CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19 NEW MEGA THREAD

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Anonymous wrote:Did y'all know that we can make our own masks here but there's a law in place that we can't use them in healthcare for China's benefit?

Josh Hawley, Missouri Senator, has put in a bill to change that immediately. There's also a bill in the house. WH cannot do by executive order - Congress must pass it.

Isn't there a factory in North Dakota that has been producing masks on overdrive?

Please stop posting Faux News bullshit.

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holy sh*t is he gasping? I think he gasped twice:

https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=191563555476703&external_log_id=734547c4dbf98f436b0224ca11d90420

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Did y'all know that we can make our own masks here but there's a law in place that we can't use them in healthcare for China's benefit?

Josh Hawley, Missouri Senator, has put in a bill to change that immediately. There's also a bill in the house. WH cannot do by executive order - Congress must pass it.

Isn't there a factory in North Dakota that has been producing masks on overdrive?

Please stop posting Faux News bullshit.

https://www.hawley.senate.gov/senator-hawley-introduces-legislation-secure-us-medical-product-supply-chain-light-coronavirus

This is the link. The poster sorta got it right.

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Anonymous wrote:NY Times article says the first confirmed case in Seattle was late January—which means it’s safe to assume there were others walking around/traveling with it at that time or even sooner.

That’s long before anyone really thought it was here. And way before testing. Heck, we still aren’t testing.

So why don’t people believe it’s been here since then and has been spreading?

I think all the people presenting with flu symptoms who are testing negative for flu likely have or had corona. I know so many adults and kids who have been ill with flu symptoms but tested negative.

Another thread commented it's amazing that with all the big American chinatowns and Chinese American communities and close ties, both family and business, to China, its amazing we haven't had any positive cases pop up in the US chinatowns, either in NYC or Los Angeles. Those are huge communities. Wuhan didn't go into lockdown for a while and the virus is supposed to spread so easily.

I'm fully confident it's been around the US for longer than thought. Which is very encouraging in it's own way.

Yes. Every time I think “there are probably a few thousand untested cases” I also remember “we’re not seeing the rather high percentage of complicated cases in hospitals. I realize I can’t have it both ways in my mind. So I’m still not sure whether we will be Italy or S Korea

Thus far, close to ninety percent of the people tested in Maryland have been negative, per the info released by Hogan. Hopkins started tested two days ago or so.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone know why CDC hasnt done any tests since 3/6 and the public labs only ran 8 tests yesterday?
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/testing-in-us.html

Well, that’s just awesome.

It clearly says the data from 3/7 to 3/10 are pending.

Reposting because people still don’t seem to understand this.

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What I find interesting about this is "The US is ten days behind Italy". Here's where Italy was ten days ago: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/world/europe/italy-coronavirus.html

Sound familiar?

I listened to this podcast a couple of days ago. The woman indicated she believed (based on math) France and Germany were two weeks behind Italy and we were two weeks behind them. This seems accurate.

https://www.macrovoices.com/guest-content/list-guest-publications/3551-a-real-macroeconomic-plague-march-2020/file

Thats why we need to act NOW, every day counts!

[Anonymous]

New travel ban on all of Europe for 30 days.

https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1237909781446373378?s=20

[Anonymous]

Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson has coronavirus.

[Anonymous]

NBA season suspended.

[Anonymous]

To the person posting crap like:

1. China won’t let 3M send us any masks. (Check the 3M website!)
2. “Asian” Americans bought up all the masks and sent them to their “relatives in China.”
3. Our crisis is a result of the Chinese government and the “Chinese way of life.”

What are you going for? What are you adding to the conversation by spreading rumors and shifting the blame for our lack of response? Do you want to go to war with China? Try to sanction them into starving? Get rid of all the Chinese? (There is a word for that.)

I do epidemiological modeling. We know what to do. We just don’t want to put profits at risk by enforcing social distancing.

[Anonymous]

Trump supposedly got insurance companies to waive copays for Coronavirus (I’ll believe it when I see it). He basically got help for the Americans that don’t need it, the ones that have insurance. All the uninsured Americans are going to “ensure” this thing continues to spread.

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Life insurance stock down because many claims anticipated

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Life insurance stock down because many claims anticipated

Think about this. A large majority of those who die are elderly, who generally do not carry life insurance because they are retired. 15,000 people die every day in the US in the normal course.

The number of deaths of insured people (e.g., not elderly people who no longer carry life insurance) would have to be astoundingly high to be more than a blip for the life insurance companies. The bigger problem for insurance companies is low yield on their assets because of the low level of interest rates, which got lower with the latest Fed rate cut.

[Anonymous]

We are over 125k infections (diagnosed) now. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson has coronavirus.

they wouldn't have qualified for testing here