Thanks. True story. |
Seems Kinda high??? You haven’t seen nothing yet. Virus has nothing on mental health. Not sure why government feels that tanking the economy just because they feel that people are a bunch of idiots and not able to take care of themselves through hygiene. But whatever. https://time.com/5805526/coronavirus-economy-layoffs/ |
Thanks, Trump. |
Consider the real numbers out of Wuhan. Worse than the opioid epidemic. And then remember that Wuhan is only one city. |
Germany? A lot of thought that they are too late. This article was written March 17--around 6,000 cases. Today, three days later it has over 22,000 cases, a near quadrupling. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/03/17/germany-pulls-out-the-bazooka-against-the-coronavirus-but-is-it-doing-enough/ And Germany is totally fudging its death count. |
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Studies show that recessions, including the worst great depression years of 1930 to 1933, counterintuitively are associated with declines in mortality and increases in life expectancy.
From a study: "The evolution of population health during the years 1920–1940 confirms the counterintuitive hypothesis that, as in other historical periods and market economies, population health tends to evolve better during recessions than in expansions." https://www.pnas.org/content/106/41/17290
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They've basically declared you can't get tested unless you're already on death's door. Why on earth would you trust the stats now? |
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More and more analyses will be coming out. Here is a much more robust and sober statistical analysis than the rudimentary exponential growth formulas that have been presented in this thread.
https://medium.com/six-four-six-nine/evidence-over-hysteria-covid-19-1b767def5894 |
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It’s going to go up ...because....more people are being tested now.
Thank you captain obvious. In other news, water is wet. |
Huh? No, the case fatality rate will actually go down as more people get tested. You clearly didn’t read. Total number of cases is a pretty useless vanity metric. |
Then these people getting tested must be infected with something other than coronavirus. In Virginia, as of today, 2790 people have been tested and only 152 have come back positive. |
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My cousin said that Italy is disaggregating data. In other words, they are keeping track of how each case is handled - how people die. Did they die from the virus or from complications stemming from the virus?
Apparently, the neighboring counties aren't as detailed. That's why Italy's numbers are so high. |
A key distinction is dying FROM corona virus versus dying WITH corona virus. If someone otherwise dies but they happen to be tested when they die and have corona virus, should that count? I think Italy has been counting these cases whereas Germany has not. |
New York has tested about 50,000 and 10,000 positive. Nationally US has a positive rate of over 10%. So we are opening up testing, not just seriously ill. Worldwide the death rate is about 4%. We are at 1.2%. I have not seen any DATA to dispute these numbers. |
| The US needs to test people in every corner of the country and isolate hot spots, which are likely to be most urban areas, but then drill down from there. Ultimately, there should be well over 100m tests deployed. |