Maps, science, data & statistics tracking of COVID-19

[the54thvoid]

Well, there's a common sense way to try and prevent the spread, and there's the Belarus way:

Coronavirus: Belarus Premier League attracts global attention as it plays on

Football fans around the world are turning to Belarus to get their fix during lockdown as the game carries on in the former Soviet republic.

www.bbc.co.uk

No isolation strategy in place at all. Only 94 confirmed cases - no deaths. It's one to watch...

 

[lexluthermiester]

Well, there's a common sense way to try and prevent the spread, and there's the Belarus way:

Coronavirus: Belarus Premier League attracts global attention as it plays on

Football fans around the world are turning to Belarus to get their fix during lockdown as the game carries on in the former Soviet republic.

www.bbc.co.uk

No isolation strategy in place at all. Only 94 confirmed cases - no deaths. It's one to watch...

My take on that is simple; They're accepting it as a virus that will run it's course through the populous, human immunoresponse will work the problem and we'll have something else our bodies are tuned to deal with. They are doing what everyone should be doing, getting on with life and NOT panicking.

 

[moproblems99]

My take on that is simple; They're accepting it as a virus that will run it's course through the populous, human immunoresponse will work the problem and we'll have something else our bodies are tuned to deal with. They are doing what everyone should be doing, getting on with life and NOT panicking.

There is a clear difference between doing nothing and panicking.

 

[biffzinker]

Well, there's a common sense way to try and prevent the spread, and there's the Belarus way:

Coronavirus: Belarus Premier League attracts global attention as it plays on

Football fans around the world are turning to Belarus to get their fix during lockdown as the game carries on in the former Soviet republic.

www.bbc.co.uk

No isolation strategy in place at all. Only 94 confirmed cases - no deaths. It's one to watch...

Well, that's a recipe for disaster. Don't get me wrong I wouldn't rather live the rest of 2020 in fear, and in place sheltered from what could of been considered living life with the inherited risks.

 

[rtwjunkie]

Sorry I’m a little late with the daily Louisiana update. I was enjoying my shelter in place life watching The Defenders. I’ve managed over the last week and a half to plow through the rest of the Netflix Marvel series. Now I found out I should have watched them in a certain order, switching between series. Oh well.

The number of positive cases took a slight slowdown here. Louisiana added only 225 cases to 3,540. Deaths ticked upward a little from 137 to 151. That’s a bit of good news too, I hope. The number hospitalized increased by 200 from 927 to 1,127. Of those, 380 are on ventilator. Nearly 28,000 tests have been conducted.

Louisiana Coronavirus | La Dept. of Health

The Louisiana Department of Health protects and promotes health and ensures access to medical, preventive and rehabilitative services for all citizens of the State of Louisiana.

ldh.la.gov

 

[moproblems99]

Well, that's a recipe for disaster. Don't get me wrong I wouldn't rather live the rest of 2020 in fear, and in place sheltered from what could of been considered living life with the inherited risks.

While easy to say, fear is not necessary at this point in time. It is a little different to practice though. I won't be remotely let fear creep in until/if the dollar/economy crashes. Every week I add a can or two to the long term supply in hopes it is not needed. If it isn't, my hurricane kit is ready to go.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

The holes are vanishing (except places where people don't live like the Utah desert):

Click for details. Here's the post/image from Tuesday for comparison:

New York City shrunk because everywhere else grew relatively.

 

[remixedcat]

I just use this site for my state:

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

I like how they embed the real Johns hopkins map so I dont have to have a seperate tab

and since I got family in ohio I use this one:

Overview

coronavirus.ohio.gov

The holes are vanishing (except places where people don't live like the Utah desert):
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Click for details. Here's the post/image from Tuesday for comparison:

New York City shrunk because everywhere else grew relatively.

Nice map links. Good for an overall view

 

[lexluthermiester]

The holes are vanishing (except places where people don't live like the Utah desert)

What are you talking about? Southern Utah has a ton of people. For example, St. George is a well loved retirement community.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

 

[Xzibit]

It was reported earlier that NY has a stockpile of Ventilators and received a shipment from the Feds but isn't distributing them. NY Gov. confirmed it when confronted.

