Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

I vote we go from page 135 to page 137. Think of the children

 

Starting in New York.

 

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.

 

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.

 

YES, yes we do......I would say with some certainty that a good 2/3rds of posters think so.

 

I think he’s been saying 7-10 days the past 2-3 days lol

 

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.

 

Mixed picture.

Can Warmer Weather Stop Coronavirus? Don’t Count On It

 

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.

 

this will blow that old thread out of the water, and that is a bad thing

 

I think their death numbers were initially inflated when it hit that nursing home in the very beginning.

 

how did that MIT study control for testing inadequacy?

 

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.