| The US looks in particular trouble with Covid-19 13:30 - Mar 23 with 3503 views | Darth_Koont |
They've got a faster doubling of cases than anywhere apart from the initial outbreak in Wuhan. Clearly this may be down to testing/reporting irregularities but if it's already spreading worse than even Spain and Italy then that's going to create massive problems for them.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-confirmed-cases-since-100th-case
And really not the best situation to be overseen by a narcissistic liar. |  |
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| The US looks in particular trouble with Covid-19 on 13:34 - Mar 23 with 3455 views | Pendejo |
They also don't have a National Health service... and Obama Care was derided. No insurance - no health care.
My aunt went bankrupt after re-mortgaging her house whilst fighting cancer. |  |
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| The US looks in particular trouble with Covid-19 on 13:34 - Mar 23 with 3446 views | Guthrum |
Part of that is because they are ramping up from a very low level of testing. |  |
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| The US looks in particular trouble with Covid-19 on 13:37 - Mar 23 with 3437 views | StokieBlue |
The US is looking very bad as you say.
Lack of early testing probably didn't help and as you say - having a fool in charge is only going to make things worse. Probably also certain issues about people with healthcare still expecting to have elective procedures and basically anything ahead of other people needing C-19 tests and treatment.
Could also simply be a function of population - some worrying rumours coming out of India as well which are backed up a little by the fact they have decided to fully close off Delhi.
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| The US looks in particular trouble with Covid-19 on 13:40 - Mar 23 with 3422 views | Darth_Koont |
| The US looks in particular trouble with Covid-19 on 13:34 - Mar 23 by Pendejo |
They also don't have a National Health service... and Obama Care was derided. No insurance - no health care.
My aunt went bankrupt after re-mortgaging her house whilst fighting cancer. |
Indeed.
Although I'm sure the private clinics and insurance providers will largely go out the window for this emergency. But nothing surprises me anymore.
But, even in a best case, if healthcare isn't organised along national or even state lines and you need to coordinate masses of private facilities then of course that becomes incredibly difficult to manage effectively. | |
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| The US looks in particular trouble with Covid-19 on 13:49 - Mar 23 with 3340 views | portmanking |
Yet STILL we have flights coming in from New York today.... |  | | |
| The US looks in particular trouble with Covid-19 on 13:50 - Mar 23 with 3337 views | Darth_Koont |
| The US looks in particular trouble with Covid-19 on 13:34 - Mar 23 by Guthrum |
Part of that is because they are ramping up from a very low level of testing. |
Possibly. But even with a lower test rate than say the UK or Germany their climb of confirmed cases is still steeper. | |
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| The US looks in particular trouble with Covid-19 on 14:00 - Mar 23 with 3274 views | Guthrum |
| The US looks in particular trouble with Covid-19 on 13:50 - Mar 23 by Darth_Koont |
Possibly. But even with a lower test rate than say the UK or Germany their climb of confirmed cases is still steeper. |
They were doing very few tests, now that number is rapidly increasing (often through the efforts of individual states and cities). So the number of detections is bound to rise also. | |
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| The US looks in particular trouble with Covid-19 on 14:12 - Mar 23 with 3217 views | Bent_double |
| The US looks in particular trouble with Covid-19 on 13:37 - Mar 23 by StokieBlue |
The US is looking very bad as you say.
Lack of early testing probably didn't help and as you say - having a fool in charge is only going to make things worse. Probably also certain issues about people with healthcare still expecting to have elective procedures and basically anything ahead of other people needing C-19 tests and treatment.
Could also simply be a function of population - some worrying rumours coming out of India as well which are backed up a little by the fact they have decided to fully close off Delhi.
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India is the country that worries me the most, if it takes hold there in any of their mega-cities, the casualty numbers will be vast. |  |
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| The US looks in particular trouble with Covid-19 on 14:14 - Mar 23 with 3212 views | StokieBlue |
| The US looks in particular trouble with Covid-19 on 14:12 - Mar 23 by Bent_double |
India is the country that worries me the most, if it takes hold there in any of their mega-cities, the casualty numbers will be vast. |
I didn't realise until yesterday that India only spends ~1% of it's GDP on healthcare.