Cuomo said. "The hospitals don't need them yet. The hospitals aren't at their apex. The hospitals have enough ventilators today, but their numbers are going up."

Then you see videos of NY hospital doctors pleading for them. Some NY hospitals having to get them out of State. The 2 patients on 1 stories out of NY.

NY is also try'n distribute the patient load on hospital by moving patients to less filled hospitals. I would think thats a double edge sword. You help one area but insert an infected person to another or more of them to a less infected area bringing in a higher risk to that locality plus strain their resources when the locals to that hospital get hit.

 

[EarthDog]

Well, there's a

It was reported earlier that NY has a stockpile of Ventilators and received a shipment from the Feds but isn't distributing them. NY Gov. confirmed it when confronted.

Spoiler: Some people might find this news political in nature

Cuomo said. "The hospitals don't need them yet. The hospitals aren't at their apex. The hospitals have enough ventilators today, but their numbers are going up."

link....

Edit: It shows up when I capture the post, the spoiler...lol..link?

Where are you going with this anyway?

 

[Flanker]

Looks like all Nvidia staff are working from home

 

[Xzibit]

Looks like all Nvidia staff are working from home

Wasn't GTC cancelled entirely on the 16th? Letter talks about it as it took place and is dated 24th. Jensen didn't sign it and no company letterhead.

I don't doubt that non-essential people are working from home just that the letter looks off.

 

[Flanker]

Wasn't GTC cancelled entirely on the 16th? Letter talks about it as it took place and is dated 24th. Jensen didn't sign it and no company letterhead.

I don't doubt that non-essential people are working from home just that the letter looks off.

I just had a look at their website. It looks like they are having GTC digital sessions almost daily

GTC Oct 2020: Session Catalog

Watch live or on-demand conference sessions.

www.nvidia.com

 

[Gmr_Chick]

Portugal's numbers have been updated:

- 5962 confirmed infected
- 119 fatalities
- 43 recovered - no change, since 3 days ago ???
- 5508 waiting for test results

Smaller increases than yesterday but a very large number of those waiting for results can change that very quickly.

We had a 14 year old boy die from this virus his morning: just a reminder that it ain't just old people that "get it".

Several retirement homes have been hit hard by this virus: between residents and employees, a significant number of people infected were discovered. In a single retirement home, 47 of 62 residents and 18 of 30 employees were infected

I read a story today out of Chicago. An infant just died from it, though health officials haven't yet said if the infant had underlying conditions or not. Death is heartbreaking, but the death of a baby is even more so.

Well, there's a common sense way to try and prevent the spread, and there's the Belarus way:

Coronavirus: Belarus Premier League attracts global attention as it plays on

Football fans around the world are turning to Belarus to get their fix during lockdown as the game carries on in the former Soviet republic.

www.bbc.co.uk

No isolation strategy in place at all. Only 94 confirmed cases - no deaths. It's one to watch...

What cracks me up about that article is this:

"While most European countries are quarantining their citizens and shutting borders, the president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, is not worried and has even suggested citizens drink vodka to combat the disease."

I mean, really? What the hell could go wrong?

 

[robot zombie]

The news about Russia doesn't surpise me. Coincidentally, I keep correspondence with someone in Russia (totally NOT what is sounds like ...butwedotalk) and I had mentioned it, just kind of wishing them well - this was 3 weeks ago, when things were just starting to get really real stateside. I'm just going to quote what he said in our last e-mail convo verbatim:

We don't have any panic at [all?], our people are trained for much bigger shocks. These shocks are already tired, I want to live a normal, quiet life)

Can't really assume much from that, but I thought it was an interesting sentiment. This idea of persevering through a normal, quiet existence sounds pretty up a modern Russian's alley.

I personally don't think this will go well or last. Ignorance is bliss, I suppose. But if that's more the mindset, I wonder how their lifestyles and ways of operating might differ a little from the typical western way. If my buddy's attitude here is at all common, I might be inclined to think it won't spread as fast due to more people naturally keeping to themselves a little more as is. "Russia is a cold place."

