[Mariner]

How long can this go on?

[datura]

As long as you host!! 😊

[Sirius Lee]

Until the Hydroxycholorquinine/Azithromycin has been distributed.

[Varsity Flight]

Pandemic

Now airing ABC. 1:25PM with QnA

[frogjerk]

As per https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

United States

Coronavirus Cases:

11,348

Deaths:

161

This equals 1.4187% death rate in US

[Zhang Fei]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-18/99-of-those-who-died-from-virus-had-other-illness-italy-says

Average age 79.5. 75% blood pressure. 35% diabetes, 1/3 heart disease. All deceased under 40 had serious medical issues.

[WildHighlander57]

In....

[markman46]

Thanks for doing this thread

[aj2me]

BYOTP

[freeandfreezing]

A while unless the drug interventions work. Here is the epidemic modeling paper from the team at the Imperial College

[ScottfromNJ]

Steve Lookner
@lookner

5,322 new cases and 427 new deaths in Italy

[MplsSteve]

Latest from Minnesota...

Per KSTP TV in Minneapolis-St Paul, there are now 89 confirmed cases of COVID-19, up 12 from yesterday.

https://www.kstp.com/coronavirus/covid-19-cases-total-89-in-minnesota-with-12-new-cases/5678304/?cat=1

3038 tests have been conducted so far. No demographic information available other than county. For those of you geographically inclined, here’s a link to their map:

https://www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/coronavirus/situation.html

[Jane Long]

Thanks for the new CV thread.

[RayChuang88]

Once hydroxychloroquine plus an appropriate antibiotic is distributed widely, the outbreak may drop dramatically.

[mrsmith]

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/heres-exactly-where-were-at-with-vaccines-and-treatments-for-covid-19?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=social-sharebar-referred-desktop

Lists four treatments being investigated.
None have been through full testing.
But will probably, like quinine, be used in the field since they show promise.

[PanzerKardinal]

Hong Kong a city of 8 million.

Where you can walk to China.

As of March 19, 2020

208 infected
98 recovered
4 deaths
https://corona.help/country/hong-kong

[bgill]

Moving this over from the old thread.

TX

Just had a phone call from our congressman for a town hall on CV with him and a Dr. Schmit (?). It went rather well. The majority of the questions were intelligent but were a month or more behind. At least people are finally waking up and asking.

Some of the highlights were:

Schools are probably closed for the rest of the year.

Incubation is up to 15 days.

Granbury (?) has 20 test kits for 60k people. I don’t know if the Dr. meant enough tests for 20 people or 20 full box loads of kits. The tone of his voice sounded more like 20 people.

The US was late catching on to how severe CV was and basically missed the window in stopping it. Behind time to eliminate it. If everyone (world) would isolate for 2 weeks, we could stop it, but that will never happen. (that’s what I’ve been saying)

Summer heat is not going to help.

Clueless on contaminated mail.

Sticking a blow drier up your nose isn’t going to help.

Neti pot isn’t going to help.

Dr. was clueless on the malaria meds saying it’ll be months to test any drug.

Also, right after the town hall:

Gov. Abbott issues executive order - 140+ cases. Multiplied by 300%

No more than 10 in a group.

Close bars and restaurants. Drive thru ok.

Don’t enter nursing homes.

Schools temp closed midnight tomorrow to Apr. 3. Online studies.

This is not a shelter in place. No limit on travel. Encourage work at home. Practice good hygiene. People must reduce public contact.

[LilFarmer]

Thanks!

[chris37]

It’s only Day 21?

Damn.

[CodeJockey]

So if CV19 is 10x as fatal as the seasonal flu, are we to assume that the ones who did die from the seasonal flu never received the flu vaccine?

In other words if there were no seasonal flu vaccine would the spread be closer?

[CharleysPride]

21

And so the story goes