My roommate is an ASA in FL, she still has to go in every day. Her niece is also hunkered down with us, because she was teaching in France and had to come back to the US. We are the closest to the airport, so she’s with us for the time being, between the two of them and living in a relatively small apartment, I’m pretty certain I’m going to get it.
Is it Day 15 yet? We good?
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this isn’t related to your post, but iirc you also live in Florida. Last night the thought occurred to me that if we get a poorly timed early hurricane, it could be catastrophic. No way to socially distance when you have to evacuate. And then the virus will spread through a thousand small towns across the southeast where the evacuees end up. It won’t be pretty.
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Not only that but with 7 day turnaround the majority of our tests won’t even be back before Trump’s 15 days are up.
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No defence of Trump, but I just read that a quarter of France’s testing ability is now offline as they cannot provide masks to the people that do them.
Politicians (even the rare good ones) are generally sociopaths to varying degrees.
To get beyond entry level, you have to discard your conscience and regard for human life.
Yes they would. A competent president would have been way more proactive in the beginning and less concerned with impressing FOX News with their actions.
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And France has M4A and standard DemE for president.
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I didn’t realize they’d choose to keep the guns stores open considering all the recent regulation of them. Wasn’t aware the gun lobby was as strong as the package store lobby here.
awval’s probably keeping busy by stealing chloroquine from work.
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Vict0ar
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Cuomo is in charge in the state where the nurses are wearing trash bags. He refused to close bars and restaurants because people might drive to New Jersey to go to THEIR bars. Cuomo sucks, he is just articulate and better than Trump (which is a very low bar).
In any case, most of our problems don’t stem from Trump, they stem from the thousands of corporations, rich people, Christian fundamentalists, media personalities, and otherwise good people who don’t care enough to learn anything about policies that affect our lives. The national conversation on any given topic is constrained to a narrow range of acceptable viewpoints, none of which are ever the correct, moral view.
Like. We elected Trump because, largely, we like him. This is the kind of leadership this country wants. He has a 60% approval for his handling of this ffs.
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Any real President would be 80% plus.
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Yeah I thought about that too. There’s a meme floating around saying how we do this shit every other year “try it without electricity rookies” or something like that. I did not find it funny.
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Stats from NYC as of yesterday afternoon. Note that the “hospitalized” numbers are patients who were ever hospitalized. Don’t know how many are currently in hospitals.
| Age Group | Cases | Deaths | Fatality Rate | Hospitalized Cases | Hospitalized Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 to 17 | 446 | 0 | 0.0% | 35 | 7.8% |
| 18 to 44 | 8,880 | 15 | 0.2% | 837 | 9.4% |
| 45 to 65 | 6,786 | 57 | 0.8% | 1,470 | 21.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 2,226 | 70 | 3.1% | 736 | 33.1% |
| 75 and over | 1,633 | 138 | 8.5% | 844 | 51.7% |
| Unknown | 40 | 0 | 0.0% | - | 0.0% |
| Total | 20,011 | 280 | 1.4% | 3,922 | 19.6% |
The French mask problem seems to be supply chains and cost cutting. France had a massive mask reserve (1.6 billion, apparently) after H1N1, but got rid of it and told hospitals etc. to do the stockpiling instead.
Now that countries are requisitioning masks and closing borders the fact that there is no large scale production on French soil means the country is a bit fucked. We’ll see what they do, but it seemed as if it’s making about a million a day when the usage from health professionals alone is several times that.
The police also said today they will refuse to work soon if the mask situation doesn’t get better.
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US (66,132 cases, 1,031 dead, 616 recovered)
Given that the entire US has 616 recovered, it’s fair to say not many hospitalized have returned home yet - which is standard becuase most of the current hospitalized will need 2-3 in hospital before leaving / dying
Not sure how reliable that recovered stat is
Probably as reliable as any of the other stats you quote
The stats are from Johns Hopkins - mind you, they were responsible for tRump’s ‘most prepared USA#1’ chart a couple of weeks ago so, yeah, stats are probably more favourable to the US, than against
And here are the latest figures - total cases now at 470,000
There are now more than 470,000 recorded infections worldwide.
The number of global deaths is more than 21,270 while over 114,000 people have recovered.
Here’s the breakdown of the worst-hit countries by number of cases:
- China (81,667 cases, 3,285 dead, 73,775 recovered)
- Italy (74,386 cases, 7,503 dead, 9,362 recovered)
- US (66,132 cases, 1,031 dead, 616 recovered)
- Spain (49,515 cases, 3,647 dead, 5,367 recovered)
- Germany (37,323 cases, 206 dead, 3,547 recovered)
- Iran (27,017 cases, 2,077 dead, 9,625 recovered)
- France (25,600 cases, 1,333 dead, 3,907 recovered)
- Switzerland (10,897cases, 153 dead, 131 recovered)
- UK (9,640 cases, 466 dead, 140 recovered)
These numbers change very frequently, you can always get the latest directly at the Johns Hopkins map.