SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Mayor of San Antonio just declared that no city facilities will host a gathering of more than 250 people. Any 'Public' gatherings of more than 500 will be shut down. Goodbye SA economy.

 

I think you forgot a 'U'

 

Not good.

China has ~1.4 billion people for the virus to spread. The rest of the world has around 6.3 billion and very few are taking the necessary aggressive actions to curb the spread. March is going to be a very ugly month.

 

The better ½ got in line at Costco before it opened this morning. She texted that the line wrapped around the building multiple times and - as a very good distance estimator - says it looks like it's about a mile long.
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I went to Costco on Monday after the first stock market plunge that triggered a trading timeout. No line, but they were fresh out of TP and disinfectant. I have pretty much everything I need to "shelter-in-place" for at least two weeks. Now I'm wondering if I need to prepare for at least a month.

 

we've always been over-prepared for Stuff - being in the land of earthquakes - and formerly Northwest Montana - where power would go out regularly. We even keep our 20 year old expired freeze-dried food stuffs because if times really get tough, you can feed your neighbors who aren't up to speed like you, endearing yourself to them, while you live off your good stuff. I'm sure they'd rather eat old stuff, rather than our 80 lb of spare dog food, although I wouldn't mind dining off my wife's Chihuahua. Not really - I truly love that yappy, nervous, runny-bulging-eyed shivering bundle of joy (grins)
Quick Segway - back to the Wuhan Corona case. Would you believe that art imitates life? A nearly two decade-old fiction novel about a Wuhan virus. What are the odds.
Wuhan-400 Coronavirus - 1981 Novel Predicts Virus Origin | GreatGameIndia
No conspiracy theorist but it would be even stranger If there really was a bio lab in that area, being run by the government.

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Looks like part of the UW (University of Washington) hospital. My guess testing to people within the UW medical system and whatever other doctors/hospitals they have partnership with (likely much of the Seattle metro area at this point).

 

consider yourself fortunate. there are a lot of peoplw who will be wishing they were in your shoes in the near future

 

don't do it

 

pence: no one will have to pay for a test

obama: if you like your doc, you can keep your doc

 

fairly close to the ma process, no one is getting tested, unless they have been exposed to known criminals

 

one doc asked me, what does the data matter?

 

And that's why he/she would make a terrible epidemiologist in a pandemic.

 

roche pharma shipping 400,000 test kits to the usa and say they can produce 1.5m/month

 

docs from johns hopkins pushing for treatment with blood from recovered patients

 

Are you using the same autocorrect software seen in #612?

 

Because I need something to occupy my mind, I'm going to take up tochatihu's mantle of providing USA/State updates.

Update 1 - 3/13/2020


Date is from COVID19 Tracker