The US Now Leads the World In Confirmed Coronavirus Cases (nytimes.com) 440
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: Scientists warned that the United States someday would become the country hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic. That moment arrived on Thursday. In the United States, at least 81,321 people are known to have been infected with the coronavirus, including more than 1,000 deaths -- more cases than China, Italy or any other country has seen, according to data gathered by The New York Times.
With 330 million residents, the United States is the world's third most populous nation, meaning it provides a vast pool of people who can potentially get Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus. And it is a sprawling, cacophonous democracy, where states set their own policies and President Trump has sent mixed messages about the scale of the danger and how to fight it, ensuring there was no coherent, unified response to a grave public health threat. A series of missteps and lost opportunities dogged the nation's response. Among them: a failure to take the pandemic seriously even as it engulfed China, a deeply flawed effort to provide broad testing for the virus that left the country blind to the extent of the crisis, and a dire shortage of masks and protective gear to protect doctors and nurses on the front lines, as well as ventilators to keep the critically ill alive. "The world will be a different place when the pandemic is over," the report concludes. It suggests India may become the next global hotspot for virus cases as "it, too, is a vast democracy with deep internal divisions. But its population, 1.3 billion, is far larger, and its people are crowded even more tightly into megacities."
With 330 million residents, the United States is the world's third most populous nation, meaning it provides a vast pool of people who can potentially get Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus. And it is a sprawling, cacophonous democracy, where states set their own policies and President Trump has sent mixed messages about the scale of the danger and how to fight it, ensuring there was no coherent, unified response to a grave public health threat. A series of missteps and lost opportunities dogged the nation's response. Among them: a failure to take the pandemic seriously even as it engulfed China, a deeply flawed effort to provide broad testing for the virus that left the country blind to the extent of the crisis, and a dire shortage of masks and protective gear to protect doctors and nurses on the front lines, as well as ventilators to keep the critically ill alive. "The world will be a different place when the pandemic is over," the report concludes. It suggests India may become the next global hotspot for virus cases as "it, too, is a vast democracy with deep internal divisions. But its population, 1.3 billion, is far larger, and its people are crowded even more tightly into megacities."
USA! USA! USA! (Score:5, Funny)
Re: USA! USA! USA! (Score:5, Funny)
Winning so hard right now. America! Fuck yeah!
Re: USA! USA! USA! (Score:5, Insightful)
well we're not leading in deaths yet, but give us a couple more weeks and we'll show those poseurs how it's done.
USA, land of the Trumped! booya!
Re: USA! USA! USA! (Score:5, Informative)
Chinese solution: Guilty until proven innocent! (Score:2)
well we're not leading in deaths yet, but give us a couple more weeks and we'll show those poseurs how it's done.
USA, land of the Trumped! booya!
I think that comment needs to be quoted into higher visibility before the tolls try to censor it.
However mostly I want to focus on the only proven solution so far. What China did was assume guilt before innocence. Everyone in Wuhan and the neighboring areas was arrested. They were assumed to be guilty of carrying the coronavirus until proven innocent.
Of course there was more to it than that. Xi restructured the entire economy. Food in, sick people out, everyone else locked up and no touching. AT ALL. After
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Too late for the joke. I should have written was "What Xi did was assume guilt. Like my wife!"
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Re:Chinese solution: Guilty until proven innocent! (Score:5, Insightful)
Slashdot has always being pretty right wing, from a European perspective, simply because of its origins. I've been here long enough to know that there's always been that free market capitalist libertarian section of the readership.
But it's the past five to ten years of anti-science, anti-expert trolling that has done western society in, and that's affected Slashdot as well.
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The sad thing is, in 6 moth all this will be forgotten. ... ... so people think he is a doer ...
It is super unlikely that the US realize that they have to change how their society works
I guess Trump will even be reelected, because:
a) democrates have no better option
a-2) neither have the republiciants
b) he is doing something
c) when ever has a president lost his second election?
Bush I and Carter. Gore shoud count, too. (Score:2)
Probably LBJ in addition. And Nixon in reverse? Lost his first but won the next two? Three in a row is not infinity.
What sort of mindless delusional troll are you?
Re:Bush I and Carter. Gore shoud count, too. (Score:5, Interesting)
She still won the popular vote, which while it means nothing in the electoral college does show a roughly 50/50 split in the electorate.
30/30 split with eligible voters, and 40% don't cares. [google.com]
Modded troll last time I mentioned this but it's still just as true.
