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  • GeorgiaGirlGeorgiaGirl Posts: 1,854 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    The UW model, the one I think officials are following mostly, is now down to 60 thousand people dying.

    There's no doubt that the early response wasn't good by the US, but the longer we go, the better things may be looking long term despite the failed early response. I mean to run the ourworldindata thing again on Saturday this and next week, but if you go per million, we ain't Italy, if anyone is Italy in the US, NYC and New Orleans are Italy.

    (Which is why I don't blame people for getting out of the general NYC area, as long as you don't plan on being social elsewhere)

  • pgjacksonpgjackson Posts: 17,649 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    What was our failed response? Should we have been on lockdown in January? What should we have done differently? Outside of NY, this has been a fairly minor impact.

  • jc30116jc30116 Posts: 928 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Leave it to OSU to disregard the rules...again. Only this time, it's life and death not the NCAA.

    As to this being minor outside of NY, I don't think the 8k deaths outside of NY is a minor impact with more coming in the next weeks and months ahead.

  • RxDawgRxDawg Posts: 2,922 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Everyone was trying to downplay this at first. If they'd of shut down the economy in January they'd of yelled about that too. Trump restricted travel from China back then and pitchforks come out calling him "racist" and "xenophobic". Plenty of armchair QB's getting in their political cheap shots now because the most important thing is winning the next **** election. And it trickles down subliminally into their supporters because whatever media outlet they follow most likely only gives a twisted one-sided view of everything being done and said. It's all pretty frustrating. The age of information turned into the age of misinformation.

  • DGDinNYCDGDinNYC Posts: 748 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Soccer is back in Germany. First major sports league to make a comeback amid the virus.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/sports/germany-soccer-coronavirus.html

  • YaleDawgYaleDawg Posts: 7,098 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    "Plenty of armchair QB's getting in their political cheap shots now because the most important thing is winning the next **** election. And it trickles down subliminally into their supporters because whatever media outlet they follow most likely only gives a twisted one-sided view of everything being done and said. It's all pretty frustrating. The age of information turned into the age of misinformation."

    Do you agree this statement can be applied across the political spectrum?

    Shutting down the economy or not back in January is a false dilemma. Could have implemented large scale testing in emerging hot spots, isolated positive cases, and performed contact tracing along with the social distancing guidelines.

  • pgjacksonpgjackson Posts: 17,649 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Not sure you can just instantly test for something that has never existed on the face of the Earth before. When this first started, and people were talking about early testing, my Dad who is a retired doctor and Public Health specialist said "what are they testing for, they don't even know what it is or how to test for it?".

  • YaleDawgYaleDawg Posts: 7,098 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    The viral genome was released on January 11 which showed we were dealing with a SARS like virus. Multiple tests were made outside of China by January 23 that worked.

  • Canedawg2140Canedawg2140 Posts: 1,832 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Biggest nerd fact I heard over the past few days...

    SARS - another coronavirus if I am not mistaken - never had a vaccine produced. I think I read that all the funding for the vaccine and other drugs to treat it ran out (once it seemed to have, itself, ran out), and thus none of that was ever developed. I bet the same will not be said for this version of coronavirus. It is a shame that the other research was never finished - I am curious to hear from the medical minds here if that research - had it been finished out - would have benefited us today.

  • YaleDawgYaleDawg Posts: 7,098 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Maybe. The part of the virus the immune system actually recognizes is very similar between SARS-COV and SARS-COV-2

  • pgjacksonpgjackson Posts: 17,649 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Compared to other diseases ravaging the wold, this has been pretty minor so far. Half of those fatalities are in one specific location (NY/NJ). 14,000 is tragic...but about 50,000 die in the USA from the normal flu every year. This thing in on track for about that. TB kills 4,000 people every single day...no global shutdown over that. In a historical view of global pandemics, this is fairly minor.

  • pgjacksonpgjackson Posts: 17,649 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
  • RxDawgRxDawg Posts: 2,922 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Yes, I think it's applied by both sides. The question is, do you think it's applied equally? Because at this point in time, i sure don't.

  • RxDawgRxDawg Posts: 2,922 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    SARS is actually the medical condition that was caused by another strain of coronavirus several years ago. Essentially, just nasty lung inflammation. It stands for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.

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