Coronavirus Sars-CoV-2/Covid-19 Megathread

[celedhring]

We are having several outbreaks in the zone around the border between Aragon and Catalonia. It's an agricultural area that employs a lot of immigrant work. Cramped living quarters, and not being able to afford skipping work because of feeling unwell - a bad combo for Covid.

A few municipalities in the area have had new restrictions enforced.

[Tamas]

I guess the Excel-based throttling of the virus that Britain attempted would indeed be the most practical compromise between lockdown and hospital armageddon. Unfortunately the British experiment has also shown that this won't really work.

[Josquius]

Spain's unemployment rose by 5,000 people in the month of June. It's the worst June since 2008 but at the same time it's not terrible given how tourism was completely shut down. 1.1 million employees were also taken off furlough schemes (1.8m remain).

5,000 sounds really good. Well within the realm of normal fluctuations for a country so large.

[The Larch]

Spain's unemployment rose by 5,000 people in the month of June. It's the worst June since 2008 but at the same time it's not terrible given how tourism was completely shut down. 1.1 million employees were also taken off furlough schemes (1.8m remain).

5,000 sounds really good. Well within the realm of normal fluctuations for a country so large.

Yeah, it's a low raise, but june is a month when employment usually falls over here, because it's the beginning of the summer season and lots of hirings take place.

[celedhring]

The key here is how many of the people on furlough end up becoming unemployed. That figure of 1.1m being brought back is encouraging, but there's still 1.8m out there, and the summer season is going to be dire.

[alfred russel]

Georgia just published its hospitalization numbers, and they are up over 7% from the day before.

Basically the all time high was 1,500, we fell to about half that, and now we are skyrocketing back up--will probably set an all time high tomorrow--today was 1,459. Hoping those admission standards are really lax these days...

And yesterday hospitalizations were up 8% from the day before. We sailed through the all time high and are at 1,570.

To the stratosphere!

The governor is warning us that if we don't get our act together we may lose college football this year.

[Sheilbh]

As I say, I don't know what the UK trigger is for local lockdowns, but the German one is 50 cases per 100,000.

The New Statesman have done interesting, interactive maps of the UK, Germany, France and the US on infections per 100,000 in local areas:
https://www.newstatesman.com/world/2020/07/maps-show-just-how-disastrous-uss-coronavirus-outbreak

[fromtia]

10,000 new cases in Florida today. Case rate is doubling every 7 days. A patchwork of mitigation efforts by municipalities centered around mask wearing and appeals to social distance. Bars closed. These numbers are quite alarming and I'm wondering how DeSantis is feeling about his victory speech back at the begining of May where he blamed the media for starting a panic and prattled on about freedoms and rights.

There's a potential for lots of dead Floridians by the end of the summer. I sincerely hope hes right, that it's all young people and they wont get very sick and the mortality rate will be low in comparison to previous outbreaks elsewhere.

[PDH]

Good thing there isn't a lot of old folks in Florida.

[FunkMonk]

The Tyrannical Republican Governor Greg ABBOT has mandated face mask usage in Great state of Texas. This Tyranny wont be forgotten!!!11

[alfred russel]

Georgia just published its hospitalization numbers, and they are up over 7% from the day before.

Basically the all time high was 1,500, we fell to about half that, and now we are skyrocketing back up--will probably set an all time high tomorrow--today was 1,459. Hoping those admission standards are really lax these days...

And yesterday hospitalizations were up 8% from the day before. We sailed through the all time high and are at 1,570.

To the stratosphere!

The governor is warning us that if we don't get our act together we may lose college football this year.

Up another 5% to 1,649. Every day a new record. 4th of July fireworks may be extra special this year with our healthcare system simultaneously exploding.

In all seriousness, we still have excess capacity. We should be okay on the 4th.

[PDH]

It's two weeks from now that might be a bit less fun.

[Zoupa]

Don't worry. It's all media panic anyways.

[DGuller]

Hopefully it won't get to the point of having refrigerator trucks out outside of hospitals to store the bodies, like we had in NYC.  I imagine you'd need a lot of fuel to keep these trucks cool in Georgia during the summer.

[HisMajestyBOB]

Hopefully it won't get to the point of having refrigerator trucks out outside of hospitals to store the bodies, like we had in NYC.  I imagine you'd need a lot of fuel to keep these trucks cool in Georgia during the summer.

That's what gators are for.