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Our lab is shutting down now as well
Hope you guys have still got a way to get paid. I know the guys in mine are all just sitting around waiting to get sent home at this point. Nothing is getting done here but nobody’s willing to send themselves home because it probably means no pay.
They have over 100 confirmed cases but the country is about to go into lockdown mode as their media calls it. They fear they aren't testing enough.
Question for the experts...
this time last week there were experts saying the warm weather would help stem the tide. Is that still true? or was that later found to be incorrect?
Or is it something that could help, but not as much as we think?
Take me home
Country Roads
To the place
I belong
Yeah, we have guaranteed paid thankfully. We will still be planning experiments, reading papers, and having meetings from home.
I live in barrow county Georgia...have to travel thru Gwinnett to get to hall county to go to work. Right now, me and wife are fine. She works in a Dr office and says it is getting crazier every day..
Wouldn't count on it
My company shut down all of our offices (NJ, FL, RI and Montreal) - everyone is working from home until further notice.
The 1918 flu actually started early in the year with a very virulent yet similarly deadly strain and spread during the summer mostly aided by troop movements throughout Europe. So the European governments knew this strain was highly infectious but didn't want to impose a quarantine or even report about the flu out of fear it would hurt the war effort. This caused it to spread very quickly in the general populace which lead to it mutating into the incredibly deadly strain we all know about that killed a good portion of the world's population.
Great question Kasey. I think the real answer is no one knows. The speculation about warm weather is due to other Corona viruses like SARS did not spread as well in warm weather because in warmer, more humid weather, the airborne water droplets don't stay suspended in the air as easily thus reducing transmission.
The hypothesis is that it will be the same for Covid-19, but it is only through comparison to other viruses and not an analysis of Covid-19 itself.
Hope that helps.
While the warmer, humid air effect is true for seasonal viruses like the flu, we don't have enough data to say SARS behaved similarly. It did die down around June but that is mostly attributed to public health interventions and the fact people with SARS had very obvious symptoms and were easy to isolate. MERS is definitely not a seasonal virus. Also viruses that the population has no immunity for tend not to be affected by seasonal factors as much.
Was supposed to start a new full-time job with benefits on Thursday, having gone through a couple interviews. Then today, they now need to lower it to part-time work from home until it clears over. Yikes.
Be thankful that you still have your foot in the door. They will appreciate your "understanding" down the road....
America, will you please stop electing Republican presidents?
All they do is crash the economy, run up huge deficits and provide terrible responses to disasters which causes many people to die