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All Indiana University campuses are on-line only classes till April
This is how the Coronavirus spread among 70 people at the Biogen conference in Boston.https://twitter.com/BostonGlobe/status/1237710962326732800?s=19
And......Georgetown moves to "virtual learning" until further notice."We are moving all class room instruction for all of our schools to virtual learning environments. Beginning Monday, March 16th, we are suspending all in-person, face-to-face, on-campus classroom instruction. This will continue until further notice...We strongly encourage all undergraduate students to return to their permanent addresses while this virtual learning environment is in place. Students should avoid returning to campus if possible or return to campus briefly to gather necessary items for the completion of academic work before departing to their permanent addresses. We understand that for some number of students there will be a compelling reason to remain on campus. Campus will be open and key services will be available."They're all falling like dominoes now. Marquette won't be far behind. I'm sure the pressure is immense. Nobody wants to be accused of not doing enough...especially when everyone else is acting.
I do not really get what a complete lockdown will do besides put off the inevitable? People are going to get covid19 that is a fact. So if I hide in my house for 6 weeks it will still be around when I come back out unless the entire world goes into lockdown. Those that are high risk should get moved to the front of the line for treatment. I think of my parents and my father in law. How on earth can they avoid it?
Lockdowns prevent community spread. The slow down the rate at which people become infected. That is key to not having our healthcare system overwhelmed. If it becomes overwhelmed, we get to make the hard decisions that Italy is currently facing, and that China most certainly faced. When there is only so much medical equipment, beds, and staff who lives and who dies becomes a decision that no one wants to make.
But if it keeps popping back up, and some point one has to ask, how long can we quarantine entire countries, and at what cost?
It is inevitable this virus will spread and it will kill, tragic but death is a part of life. I don't say this casually as my parents are high risk, my sons godfather is 42 and has Cystic fibrosis, and I have a 4 year old and a 9 month old. We aren't going to stop it and we aren't going to take mortality rate to zero. We try to limit the damage and slow the curve but given the current understanding of the virus it is no time to hit the panic button as some seem to advocate.
I think the goal here would be get to summer, when infection rates for this type of thing naturally slow, and hopefully use that time to bolster our healthcare capacity to adjust to a new, covid-19 reality. But I'm sure others are much more knowledgeable about this endgame than me. We've been peppering this thread with potential "new post covid-19 panic" implications, and maybe here's another one - an increase in medical care capacity that honestly was probably increasingly necessary as the boomers aged anyway. If we boost our medical care infrastructure in a way that sticks, and we adjust to the boomers' health care needs by increasing supply more, and just trying to manage demand less, that's probably a silver lining from this.
Quite frankly, the medical community does not want things to change. They profit dramatically from the red-tape and hurdles. Also, the MD's greatly overestimate the complexity of routine tests and the logistics of handling large numbers of samples and large sets of data. This in part stems from medical testing facilities often hiring poorly skilled technicians that don't care about their job.There is no reason that even a small facility couldn't be running 5-10k tests a day. At that scale you could run these for $2 a sample, including labor for a highly skilled PhD level research technicians.We haven't ran 10k tests nationwide yet.We are going to have to agree to disagree on the feasibility of large scale testing and drive through facilities.
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There isn't any evidence warmer temperatures and higher humidity have an impact on this virus. Plenty of warm, humid places faced this head on.
Wow, I'm very concerned for Benny. Being able to mimic Myron Medcalf's writing so closely implies an oncoming case of dementia.
Just curious: where did you get your MD or MPH?I'm kidding/making a point.
It's not temp/humidity, it's the communal behavior... people are mostly indoors during the winter months and thus, person-to-person contact increases significantly. Climate is not as much of a factor in places like China and Italy where person-to-person contact is elevated all of the time.In other words, as population density rises, climate's effect on person-to-person contact diminishes. So summer isn't going to help NYC, NJ, SF, etc., but it may slow things down in flyover country.