Tracking the COVID-19-Virus in Germany, the USA, Italy and other hot spots in the world

Wuhan lifted the lockdown yesterday. Tens of thousands of people immediately got in their cars to leave the city.

 

It was a honest mistake, I can respect that.

Here is 2020:

 

Agreed. But I may be called a xenophobic racist.

 

The Navajo Nation has gotten the drift and have put a 56 hour curfew for the weekend in place, with fines of $1000 for violaters.

I applaud them for that measure.

 

1,341 people died in France today. It is not getting better there yet.

Since I last posted about this less than 2 hours ago, the death total in the USA has gone from just over +1,000 to +1,326.

The United Kingdom has still not reported any numbers for today.

Russia just jumped over the 10,000 mark. It is actually moving just as fast as the USA did starting 20 days ago.

 

Oh.... this is not good. Not good at all. ****.



https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...-cured-patients-korean-cdc-says?sref=yYYRek8e

 

The last few days, Dr. Birx has been talking about the U.S. strategy to focus on city/county areas in order to mobilize limited federal resources/supplies to any metropolitan area which finds itself short on beds/ventilators or other needed assistance. The focus now is on hospitalization rates and length of hospitalizations.

I see that the Texas dashboard today is updated with the regional plan, showing "trauma region" boundaries with the population served and how many beds/ventilators are already in inventory, plus the count of current hospitalizations per region.

I expect most U.S. states are seeing similarly updated dashboards with hospital rates.

Currently, 1429 people in Texas are hospitalized with 1020 of those in Houston and Dallas (the two largest urban areas of the state). The other region are all under 100 hospitalizations each, though San Antonio and Austin will be "next" as the 3rd and 4th largest urban areas.





A fortunate sign in Texas, for now, is that the majority of cases in the state are in a much younger demographic than in the vulnerable senior group.




Main dashboard for Texas. 84 counties have yet to see their 1st case.

 

Posted right now. This is a good thing:

 

Hopefully it's faulty tests. Otherwise, that makes the "bio-weapon" conspiracy theory seem almost plausible. Genetically-engineered laboratory virus that refuses to die? I'm sure Hollywood screenwriters are working on it right now.

Anyway, natural or manmade, this evil little sucker is full of surprises isn't it.

 

That is good. If they can ramp up those 15-minute tests, it will be a game changer.

I could see a future where you go to work and get screened in the lobby with a pin-prick test and an Abbott Labs machine tells you whether you're allowed to work that day (or go home for the next 2 weeks).

 

That was a big mistake by Democrats.

 

Numerous studies of the genome have come to the same conclusion that the virus is not man-made. But if it can reactivate in some people, then that is an absolute horror-scenario.

 

Because different counties and states (and countries) are defining a "covid death" differently. Many deaths being deemed "caused by covid" are actually "covid-related". This is inflating the death tolls.

Correct, and this is severely inflating the death rate percentage.

My statement was referring to people who have tested positive but only have mild symptoms at most. The media purposely picks out people who are having a harder time with it in order to scare people.

Inversion Fallacy.

 

881 people died from COVID-19 in the UK today.

Also, the USA is up to 1,443 deaths.

Currently, 446 deaths in Spain, but they will likely revise the horrifying data in the next 2 hours or so.

We are now 15,000 cases away from the 1.5 million mark. 7 days ago, we crossed over the 1 million mark.

 

Which has been completely erased by the MSM.

 

1 million to 1.5 million taking longer than a week is a good sign it's slowing down. Just a couple of weeks ago, the virus was doubling every 2-3 days, then 4 days, then 5 days. Hopefully, we hit the plateau soon.

 

Michigan's governor just introduced a state-wide task force to focus on racial discrepancies surrounding poorer health outcomes in their minority communities. There is some good coming from the virus.

 

Indeed. The curve is moving from exponential to perhaps logistic. Wait and see.

 

Also the deaths in the US is significantly below the 3000 predicted although there remain 4 more hours in the GMT + 0 day.

 

At least 150 members of the Saudi Royal family have tested positive for COVID-19.
An elite Saudi hospital in Riyhad is being converted to a 500-bed private hospital only for the royal family.

 

Do they keep a water bottle by the register? A pet peeve of mine.

 

Warning. Slightly off topic but couldn’t resist.
I wonder if he’s up to resuscitating the economy afterward? Has his business experience equipped him for this?

 

Yesterday, they showed significant improvements in the U.S. model predictions, with the peak lowered from 3,000 deaths per day to approx. 2,000 per day. Mitigation is working.

 

Those darned harems just can't social distance.

 

Our health care system seems to be very efficient at delivering sophisticated care providing we don't need too much of it. If we can do a better job of keeping the numbers down, we might end up with a lower death rate. But all of us have to do our part.

In the past few years, we've been putting the squeeze on Medicaid money for skilled nursing. My father was in the Christian Health Care Center in Lynden, WA--a plug here for some genuinely caring people--for four years before he died and over that time they had to keep cutting aide hours. (Some of their patients were "pay" types and others were on Medicaid.) I'm not surprised with the budget cuts and lack of PPE that the grim reaper is cutting through skilled nursing facilities.

The courage of people who work in those facilities for low pay is remarkable. If anyone doubts the decency of average folks, they need look no further than a care home. It takes real guts to work there.