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Mar 22, 2020 | 11:24 pm
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Article is originally from the LA Times, but they have a paywall, so here's a reprint of an interesting, more optimistic point of view.
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What I can’t tell from the article is how he accounts for changes in testing or counting policies. The article says his prediction for China was very accurate, but China had a one day huge jump in cases on Feb 12 due to a policy change. It didn’t really change how many were infected, just how many were counted. How did he predict that? How did he predict that CA and NY changed their testing guidelines yesterday?
Mar 22, 2020 | 11:37 pm
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NPR report from Italy: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/817974987
POGGIOLI (NPR): Some question why Italy was caught off guard when the virus outbreak was revealed on February 21. Remuzzi says only now is he hearing new information from general practitioners.
REMUZZI (Doctor): That they remember having seen very strange pneumonias, very severe, particularly in old people in December and even in November. It means that the virus was circulating at least in Lombardy before we were aware of this outbreak occurring in China.
POGGIOLI (NPR): Some question why Italy was caught off guard when the virus outbreak was revealed on February 21. Remuzzi says only now is he hearing new information from general practitioners.
REMUZZI (Doctor): That they remember having seen very strange pneumonias, very severe, particularly in old people in December and even in November. It means that the virus was circulating at least in Lombardy before we were aware of this outbreak occurring in China.
Mar 22, 2020 | 11:41 pm
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NPR report from Italy: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/817974987
POGGIOLI (NPR): Some question why Italy was caught off guard when the virus outbreak was revealed on February 21. Remuzzi says only now is he hearing new information from general practitioners.
REMUZZI (Doctor): That they remember having seen very strange pneumonias, very severe, particularly in old people in December and even in November. It means that the virus was circulating at least in Lombardy before we were aware of this outbreak occurring in China.
POGGIOLI (NPR): Some question why Italy was caught off guard when the virus outbreak was revealed on February 21. Remuzzi says only now is he hearing new information from general practitioners.
REMUZZI (Doctor): That they remember having seen very strange pneumonias, very severe, particularly in old people in December and even in November. It means that the virus was circulating at least in Lombardy before we were aware of this outbreak occurring in China.
Mar 22, 2020 | 11:47 pm
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Spanish Ministry of health published statistics:
https://www.mscbs.gob.es/profesional...2_COVID-19.pdf
Pages 1-2 are most telling. Please read and share here what you think.
tb your comment would be especially valuable.
https://www.mscbs.gob.es/profesional...2_COVID-19.pdf
Pages 1-2 are most telling. Please read and share here what you think.
tb your comment would be especially valuable.
Total cases: 9702
Hospitalized: 8441
ICU: 834
Deaths: 1022
Mar 23, 2020 | 12:24 am
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Mar 23, 2020 | 12:35 am
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NPR report from Italy: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/817974987
POGGIOLI (NPR): Some question why Italy was caught off guard when the virus outbreak was revealed on February 21. Remuzzi says only now is he hearing new information from general practitioners.
REMUZZI (Doctor): That they remember having seen very strange pneumonias, very severe, particularly in old people in December and even in November. It means that the virus was circulating at least in Lombardy before we were aware of this outbreak occurring in China.
POGGIOLI (NPR): Some question why Italy was caught off guard when the virus outbreak was revealed on February 21. Remuzzi says only now is he hearing new information from general practitioners.
REMUZZI (Doctor): That they remember having seen very strange pneumonias, very severe, particularly in old people in December and even in November. It means that the virus was circulating at least in Lombardy before we were aware of this outbreak occurring in China.
That might just be seeing some things, imaginary or not, in hindsight. I'd hesitate to draw conclusions from that.
Mar 23, 2020 | 1:05 am
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Mar 23, 2020 | 5:26 am
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If you are interested in dissecting what happened at what point that lead to where Spain is now there is a summary of action taken (and not taken) from the very end of February in the Covid-19 thread in the Spain Forum.
Mar 23, 2020 | 7:33 am
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As I posted earlier today, Italy may be starting to flatten the curve. Now the official numbers are out.
https://www.worldometers.info/corona...country/italy/
They had a false indicator back on March 16th which did not hold, but hopefully this is the start of a more positive trend.
https://www.worldometers.info/corona...country/italy/
They had a false indicator back on March 16th which did not hold, but hopefully this is the start of a more positive trend.
Mar 23, 2020 | 7:37 am
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Here is what I believe to be one of the first published accounts of asymptomatic transmission.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...rticle/2762028
There are countless others.
Another early one: https://www.france24.com/en/20200210...ad-coronavirus
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...rticle/2762028
There are countless others.
Another early one: https://www.france24.com/en/20200210...ad-coronavirus
Mar 23, 2020 | 7:39 am
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Mar 23, 2020 | 8:09 am
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The 16th was a Monday. That's still possibly "coming off the weekend" factor in terms of data sets in testing or reporting of testing, at least to me.
I don't pretend to know what it means. Or if it means anything. But the dips are so far clustered:
March 1 - March 2nd: Sunday - Monday
March 9 - 10: Monday - Tuesday
March 15-16: Sunday - Monday
March 21-22: Saturday - Sunday
I don't pretend to know what it means. Or if it means anything. But the dips are so far clustered:
March 1 - March 2nd: Sunday - Monday
March 9 - 10: Monday - Tuesday
March 15-16: Sunday - Monday
March 21-22: Saturday - Sunday
Mar 23, 2020 | 8:22 am
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The 16th was a Monday. That's still possibly "coming off the weekend" factor in terms of data sets in testing or reporting of testing, at least to me.
I don't pretend to know what it means. Or if it means anything. But the dips are so far clustered:
March 1 - March 2nd: Sunday - Monday
March 9 - 10: Monday - Tuesday
March 15-16: Sunday - Monday
March 21-22: Saturday - Sunday
I don't pretend to know what it means. Or if it means anything. But the dips are so far clustered:
March 1 - March 2nd: Sunday - Monday
March 9 - 10: Monday - Tuesday
March 15-16: Sunday - Monday
March 21-22: Saturday - Sunday
Just like a location where testing is still ramping up will delay knowing when the curve is flattening and suffer greater economic and social consequences prior to the realization that distancing measures are working.
When testing is not consistent, we can also look at hospitalized cases as a guide as long as the criteria for hospitalization is not changing on the fly as it is in Italy.
Mar 23, 2020 | 8:30 am
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If their testing capacity changes on certain days of the week, then they will need a full week to determine if the curve is flattening.
Just like a location where testing is still ramping up will delay knowing when the curve is flattening and suffer greater economic and social consequences prior to the realization that distancing measures are working.
When testing is not consistent, we can also look at hospitalized cases as a guide as long as the criteria for hospitalization is not changing on the fly as it is in Italy.
Just like a location where testing is still ramping up will delay knowing when the curve is flattening and suffer greater economic and social consequences prior to the realization that distancing measures are working.
When testing is not consistent, we can also look at hospitalized cases as a guide as long as the criteria for hospitalization is not changing on the fly as it is in Italy.
Certainly we can hope so of course.
Mar 23, 2020 | 11:20 am
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Here is what I believe to be one of the first published accounts of asymptomatic transmission.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...rticle/2762028
There are countless others.
Another early one: https://www.france24.com/en/20200210...ad-coronavirus
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...rticle/2762028
There are countless others.
Another early one: https://www.france24.com/en/20200210...ad-coronavirus
There are about 400k cases worldwide.
You'd think we'd have more than accounts of asymptomatic transmission. There must be better data.