Unfortunately, the disease has not had as long to take hold here as other countries. We can only hope the rate is not as high when it plays out.
And people think I am a conspiracy nut. Look at the Swine Flu difference and we didn't crash anything for that.
you’re comparing something that literally took a year to play out vs something that’s been here exactly 3 weeks today. Apples and zebras.
Dr. Drew is an addiction specialist, not an epidemiologist. He gets the reference to CDC & other experts right. Otherwise, he's been behaving mostly as a tv/media personality, which he is. I'd put him pretty low on the list of reliable references, when it comes to pandemics.
Epidemiologists saying peak isn’t for another 30-45 days. scary thought given the current proliferation rate.
Apparently not as sickly as I’ve been led to believe about the residents of Mexico City. Additionally, most of those tests were in the SE corner of the country.
Today MIT supposedly released a research document concerning the effect of temperature on COVID-19 transmissions. Supposedly the maximum number of transmissions are occurring in regions that had temps between 37.4-55.4 degrees. They are seeing that the warmer areas have less growth in the outbreak. There was a question whether or not this virus would die off once the warmer weather arrived so maybe this is great news.
One can hope. Something has got to break the intransigence, especially when it coexists with conspiracy-mongering. This country is far worse off when a large swath of the public buys into the antiscience and anti-intellectual attitudes. IMO it's a threat to the republic.
Doesn't look very mixed to me. Yes there are other factors but, to date, they are seeing slower transmission rates in warmer regions.
Sounds like the state of Washington is close to flattening the curve there if they don't start wildfire testing. Regardless if they do or not their daily death number curve could be close to falling real soon due to less cases in reality.
I think their death numbers were initially inflated when it hit that nursing home in the very beginning.
I said that because first, none of those were peer reviewed yet, but this quote seems fairly clear: “While we may expect modest declines in the contagiousness of SARS-CoV-2 in warmer, wetter weather, it is not reasonable to expect these declines alone to slow transmission enough to make a big dent,” but I suppose every bit helps.