Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

You realize that a dead cat bounce is when it bounces from a declining rate, right? Because this country has never had a declining rate of infections for any length of time. In fact, it has been increasing at an exponential rate. In Louisiana, certainly not in the NE, we are now at almost 1,400 cases and are increasing several hundred a day. And that is with still some shortages in tests (although lss severe than in other locations).

 

If he wasn’t giving daily updates you and others would be bitching and moaning “Where the hell is the President?”. You will never be pleased no matter what the man does but you are not alone.

 

Nah. I'd be quite happy if Trump let people like Dr. Fauci keep us updated. The less of him I see, the happier I am.

 

They reached a point where they stopped testing and were estimating the number of cases. I don't remember why.

 

Of course it is not a meaningless statistic. It simply needs to be taken in perspective. It accounts for a limited amount of variables and will naturally be much higher than case fatality rate or mortality rate.

 

China cannot be lowballing deaths if this is a minor cold that isn't killing that many people.

You might try being consistent in your posting.

 

You actually want me to comb through this thread for all the outlandish claims once this tops in a few days?

If you own it I respect that. I was convinced the Reps could hold the House and I owned up to that when ripped and learned a lesson not to ignore past history

 

Sisolak bars malaria drugs for coronavirus patients

Unbelievable and petty man.

 

The numbers today look scary in terms of growth if they are right.

United States Coronavirus: 54,808 Cases and 775 Deaths - Worldometer

 

The testing is not going to identify antibodies. it will identify live virus. Blood tests are needed to identify anti-bodies.

Doctors?

 

Good point. I was wondering about whether the tests could identify who HAD the virus, but as I've heard them described as a "nasal swab" that would probably be useless for that purpose. Need to see the antibodies in the blood.

I haven't even seen anything definitive that you cannot be re-infected. Hopefully that's not the case here with the lung infection, haven't seen anything definitive one way or the other. I've seen some doctors suggest you get antibodies but those only last for a few months or maybe up to a year. But my take was they were pretty much still guessing at this stage, nothing definitive.

 

If there are that many of them, it should be easy to find one.

 

We should be doing antibody testing on anyone who has had a fever for the last 3 months. Would help to get a handle on the onset and spread.

Even to test everyone.

 

When this is dropping in just a few days I could make a thread almost half the size of this huge one there are so many.