Corona Virus #7

[RSR]

Is your state/county observing social distancing?

Covid-19 Social Distancing Scoreboard — Unacast

An interesting look at how travel has, or has not, been affected at county levels. I wonder if rural counties may not see as large of a drop in movement as they may not be as mobile to start out. Hopefully that's the case, as my county gets a "D" grade.

We just started having a bunch of cases show up last week (0 - 23 cases in 5 days for a population of 100k). It will be interesting to see if that makes people think twice about their travel.

Edited: 0-30 cases in 6 days. The new number *just* came out.

 

[Diggin It]

Maybe not... But when we went to war with the Axis, we actually had guns, planes, and battleships... Get it???

Not hardly. Much of it had to be developed, and we didn't do that from behind tape lines on floors.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Report from the front lines, summarized by a poster on Kos: researchers have identified CV DNA (RNA?) and are studying how it attaches to human cells, in order to devise a vaccine that will be a barrier to this attachment.

Per this account this is a major breakthrough and occurred just in the last couple of days. But understanding the attachment hasn't yet suggested how to apply a barrier. Many possible barriers have their own disadvantages. Research continues ...

WOW!! - on SARS-CoV-2, Chinese and MIT researchers are CRUSHING IT right now

That post is by an amateur but it has links to the primary technical reports. I haven't seen this news elsewhere.

Added: wading down through many useless comments there is finally a significant comment posted a couple of hours ago, a link to significant related information:
Experimental AI tool predicts which COVID-19 patients develop respiratory disease - Neuroscience News

As always, the comments are valuable because they expand a topic beyond the original post. Just ignore the snark you have to wade through to find the pearls.

Interesting. We will get there sooner or later with these good minds and enough financial support.

 

[RoyJackson]

US surpasses China in official coronavirus deaths | TheHill

"Official" is the operative word...I really doubt the Chinese government is reporting truthful statistics...

 

[shooterdon]

Is your state/county observing social distancing?

Covid-19 Social Distancing Scoreboard — Unacast

An interesting look at how travel has, or has not, been affected at county levels. I wonder if rural counties may not see as large of a drop in movement as they may not be as mobile to start out. Hopefully that's the case, as my county gets a "D" grade.

We just started having a bunch of cases show up last week (0 - 23 cases in 5 days for a population of 100k). It will be interesting to see if that makes people think twice about their travel.

Edited: 0-30 cases in 6 days. The new number *just* came out.

Mine scored F

 

[rswyan]

"Official" is the operative word...I really doubt the Chinese government is reporting truthful statistics...

There's plenty of good reasons to question "official statistics", both here and abroad ...

 

[/pine]

Our state posts this message on the daily report on occasion:

Today’s significant increase in cases is in part due to additional laboratories reporting to DPH, and also improvements in electronic reporting from other laboratories. Patient information is often incomplete and DPH works to complete the records, so data will change over time.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Sweden Decides to Let Coronavirus to Run Its Course in Country Without Destroying Its Economy or Future

This is a good thing to have a control in any study.

 

[California]

Is your state/county observing social distancing?

Covid-19 Social Distancing Scoreboard Unacast

An interesting look at how travel has, or has not, been affected at county levels. I wonder if rural counties may not see as large of a drop in movement as they may not be as mobile to start out. Hopefully that's the case, as my county gets a "D" grade.

We just started having a bunch of cases show up last week (0 - 23 cases in 5 days for a population of 100k). It will be interesting to see if that makes people think twice about their travel.

Edited: 0-30 cases in 6 days. The new number *just* came out.

And then there's these guys:

Right-wing evangelist Jonathan Shuttlesworth, a close friend of [arrested megachurch pastor] Rodney Howard-Browne, says he intends to hold a large Woodstock-like Christian gathering in defiance of stay-at-home orders. pic.twitter.com/sn5Pvt1NA5 Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) March 31, 2020

SHUTTLESWORTH: "we're going to hold an outdoor Easter blowout service not online. A national gathering. You come from all over, like Woodstock"

... the photo accompanying that post had the snarky caption "When we finally got to Woodstock we had fluid in our lungs ..."

I'm not going to cite a source for this, too political. Just believe I saw it somewhere. Research it if you wish.

 

[s219]

Sweden Decides to Let Coronavirus to Run Its Course in Country Without Destroying Its Economy or Future

This is a good thing to have a control in any study.

That's a dumb headline. There will be an economic and future impact of the virus on a society no matter what approach they take or how good/bad their results. There is no way to escape an impact.