Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

New York may bury unclaimed coronavirus victims on Hart Island - CNN

Mayor says no mass burials but hard to believe that when you see the drone footage.

 

Broke 500,000 cases and highest single day in deaths

United States Coronavirus: 501,272 Cases and 18,664 Deaths - Worldometer

 

No question. I just wondered if this is common...but only being documented because of this. In other words do they do this all the time and we just never see it?

 

But do they maybe do this all the time? My guess is NYC has huge numbers of deceased homeless etc...might they do this instead of one at a time as a financial decision.

In other words had a drone been there 6 months ago would it have seen the same thing?

No idea...just asking.

 

Yes, that’s what it sounds like. I Googled after your post. It’s basically a potters field and is just getting a lot more business and attention because of COVID-19

 

With the news out of Korea about 91 people recovering and then getting the disease, a lot of questions are raised about false positive. Pretty sure my brother's mother-in-law had a wrong result the first time.

 

We'll have to wait and see, but could also see a new cases daily high today as well. It won't be by much if it is, but still..

 

I don't have an answer either.

 

hopefully this just the peaking that has been talked about.

 

Even months ago there were reports in China that some patients that doctors were sure had COVID needed 4-5 tests before they became positive. That's why they're now testing quarantined folks every 48 hours now (so 7 tests in 14 days!) to make sure they don't have it before they're released, and they do the more sensitive oropharyngeal tests (i.e. back of throat) instead of the nasopharyngeal test.

 

Our daily new cases growth rate being over 7% is still a little troubling. I still think it is cresting but every day you add 33,000 to the pool and lifting social distancing restraints gets a little harder. We're probably on lock down through mid-May at least. Hopefully it doesn't go beyond that.

 

Maybe not to the level we have now, but some forms of restricted movement are going to be around until there are antibody tests, a vaccine, or some really good form of case tracking, which can only happen when after more reliable tests are easily and widely accessible.

 

Hopefully areas in FL and AZ(large senior pops) stay isolated. If the virus got loose in the Villages in FL you could easily see 5000 more deaths. Pop of 51,000 with an avg age of 71.

 

here is the link to the LinkedIn post from the pilot

The airline industry’s network and hubs act as pathogen super-spreaders

• A personal experience: contributing to the coronavirus contagion?
  
  For over two years, I flew a Boeing 787 between Beijing and Washington DC several times a month, and my last scheduled flight was on January 18. Between mid-December and mid-January, an unusually high number of passengers felt unwell on almost every flight, including two of my copilots. One was so ill, he sweated profusely and was unable to sit in the co-pilot’s seat on our approach to Beijing airport. In the taxi, on the way to the hotel, he was violently sick and his skin was ashen gray.
  
  On some of those flights, doctors and nurses who tended to the sick believed that the culprit was food poisoning. One woman was so ill we prepared to declare an emergency and divert to a Russian airport. Not a good scenario when the flight is more than 1,000 miles away from our over-the-pole position. Very few Russian airports along our polar route are suited for large passenger aircraft; most are located in remote areas and provide a hard surface runway only if there is a serious emergency. Luckily, a doctor on-board was able to administer intravenous fluid and after about 40 minutes the woman was sufficiently stable for us to continue the remaining seven-hour flight.
  
  I was scheduled to fly until January 27, but I dropped my last flight. After flying for 35 years, I captained a passenger jet for the last time on January 18, having sensed something was wrong. Coincidently, I fell ill shortly after that flight. For two weeks, I felt extremely tired and my muscles ached, but I can’t say I felt seriously unwell. I will always wonder, though, whether I contributed to the pandemic—as a carrier as well as a casualty—or did I stop flying to Beijing in time and simply had a mild mid-winter flu? Like so much else in life, I will never know.
• ……………………………………….
• According to an analysis of data by the U.S. Department of Commerce, since December 31, 2019, when Chinese officials disclosed the outbreak of a ‘pneumonia-like’ illness to international health officials, at least 430,000 people have arrived in the United States on direct flights from China, including nearly 40,000 in the two months after President Trump imposed travel restrictions. My coronavirus timeline highlights critical milestones and delays that allowed the virus to spread rapidly here and elsewhere.

 

sucking up to T and being the gov of a major swing state that T needs to win. Florida will get everything they ask for and then more. Really like DeSantis other than his attachment to T

 

Y Florida is 22nd nationally in tests per capita, squeezed between WV and MT.

 

didn't know the number of nursing homes infected is so high

Coronavirus Strikes at Least 2,100 Nursing Homes Across U.S.

he new coronavirus has hit more than 2,100 nursing homes and other senior facilities around the U.S., killing over 2,000 people, according to a survey by The Wall Street Journal, an indication the pandemic’s toll has been greater than the federal government has reported.

 

Thanks. Freaky how those symptoms match what I had in January and my doctor right after me. And I am negative for antibodies. Too many possibilities. A flu the current test doesn’t catch? An earlier form of this virus? Antibodies don’t last long? I did have an unrelated bacterial infection. Bear in mind that if this was COVID 19, something made it more lethal and increased the RO. Edit: Well, oddly, after I opted this I was reading the nursing home story linked above and found our that the Chinese believe there is a second more deadly strain.
Chinese scientists say there may be second, more dangerous coronavirus strain

 

guess california really is behind, their test rate per million is half of floridas