Coronavirus Thread: Worldwide Pandemic

[nyknick]

New York governor Andrew Cuomo said the Javits Center on the west side of Manhattan is one of four venues under consideration as a potential site for an emergency “field hospital” as the state frantically attempts to boost its hospital capacity from around 50,000 beds to 75,000.

Cuomo said the state has already hospitalized 1,600 people and the massive 1.8m sq ft convention space along the Hudson River could house 1,000 more beds. The other proposed sites include the State University of New York campuses at Stony Brook and Westbury on Long Island and the Westchester Convention Center.

“That would give us a regional distribution and a real capacity if we can get them up quickly enough,” Cuomo said.

Good luck getting those beds, can't even get gowns

 

[GunRanger]

#mintthecoin

fukk a prepaid card. I want cash

 

[Hood Critic]

 

[Pressure]

I’ve stopped watching but they need to just quit airing these bullshyt press conferences.

They're Trump rallies.

 

[wire28]

You got an update on Iran?

Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center

this website is pretty solid, the layout is nice

 

[Ruutu]

Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center

this website is pretty solid, the layout is nice

I use this site Coronavirus Update (Live): 303,493 Cases and 12,964 Deaths from COVID-19 Virus Outbreak - Worldometer
Gets updated faster

 

[CSquare43]

Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center

this website is pretty solid, the layout is nice

Hopkins, Mayo and Harvard Med are the sites to follow.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

A few more details on the possible relation between climate and transmission.

Scientists ask if lines on map hold key to coronavirus spread

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The coronavirus pandemic that has infected more than 125,000 people around the world is concentrated in a “corridor” across the northern hemisphere, researchers said, as more studies focused on how temperature and humidity could be used to predict the spread of the contagion.

Despite worries that Southeast Asia may become a coronavirus hotspot after central China (where the Covid-19 outbreak started) because of their proximity and travel connections to the infection’s epicentre, more countries and regions like South Korea, Japan, Iran, northern Italy and the northwestern United States may have to bear the heaviest burden.

“The establishment of community transmission has occurred in a consistent east-and-west pattern. The new [regional] epicentres of the virus were all roughly along the 30-50 degree [lines of latitude] north zone,” according to a team of US and Iranian researchers.

Earlier, researchers from Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China, found that transmission of the coronavirus responsible for the Covid-19 disease was sensitive to temperature, with an optimum environment of around 8.72 degrees Celsius – a finding that concurred with the US-Iran researchers’ observations.

Other researchers, including Marc Lipsitch of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts, said that transmission of the new coronavirus was sustained in a range of temperatures and humidity, and that people should not pin their hopes on weather alone for the epidemic to go away.

The US-Iranian researchers, led by Mohammad Sajadi of University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, said there was a “striking similarity” between conditions in locations inside the current outbreak corridor, with average temperatures in the five-to-11 degree Celsius range and relative humidity of between 47 and 79 per cent.

Again, none of this is certain and it's not saying the virus "can't" spread when it's warm, just that transmission isn't as strong. But this might mean that Africa/southern Asia/South America will have relatively fewer cases and that USA/Europe will get a reprieve at some point as spring warms up.

I keep following the data on warm-weather countries. So far Indonesia, Philippines, and Brazil have all registered 15-40 fatalities each. But none of them are showing the exponential day-to-day increase that we're seeing in the cold-weather countries. That could be just because their data-gathering is crap, but it also could mean that most of their cases are the result of overseas workers and tourists spreading to a few close people randomly, and not the consistent community spread that leads to natural exponential growth.

 

[DonKnock]

Spoiler

 

[Ruutu]

Scenes from italy

 

[jj23]

This leaves me with more questions s than answers...

 

[Jmare007]

A few more details on the possible relation between climate and transmission.

Scientists ask if lines on map hold key to coronavirus spread

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Again, none of this is certain and it's not saying the virus "can't" spread when it's warm, just that transmission isn't as strong. But this might mean that Africa/southern Asia/South America will have relatively fewer cases and that USA/Europe will get a reprieve at some point as spring warms up.

I keep following the data on warm-weather countries. So far Indonesia, Philippines, and Brazil have all registered 15-40 fatalities each. But none of them are showing the exponential day-to-day increase that we're seeing in the cold-weather countries. That could be just because their data-gathering is crap, but it also could mean that most of their cases are the result of overseas workers and tourists spreading to a few close people randomly, and not the consistent community spread that leads to natural exponential growth.

It's very warm here in Chile and we tracking the same as Spain. Once flu season starts it's gonna be a disaster. Can only imagine what's gonna happen in the south of Brazil

 

[blotter]

Have to get all of the old people cooped up on this mask making project. Would probably boost their spirits and make them feel solidarity and useful and reflect instead of like a sitting duck waiting to get got.. many of them remember the war effort growing up and would probably jump at it.

CDC recommending scarfs and shyt.. skipped around and not sure if this one was posted in the build-a-mask discussions, but a tutorial. Sent it in an email to the guy at my grandpas old nursing home I used to communicate with, offered to throw in for supplies..

 

[Professor Emeritus]

It's very warm here in Chile and we tracking the same as Spain. Once flu season starts it's gonna be a disaster. Can only imagine what's gonna happen in the south of Brazil

Breh, you just had your very first death yesterday, a bit premature to say "tracking the same as Spain."

But I agree that Chile/Argentina/south Brazil could be in trouble as the flu season comes on. Hopefully you still have months to prepare.

 

[Jmare007]

Breh, you just had your very first death yesterday, a bit premature to say "tracking the same as Spain."

But I agree that Chile/Argentina/south Brazil could be in trouble as the flu season comes on. Hopefully you still have months to prepare.

In terms of cases, we are literally tracking the same. Today we are at 537...and our health system is a complete shytshow.

This coming week is were everything went to shyt in Spain so we'll see how we do here. Not holding much hope as the high income class have done little to nothing in terms of quarentine. Most even left Santiago (which has like 80%+ of the cases) and went to other parts of the country - that have held up pretty great so far - like it's a fukking vacaition