jsnell
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Absolutely not.
First, deaths lag measures by at least three weeks. What measures from February do you think could be having an effect now?
Second, deaths are a noisy signal. If you look at the Italian numbers, there were a lot of false drops and plateaus there.
Third, both new cases and new deaths for March 21st will be higher than for any previous day for the US, using the GMT midnight time cutoff that the site uses.
No, it’s all of Italy.
Seen in the Guardian live blog and a lot of Spanish press. Very recent, though, given in a press conference after 11pm.
Lombardy and Piamonte did it some hours earlier.
jsnell
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Gotcha, that must be it. Thanks!
David2
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You are probably right across the board, thanks for the info btw. I’d like to still hope that today will not be a lot worse, and somehow we get through this without so much loss of life.
Unfortunately, in 2 weeks, you will find that wasn’t the case (the plateau). Source: all of us in Europe.
I think we’re 8 days behind now?
At the moment, the headlines are still screaming “Single highest tally of daily deaths so far” or some variant, despite having run the same headline pretty much every second day for the past two weeks. We’ll know that we’re at peak when they stop doing that. Which for Italy is probably still a few weeks off. The US hasn’t even started feeling the brunt of Covid-19, I fear.
So apparently a partnership of two Republicans and two Democrats in the Senate in a small business committee just went moonshot on a plan for small business. And it looks pretty good on first blush (really good, actually). And It appears to have McConnell’s blessing.
Rubio and Ben Cardin the prime architects. Susan Collins and Jeanne Shaheen also involved.
Also sadly, it looks like California representative (11th district) Mark DeSaulnier is in critical condition. He took a fall earlier in the week while out jogging or something and broke a rib and it punctured his lung and his condition has worsened.
He was tested for C19 on admission and it was negative.
Hawaii’s governor, announced 14-day mandatory quarantine for all visitors and returning.residents.
Starts Thursday, which gives people a couple of days to finish their business and get home.
I think I get where you’re coming from, and I’m trying to sympathize, but I just can’t resist mentioning that for the past several days I’ve had groups of millennials home from work and/or school or whatever literally sunning themselves all day on my front lawn while they chatter about social distancing. Meanwhile, an Air B&B just 20 feet away has been doing better than I’ve seen all year, with a steady flow of travelers from all over the place.
I own neither the lawn nor the B&B, unfortunately, so I’m doing my best to just keep my sense of humor and remain chill about it all.
Our city has closed all the public parks and cancelled all school and club sports. Seems like something was missed where you are. Yes, kids can, and do, go to the parks anyway.
Damn, that’s my congressman. He’s pretty popular round here…that’s too bad.
Lost or diminished sense of smell could signal coronavirus in people with no other symptoms
An early warning sign of COVID-19 may be a loss of smell, particularly among patients showing no other symptoms, a medical group in the United Kingdom said Saturday. The observation could help reveal otherwise hidden carriers of the illness, whose lack of symptoms have fueled its rapid spread.
“There is already good evidence from South Korea, China and Italy that significant numbers of patients with proven COVID-19 infection have developed anosmia/hyposmia” – lost or decreased sensitivity to smells, wrote the leaders of the British Rhinological Society and ENT UK, a professional group for ear, nose and throat surgeons. “In Germany it is reported that more than 2 in 3 confirmed cases have anosmia. In South Korea, where testing has been more widespread, 30% of patients testing positive have had anosmia as their major presenting symptom in otherwise mild cases.