Only a 1/3 of eligible voters wanted Trump.
And Biden is probably just enough better than Hillary - he doens't have to attract any Trump supporters, he just has to seem more sane to the undecideds.
Anyone who can get enough of the 'can't be bothered' or 'don't care' non-voters would win in a landslide.
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"That means you just gotta be a little better than Hillary..."
Sleepy Joe is not that man.
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Presidents have lost their second election when the economy has tanked. Why do you think Trump started to do something only when the stock market dropped. Mind you the start that was more due to the price of oil going down and then reactions to COVID-19 had an impact on the market.
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well we're not leading in deaths yet, but give us a couple more weeks and we'll show those poseurs how it's done.
days.
Re: USA! USA! USA! (Score:5, Informative)
Hopefully everybody remembers this in November
They don't remember it now
Apparently his handling of the crisis is polling well in surveys right now.
Because in cases per population we're pretty low. (Score:5, Informative)
Apparently his handling of the crisis is polling well in surveys right now.
Probably because, in cases per million, we're quite low: 239, to Italy's 1,333, Spain's 1,202, Germany's 521, France's 447, ...
We're low on deaths per million: 3, vs. 136, 89, 3, 26, ...
We're high in total cases mainly because we're high in total population. We're low in per-million because Trump shut down a lot of transportation early, despite flamage from his opposition, so we're weeks behind many other countries.
We'll catch up, of course, because there's still no vaccination, little hope for a treatment in time to do much good. But we probably won't catch up to a lot of 'em, because the delays have both reduced the likely peak and given time to deploy more supporting care tools. So (except in places like New York, which relies on mass transit and delayed ordering supplies until they were sold out) our death rate should be lower than many.
Yes, the voters just might remember that in November. And they might also remember things like Joe Biden saying that one of his first acts would be to open borders and restart international flights, or the congressional Democrats delaying the emergency legislation by loading it with poison-pills, pork, and left-wing agenda items.
Whatever the real result, though, the voters in November will be the ones that survived until then under Trump's policies and administration of them. That makes them a very biased sample.
Re:Because in cases per population we're pretty lo (Score:4, Insightful)
He shut down transportation early, and then STOPPED! That was time we could have used to get prepared, and yet it was treated like the only action that was necessary. Even today he's still acting like he's woefully uninformed despite being given tons of information. He starts his press conferences with the usual patting himself on the back followed by lies he heard on late night TV, and then his experts get a chance to talk and they often contradict the president. As far as leadership in a crisis goes, Trump does not know how to do it and leaves it to the governors and local officials to take the initiative.
Re:Because in cases per population we're pretty lo (Score:5, Insightful)
We'll catch up, of course, because there's still no vaccination, little hope for a treatment in time to do much good. But we probably won't catch up to a lot of 'em, because the delays have both reduced the likely peak and given time to deploy more supporting care tools. So (except in places like New York, which relies on mass transit and delayed ordering supplies until they were sold out) our death rate should be lower than many.
Nice to see optimism is still alive and well. We will come back next week and see if this holds any truth.
From what I can see from afar, the US has done nothing preparing for this, and by now it is already too late.
NY only locked down like, last week? From the numbers everywhere else, it takes about 2 weeks for lockdown to show its effect. E.g. Italy locked down hard on 9 March, and only in the last few days, starting around 23 March that their growth slowed to linear around 5-6k per day.
NY now has almost 39K cases, another week of exponential growth would take it to over 200-400K cases, then it might have linear growth around 10-20K per day. The NY medical system is bursting at the seams already, give them 5-10 times more patients and the death rate will rise.
I see no way the NY death rate would be lower than many. Hope I am wrong.
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You really don't understand exponential (logistic) growth *nor* population ratios.
China has 1.4 billion people.
They had 81,828 cases.
The U.S. has 329 million people.
We have 85,991 cases.
If covid 19 had gotten this bad in China, they would have had over 365,000 cases.
And we are on track for 103,000 cases tomorrow. And easily 200,000 cases by next friday (without the quarantines in so many states, it would be about 600,000 cases so somewhere between 200,000 and 600,000 is likely)
We have the *highest* infect
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You believe what China is telling you?
That metric is useless. (Score:5, Informative)
Germany has high numbers because labtesting is more of a trade in Germany, you can get it just about at every streetcorner. We didn't even need to ramp up capacities all that much to test large scale without even tripping up. There are 500 000 test in Germany ... per day(!). That's also the reason the German death toll currently is so low - because we have a quite broad and clear view on to the "infection space".
