# Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Thread - 2020 Breaking News **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [February 11, 2020, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758 "2020-02-11T01:16:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 70
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/1383 "2020-03-24T02:00:34Z")
> [@JoseB](#): > > The situation is grim. Here is a photo that was taken some 36-48 hours ago in the Universitary Hospital Infanta Leonor in Madrid: > > [Infanta Leonor Hospital, Madrid, 21-22 March 2020 - Album on Imgur](https://imgur.com/a/RNMtR1V) I assume those are feverish patients w/o beds. Not, I hope, corpses? ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/1384 "2020-03-24T02:05:45Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Horrible story. Thank you for the information. > > (I mean no disrespect to the loved ones of the Marquess, but I’m suspecting that this instance of an elderly member of the upper class being taken off a respirator, to make it available to others, will turn out to be an exception rather than the rule, globally speaking. Time will tell.) The very rich don’t go to hospitals for medical care. They get in-home care. And for surgery, they fund their own hospital wing. But globally speaking, most doctors and nurses aren’t very rich, and aren’t employed by the very rich, and don’t care for the very rich any more than you do. Rich people who don’t have their own doctors and nurses are just going to have to go to the same hospitals as the rest of us, and get the same care as the rest of us. Only a few people in the administrative area will know that when the patient dies, the hospital has been left money in the will … ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/1385 "2020-03-24T02:17:36Z")
[Inslee issues stay-at-home order for two weeks except for thousands of ‘essential’ workers](https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/politics-government/article241446561.html?) ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/1386 "2020-03-24T02:25:48Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Well that’s an unfortunate name. Golly. Good grief, Dick Pound has been a member of the IOC for almost 40 years. He’s very outspoken, and has been at the forefront of drug testing athletes for decades. So he’s been in the news many times. Why do people giggle like it’s the first time they’ve heard it? ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/1387 "2020-03-24T02:30:15Z")
> [@suranyi](#): > > Good grief, Dick Pound has been a member of the IOC for almost 40 years. He’s very outspoken, and has been at the forefront of drug testing athletes for decades. So he’s been in the news many times. Why do people giggle like it’s the first time they’ve heard it? I could not name a member of the IOC if my life depended on it. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/1388 "2020-03-24T02:31:18Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Do we have a separate thread where we’re following Trump’s daily briefings? > > Saw his briefing today (Monday March 23). Once again, Dr. Fauci was NOT there! WTF? That presser was the worst of them all, and that’s saying something because yesterday’s was terrible. It left me more afraid than I’ve ever been in my life. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/1389 "2020-03-24T04:12:51Z")
381,649 confirmed infections 16,558 dead 102,429 In the US: 46,145 confirmed infections 582 dead 295 recovered Yesterday’s numbers for comparison: > [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > 338,724 confirmed infections > 14,687 dead > 99,003 recovered > > In the US: > > 34,717 confirmed infections > 452 dead > 178 recovered Worldwide infections will pass 500,000 no later than Thursday. Italy is still racking up a lot of new confirmed infections so the US prolly won’t catch them for a few days yet. The US is still on track to pass China’s 81,000 confirmed infections by Friday, tho. New York state, with 23,230 confirmed infections, has something like 6% of all confirmed infections worldwide and a little over 50% of all confirmed infections in the US. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/1390 "2020-03-24T04:15:42Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > I was one of them. Last week at the auto parts factory we went from “mandatory overtime next Saturday like usual” on Monday to “you are being laid off and this is your last shift” on Friday. That fucking sucks. I’m sorry. I hope we get past this quickly. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/1391 "2020-03-24T04:19:10Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > I could not name a member of the IOC if my life depended on it. From this day forward, you can. Dick Pound! Dick Pound! Dick P-- hold up, never say it three times. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/1392 "2020-03-24T05:06:42Z")
Italy just had a two day streak of new cases going down, and deaths going down at the same time. This is the first time this has happened since the start of the epidemic. Still horrendous there, of course ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/1393 "2020-03-24T05:09:43Z")
Canada has almost 2100 cases and 24 deaths. Every province or territory has been affected with the exception of Nunavut. Canada has largely completed its biggest repatriation effort since a world war. With borders closing worldwide and a government ask, one million Canucks returned home this week. Given that, the case number could be worse. Officially, almost 50% of cases are community transmission but clearly the real number is far higher (including undiagnosed cases). Ontario and Quebec have ordered all non-essential businesses closed tomorrow. Hospitals are all running low on masks and PPE. Government says supplies are coming. What happens in the ICUs next week will determine whether Canada’s relatively early lockdown worked. Enormous financial commitments have been offered. Although too early to judge, Trudeau and Ford (Ontario’s premier) have stopped the usual sniping and, for a change, seem decisive and even competent. Canada now has 56 or 58 testing centres running. Again, tests are limited but conditions were slightly relaxed. I’m not over concerned about the increase in cases given more testing and returning citizens. But the deaths are slowly climbing, and a big increase would be worrisome. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/1394 "2020-03-24T05:45:10Z")
