6416

My father, who i metioned upthread, apparently woke up terrified he’d contracted it and has been calling doctors all day long trying to get tested. He just called me and talked about difficulty breathing, sorness of his arms and legs, ect.

His doctors all pointed out he didn’t have a fever and didn’t have a cough, so probably shouldn’t be tested. I pointed out that he couldn’t just, you know, spontaneously get it if he hadn’t been around anyone. He didn’t seem completely convinced, I guess assuming that when he went the grocery store a couple days ago the whole place was infected and any minute now the number of reported cases is going to skyrocket.

6417

Well, the good news is that most of us are being hypochondriacs during this. Anxiety and allergies don’t help, either.
I’d be pretty stressed if it were my father too, but without a fever or cough, he is very likely healthy, yes.

6418

Posted in the correct thread!

6419

I feel his pain.

As a semi-hypochondriac of long standing who also has allergies, I’ve been fighting down rising anxiety about the constant congestion I’ve been having all week thanks to a local pollen attack. I keep telling myself that a mild sore throat and stuffy nose isn’t really part of the symptoms of Corona, and it’s partially working. Having had to go to the grocery store twice last week isn’t helping.

6420

Since Trump is of course late, the cspan feed has Cuomo on. Such a difference.

6421

That’s me as well. Wake up with a very mild sore throat and The Fear.

6422

Takes a bit to get him moving again after his afternoon nap & snack.

6423

This means I could qualify to be President one day.

6424

And we’re set with data lock-in for 3-22-2020 from the COVID Tracking Project.

Yesterday: 183,440 tests total reported in the US.
Today: 228,216 total tests reported.

That’s 44,976 tests reported just today.

200,000 tests done in the seven days since last Sunday’s data lock-in.

And now the sad one is deaths reported. It’s probably less useful to report cases, as increased testing is going to reveal more cases, even asymptomatic ones. But deaths reported I think provides a decent baseline for how things are progressing.

219 deaths on the 3-20-2020 day-end report
276 deaths on the 3-21-2020 day-end report
398 deaths on the 3-22-2020 day-end report

These are CUMULATIVE totals. So between Saturday and Sunday, COVID-19 deaths were reported, as an example.

6425



6426

Sorry, is that a cumulative total or a per-day total?

6427

Ack, my bad. It’s a cumulative total. I’ll try to clarify that in the post.

6428

I’m updating this picture and replying to Hannity with it when he tweets.

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6429

Great visualization of the testing ramp up:

6430

Trump is now 45 minutes late for the press conference he already postponed a half hour.

Well, at least I got to hear a competent governor deliver straight talk for a little while.

6431

:)

PA governor Wolf will be doing a update at 6pm.

6432

Are Senate Republicans in danger of losing the majority, if only briefly?

6433

as increased testing is going to reveal more cases, even asymptomatic ones

That ramp up in testing is pretty incredible. You mentioned finding asymptomatic individuals in your previous post. Is anyone actually doing more randomized testing that would find asymptomatic individuals? I would have thought testing was still confined to the very likely positive individuals [ie: those that have symptoms].

6434

If there’s any real danger of that they will have remote voting set up in minutes.

6435

Agree, but they better get on it while they can. That’s a rules change and requires a vote.