Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

Hit several in my area, including one in my city, which eighty something residents and six staff tested positive. Five have died (all residents). Out in Riverside CA, an entire staff refused to go to work. The operator had to send the residents to other locations.

 

Or the Chinese concealed how deadly it was in China. Now that we have real world results, they would have to say Chineses numbers were originally incorrect or there is a new strain out there.

 

If only we had an office with medical staff in China so we could have real time expert intelligence.... oh wait.

 

The Chinese absolutely deserve criticism and should be held to some account for their lack of making the genetic code for the virus available as soon as they had it. This much is certain. It didn't help that multiple times Trump tweeted glowing praise of Xi during a crucial period where instead he should have been forcing him to give it up. He owns that failure, among his many.

 

and? Was just making the point that a simple number of tests isn’t the whole story.

 

unless i am wrong, did not the surgeon general say last sunday that this week would be our "pearl harbour "?the daily new cases had a high of 34196 on april 4, but have dropped daily since then, a high of deaths was 1971 on april 7, only 2037 today hardly a huge upturn, although all deaths are tragic.this is like " catch 22 " the death expections and the peak time is constantly moving, wish they could be more sure, i am sure they have tons of data to review.

 

Maybe both. But we know there are different strains based on the Genome study in New York.

 

The likely scenario is a death toll of 2000+/- a day for the next 3-5 days and then a slow decline over the next 3-4 weeks.

 

Trump bristled when the House required oversight for the funds. Turns out the formula for hospitals allocates $ for past medicare requests, NOT for number of Covid-19 cases. So Nebraska gets $300,00.00 per Covid case while NY gets $12,000. Better fire a couple more IG just to be certain no one follows up on that. Sadly, can't make this cluster up.

 

we dont need that when the WHO will provide the necessary information

 

and I have a bridge for sale in arizona

 

And now ebola has raised its head again
WHO sounds alarm over new Ebola case in Congo

After weeks of calm in the fight against Ebola, the WHO noted a new case in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The report came as the government was preparing to officially declare the end of the Ebola epidemic.

A 26-year-old man became the first person to be infected with Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since February, UN health officials declared on Friday.

"Unfortunately, this means the government of DRC will not be able to declare an end to the Ebola outbreak on Monday, as hoped," said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO).

 

Simulation research shows COVID-19 can spread farther by those exercising outdoors

To avoid the droplets, they recommend staying 15 feet from others when walking, 33 feet when running or cycling at a slow pace, and 65 feet when running or cycling at a faster pace.

 

Happy post peak day! Fingers crossed.

 

We do have a CDC office in China, albeit with greatly reduced staff. Regardless of staff or staff size, the problem we had was Chinese censorship during the crisis. They jailed their own doctors who tried to warn the world of what was going on in Wuhan. They would not let our CDC assist, regardless of whether they were in Atlanta or Bejing.

 

Do you really expect one office to keep track of the medical issues of 1,400,000,000 people? Do you not realize that when any official goes to a communist country, that country attaches "minders" (official escorts) to them to keep track of them and coordinate with local police to try to control what they see? Any intelligence you get is going to be very limited in scope, and heavily dependent on the host country for access and cooperation. They can't just walk into any hospital they like and do a surprise spot inspection. I wouldn't be surprised if the Chinese moved excess patients out of hospitals right before the CDC visited, and moved them back in right after they left. "See? No problem. Coronavirus is under control."

 

Stanford researchers think that the state of California may be close to developing herd immunity.

Stanford Researchers Say Californians May Have Herd Immunity to COVID-19

I'm not sure why this would fall under the category of "entertainment".

 

I am curious how they managed to keep it out of the large homeless community in CA.

 

The White House Pushed FEMA To Give its Biggest Coronavirus Contract to a Company That Never Had to Bid — ProPublica

 

Covid vs. US Top 15 Causes of Death
Updated with 4/10 data.