Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19) (SARS-CoV-2) [2020]

Silent_Buddha said:
So, in WA, despite being the epicenter of Covid-19 in the US until NY passed us, it never got out of control. Our hospitals were never overwhelmed. We implemented social distancing before the rest of the country and before much of the rest of the world with people urged to stay at home and work from home. Likewise with closing of bars and restaurants and any other non-essential business to the general public, although restaurants are allowed to serve take out food.
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Washington state, closed bars etc 15 March
New York, closed bars etc 17 March

Stay at home order
Dark blue, before 22 march,
Mid blue, 29 march
Light blue, 5 April

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So not much difference with the dates, I think more difference is the much higher population density in New York, plus also the nature of the work, lot of IT in Washington where ppl can work remotely, plus it’s richer so better healthcare, I assume.
 
2019 Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19) for Dallas County Texas
https://www.dallascounty.org/departments/dchhs/2019-novel-coronavirus.php

April 4, 2020 - 1015 confirmed cases - 18 deaths

1015 confirmed cases up 94 over yesterday and one new death
Those 94 new cases represent a 10.2% increase over the last day

Increases (by percent) over the last 9 days: 21%, 19.6%, 11.1%, 12.5%, 14.9%, 15.8%, 13.7%, 10.8% and now 10.2%
Increases (by count) over the last 9 days: +64, +72, +49, +61, +82, +100, +100, +90 and now +94

Dallas County Health and Human Services is reporting 94 additional positive cases of COVID-19 today, bringing the total case count in Dallas County to 1,015. The 18th death from COVID-19 is being reported, of a man in his 30's who was a resident of the city of Dallas and had been critically ill in an area hospital. Of cases requiring hospitalization, about three-quarters (71%) have been either over 60 years of age or have had at least one known high-risk chronic health condition. Diabetes has been a chronic high-risk condition reported in over a quarter (28%) of all hospitalized patients with COVID-19.

The numbers of intensive care unit hospitalizations from COVID-19 from this past week have exceeded the peak week of ICU hospitalizations from influenza this past 2019-2020 season in Dallas County.
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Ohio's numbers today, confirmed: 3739 (up from 3312 ), Hospitalized: 1006 (up from 895 ), and 102 Deaths (up from 91 ).
Confirmed Cuyahoga County: 781 (Up from 780 ).

The percentage breakdowns are Confirmed cases ~13%, hospitalized ~12%, and deaths at 12%. So still mostly within the same range as previous days this week.

Totally bizarre that Cuyahoga County only had an increase of 1 confirmed case. Something doesn't seem right.
 
zed said:
Washington state, closed bars etc 15 March
New York, closed bars etc 17 March

Stay at home order
Dark blue, before 22 march,
Mid blue, 29 march
Light blue, 5 April

2560px-COVID-19_outbreak_USA_stay-at-home_order_county_map.svg.png


So not much difference with the dates, I think more difference is the much higher population density in New York, plus also the nature of the work, lot of IT in Washington where ppl can work remotely, plus it’s richer so better healthcare, I assume.
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The larger factor, IMO, is the Mayor of NYC telling people to ignore social distancing rules and instead continue to go to bars and restaurants early on. Meanwhile WA's governor and mayors were already urging people to stay at home if possible in Feb.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/us/seattle-washington-state-coronavirus-transmission-rate.html

Officials in Washington State first began to plead with people to keep their distance from one another at the end of February, after discovering that the virus had infected people in the Seattle area with no known exposure or history of foreign travel, followed by an outbreak at a suburban nursing home now linked to dozens of deaths.
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Mr. Inslee warned at the time how drastically life needed to change, saying it was unacceptable for people to be crammed close together at bars and other settings; the restrictions, he said, were going to be “profoundly disturbing to a lot of the ways that we live our lives.”

That same day, with case numbers also rising in New York, Mayor Bill de Blasio was not yet endorsing such limits. “People should go out and continue to live life, should go out to restaurants,” Mr. de Blasio said.
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Jay Inslee is the Governor of WA state. On the one hand WA had been urging people to avoid other people as early as Feb. before later making it a mandate. OTOH - the Mayor of one of the most populous cities in the US was urging people to ignore social distancing.

