Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

Covid-19 Positive Cases and Deaths in the United States by Week.
(World-O-Meter: Through Sunday March 29)

 

This is an interesting point (and graphic):

 

Exactly, which is my any very short term dips are easy to overinterpret.

 

Prayers my friend.

 

Country star Joe Diffie has died from Covid-19. He was a huge star in the 90's

 

And John Prine is in critical condition. Prine has serious underlying health issues including two major battles with cancer.

 

I hope too, but I can't help but caution against reading too much into a one day dip. It's too short of a time period given the incubation period and testing issues, and the overall growing trend. It's also not the first time they've dipped, though the first this week.

*By the way, World-o-Meter, like The Covid Project, adjusts earlier numbers due to reporting lag.

 

John Prine is an American treasure. He's got to pull through this.

 

Can't agree more.

 

Happens every flu season, am I right?


The folks trying to play with numbers can just set them aside. Iran doesn’t dig mass graves for flu season. Hospitals don’t use refrigerator trucks for flu season. Obit pages don’t grow exponentially for flu season. Nurses don’t make tear filled videos for flu season. 800,000 doctors don’t petition the President over flu season.

I feel for those who have family and friends unemployed. I’m amongst that group. I feel for those with family working in hospitals. I’m amongst that group.

I wish we could put aside the argument; this one specifically and the red blue one that never ends. This thing is here. It’s real.

 

And not really funny. If people really think this way, then the reap what they sow.

 

As we have seen. Covid-19 and Karma know no politics.

 

That is a good article that lays out the vast array of things we should be working on.

We all want to “get back to normal” so that people stop dying and people can get back to work. But, it will take much more than an aspirational date. It will take a massive coordinated effort.

I’m not saying the article lays out a perfect game plan. I’m saying let’s hope the task force has some working subgroups tasked with this kind of planning.

A Game Plan to End Social Distancing

 

Trump relied on an attorney whose assessment was at odds with every medical epidemiologist in the world?

 

. I posted this in another thread.

 

Everyone around him has to praise him or they are not around long. Sad, pathetic, insecure individual. Always has been, always will be

 

And the insanity is continuing on Fox News right now with Donny “I love trucks” Trump.

 

J&J to start human testing of coronavirus vaccine by September