Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

IHME | COVID-19 Projections

Projections ticked upward in the latest update - back up to around 68,000 deaths.

 

Yup. The anecdotal success results are a nefarious cocktail of possible benefit, confirmation bias and placebo effect.

The anecdotal failure results require a priest and a shovel.

 

I literally laughed out loud at that...a true classic!

I had been referring to her as the "Shoe Burglar," but I may have to change.
Ivanka Trump has been accused of ripping off another designer's shoes

 

Tracking viral outbreaks through sewage analysis.

Sewage analysis suggests exponentially higher infection rate in a New England area

 

Which is actually good news because it means that more people not needing hospitalization and coming out with immunity. The more people who get it the sooner we can get back to work. We really need massively increased testing so we can find out what our situation really is. Trying to make decisions without information is stupid.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...-is-now-demonstrated-beyond-reasonable-doubt/

 

Not Like the Flu, Not Like Car Crashes, Not Like—

Above is a short article providing an update of covid-19 deaths vs other common causes. It also provides a summary on CDC's reconciliation of seasonal flu deaths, which was brought up in the covid-19 over/under death count debates. I imagine the same approach will be used for covid-19.

 

Sadly, the uncertainty of the degree of immunity continues to be the Sword of Damocles for me in any statement of optimism.

 

Agreed, the reports of people getting reinfected are concerning. I'm hopeful those are just bad test results.

 

It is going to be interesting watching

And I thought I my job included a bunch of shit work.

 

An interesting article on S Dakota becoming a hot spot after their governor resisted issuing a stay-at-home order.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...ff90fe-7daf-11ea-a3ee-13e1ae0a3571_story.html

 

Governor has crazy eyes. You would have thought people in the state would just ignore her and believe in science.

 

Isn't this "hot spot" the pork processing plant owned by the Chinese firm WH Group?
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I believe their US HQ is in Virginia. Interesting that the Chinese-owned company (oh, is it okay to identify a Chinese-owned company as being "Chinese"- owned?????) and the union did not take adequate measures to combat the infection and subsequent spread thereof at the plant.

 

So you’re saying it’s Col. Mustard, with a candlestick in the foyer!

 

or it could be a leading indicator of the next outbreak hotspot if they are passing the virus prior to showing symptoms.

 

Yes, it is owned by WH.

What happens when our meat supply runs low because WH exported the protein to China? Considerable protein supply in frozen storage still but much of it is destined for overseas export with China the leading consumer. No bacon for you Joe, must ship to China. Will trump prohibit export of meat if food supply is threatened?

 

I thought this was interesting. It has no beating on the orange man bad/good debate most on this board are obsessed with but if you are interested in how and when we beat this thing you will find it informative.

The COVID-19 vaccine development landscape

 

thanks

reposted in thread here for discussion largely sans orange man

Covid-19: Treatments, Cures, and Vaccines | Page 3 | Swamp Gas Forums

 

Going to be an uptick in deaths today. Already surpassed yesterday's total.
NJ and LA coming in with big numbers. Could be catching numbers up from the weekend.

United States Coronavirus: 603,488 Cases and 25,194 Deaths - Worldometer