Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19)

[brianscharp]

Any graph or chart has 2 components:

Data
Presentation

Data comes from testing.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covi ... BR+USA+VNM


https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/fac ... 906983001/
Fact check: Trump claims U.S. excels on testing, but omits key detail

Raw data versus per capita
But the huge difference in population adds an important piece of context to those figures.

The U.S. population is 328,239,523, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. South Korea’s is 51.8 million.

That means South Korea has tested roughly one in every 144 of its residents. In the U.S., the per capita testing rate is closer to one in every 900 residents.

https://covidtracking.com/
What and Why

Testing is a crucial part of any public health response, and sharing test data is essential to understanding this outbreak. The CDC is currently not publishing complete testing data, so we’re doing our best to collect it from each state and provide it to the public. The information is patchy and inconsistent, so we’re being transparent about what we find and how we handle it—the spreadsheet includes our live comments about changing data and how we’re working with incomplete information.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/202 ... e=Homepage
Where the U.S. Stands Now on Coronavirus Testing

This week, the number of coronavirus tests in the United States surpassed those in South Korea and Italy — two countries that had been testing more aggressively.

But the United States, which has the most known coronavirus cases in the world, continues to lag in tests per capita, according to an analysis of estimates from the COVID Tracking Project. Both South Korea and Italy have much smaller populations than the U.S.

The United States cannot even test everyone who is sick because of a shortage of testing kits and personal protective equipment for health care workers.

[Bill Cummings]

Channel 4 CBS reported the death rate to be slowing in New Mexico
of Covid19.

[Bill Cummings]

LITERALLY Shutting Down the World for NOTHING
https://youtu.be/5BWHNQn4jH4

[Bill Cummings]

Reported today at 11:00am April 1, 2020 TV news:
Spain’s death rate is slowing due to Covid19.
PS my time stamp is off by an hour. ( slow)
I’ll change it to savings time next.

[Bill Cummings]

If your time stamp is wrong go to BOARD INDEX, then, USER CONTROL PANEL, then BOARD PREFERENCES, to correct your time stamp.

[Bob Kuczewski]

There's a special place in hell ...

1st April 2020
Confidential Message.

Hello
I hope you got my previous message sent to you yesterday?

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https://realdeals.eu.com/article/pe-vet ... iguri-dies

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Kindly keep this highly confidential.

Best regards
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[Bob Kuczewski]

Let's do some easy math.

The population of the United States is about 320 million. That's not exact, but it's close enough for easy math.

Let's say that each person lives exactly 80 years. That's also not strictly correct, but again it's close enough for this exercise.

Finally, let's assume that the birth rate and the death rate are equal. So we have a large "pipeline" of people moving through life at any time. We're born into our first year of that pipeline and we exit on our 80th year (in this example). There are the same number of people at every age in that pipeline. The same number are entering and the same number are leaving.

Now for the math ...

If the whole population of 320 million is divided into 80 groups (one group at each age from 1 to 80), then how many are in each group? The answer is 320 million divided by 80:

    320,000,000 / 80 = 4,000,000

So there would be 4 million people at each age from 0 up to 80 in that pipeline.

That means 4 million would be born each year (entering the pipeline), and 4 million would leave each year (hopefully going to a better place).

Now someone might quibble with those numbers, and those numbers could be a little bit off ... but they're not far off. It has to be that way, or we wouldn't have a stable population.

My point is that about 4,000,000 people have been dying every year in this country, so even if the total U.S. COVID-19 deaths (currently at 5,000) were to reach 1 million, that would only be a 20% increase over what we accept every year. We should not allow this to be an excuse for undermining our rights.

[Bob Kuczewski]

A look at the stock market:

https://www.macrotrends.net/1358/dow-jones-industrial-average-last-10-years

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[brianscharp]

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/ ... g-covid-19
How South Korea Successfully Battled COVID-19 While the U.S. Didn’t

The United States is reporting 15 times more confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths than South Korea despite having only about six times the population.

Experts say the disparity is due to South Korea ramping up testing more quickly and implementing preventive measures, such as school closures, earlier.

South Korea is making tentative plans to reopen some public facilities next week while the United States is expected to keep social distancing mandates in place for at least another month.

[brianscharp]