Coronavirus Sars-CoV-2/Covid-19 Megathread

[Barrister]

Queen's speech was very well done.

[Monoriu]

Hail Majesty!  Hail Majesty!  Hail Majesty!

[mongers]

Queen's speech was very well done.

Indeed. 

[Zanza]

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-testing

[DGuller]

Can someone do the math for me? Based on those charts, how long until Oregon hits Lombardy numbers? In days, please.

Assuming exponential growth, at present rate, it'll take 19 days to reach all of Italy as of today.  Not sure what the Lombardy number is.

Good news!  By now the number of cases in Oregon should've increased by a factor of 6.6 from when this post was made, if the growth rate at the time persisted.  It only increased by a factor of 5.  That's, , progress?

[merithyn]

Can someone do the math for me? Based on those charts, how long until Oregon hits Lombardy numbers? In days, please.

Assuming exponential growth, at present rate, it'll take 19 days to reach all of Italy as of today.  Not sure what the Lombardy number is.

Good news!  By now the number of cases in Oregon should've increased by a factor of 6.6 from when this post was made, if the growth rate at the time persisted.  It only increased by a factor of 5.  That's, , progress?

Yay!  And yeah, I'd heard we're doing better than initially expected because of the lockdown. I'll take it as a win.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Interesting data from Australia, at 6:33 :

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-52178501

Despite schools and most shops remaining open the number of new cases is plummeting. They are practising social distancing but also have undisciplined anti-social bellends just like in Blighty.

It is a spacious country of course; but otoh over 80% of the population live in 5 or 6 cities.

Might indicate a way forward for the rest of us.

[Josquius]

I really hope Johnson doesn't die, because after the virus crisis is finally over, I want him to face up to mini-disaster that his 'authorship' of Brexit debate/process will turned out to be.   

Sadly with corona I think they'll be able to nicely cover that up

[Tamas]

I really hope Johnson doesn't die, because after the virus crisis is finally over, I want him to face up to mini-disaster that his 'authorship' of Brexit debate/process will turned out to be.   

Sadly with corona I think they'll be able to nicely cover that up

Yeah it will be all "OMG if Covid-19 didn't happen Brexit would have been SUCH A SUCCESS. But now because of the virus we are experiencing this ten year recession".

[Syt]

Tigers in Bronx Zoo test positive for Covid-19:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/04/tiger-coronavirus-covid19-positive-test-bronx-zoo/

[The Brain]

Tigers in Bronx Zoo test positive for Covid-19:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/04/tiger-coronavirus-covid19-positive-test-bronx-zoo/

Will they have to be put in a cage or fenced off area?

[Sheilbh]

Some of the hardest hit parts of Italy don't have public transportation like subways and are smaller towns/cities.

Just because you live in Alabama doesn't mean your nursing home is some how a rural snowflake. These places are going to get devestated all across the country.

Also the number of states that are keeping religious gatherings open ahead of, probably, the second bigggest day of the year for churches strikes me as possibly fairly risky.

Edit: On religious gatherings, Deliveroo is offering Jewish customers Passover kits given that they might be socially isolating or not able to get to all the shops, which is nice.

[Gups]

Tigers in Bronx Zoo test positive for Covid-19:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/04/tiger-coronavirus-covid19-positive-test-bronx-zoo/

I'm sceptical. Most people practice social distancing with tigers in any event.

[Syt]

Austrian government has presented a timetable.

Facemasks become mandatory in public from next week (not sure where people are supposed to get masks, but ok ...)

Starting 14th April, small shops under 400 square meters will be permitted to open again, plus big home improvement stores and garden centers. All under the same safety rules as supermarkets - keeping distance, wearing facemasks etc.

Starting May 1st, all other shops and malls where client/shop staff aren't in close contact will be permitted to open again, same rules apply.

Bars, restaurants, and other businesses to follow mid-May at earliest.

The general ban on going outside (except for food shopping, going to work, medical reasons, or catch fresh air/exercise) stays in effect until at least end of April.

All events like concerts, football games etc. remain banned till end of June.

All this is obviously tentative.

EDIT: daily rate of (reported) new infections is below numbers of people recovering, apparently.

[Josquius]

Tigers in Bronx Zoo test positive for Covid-19:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/04/tiger-coronavirus-covid19-positive-test-bronx-zoo/

Well this is worrying.
If tigers can get it...
You can take our old people but leave our dogs alone.