Michigan is going into Italy state...

[jimlup]

It is happening now.

https://www.wxyz.com/news/coronavirus/michigan-er-nurse-on-covid-19-this-is-truly-scary

As a Michigander I'm upset. This is not OK.

[uponit7771]

1. K&R, Remember ... we can Test, Isolate, Clean and get back to life in 2 - 4 weeks but

... can't because Trump doesn't want the numbers to go up

[Takket]

2. Michigan is on its own. They have been cut off from the federal government's resources

[malaise]

3. I just heard that Louisiana is the worst

of all the states

[Bleacher Creature]

5. I think that's per capita.

It's awful any way you cut it.

[malaise]

8. Yep n/t

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. And that's not the whole picture because of lack of testing.

The Grotesque Orange Pustule is killing people for his image.

[bdamomma]

13. This

POS told the WHO we did not need kits, remember that or will tRump's death cult wake the fuck up. Horrible, we have a mentally ill POS who is killing Americans.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

14. We also have a corrupt majority in the Senate who allowed this carnage-for-profit.

GOP is the single greatest threat to the United States.

[bdamomma]

15. If I

post what should really happen to this POS ……...oh hi Agent Mike.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

16. If it involves a pit very slowly filling with sewage ...

with copperheads, leeches, broken glass, swarms of hornets and angry birds, surrounded by multiple HD tv cameras streaming live, well, I'm with you.

[bdamomma]

17. sounds good to me.

he deserves it, a slow torturous death.

[stillcool]

4. sweet jeezus...I'm with you..

and it is not okay.

[BComplex]

7. This is heartbreaking.

Bless those front-line workers, and all those people who are intubated with no drugs to calm them.

[demmiblue]

9. Another nurse from SE Michigan:

Link to tweet

[jimlup]

11. Damn-it!

I feel She could be one of my former students and it scares the hell out of me.

[jimfields33]

10. Italy almost had a thousand TODAY!!!!!

That’s is so tragic. They are moving in on 10K. Most likely tomorrow.

[Strelnikov_]

12. Just wait until it hits the southeast

“We have a sicker populace in Louisiana with more co-morbidities” — underlying illnesses such as diabetes, hypertension and obesity — “than a lot of other cities do in the country,” said Kanter from the state health department. “Yes, we think that the people of Louisiana have a high degree of vulnerability, and we’re worried that that might translate into a higher percentage of hospitalization.”

Simon Johnson, a professor at MIT, has developed a model that pinpoints Louisiana as the next place “where covid-19 will wreak havoc.” The co-director of MIT’s coronavirus alliance and his team assigned risk scores to every county in the United States based on the medical factors that make a person vulnerable to severe illness from coronavirus: age, obesity, diabetes and hypertension. The areas that he says were “flashing red” as having high rates of all of those are Louisiana and its neighbors Alabama and Mississippi.

“This is what we believe happened in Bergamo,” he said, referring to a region of Italy that has been hit hard by the virus. “It was a lot of vulnerable people living together in close quarters that caused the devastation.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/coronavirus-new-orleans-mardi-gras/2020/03/26/8c8e23c8-6fbb-11ea-b148-e4ce3fbd85b5_story.html?outputType=amp

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"COVID-19 Relative Risk Factors Comparison per State"

https://www.covidalliance.com/interactive-data-tools

The interactive map represents a relative risk profile of counties within each state. The red areas on the map represent regions with higher relative risk compared to the white ones. To categorize counties e produced a score that ranges from 0 to 6, 6 being the highest risk. For each of the risk factors a county can be given 2, 1, or 0 points if it belongs to the top 25%, top 50%, or bottom 50% of counties in the state, respectively. The risk profile was created on the basis of three categories – hypertension, diabetes, and obesity.

We have overlaid the number of known COVID-19 cases in the form of blue circles on top of the corresponding county.[i/]