Ohhhh Kaaay …
How the suspension of the Jazz - Thunder game and the NBA season occurred:
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/28897195/inside-nba-coronavirus-shutdown-how-tense-hours-changed-everything
The Raptors, who were the Jazz’ most recent opponent before the Thunder, all tested negative:
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/28900391/raptors-tests-negative-covid-19-were-last-opponent-jazz
Some teams streamed NBA2K video games of their postponed games:
https://www.espn.com/esports/story/_/id/28900417/luka-doncic-50-leads-mavs-suns-twitch
All state surrounding IN have closed schools. Indiana, at the state level, has not. We are a state that is very big on “local” rule.
The rate of IN school districts announcing closures yesterday and today is staggering. I would guess most are closed the next 2-3 weeks. The state has said up to 20 days will not have to be made up, although it seems most districts are incorporating at least a few days of e-learning.
I think @MarylandJOE is Sir Patrick Vallance. Isn’t this what you were proposing the other day? 
This came under very heavy criticism in the UK today.
Cambodia is banning foreign nationals traveling from the US and virus-hit European countries
From CNN’s Chermaine Lee in Hong Kong
Cambodia is imposing a ban on foreign nationals arriving from Italy, Germany, Spain, France and the US for 30 days, according to the Prime Ministers’ office.
The ban will take effect on Tuesday, March 17, the office said today in a Twitter post.
The move comes after the number of US patients doubled in a matter of days, with all but one state now having confirmed cases.
The House passed the relief bill with bipartisan 363-40 support. White House vows to sign it.
I hope that signals that the senate will pass it without issue.
This will be very helpful for us personally as there’s mandatory 14 days PTO that can be retroactive. It’ll be nice to not lose this week’s worth of pay.
When we are at the stage Italy last night, not sure what the extrapolated timeline is, we may see over 1200 people die in a day, just based on population. What Italy has in age, the USA has in co-morbidity. I don’t know why anyone thinks hoarding or prep is crazy. There are a massive amount of US at risk. I live in a metro area with apparently half a million undocumented people. How does that work?
Really, as far as the thread issues go, we just need a dislike button, and a disagree button. It would make the point without the text. I would round it out with a despise button, but that is just me.
Culling the herd. Who would will notice if 200,000 people died in the UK, hey no problem?
What’s that you say? The UK does NOT have the million and a half respirators they’d need at the same time to take care of all the people who were sick? That could be a bit of an issue.
The UK has under 5K ventilated beds, and they were 80% full before this. The UK also would have a more pragmatic approach to who they would ventilate. ICU admits only get in if they have the ability to get out. So the old, frail, sick, would not get an ICU bed on a good day. The UK is unprepared, the govt etc seems to be saying that out loud. Talk to your older relatives, IMO they and you do not want them ventilated with multi organ failure in this disease. I am 55, I don’t want to be anywhere near an ICU with multi organ failure either.
" There are nearly 12 million (11,989,322) people aged 65 and above in the UK of which: o 5.4 million people are aged 75+, o 1.6 million are aged 85+, o Over 500,000 people are 90+ (579,776) o 14,430 are centenarians (ONS, 2018f, 201"https://www.ageuk.org.uk/globalassets/age-uk/documents/reports-and-publications/later_life_uk_factsheet.pdf
Those numbers are amazing. No one over 90 needs to be in an ICU. No one.
If you’re not putting people in ventilators and 60% of the UK gets coronavirus, a million Brits die.
1.6 million plus of the UK are over 85. It is going to be a reality. The US ventilates people until they run out of money. That is hideous. UHC countries just don’t ventilate those pts that do not have a clear route out.
A good portion of the people put on ventilators in China ended up surviving.
Trump doesn’t need testing or quarantine, White House physician says
US President Donald Trump does not need to be tested or quarantined for coronavirus despite being in proximity to infected dignitaries at Mar-a-Lago, the White House physician said in a statement today.
