D&D and the rising pandemic

[CleverNickName]

Back to the topic at hand:

 

[Zardnaar]

I'm finding the USA death count to be very low in comparison to where other countries were at this time. Huge outlier.

Give it time.

USA has some advantages over other nations. Italy for example older population, Catholic, more smokers,mass tourism in a concentrated area, and different cultural norms in greetings.

Also travellers were banned in January or early February.

 

[FrogReaver]

Give it time.

USA has some advantages over other nations. Italy for example older population, Catholic, more smokers,mass tourism in a concentrated area, and different cultural norms in greetings.

Also travellers were banned in January or early February.

Travelers were only banned from China and such at those early dates. Europe travel was still wide open till a little over a week ago.

The demographics may help. People are pretty spread out outside of large cities. It's just the official death count of 301 is unbelievably low for 23,000 cases - found with extremely limited testing - especially compared to other nations with similar case numbers.

Maybe it's still a little early as it took other countries a bit longer to rise so fast in cases. But it does make me question our numbers overall.

 

[Zardnaar]

Travelers were only banned from China and such at those early dates. Europe travel was still wide open till a little over a week ago.

The demographics may help. People are pretty spread out outside of large cities. It's just the official death count of 301 is unbelievably low for 23,000 cases - found with extremely limited testing - especially compared to other nations with similar case numbers.

Maybe it's still a little early as it took other countries a bit longer to rise so fast in cases. But it does make me question our numbers overall.

Early days. A handful of people with the virus may have entered the states while a tour group to Italy could of spread it idk.

Italy's average age is older, more smoke cigarettes etc. More probably go to church and have communion.

 

[ad_hoc]

Here is a good site to see USA data.

Currently 180 000 tested with 23 000 positive tests.

The Data

Our most up-to-date data on COVID-19 in the US.

covidtracking.com

Compare that to Canada with over 120 000 tests completed and 1 000 confirmed cases.

Medical professionals believe that testing is key to containing COVID 19 and site it as a major reason why South Korea has done so well. The USA has tested about 500 people per million population compared to SK's 6000 per million (and Canada's 3500).

 

[Ogre Mage]

Medical professionals believe that testing is key to containing COVID 19 and site it as a major reason why South Korea has done so well. The USA has tested about 500 people per million population compared to SK's 6000 per million (and Canada's 3500).

The slowness of COVID-19 testing in the United States is an abysmal failure. This happened because the federal government refused the World Health Organization test because they wanted to develop their own. But the Center for Disease Control put out a defective test! Then there were more delays getting a new one as we lost critical weeks to contain COVID-19. Individual states had to start scrambling to develop their own test. It is a public health and economic fiasco now. I live in Washington State and we are paying the price for this.

This is an article about how much better South Korea is doing at testing than the U.S.

U.S. vs South Korea coronavirus response

 

[ad_hoc]

The slowness of COVID-19 testing in the United States is an abysmal failure. This happened because the federal government refused the World Health Organization test because they wanted to develop their own. But the Center for Disease Control put out a defective test! Then there were more delays getting a new one as we lost critical weeks to contain COVID-19. Individuals states had to start scrambling to develop their own test. It is a public health and economic fiasco now. I live in Washington State and we are paying the price for this.

This is an article about how much better South Korea is doing at testing than the U.S.

U.S. vs South Korea coronavirus response

Wow.

The height of hubris.

I've seen clips of Conservative Governors urging people to go to restaurants to support businesses and the spring break beach parties.

Looks like we're on track to see the real catastrophe be what happens in the USA.

 

[Ogre Mage]

Wow.

The height of hubris.

I've seen clips of Conservative Governors urging people to go to restaurants to support businesses and the spring break beach parties.

Looks like we're on track to see the real catastrophe be what happens in the USA.

This is an article in The Seattle Times reporting on the CDC testing debacle:

The first 90 CDC test kits went out on Feb. 6 and 7 to labs in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. By Feb. 8, some public health labs started reporting problems with validating the tests, finding “sporadic reactivity in the negative control,” the CDC said. That resulted in inconclusive test results.

The faulty tests affected most public health labs, including Washington State’s Department of Health (DOH) laboratory. Testing at all but eight labs nationwide ceased while the CDC tried to fix the problem, Becker said.

As the testing lapse dragged on for two and a half weeks, lab officials started getting “very anxious that we did not have eyes on the community,” Becker said. By then, the virus had been spreading for weeks.

A coronavirus testing debacle

 

[Umbran]

I'm finding the USA death count to be very low in comparison to where other countries were at this time. Huge outlier.

Perhaps... our cases are spread out among several major metropolitan areas, so that none of the hospitals are swamped yet.

 

[FrogReaver]

Perhaps... our cases are spread out among several major metropolitan areas, so that none of the hospitals are swamped yet.

Maybe. Maybe not. The numbers seem unusually low even with that taken into consideration IMO.