Would like to note that for those who still doubt the severity of the situation because ‘well, more people die from the flu’, countries don’t go into lockdown because of flu season, tyvm.
The Diamond Princess is British-registered. So, shouldn’t their numbers be included in the UK numbers?
Princeton University is telling its students not to come back from spring break, classes will be handled online.
Fordham University has canceled classes.
Since many of the passengers aren’t British, this seems like it would be meaningless for understanding how many cases are in a country once repatriated (though arguably one might want to reflect the vector of transmission as well).
Yeah, I know. But that really does seem to show the ineffectiveness, in today’s world, of just going by national boundaries. I suppose one could break the numbers down by "new cases in x region, cases now in x region returning from y region. Of course that would create some major political fallout and I bet there’s not a politician on the planet, especially a politician in office, who would want to face that.
I prefer countries that don’t go on lockdown. This is 'murica, not some country full of pasta-eating quarantine monkeys!
“Pasta Eating Quarantine Monkeys”
Band name!
Interesting study in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
They found that the median length of time from exposure to showing sx was 5.1 days and almost all infected showed sx by 12 days. This is a good argument for 14 day quarantine. Lots of limitations of course.
We just had a meeting today about how to handle classes if our university decides to do the same before students come back from break. The campus visits our online students normally make in April and May are also cancelled - all that will now be done online. I’m the online coordinator for our department, so this is getting pretty stressful already!
The Italians invented it!
Is there any place that runs down the details of the Italian “lockdown”? I’m wondering stuff like how it’s enforced, how far the limitations go, whether food and other goods are allowed, etc, and I haven’t really found details beyond “this is happening, and it’s ominous.”
The nursing home near Seattle is finally starting to be able to test residents. They received the results of 35 tests today. 3 inconclusive, 1 negative, 31 positive.
31 out of 35.
There are a remaining 20 residents awaiting testing.
News conference, the pertinent info is in the first 2 minutes.
One of our posters, PookahMacPhellimey, lives in Northern Italy.
I wonder how many resident deaths have been attributed to pneumonia when the ultimate cause was COVID-19.
There was a story several days ago saying something similar, but I haven’t seen it verified.
It is seriously terrifying.
My father is 86, and lives in a facility for people with dementia or Alzheimer’s. If the bug gets loose in there, the results will not be good, to say the least.
I’m 60. Don’t know if that puts me in a high-risk group. I live in New York City. I ride the subways every day. My very large law firm (multinational) has suspended all travel, although no offices have been closed as of yet. We’re being issue laptops loaded will all the necessary software and we’ve been told that we may get a call any time saying that everyone should work from home.
I have, despite my age, three very young children (six, three and four months). I’m concerned, of course, about them, althought I know that at least the older two aren’t in the highest risk groups.
On a practical level, if New York City closes its schools, well, my oldest daughter is in first grade. If day care places are closed, then my younger daughter is home, too. And if our part-time nanny gets sick, or is otherwise unable to come every day, we have a child care problem with the infant, too. Better stuck at home, if necessary, than catching the bug at school/day care, but the practical difficulties are huge.
And if either my wife or I gets it? Then what? Move out for the duration, so as to reduce the risk of exposing the children and/or the other parent? To where? A hotel, I guess, if a hotel is possible.
I really am worried.
Santa Clara County, California, just officially banned all gatherings of more than 1000 people through the end of March. That includes sports events and concerts.
Santa Clara County has banned large gatherings where large means > 1000. This does not include malls and schools, but does include concerts and sporting events. The San Jose Sharks can play, just not to a full house.
If we were in football season this would extend to 49ers games also.
114,430 confirmed infections
4,027 dead
64,093 recovered
In the US:
708 confirmed infections
27 dead
15 recovered
HOWEVER… the Johns Hopkins site differs slightly, showing 754 confirmed infections in the US. I note that the Johns Hopkins site has also had to stop putting dots on cities and instead is just listing state totals.
That puts you in a higher risk group, although greater than 95% of people in that demographic seem to recover. The other thing to consider is whether or not you have any other risk factors, like heart disease, diabetes, or respiratory problems. That said, you could still have a mild case of this illness.
People should not be too complacent regarding age and risk - definitely there have been some relatively young people (30’s) who up until catching this virus have been healthy who have had very serious illness from this.
None of them are in high risk groups.
Of course, we worry about infants, but this seems to be a disease that affects children less than adults.
If you’re all at home wouldn’t you and your wife be there to take care of the infant? I realize, of course, that “infant care” and “working from home” would be a quite a juggle
If one of you gets it then everyone living with that person has already been exposed.
Again, many people have had relatively mild illness from this - they don’t feel good, but they can still function to take care of themselves and other family members.
Understandably. I hope that for you and your family the worst is two weeks of cabin fever.