Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

And we are still way short on tests. This is just starting to clean up some (although certainly not all or even likely most) of the backlog.

 

Mondays are always the worst. People that get sick over the weekend often show up on Monday. I was figuring today would be bad. The slight slowdown in the increase rate was just stored up cases to show up today.

 

I was just suggesting why they may be different as you asked.

 

Sorry to hear that...but no way that is the norm.

 

From the CDC:

Common Cold

 

Drive-up coronavirus testing planned for UD Arena parking lot in Dayton



I guess Trump has had enough of China's mess about this virus coming from the US Military.

 

I’ve been extremely fortunate as I don’t think I have ever suffered an average of 2.5 colds in a year. I haven’t had a cold since Feb18 and can’t remember the last time I had the flu.

 

Good vaccine developments. Supersonic speed


First patient dosed in Phase I study of mRNA-based vaccine against COVID-19

 

Trump should listen to Susan Collins and shut up.

 

“The NIH noted that subjects will be asked to return to the clinic for follow-up visits between vaccinations and for additional visits across the span of a year after the second dose.”

This doesn’t seem nearly fast enough.

 

It's as fast as it's gonna get.

 

Why can’t they have a willing participant get the vaccine and then (with their consent of course) try to intentionally infect them with the disease? It seems that we would get to the answer a lot faster that way than just giving random people the vaccine candidate and checking in on them in a year. Especially if the social distancing and quarantine measures work — how will we know if a person remained healthy because the vaccine was effective or because they successfully avoided contact with the virus? With enough people in the trial I suppose you could still get a statistically valid answer, but probably not with only 45 unless a huge portion of the country were infected.

I also get that we want to see if there are long term side effects of using the vaccine, but it seems like this is such an emergency that it might be worth foregoing the ordinary caution if we can find a cure that works. Famous last words, I know. Hard to say what the right answer is when all paths may lead to ill.

 

Holy macaroni! That's inconceivable.

 

updated today US coronavirus: Americans are asked for more sacrifices as virus keeps spreading - CNN

 

Wow.

I was starting to think Boris Johnson wasn't as dumb as Trump. The guy seemed to be starting to recognize Trump as an idiot, and he gets points for that. But if this was the UK "strategy", he just took the prize hands down.

 

Important to note the logarithmic scale.