WA making stay at home a mandate wasn't really needed as most people here started doing that as soon as Officials started to advise us to avoid other people and avoid social gatherings. The mandate was more for the few people that still weren't doing it because it wasn't a mandate.

Regards,
SB
 
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Bloody idiots flouting the rules are going to get all outside activities banned for everyone.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52172035

They need proper, targeted deterrents. Punishing good people for the actions of bad people only turns the pushes the good people towards being bad in the end... screw authority if you're going to be unfair. And God knows how that'll play out in countries where the have guns and a sub-culture of sticking it to the State.
 
Shifty Geezer said:
Bloody idiots flouting the rules are going to get all outside activities banned for everyone.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52172035

They need proper, targeted deterrents. Punishing good people for the actions of bad people only turns the pushes the good people towards being bad in the end... screw authority if you're going to be unfair. And God knows how that'll play out in countries where the have guns and a sub-culture of sticking it to the State.
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I was thinking of snipers, but then you already had some kind of guns in your post.

Here in california worst offenders are the large warehouse style stores. So many people swarming in and disregarding common sense. Now they try to limit how many people can go in at any given time but the parking lots, the lots!
 
The biggest risk will be militant thinking. In a culture that pushes 'fight for what you believe in' and arms both sides, you'll have those who believe in freedom and staying outside fighting those who believe in following the rules. Both ideologies are sound and no-one should be fighting for their own preferred ideology, but that's pretty much all conflict is - people of different opinions trying to force the world to be they want it to be.
 
Shifty Geezer said:
The biggest risk will be militant thinking. In a culture that pushes 'fight for what you believe in' and arms both sides, you'll have those who believe in freedom and staying outside fighting those who believe in following the rules. Both ideologies are sound and no-one should be fighting for their own preferred ideology, but that's pretty much all conflict is - people of different opinions trying to force the world to be they want it to be.
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Yeah like some nuts burning 5G towers in the UK apparently because some idiot tried to link 5G with the coronavirus [emoji36]
 
Ohio's numbers today, confirmed: 4043 (up from 3739 ), Hospitalized: 1104 (up from 1006 ), and 119 Deaths (up from 102 ).
Confirmed Cuyahoga County: 826 (Up from 781 ).

The percentage breakdown increases are Confirmed cases ~8%, hospitalized ~10%, and deaths at 17%. So a bit of a decrease by percentages, but probably wont know if it's nearing the flattening point until Wednesday for confirmed cases and hospitalizations.
 
2019 Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19) for Dallas County Texas
https://www.dallascounty.org/departments/dchhs/2019-novel-coronavirus.php

April 5, 2020 - 1112 confirmed cases - 18 deaths

1112 confirmed cases up 97 over yesterday and no new deaths
Those 97 new cases represent a 9.6% increase over the last day

Increases (by percent) over the last 10 days: 21%, 19.6%, 11.1%, 12.5%, 14.9%, 15.8%, 13.7%, 10.8%, 10.2% and now 9.6%
Increases (by count) over the last 10 days: +64, +72, +49, +61, +82, +100, +100, +90, +94 and now +97

Dallas County Health and Human Services is reporting 97 additional positive cases of COVID-19 today, bringing the total case count in Dallas County to 1,112, including 18 deaths. Of cases requiring hospitalization, about three-quarters (71%) have been either over 60 years of age or have had at least one known high-risk chronic health condition. Diabetes has been a chronic high-risk condition reported in over a quarter (28%) of all hospitalized patients with COVID-19.
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Tiger at US zoo tests positive for coronavirus
A four-year-old female Malayan tiger at the Bronx Zoo has tested positive for the coronavirus.

The Bronx Zoo, in New York City, says the test result was confirmed by the National Veterinary Services Laboratory in Iowa.

Nadia, her sister Azul, as well as two Amur tigers and three African lions, had developed a dry cough and all are expected to fully recover, it says.

The cats are believed to have been infected by a zoo keeper.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52177586
 
Shifty Geezer said:
17% deaths? Wow. UK's at 10%. This BBC report reckons the Netherlands is going with an 'Intelligent Lockdown' and happy to let the virus spread 'slowly'.
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Yes, the growth rate of deaths is 17% for yesterday. Ohio is very far behind the UK from a timing perspective, so it's at the growth phase of deaths. The UK is probably a month to half a month ahead of Ohio, as far as stages go.
 
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