Covid 19 CRISIS

[...]the real death rate might be closer to 0.5%, which would of course double the case of infected people to 1.2 million.

I doubt it. Partly because South Korea had 1,1%, and their numbers are way more reliable than China's; partly because Italy has an older population that both China and South Korea; partly because, outside Wuhan, China has never been overwhelmed, nor was South Korea.

To be honest, I think the right figure for Italy is not really 1%, but more like 2-3%, which would put the total infected cases to 250.000-300.000.

Which, incidentally would mean that here in Germany we are still in a realtively good corridor in terms of testings.

Yes, but it also depends on how you count the deaths figure. One of the easiest things to lower the numbers is to attribute the cause of death to a comorbidity.

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On a happier note: the numbers are still not that clear, but it seems the numbers are slowing down in Italy for the third day in a row. And for the first time, the cases in my region slowed down too (which is a more reliable data than the national, more volatile data).
 
For all the morons who think utilities will be shut off.

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Oh for the love of...
 
Things are not good here, and they don't seem to be improving much.



On the bright side, we are seeing some innovations and cooperation from industries that have not worked together.

 
Things are not good here, and they don't seem to be improving much.



On the bright side, we are seeing some innovations and cooperation from industries that have not worked together.

We haven’t hit peak yet and we are also doing more testing so numbers are expected to go up. I’d assume another month or so until we start seeing a decline.
 
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I think I posted before that my wife is in medical
field and has been reassigned to the ER. Today she was covering the “covid or not” part of the ER. A lot of young, seemingly healthy people are coming in “viral pneumonia”, which is basically COVID, this isn’t an old person disease, please stay safe, stay home and for those of you who do - pray
 
Popping out of the woodwork to ventilate my anger a bit. One of my coworkers went against all rules and reccomendations and went on a skiing trip "because it was cheap now". He is now in quarantine and I have to cover his shifts just because he acted like a troglodyte.

To top it off, we are providing district heating to around 25.000 people so we are a very essential industry and he took the risk to shut the whole boiler plant down just to save a few coins.
 


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This is an interesting listen.

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/24/8206...-been-prevented-author-max-brooks-on-covid-19

'All Of This Panic Could Have Been Prevented': Author Max Brooks On COVID-19
 
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To top it off, we are providing district heating to around 25.000 people so we are a very essential industry and he took the risk to shut the whole boiler plant down just to save a few coins.
Someone just went all the way to the top of the “whom to fire first” list!
 
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Detroit running out of beds.

New Orleans projected to run out of beds next week.

On Kinsa Health’s network of Smart Thermometers, Florida is projected to be a massive hot spot for the virus -

https://www.healthweather.us/
 
Detroit running out of beds.

New Orleans projected to run out of beds next week.
I'm a little surprised NYC hasn't yet but I guess we have more capacity, especially with Javitz center being made into a field hospital and we do have a massive VA hospital right by me
 
Uggh, I get that economy is in the shitter but it will be much worse if we don't fucking stay the course for another two month.
In two months we might not have an economy - think 50% unemployment, housing foreclosures far worse than 2008, all small businesses gone. We absolutely need to get the economy going again as soon as possible but we just don't know what a realistic timeline is. I would guess that Easter is probably too optimistic but who knows; not sure where you're getting two months from but I hope you're wrong.

Meanwhile, my town is up to around 20 cases now, although only 1 required hospitalization.
 
In two months we might not have an economy - think 50% unemployment, housing foreclosures far worse than 2008, all small businesses gone. We absolutely need to get the economy going again as soon as possible but we just don't know what a realistic timeline is. I would guess that Easter is probably too optimistic but who knows; not sure where you're getting two months from but I hope you're wrong.

Meanwhile, my town is up to around 20 cases now, although only 1 required hospitalization.

We're all in this together. The economy is shit globally. It'll pick up closer to the summer.
 
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