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One negative side effect of the lock down: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52177587

New York State now has more confirmed cases than any other country except the US. Unbelievable how badly we botched this.

As far as I can tell, it seems to be mostly a precautionary measure so that he has access to care immediately should his condition become life-threatening. In other words, we can directly oxygenate blood but there aren't enough of these machines to make any significant difference in the impact...

There wouldn't be enough drivers for that to work. I don't think there's any easy answers here other than distributing N95 masks to anyone who still needs to go outside to work.

Latest data for NYC: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page It looks like keeping people home and social distancing is finally having an effect. The number of hospitalizations and deaths might be plateauing. However, look at the numbers of cases. We're approaching 1% of the...

We just passed 1 million cases worldwide. I knew it was going to happen, but still pretty disconcerting seeing that number.

Yeah, China and North Korea already found a cure for this which has a 100% success rate, prevents the spread, and costs well under a dollar. I'm sure China's actual death toll is much higher, but they're not counting those who tested positive and they shot in the official totals.

Blind support, meaning giving it to everyone who is hospitalized with the disease, no. But it should be given to those with severe enough cases to need ventilators. At this point those people basically don't have much to lose anyway. And if the treatment gets them off ventilators a little...

Hard to see how it wouldn't be. We're talking a city of 11 million people, probably packed in more densely on average than NYC. Just look at NYC's numbers, and where we're likely to be in a few weeks. And they probably waited until it was worse before ordering a lock down.

https://news.yahoo.com/wuhan-residents-dismiss-official-coronavirus-164859600.html Wuhan residents are increasingly skeptical of the Chinese Communist Party’s reported coronavirus death count of approximately 2,500 deaths in the city to date, with most people believing the actual number is at...

What do you expect from a completely incompetent buffoon like de Blasio? He was in over his head from day one but may well have bumbled through the last two years of his tenure if no emergencies happened. Trump's handling of this hasn't exactly been stellar, either, but compared to de Blasio he...

Glad you seem to be on the road to recovery, sed. Until this passes, every time people get sick they'll be suspecting the worst. Here's some state-by-state testing data for anyone interested: https://covidtracking.com/data/ About 1/3 of the tests in NY and NJ are coming back positive. Given...

Are there any ways to oxygenate the blood if a person's lungs are compromised to the point that a ventilator is ineffective? That might potentially be a big help here, keeping patients alive until they fight off the infection and their lungs heal enough to breathe without assistance. Another...

I've been guessing 0.3% to 0.5% is most likely BUT that's an evolving number as we learn better ways to treat this. I'm really hoping the true number is on the low end of the range you gave as that would imply about 4,500 deaths maximum in NYC even if everyone got it.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/27/822407626/mystery-in-wuhan-recovered-coronavirus-patients-test-negative-then-positive Under its newest COVID-19 prevention guidelines, China does not include in its overall daily count for total and for new cases those who retest positive...

The US is now at #1 in total cases, although a lot of countries are still way ahead of us in terms of cases per 1M population. Considering China has 1.4 billion people, they actually got through this fairly well.

Testing is the key here, both to avoid spreading it, and to minimize the hit on the economy. Those who already had it and recovered can go out and about at no risk to themselves, even if they must still take precautions to keep from transmitting it to others. As for the mortality rate, we know...

Well over 20K confirmed cases in NYC alone but I suspect that number will pass 50K within two weeks. Being that it's likely only those who develop serious symptoms have been confirmed, probably over two million have it or have had it but did/will have mild symptoms. We still would need to...

As much as I was looking forward to the Olympics, I realized over a month ago there is NO WAY it was going to happen. Let's put aside for a moment the foolhardiness of having large crowds at a time when the pandemic will likely be peaking, or not much past its peak, in some countries. The...

My brother is a pharmacy technician at Flushing Hospital. He said they have somewhere north of 10 cases just at his hospital. NYC is the epicenter of this for sure in the US.

The media are that way with every GOP President, although they've carried that to an extreme with Trump. What do you expect from organizations which have had a strong liberal bias for the last 50 years, if not more? If Fidel Castro suddenly rose from the grave and became President, they would be...

Normal for me as well since elderly people like my mother generally don't handle infections as well, even though as far as I can tell she has a great immune system. I was in the habit of washing off cans and bottles long before this happened simply because they were mostly genuinely filthy a lot...

In all fairness if you move ahead a few minutes it looks like their past history is playing a part. Let's not kids ourselves. For a lot of people in the media this is a sensationist's wet dream. That's doubly true because now the news networks have no competition from things like live sports, so...

There's a lot of misunderstanding and panic over that. We have to keep in mind the majority of cases we find in a week or so already existed. We just didn't know about them until we started testing. And speaking of testing, this administration needs to be hung out to dry over that. We knew about...

He should have did this at least two weeks ago when everyone saw what was happening in Italy. Better late than never, but most likely the end result is thousands of cases which otherwise wouldn't have existed.