US infection per capita rate is so low because you guys don't even know your numbers or where the virus has caught on. ... You will know in a few weeks though and it ain't gonna be pretty. Good luck! We wish you all the best! Seriously.
Sidenote: Please get some healthcare system going when this is over - this is difficult to watch.
My 2 eurocents.
Re:Because in cases per population we're pretty lo (Score:4, Informative)
You're low on deaths because it is just getting started. The first couple of weeks are when symptoms resemble a cold or flu, and most people fight it off in this stage. Then some people will have a week of serious pneumonia requiring hospitalization and for some of them ending in death, others in serious lung damage. European countries are well into that stage, so they are getting a lot of deaths now. The US has had such a sharp rise in cases that most of them haven't yet reached the serious stages of the disease, so there are many deaths still to come even if the virus were to be stopped in its tracks tomorrow.
Re:Hey NYC, how's that urban style living... (Score:5, Interesting)
Just wait until small rural towns get some cases of covid-19, and then all ten of those hospital beds get filled up, 1 of the 2 doctors has cought it and is in isolation, and there's only one ventilator. Small and rural towns have the possibility of being hit the hardest because their health infrastructure is not very robust.
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>> a worldview in which science is evil if it conflicts with their preferred way of life and voting
it may well earn many of those a darwin award, however, nature doesn't care for partisan boundaries.
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er no, both my grandfathers were farmers and they sure as hell weren't saints, probably working for the other side. Now let's consider half the jobs in the city, sales and marketing wanks and all the extraneous entertainment and luxury item industries Sure they make life fun but lets be honest, most all those fuckers could keel over dead and nothing of value to the human race would be lost.
Re:Hey NYC, how's that urban style living... (Score:4, Insightful)
Those numbers only reflect those who have been tested. There were many more who got it, only had mild symptoms and were not tested at all, something like three to five times as many as reported, with some zones with really limited testing only for those hospitalised probably ten times as many infected. There would already be tens of millions who were infected and had minor symptoms and have already gotten over it. Those tens of millions should not be on lockdown the idea is insane.
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Whatever happens Trump will declare himself a hero and 46 percent or so of the surviving populace will vote for him again. Now I wouldn't right out say that aid and supplies to big democrat areas with infections have been curtailed, but....
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Re: USA! USA! USA! (Score:5, Funny)
Trump: "We never would have gotten to #1 if Hilary was in office."
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Trump: "I beat those dirty Chinese at their own game. Look no one else in the history of the world I think, right? the world was ever willing to do anything about it, but I did. I told China, I told them, I said Xi, and Xi's a great guy, great man, I love him, but I said, Xi, I'm going to beat your dirty virus covered Chinese ass."
Trump: "And I did."
Re: USA! USA! USA! (Score:5, Informative)
We're going to win so much, you're going to be so sick, and tired of winning
Note the extra comma in there.
*ba-dum TISS* (Score:3, Insightful)
And because you Americans actually believe that, you completely ignore that you are the most manipulated population in the history of the planet.
You don't *need* to suppress people from saying what they want, because you make people WANT what you want! (you = probably the corporate oligarchy)
North Korea wishes they needed that little suppression.
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Considering that the US has only testing been testing patients, and for the most part patients that have travelled or come into contact with someone who has, it is fair to say that the reported US numbers of infected are a lot lower than what reality is too.
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Indeed we all may get it (Score:2, Informative)
with vaccines 6 month to a year away heard immunity isn't going to slow this down.
So it's likely we all get it (or say 70% does).
But since there are 3 to 5 times as many latent asymptomatic carriers, we are buiding up that immunity. And conversely only 1/3 to 1/5 of the people with it will know it. So the apparent infection rate will be perhaps 10 to 20% before this thing stops or a vaccine becomes available.
The good news is then that the death rate is smaller than the apparent death rate just on people d
Re:Indeed we all may get it (Score:5, Insightful)
Sigh. The problem is not mortality rate. The problem is the huge demand on resources to treat the heavy sufferers, even if they should recover. And on that front Covid-19 has already been proven magnitudes worse than the flu. That's what 'flattening the curve' is all about, after all.
