If you haven't checked out this site, you should:
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis...40299423467b48e9ecf6
It's very cool.
It also demonstrates that this virus isn't going to be contained, and it's going to be global.
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Rothko posted:If you haven't checked out this site, you should:
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis...40299423467b48e9ecf6
It's very cool.
It also demonstrates that this virus isn't going to be contained, and it's going to be global.
I believe the actual cases are dramatically above the documented cases, especially in China. I wouldn't trust anything China says about the corona virus. It will definitely spread, hopefully spring weather will help reduce the cases. Several problems in dealing with this is the long timeframe for developing symptoms and transmission of the virus before getting any symptoms.
Very cool, indeed. Here's a different way of looking at it, comparing cases and mortality rates of MERS, Ebola, SARS, and COVID-19. The mortality rate of COVID-19, thus far, is far below some of these other pandemics at day 40 of each outbreak.
https://twitter.com/WelshGasDo...208118899257344?s=20
First US case not related to foreign travel reported today.
"Trump, seeking to tamp down fears of coronavirus, names Pence to lead response"
See, everything's under control. Pence issued his first guideline for dealing with the virus: "Pray."
The Old Man posted:"Trump, seeking to tamp down fears of coronavirus, names Pence to lead response"
See, everything's under control. Pence issued his first guideline for dealing with the virus: "Pray."
Really. This is scarier than the virus. Why not have a medical professional, like Fauci, lead such an effort??
haggis posted:The Old Man posted:"Trump, seeking to tamp down fears of coronavirus, names Pence to lead response"
See, everything's under control. Pence issued his first guideline for dealing with the virus: "Pray."
Really. This is scarier than the virus. Why not have a medical professional, like Fauci, lead such an effort??
Of course.
Trump's incompetence may cost lives and livelihoods.
Pence has also stiffeled all media contact, except as approved by his office.
flwino posted:Pence has also stiffeled all media contact, except as approved by his office.
Saves him from being caught alone in a room with a female.
This problem is being exacerbated by the incredible instability of the white-nationalist in-chief's staff and cabinet members. Because of course as a great businessman he only "hires the best people." Any business with this upper management turnover rate would find the CEO gone.
The Old Man posted:This problem is being exacerbated by the incredible instability of the white-nationalist in-chief's staff and cabinet members. Because of course as a great businessman he only "hires the best people." Any business with this upper management turnover rate would find the CEO gone.
The Board of Directors vote in November
Though I'm in a very low panic mode I didn't find the UCLA Professor epidemiologist on Bill Maher very reassuring.
First US death reported in Washington State.
The Old Man posted:Though I'm in a very low panic mode I didn't find the UCLA Professor epidemiologist on Bill Maher very reassuring.
Samesies.
flwino posted:Pence has also stiffeled all media contact, except as approved by his office.
On the way back into the US this past Saturday night, we were "screened" for coronavirus.
A person asked us if we had been to China in the prior 14 days. We said "no." End of screening.
Not sure if this is feasible, but one wonders if the state department or homeland security has a computer base of people traveling on US passports who have used them to get into China or s. Korea or Italy or Iran or other virus affected areas recently, and if inquiries can be made of those people to really assess the virulence of the virus. Would such a "search" be deemed "unreasonable" (under the 4th amendment) particularly insofar as no criminal activity on the part of such a traveler would be suspected? Would this be a scientifically sound approach?
There sure was a lot of coughing on the plane, though perhaps I was just more sensitive to it. Even in the Caribbean, when we entered Barbados, we had to fill out a paper about our travel in the past 14 days, and the same when we entered Grenada.
About 675,000 people died in 1918-1919 from the flu in the United States. A staggering number considering that the population then was about 1/3 of what we have now, so this is the equivalent of about 2 million deaths today. Geez.
Now up to five deaths in the US.
brucehayes posted:Now up to five deaths in the US.
Wrong thread
bomba503 posted:brucehayes posted:Now up to five deaths in the US.
Wrong thread
I don't think so.
It's in Florida now. Two patients, one of whom traveled in northern Italy; the other with no connections to prior locations.