I guessed as much. Oddly, but excellently, my county is now providing much more detail on the number of cases, hospitalization, numbers of negative tests, and they've even broken out cases by zip code. Shockingly, they report no cases in my zip code, which is the urban downtown core of the city. I live in a single-family home neighborhood, however, the spacing between our houses is much less than in most neighborhoods in any of Palo Alto, Mountain View, or Sunnyvale. (It's a very old neighborhood.) And nearby, we have some high-density housing (condos and few apartment buildings). However, some of the more rural parts of the county have a lot more cases (and many fewer people). https://www.clark.wa.gov/public-health/novel-coronavirus I just find the numbers perplexing, given the pattern that we've seen in this country. We'll see what happens. Go Quakesfans!! - Mark
Well this is interesting and I don't know how I feel about it. The data likely isn't accurate in the US since it most of the data most likely comes from Android devices and that probably skews to young people. The rest of the world is probably much more accurate. https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/
The plot thickens. https://www.nationalreview.com/2020...term=The Trail Leading Back to the Wuhan Labs
I love these charts from the SCCDPH. At a glance you can see the the infection rate (i.e. cases) follow basically a normal distribution bell curve with a mean age of approximately 50 (a bit different than the nominal 37 mean age according to 2017 data), but that deaths are skewed towards the >65, and that 89% of the deaths involve or potentially involve co-morbidity factors. Just from the perspective of graphics and informatics, I have to say that this is terribly well done!
List anyone on this thread who agreed the term was racist in the context in which it was delivered. You were wrong on that point which leaves anything you based that position on flimsy.
If you look at the 1918 pandemic (light reading when worries prevent me from sleeping) it's apparent that the areas that fared worse implemented isolation measures too late or lifted them too soon.
Even San Francisco admits San Jose was first. https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/Santa-Clara-County-coronavirus-study-helped-15177206.php @Antonio2020
I think we all chaff under the restrictions, and it's not fun, but I believe we will be better off in the end. However, it is not going to be easy, particularly for people with kids at home and people who need a lot of assistance in their day-to-day lives.
Richard H. Ebright, a molecular biologist who has been quoted as a coronavirus expert by The Washington Post and MSNBC, said Thursday that it’s possible that COVID-19 leaked from a Wuhan lab. . . . . Richard H. Ebright, a professor of chemical biology at Rutgers University, told the Daily Caller News Foundation on Thursday that there is a real possibility that the virus entered the human population due to a laboratory accident. When asked specifically if he believes the virus could have leaked from Shi’s lab in Wuhan, Ebright said: “Yes.” “A denial is not a refutation,” Ebright said . . . https://dailycaller.com/2020/04/02/...stitute-virology-richard-ebright-shi-zhengli/ So much for there being no scientists on board with my theory.
When the Washington Post says scientists concede Don's theory is not crazy . . . “scientists don’t rule out that an accident at a research laboratory in Wuhan might have spread a deadly bat virus that had been collected for scientific study,” writes @IgnatiusPost https://t.co/Sormfr4PXy— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) April 3, 2020
It's certainly possible that the virus was leaked out of a lab. Not sure how they determine that though and I don't know that it matters, unless it's on purpose by the Chinese Gov. at which point it's likely an act of war.
<sigh> An opinion piece by a journalist. Not a report. Not written by a scientist. Apparently this particular propaganda originated in Russia. We don't have all the evidence at this point. But sequencing the virus -- which happened three months ago -- provided many clues to its origins. I see similar reactions (sometimes) with people who take DNA tests that indicate a different ethnicity from what they were raised to believe. "The test is wrong!" they argue. "There's no way I'm Jewish/African/Mexican." This isn't a matter of opinion. Best to stick to facts and not propagate Russian rumors.
David Ignatius of the Washington Post. Quoting scientists. And, as mentioned above: Richard H. Ebright, a professor of chemical biology at Rutgers University.
The question whether the virus emanated from a military lab in Wuhan is separate from the question whether its release was intentional or merely negligent. This was pointed out long ago on this same thread.
I'm sure they are fanning the flames... destabilizing the world matter most to Russia and, to a lesser extent, China.
Here's David Ignatius' Washington Post story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...75d488-7521-11ea-87da-77a8136c1a6d_story.html
first of all, the national review is barely a notch above the conspiracy-mongering breitbart news, it's a right wing opinion rag pushing a conservative agenda, not a great source for climate change data or virus etiology data. second, re-read the first sentence of the article. the plot actually thins.