Despite the controversy over Trump touting it, hydroxychloroquine has continued to show some potentially promising results as well. Neither is likely to be the panacea needed, though.
Despite the controversy over Trump touting it, hydroxychloroquine has continued to show some potentially promising results as well. Neither is likely to be the panacea needed, though.
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I don't think crowded streets or dense housing played *that* big of a factor for NY. I think it had more to do with it hitting them first because of their connection to Europe and having less time to prepare than just about anywhere else in the US.
A majority of the early environments that spiked transmission were nursing homes, office buildings, churches, birthday parties, etc and those are everywhere.
I'm still expecting another major wave or two of outbreak, focused in the parts of the country less populated with Yankees and Mets fans. Obviously, I hope I'm wrong and we've already been thru the worst...
Apparently Iowa has more cases than South Korea: https://twitter.com/StevenTDennis/st...45185406111747
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
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Add college towns to that list of future hotspot concerns. If there's a group of people that best exemplify the behaviors that best protect against this disease, college kids are the polar opposite of that group.
It's also why I consider college football to the best most at-risk sport for disruption this fall.
Last edited by paintmered; 05-11-2020 at 02:57 PM.
All models are wrong. Some of them are useful.
If it was all about density, we would have more problems here in Chicago or places like Philadelphia, DC, Boston, etc. We have definitely been impacted, and I know there's no city in the US that compares to NY in density, but the difference between NY and other urban American cities is still startling...
I'm not sure anyone has claimed density is the ONLY factor. But when there's a virus spread by human to human contact and where staying six feet apart from other humans is the best way to avoid transmitting it...it would be pretty silly to think that number of humans per unit of space doesn't play a role in risk of transmission.
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Hydroxycloroquine early on in a Spanish study (https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202005.0057/v1) I posted the other day looks very helpful on the mortality front. But only early on. The invermectin/hydroxy trial that is starting up holds real promise as both have shown results seperately
https://www.jaad.org/article/S0190-9...557-0/fulltext
They will have somethings that slow this thing down by summers end. Not a cure or panacea, but anything that retards the movement towards overwhelming the hospital systems will definitely be a boost.
Last edited by jup; 05-11-2020 at 03:22 PM.
Both Sioux Falls, SD and the Sioux City, IA metro areas have been listed as top US hot spots in rates of residents testing positive. Sioux City is currently #1 (by a large margain) over the last two weeks with Sioux Falls dropping to *only* 10th in the nation over the same span.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...tbreak-us.html
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Love how the times puts "flat or decreasing" in real light ink.
If that is the worst it gets in Sioux City SD or Sioux Falls IA (flat or decreasing) then I will take it any day ever day. 1000, and 2000 cases (respectivrely) over a 2 week period, with the way they have ramped up testing (especially with the meat packing stuff) this is a NON STARTER.
Numbers have to be looked at in context.
I wouldn't say those issues are "non-issues" or non-starters or whatever. There are certainly some places in less urban America where large number of people are in close proximity to each other for extended periods of time. Those places are a problem whether they are in Sioux City, IA or Jersey City, NJ. Those are the exception but not the rule, happily.
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