Tracking the COVID-19-Virus in Germany, the USA, Italy and other hot spots in the world

I'm aware Texas isn't doing enough testing.

 

Nice job on the masks.

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I wonder how much difference it makes in terms of the transmission rate.

 

I don't like this data because it mixes Covid tracking with Worldometers. But I did it anyway.
Without NY (state) the rest of the country is flat for the last couple of weeks.


New York appears to be driving the curve down-imagine my surprise.


Having said this; I can't reconcile these numbers with Cuomo's either.
So I'm still sitting here wondering why we are so flat.

 

Honest, although I do a lot of reading and research due to my own personal curiosity, I do not consider myself this thread's personal research assistant.

You have a computer which means you also have Google. If you are curious enough to use it to satisfy your own curiosity is up to you.

Or you can keep "alleging" falsehoods such as S. Korea locked down...without providing your own link.

When people post here without a link, I take it upon myself to look it up and fact check.

 

Because you need to compare the increase in the number of tests with the number of cases. The fact that we are significantly ramping up testing and the cases are flat is a good sign that the virus spread is slower.

The case data by itself is somewhat meaningless. You have to know it testing is increasing, decreasing, or flat.

 

Also, as I mentioned earlier, as NY cases continue to come down on the other side of the curve, the U.S. should start looking better.

 

I plotted that. When I adjust for testing the raw number goes down but the shape of the curve remains relatively flat.

 

Nursing homes certainly have a reputation to protect in their community which is an incentive to want to hide data....especially when they have people getting sick and keeling over in abnormally high numbers.

 

I don't know what dates your Y-axis represent. New York went "flat" from around April 5th - 16th before dropping down.

This chart is also taking a 7-day average, which is a little easier to read and smooths out inconsistencies in daily reporting.

 

One of their actions is promoting the Trump pill.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...nment-waives-regulatory-requirements-for-drug

 

Wasn't that the goal? Flattening the curve? So it sounds like mission accomplished to me. Also, a factor that we don't know about is the true rate of infection AKA contagion rate: If it were 100% contagious, we'd all be dead. And we know this, because in our lovely America(and I support it, even knowing the dangers as I alluded to), we are a free nation. This idea of copying off China, etc is not who we are as a people.

And yes, who we are as a people is even more important than defeating the coronavirus. Because if we defeat the coronavirus and lose our morals to do it, that's called a pythic victory. We gained something, but we lost something of equal importance. I want to defeat the coronavirus with our morals and beliefs in tact.

There must be a way to make sensible health precautions, while maintaining our freedoms.

 

The WHO says 3 feet, which is ridiculous.

 

They are shills for their Chinese masters. They said on 1/14 the virus wasn't contagious, and criticized Trump's effective China travel restriction, now China has similar restrictions. One WHO idiot from Canada would not even answer a question about Taiwan (who has done a good job with the virus) because it would offend China. The current WHO head actually wanted to make the brutal dictator Robert Mugabe a good will ambassador. You can't make this stuff up.

 

In terms of which countries are "flattening" the curve versus experiencing more of a peak and then a fall, it appears most countries have a longer time period for cases to drop off whether they experience a short or lengthy plateau period.

Top ten most impacted countries:

 

With real sadness I report that in the last minutes, we crossed over 200,000 dead across the world from COVID-19:





May their memories be a blessing.

-Stat

 

Our local news outlets have started "watchdogging" the nursing homes and other assisted-living facilities in the state, now that the federal government has cracked down on nursing home reporting guidelines.

One of our news agencies has started it's own dashboard, just for these residencies, so it's easy to compare to the state totals.



We have fewer than 600 total deaths in Texas....and 240 are associated with these facilities.

 

No one is lifting the burn ban all at once. It's more like we banned burning brush, lighting a campfire and cooking on the BBQ grill in your backyard. Phase I easing allows you to BBQ on your grill. If Phase I goes well, then you can go camping and have a campfire and BBQ on your grill during Phase II. If no major fires start, then in Phase III, you can do a controlled burn of extra brush on your property, enjoy a campfire later in the day, and grill some chicken for the family.

We have to face the fact that the virus is with us and that from all appearances it is going to be with us for a very long time. There is no vaccine, and we need to deal with the strong possibility that we won't get a vaccine in 12 months, 18 months or maybe ever. Viruses mutate. Any vaccine developed today may not be effective in 12 months, considering mutations make up a moving object.

Not all countries which have placed severe restrictions on people have succeeded in significantly slowing the spread. Not all countries which allowed people to keep working and keep their economies running while only isolating the elders and reducing "entertainment" gatherings have had their health systems fail. There is no evidence that "lockdowns" work or don't work nor that not locking down works or doesn't work. Best we can say is they work sometimes, but none has worked completely and some countries without lockdowns have fared better than some countries with lockdowns.

No country in the world can afford to shut healthy people out of their jobs until we have a vaccine which may never arrive. Controlling the spread to the extent that such spread is below hospital capacity is the best we can hope for.

Imagine the ramifications of telling people that they can't work for 3, 4 or 6 months, but that they will still have to catch up all the late payments on all their rent/mortgage and other bills, some with late fees and interest. Think about rates of depression, suicide, crime, drug use, etc. How many young healthy lives should be sacrificed to save people who have outlived the average life expectancy or whose lives may continue only a few more months/years due to serious medical issues. That sort of choice is painful, but it is a very real choice that people have to make.

This virus isn't going away any time soon.

 

Right. This "calling out" is why I've been critical of Cuomo and DeBlasio for not shutting down NYC schools sooner. We should not divide ourselves into camps where pols are encouraged to do anything other than the right thing. The same is true internationally.

 

I redid that chart and your right, you can certainly see NY in there, but for example the last few days someplace else is driving it.
Can you post a link to your chart? Much easier than looking at each day.