Reporters
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Comparison with Commonalities
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The CDC has finally acknowledged that the coronavirus can be airborne
The news: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its guidelines to acknowledge that the coronavirus can be spread by tiny particles that linger in the air. The agency said it took the decision due to the mounting evidence that people with covid-19 can infect people even if they are more than six feet away, or shortly after the infected person left the area. These cases all occurred in poorly ventilated and enclosed spaces, and often involved activities that cause heavier breathing, like singing or exercise.
The significance: Evidence that airborne transmission is occurring has been mounting for months. The WHO still has not recognized airborne transmission as a significant factor in the pandemic and the CDC’s slowness to acknowledge it has caused frustration among aerosol researchers, some of whom say it is the main route for infections. The CDC maintains it only occurs in “limited, uncommon” circumstances. Airborne transmission has become a topic of fierce contention, partly due to the fact it makes it far riskier to reopen spaces like restaurants, gyms, bars, schools, and offices.
What do we do now? The CDC advises that people stay at least six feet away from others, wear a mask that covers their nose and mouth, frequently wash their hands, clean high-touch surfaces often, and stay home when they are feeling sick. However, the implications of airborne transmission mean the CDC perhaps ought to shift its emphasis and go further, advising people to properly ventilate buildings, limit the number of people indoors at any given time while encouraging them to stay further apart and masked, and try to socialize outdoors where possible. Read the full story.
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Waived Co-Pays for United Healthcare Medicare Advantage Plans
By Jessica M. Wade, MHA, Practice Manager
Just to clarify, the UHC copay waiver info is listed clearly on the UHC website as follows:
“Members will have a $0 copay for covered primary care provider (PCP) and specialist physician services, as well as other covered services (listed below) between May 11, 2020 until September 30, 2020″. By lowering our PCP and specialist copays to $0, along with our telehealth cost-share waiver, we hope to help make it easier for you to access care”
Services included
The following services, if covered by your plan, are eligible for a $0 copay under the cost-share waiver, but do not include diagnostic tests and certain other services.
• Primary care provider (PCP) office visits
• Specialist physician office visits
• Physician assistant or nurse practitioner office visits
• Medicare-covered chiropractic and acupuncture services
• Medical and Podiatry services and routine eye and hearing exams
• Physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy
• Cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation services
• Outpatient mental health and substance abuse visits
• Opioid treatment services
The $0 copay applies to services from a network provider and out-of-network services covered by the plan. Member cost-share is not waived for the
following services, unless they are related to COVID-19 testing or treatments:
• Lab and Diagnostic tests (radiological and non-radiological)
• Part B and Part D drugs
• Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics and Supplies
• Renal Dialysis
• Other services not covered by your plan
Co-pays, co-insurance and deductibles for services in the following settings are not waived. Members will be responsible for their share of the cost under their benefit:• Inpatient hospital and Outpatient surgery or observation services.
• Skilled Nursing Facilities
• Emergency, Urgent and Ambulance services
Furthermore, reimbursement is based on the Medicare fee schedule as these plans waiving copay are Medicare Advantage plans and subject
to Medicare guidelines and reimbursement models.
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Positive -OR- Negative
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Vagus Nerve Stimulation To Inhibit Covid -19 “Cytokine Storm“
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INFOGRAPHICS
By staff reporters
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Unemployment
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The Law of Un-Intended [Pandemic] Health Consequences
Courtesy: http://www.CertifiedMedicalPlanner.org
By Dr. David E. Marcinko MBA
The Cobra Effect attempts to solve a problem that makes that problem worse.
The effect comes from an Indian story about a city infested with snakes offering a bounty for every dead cobra, which caused entrepreneurs to start breeding cobras for slaughter.
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QUERY: Now; what about the PPP, the CARES Act, PPE and related Corona Pandemic consequences; etc?
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Medical Professionals Running Toward Corona – Hospital Administrators Running Away
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KARL VON VIERORDT’S TIME LAW AND THE CORONA PANDEMIC
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Underestimating Long Periods AND Overestimating Short Periods
Karl Von Vierordt spent his career studying how people perceive time. His biggest finding is the opposite of what you’d assume.
LINK: https://lnkd.in/eZ-q-wN The longer something drags on the easier it is to forget the earlier moments of your experience. Five minutes can feel long because you remember everything you’ve thought about over those five minutes. An hour can feel short because your mind might have contemplated 17 different topics during that period, 15 of which you don’t recall anymore.
TIME PODCAST: https://lnkd.in/ebnXxGH
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EXAMPLE: Make someone wait in a room for one minute. After a minute, ask them how long they think they’ve been waiting. They’ll likely tell you something like “three minutes.” Now put them in the room for an hour, and ask them again. They’ll likely tell you something like “40 minutes.”
QUERY: Does this relate to Corona Virus “stay-at-home” orders and patient age?
ANSWER: https://lnkd.in/eaHPhUA
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WHAT IS “CONTACT TRACING” IN PUBLIC HEALTH?
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When a patient tests positive, you make a list of everyone they came in close contact with. Then, you find those people and make sure they self-isolate before infecting others.
That sounds straightforward, but contact tracing a new patient typically takes three days, which is “an insurmountable hurdle in the U.S., with its low numbers of public health workers and tens of thousands of new cases every day.”
ELSEWHERE: South Korea used high-tech contact tracing to tame its outbreak. The government compiled GPS data, credit card swipes, and other info into a public log showing where COVID-19 patients had traveled.
Some countries (including the U.S.) are trying other methods, including looking at smart-phone location data and developing Bluetooth systems that provide warnings if you’ve crossed paths with an infected person.
PROBLEMS: Despite its widespread use in places like Singapore, contact tracing has raised concerns about privacy and governments following citizens’ whereabouts.
