Says it was updated at 7:10pm this evening. I imagine it had the latest available information.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html
Of course it takes months for a car company to gear up to making 10,000 ventilators a month. Again, if you want ventilators soon enough to help, China is most of the solution.
Confirmed cases per-capita by metro area.
METRO AREA POPULATION CASES PER THOUSAND
Area, population, total cases, per-capita cases
Wuhan, China 11.1 mil. 50,821 4.59
Lombardy region, Italy 10 mil. 34,889 3.48
New York 20 mil. 43,016 2.15
Albany, Ga. 153,000 206 1.35
New Orleans 1.3 mil. 1,674 1.32
Seattle 3.9 mil. 2,543 0.65
Bridgeport metro, Conn. 944,000 607 0.64
Mount Vernon-Anacortes, Wash. 128,000 78 0.61
Pittsfield, Mass. 126,000 73 0.58
Detroit 4.3 mil. 2,468 0.57
Kingston, N.Y. 179,000 89 0.50
East Stroudsburg, Pa. 170,000 67 0.40
Show Low, Ariz. 110,000 43 0.39
Albany, N.Y. 883,000 340 0.38
Bellingham, Wash. 226,000 86 0.38
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/27/upshot/coronavirus-new-york-comparison.html
Didn’t you hear what China sold to Spain? China is not the solution. China was the problem and is now also a problem.
Thank you for posting that. It is a scary map and a sad one.
A buyer bought some test kits from an unauthorized Chinese company.
If you think China doesn’t make perfectly good medical ventilators, widely used in the west already, then wait 6 months for a car company.
That accounts for less than a thousand cases of over 104K. Community transmission is widespread right now. That is widely known. When cases in the US were still novel, trying to connect it to travel or somewhere else was being done. We’re far beyond that point right now given the volume and spread.
I posted the article below a few pages back. Perhaps you didn’t read it. Note that the testing kits Spain bought weren’t purchased through their deal with the Chinese government. I do know that @privatebanker read it so surprised he still liked your post given he knows the record was set straight. Maybe facts aren’t important.
Looks like sources other than Fox News can provide value.
@doschicos , this is the from the same New York Times source that @MarylandJOE pulled the numbers from: “Though many of the first coronavirus cases in the United States were tied to overseas travel, localized outbreaks have become increasingly common. New clusters in nursing homes and other places, including on an aircraft carrier in Guam and at a church in Arkansas, are emerging each day. Public health officials often are unable to identify how people are becoming ill. The table below shows known cases for which Times journalists have been able to identify how the virus was contracted or a connection to other cases.”
FDA authorizes 15-minute coronavirus test
From CNN’s Arman Azad
Federal health officials on Friday green-lit a point-of-care coronavirus test that can provide results in less than 15 minutes, using the same technology that powers some rapid flu tests.
Teased by Vice President Mike Pence in a Thursday press briefing, the new diagnostic could accelerate testing in the United States, allowing for rapid results in doctors’ offices. But shortages of critical equipment used to collect patient specimens, such as masks and swabs, could blunt its impact.
The US Food and Drug Administration authorized the test for emergency use, signaling that federal regulators were satisfied with the test’s validation data and believe its benefits outweigh any risks, such as false positives or negatives.
The test’s maker, Abbott, said it expects to deliver 50,000 tests per day beginning next week. The technology behind the test looks for genes that are present in the virus, similar to PCR tests already on the market.
The platform used to run the test weighs less than 7 pounds, according to Abbott, and could be deployed “where testing is needed most,” such as at coronavirus hotspots.
More on this: Last week, the FDA authorized another rapid test – one from molecular diagnostics company Cepheid, which provides results in about 45 minutes. Most laboratory tests for the coronavirus take anywhere from a few hours to days to receive results.
All FDA-authorized tests, however, require samples from patients – and health care facilities say they’re facing shortages of critical supplies needed to collect specimens.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday issued guidance allowing some patients to collect their own nasal swabs in health care facilities, which could reduce the amount of protective equipment needed for health care workers.
But some jurisdictions, such as New York City, have said that patients with coronavirus-like illness should stay home – saying that is “safer for the patients and health care workers” and doesn’t change the treatment patients receive.
Arkansas asks visitors coming from New York to quarantine for 14 days
From CNN’s Jamiel Lynch
The Arkansas Department of Health is recommending all travelers from New York state and foreign countries to self-quarantine for 14 days.
“This is due to high rates of COVID-19 in New York as well as in a growing number of international locations,” the department said in a statement.
Any visitors showing a fever, cough, or other symptoms of coronavirus should contact their doctor for advice on where to be evaluated, the department said.
Madrid prepares improvised morgue to hold 200 bodies
From CNN’s Laura Perez Maestro in Madrid and Mia Alberti in Lisbon
Madrid’s regional government is preparing to open an improvised morgue in the next few days to increase the city’s capacity to deal with the growing Covid-19 fatalities.
