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Makes you wonder if Florida and Texas are not counting COVID related deaths even if COVID as at least part of cause. That is someone with terminal cancer that has less than a month to live gets COVID and dies but is counted as a cancer death and not a COVID death. Is possible that warmer weather re...

So your saying if someone is in hospice care with stage 5 brain cancer and he dies of the flu, the cause of death is the flu? Even though he was in hospice care and was basically preparing to die not because of the flu but because the stage 5 cancer couldn't be cured. I'm saying you've been serving...

He was moved into hospice care after getting diagnosed with coronavirus and died a few days later. Why wouldn't that count in the stats? He'd lived with his other conditions for 8 years. People erroneously reporting that he had recovered has no bearing on his cause of death. He was positively diagno...

Map of reported COVID cases in New York City by zip code. The interesting aspect of this is that the most dense parts of NYC (Manhattan) don't have the highest reports of COVID infection. At least so far. https://untappedcities.com/2020/04/02/interactive-map-of-the-coronavirus-cases-in-nyc-by-zip-c...

<r>The NY Times also made a map and wrote an article based on that data, and they also reported the number the number of cases per 100,000 residents for each borough... except Staten Island for some reason.<br/> <br/> Queens - 616<br/> Bronx - 584<br/> Brooklyn - 453<br/> Manhattan - 376<br/> <br/> ...

Map of reported COVID cases in New York City by zip code. The interesting aspect of this is that the most dense parts of NYC (Manhattan) don't have the highest reports of COVID infection. At least so far. https://untappedcities.com/2020/04/02/interactive-map-of-the-coronavirus-cases-in-nyc-by-zip-c...

My point is that there's no harm in making a serious effort at it [containment] once you've already ordered everyone to stay at home ... Surely there's a limit to how long this can go on before someone in some position of power decides it's time to stop reacting and start planning. Governors’ coron...

The cities that get hit first in a pandemic will be the ones with the most international travel -- that they tend to be denser and have more public transit is sort of incidental to that. People still flocked to NYC after 9/11, and it's hard for me to believe that this will be more discouraging than ...

dukuboy1 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 26, 2020 4:10 pmI'd really like to know how many people have been tested instead of just the positive cases.

https://covidtracking.com/data/

Note the some states -- eg, Missouri -- have incomplete data for the negative results.

Heat and humidity appear to have only a modest effect at best. Some warm places have been doing okay so far, but Sao Paulo and Guayaquil are both experiencing major outbreaks.

I probably shouldn't have said that it's working. I should have said that it's showing results. The initial drop would be from a reduction in flu (since it has a much shorter incubation period) but it should be followed by a slowdown in new coronavirus cases in places that shut down early. Californi...

Social distancing is working:




https://healthweather.us/

Critical_Mass wrote: ↑Wed Mar 25, 2020 9:29 amSo it potentially gained a floor?

It was said from the beginning that a floor could (would?) be added if there was enough demand for it.

I have read that they have probably overestimated the amount of deaths attributed to corona virus as hospitals were attributing all deaths in certain time periods to the disease without knowing if those that passed even had the virus. Where did you read this, exactly? What I found from googling is ...

I am suspect of all data we get via various tracking websites etc... Even death data. Deaths might be accurate in the US during the early stages of the pandemic here but in Italy, I have read that they have probably overestimated the amount of deaths attributed to corona virus as hospitals were att...

That's not reliable. It's taking the number of negative results only from the state lab, but it's taking the number of positive results from all labs.

The number of cases being reported tells you a lot more about how many tests have been performed than it does about how many cases there actually are. Deaths are the only reliable statistic.

Clfff's Notes: 1) The R-value (number of people each infected person infects) of the coronavirus with no countermeasures is estimated to be 2.5 2) If R is reduce to 1 then the number of infections will remain constant, anything over that leads to exponential growth 3) As long as the total number of ...

This article does a very good job of explaining in simple terms not just what needs to be done, but why it needs to be done that way:

https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavi ... 9337092b56