U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days

Post by vanniv » Fri, Mar 13, 2020, 6:58 AM UTC

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That's a really good dataset (with a really clunky visualization, but hey!) Indeed. There are typically above 3000 deaths/week due to Pneumonia and 200/week due to influenza at this time of year. We had a smallish spike in mid-late January, where for 3 consecutive weeks, deaths were above trend at nearly 4000 & 400 per week. If you assume a 1% mortality rate for COVID, and you assume all deaths are due to pneumonia,…

If you are in ICU with flu symptoms, they don't just shrug when the rapid influenza test comes back negative. There are reflex tests that can be run to confirm positive or negative.

Post by Tepix » Fri, Mar 13, 2020, 1:14 PM UTC

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From what I've read, China tries to get people to go grocery shopping only once per week. They are the only ones who appear to manage to get the infection rate from 1.3x down to 0.3x in the past days.

Interesting. Once a week was status quo in the suburb I grew up in (west of Chicago), is that not normal elsewhere?

Post by allsystemsgo » Fri, Mar 13, 2020, 5:21 PM UTC

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Just because CV19 is a thing now doesn’t mean the US magically has Medicare for all.

So in your mind, Medicare for all only covers covid 19? Because that's what I'm talking about. Covering treatment for the once in a hundred years pandemic. Clearly, even that's too much for our shitty, decaying American society. In the meantime every other developed nation has a proper healthcare system while we can barely test for this due to our incompetence and shit leaders.

Post by nomel » Sat, Mar 14, 2020, 12:35 AM UTC

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To reiterate what others said, it is long past containment in the United States. In Canada early on the cases were people who came from known hot spots. Now it is almost entirely people coming from the United States, from places with no known cases. Clearly there are clusters throughout the United States. Unconfirmed, unrecognized clusters. And with the adversity of many to utilizing health care, it seems impossible…

I think elementary/high schools are how this will spread through communities with the most efficiency. Collect a person from each family, mix them together with the poorest respect for hygiene, then send them home, 5 times a week. Here's the perspective of a San Jose public high school [1] proving that containment isn't a concern: > Oak Grove High School officials said they were not considering school closures becaus…

Post by officemonkey » Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 5:10 PM UTC

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It's entirely appropriate to tell the chef he's about to cut off his thumb. You're not an expert and you're spouting xenophobic bullshit. Take the L.

Which would be relevant in a discussion about technique. Murder and knife crime discussions would not be. A knife can be used for those things, but when discussing knives in cooking it makes no sense to talk about those topics. Likewise in a discussion wherein the example of the farmer trying to protect the herd from a predator by closing the fence after the predator is already inside the farm - it is not the selecti…