Coronavirus:

[robert.]

currently. governor wolfe is urging nonessential businesses to shut. he has. He has invoked a law that will allow forced closure if needed. he does not want to make things harder on businesses so please close without citations. bars and restaurants may do takeout. some Liquor stores closed. each county will have a few open. 88 of them are closed. only health care providers and pharmacies are to be open. this is for Bucks, Montgomery, Chester and Delco.

[HONDO74]

Oh No. A lot of members here going to be very disappointed.

Trump tests negative for coronavirus - White House doctor
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51893445

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Oh No. A lot of members here going to be very disappointed.

Trump tests negative for coronavirus - White House doctor
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51893445

That's good news, of course. I wouldn't want him harmed or ill, just better coiffured.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Oh No. A lot of members here going to be very disappointed.

Trump tests negative for coronavirus - White House doctor
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51893445

Given that amount of disinformation and misinformation from the WH, it simply lacks credibility.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Mortality rate in Italy remains at least 7.5%. Heathcare infrastructure there is about to implode

Very interesting graphs from David Ho last night showing rates of new cases in China, S. Korea, Italy, and the US. S. Korea is the only one that shows successful control. Graph for the US looks like we have another month or more before it peaks and that we are a few weeks behind Italy in rates of new cases.

[healey36]

I saw this morning that the triage protocol at some swamped Italian hospitals calls for 80+ year-olds or folks with compromised immune/respiratory to be turned aside in favor of others with a higher survival rate. Hopeful that the US doesn't get to that point.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I saw this morning that the triage protocol at some swamped Italian hospitals calls for 80+ year-olds or folks with compromised immune/respiratory to be turned aside in favor of others with a higher survival rate. Hopeful that the US doesn't get to that point.

Getting really ugly there. Nobody has anywhere enough hospital rooms - just don't exist. China built a hospital in days; I suggested that the Corp of Engineers be tasked to build hospitals weeks ago.....crickets...... Maybe mothballed military bases could be reactivated?? Just don't know.

CA enacted a a law to take over hotels; other are taking over motels, setting up RV // trailer parks, and next will be tents.

[robert.]

Is it possible italy is reporting correct numbers and china is holding back?

[Neil]

South Korea has tested 140,000 people and has a death rate of 0.6%. More likely correct than China or Italy. New York City has a lot of cases and 1 death so far. Too early to make judgments about the fatality rate in different places due to the difference in testing availability and how early it is in the epidemic. The Chinese are not to be trusted, as you note, and the Italians are both overwhelmed and thus disorganized. The USA has not begun testing to find out how many mildly or asymptomatic people there are. There is likely to be many of those. It's possible that if you are 80+ years old and have emphysema your mortality rate will be 7.5%. I very much doubt whether that will apply to healthy younger people, based upon data at hand, but time will tell.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Does seem that the older population with respiratory issues are at highest risk - No. Italy has a high population percent of that category.

Sadly, we have very little idea of what's going on in our country; China may be duplicious, Italy may be skewed, we're just ignorant. S. Korea demonstrated a proper response and had good results.

[robert.]

100 people waiting inline outside of the state store. Mob rules

[Rufus T. Firefly]

100 people waiting inline outside of the state store. Mob rules

Well, they need sanitizer!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[MartyE]

Now governments are closing restaurants and bars in some states. Good luck getting the government back out of all of this.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Now governments are closing restaurants and bars in some states. Good luck getting the government back out of all of this.

The alternative solution is?