Three members of a Brazilian delegation that traveled to the US have tested positive. One of them was seated at the same dinner table as Trump at Mar-a-Lago last Saturday, while another shook the President’s hand and took a photograph with him, according to the physician’s statement.
“These interactions would be categorized as LOW risk for transmission per CDC guidelines, and as such, there is no indication for home quarantine at this time,” the statement said.
“Additionally, given the President himself remains without symptoms, testing for Covid-19 is not currently indicated.”
There has been some flip-flopping about this: On Thursday, the White House press secretary said Trump and Vice President Mike Pence “do not require being tested at this time.”
Then on Friday, when asked about it by a reporter, Trump said he would “likely” receive a coronavirus test “fairly soon.”
The White House was constantly evaluating whether to test the President and take measures to prevent the virus from spreading among Trump’s close confidants, according to one senior official, who said aides are keenly aware of the optics of testing the commander-in-chief.
Latin America suspends flights from Europe, Venezuela reports first cases
Venezuela confirmed its first two cases of the coronavirus Friday, deepening anxiety in a crisis-stricken nation where many hospitals struggle to treat even basic ailments.
The announcement prompted president Ivan Duque of neighbouring Colombia to order his nation’s border with Venezuela closed. It will also stop visitors who have been in Europe or Asia from entering the country. Colombia reported its first case of coronavirus on 6 March, which has risen to 16 cases.
Meanwhile Bolivia, Venezuela, Paraguay and Peru have suspended European flights. Argentina also announced it will suspends links with the most badly affected countries.
Guatemala will from Monday widen travel restrictions, banning arrivals from the United States and Canada, president Alejandro Giammattei said.
Panama’s health minister Rosario Turner on Friday said the number of confirmed cases has risen to 36, and includes three foreigners.
Brazil’s two biggest cities – Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo – contain most of the country’s 107 coronavirus cases registered so far. No deaths have been reported, but government officials say they expect the number of people affected to soar in the next couple of weeks…
And in Mexico – Latin America’s number two economy – economic turmoil sparked by the outbreak threatens to deepen a recession that started last year. The number of cases remains low. (Guardian)
About that google screening site unveiled by trump today:
https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-donald-trump-google-website/
Don’t think this has been posted; a clearly explained and graphic (and scary!) description of how the virus reacts in the body: https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/2020/03/13/what-coronavirus-does-body-covid-19-infection-process-symptoms/5009057002/
D1 told me someone she works with is being tested for coronavirus. She and many of her colleagues may be going into quarantine soon.
A cousin lives in the New Rochelle containment zone. A friend told her that she “did her civic duty” by going to the drive-up testing site to be checked for coronavirus even though she had no symptoms.
At work they are telling us that testing is not available (except for those meeting strict case definitions) and that if someone needs a test, approval likely can’t be gotten from the department of health over the weekend.
Thank you very much for sharing that. It’s a great piece of information and a clear representation of what the virus can do. Here’s to hoping that most that get it only acquire mild symptoms.
From the article:
Viscidi urges to public to think of the coronavirus like the flu because it goes through the same process within the body. Many people contract the flu and recover with no complications.
“People should remember that they’re as healthy as they feel,” he said. “And shouldn’t go around feeling as unhealthy as they fear.”
Florida has the same issue as the UK. Florida has a little less than one third the population of the UK (21 million vs 67 million.) Of Florida’s 21 million, 4.5 million are over the age of 65, 2 million are 75+, 600k are 85+. And this is just full time residents - it doesn’t take into account the snowbirds that come here from November through April, most of whom are in those age brackets. Right now - the peak of snowbird and tourist season - it wouldn’t be surprising if we have double those numbers of 65+ year olds in the state.
Even during normal years, hospitals at this time of the year are beyond full. Most FL residents know not to even bother trying to make regular doctor appointments - any type from dermatologist to gastroenterologist - during snowbird/tourist season. There is no way the Florida healthcare system has a fraction of the capacity to care for a tidal wave of Covid 19 patients in the 65+ population, which is why all my doc friends have been preparing for the apocalypse for the past month or so - they know. It’s going to be bad - really bad - here.