Not really. If we can flatten the curve we will have to keep isolatiing ourselves until the diease dies out due to lack of victims :(
Not really. If we can flatten the curve we will have to keep isolatiing ourselves until the diease dies out due to lack of victims :(
chinia is also a atharatrain state that was able to turn on a dimme and not only do a forced lockdown of a 10million + city, but move most of its econamy on a dim to support that move. the west cant do that.
No, flattened curve will just mean there's a steady rate of new infections rather than the exponential growth we currently have. What we really need to do is test everyone. Flattening curve just means the spread is slowed down and the healthcare system won't be completely overwhelmed. And during that time, we continuing testing as many people as possible, contact tracing, and work on containing it.
Washington cancelling standardised testing in the spring:
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Diane Ravitch on Twitter
“Washington State: All Standardized Tests Canceled for Students for Spring 2020 https://t.co/6Dr6LBXmtn”
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Same for me.
It's likely.
Seems Paris numbers are doubling every 72 hours and hospitals can't follow.
A 6PM curfew is possible in Paris region.
Source : some high ranked people in "éducation nationale" (the administration of education)
Rumors for now, grain of salt obviously
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I didn't post the tweet. I was replying to it. Shouldn't be taken as anything but a random thought.
I have quarantined myself so to speak. I am in the high risk group and very vulnerable due to heart/lung diseases. I am now alone and away from my SO. She is working in healthcare so the risk is even higher if we stay together :( I am very worried about everything.
Just had a semi tense text exchange with my boss but it turned out OK. I'm not going in next week. About 10 minutes before the govenor said that restaurants and bars would be closed. I don't work in the service industry but this is big
No, it took over two years to get to even phase 2 trials for that
If a vaccine for Covid-19 comes out in early/mid-2021 it will be the fastest a vaccine has ever been implemented. People are working on this at record speed even if it seems slow
Yes, that may be an important factor. Italy is (one of) the oldest country in the world, after all.
COVID-19 pandemic in Italy - Wikipedia
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Italy's has 24,747 cases, with 1,809 deaths. That's a 7% death rate? Isn't that much higher than expected?
Am I miscounting? 1,809/24,747? Does the elderly cases skew it or something?
I called the hotline for NY and gave them my info as well as my concern that I might have it. They said I should get a call from the DOH in the next day or two to set up an appointment to get me tested. I think I'm gonna call off work tonight because I'm just too paranoid about this whole situation. Especially working at the airport and handling people's money...
im so blessed my wife and I have WFH capabilities. But my patience will be tested with my children at home for over a month. Will have to get inventive.
we only have around 5k réa beds. Hospital wont follow. We have to shut everything.
Seems like the states are the ones getting their shit together and trying to do something about this as opposed to the federal government. I wonder if taking these measures such as closing schools, banning gatherings, and starting to now close restaurants, will prevent us from going the way of Italy, Spain, and France, considering we're around a week behind (according to the numbers, though we haven't been testing...) yet are starting these measures a bit earlier.
I can only hope.
I can only hope.
Gov Baker announced that MA bars and restaurants will go to takeout only from March 17 to April 7.
Please source this. Germany can't hide those deaths because they would leave a hole in the active cases + recovered + deaths statistic.
Unless they are fudging the new case numbers to exclude the number of deaths from the previous day. As every state is independently giving the numbers, they couldn't be hiding this for long.
So please source your statement.
I'm starting my first software engineering job this week. Beyond fortunate timing for me, my previous job can't happen remote. Not sure how well it will work out being I'm a junior developer but at least the job is possible to perform completely remote.
Im In Toronto, and I went out today to see a friend in the park near my house. We respected the social distancing and were apart enough, but it was obvious not many people were taking it seriously. I guess because the numbers arent as bad here, but im still nervous. With more people coming back from abroad I think the numbers will go up, but i hope im wrong. Im going to the store tomorrow morning early when its quiet to stock up some more essentials and then stay mostly indoors besides going out for a daily walk/bicycle ride to stay sane. I have three weeks off due to the school closures.
The world just can't shut down for months, so much would fall apart. The best thing to do is to get things a bit under control, have readily available free testing accessible to all all over the place, enforce stricter cleanliness practices by all, take more measures to check people traveling across borders or going into any type of traveling situation with many other people. Also the big thing is to help the medial professionals get ready, have hospital beds, and equipment ready for those that are sick. A big problem that was seen in Italy for example was that the hospitals were overrun with sick and couldn't keep up so you had lot of fatalities. We need to build up and get prepared a medical response that can handle large amounts of infected.
No one wants to have to do what China did to get things to slow down as they did, and on a global scale that would be disastrous. As others have pointed out how well SK has handled it while sorta keeping life going.
We slow it down, take care of those who do get sick and reduce fatalities, while hoping a vaccine comes along
we wont know for 2 weeks. the sad fact is that we are working on 10 day lag.
