Coronavirus Updates: COVID-19 Spread Shows Signs of Slowing (Gothamist)

[bronxiteforever]

BY ELIZABETH KIM
MARCH 31, 2020 8:36 A.M.

In a sign that the social distancing measures may be working, the rate of new hospitalizations for COVID-19 patients has continued to show signs of slowing down: as of Monday, the rate is doubling every six days, a decline from doubling every two days earlier in March.
Over the last week, Governor Andrew Cuomo has pointed out this promising trend line, which for the time being, continues to creep up. Last Tuesday, the rate of hospitalization was doubling in less than five days.

... On Monday, the New York Times reported on another piece of potentially positive data—drops in fever levels of Americans across most of the country. Kinsa Health, a company which produces internet-connected thermometers and typically tracks flu patterns, has created a national map of fever temperatures. As of Wednesday, fevers have either remained steady or dropped across the country, with the exception of parts of New Mexico and Colorado and New Orleans.... In Manhattan, the percentage of those reporting fevers has gone down since March 17th, the week in which schools and bars and restaurants were closed.

It is important to note that neither of the two trends means that COVID-19 cases are declining. The number of cases and deaths are expected to peak in the coming week... But the data does seem to show that distancing measures have been successful in slowing the spread of the virus.


https://gothamist.com/news/coronavirus-updates-covid-19-spread-shows-signs-slowing

[SWBTATTReg]

1. A small sign of perhaps progress...nt

[Initech]

2. This is not the best news, but I'll take it!

[GemDigger]

3. Maybe in NY it is but the rest of the country...

… not so much. It is just starting to go berserk here.

[Maru Kitteh]

4. And here in Montana, we STILL can't get any damn tests! Only 279 swabs given yesterday.

279! That's PATHETIC.

[GemDigger]

6. I just read somewhere that Bullock asked for more tests because we will be running out today.

I can't remember where I read it. Will try and find the link but no promises.

[Maru Kitteh]

10. It was on a conference call with Trump and other Governors. CNN played the audio.

Trump replied "I haven't heard anything about testing being a problem."

[GemDigger]

15. That is what his reply was too?!!

I heard the answer but not the question or who it was from. What a bumbling asshole!!!

[Brainfodder]

5. Yup, next month is going to be very very awful in highly populated areas of states that had....

Shitty governance!

Plus all that Fox News piped in poppycock and worse (hate radio) for too long...

[GemDigger]

7. It is us that are not in the big cities getting screwed. Everyone wants to come here

to their second (or maybe third homes) to spread it because they felt unsafe in their first homes. We have a great Governor but he can't do it alone.

[Maru Kitteh]

11. Oh shit. The snowbirds. I don't know why I didn't even think of them. We're screwed.

[GemDigger]

14. This didn't help my mood any this morning, check it out.

https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/coronavirus/vacation-rental-data-suggests-visitors-seeking-shelter-in-montana/article_bd1d0780-5406-5ad2-b2a6-c0cd7f93f014.html

LIVINGSTON — One day late last week, Dan Vermillion, owner of Sweetwater Travel in Livingston, woke up to a flurry of emails.
There were seven different requests to book his vacation rentals for up to six months. Normally, a booking is three days, five days, maybe a week.
“Something had changed very quickly,” Vermillion said.

I imagine it is the same over the whole western part of the state.

[Maru Kitteh]

19. Ugh. :-(

[Brainfodder]

12. Oh yeah, the side effect spreads are just NUTS too.

I thought of this gross morsel just a minute ago.

All the didn't get married couples with one dying from this fucking thing, all the headaches and no wills, and that ugly shit!

Lawyers are going to be overwhelmed at the end, which, yeah say it with me now: OVERWHELMS COURTS!
and guess who just filled courts with a bunch of unqualified folks?

What a clever devil!

[GemDigger]

16. I hadn't thought of that. How horrible this

will be for those people who will not only be mourning from their loss but also have to deal with unqualified judges.

[Brainfodder]

17. After this HELL: We need to consider a complete national restart, including the Constitution?

[raccoon]

20. And get rid of the Senate! NT

[bronxiteforever]

8. Yes the first stat is just for N.Y. The temperature stat

I don’t know how to take.
Good luck and stay healthy.

[GemDigger]

9. I hope people don't think that they can relax because of it.

You stay safe as well, thank you.

[bronxiteforever]

13. +1 agree totally, this is a marathon made worse by 🍊 nero.

[uponit7771]

18. ***NO!!*** That's the rate of hospitalizations ... NOT ... spread. We need unrestricted

... testing to know about spread, people could still be getting infected at a growing rate but not being hospitalized.

The slowing hospitalization is good number but even that could be because everyone knows that's where you go to get worse.

We need nationwide unrestricted par per capita testing ... we don't have that yet