COVID-19 Megathread 4: Grandma Got Run Over by the Dow Jones

[GP270watch]

Trump announcing he is pulling all funding from WHO and will sanction research by them

South Korea took WHO guidelines and technical expertise and has had much better results than The United States. There should be a review of what WHO did and where they failed as an oversight matter but they're not the reason that Trump bungled the response to Covid-19.

[Hammy]

Can blue avatars pick a story?

 One day it's "China lied, they're numbers are awful and way more people died."

 The next day it's "Covid-19 is a hoax and it's all overblown..."

Maybe not every blue avatar has the same exact thoughts?  And, maybe it can be true both that China lied and that the panic and shutdowns are overreactions?

Imagine actually believing that, because measures worked at slowing the problem, that those measures were unnecessary. It's like getting a flu shot and then saying that because you didn't get the flu the shot was pointless.

And if anything we as a country under-reacted because all of these precautions should've been enacted weeks to months earlier and they would've been close to over by now.

[lfromnj]

We shouldn't fund WHO Until Taiwan is part of it.

[Devout Centrist]

Very premature to say 'The worst is over!'

[Storr]

Trump announcing he is pulling all funding from WHO and will sanction research by them

You're kidding.

Nope

Did he give a reason? Well...other than a generic Trump platitude like "they're bad".

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

Trump announcing he is pulling all funding from WHO and will sanction research by them

You're kidding.

Nope

Did he give a reason? Well...other than a generic Trump platitude like "they're bad".

He said they withheld vital information that could have prevented the crisis in the U.S and that they gave Governors false info that resulted in them wanting more ventilators and PPE

[GeorgiaModerate]

https://twitter.com/Seth_Everett/status/1250005011565891585

Read the titles from left to right.

[Middle-aged Europe]

Trump announcing he is pulling all funding from WHO and will sanction research by them

You're kidding.

Nope

Did he give a reason? Well...other than a generic Trump platitude like "they're bad".

He said they withheld vital information that could have prevented the crisis in the U.S and that they gave Governors false info that resulted in them wanting more ventilators and PPE

Trump also gave false info by calling coronavirus no worse than the flu and by promoting hydroxychloroquine as a medicine against it. He should defund himself first.

[It’s so Joever]

Coronavirus is this generation’s WMD.

Fear mongering hysteria, built on faulty intelligence. History will not be kind to the overreaction and all the tragedy brought on by the sharp economic downturn.

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You won’t feel so dismissive when the fallout from this cripples your generation for the next decade.

We wouldn’t have had the fallout had a certain president taken this threat seriously by ramping up testing production and PPE production, banning travel to Europe (in late February) and by publicly pressuring governors in States with 500+ cases to issue stay-at-home orders for two weeks.
If all that had been done when the evil “alarmists” said to, we would likely be at 100-200 new cases per day and parts of the country would have opened up.
The grave was dug months ago, now we can either decide whether to dig it deeper or try to get rid of this as quick as possible.

[Grassroots]

Trump announcing he is pulling all funding from WHO and will sanction research by them

Broken clock is right twice a day. This is an FF move.

[Progressive Pessimist]

Trump announcing he is pulling all funding from WHO and will sanction research by them

You're kidding.

Nope

Did he give a reason? Well...other than a generic Trump platitude like "they're bad".

He said they withheld vital information that could have prevented the crisis in the U.S and that they gave Governors false info that resulted in them wanting more ventilators and PPE

He's such a disingenuous piece of s***.

[Landslide Lyndon]

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1250209491372687360

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

This website is good if you want a live counter of cases/recoveries/deaths in pertaining to COVID-19 in the us and around the world I selected the U.S link cause most of us in this thread are American

https://corona-scanner.com/country/united-states-of-america

[Grassroots]

How are today's new case rates looking.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1250209491372687360

Of course his first name is "Trey".

[jimrtex]

My state, Georgia, isn’t projected to peak until May 1 (as of now) with a total death projection nearing 4000.

Meanwhile California, which far surpasses us population wise, is only projected to have something around 1500 deaths total.

Why such a far discrepancy considering the population differences?

I certainly believe that the individual responses of the state governors is a major factor in this. I don't like Gavin Newsom, but he has run a strong response to the pandemic in California, while Brian Kemp is ignorant and deferred on taking action.

That doesn't explain anything.  Tennessee wasn't super fast in shutting down, and the UW model only projects 481 deaths and a peak of less than 10% of hospital capacity.  For every example supporting that story, you can find one that doesn't support it.

I've underlined the critical sentence of my post in response to this. I did not try to claim that this was the only factor at play, but it is a factor. And for the record, Kentucky to your north responded much more quickly and effectively to this outbreak, and hence has a better trajectory in terms of cases. And there are many examples of where such decisive action might have curtailed the pandemic's spread, such as in Florida, which has been noted numerous times on here.