Just a random thought: Has there ever been one topic that everyone discusses on a global scale and influences basically everybody's daily life at the same time? Basically everybody can relate to you in one way or the other and we form a global community on the same thing. There is events like Christmas every year but I feel the Corona crisis really might be a first.
With 162,687 cases worldwide as of today. The rest of the world has officially surpassed China (81,003) in confirmed cases.
Death rates among healthy people under 40 is very low. But death rates above 60 are high. Something like 8% death rate over 70 which is pretty wild.
There are 169,175 cases worldwide - https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ - this website is on point with the stats.
Taiwan and South Korea reacted to this forcefully and successfully. Both are liberal democracies.
The west can totally do all of what they did and more.
Our priorities are just fucked up.
I also live in Ohio and know a 42 year old who died of pneumonia like 6 weeks ago and it seemed really weird tbh
China had to go full ham on this shit since they are the epicenter. SK was a bit of luck with where the cases came in, but mostly they did not fuck around. US needs to go into damage control for a few weeks now with lockdown to basically tally the damage then can begin to move back to slower production once systems are in place.
So there's a positive coming out of my town (Clinton, MO) and now there's a doctor from the hospital on Facebook basically bucking the trend and giving everyone info off the cuff...
Prepare for communally outbreak because it's happening, the county health care org. isn't prepared, we need mandatory quarantine and schools closed, etc.
Feeling great...ugh...
Prepare for communally outbreak because it's happening, the county health care org. isn't prepared, we need mandatory quarantine and schools closed, etc.
Feeling great...ugh...
Taiwan and SK didn't do complete lockdowns though. They just had plentiful testing. What do we take from them?
And how did Taiwan stay at sub 100 through all of this?
924 new cases + 36 new deaths in France, 5423 cases + 127 deaths (2.3%) in total.
1452 new cases + 96 new deaths In Spain, 6391 cases + 292 deaths (4.5%) in total.
998 new cases + 4 new deaths in Germany (0a - 11a), 5813 cases + 13 deaths (0.2%) in total.
1452 new cases + 96 new deaths In Spain, 6391 cases + 292 deaths (4.5%) in total.
998 new cases + 4 new deaths in Germany (0a - 11a), 5813 cases + 13 deaths (0.2%) in total.
SK locked down the epicenter of the outbreak (Daegu City).
If your company uses software like goto meeting or slack there is screen sharing capabilities. Do you have a headset with a mic?
Coronavirus tracker: the latest figures as countries fight the Covid-19 resurgence | Free to read
The FT analyses the scale of outbreaks and tracks the vaccine rollouts around the world
www.ft.com
edit: It's paywalled. I could access it the first time, but clicking it again sends me to their subscription page. One page free trial maybe?
edit 2: try this.
John Burn-Murdoch on Twitter
“NEW chart on coronavirus: we're now tracking death toll trajectories as well as cases • Deaths in Italy & Spain now growing much faster than they did in China at same stage • More deaths in Italy in last 24h than on any day in Wuhan Live version here: https://t.co/VcSZISFxzF”
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Probably till at least June, then a slow opening of places with more rigorous testing in public like Singapore does. World leaders will cut their losses with the economy eventually and not want the quarantine to continue too long. The idea of it is to slow the spread enough so hospitals don't completely faulter, so when it's lifted enough people have immunity, and it being summer, that the rate of infection should be slow enough to "safely" lift quarantine.
Spain and Philipines are in diplomatic talks with China; China has pledged support in terms of medical supplies and facilitation of future exports of medical equipments and devices.
Thank you. However, it is behind the paywall.Coronavirus tracker: the latest figures as countries fight the Covid-19 resurgence | Free to read
The FT analyses the scale of outbreaks and tracks the vaccine rollouts around the world
Your post is highly conspiracy theorist without actual evidence.
It's from the financial times. I'm
On mobile and won't search now but it's relatively easy to find on their website
See that's what I am thinking. I can't think closing schools for more than 3 months is going to work well. High School and Elementary Schools in my opinion just wont last online long. SO much is going to get screwed up. Universities can go online no problem.
But working in IT in a school, I just don't see how our kids are going to benefit for a closure for 3 months. I already am going to dread the next few weeks, cause I feel like teachers and students will try hard to get to an approach that can help the students feel like nothing has changed, but the reality is, this is going to get worse for everybody.
I don't know. I know we have to stop the spread, but as a school you have to think of the kids, and my thoughts are, this second half of their year is going to truly fuck them over.
Which sucks. Everything is changing and crashing hard. The hope is we work hard to lower the intensity of the crash. I hope every country can at least slow everything down.
Still though, I feel for those kids.
Pneumonia is a killer. I can't remember if it's viral or bacterial that is the more deadly, but I remember when I was in high school someone's dad died of pneumonia.
Yeah, which is why I asked.
As we are only talking about absolute deaths numbers, not rates, asymptomatic / mild cases that aren't counted are irrelevant.
So it just comes down to how Germany is defining the death number? People will be pissed if the government knowingly kept the numbers low that way...