Still don't think that's enough. It might be a little slower to spread, but not a lot of good from that when you're just as slow to react. Not to mention it's not like they're totally asocial compared to other places. I might wonder how many people cross Russia's borders and what the patterns are compared to some of the 'hub' nations that have been hit really hard. Don't really know much about how they're set-up there, in general.

Also... the vodka thing. I remember coming across a story where somebody drank 70% isopropyl and wound up hospitalized after somebody online joked that drinking enough of it would travel everywhere in the body and kill the virus. Of course, that's not going to work because your body is not a sponge that soaks-up liquids you drink, where it just wicks out everywhere. It goes through your GI tract, to your bloodstream in very small concentrations, and then back out. Not sure if that story is true. I don't know how anyone could've believed that was how drinking things worked in the first place.

But then people ARE doing things like getting stuck on cruises and dying from eating fish tank cleaner so...

 

[remixedcat]

What are you talking about? Southern Utah has a ton of people. For example, St. George is a well loved retirement community.

 

[HTC]

Spotted this @ Anandtech forums: it's an explanation of how this virus kills people, in more "friendly" language. I bit long but worth it, IMO:

 

[FordGT90Concept]

The short answer is pneumonia. The lungs fill with fluid, diaphragm can no longer contract, stop breathing. This is where mechanical ventilators are required: they force air into the lungs via air tube inserted into the trachea. If the lungs are so full of fluid they can no longer exchange adequate carbon dioxide for oxygen...then not even a ventilator can save you.

 

[Regeneration]

The even shorter answer is: it attacks your respiratory system, you feel chocked and cough yourself to death.

 

[Xzibit]

Spotted this @ Anandtech forums: it's an explanation of how this virus kills people, in more "friendly" language. I bit long but worth it, IMO:

Never a good sign when a surgeon says, "Oops, I've made a mess". (Inner voice, Your suppose to be good with your hands and be steady. Hold your props steady your making me nervous)

Now I got to find out if hes practicing and to stay away.

 

[Gmr_Chick]

^ Wonderful video. A bit lengthy, yes, but INCREDIBLY important

@Regeneration -- More like it curb stomps your respiratory system and suffocates you to death because your lungs are flooded

 

[Vayra86]

Yes, peer pressure can do wonders but we have a very divided populace here. To me, it seems more divided than just about any time in history. You have a somewhat appearance of national unity. As divided as we are, it does not bode well to slow this. I am not usually gloom and doom but I feel this division will greatly exacerbate this problem.

When some news anchors wish for a recession to remove the president and that gets broadcast to half the population, how do you reconcile that to come together?

When half of the population lives and breaths removal of the president (even if he is an asshat) while the other half bows like a diety, how do expect them to come together (6ft apart anyway)?

Sadly, National unity is what must happen to truly slow this. And we are too bitterly divided.

To the mods: I did my best to not be too political but I feel calling out our political divide and putting it to rest for a few months is important to us. I understand if it gets LQ'd or removed. No hard feelings.

And here I thought we had a problem over here and some sort of divide similar to yours with twats like Baudet and Geert Wilders... (Not going to put links, Google if interested, you might recognize the latter, but hopefully not). Anyway the nationalist right wing thing isn't unique to the US. Man... I hope you're wrong and people start seeing the light, soon. The figures ain't pretty.

I think you guys desperately need this:

Polder model - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Well, there's a common sense way to try and prevent the spread, and there's the Belarus way:

Coronavirus: Belarus Premier League attracts global attention as it plays on

Football fans around the world are turning to Belarus to get their fix during lockdown as the game carries on in the former Soviet republic.

www.bbc.co.uk

No isolation strategy in place at all. Only 94 confirmed cases - no deaths. It's one to watch...

Yeah... Putin gave Russia a one week free (paid) holiday... similar case to Brazil where local governments enforce stronger lockdowns and national is trying to somehow keep up appearances. On Sunday the mayor of Moscow already enforced a tighter lockdown. And similar to Brazil, the Russians themselves have started stockpiling because they know better and have seen this before...

 

[FordGT90Concept]

All countries are going to look more like Italy and Spain than China because of access (or lack thereof) to N-95 masks.