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Re: Indeed we all may get it (Score:5, Insightful)
I honestly don't understand why people keep saying Covid-19 compares favourably with influenza, when Covid spreads at up to double [npr.org] the rate of the flu, and is somewhere between 12x and 24x more deadly [ourworldindata.org] - *if* you get adequate care.
Yes, sure, the Covid deaths so far are still much smaller than the (annual) flu mortality - but do you really believe it will stay that way? Haven't the overflowing hospitals and mortuaries in Italy and Spain (not to mention the vastly higher death rates) shown how rapidly the disease can get out of control? And the US doubling rate of every 2.5 days [ourworldindata.org] - faster than Italy or Spain - doesn't concern you? How about the projections [healthaffairs.org] of 98 million cases in the next few months, and 4.4 million needing intensive care (with at best around 60,000 available ICU beds)?
If none of this bothers you, if you think some miracle is going to appear and prevent this from happening - then I kinda wish I could share your optimism, but it sounds pretty unfounded to me.
No Productive Consensus. (Score:3)
Re:USA! USA! USA! (Score:5, Interesting)
Seems we agree that we should outlaw offshoring of medical manufacturing, because Walmart is precisely the wrong model to follow here. And, heck, bad as things are, we're still able to buy vast numbers of masks etc from China: imagine if they were deliberately trying to harm us!
What I think the biggest mistake is thus far, particularly with the US, is that we didn't launch an wartime production effort to build ventilators. Yeah, it takes a few weeks to even start getting results from that, but it's been a few weeks. Trump invoked the defense production act, but didn't following it up by ordering 1000 factories around the nation to drop everything and convert to making ventilators, patents be damned. We have the legal mechanism in place to make that happen, but we chose not to. Some manufacturers even offered!
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Because too many of them are Republican donors. Oh, and get this...
Someone 3-D printed an add-on to a standard scuba mask which works just as good as a ventilator mask.
Someone else made it so one ventilator could be used by four people at the same time.
Federal authorities response: "There could be liability issues so we'll just ignore all of this."
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Federal authorities response: "There could be liability issues so we'll just ignore all of this."
You know, if there were a better plan underway, I'd be onboard with that. But between a half-assed solution and no solution? WTF?
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When you say "we," are you speaking for the Trump administration?
By "we" I mean the US, because that's who I'm criticizing here. So, yeah, Trump, but also the leadership in both houses, or heck, anyone senior enough to call for this in a national press conference, as that likely would have nudged Trump into action. Heck, think of the difference either of the Democrat candidates-in-hiding could have made with a good suggestion here!
The biggest mistake was not remaining prepared for a new disease.
If you're talking about the Obama administration not re-stocking masks after the last epidemic, then sure, but that's a small piece of the p
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You keep saying "we", thereby framing an executive failure as a collective action problem.
Err, have you ever been on a team managing a crisis, like at work or something? It's never the leader's job to solve the problem, his job is to communicate with the press and affected parties, and to not block the people with the good ideas. Sure, it's great if the leader happens to randomly have a clue, but we don't select leaders for their hands-on problem-solving ability.
So, sure, call it a failure of the collective leadership of the US, both political and career bureaucrat. Lots of red paint to go ar
Re:USA! USA! USA! (Score:5, Insightful)
It's never the leader's job to solve the problem, his job is to communicate with the press and affected parties,
That's the one thing Trump has done the worst...
You don't need me to post the list of daily quotes again to know that.
He's constantly contradicting his own experts nearly every time he speaks.
He is still telling people it will be back to normal by Easter.
You seem to be trying very hard to spread the blame around as much as you can so none of it sticks to Trump...
At least that's a change from claiming he did a good job. Baby steps.
Here's a site with the number (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Here's a site with the number (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm in the group that thinks China's numbers are complete bullshit.
There are also doubts about the impressively low numbers being reported by Russia.
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We know there was some number fudging initially in Wuhan (and by the time they had accurate tests they already had a full scale outbreak), but there is very little reason to doubt the numbers outside of Hubei province. I think there are a lot of countries where you can doubt the numbers, especially due to lack of testing. Comparing death counts is probably starting to become the most accurate metric. There will still be errors, but not to the same extent.
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The obvious solution, then is to induce Nuclear Winter.
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Finnland, Norway and Sweden have extremely low populations. It is not surprising that they have a small amount of cases.
Canada's population is also very low, something like 25M.
Re:Here's a site with the number (Score:5, Insightful)
Canada, Finland, Norway and Sweden all took very significant action for social distancing when their numbers were still very low and the public is complying with those actions to a greater extent then the public in the USA.