In fact, New York state now has more confirmed infections than all but 5 _countries_ (and the US is one of those five). ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/1395 "2020-03-24T07:36:36Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > In fact, New York state now has more confirmed infections than all but 5 _countries_ (and the US is one of those five). How much of that is in NYC? ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/1396 "2020-03-24T08:05:11Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Saw his briefing today (Monday March 23). Once again, Dr. Fauci was NOT there! WTF? Dr. Fauci was 1. Telling the facts 2. People believe him 3. He was getting more attention than Trump Therefore, he had to go lest he diminish the gilded aura of The Orange One. Fauci is off the air unless the news services start interviewing him on their own. Trump really does care more about money and his image than other peoples’ lives. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/1397 "2020-03-24T08:08:56Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > I assume those are feverish patients w/o beds. Not, I hope, corpses? On the video version they were moving and coughing so yes, alive. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/1398 "2020-03-24T12:17:05Z")
Wisconsin joins the other Great Lakes states by entering a form of lockdown today. We are not to leave our homes except for essential activities, plus nuclear-family-scale recreation (I’ll be taking a long bike ride with my kid this afternoon; it’s the one day this weeks that is neither cold nor rainy). ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/1399 "2020-03-24T12:28:47Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > Kansas City just went into martial law or I guess they call it lock down/stay at home order. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial\_law](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_law) ---
**Author:** ![Grim\_Render](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@Grim\_Render](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grim_Render)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/1400 "2020-03-24T12:39:58Z")
Some good news from Norway: In the last 24 hours, 8 757 tests were performed up from 6 858 in the period before. This has confirmed 196 new cases, down from 240 in the previous 24 hours. While there are almost certainly a very large number of unconfirmed cases out there, the fact that increased number of tests now yield a decreased number of new infections may indicate that the social distancing strategy is working. I hope its a trend rather than a blip. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/1401 "2020-03-24T13:12:01Z")
> [@JoseB](#): > > The situation is grim. Here is a photo that was taken some 36-48 hours ago in the Universitary Hospital Infanta Leonor in Madrid: > > [Infanta Leonor Hospital, Madrid, 21-22 March 2020 - Album on Imgur](https://imgur.com/a/RNMtR1V) The situation in Spain is even more grim than this: [Spain has started using at least one ice rink to store bodies and is using converted hotels as hospitals.](https://apnews.com/98f70ad86446fe2c3ba0bab5ab6bdf2c) > [@](#): > > In Madrid, vans driven by workers in protective suits and masks brought bodies to the Palacio de Hielo — Ice Palace — mall to store at its indoor skating rink until they can be buried or cremated after other facilities became overwhelmed. > > The Spanish capital last week adapted two hotels to serve as emergency hospitals to help with the overflow of COVID-19 patients. It plans to convert five more, and Madrid’s hotel association has offered a total of 40 of its buildings to be used. The city has also set up a field hospital in the Ifema trade fair complex, not far from the makeshift Ice Palace morgue. ——— [African jazz great Manu Dibango dies in France of virus.](https://apnews.com/b7aca5490656b064bba690eb19a5291e) > [@](#): > > Manu Dibango, who fused African rhythms with funk to become one of the most influential musicians in world dance music, died Tuesday with the coronavirus, according to his music publisher. He was 86. > > The Cameroon-born saxophonist, who gained international fame with his 1972 song “Soul Makossa,” died in a hospital in the Paris region, Thierry Durepaire said. ——— 85% of all new infections and deaths are occurring in the US and Europe. ——— [Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (-R) says US should get ‘back to work’](https://apnews.com/6472d703efb819614f343a396dff9ab4) > [@](#): > > Texas’ lieutenant governor said Monday night that the U.S. should get back to work in the face of the global pandemic and that people over the age of 70, who the Centers for Disease Control says are at higher risk for the coronavirus, will “take care of ourselves.” > > Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick made the comments while appearing on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” Patrick, 69, went on the program after President Donald Trump said earlier Monday that he wanted the country getting back to business in weeks, not months. > > “Let’s get back to work. Let’s get back to living. Let’s be smart about it,” Patrick said. “And those of us who are 70 plus, we’ll take care of ourselves. But don’t sacrifice the country.” :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/1402 "2020-03-24T13:14:06Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Horrible story. Thank you for the information. > > (I mean no disrespect to the loved ones of the Marquess, but I’m suspecting that this instance of an elderly member of the upper class being taken off a respirator, to make it available to others, will turn out to be an exception rather than the rule, globally speaking. Time will tell.) I think you mean “ventilator” not respirator. A respirator is just like a face mask so a person cannot get or transmit germs. A ventilator is what you would be on in a hospital. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758.md?page=69) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758.md?page=71)