The center will be set up in the Justice Campus, a building which officials said is “designed to be the headquarters of Madrid’s Forensic Institute.” As such, the facility will have enough mortuary refrigerators to receive around 200 bodies.
“This is an exceptional and temporary measure to help the work of funerary services, diminish the pain of the families of victims and the situation happening in the hospitals in the region,” the government said in a statement.
The center should be ready “in the next few days.” More than 2,400 coronavirus-related deaths have been reported in Madrid, according to the Spanish Ministry of Health.
Massachusetts public health commissioner tests positive for coronavirus
From CNN Health’s Jamie Gumbrecht
In a statement on Friday, the commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Dr. Monica Bharel, said she has tested positive for Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
“I want to notify the public that I have tested positive for COVID-19,” Bharel’s statement said. “I was tested Thursday night and received the results back today from the State Public Health Laboratory. As the public health commissioner and an essential state employee, I have been vigilant about practicing social distancing from my colleagues and members of the public. My symptoms so far have been mild. I have notified my appropriate close contacts and will rest and recuperate at home, while continuing to carry out my work responsibilities remotely. The Department of Public Health offices will be thoroughly cleaned over the weekend."
Bharel added: “I hope everyone will continue to take seriously the threat of COVID-19.”
[ So many people in key leadership positions testing positive. 
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Are any of you teaching yourselves new skills during this time? Something you always wanted to learn to do if you had the time? If so what is it?
I wanted to learn how to make a song but it’s kind of hard to without much of a music experience lol
Agree. So it becomes kind of a moot point and noise, IMO, as it represents very few of the current cases.
Oh, no - it’s been a little over a decade since I’ve been there but unless things have changed substantially, I’d bet there isn’t even a single ICU bed within an hour’s drive of Show Low (think it was about 3 hours to Phoenix). That is a very remote area and mostly Indian reservation land around there. Guessing places like that have the potential to see disproportionately large death rates because they’re just so far from any critical care facilities.
Pence says 685,000 tests have been completed but its not reflected on CDC website
From CNN’s Jason Hoffman, Arman Azad and the Health Unit
Vice President Mike Pence said more than 685,000 coronavirus tests have been completed in the United States as of Friday morning.
Pence said that hospitals across the country are now reporting their testing numbers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Federal Emergency Management Agency in real time, something that was not the case when testing first began.
However, those numbers are not being reflected on the CDC’s US testing page, which paints a far different picture.
The CDC’s number are lower because they’re not reporting out data from private or commercial labs.
Idaho secretary of state requests delay in primary election
From CNN’s Andy Rose
Idaho’s secretary of state is asking the governor to delay the state’s primary election by nearly a month because of coronavirus concerns.
In an open letter to Gov. Brad Little on Friday, Secretary of State Lawerence Denney asked for an order that would set the primary election for no earlier than June 16, instead of its current date of May 19.
“A one-month delay in the election would provide the needed time to inform voters, parties, candidates and others about the changes in this process,” Denney said.
He said even if the delay is granted, he plans to encourage as many voters as possible to cast absentee ballots this summer instead of physically going to the polls. The secretary of state’s office will allow all registered voters with an official state identification card to request an absentee ballot online.
Some context: The new request is in regards to the primary election for state and local offices, and a delay would not affect the results of the Idaho presidential primary that was run on March 10.
Trump says “a vast numbers of ventilators” have been distributed
From CNN’s Jason Hoffman
When asked whether every person who needs a ventilator could get one, President Trump did not directly respond.
“Here’s what I’ll tell you, I think we are in very good shape,” he said during Friday’s press briefing on coronavirus. “We’ve distributed vast numbers of ventilators. We are prepared to do vast numbers. I think we are in great shape. I hope that’s the case. I hope that we’re going to have leftovers so we can help other people in other countries.”
He expressed concern that ventilators could be distributed to states that don’t need them and then the federal government would have a hard time trying to get those ventilators back.
Trump once again attacked previous administrations for not having the amount of personal protective equipment now needed saying he “took over an empty box.”
Trump did say that there are “10,000 ventilators in stockpile. We are ready to go with those ventilators."
NextStrain is tracking how the virus has moved across the globe in very broad patterns.
IMO, all the facts are interesting and not noise.
Ecuador will build a mass grave for coronavirus victims
From CNN’s Tatiana Arias and CNNE’s Abel Alvarado
Ecuador’s western city of Guayaquil, one of the hardest hit by novel coronavirus, is planning to build a mass grave as the government predicts an increase of deaths due to the virus.
Guayaquil’s cleaning director Gustavo Zuñiga said the city “will implement an agreement to be able to build the corresponding site,” during an interview with CNN’s affiliate Ecuavisa on Friday.
