https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/t...ause-reopening
Texas Governor Orders Pause On Reopening As COVID-19 Cases Surge
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/t...ause-reopening
Texas Governor Orders Pause On Reopening As COVID-19 Cases Surge
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It’s almost as if we reopened too early based on no scientific evidence and simply because Americans were bored.
What would you say.....ya do here?
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If the correct places pause now and the health care systems never get overrun (fingers crossed), it will have been the right move to open. Even with the spikes. Still too early to know if that is how it will play out, though.
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Washington - not sure that early opening really applies there and they aren't great.
Georgia doesn't look bad at all - very early opening.
Some of the stuff out of TX makes me wonder about how wide spread (disbursed) it is around the state or centralized to say Dallas/Houston metros.
All in all still a mixed bag.
And these Northeastern states that have these dramatic declines weren't really in a whole lot different place within the last two weeks as some of the southern states are now. Just coming towards the same place from different directions and creating different narratives. Still need to see how it settles out. Remember the "disaster" wolf has cried many times already. Other than NY/NJ, the cries were largely off base
New model shows between 160000 to 214000 deaths by October 1. It states an additional 33000 lives will be saved by wearing masks.
https://news.yahoo.com/forecast-180-...014130848.html
It’s too late. Changes you make now will be seen in 3-5 weeks from now and most the changes aren’t really changes, they are status quo.
Opening always needed robust, fast, available testing. It required a tracing system everywhere. It required consistent logical messaging about what to do and how to do it. We have absolutely none of that, still, today, none of it.
So here we are.
The depressing part is we didn't even try. Pence is giving the first COVID national briefing tomorrow morning, the first task force press conference in two months. It reminded me of one of the first task force press conferences in March when they trotted out all these CEOs of random companies, touted hundreds of testing sites in Walmart parking lots, and showcased a flow chart of a coronavirus testing web site that Google was supposedly going to create. Did any of that ever happen?
"In our sundown perambulations of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing 'base', a certain game of ball. Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms, the game of ball is glorious"
-Walt Whitman
You idiots ran Acton out on a rail for having the audacity of trying to save your dumbasses. You deserve this, you really do.
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https://www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...m_npd_nn_tw_ma
If this is accurate, then we owe Dr. Acton an apology. Her 100K guesstimate may not have been that far off.CDC says COVID-19 cases in U.S. may be 10 times higher than reported
The true number of Americans who've been infected with COVID-19 may top 20 million, according to new estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"Our best estimate right now is that for every case that's reported, there actually are 10 other infections," Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the CDC, said on a call with reporters Thursday.
The assessment comes from looking at blood samples across the country for the presence of antibodies to the virus. For every confirmed case of COVID-19, 10 more people had antibodies, Redfield said, referring to proteins in the blood that indicate whether a person's immune system has previously fought off the coronavirus.
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If someone wants to show their work and go backwards over 100 days to go from 48k positive tests so far today to get to “not far off” 100k positives on March 12, have at it. I know many positives have not been tested but if there were 100k on March 12, how many are there today (that have had it so far). And if so many people have had it, what is the infection fatality rate then?
No apologies to Dr. Amy Acton on this one from me. Though I respect her I believe her to have been wrong here.
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