News: MLS Suspends season due to Coronavirus

Also, how many hospitalizations are "suspected" cases that are waiting on a test/result?

It's very easy to manipulate data, especially when the data is so imperfect.

 

Santa Clara County, California (including San Jose) posts hospital bed data daily. Scroll down to middle of page. Plenty of availability.

https://www.sccgov.org/sites/phd/DiseaseInformation/novel-coronavirus/Pages/dashboard.aspx

 

That doesn't mean that they haven't changed their admission standards in preparation for an expected inundation. I'm not saying I know this answer, I'm just suggesting what seems logical to me given this pandemic. Surely hospitals know that much worse is coming, soon, and they don't want to be running at 99% capacity before there's no other option.

 

The Tour of Utah bike race was just cancelled. I note this because its run in August. And its a cycling race on open roads, with only real crowds in the first and last mile. That's not a great sign for sports getting restarted any time soon.

(To be fair, the rest of the pro cycling tour has only cancelled races through June. The next race on the calendar that hasn't been cancelled is the Tour de France, and I expect the French to delay until the last possible minute before they pull the plug on that.)

 

I think you have to have a temperature over 101 or be coughing up blood to be hospitalized.

 

According to the New York Times stats, my county of 180,000 people, 90 miles north of NYC went from 0-233 cases very quickly and has had just 10 cases in the last 4 days.

 

It sounds like they discovered they had 233 cases once they started testing; the cases may have been going for a while.

 

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I tried to buy one of these but for some reason the Werder store doesn't have the United States as a shipping option.

 

Here in Ohio, hospitals have been ordered to delay elective surgery for just that reason. It's why ironically some healthcare providers are laying off staff.

A criticism of the IHME study that I've seen is the model was built based on the course of the pandemic in other countries (mainly S Korea and EU countries which report good data). Then actual US data is plugged into the model. A large % of the US cases are in the NYC metro area and it's in effect extrapolating those results nationwide though the rest of the country isn't as densely populated or interconnected as NYC. So Oklahoma has less than 5% of the predicted hospitalizations for example.

 

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Maybe. It's interesting that while we are within a long commute of NYC only 1 in 666 of the county's population have tested positive.

 

Must have been a deal with the devil.

 

It’s been like 6 years since I’ve had a haircut. Deal.

Thx,

Jay!

 

I'm using this as an opportunity to grow my hair long again. It's been more than 15 years.

 

It also requires having hair to cut.

 

Maybe it is because the Utah bike race is more labor of love that profitable so the incentive is not there push on. I don't know, just want to be hopeful; but the nature of the event is different.

 

Im more worries about giving my dog a haircut. The poor little fuzzball needs it

 

The Navy has relaxed grooming standards. I normally keep my hair at the limit of the regs so we will see how long my hair will get before this is over.

 

And i bet the Air Force is now totally WFH?

 

Opposite issue here. Hair can be a virus vector, so I've been clean shaven and buzzed down to an 8th of an inch on the top of my head for as long as I'm covering the hospital.

 

Wait. You people actually grow hair on the top of your heads?

 

Less and less every day. It's a burden that lessens over time.

 

One of the benefits of starting to lose my hair early (I was in high school) is that it never became part of my identity. The folks I see that have trouble with male pattern baldness are the guys that lose in in their 30s or 40s.