Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

All one has to do is look at the number of serious cases being reported now in the U.S. It's a very low number.

 

18 people died yesterday. 11 the day before that. 6 more already today. All on 10-12 serious cases? Seems unlikely...

 

I try to avoid the "big 3" news outlets, but this has forced me to peek.
I have not seen any media outlet flat out call it a hoax. Just a rare person or two.
CNN is blaming Trump, Fox is not. That is really the only difference in coverage.

Truth is likely somewhere in between btw.

 

Some good news out of Europe as we move up the curve...whole thread.

 

Yes - this very small sample size tells us exactly what we already know: a small percentage of those with the disease will die. Most will recover.

 

Both are really low figures for the amount of cases we have. You also have to think people with more severe symptoms are much likelier to get themselves tested than those without or with mild symptoms.

 

Yet another example of the virus waning without any hardcore quarantining. These numbers reflect ones who would have been infected before the strictest regulations were put in place.

 

Okay buddy. It’s literally the effect of a national lockdown.

smh...

 

But I thought.......never mind...even the reaper jokes seem old at this point.

 

Cuomo wants “all states to be treated the same.” But all states aren’t the same. Some are being hit hard by the Chinese Virus, some are being hit practically not at all. New York is a very big “hotspot”, West Virginia has, thus far, zero cases. Andrew, keep politics out of it...
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I am glad Trump is standing up to this as as I could see yesterday from the news Gov Cuomo wanted the whole US to go as draconian as himself to further push the economy down to try and hurt Trump for the 2020 election.

 

You are playing chess with a pigeon.

 

While I agree people below 50 in good health are extremely unlikely to develop serious illness, as others have mentioned, nobody in the know, or in decision making positions is "calmed down". This is spreading rapidly and we do not have anywhere near the medical infrastructure to deal with the patients who will get serious illness or to even protect understaffed medical professionals from getting ill while trying to help others.

This is serious shit with serious human and economic consequences.

 

Oh good. We can all breathe a big sigh of relief then since we're shutting down too. Life should be back to normal within a few weeks.

 

Perhaps or maybe that is also a fluid number that just tells us who is going to die tomorrow. The severe case number has stayed very close to the death number, so perhaps it is dead on.

 

Interesting choice of words.

 

he’s reality distancing

 

Yep not sure how some of that is being collected as you would think no one in the US is hardly recovering looking at that recovery stat and that nearly no one is dying in Germany despite their spiked level of cases.

 

GA hospital uses 5 months of supplies in 6 days

 

Over 1000 new cases today in the US (As testing becomes more widespread.)
Almost half of those in NY.

Seems like NY should lock down at the state line. The numbers are staying similar everywhere but there.