It’s crazy. Simple things that can help protect people.
I've been in ShopRite a few times and people are very aware of each other and doing their best to avoid each other, I think Politi has to be exaggerating his experience for the sake of his article.
Not much close interaction on a golf course, so I see the other side of the coin.
That's why you hear Fauci talk a bit dismissively of the models. You look at Italy's curve and although it has hit it's apex it's downward trend looks much slower then it's upward, and that is with the stay at home order still in place.
I think they need to deploy the national guard with orders to shoot to kill for those not wearing masks!
But we don't have to get this to zero. If a growing percentage of the population develops the antibodies, and seasonal changes reduce Covids ability to survive on surfaces, we will simulataneously be reducing transmissibility while development ng therapies can make it less fatal.
I've seen a few twitter posts claiming that apartment complexes in Hubei were locked down again because a new case or cases occurred. Not a massive lockdown, not city-wide, just a complex here and there. I suspect they'll be battling this for a long time, as will the rest of us.
They can’t seem to selectively enforce so because you have a few idiots or certain parks too crowded you deprive everyone. That’s a real shame. So everyone can stay home eat their delivered fast food drink get fat and beat their spouse.
Work is mistaken. Case growth is not only decelerating in NJ, it dropped at least two of the last four days, if not three.Latest update I received from work.
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Please find our revised PM coronavirus monitor attached. Please disregard the previous edition sent moments ago.
In the US, confirmed cases continue to rise, now topping 386,817 nationwide. Active infections in the US stand at 354,341 this afternoon, with 12,285 deaths and 20,191 patients recovered.
While urban areas experience high death rates, less population-dense areas such as New Orleans and Albany, Georgia have a higher death rate per 100,000 people, suggesting rural America is not immune to the high fatality rates we are now seeing in cities across the country. It may only be a matter of time before rates begin to spike in smaller metro areas across the US if community spread mitigation and social distancing is not maintained.
New York has suffered its deadliest day so far in the COVID-19 pandemic, with 731 fatalities reported in the last 24 hours. Confirmed cases now stand at 138,836 across the state (+ 7,597, +5.79%) and fatalities now stand at 5,489.
New Jersey continues to see an acceleration in cases, with 44,416 confirmed as of this afternoon (+ 3,326, +8.09%). In response to citizens crowding parks, Gov. Phil Murphy announced he would extend his initial emergency order by 30 days and close all state and county parks to encourage social distancing.
In Europe, Paris has taken the unusual step of banning all outdoor exercise outside of the hours of 7 PM to 10 AM to stress social distancing further. According to officials, France has not yet reached the peak of its infectious curve.
Below is the daily New York Times graphic plotting deaths by state, in states with at least 25 deaths.
@LETSGORU91 @RUfubar - just curious on your take on whether you'd rather be using convalescent plasma as an "emergency last resort treatment" or HCQ/HCQ-combo (or if you don't think we should be trying unproven treatments)? You know what I think, but I don't have the medical knowledge you guys have. Thanks. And any other docs feel free to weigh on (can't always tell who's an MD here).
I saw a twitter post yesterday from an ER doctor (not sure where, possibly NYC) who said they are seeing plenty of patients with covid who were on HCQ for other conditions (lupus, RA, etc), the obvious implication being that it doesn't work all that well as a preventive med for covid. Now, maybe those conditions predispose people to getting covid or having poor responses, maybe the HCQ will work better in people without those conditions.
Is this a sarcastic statement based upon the "extreme" measure of demanding people wear masks?
From the beginning Fauci was pushing the strategy of blunting the curve, which limited the # of cases at any one time, but elongated the timeline. To how long? That was never fully explained, I think because he knew it depended upon too many things, but it always seemed to me that this was going to be a long term process. People were saying "close it down for 2 weeks and be done with it" but that was certainly not the strategy Fauci was trying to implement.