Kentucky has a higher death rate, it is not clear that it has a better trajectory for cases on a per capita basis. Tennessee has almost double the testing rate.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

How are today's new case rates looking.

Nationwide, about the same as yesterday and the day before.

[Dr. Arch]

The updated numbers for COVID-19 in the U.S. are in for 4/14 per: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

I'm keeping track of these updates daily and updating at the end of the day, whenever all states finish reporting for that day.

Δ Change: Day-by-day Growth or Decline or COVID-19 Spread/Deaths.

• IE: Are we flattening the curve enough?

Σ Increase: A day's contribution to overall percentage growth of COVID-19 cases/deaths.

• IE: What's the overall change in the total?

<Last Numbers for 3/26-3/28 in this Post>
<Last Numbers for 3/29-4/4 in this Post>

4/5: <Sunday>

• Cases: 336,327 (+24,970 | Δ Change: ↓27.40% | Σ Increase: ↑8.02%)
• Deaths: 9,605 (+1,153 | Δ Change: ↑8.67% | Σ Increase: ↑13.64%)

4/6:

• Cases: 366,112 (+29,785 | Δ Change: ↑19.28% | Σ Increase: ↑8.86%)
• Deaths: 10,859 (+1,254 | Δ Change: ↑8.76% | Σ Increase: ↑13.06%)

4/7:

• Cases: 399,937 (+33,825 | Δ Change: ↑13.56% | Σ Increase: ↑13.56%)
• Deaths: 12,813 (+1,954 | Δ Change: ↑55.82% | Σ Increase: ↑9.02%)

4/8:

• Cases: 434,698 (+34,761 | Δ Change: ↑2.77% | Σ Increase: ↑8.69%)
• Deaths: 14,787 (+1,974 | Δ Change: ↑1.02% | Σ Increase: ↑15.41%)

4/9:

• Cases: 468,566 (+33,868 | Δ Change: ↓2.57% | Σ Increase: ↑7.79%)
• Deaths: 16,691 (+1,904 | Δ Change: ↓3.55% | Σ Increase: ↑12.88%)

4/10:

• Cases: 502,318 (+33,752 | Δ Change: ↓0.34% | Σ Increase: ↑7.20%)
• Deaths: 18,725 (+2,034 | Δ Change: ↑6.83% | Σ Increase: ↑12.19%)

4/11:

• Cases: 532,879 (+30,561 | Δ Change: ↓9.45% | Σ Increase: ↑6.08%)
• Deaths: 20,577 (+1,852 | Δ Change: ↓8.95% | Σ Increase: ↑9.89%)

4/12: <Sunday>

• Cases: 560,323 (+27,444 | Δ Change: ↓10.20% | Σ Increase: ↑5.15%)
• Deaths: 22,108 (+1,531 | Δ Change: ↓17.33% | Σ Increase: ↑7.44%)

4/13 (Yesterday):

• Cases: 586,941 (+26,618 | Δ Change: ↓3.01% | Σ Increase: ↑4.75%)
• Deaths: 23,640 (+1,532 | Δ Change: ↑0.07% | Σ Increase: ↑6.93%)

4/14 (Today):

• Cases: 613,886 (+26,945 | Δ Change: ↑1.23% | Σ Increase: ↑4.59%)
• Deaths: 26,047 (+2,407 | Δ Change: ↑57.11% | Σ Increase: ↑10.18%)

[Bandit3 the Worker]

This website is good if you want a live counter of cases/recoveries/deaths in pertaining to COVID-19 in the us and around the world I selected the U.S link cause most of us in this thread are American

https://corona-scanner.com/country/united-states-of-america

I predicted weeks ago that new cases would peak on April 9. According to this site, it did. On Worldometers, they peaked on April 4 though.

[Donald Trump’s Toupée]

The ice age is coming, the sun's zoomin' in
Engines stop running, the wheat is growin' thin
A nuclear error, but I have no fear
Cause the World is drowning, I, I live by the river

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[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1250209491372687360

I really hope that this pandemic wakes Americans up to the recklessness and dangers of the anti-science Trump Republican Party... but that's just wishful thinking.

[Donald Trump’s Toupée]

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1250209491372687360

I didn’t read the article but this stuff is stupid. Of course policymakers need to run cost benefit analysis
 Sorry the world is brutal kid....

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1250209491372687360

The GOP doesn't realize that letting the economy crater will only increase coronavirus-related deaths due to government being overwhelmed.
The Democratic party doesn't realize that letting the economy crater will only increase coronavirus-related deaths due to government being overwhelmed.
Thank you partisan polarization.

[Donald Trump’s Toupée]

It’s reactions like this as to why there are downplayers of climate change. Prediction after prediction wrong. It’s hard to make sensible policy decisions when models continue to be wrong.

[Hammy]

Any politician that acts like this is no big deal, things we should put money over lives, and wants to act in policy based on this, should volunteer if they're so confident to become infected with the virus. Otherwise they need to shut the hell up with this garbage.