The mass grave will have a capacity to hold about 300 bodies, according to Ecuavisa. A mausoleum will be built after it is closed, Zuñiga added.
There are at least 1,627 cases of coronavirus and 41 deaths in Ecuador, according to health authorities.
Trump tells Pence not to call governors who “don’t treat you right”
From CNN’s Daniella Diaz
President Trump told reporters during Friday’s coronavirus briefing that Vice President Mike Pence is calling Democratic governors, such as Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, he doesn’t agree with on coronavirus concerns.
“I want them to be appreciative,” he said about the governors. “I don’t want them to say things that aren’t true. I want them to be appreciative. We’ve done a great job. And I’m not talking about me, I am talking about Mike Pence, the task force, I am talking about FEMA.”
He added that he wouldn’t talk to governors if they “don’t treat you right.”
Trump continued: “He calls all the governors. I tell him, I mean I’m a different type of person. I say Mike, don’t call the governor of Washington, you’re wasting your time with him. Don’t call the woman in Michigan. Doesn’t make any difference what happens. You know what I say, if they don’t treat you right, I don’t call. He’s a different type of person. He will call quietly anyway, okay. But he’s done a great job. He should be appreciated for the job he’s done.”
Trump names Peter Navarro as Defense Production Act czar
CNN
President Trump named Peter Navarro as the new National Defense Production Act Policy coordinator for the federal government, or the DPA czar.
Trump said Navarro has been doing the job over the past few weeks but said today’s announcement makes it official.
Navarro came under criticism Thursday when multiple health care workers debunked a claim he made on CNN in an interview that media reports are overstating the need for personal protective equipment in hospitals amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Navarro, who has been serving as the White House trade adviser, has also become a regular at many of the coronavirus briefings.
Trump says the US will obtain 100,000 ventilators in next 100 days
From CNN’s Sarah Westwood
President Trump said his administration would procure 100,000 ventilators in the next 100 days, amid fears that parts of the US are facing a looming shortage of the life-saving devices.
The President said the administration would facilitate the production or acquisition through other means of “100,000 additional units” of ventilators over that 100-day period.
“We delivered thousands, as you know, to New York, and they didn’t know they got them, and we also had thousands put in a warehouse and that was also for New York,” Trump said. “So we have to make sure that when we deliver things, they get distributed."
Some context: Speaking to CNN’s Shimon Prokupecz on Friday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo disputed the suggestion by Trump that the ventilators were sitting in storage needlessly.
“So the point is, ‘well they’re in a stockpile, you must not need them’ is just ignorant – of course you don’t need them today!” Cuomo told CNN. “You need them when you hit the apex, which is 30,000. We’re not there yet.”
Earlier Friday, the President had tweeted: “Thousand of Federal Government (delivered) Ventilators found in New York storage. N.Y. must distribute NOW!”
450 NYC inmates will be released by Friday night because of coronavirus concerns
From CNN’s Laura Ly
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said 450 inmates will be released by Friday night in his city because of coronavirus concerns.
He also said that as of Thursday night, 375 inmates have been released.
CNN has previously reported that those eligible for release are city inmates convicted of misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies, all with less than one year left on their sentence.
There are some inmates within that category with domestic violence or sexual offense charges that the city has determined they will not release at this time, de Blasio said.
There are more than 25,000 coronavirus cases in New York City, mayor says
CNN
New York City currently has at least 25,573 cases of coronavirus, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a news conference Friday.
De Blasio said the city has enough supplies to last through next week, but added that they will likely need more supplies as soon.
The city has received 2,500 ventilators in the last week, but still needs 15,000 more, he said.
De Blasio also said supply deliveries to hospitals across the city are underway, with 20 trucks delivering these items:
One million surgical masks
200,000 N95 masks
50,000 face shields
10,000 boxes of gloves
40,000 isolation gowns
On Saturday, city trucks will be delivering 800,000 more N95 masks, and 2 million more surgical masks.
Irish prime minister announces nationwide lockdown
From CNN’s Niamh Kennedy in London
The Republic of Ireland will enter a nationwide period of lockdown as part of new “radical” measures to tackle the spread of coronavirus, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar announced Friday.
“With effect from midnight tonight, for a two week period until Easter Sunday, April 12, everybody must stay at home under all circumstances," Varadkar said.
The order limits travel for citizens and public and private gatherings.
Speaking during news conference on Friday evening, Varadkar confirmed that essential workers — including health and social care professionals — would be permitted to travel to and from work.
Members of the public, Varadkar continued, will also be allowed to leave their homes to purchase groceries and medicine; attend medical appointments; engage in brief, individual exercise; and for vital family reasons, such as providing care to children and the elderly.
According to the Irish prime minister, all visits to hospitals and prisons will no longer be permissible, and public transport services will be limited to “essential workers" and those providing essential services.
Please make a new thread for this, it would be really interesting!
Who is the “pretty little sidekick”?