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PODCAST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlHCLXv2HQs
PODCAST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQBO_DHBtzw
And so, Contact Tracing is a term you’ll be hearing a lot more of in the coming weeks.
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THE 6 [Six] ANATOMIC SITES TO TAKE YOUR TEMPERATURE
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Covid-19 Vital Sign Diagnostics
It is well known that a high temperature is one stigmata of the Corona Virus [88% of cases]; even higher than the seasonal flu.
But, what are the 6 gross anatomic landmarks to take a temperature and how do we adjust for standards of error?
NOTE: This information might save your life.
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LINK: https://www.wikihow.com/Take-a-Temperature
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COVID-19 Drugs
[By staff reporters]
Drugs being studied in clinical trials. 30+ drug candidates in preclinical research phase.
There is HOPE!
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Disclaimer – For informational purposes only; should not be considered medical advice; consult a healthcare professional. Drugs shown are not yet approved for use to treat COVID-19 but are being investigated for use in clinical trials.
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Our message on Corona Virus so far has been “don’t panic.” For the vast majority of individuals, Corona Virus is not an existential threat.
However, the rapid rate of the virus’s spread has the potential to overwhelm our health system and cause a lot of problems.
And so, colleague Aaron E. Carroll MD MS explains the infection curve, right here.
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PODCAST: https://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/flattening-the-curve-of-coronavirus-infections/
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Human Health Behavior and COVID-19 Thoughts
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Here are 3 theories and 1 “rule” for the healthcare industrial complex that may help explain how the sector may not work correctly; from trauma, to epidemiology and to Corona; all the time.
1 – Berkson’s Paradox: Strong correlations can fall apart when combined with a larger population.
For example, among motorcycle crash victims wearing helmets are more likely to be seriously injured than those not wearing helmets. But, that’s because most crash victims saved by helmets did not need to become hospital patients, and those without helmets are more likely to die before becoming a hospital patient.
2 – Group Attribution Error: Incorrectly assuming that the views of a group member, like a physician, reflect those of the whole group in a different discipline.
3 – Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon: Noticing an idea or word every where you look as soon as it’s brought to your attention in a way that makes you overestimate its prevalence.
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The 90-9-1 Rule: In social media networks, 90% of users just read content, 9% of users contribute a little content, and 1% of users contribute almost all the content.
QUERY: Does Social Media really give a false impression of what ideas are popular or “average.”
THINK: Corona Virus?
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A Relationship to Financial Investing?
Courtesy: www.CertifiedMedicalPlanner.org
By Dr. David E. Marcinko MBA CMP
The basic reproduction number R0, [r nought) of an infection is the number of cases it generates on average over the course of its infectious period, in an otherwise uninfected population.
The metric determines whether or not a disease can spread through a population. The root concept is traced to Alfred Lotka and Ronald Ross, but its first application was by George MacDonald in 1952, with malaria.
LINK: https://www.healthline.com/health/r-nought-reproduction-number
FORMULA: When
R0 < 1
the infection will die out in the long run. But if
R0 > 1
the infection will be able to spread in a population.
LINK: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/25/1/17-1901_article
ASSESSMENT: Generally, the larger the value of R0, the harder it is to control the epidemic. In the past week, Corona virus estimates ranged from 1.4 to 5.5. The World Health Organization (WHO) range was 1.4 and 2.5. In comparison, seasonal flu affects millions each year but has an R0 of just 1.3. The R0 rate for measles ranges from 12 to 18.
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PANDEMIC “versus” EPIDEMIC
Dr. David E. Marcinko MBA
Courtesy: www.CertifiedMedicalPlanner.org
Is there a Difference? – Know the Difference!
A Pandemic (from Greek πᾶν pan “all” and δῆμος demos “people”) is an epidemic of disease that has spread across a large region; for instance multiple continents, or even worldwide. A widespread endemic disease that is stable in terms of how many people are getting sick from it is not a pandemic.
Further, flu pandemics generally exclude recurrences of seasonal flu. Throughout history, there have been a number of pandemics, such as smallpox and tuberculosis. One of the most devastating pandemics was the Black Death, which killed an estimated 100 million people in the 14th century. Some recent pandemics include: HIV, Spanish flu, 2009 flu pandemic and H1N1.
An Epidemic is the rapid spread of infectious disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time, usually two weeks or less.
For example, in meningococcal infections, an attack rate in excess of 15 cases per 100,000 people for two consecutive weeks is considered an epidemic.
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Key Differences
MORE: https://www.verywellhealth.com/difference-between-epidemic-and-pandemic-2615168
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THE CORONA VIRUS & Ro [r-NOUGHT] IN HEALTH EPIDEMIOLOGY?
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By Dr. David E. Marcinko MBA
[A Relationship to Investing and the Stock Markets?]
DJIA 28,256.03 ▼ -603.41 [-2.09%]
DJIA 28,399.81 Today: ▲ DJIA: +143.78+0.51%
The Ro Value, [r Nought), of an infection is the number of cases it generates on average over the course of its infectious period, in an otherwise uninfected population.
LINK: https://lnkd.in/e9AmEhd The metric determines if a disease can spread through a population. LINK: https://lnkd.in/e2VXwcz
FORMULA: When R0 < 1, the infection will die out in the long run. But, if R0 > 1, the infection will spread in a population. The larger the value of R0, the harder it is to control the epidemic.
LINK: https://lnkd.in/eXYpEUm METRICS: Recently, Corona virus estimates ranged from 1.4 to 5.5. The WHO range was 1.4 and 2.5. In comparison, seasonal flu affects millions each year but has an R0 of just 1.3.
QUERY: What are the stock market & economic effects of Corona?
GLOBAL: https://lnkd.in/epKhamj
DOMESTIC: https://lnkd.in/eBxwRDW
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