This was not unexpected and was discussed yesterday. Glad the function we attended went on as planned. It would not have worked in a AR/VR format. UW has one week left of regular classes and one week of finals. Other than labs, the finals can be held in Canvass or some other format. At least B-school was doing this for a while. Not sure how the law school will handle their exams.
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Iām guessing most nursing home residents are vaccinated with the flu shot, so those who do get it may be somewhat more protected than those same people are with coronavirus. This is why developing a vaccine is critical. Unfortunately, vaccines cannot be developed overnight. Which brings us back to why we as citizens need to demand better of our elected officials who impact funding for science/medical research.
ITALY - 778 cases totaling 4,636 and 49 new deaths totaling 197. 
Among the 3,916 active cases, 2,394 (61%) are hospitalized, 462 of which (representing 12% of active cases) are in intensive care.
Among the 720 closed cases, 523 (73%) have recovered, 197 (27%) have died.
eta: this article
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/06/this-is-surreal-italian-towns-struggle-under-coronavirus-lockdown
1 new case in Georgia
3rd for GA.
Floyd Medical Center in Rome, GA - a 46-year-old woman, is hospitalized in isolation and is in stable condition. Her illness doesnāt appear to be related to international travel, and the source of exposure is unknown at this time, according to hospital officials.
Ack. The idea of going to all online classes is giving me hives.
Iād be fine with it but some instructors can barely use an online grade portal let alone do a whole online class.
This. Plus vaccines against bacterial pneumonia etc.
It will be interesting to see how colleges respond. UW going virtual at the end of the quarter is one thing, but what happens over break will be more telling.
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I am contemplating the same - my sonās break starts a week from today and heās supposed to take the train home with an hour layover in Penn Station in NY. Normally I wouldnāt worry, but heās basically been sick ever since returning from winter break. Just this week, he was kicked out of practice b/c they thought he had pink eye and he felt like he was hit by a truck. Strep and flu came back negative, he doesnāt have pink eye, but they put him on Augmenten after hearing heās been battling something for the last six weeks. Last thing I want is to put him in another human Petrie dish for six hours of close contact.
I know heāll think Iām crazy to drive 9 hrs RT but I just want him to get and stay well. Iām also going to make sure he brings home any books he might need in the off chance his school delays reopening (heās not too far from the NYC outbreak and many students will be going home to that general area).
Very sad article on the Life Care facility in Washington but worth reading. So many health care workers and first responders are putting themselves at risk to help others.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/the-days-leading-up-to-the-outbreak-at-life-care-center-in-kirkland
Eons ago, when online instructions were in embryonic stages, our B-school used the available at the time tools quite efficiently. I only hope that the technology got better, and other schools and colleges adopted it. That said, canāt do virtual labs!
National Jewish hospital had a āsupplyā of N95 masks stolen. I donāt know if it was a case or more, but it was a significant number. They now keep them locked like they do drugs.
We just had our first 2 corona cases reported in Colorado yesterday, so I assume these masks were stolen to sell on ebay. Insider or somone staking out the supply chain? Who knows?
Our sons break starts in 2 weeks. Heās supposed to meet us in Las Vegas to watch our daughter play in a soccer tournament. Right now Iād say this plan has a high probably of falling through if this (large) soccer tournament gets cancelled. Hope not.
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@katliamom Right. But we arenāt paying $54k per year for online classes. Sorry. And, if kids donāt go back to school after spring break, thereād better be a refund for those weeks of room and board. This is one reason why I think colleges will let kids come back after spring break. Online class is not anything like class in person. I donāt even get it for UW since kids still on campus trading germs for the next two weeks. May as well be in class.
With budget cuts, at the high school level you can.
I will never claim video simulation is on par with the real thing though. Itās just good enough for taxpayers who feel anyone interested in Bio, Chem, or Physics can get hands on at college.
Soā¦if not college, then?
They are shutting down in-person classes and encouraging profs to try and complete quarter remotely:
āStarting Monday, March 9, classes will no longer be meeting in person. For the remainder of the quarter, instructors have been asked to conduct classes and/or exams remotely, as possible, until the quarter concludes on March 20. In some cases, when the nature of the class is not suited for remote delivery, other options, including submitting grades based on work conducted to this point, may be used. Your instructors will provide more details. Our goal is to make sure that your academic work is fairly recognized and that any disruption does not present any disadvantage to your future academic progress, including admission to your preferred major in the months or years to come.ā
More cases diagnosed today in Boston, as a result of the recent Biogen meeting, and almost certainly more to come from that.
"Up to 175 people may have come into contact with a handful of Biogen employees who have been diagnosed with coronavirus, the company disclosed Friday.
Multiple people came down with flu-like symptoms after attending a meeting held by Biogen (Nasdaq: BIIB) in Boston late last week. Six have since tested positive for the coronavirus COVID-19, and Boston officials now say they are preparing for more cases.
The company initially confirmed that three employees based outside of Massachusetts ā two based in Europe and one based in the U.S. ā tested positive for COVID-19 and are being monitored by healthcare professionals.
Another three Boston area residents ā two women and one man, all in their 40s ā who were in attendance have also tested positive, Mayor Marty Walsh said during a press conference Friday. He added that the Tennessee man who was diagnosed with COVID-19 after traveling to Boston last week was at the Biogen meeting.
āThe general public remains at low risk, but we are preparing for more cases in Massachusetts,ā Gov. Charlie Baker said during the Friday afternoon press conference.
The Biogen employees were attending a strategic management meeting held at the Boston Marriott Long Wharf hotel. Roughly 175 people were in attendance, according to a Biogen spokesperson. The company has not determined how many of them work in Massachusetts."
There is already a tenth of that today, already 100,000 identified cases worldwide. Do you really think that when this disease runs its course there will only be ten times as many identified cases as there are now?
@homerdog Weāll see what happens. I think schools are making decisions based on what they believe is the safest for their student body. Given the lack of direction from health experts and lack of data due to lack of testing, it could be that those decisions wonāt be totally the right ones. But whether or not theyāre paying 54K/per year, MOST parents would prefer their childrenās schools err on the side of caution. Maybe youāre not one of them, your choice. This is a situation schools have never found themselves in before and not everyone is going to be happy with how itās handled. Thatās called life.
Plus it will likely be 2% +/- who die and could easily be 15% hospitalized - that is if there is room in hospitals for all those people (likely not). Signed, another person with 26 years of investment management experience (before early retirement) but who knows weāve never seen this exact situation. This is much different from the crash in 2008 in all kinds of ways.