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That's the point...

That's unfortunately very true. Germany, Italy and South Korea all have a higher life expectancy, lower child mortality, lower maternal mortality, lower burden of disease, and significantly lower healthcare expenditures vs GDP.

What's the major difference between the death toll in Italy vs South Korea? The policies put in place by the governments of those countires. SK had 10x the cases in mid-February when they shut the country down. Italy, chose to be lax about it, and now they're number two in deaths with nearly double the number of cases per million as South Korea. Nobody is expecting the government to save you from viruses. But maybe having testing kits available would be helpful. The CDC chose to create their own (defective) tests instead of using the proven WHO ones. South Korea is testing 10,000 people a day. As of yesterday, the U.S. has tested fewer than 16,000. Right now, in the U.S. if you're incredibly sick and have flu-like symptoms you need to go to the hospital. At that point, you're almost hoping you have coronavirus because if it comes back as the flu then you're getting stuck with a massive bill. Here in Germany, if I have similar symptoms as above and go to the hospital, I pay nothing for my visit regardless if its the flu, coronavirus or cancer. And I pay about $85 a month for my private health insurance on top of the government option. That's great claims for Covid 19 will be paid out (who knows how quickly) but as usual, you're screwed if you don't have good insurance and you get anything else.

How about starting with those responsible for cutting the NSC Pandemic Response team in 2018. Even if they say they "I don't take responsibility at all," they are responsible for ensuring a quick and effective response. After the first 15 cases were reported, the conversation needed to be about stopping its spread and not on Wall Street or how the cases will very shortly be zero.

I have no medical expertise but I defer to experts who look at all data instead of discarding unpleasant data. Excuse me if I don't have a lot of faith in governmental research in the US right now. If you're going to call Italy an outlier, then so is South Korea, just on the opposite end of the spectrum. The second death in the US was on March 1st. There have been 40 more in the last 13 days. Definitely not scary numbers right now. But considering the average death comes 17 days after symptoms, and the spread is uncontained in the US right now and the numbers will undoubtedly rise. Not to mention keeping someone in the hospital for 17 days til they die is going to shut down our hospital system. You're going to see more and more deaths because people can't get the care they need, whether from Covid 19 or something else. Even the number of deaths from the regular flu is going to spike this year due to lack of facilities.

Amazing that if you remove one of the countries with the worst transmission rate, the average goes down. Italy? We can't base it off them! Let's just pick China and South Korea, two countries that have had a significantly harsher and quicker response to the outbreak than America. The medium article posted before does a great job of showing the transmission rates throughout the world. Guess whose rate America matches the most? Italy.

I would think they would have had at least a 1 in 16 chance.

https://twitter.com/GoodmanHoops/status/1238509859856924672?s=20

NCAA has granted all spring sport athletes an additional year. Currently discussing winter sports.

NCAA has granted all spring sport athletes an additional year. They're currently discussing winter sports as well. How about another year for Marlon?

MIBT = Manure Includes Bison Teammakers?

He also said after 15 cases that in a few days it would be down to zero. Narrator: It's not down to zero.

I heard you can bet on virtual horse racing...

The home court advantage could be huge.

Source: https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/52/suppl_1/S36/499461 The main reason it was implemented so quickly was that the CDC was already working on diagnostic tests for detecting emerging influenza virus strains with pandemic potential.

OK? He still called it a hoax, which was what I was responding too from yzerman. Also, is that link supposed to instill confidence in how it's being handled? Here's a timeline of how this administration has consistently downplayed the seriousness and size of Covid-19. Slightly more than two weeks ago, he said Here's an extensive article highlighting the history of Coronavirus, the rate of growth throughout the world, and the difference between how countries have handled it. The only thing the U.S. is leading the way in is the fewest number of tests available per million people. If you want a textbook example of how not to handle a pandemic, look at the U.S. since Coronavirus was first announced in China in December.

Just the president...

I've seen a lot of posts on social media saying UND deserves the title. Imagine if this had happened last year and St. Cloud had declared themselves the national champs. We would have mocked them endlessly.

Can a two-year college go NCAA D1? I'm sure that's right around the corner now that they have a venue.

Where did you get that? Yeah, he says Wow but I feel like that's a normal reaction to UND buying out a coach. The rest of his tweet was literally just facts that would be in any news report.

Six hours later, it's more than 1,000 positive tests. It's amazing what having access to tests actually does to the number of infected patients. If we don't have tests, we can't have official cases.

I'm mostly concerned about whether this is a hoax by the left wing media, or a trial run by the government to see how much they can restrict our movement. If all of the experts here can't even decide which conspiracy this is, how will we ever have a chance to survive it?

That guy is lucky to still be in the game. The ones who aren't can't write articles and aren't just 60+ year olds or those with immune issues. It's not the flu.

While I personally am more worried about other deadly situations despite the fact that so far four people in my office building have tested positive, I understand that city and hospital officials are more concerned. There is no vaccine, it spreads as fast as, if not faster, than the flu, the known death rate is higher than the flu, and hospitals can't handle a massive number of cases regardless of the illness. There's a reason events here in Europe are being canceled: the hospitals are full. I can understand why cities could be asking for these events to be canceled. If 1% of a regional gets sick, you're looking at maybe 80 people. If 1% of Detroit gets sick, there's a major problem.

We have more in common with NDSU, SDSU and UNI than Sac St, Portland St and Southern Utah. Can't say I was ever excited to see any of those games. At least going to MVFC games most fans don't have to drive 1,000 miles.