Week of Mar 21: COVID-19 info, facts & updates

[BlackCurtains]

Florida is nearly at 3000 cases. Almost 500 people are hospitalized and there's been 34 deaths.

[Pokeyonekenobie]

Utah is at 480 confirmed cases and had our 2nd death.  This time it was a woman, not yet 60, who had underlying health conditions.  The Utah governor has issued a "Stay Safe Stay Home" directive, emphasizing social distancing and not going out just to go out but it's not a firm shelter in place kind of order just yet.  The library where I work is cancelling the pick up service and will now mail out the books people want, so I'll still get to work but I might actually get some of my projects done.

[Taffeta]

Our PM has Coronavirus. So does the Secretary of State for Health. And, possibly, the Chief Medical Officer. I am not sure if this indicates negligence or that they're putting themselves on the front line.

NICE guidelines got questioned by NAS (National Autistic Society) as they seemed to indicate disadvantage for any patients taken to hospital with autism, which gave me a minor heart attack - but NICE have clarified it now so (breathes deeply).

Some great stuff on Channel 4 tonight about a village in Scotland taking things into their own hands to deal with the problem, getting supplies from local companies and setting up a sign-in-window communication system (green tick = ok, red cross = not okay) with a local patrol constantly checking and alerting where help is needed.

In more local news, one more death over the district border into the county proper. In terms of my particular authority, 17 cases (+5) and still 2 confirmed deaths.

Our proper shopping order came this morning bang on time with almost everything we ordered exactly as ordered plus an extra loaf of bread which we cannot of course give back because h&s and distancing so we have extra bread all of a sudden.

The light has died in our bathroom, and of course nobody is coming to fix it any time soon.

[Mareacooda]

My state now 168 case 1 death... couple counties like mine no cases...
Talk complete shut not allow non residents in the state ..  Rumors claim non residents flocking in try excape virus...
 

Most cases States

1. New York 37877
2. New Jersey 5398
3. California 3899
4. Washington 3138
5. Michigan 2838

Most Cases by City

1. New York City 21873
2. Westchester 5944
3. Nassau 3914
4. King 1577
5. Los Angeles 1229

[KarentheUnicorn]

John Hopkins has a great interactive map for the whole world.
You can click on the fields and even zoom in on the map, etc.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

[banditpony]

This is also a good resource where you can click on states and see county break downs:
https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/en

It also has charts and graphs.

Maybe next time this weekly thread is made, this link and https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html can be in the first post as a resource?

[Ponyfan]

50 cases so far in my region, 31 of those are in my county.  8 cases are directly connected to a nursing home.  Only 5 people have been hospitalized so far.

My uncle that I mentioned a few days ago has died.  I still don't know if it was from the virus or another cause.

My dad had to go to the hardware store today to get a part.  He had to stand for 30 minutes outside the store before he could get in and said the store was enforcing social distancing even in the check out lanes.


Ponyfan

[Gator]

Georgia now past 2000 cases and 65 deaths.  My county now seven cases and first death.

[BlackCurtains]

My uncle that I mentioned a few days ago has died.  I still don't know if it was from the virus or another cause.

I'm so sorry

[Ponybookworm]

My uncle that I mentioned a few days ago has died.  I still don't know if it was from the virus or another cause.

I'm so sorry

[Koudoawaia]

Oh Ponyfan..I am so sorry

[LadyMoondancer]

I'm so sorry, Ponyfan.

[Taffeta]

Ponyfan, I am so sorry.

On the subject of links in the first post of new covid threads it would be more helpful to include global information and not just that pertaining to the US. Remember we are all dealing with it...CDC guidelines alone is also limited given many badly affected places are nit subject to CDC.

County maps of the US and nothing for other countries defeats the object of this as a global thread.

[Barnacle_lady]

Hugs from me Ponyfan.

[banditpony]

County maps of the US and nothing for other countries defeats the object of this as a global thread.

USA has states. And within states are counties. I watch world wide, but sometimes certain information that shows all countries shows the map of the US as one solid thing-- instead of showing where hot spots are.

Also, the link I provided also shows trajectories and graphs of comparing different countries. It's not completely US-centric. Just the map part is.

I'd happily look at interactive maps of other countries. I'm just a visual person.