Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #37

[cody22]

He might as well impose suburb by suburb guidelines. That would make just as much scientific sense. Ie none.

I am not worried. I am hiding behind this wall of toilet paper, coffee cans, and cigarette cartons in my backroom "mancave", readin yall's WS posts, and watching TV. I ain't coming out for nothing till this is all over........Yall stay home, please...........Thank you.........moo

 

[cody22]

I'm going to predict "Low Risk" will have a strong association with the highest number of firearms / person.

I had no idea that you could see me through this Monitor Screen .......moo

 

[Sundog]

She clearly wrote IMO.

I missed that, thanks for pointing this out.

 

[Trudie]

Hospitals turn to just-in-time buying to control supply chain costs

This is a very informative article regarding inventory management.

 

[jjenny]

What makes you think China's numbers are accurate?

What makes you think they are not? My guess is they are probably just as accurate as ours are. Our numbers are only the tip of the iceberg.

 

[Caylee Advocate]

https://nypost.com/2020/03/24/coron...e-earlier-than-predicted-nobel-laureate-says/

 

[Henry2326]

TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian towns along the country's U.S. border fear they will be harmed if the United States eases measures aimed at curbing the spread of coronavirus, with some making contingency plans and others appealing to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to intervene.

Canada border towns 'petrified' by prospect of looser U.S. coronavirus measures

 

[10ofRods]

We overtook China. China has many more people than us. So we truly are #1 in infections.
"China is no longer the global leader in cases of the virus that originated in its soil. The U.S., with about one-fourth the number of people of the world's most populous country, overtook China and Italy in confirmed coronavirus cases on Thursday."
Coronavirus updates: US surpasses China; unemployment claims spike

Most people in my profession agree that China is not reporting accurately. In fact, that's probably an understatement. China wants the world open for business as well. I'm not saying that they are deliberately underreporting, but they had cases in all areas of China a week ago and those did not just simply go away. Someone was exposed to those people.

China's figures have been almost unchanged for 5 days. They had 85,000 and increasing exponentially - and then, perfectly flat? Nope, I don't buy it. They're watching the rest of the world and they'll put out their new data when it makes sense to them. Wuhan is obviously through the worst of it (3287 deaths). We have 1200 deaths. This indicates that we've tested more broadly than the most serious cases, whereas China tried to reserve testing for the truly serious cases, at least at first.

China is probably not using confirmational tests on people who obviously have CV19 (symptomatic, in contact with a deceased person) or only using to protect front line personnel.

 

[Gardenista]

I am not worried. I am hiding behind this wall of toilet paper, coffee cans, and cigarette cartons in my backroom "mancave", readin yall's WS posts, and watching TV. I ain't coming out for nothing till this is all over........Yall stay home, please...........Thank you.........moo

LOL, Cody, you are my favorite poster of all time

 

[jjenny]

Agreed, and a very little time is what it will take. IMO the county-by-county risk is going to create a big mess.

Well, thankfully Trump can't order county by county. It's up to the governors.

 

[MaryG12]

Some information about international travel as it relates to the ongoing spread of COVID-19:

Tourism

One of my friends from high school years works as a corporate (business) travel consultant. Needless to say, the rate of business travel is the highest at 30% compared to tourism, visiting family in another country, etc:

Why has US Outbound Travel and Tourism Increased 170% over the Past 20 Years?

 

[Lilibet]

All that being said, I'm self quarantined And I think y'all should be too

And that’s the bottom line right now no matter whose statistics we listen to.

 

[Really?]

Huh? What do you mean? What do firearms have to do with it?

Think...........wild west.

 

[Reachingfornettles]

Emergency room nurse begs Michiganders to stay home in Instagram video
Detroit Nurse " last ventilator used this morning and no drugs like fentanyl. Here we go...

 

[Henry2326]

NEW YORK

(CNN)Refrigerated trailers to be used as makeshift morgues hummed outside two hospitals on Thursday as New York City deals with the surging death count in the epicenter of the nation's coronavirus pandemic.

The last time New York took such drastic measures was after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, when the city medical examiner's office was tasked with identifying tens of thousands of body parts from the 2,753 people killed in the World Trade Center collapse.

The makeshift morgues signal the historic challenge posed by the national health crisis.

For the first time since 9/11, NYC has set up makeshift morgues. This time, it's in anticipation of coronavirus deaths

 

[jjenny]

Most people in my profession agree that China is not reporting accurately. In fact, that's probably an understatement. China wants the world open for business as well. I'm not saying that they are deliberately underreporting, but they had cases in all areas of China a week ago and those did not just simply go away. Someone was exposed to those people.

China's figures have been almost unchanged for 5 days. They had 85,000 and increasing exponentially - and then, perfectly flat? Nope, I don't buy it. They're watching the rest of the world and they'll put out their new data when it makes sense to them. Wuhan is obviously through the worst of it (3287 deaths). We have 1200 deaths. This indicates that we've tested more broadly than the most serious cases, whereas China tried to reserve testing for the truly serious cases, at least at first.

China is probably not using confirmational tests on people who obviously have CV19 (symptomatic, in contact with a deceased person) or only using to protect front line personnel.

There is no doubt US is vastly underreporting as well, considering how difficult it is to get tested.

 

[Really?]

Me and you both bro, stay safe .......this is a reply to cody

 

[MyBelle]

Cuomo: Not sure if closing all businesses, keeping everyone home was 'the best public health strategy'

Didn't he say the exact opposite when Trump was talking about reopening areas for business by Easter? I wish they'd settle on one message and stick to it.

 

[katydid23]

We overtook China. China has many more people than us. So we truly are #1 in infections.
"China is no longer the global leader in cases of the virus that originated in its soil. The U.S., with about one-fourth the number of people of the world's most populous country, overtook China and Italy in confirmed coronavirus cases on Thursday."
Coronavirus updates: US surpasses China; unemployment claims spike

Is it a surprise we overtook China? I thought they are on the winding down part of the virus?

 

[Trudie]

Cuomo: Not sure if closing all businesses, keeping everyone home was 'the best public health strategy'

From your link: (bbm)
What we did was we closed everything down. That was our public health strategy. Just close everything, all businesses, old workers, young people, old people, short people, tall people,” said Cuomo. “Every school closed, everything.”

“If you rethought that or had time to analyze that public health strategy, I don't know that you would say quarantine everyone,” Cuomo admitted. “I don't even know that that was the best public health policy. Young people then quarantined with older people was probably not the best public health strategy because the younger people could have been exposing the older people to an infection. “