Oh, no - the US citizens in Michigan have the misfortune to be governed by a woman who didn’t speak nicely to the president. It appears that the medical supplies Michigan state ordered are now being diverted into the US strategic stockpile.
Even more reason to examine and question where the federally controlled US stockpile is being sent and if it’s being distributed equitably to all citizens, not just a few. If the feds are now diverting orders away from the states that first they told that they were on their own and to order their own supplies and then from states that aren’t saying nice things to the president, that’s important for all US citizens to understand and think about what that means for everybody.
No, New York has done the most tests, so has the most “confirmed” cases but since tests haven’t been widely available elsewhere yet, we have no idea where all the cases are. They could be in NY, or they might not be. You can’t find what you’re not able to test for. No way to know where most of the cases are until testing is widely available across the entire US.
This is a good idea. I’d forgotten about the Outer Banks and didn’t know about the Florida Keys. I wish my son’s remote town had done the same. After having no cases, now they have 2. They had only three roads and could have blocked off.
Actually, this is what I’d wish the entire US had done immediately. No one from anywhere comes in as of the end of January. US citizens who return from overseas should have been quarantined on bases or in designated hotels instead of being allowed to go home immediately.
In understand everyone is frazzled. But the governor and the president having a war of words isn’t having any impact on actual resources and the task force response.
We need to let it go. Imho.
He was being an a hole. She was doing a good job of it as well. Neither was being helpful. Their little feud goes deeper.
I would suggest it’s diversion. But I get it’s upsetting to some but it will have zero impact.
It may be CNN being sensational. The supply chain seems to be the biggest issue at the moment. There are a lot of supplies lock up in warehouses waiting for a price increase. They are looking into it. Hopefully, they can force open and let the supplies flow.
NYS case and test numbers.
NYC is expected to peak before Westchester and Long Island do.
Total number of cases 59,513 (+7,195) [that’s actually smaller increase than yesterday, but let’s be real … times when over 16K tests/day was enough are long gone]
NYC 33,768 (+4,002)
Westchester 8,519 (+644) [down from +1200 a few days ago, but there is less testing than previously]
Nassau 6,445 (+908)
Suffolk 5,023 (+885)
Rockland 2,209 (+313)
Orange 1,247 (+146)
Erie 358 (+40)
Dutches 320 (+58)
Monroe 219 (+27)
Albany 206 (+10)
Testing
Total number of the tests run in the last 24 hours 16,390 [44% came back positive - same as yesterday]
@TatinG , I posted yesterday that Wisconsin’s third-least-populous county (about 5,500 residents), which borders on Michigan’s upper peninsula and Lake Superior, has had a death from COVID-19, one of 17 in the entire state.
It may be a diversion, but again - we all need to be paying attention to the mechanics of how decisions are made and where the supplies are ending up.
We’re how long into this and most areas still don’t have tests available?
Tests and medical supplies (PPE, ventilators, etc.) are the two biggest weapons we have in the arsenal right now. It matters how those things are being allocated.
Don’t be distracted and for people who don’t like how these things are being allocated, remember when it’s time to vote. Remember the attitudes and choices politicians at your local, state and federal level are making. Consider how on this issue you might be OK if you have a strong ally who’s been effective in fighting to get your state what it wants, but how the other side of that coin is in future scuffles your guy might be the governor who’s angered someone important and now can’t get what your state needs. If that’s not how you want the system to work, remember. Keep pointing out the flaws in how things are working, urge your politicians to do better and vote.
New data from one of New York’s largest coronavirus testing providers suggests things are far from improving. Julia Ioffe on the shape of the pandemic inside what one doctor is calling the “epicenter of the epicenter.” https://www.gq.com/story/northwell-labs-coronavirus
@milee30 I’m only saying that Michiganders need not worry needlessly. The resources will not be impeded because of that tit for tat. There’s other resource constraints. But everyone loves Michigan and it’s people the same as any state. Including the two involved.
One thing is quite obvious to me. Private companies and university labs did a far better job coming out with good testing kits than the CDC did. I hope we never rely on the CDC for this again. They may be good for information but not for innovation.
This is US testing data…although not all states report in a consistent way so it’s hard to interpret broadly. However, I heard a virologist say that if the positive to total test ratio is higher than 10%, then the population is being undertested (I think, that’s what the percentage was…I could be off). Michigan and NJ, for instance, have a high positive rate. (So does Delaware, but they’ve only tested a few people).
Everyone should stay put, unless s/he has a compelling reason to travel. Viruses don’t move by themselves. They rely on human carriers. According an article in *Nature/i, up to 60% of all infected may be asymptomatic but contagious. Even if one feels fine, s/he may still carry the virus.
Hawaii’s approach would be a more effective way to control the spread of the virus, as well. It’s not as if the virus selects persons to infect from specific states.
Based on what are you making this assumption? I’ve seen zero evidence that things are being decided or allocated based on decent data and a lot of evidence that other considerations (influence, power, connections) are deciding factors.
More data is coming from the hydroxychloroquine / azithromycin trials as well as the monoclonal antibody tocilizumab, both seem to make a clear difference in outcome. A lot of ICU’s in the US are using one or another right now, so we will have more data in the next 7-10 days. I think the peak will be much sooner and faster than a lot of predictions, because of the very large number of untested/asymptomatic patients.