How many who got sick went to NYC and count in those numbers? Maybe exposure to pollution is tied to outcome (from car exhausts in the city??)
Looks to be accurate. Look at the number in the top right of this tracker.
Yup, but I don’t agree. If we all had them I think we would help stop the spread since they would catch some droplets from sneezes and coughs.
Federal judge blocks Texas executive order mandating abortions be postponed during coronavirus crisis
From CNN’s Ariane de Vogue
A federal judge in Texas is blocking for now an executive order that mandates that abortion clinics postpone elective surgeries, including abortion, during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The court found that the order — as interpreted by the state’s attorney general — violates the Constitution by “effectively banning all abortions before viability.”
The court’s order comes after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an order last week mandating that licensed health care facilities including abortion providers postpone all surgeries and procedures that are not medically necessary.
Clinics went to court seeking a temporary restraining order.
Texas inmates sue for sanitizer and soap to help stave off coronavirus spread
From CNN’s Katelyn Polantz
Texas prison inmates are suing for hand sanitizer, soap and paper towels, alleging that their prison unit hasn’t taken enough precautions to stop the spread of novel coronavirus, according to a new federal lawsuit.
The lawsuit says both the Texas criminal justice system and the community around the Wallace Pack Unit in Grimes County have seen multiple reported cases of the novel coronavirus.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that jails make cleaning supplies, personal protective equipment and hand sanitizer available.
The lawsuit alleges that Texas state inmates can’t get access to hand sanitizer because of state policy — even while some inmates have been forced to make it.
The lawsuit also claims the prison hasn’t taken enough steps to stop the virus from spreading, such as by reducing inmate interactions.
So far, an inmate and two employees at other facilities in the Texas prison system have tested positive for coronavirus, the lawsuit said.
Arizona governor issues stay-at-home order
From CNN’s Andy Rose
Arizona’s Doug Ducey is the latest governor to order his citizens to stay at home unless they have to be out for essential business.
"Today, I’m announcing that the time for further action is now,” Ducey said at a news conference on Monday. The new order goes into effect at 5 p.m. Tuesday.
Ducey encouraged people to continue to engage in outdoor activities using social distancing. He also said it’s important that people stay in touch with one another.
“This is going to be a tough month… or two,” Ducey said.
The new order comes on the same day that state officials ordered all schools to remain closed for the remainder of the academic year.
@poetsheart The news got it RIGHT. This is NOT an example of “callous fear manipulation by a member of the press.” The Atlantic article mentions the woman’s visit to a medical facility. It was a text (I can’t find the original post) that left out this detail.
It’s too much of a knee-jerk reaction to always blame the press. I think the New York Times and the Washington Post and other journalists are doing a fine job – and risking their lives – to cover this story.
Not yet, but close, according to https://covidtracking.com/data/, a little under 950,000 people have been tested. On the other hand, not all states publish their negative tests, so it could be over 1,000,000 tested.
As of yesterday, just one state (WA) tested over 65,000 people according to the DOH. IMO, the number is believable or close to that.
1 million sounds roughly right to me. About 10-15% of those tested are infected. We have infected ~100,000. if 15%, that would be 700,000 tests. At 10%, it would be 1,000,000. It is in the ball park.
As of 2 p.m. today: Wisconsin now has 1,271 confirmed cases of coronavirus infection, according to state and county data, and 18 deaths. The one fatality reported since Sunday was a man in his 40s, Wisconsin Department of Health Services Secretary-designee Andrea Palm said.
Dane County reports 187 cases and one fatality. Cases continue to grow fastest in Milwaukee, which now reports 663 cases and 10 deaths.
As of 5 p.m. today: Another death reported in Dane County.
The California HealthCorp is hiring all types of medical professionals–including medical and nursing students to help staff healthcare sites in the state.
Hourly wage with malpractice coverage provided.
List of eligible HCW–
I would think that’s a very likely reason. I think NYC hospitals don’t have time to worry where their patients came from.
Also many people in NYC are being told to stay home (untested and uncounted for) unless they are really sick.
And even if the reporting was all correct, the death rate is not 0.2%. There are many people who unfortunately haven’t reached the critical stage yet.
Another way to look at this is to note that approximately 0.002% of the population of Westchester has died so far from coronavirus.
For NYC, the comparable figure is approximately 0.012%. I would imagine density explains most of the difference.
I think that would be a very strange and wonderful exception of true. If this disease had a 0.012% fatality rate, then we would not have hospitals filling up and experts in the field would be pointing out that this is a vast overreaction. So, either doctors and experts around the world are all overreacting and ignoring data and research or the death rate is not 0.012%.
A few other things that might be contributing the lower Westchester numbers in addition to the #s being in NY (because if you got sick there, maybe you would want to go to the very best hospital you could and you are so very close to NYC where the top hospitals are located) could be that some are going to die and are still on ventilators, etc. It could be that hospitals did not get overwhelmed (because that contributes to the fatality rate) and Westchester did a good job with staying home very early so prevented more widespread spread. Maybe also a lot of the people who got it there are younger and younger people have a much lower fatality rate. There are many variables that we don’t know. I have a hard time believing China shut down their huge amounts of their country for over 2 months for no reason. The leaders there want the economy booming. They shut the country down because this is a very bad virus that could have caused even worse damage to the economy otherwise.
Also, regarding the idea some posted that that China might be happy to see America in this situation, China’s economy depends on ours so it is in their interest for our country to do well, not to do poorly. They don’t want all their customers (the US population) to die!
Re: Westchester, if you live in Bronxville (Westchester), you will probably go to NY Press/Columbia Hospital (NYC.) Where is the death counted?
Wasn’t one of the big clusters among attendees of a bat mitzvah? That would certainly skew the positives younger, I would think. Similar to Germany having many positives among younger skiers.
This site says in the U.S. we have 17% of the people tested are positive? 160,000 positive from 945,000 tests. Seems like a really high positive rate, no?
I didn’t say that the disease had a 0.012% fatality rate in NYC. I am only saying that to date approximately 0.012% of NYC’s population has died from coronavirus, while for Westchester the comparable figure is approximately 0.002%. Those figures are accurate approximations.
From everything I have read, my guess is that the fatality rate for the disease is likely between 0.5-1.0%, although it could be lower if many more infected people are asymptomatic than believed presently. We will not get a handle on the true rate for many months.
Isn’t that because the tests right now are reserved primarily for people that have all the symptoms?
Not if you are only testing those with a bunch of symptoms…for example, that link shows CA with a 23% rate, which given the fact that they mostly only people on the way to the hospital, makes sense.
I am with you @suteiki77 Here is a data science study that makes it very clear that it helps. I myself was quite doubtful till I saw this. [sorry posting the same thing yet again].
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoDwXwZXsDI&feature=youtu.be
If there is one thing you can do today, then it’s watching the video. If it speaks to you, forward it to others. Wearing masks (including homemade ones) may lower the spread by simply protecting others.
And I hope that once we start opening things up, masks will be mandatory at least while using public transit, shopping, and seeing doctor.