Yeah, there’s hope we can suppress it, if we do what China did. The things is, we aren’t.
But we always can shift into that. The tool is there if we are willing to use it. Anyways, let’s see how lockdowns turn out in the several countries/cities implementing those.
Midday testing update:
Yesterday at midday: 130,082 tests run (reported)
Today at midday: 173,347 tests run (reported)
The Thursday to Friday midday to midday was 96,000 to 130,000 for those interested in the trendline.
Three months to hit 100,000. Twelves days to hit 200,000. And I checked and we’re at 287,000. We hit 200,000 just a few days ago.
I require a chart or graph.
jsnell
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That interpretation of the graph makes no sense. There’s like a 2 week lag between an intervention and seeing it reflected in the number of new cases. The two curves start to separate around the 13th or 14th, at that point TN has a clear doubling time of 2 days whily KY has one of 4 days. And that separation happens too soon to be explained by any of the measures.
In addition to that, a lot of the earliest policies on that graph have not had effect anywhere else (e.g. the firsty policy of “encouraging social distancing”). Why would they have worked so dramatically well in KY? The first policy of real consequence there seems to be the bar/restaurant closure on March 16th. And it’s literally impossible for it to have any effect before the end of that time series.
Apparently 195,000~ have been tested according to Pence.
We are at 297k by this count (which so far has been very reliable). We hit 200k the 18th. We’ll hit 300k today.
That’s probably fairly accurate. There’s definitely a lag time in tests conducted and reporting. And one of the biggest issues facing anyone trying to come up with accurate testing figures is that a lot of states still are not reporting negative test numbers.
Thrag
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The guy on now said that figure “does not count the people whose test is in progress”.
There’s also been an issue with some states only reporting tests on CDC issued test-kits and not private lab tests.
Thrag
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Some word salad getting tossed now.
I think he forgot what he was talking about for a moment there, he kept saying problem problem problem.
Surgical vs Standard N95 masks:
Thrag
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I was just joking to my wife that I wonder if he remembers what the question is.
I see we’re moving on to the blame Obama part of the conference.
Well he went all in with the previous administrations comment, so he is spreading the blame to Obama and farther back. Probably skipping Republican Presidents. :)
