Convince me Covid-19 is worse than the usual run of viral pneumonias, huh?

[Gd5150]

Meet the new bs, same as the old bs. July 2009...

Swine flu: 65,000 deaths is UK’s worst case scenario
Minimum of 3,100 deaths expected, says Britain's chief medical officer, as official toll reaches 29

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/jul/16/swine-flu-cases-rise-britain

January 2010,Death toll was....360.

2009/10 H1N1 killed 18000 Americans. Hospitalized 300k. Infected 60,000,000. And what did our Noble savior Obama and his media have us do? Talk about how cool Obama’s NCAA basketball picks were.

[TigerLily]

Huh.  I left my wolf back on BellGab.  He still seems to get a lot of laughs there.

Meanwhile CDC has resumed updating the data, now a day behind.  You now need to scroll down to "COVID-19 cases in the United States by date of illness onset, January 12, 2020, to March 25, 2020, at 4pm ET (n=11,165)*", the anchor seems to leave you at the prevalence bar graph above.  As you can see, it still looks like a peak was hit USA-wide on March 13, which was before all these extreme (and in some cases ridiculous) control measures were put in place.  I'd still like another day's data or so to tell, but if they stay a day behind, we'll get only 1 more day's data this week, because since they don't update over the weekend, we'll have to wait until Monday to get Friday's.

I'd post the epidemic curve here, but it's dynamically generated, not a static graphic, so just follow the link there yourself.

@Robert   You should bring him over here. He's too good for those losers

[anniem]

Meet the new bs, same as the old bs. July 2009...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/jul/16/swine-flu-cases-rise-britain

January 2010,Death toll was....360.

2009/10 H1N1 killed 18000 Americans. Hospitalized 300k. Infected 60,000,000. And what did our Noble savior Obama and his media have us do? Talk about how cool Obama’s NCAA basketball picks were.

RIGHT

And I do so like your avatar.   

[Robert]

USA incidence managed to hit a new high on March 15, so no peak yet.

[JUAN]

USA incidence managed to hit a new high on March 15, so no peak yet.

Of course this is tested, not necessarily that same as infected at any given time.

[GravitySucks]

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1243568342599962625

[Robert]

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1243568342599962625

Interesting.  Where'd she get the music?

[paladin1991]

The good parts for me. The leftovers go to my wolf

  Weeeeeellll. If I give up my good parts, will you give me a piece?

[GravitySucks]

This could be a game changer. A point of service test that gives results in 5 minutes.

https://abbott.mediaroom.com/2020-03-27-Abbott-Launches-Molecular-Point-of-Care-Test-to-Detect-Novel-Coronavirus-in-as-Little-as-Five-Minutes

[Bart Ell]

This could be a game changer.

Is this a game to you?
I'M ALL GONNA DIE!

[anniem]

Is this a game to you?
I'M ALL GONNA DIE!

NO! NO DIE BART! DO NOT! NO!

[GravitySucks]

NO! NO DIE BART! DO NOT! NO!

He’s holding on to see if the Flyers win the cup.

[Robert]

This could be a game changer. A point of service test that gives results in 5 minutes.

https://abbott.mediaroom.com/2020-03-27-Abbott-Launches-Molecular-Point-of-Care-Test-to-Detect-Novel-Coronavirus-in-as-Little-as-Five-Minutes

Wow, in vitro nucleic acid sequence amplification in minutes without the temperature cycling required by PCR since its unveiling in 1986 at a meeting I attended in DC!  All the linked literature says is that it uses enzymes instead of temperature changes.  Duh, it always needed enzymes!  I'd like to know how this works -- specifically how it switches from elongation of one strand to separation and use of that as a template for the next.  It also uses a neat linked fluorescent probe.

[PB]

Ready for the baby boom of late '20, early '21? 

The parents of babies born before year end will get the tax breaks starting 2020, the parents of the babies born just after the first of the year won't

[Zetaspeak]

This song should be played daily during the lockdown ... WARNING Explicit language