That's shocking.
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| The US looks in particular trouble with Covid-19 on 14:17 - Mar 23 with 3184 views | Ely_Blue |
| The US looks in particular trouble with Covid-19 on 13:37 - Mar 23 by StokieBlue |
The US is looking very bad as you say.
Lack of early testing probably didn't help and as you say - having a fool in charge is only going to make things worse. Probably also certain issues about people with healthcare still expecting to have elective procedures and basically anything ahead of other people needing C-19 tests and treatment.
Could also simply be a function of population - some worrying rumours coming out of India as well which are backed up a little by the fact they have decided to fully close off Delhi.
SB |
Did they not fully close of Delhi to see how effectively they could do it? I am sure on the bbc news last night at 10 they said about it being a test |  |
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| The US looks in particular trouble with Covid-19 on 14:23 - Mar 23 with 3157 views | StokieBlue |
| The US looks in particular trouble with Covid-19 on 14:17 - Mar 23 by Ely_Blue |
Did they not fully close of Delhi to see how effectively they could do it? I am sure on the bbc news last night at 10 they said about it being a test |
Don't think so - if you google nothing says about it being a test, everything says due to C-19.
Not convinced India are being very thorough/truthful with their numbers but we will see.
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| The US looks in particular trouble with Covid-19 on 14:32 - Mar 23 with 3113 views | Steve_M |
| The US looks in particular trouble with Covid-19 on 14:23 - Mar 23 by StokieBlue |
Don't think so - if you google nothing says about it being a test, everything says due to C-19.
Not convinced India are being very thorough/truthful with their numbers but we will see.
SB |
The Economist at the weekend reported that India was only testing people on arrival in the country and not those who were ordinarily resident. That's going to be a bit problem given hygiene standards and pollution levels in large parts of the country.
I've seen the measures proposed for ships arriving in the country, they are thorough and sensible and I presume those for airports are similar but that leaves some large gaps. |  |
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| The US looks in particular trouble with Covid-19 on 14:37 - Mar 23 with 3088 views | Herbivore |
I'm sure if they just pray harder it'll all be okay. |  |
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| The US looks in particular trouble with Covid-19 on 14:54 - Mar 23 with 3022 views | davblue |
| The US looks in particular trouble with Covid-19 on 13:37 - Mar 23 by StokieBlue |
The US is looking very bad as you say.
Lack of early testing probably didn't help and as you say - having a fool in charge is only going to make things worse. Probably also certain issues about people with healthcare still expecting to have elective procedures and basically anything ahead of other people needing C-19 tests and treatment.
Could also simply be a function of population - some worrying rumours coming out of India as well which are backed up a little by the fact they have decided to fully close off Delhi.
SB |
The greatest leader of our time said it was fake news, who are you to argue with him? |  | | |
| The US looks in particular trouble with Covid-19 on 16:03 - Mar 23 with 2887 views | Pendejo |
| The US looks in particular trouble with Covid-19 on 13:49 - Mar 23 by portmanking |
Yet STILL we have flights coming in from New York today.... |
Most of the remaining flights are all about repatriating folks to their home countries.
Emirates airlines are ceasing to fly from Wednesday but I fully expect Governments to charter flights to mop up their last citizens stuck all over the world. But from next Friday you are where you are... unless transporting goods / freight | |
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| The US looks in particular trouble with Covid-19 on 16:18 - Mar 23 with 2847 views | StokieBlue |
Wow.
5,700 cases in just New York state today, 21,000 in total for that one state.
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| The US looks in particular trouble with Covid-19 on 16:22 - Mar 23 with 2814 views | Ely_Blue |
| The US looks in particular trouble with Covid-19 on 14:23 - Mar 23 by StokieBlue |
Don't think so - if you google nothing says about it being a test, everything says due to C-19.
Not convinced India are being very thorough/truthful with their numbers but we will see.
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https://www.ft.com/content/41f92956-6c2e-11ea-89df-41bea055720b
Sorry not a test but voluntary by the look of things | |
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