They also have consistent messaging from their leadership instead of promises this will go away like a miracle.
Turns out, it matters who you elect...
Re:Here's a site with the number (Score:5, Informative)
You can strike Sweden from that list. They didn't have a big initial wave but are not locking down [ft.com] like the rest. Unfortunately the last decade or so they've tried very hard to make their problems go away by pretending they're not there and that's their strategy for corona as well. They now have 77 deaths to 2840 cases = 2.7% mortality while we here in Norway have 14 deaths to 3369 cases = 0.4%, even though there's every reason to think we got it roughly the same time. My guess is they actually have 10-20k cases already they just have no clue. I expect they'll go into full crisis mode sometime this weekend.
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Sorry, I should have provided evidence for my claim.
I was basing it on the extent to which those countries have changed the direction of these graphs:
https://www.visualcapitalist.c... [visualcapitalist.com]
Those countries took a significant turn toward flattening the curve after implementing social distancing measures.
These interesting (but creepy) maps also show a lack of compliance in many states.
https://www.washingtonpost.com... [washingtonpost.com]
Though my statement is not fully supported by these, I also was influenced by my consumption of US m
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All the countries in the north have been reporting low numbers. Russia yes, but also Canada, Finland, Norway Sweden....so either people are so accustomed to the flu that they don't even notice it, or the Coronavirus doesn't like the cold.
I think you're being fooled by relative population sizes. Look at cases per million residents:
Canada: 107
Finland: 173
Norway: 621
Sweden: 281
Denmark: 324
Russia: 6
Estonia: 406
Switzerland: 1365
Austria: 767
Iceland: 2350
Greenland: 106
Faeroe Islands: 2865
There really isn't a consistent pattern there, and Russia is definitely an extreme outlier.
Also, if you look at US states there's no significant correlation between temperatures and cases per capita.
Yeah but so are ours (Score:5, Insightful)
So if I compare one obviously understated set of numbers to another, likely equally understated set of numbers then that's not a bad comparison.
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West Virginia was actively blocking people from getting tested to keep number low.
Are you at least on a lockdown to slow the spread of un-detected virus?
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West Virginia was actively blocking people from getting tested to keep number low.
Are you at least on a lockdown to slow the spread of un-detected virus?
Looks like they started on Tuesday [wv.gov].
(Aside: Why ask the question? It takes longer to post the question than it does to google the answer.)
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Of course I'm in the group that thinks China's numbers are complete bullshit.
Which numbers do you believe are bullshit?
It seems unlikely that China could manage to hide significant numbers of new Coronavirus deaths. Infections are another matter, but those numbers are mostly useless as the methodology is country-specific.
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They even separated family members within one household if one was infected. Which is draconian from a civil liberty point of view, but right from an epidemiology point of view. I think we have very tough times ahead in the US.
Re: Here's a site with the number (Score:5, Informative)
You mean exactly like they're doing where I live in the US for the last 2 weeks?
You haven't been paying attention at all if you think the so-called "lockdown" in the US is anywhere near what China had done.
In China, they take "stay home" seriously, so seriously in Wuhan that they have dedicated people distribute food to homes, you weren't even allowed to go out to buy food. People only recently allowed to leave Hubei, and upon returning from there people complained about not about to go outside at all during the lockdown (the reporters wanted to paint it as an example of Chinese dictatorship, I see that as a good lockdown practice).
Outside of Hubei, in the rest of China (where there were only hundreds or less cases per province), roads into rural villages were completely blocked so people not native to the village cannot come in at all. Village natives can go out individually to buy food, but no outsiders can get in.
Whereas in the US, in California, lockdown means holiday and people crowd in beaches https://edition.cnn.com/2020/0... [cnn.com]
The so-called "lockdown" in the US is a joke.
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It seems unlikely that China could manage to hide significant numbers of new Coronavirus deaths.
Yes, the Chinese government isn't really setup to suppress information..
Re:Here's a site with the number (Score:5, Informative)
Seems nobody told Italy and Spain to fudge the numbers. Everyone else seems inpressively immune.
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Considering that the US has only testing been testing patients, and for the most part patients that have travelled or come into contact with someone who has, it is fair to say that the reported US numbers of infected are complete BS too.
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S. Korea still has half of its cases active. Most of China's total cases have been resolved already.
If you look at the number of deaths to number of cases, China also has roughly 4 times more deaths per case than Korea also.
