Scholarship table
How can you not separate politics and President Trump? If there is a failure of leadership, then all our leaders are failing. The Governor of California just closed all non-essential work in the state. Who determines what is essential and what is not? There can be a lot of unintended consequences with such a directive, but what alternative is there. This is not the time to fault our leaders regardless of our opinions of them. This is a serious crisis that not only affects our health but our livelihood as well. We should refrain from second guessing every decision they make. Lets hope we can all work together rather than pointing fingers at each other.
Tricky one for me is meal prep. I want to do curbside pickups because I’m supporting local restaurants and their employees. Plus, seems pretty safe. I open the car window and they throw food into it. But, I do have to go in elevators and across the street to get to my car. In theory, safer to stay in and cook. With that said, I think I’m going to carefully order & pickup a huge breakfast now
The map is so misleading. You would think every person in Europe has the virus with all that red. Even if there were a 1000 times more cases world wide that would only be about 4% of the population infected. I think people are concerned enough and should take precautions as we still know very little about the virus and how it spreads and how to treat it, but to exaggerate the outbreak of the virus in proportion to the population as the map does only causes more anxiety.
Bring a pencil to push the buttons on the elevator, and some tissues to touch doors and handles that you are worried about. Don't touch your face and wash your hands when you get home. You should be fine.
Rubber/latex gloves. Super useful for the scenarios mentioned
The COVID-19 virus has spread worldwide in a matter of a few months. Healthcare systems struggle to monitor and report current cases. Limited capabilities in testing result in difficult to guide policies and mitigate lack of preparation. Since severe cases, which more likely lead to fatal outcomes, are detected at a higher percentage than mild cases, the reported death rates are likely inflated in most countries. Such under-estimation can be attributed to the under-sampling of infection cases and results in systematic death rate estimation biases. The method proposed here utilizes a benchmark country (South Korea) and its reported death rates in combination with population demographics to correct the reported COVID-19 case numbers. By applying a correction, we predict that the number of cases is highly under-reported in most countries. In the case of China, it is estimated that more than 700.000 cases of COVID-19 actually occurred instead of the confirmed 80,932 cases as of 3/13/2020.
Just to late. Many people ignore the guidelines. Does anyone really think we wont have at least 100 million cases when this is said done
Not everyone has them.
The US now also has the shortest growth time constant (i.e. we have the fastest doubling rate). Maybe rivaled by Spain, but Spain is slowly increasing their doubling time, while the US growth time constant is holding steady (which is not a good thing).
This is a really good article. Long but data driven and informativehttps://medium.com/six-four-six-nine/evidence-over-hysteria-covid-19-1b767def5894
I'm confused. Is that the number of testing has doubled or the actual spread has doubled?How many that have been tested have tested negative or are they all positive. Just asking what were actually measuring here.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.14.20036178v1Good news. This would lower the CFR significantly.
Let's begin with Aaron Ginn not being a credible person.Manipulating data points for political gain is disingenous, and, on this topic, reckless and dangerous. His policy positions are more than a bit head scratching.Here is a tweet from him yesterday for example.https://twitter.com/aginnt/status/1240731186445660160?s=19
Never heard of him, no idea on his politics or positions, but if that tweet is reflective of his intelligence, he is an idiot.
Yes, thanks. The article actually demonstrates how misleading the map above actually is.