Coronavirus Thread

[volvolugnut]

For those who want lots of detailed numbers and facts, here are two web site links:

John Hopkins University https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboar ... 7b48e9ecf6

This site has good maps of where cases are located and state by state details. However, it seems to get slow during the day.

WorldoMeter
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

This site has more graphs and updates more often. Has global news summary for each day back to January. If you want historical detail, WayBackMachine web site has copies of each day for several weeks back.

With this information, you can make calculations of infection growth rates and project when everyone may be exposed to the virus. Warning: this may be really scary!

volvolugnut

[93Regina]

This should be coming for USA, once we have testing capacity.

Via Article: The Trump administration’s botched coronavirus response, explained

[93Regina]

Article via editorial board at National Review, which is a "Leading conservative magazine and website covering news, politics, current events, and culture with detailed analysis and commentary"

March 10, 2020 - President Trump Needs to Step Up on the Coronavirus

The National Review editorial board wrote:

[Trump] resisted making the response to the epidemic a priority for as long as he could — refusing briefings, downplaying the problem, and wasting precious time. He has failed to properly empower his subordinates and refused to trust the information they provided him — often offering up unsubstantiated claims and figures from cable television instead. He has spoken about the crisis in crude political and personal terms. He has stood in the way of public understanding of the plausible course of the epidemic, trafficking instead in dismissive clichés. He has denied his administration’s missteps, making it more difficult to address them.

[erikv11]

This should be coming for USA, once we have testing capacity.

Via Article: The Trump administration’s botched coronavirus response, explained

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Oh I know. We'll get more tests though, the heads are out of the sand. Too late but out.

And US biotech is very good - when treatment/vaccines happen later on, it is reasonable to expect they will come from the US.

The testing is not a tech problem though, it is a political one. S Korea saw it coming and immediately began preparing for testing. US insisted the epidemic wasn't coming. And unlike countries where the response is good, our health care system is fragmented. That disadvantage is obviously not going to change on any relevant time scale, if ever.

[Sveedy]

Who would have thought Gandhi was talking about toilet paper.

[erikv11]

For those who want lots of detailed numbers and facts, here are two web site links:

John Hopkins University https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboar ... 7b48e9ecf6

This site has good maps of where cases are located and state by state details. However, it seems to get slow during the day.

WorldoMeter
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

This site has more graphs and updates more often. Has global news summary for each day back to January. If you want historical detail, WayBackMachine web site has copies of each day for several weeks back.

With this information, you can make calculations of infection growth rates and project when everyone may be exposed to the virus. Warning: this may be really scary!

volvolugnut

These sites are cool, thanks v-nut.

Keep in mind the numbers they report for USA are an underestimation of actual infections. The confirmed positives are the tip of the iceberg, with some meaning for watching the spread but at this point not very relevant for how many actual positives we have and who is exposed.

[cn90]

The Italian docs are stressed to the limit.
The Italian healthcare system is on the verge of collapse.

It is like war medicine: who to live, who to die...

https://www.politico.eu/article/coronav ... -survival/

[cn90]

I have the feeling the coronavirus pandemic will blow the USA healthcare system head gasket in a few weeks...

[erikv11]

But now we have the combo!!!

[BlackBart]

Does it say something that he's wearing a bolo tie....?


(not that there's anything wrong with that)