Re:Here's a site with the number (Score:4, Informative)
81,285 cases in China, 74,051 recovered. From a quick glance, China's claimed recovery rate of 91% is 4 times greater than the global average and twice that of S. Korea's. Totally believable!!
That's not a very meaningful number. A case is either active or closed, if it's closed the patient is either recovered or dead. In China 77338/81285 = 95% of the cases are closed, so far 3287/77338 = 4.3% died. In South Korea 4275/9266 cases are closed, so far 131/4275 = 3.1% have died. Most of the remaining cases will also recover, but we don't know exactly how many so the final mortality can't be decided until the outbreak is over. In the rest of the world the number of active cases vastly outnumber the closed ones, meaning very few have recovered and very few have died. Most are undecided. When the pandemic is over we'll all have >95% recovery rate (hopefully) because the reminder are the dead.
America first! (Score:2, Funny)
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Many
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Getting
Angry
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MASA
Make America Smart Again
Make America Safe Again
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Make America Sick Again
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Make
America
Gasp for breath
Again
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Absolute or per capita?
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African or European?
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Absolute, but the rate of infection is one of the highest, so soon maybe per capita as well
https://ourworldindata.org/gra... [ourworldindata.org]
81,285 cases, 3,287 deaths in China = 4.0% (Score:3)
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The mortality rate in the US is 75%.
https://www.worldometers.info/... [worldometers.info]
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis... [arcgis.com]
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Re:81,285 cases, 3,287 deaths in China = 4.0% (Score:4, Interesting)
It is a bit too early in the game for conclusions.
Currently, the US data show an almost perfect exponent with a very large growth rate in both deaths and new cases: https://i.imgur.com/d1PMBVN.pn... [imgur.com]
Italy's new cases increase almost linearly and they are falling off from the exponent in the number of deaths https://i.imgur.com/g9Rirys.pn... [imgur.com], which means their late February measures are only beginning to show results now.
US still has weeks to catch up.
Low death rate (Score:2, Insightful)
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Because the infected, when they do not recover quickly, require a massive amount of physical equipment to keep alive, orders of a magnitude more than the flu, that's why you should be upset.
It's not about mortality rate. For that Covid-19 is probably worse than the flu, but that is not the point. The point is hospitals running out of capacity for treatment. Which has a knock-on effect, because all those Covid-19 cases clogging up the system take up capacity that could be used for other ailments.
Re:Low death rate (Score:5, Insightful)
I mean fuck, think of it as a variable pricing model if you need to.
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On top of this good news (Score:5, Interesting)
The con artist's campaign has sent a cease and desist notice to MSNBC to try and force them to stop airing an ad [imgur.com] which uses the con artist's own words, overlaid on a graph showing the ballooning number of cases in this country. The con artist has even said he is looking into pulling MSNBC's license if they don't stop airing the ad.
This was after the morning crew did a Streisand Effect [imgur.com].
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In the middle of this it is critical to test a random population of 10,000 and get the rate this is a non health event for "the herd".
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I'm waiting for the Today Show to do a week of "I Survived COVID-19".
The hedge fund manager who had to work from home.
The mother who had to push and shove to get a 24-pack of double roll toilet paper because they only had two unopened packs left.
The daughter who missed her prom and never got to wear her $2,000 dress.
The son who was sure he was going to get into Yale on a baseball scholarship.
And then there's grandpa. Good ole' grandpa who voluntarily stayed in his condo in Boca Roton. And was forced to use
Re:Can anyone give us a number on individuals test (Score:5, Informative)
Here's tests per capita per country https://ourworldindata.org/gra... [ourworldindata.org]
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They haven't updated that graphic in a while. If you look at the linked data source page, the US data was for a period ending March 14 and reported on then 19th.
If you follow the link to that page's data source, the google spreadsheet there indicates that the US has completed over 519,000 tests, or over 1500 tests per million.
A total of 519,000 tests does technically put the US ahead of the other countries in the same chart in absolute terms Total tests by country [ourworldindata.org], but you really should drill into the data
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The way things are going, New York alone will have more cases than any of the other countries. And with a population of a 1/3 to a 1/4 of the larger European countries. NY already has more cases than France and the UK, and might pass Germany within a week. Plenty of scope right there in just 19 of your 330 million to "best" Italy.
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I assume you have never heard of the word exponential. Try googling it, and get back to us when you finally comprehend the implications of exponential growth.