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However, coronavirus testing materials have certainly been in short supply but I doubt they are in such short supply that a few hundred can't be spared to be used on anybody dying with respiratory symptoms who has not already been tested. Furthermore, every death certificate has to have a cause of death listed by a physician and it's quite possible to diagnose COVID-19 as at least a contributory cause of death even if no testing has been done. If somebody with no history of chronic lung disease suddenly dies a respiratory death, you've got to have some plausible reason and in the middle of a coronavirus epidemic what else are you going to blame? I think even these clinical diagnoses should be counted in the totals if they aren't being. By the way, where on Worldometer did you see this? I can't find any really current info on Worldometer--current as of the first week in April, not back in late March. Things are rapidly changing as to availability of testing and so on. |
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Pedestrian, I clicked on the "USA". It's on the April 6th (GMT) report. BTW, I just read somewhere, not finding the link now, that Madrid might have a 50% underreporting. There are an excess of 9,000 deaths compared to the same period last year for 4,500 of confirmed Covid-19 deaths. |
In Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti's daily coronavirus briefing, he announced that businesses can turn away customers not wearing face masks starting this Friday.
From LAist: LA Mayor Garcetti: Shoppers Have To Wear Face Masks Starting Friday Mayor Eric Garcetti is delivering his daily update on L.A.'s response to coronavirus. You can watch the live video above and follow this post for updates. FACE MASKS NOW REQUIRED FOR BOTH SHOPPERS AND STORE EMPLOYEES Starting Thursday night at midnight, businesses will be able to turn away customers who aren't wearing face masks, Garcetti said. Workers in grocery stores, drug stores, restaurants, hotels, taxis, rideshare vehicles, construction sites, among other non-medical essential businesses will have to start wearing face masks as well. These employers are required to provide face masks to employees or reimburse those employees for purchasing them. They will be required to enforce social distancing for both the public and employees, and provide clean restrooms to their employees and allow those employees to wash their hands every 30 minutes. [...] Link: https://laist.com/latest/post/202004...angeles-update |
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Our highest peaks in the LA area, namely Mt Baldy 10,064 feet, San Gorgonio 11,503 feet have snow packs of 10 feet plus right now which is awesome. We should be able to see snow covered peaks almost year round this year :) |
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Some good news in Louisiana and New Orleans. The rate of new hospitalizations has slowed dramatically and the number of people on ventilators has started to decline over the past week. The governor stated that we are no longer threatened with running out of ICU beds or ventilators given the recent trends.
The state is also starting to publish onset of symptom data for confirmed cases, and it shows that 75% of all confirmed cases had an onset of symptoms on or before March 26th. Hopefully, they will add more data in the coming days, so we can see if the onset of symptoms numbers start declining in the first week of April as hospital data would suggest. The state went into lockdown on March 16th, so it looks like the stay at home orders are paying off. https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_ro...d401d04e8.html https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.town...d1d1.image.jpg |
This would bode well for us in South Florida where we generally have very clean air (no topology holding in pollutants, sea breeze which blows it all away, no heavy industry/manufacturing to speak of...etc).
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Nearing the end of our 3rd week of stay-at-home here in California...
...by drinking a hot chocolate with ginger, anise and cinnamon. MMmmmmMMMmmm!!! https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...75&oe=5EB32603 Photo by me |
From ABC7 Los Angeles:
Coronavirus response: California to receive more than 200 million masks per month, Gov. Newsom says Gov. Gavin Newsom says he's put together a deal to buy hundreds of millions of desperately needed N95 masks. "In the last 48 hours we have secured through a consortia of non-profits and a manufacturer here in the state of California upwards of 200 million masks on a monthly basis," said Newsom. The governor revealed the news on "The Rachael Maddow Show" on Tuesday night. Newsom said California will have enough masks to meet demand, adding that there may even be enough to send to other states. The governor said the state has already distributed more than 41 million masks. One million of them have come from the federal government. Newsom announced earlier the nation's most populous state would also share some of its ventilators, a necessary tool to keep struggling patients breathing, with the national stockpile even as it hunts for more of its own supplies. Newsom suggested that New York may be one of the states to receive the ventilators, but he said the federal government was best poised to decide where they were needed most. "We're very proud to be able to extend a hand of support with those 500 ventilators and send them back east," Newsom said during a news conference. But he said the state is "not naive" to its own needs. "We need to continue to procure more ventilators," he said. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Link: https://abc7.com/6086947/?ex_cid=TA_...ZK87igALr8y6sk |
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ohio officially relaxed the rules and joins the booze to go with food orders brigade:
i heard it was already happening informally though lol. https://www.the-review.com/news/2020...emplate=ampart |
Chicago needs to open up the lakefront trail.
Within 15 seconds at an intersection, while biking, I witnessed 12 motorcycles blowing a red light running from a cop(Roosevelt and Wabash) and then about 7 teens blow the light right after them on bikes so I went ahead and went forward. One of the teens decided to yell out that I am a f*ggot. We need safe places to bike. Period. |
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I couldn't believe it, definitely since they looked like they were in the 14-16-year-old range. I thought those kids were more "enlightened" than people from my generation!? |
I wonder if this pandemic will have a lasting effect on population density
Will people move out from big dense cities to the suburbs? |
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