The coronavirus

[woodtoo]

CDC reports 4,226 cases in US.

[PICSIX]

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Select the US and then individual states.

[ReplayRandall]

COVID-19: U.S. at a Glance

Total cases: 4,226

Total deaths: 75

Jurisdictions reporting cases: 53 (49 states, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and US Virgin Islands)

[jk3521]

We can't keep score of ball games. This will have to do.

[davew]

Originally Posted by Redboard

Jeff Bezos is one of the world’s richest people. But employees at Whole Foods – which Bezos owns – got some grim news late last week. The Whole Foods CEO suggested employees could donate their paid time off (PTO) to their sick coworkers. In other words, the company refuses to cover paid medical leave for employees who catch the coronavirus.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/20...-wants-workers

Amazon is looking to hire 100K people for their distribution centers. They will start at a $2 premium over their minimum $15.

[PICSIX]

Latest US counts as of 4:13 EST

[FantasticDan]

Twitter

[fast4522]

Originally Posted by JustRalph

We worked it out, my front of the house guys will be better off on unemployment. I have too many to rotate. My to-go business is a very small portion of my revenue. I’m hoping my employees will come back .......two years ago I closed for a six week remodel and farmed many of my guys out to other like franchises and only 1 didn’t come back.

https://www.fox26houston.com/news/ho...9RPG4cfAZIIFqA

I am pulling for you JR, there are few that I hold in higher esteem than the hard working Americans who provide jobs to other Americans. Good form and may extra energy be with you.

[FantasticDan]

The grift must go on

Twitter

[thaskalos]

What provisions has the government in store for the business owners whose places have been ordered shut down? I see that the business owners are paying their "vacationing" workers during this crisis...but is this mandated by the government...or is it left to the "conscience" of business owners?

[Jeff P]

This article explains the latest thinking behind the coronavirus strategies implemented over the past few days in the U.S. and U.K. --

MSN News | William Booth | 03-17-2020
A chilling scientific paper helped upend U.S. and U.K. coronavirus strategies:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...es/ar-BB11jVNP

LONDON —Immediately after Boris Johnson completed his Monday evening news conference, which saw a somber prime minister encourage his fellow citizens to avoid "all nonessential contact with others," his aides hustled reporters into a second, off-camera briefing.

That session presented jaw-dropping numbers from some of Britain’s top modelers of infectious disease, who predicted the deadly course of coronavirus could quickly kill hundreds of thousands in both the United Kingdom and the United States, as surges of sick and dying patients overwhelmed hospitals and critical care units.

The new forecasts, by Neil Ferguson and his colleagues at the Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team, were quickly embraced by Johnson’s government to design new and more-extreme measures to suppress the spread of the virus.

The report is also influencing planning by the Trump administration. Deborah Birx, who serves as the coordinator of the White House coronavirus task force, cited the British analysis at a news conference Monday, saying her task force was especially focused on the report’s conclusion that an entire household should self-quarantine for 14 days if one of its members is stricken by the virus.

The Imperial College group reported that if nothing was done by governments and individuals and the pandemic remained uncontrolled, then 510,000 would die in Britain and 2.2 million in the United States over the course of the outbreak.

These kinds of numbers are deeply concerning for countries with top-drawer health-care systems. They are terrifying for less-developed countries, global health experts say.

If Britain and the United States pursued much more ambitious measures to mitigate the spread of coronavirus, to slow but not necessarily stop epidemic over the coming few months, they could reduce mortality by half, to 260,000 people in the United Kingdom and 1.1 million in the United States.

Finally, if the British government quickly went all-out to suppress viral spread — aiming to reverse epidemic growth and reduce the case load to a low level — then the number of dead in the country could drop to below 20,000. To do this, the researchers said, Britain would have to enforce social distancing for the entire population, isolate all cases, demand household quarantines of households where anyone is sick, and close all schools and universities — and do this not for weeks but for 12 to 18 months, until a vaccine is available.

Link to the study cited in the above article:
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imp...16-03-2020.pdf


After reading both, I at least understand the thinking behind what it is we are doing.



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[46zilzal]

Jeff.... nice to see someone believing in facts

[MargieRose]

Originally Posted by FantasticDan

https://twitter.com/amy_siskind/stat...37718160949249

How could you watch that video and then post crap like this right after it? You...are...sick in the head...man!!

PS: And, if you didn't watch the video, I dare you to do so, now. If you are normal, you'll be ashamed of yourself!!

[GMB@BP]

Originally Posted by thaskalos

What provisions has the government in store for the business owners whose places have been ordered shut down? I see that the business owners are paying their "vacationing" workers during this crisis...but is this mandated by the government...or is it left to the "conscience" of business owners?

well, a bit of both. you can have a good conscience and run out of money at the same time.

[Jeff P]

Originally Posted by thaskalos

The above article confuses me. First it says that the HIV drug has "been effective in a smattering of cases"...and then it says that the "the first wave of Chinese patients did very, very well when treated with the drug". Is a "wave of patients" the same as a 'smattering'?

Thaskalos, my apologies for the late reply.

My answer to your question from post #1126 back on page 76 would be along the following lines:

I think the Australian doctor is being accurate when he describes the number of patients he saw and actually treated with the anti-viral drugs as "a smattering."

As in not a great many considering the number of patients doctors in China and Italy have seen.

But "the smattering" that he did see and treat with the anti-viral drugs did much better than patients all over the world not treated with the anti-viral drugs.

I don't think the Australian doctor's use of the word "wave" was intended to convey a great number of patients - but rather to convey the timeline of the patients he saw.

I'm guessing the "first wave of Chinese patients" were likely travelers from China who sought treatment while visiting Australia. And the next "wave" were likely locals infected through community spread.

But all of that is purely a guess on my part.



-jp

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