My guess is Albuquerque.
Moderating
Please don’t post links without some details on what they are about. We have no idea what “local” means.
Colibri
Quarantine Zone Moderator
Is a “silent carrier” someone who doesn’t have symptoms yet?
I’m not sure I understand the difference between silent carrier and asymptomatic.
Thanks in advance to anyone who can explain this.
That graph is wildly different than the graph currently on the front page of https://www.arlnow.com
It’s Arlington, VA, btw.
The second chart appears to be showing a rolling-7 total for new cases, whereas the first shows the daily count. Same data, just different way of showing it.
One graph uses new cases per day, the other uses new cases in 7 day period.
The new cases per 7 day period is similar to the Moving Average in stock prices. It gives a clearer picture of the trend, smoothing out day to day dips and surges.
My apologies, I thought my location field would be a clue.
The Potomac River is 400 miles long and runs through three states.
It’s best to tell people, rather than making them look for “clues” to what you are talking about.
If we are posting local info now, my county (Sacramento) has a useful graphic dashboard tracking cases:
Sacramento County COVID 19 Dashboard
The Cumulative Cases graph is starting to show a lessening of the upward trend.
I do not understand why the Cases by Age Group is set to:
0-17 (17 years)
18-49 (31 years)
50-64 (14 years)
65+ (could be any number of years)
Looking at it by percentage, the 18-49 group is by far the largest share, but that is the widest age range, and I do not think that is painting the correct picture.
Just as an fyi for people who mostly read the board on a computer, the location field doesn’t show in mobile view unless I manually view a user profile.
Today in Austria:
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[li] The government previously announced that the ban on large public events (concerts, trade shows, festivals, etc.) would remain in force until at least 30 June. The vice-chancellor today said that the ban would be extended until at least 31 August. However, as long as social distancing rules are enforced, small art galleries are permitted to reopen as of now, libraries and small museums may be able to reopen in the middle of May, large state museums may be able to reopen at the end of June, and movie theatres may be able to reopen at the end of August, according to the state secretary for culture. The opening of theatres and film production studios presents a problem, as even the performers would need to respect social distancing rules, including the use of face coverings.[/li]
[li] Next week, the Austrian Red Cross will finally publish the source code of its coronavirus tracking app. This should allow third parties to independently audit the app for security and privacy issues, which could either reinforce or quell fears about how personal data is being (mis)handled. It’s not clear to me whether the source code is being licensed as free software or whether it will remain proprietary.[/li]
[li] Speaking of apps, the State Printing Office is developing an app for certifying coronavirus immunity, which might one day be used to exempt people from certain social distancing regulations. So far, the only details on how it works that I can find is that the app uses the smartphone it is running on to read a biometric passport and the QR code of an official coronavirus antibody test. Presumably, then, the QR code encodes personal information that is then checked against the same information in the passport, and reports whether or not they match.[/li]
[li] Current statistics: 14,553 confirmed infections, 431 deaths, 9704 recovered. The daily growth in new infections remains at 0.8%, which the health minister claims is the lowest in Europe. The daily number of recoveries is seven times higher than the daily number of new infections. The replication factor is 0.62, down slightly from yesterday’s 0.65.[/li][/ul]
There have been some further developments on this today. The European Parliament has censured Hungary, calling its actions “totally incompatible with European values”. It has called upon the European Commission to investigate the legality of Hungary’s actions and to revive the Article 7 procedures that were already in progress, which could result in suspending Hungary’s voting rights within the EU. Moreover, Donald Tusk, the president of the European People’s Party of which Orbán’s Fidesz is a member, has said that a decision will be made this fall on whether or not to expel Fidesz from the EPP. Tusk had previously tried to boot Fidesz from the EPP but delegates instead decided on a suspension, which remains in place.
Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine is one of the first to begin human trials. There are 70 vaccines in some stage of development now, the World Health Organization has said. Moderna said that if the trial is successful, it could reach final-stage testing by fall 2020.
Thanks Psychonaut, it just seemed like such an oddly specific number. I just watched a press conference in the UK in which they said that they believed that rate was, somewhere between 0.5 and 1 (my paraphrasing) so they were really hedging their bets.
Illinois schools to remain closed for the rest of the school year.
I will be shocked if the Stay at Home order isn’t also extended at least until the middle of May, if not longer.
Mainstream media sources are finally coming around on the way-too-coincidental Wuhan lab that studied coronaviruses in bats: U.S. intel community examining whether coronavirus emerged accidentally from a Chinese lab
I have thought for weeks that this seemed really fishy, but the media kept supposedly “debunking” it by citing experts who said it was not genetically engineered but came from nature. Which is of course completely beside the point.
Sorry, I was being ‘poetic’. When I said ‘silent carrier’, I meant asymptomatic. That is, someone who has the disease, and can transmit it, but is not showing any symptoms. In short, I intended them to mean the same thing.
Apologies for not being clear, and if I’m mistaken that an asymptomatic person can transmit the disease, I’d appreciate a correction.
Do we have any evidence that asymptomatic people shed the virus (are as contagious) as symptomatic people? I would suspect they do not. If so, would that change things?
:rolleyes: