I read that the Florida Governor has announced that anyone visiting or residing from New York must do a mandatory quarantine with enforcement. How does he know who is from NY? Are they supposed to register somewhere? Is there a hotline that neighbors call to ‘rat out’ their neighbors?
It seems ridiculous. Why doesn’t he just do the right thing and initiate a lockdown like everyone else? Is he waiting for big numbers to come in? They have a huge amount of tourists from everywhere and a high elderly population. It’s inevitable
I’m sure you’re right - the lack of centralized, accurate reporting is another part of the problem.
No data, bad data, skewed data. We’re making decisions based on gut feel, who’s crying the loudest and who’s on the news (and guess where most of the news is based?)
At our staff meeting 3 different staff talked of family members who work in hospitals that are running out of protective gear and are overwhelmed. Our numbers here are just starting to go up and are projected to get much worse. I think that hospitals are going to get overrun in many places across the country in the coming weeks and that it is going to be very, very bad. People said their relatives are being asked to work 12 hours in the same mask, reuse masks, etc.
Indiana has 12 deaths out of 365 cases. Our positive rate was 20%, then 15, now 12.5. Hopefully that continues. 2,931 tested; over 2,000 of those in the last 3 days.
Can’t find what you aren’t testing. My guess is there’s a correlation between “less-empowered” states and # of tests. I’d love to see all the testing between states reported in a consistent manner, too.
Fl’s governor is slow to the ballgame. De Blasio gave excuse after excuse for not clamping down. Lots of rural states have high percentages of free-lunch kids too and they quickly figured out how to get the kids fed, among the other things he kept mentioning.
@suteiki77 - I hear the same stories as well. But there are always going to be pockets of trouble when something like this hits. Also, only bad news gets reported. And last, we are in a total panic right now, lots of precautions and hospital visits that will prove to have been unnecessary.
I haven’t heard yet of any ventilators being rationed or anyone denied an ICU bed yet, have you? I am sure some of that will happen, but again one is never prepared on day 1 for something like this, hopefully we get better as it goes along.
Those who still take this pandemic lightly should watch this piece on PBS Newshour tonight - “Italian doctors urge the U.S. to learn from their country’s mistakes”:
I think watching what has happened elsewhere gives us an idea of our future. Italy didn’t take it seriously at first and now they are having to decide who to give the ventilator. I believe I read today of NYC doctors talking about 2 people per ventilator. China had as few deaths as they did because they stayed home. People did not go out throughout the country. too many here are not taking this seriously and it is going to spread more until more do take it seriously enough. It is going to be very bad here. The slope of our line on graphs is very steep. Steeper than Iran last I looked, which is not a good thing.
That is probably right, although in this environment there will be an incentive to increase the flow of bad news while the funding spigots are open (for obvious reasons).
Anyway, no doubt there are issues of availability of resources, but the US has more than 50K ICU beds, and there haven’t even been 50K reported cases of corona active at any one time yet. I cannot imagine that there are more than 5K corona victims in ICUs right now and I bet that estimate is way too high. (Obviously, there are other diseases right now that are also utilizing ICU resources, so not all are available to corona victims).
Singapore did a lot of things right that kept the fatality rate lower. We are not doing those same things/didn’t do them when there was the opportunity to do so.
The countries who have seemed to have gotten the situation correct are Singapore, South Korea, and the Republic of China (aka Taiwan). But they have small population sizes and can take harsher action.
When Boris Johnson is warning that the UK will be in danger very soon, the situation seems to be bad.
Senior medical students at NYU informed tonight if they have met all requirements & credits they will be granted early graduation - effort to add more doctors to medical field amid coronavirus crisis, according to source with direct knowledge
Source: John Santucci, senior editorial producer, ABC News, on Twitter
Sure, but not voluntarily. Reports indicate that many of those infected were found to not-comply with stay home orders, so the Government moved them to hospitals and dorms where they had no choice to comply.
The New Orleans metropolitan area has more cases than Los Angeles County, and Louisiana has the highest growth rate in cases of any location in the world.