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Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by GatorNorth, Feb 25, 2020.

  1. gator95

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    Hundreds? I'll wait for you to point all those out. Otherwise I expect you to acknowledge your lie. But we all know that's BS like you and the sky is falling group who said we wouldn't play football in the fall.
     
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  2. oragator1

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    The US is testing more in large part because we have more infected and close contact to infected people to test.
    A country with low numbers doesn’t need to test at the level we do.

    while it’s good we have the ability, our reasons right now shouldn’t be a badge of honor.
     
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  3. dangolegators

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    You mentioned Hong Kong in post 17772.
     
  4. gator95

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    No I didn't. They were in a chart and I didn't mention Hong Kong and testing in the same sentence. Good try though.
     
  5. gator95

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    Could COVID-19 Have Escaped from a Lab?

    Think censorship is very bad in science. We don't know 100% how Covid came about and we should look down every avenue to find out the source so we can hopefully be more prepared next time.
     
  6. dangolegators

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    There are far too many to point out, but the 5 or 6 pages where you had great difficulty understanding the concept of a 7 day average stands out. As for football in the fall, I don't think I ever said we wouldn't play, but feel free to try to find it if I did. I did say there would be lots of issues and complications, and that we might not get through the season. That still stands.
     
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  7. gatordavisl

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    Relatively low would be ranking in the 30s out of 50 states. ND has the 17th most per capita cases and SD has the 23rd most. This despite great advantage of low population density, not to mention these states are not widely traveled, when compared with places like New York, Florida, and California.
    Covid in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count
     
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  8. buckeyegator

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    they also have a grand total of 32,600 total cases and 354 deaths.had a total of 417 new cases combined today,, hardly a massive outbreak
     
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  10. chemgator

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    It's likely because Sweden's big cities are smaller than other countries' big cities. Sweden has been practicing social distancing for centuries. Stockholm just isn't comparable to London, Paris, Berlin, Madrid, or Amsterdam.
     
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  11. chemgator

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    I think it would be better to say that Asia has more uncontrolled and unhygienic wet markets than other places. Exotic animals in crates on top of each other, cats and dogs wandering around lapping up the blood and looking for scraps, etc.
     
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  12. gator95

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    So you lied. Got it. Thanks
     
  13. chemgator

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    More information that successful resistance to Covid-19 is behavior-based. People with coronavirus are twice as likely to have eaten at restaurants in the two weeks before showing symptoms. Going to restaurants is a behavior (of people, not viruses). A person can choose not to go to a restaurant.

    Coronavirus Live Updates: Adults With COVID-19 Twice As Likely To Have Eaten At Restaurants, CDC Study Finds

    Mask-wearing is also considered a behavior. A person can choose to wear a mask.
     
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  14. buckeyegator

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  15. mutz87

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    Your first guess is correct. College towns.
     
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  17. gator95

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  18. OklahomaGator

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    I know you have anxiously awaiting the return of the daily updated stats from world o meter as of 7 am EDT. There were 12 states with a decrease in active cases over the last 5 days. There were 8 states with 1-10 deaths and just 1 state with 0 deaths over that 5 day time frame. I included the testing stats this time as well and over 5.3 million tests done and the positive rate dropped from 7.4% to 7.18%.
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  19. OklahomaGator

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    The death rate per reported case continues its slow decrease.
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  20. G8trGr8t

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    Over 40% of Swedes live alone. Minimizes transmission