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Hospitals are empty where?

It's easy to say in retrospect. But starting in early February, the assumptions were that this virus would be similar to the previous pandemics over the last 20 years, and would die off before it truly spread globally. Obviously that was a bad miscalculation.

The flipside are the deaths that aren't categorized as Covid-related when the tests aren't done posthumously. NY EMS is making a lot more cardiac arrest calls than in prior months & years. Here's a grim story from NYC (courtesy of Dave McBride's post in OTW). Sounds like NYC numbers will go up if these are counted.

NY deaths have been about 7.5% of the new admissions cases 6 days prior - USA overall is about 5.5%. Sorry about that. I haven't been tracking admissions.

Forget the midnight angle. Full body HAZMATS?

First shot across the bow. His usual MO.

He can, and will hit WHO first.

That's precisely why WHO's role in this needs to be hammered home often. I have a feeling Trump will go off on it at today's presser.

Are they getting infected because of PPE shortages or due to constant exposure to severely sick and contagious people?

Actually I will continue to point and blame China & WHO for downplaying the seriousness of the virus and not sharing enough information as early as possible. February was a critical lost month where all Western health officials' assumptions were based on low human to human transmissability, thanks to China & WHO. Where are the shortages?

Always consider the source.

Why didn't it decimate tiny villages in Tuscany or Campania, etc ?

Actually the lag does not make it hard to predict, because today's infections and hospitalizations guide next week's mortality. The last 7-day total is 7,500. New cases and admissions are hitting a peak, meaning that we may not even hit 10,000 over the next week, and it will continue to decline. Bottom line is that the shutdown 3 weeks ago worked.

I have an idea for the badge. How about overlapping yellow triangles?

He looks like the dude from The Outsider.

What should Diblasio get for insisting that St Patty's go on as scheduled as recently as March 9th?

That was fast. Could be precaution, but sadly also emblematic of rapid deterioration that's been observed in some NYC cases.

Not the right analogy. After some people did something with airplanes, the entire airline industry was grounded, because no one new if more people would do something. In this case, you're preventatively shutting places down to slow the spread

Was just going to post something similar. You can gauge by the increasing attacks on Trump that the data is showing positive trends of hitting a peak sooner than many expected.

And a tying TD vs Baltimore and at least one more TD vs Texans.

As expected, a long-winded deflection of the real cause of the spread of the outbreak, where there was still confusion of how the virus is spread and the nonchalant attitude by all health officials that the American public shouldn't be concerned as late as March. Not having enough tests in January or February for a completely new virus is far down the line in identifying what actually went wrong, and sure enough WaPo is giving China a pass. Even if these tests were available by some miracle, they would have done nothing to slow the spread, because there was no protocols to administer the test, the tests would have been sent to CA & WA, the logical places for the initial outbreak and no ability for proper tracing of upstream and downstream contacts of infected individuals. Enough with the ventilator talk, too, because they don't cure the infirm. Instead, the health officials needed to focus their attention on prevention, but didn't know how to react, because they were duped by China and WHO. But, other than

I'm guessing that with the Williams signing, Waddle is a longshot.

But people weren't symptomatic either and few hospitalizations. It took 10 days to go from overhyped to oh-*****.

The enterprising journalists should take heed and point the fingers in the right places.

Keep it half on, because it's becoming quite apparent that China ***** the rest of the world. If not deliberately releasing this thing, but by hiding the nature of the virus and its spread. Sadly it took the devastation in Italy to get a better picture of transmission and the ramifications of inaction. That's why everyone in the west dragged their feet well into March, when prevention should have been in place in February. Just think, NYS had less than 150 cases one month ago. Everyone should be pissed off at the politicos trying to assign blame for not being prepared, when there should be unified blowback against China.