re: OT: Alabama Coronavirus Thread (see link in OP for case numbers and death totals in AL)

EDIT: Sorry, I just realized the point you were making. I meant their extremely low death rate in terms of total population not compared to tested cases. I should have been more clear in the post above.


California has had less than 20 deaths per million inhabitants; NY has had over 440.


That number for California is lower than most rural states (without an SF, LA, Oakland, SD etc). California was considered the potential #1 hot spot in the country along with NYC in early March due to reasons above.

I think the death rate + hospitalization is a much better indicator since people have been basically begged to NOT come get tested unless absolute emergency in so many places.

Sure that over 90% of people in NY that had this virus without life threatening conditions have listened to that message and stayed home, untested.

California was very clear from the beginning on not wanting people traveling around to get tested.

And yet Trump wants to open the country on May 1st...

Mississippi governor wants it sooner than that

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I don't think that can be done safely without the ability to vaccinate people and without the ability to promptly and effectively treat everyone who gets the infection.

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I would settle for just being able to buy hand sanitizer and alcohol before May 1st.

Seriously though, I hope that more businesses in more rural areas can begin opening by then. I know a lot of people in places like Alabama are struggling. My brother has a refrigerator trucking company based in Luverne with only 1 truck running since finding any broker who has any idea how to get him grocery store loads instead of restaurant ones has seemingly proven impossible. Sure there's a ton of people in his situation.

Isn’t NJ too? Connecticut is going to have by far the worst death toll on a per capita in the US

If we could test, we could stay out in front of it and relax the restrictions. But getting more and better testing out there has been a complete and utter failure on everyone's part. It's been promised for weeks, but still isn't showing up in any great numbers. How about playing the DPA card for tests and get the damn things out there where we can identify and isolate and treat and stop this paralysis?

LINK ]Head lice drug Ivermectin being studied as possible coronavirus treatment (NY Post)

Coronavirus couldn’t stand up to the grind of an SEC schedule

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The focus on total cases irrespective of population can be misleading

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I said this before last month but people are just going to look at total numbers of cases/deaths to determine who is doing the worst. Since the US has by far the most, so many people around the world assume the US is doing the worst. They’re not looking at per capita and they’re not looking at how little tests so many countries have even done.