Coronavirus

[pjtoledo]

Ohio will go stay at home Monday at midnight.

 

[Dirtman]

Up to about 2,000 cases here in NJ (most on the NYC border). Woooo! All non essential stores closed and a 8pm "curfew" is in effect. Liquor stores are considered essential though so all is well.

I think numbers are spiking because serious testing has finally started. Watching the numbers each day now to see when or if this will start to slow down but doesn't seem to be happening any time soon.

 

[Uncle Gump]

Seems to me I heard it took approximately 10 weeks before China started to see relief. So depending on how accurate that number is and when exactly it started here... we will see at least 5 to 6 weeks before it gets better.

 

[4.0blue98]

Numbers are really meaningless right now. Like @Dirtman said more testing = more positives but has little to do with the true number of people infected.

The next few weeks will be the measure. April will be rough.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Only way to get tested here is to cough on a rich person and wait for their results.

 

[Dirtman]

Seems alot of people who are testing positive arent really even sick (symptom wise). I dunno if thats because of false positives on the test or it just doesn't effect some people.

 

[4.0blue98]

Only way to get tested here is to cough on a rich person and wait for their results.

Sad but seems to be true in many cases.

 

[4.0blue98]

Seems alot of people who are testing positive arent really even sick (symptom wise). I dunno if thats because of false positives on the test or it just doesn't effect some people.

The test is apparently very good. Three sets of probes per test. Maybe it wasn't worth the wait for such a good test though when the WHO offered millions of their tests early on that we apparently refused. I think the fact it doesn't affect some people is one of the reasons they are testing less. In some cases it's so widespread (NYC) that testing is useless anyway and they just take care of the worst cases while there are resources available..

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Nobody has it in my county and last I checked only one guy in the county north of us... I know when you go in with the flu they have to decommission the exam room until it is sanitized (per two months ago) so I suppose unless you meet every symptom or travelled somewhere where it is common they are trying to save resources for when the $h!t hits the fan later.

 

[Dirtman]

Yea im pretty sure the original test were refused because this is just gonna go away by april and everything is perfectly under control.

 

[4.0blue98]

That was probably part of it but apparently our initial attempt at a test kit comparable to our current good one was a failure and set us back weeks. We should have just sucked it up and taken the offered tests until we could get ours "perfected".

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Interesting:

Covid - Bing

Intelligent search from Bing makes it easier to quickly find what you’re looking for and rewards you.

bing.com

 

[sgtsandman]

It's behind the times. Allegheny County has something like 5 or 6 now. Beaver County, 3, and Washington County has a few. Not sure if it is manually updated or what. It may account for the old data.

 

[4.0blue98]

Here's a very good one if you're into it:

COVID-19 Map - Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center

Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU)

coronavirus.jhu.edu

 

[don4331]

Seems to me I heard it took approximately 10 weeks before China started to see relief. So depending on how accurate that number is and when exactly it started here... we will see at least 5 to 6 weeks before it gets better.

I work with my company's plant in Wuhan China.

Basic timeline was it got bad at Chinese New Year, they are coming back to work last week = 6 weeks.​

IMHO, I don't think we can beat that - any attempt to relax vigilance early will just set us back.​