If I had to be angry at China, it would be for not shutting down the wet markets for good after the SARS outbreak. You would think they would have learned their lesson but no. If I want China to do anything, it would be to publicly execute the officials who made that decision, along with the...

Now Italy is ahead of China in total deaths, despite having only 4.3% of the population. :cry:

That's my position as well. Whatever is done with loans/tuition, it has to have measures put in place to make sure this situation never happens again. The irony here is we did bail out the banks and they eventually went back to the same shit which caused 2008. The financial hit from this...

Thanks Doug. That's a good start. Remember loan forgiveness is only part of the equation. If college continues to be very costly we'll be right back in the same situation 10 or 20 years from now. Free public university might start putting some downward pressure on what private colleges can...

Because everyone there already died from it? Seriously, my best guess is they're being hammered by it but of course to keep their propaganda alive that they're the best country on Earth they're not releasing any figures. Think about it. The population is undernourished and disease-prone to start...

If you look at on a logarithmic scale the growth is already leveling out. Doubtless there are lots of people who got it before we implemented emergency measures, and will later be added to the case count, but I think the growth is going to top out within a few weeks, provided we don't relax...

China seems to have put a lid on it as well, at least if you can trust their data. There's only been a trickle of new cases for a while now. Unfortunately, they didn't seem to learn their lesson with wet markets. If they had shut those down for good after SARS we may never have seen this...

No kidding. That's why we need to get a handle on this soon. In my opinion the impact on the economy can potentially be much greater than the impact of the pandemic itself. What's not helping is that governments, and many individuals, have zero cash reserve. If people lose their jobs, they're in...

Well, I still have the savings bonds from my father to invest, and I could invest some more from my savings account when I think the time is right. I think we're going down to at least 15K. So does this guy. A lot of what happens depends upon the stimulus package(s) and what happens with the...

Just revisiting this 6 days later. Right now we're under 19,000 and I don't think the blood bath is anywhere near over. I wouldn't be surprised if we bottom out at under 10K, although the market will likely quickly rebound to at least 20K once this is over.

No argument there but I mentioned that cancelling or otherwise readjusting student loan balances will likely eventually be needed as part of the stimulus. There are only so many other levers we can pull, like giving cash directly to people. We need to go big, and we need to do it soon...

The problem is the system feeds on itself. Years of government throwing money at the problem means it's no longer possible to work your way through school by waiting tables or something similar. See my response to snowhiker above. We first fix existing debt by recalculating balances as I...

You're forgetting that lots of types of degrees benefit more than just the person getting them. Doesn't having more engineers, doctors, and scientists benefit society at large? And society also benefits from the higher taxes someone who realized their potential will pay over their working lives...

Loans more than 20 years old should be cancelled. Here's why. Starting a while back, maybe during the Obama administration, new student loans had two things older ones didn't. First, they had what was called income-based repayment. This means your payments were capped at some reasonable...

Anyone else thinking that if large numbers of people aren't vaccinated by November that we should just postpone the election until 2021?

Caller ID verification may well be a game changer as more phone providers roll it out.

I think it's a good idea but at the same time we should make sure that people who already have money coming to them don't have it seized. I'm talking specifically about people who have tax offsets because they owe on student loans. The government should suspend these tax offsets so these people...

Amazing in all this that I'm still getting telemarketing calls (which I never answer of course). If there's any silver lining to this, it could be that it lasts long enough to put most of these telescammers out of business for good.

If this interrupts production and supply chains, a lot of Americans might know the feeling of hunger for the first time in their lives. Then again, collectively we can all afford to lose a good amount of weight.

These guys are probably the reason for the hand sanitizer shortage. In fact, profiteers are probably to blame for the shortages of everything now. I'm seeing 16 oz bottles of rubbing alcohol going for over $20 on eBay and idiots are buying them. If, or rather when, eBay shuts all these people...

"Oh shit!" is all I have to say. Turns out this is fake news: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/covid-19-found-in-toilet-paper/

As much as I hate to say this because I'm not a fan of Trump, the better person won the last election cycle. We had two really shitty choices, and Trump was marginally less shitty. If Hillary had won, I think it would have been a disaster on many levels. It's even entirely possible we might have...

Crises have a tendency to unite people, so maybe this pandemic has a silver lining. This country can't go on this way with both parties completely at odds with each other. First the religious right took over the GOP. And the hard left took over the Democrats this election cycle. Even if Biden...

I have some money in a taxable account. It's mostly fairly safe stuff but the important part is a lot of it pays dividends. If you put money in, do something similar. Since my dividends automatically reinvest, I'll be buying more stocks at a good time. Last year the account gave me about $3K in...

Wait....wait....wait. I don't think we've seen the bottom yet. We'll know more in a few weeks. I have some of my father's savings bonds which fully mature in November. That might be a good time to get back in the market. As for what I already have in, only thing to do at this point is hold...