How is the USA doing in this pandemic?

[Need answers]

Is there any good news? Please refrain from blaming anyone. Thank you.

 

[HTacianas]

Is there any good news? Please refrain from blaming anyone. Thank you.

Depends on what your criteria is. I've been looking at statistics and the only truly reliable number is deaths per million of population. But even that is skewed slightly. Comparatively, the US is doing fairly well.

 

[charsan]

Is there any good news? Please refrain from blaming anyone. Thank you.

Once they open the place back up there will be happiness

 

[loveofourlord]

Once they open the place back up there will be happiness

WOW I've never seen someone misspell anger and sadness so poorly I mean you used one word for it, please spell check.l

 

[solid_core]

How is the USA doing in this pandemic?
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So far, still better than the EU.

 

[Michie]

Is there any good news? Please refrain from blaming anyone. Thank you.

I think there is a plan for reopening soon. Just praying it is done safely and people follow the guidelines. It won’t be as before but it’s something. Praying for a safe, effective vaccine to come quickly.

 

[Monna]

Sure! air pollution is down, emitted Greenhouse Gases are down, we can hear the birds again, families are spending more time together again ... we are finding new ways to do distance teaching for kids, we are learning how to use technology more effectively for remote and dispersed meetings (why go back to having dozens of people fly thousands of miles for a 3 hour meeting, when you can hold it online?), home burglaries are down, road accidents and road deaths are down. etc etc.

Necessity is the mother of invention. A lot of innovation is happening now, in many many fields, because of the stresses imposed on society by the response to covid-19.

Read John 9 and get a glimpse of how Jesus viewed misfortune! ... miracles waiting to happen. In my county, the health services asked for basic service support to free up nurses and doctors to spend all their time in healing. Literally thousands responded! And the number of young people who have signed up for health related university programs (especially nursing) has increased this year enormously.

Look around - there are amazing things happening, positive things, if we will just open our eyes to see!!! And we need to see these things when there is so much gloom around.

We have had western Easter, eastern orthodox Easter is upon us. If there's anything that Easter symbolizes it is that Life, not death, has the last say. And meanwhile it also tells us, that life comes out of death! So lift up your spirits, find and share the hope that is there, be a part of all the positives!
God bless!

 

[loveofourlord]

Sure! air pollution is down, emitted Greenhouse Gases are down, we can hear the birds again, families are spending more time together again ... we are finding new ways to do distance teaching for kids, we are learning how to use technology more effectively for remote and dispersed meetings (why go back to having dozens of people fly thousands of miles for a 3 hour meeting, when you can hold it online?), home burglaries are down, road accidents and road deaths are down. etc etc.

Necessity is the mother of invention. A lot of innovation is happening now, in many many fields, because of the stresses imposed on society by the response to covid-19.

Read John 9 and get a glimpse of how Jesus viewed misfortune! ... miracles waiting to happen. In my county, the health services asked for basic service support to free up nurses and doctors to spend all their time in healing. Literally thousands responded! And the number of young people who have signed up for health related university programs (especially nursing) has increased this year enormously.

Look around - there are amazing things happening, positive things, if we will just open our eyes to see!!! And we need to see these things when there is so much gloom around.

We have had western Easter, eastern orthodox Easter is upon us. If there's anything that Easter symbolizes it is that Life, not death, has the last say. And meanwhile it also tells us, that life comes out of death! So lift up your spirits, find and share the hope that is there, be a part of all the positives!
God bless!

on not so good news, rats are cannibilizing in new york, and I expect to see more cougar/wolf attacks and such in areas with high compliance rates.

 

[Chesterton]

Everything's mostly normal here, except the wet market hasn't had any bat lately.

 

[eleos1954]

Is there any good news? Please refrain from blaming anyone. Thank you.

Coronavirus chronicles: Here's some good news amid the dire reports

 

[Michie]

I’ve been inspired by people’s creativity and still socializing while distancing. Birthday parades, neighborhood scavenger hunts. Neighborhood bingo games where the prizes are rolls of tp, sanitizer, etc. the cute grandma that held up a sign she was out of beer....

I live in the woods but it’s nice to see on the news.

 

[charsan]

I think there is a plan for reopening soon. Just praying it is done safely and people follow the guidelines. It won’t be as before but it’s something. Praying for a safe, effective vaccine to come quickly.

There may never be a vaccine. There are many deadly diseases deadlier than this that have no vaccine. We have to be careful like no touching our face, wash hands often then, face mask (I am going to wear a clown mask ) and enjoy life.

 

[Michie]

There may never be a vaccine. There are many deadly diseases deadlier than this that have no vaccine. We have to be careful like no touching our face, wash hands often then, face mask (I am going to wear a clown mask ) and enjoy life.

Clown mask??? Nooooooooo!

 

[Michie]

No more Yelp reviews!!!

oops! Noticed a bad word.

 

[charsan]

There may never be a vaccine. There are many deadly diseases deadlier than this that have no vaccine. We have to be careful like no touching our face, wash hands often then, face mask (I am going to wear a clown mask ) and enjoy life.

I forgot along with hand wash and a mask, carry toilet paper

 

[Michie]

 

[Halbhh]

Is there any good news? Please refrain from blaming anyone. Thank you.

New York -- the denest city with the most imported cases and biggest outbreak, that was the U.S. epicenter, has very competently managed the crisis with great innovation and effort, with very good management from Govenor Cuomo. And New York has gotten through the worst peak, though daily deaths are still quite high, and were recently revised sharply upward as they have just begun to count about 300 per day of deaths they had been missing (and there are more also no doubt that haven't been counted).

New York has shown we can do it.

While many other regions are still approaching their own peak times, but we've shown we can do this, as well as can be done at this point after the lengthy delays in Feburary and March getting started.

It looks like we can hold the deaths in a neighborhood like 100,000 or less (even perhaps under 70,000 (remembering the difficulty in accounting for all the deaths that weren't diganosed but look to have been from this virus)).

We could have this good outcome if we don't have new large outbreaks that are allowed to build.

Another great piece of news from a while back: the very quick test (5 to 13 minutes!) machine developed by Abbott lab is now in use in many places (though still limited in many places by lack of testing reagent cartridges the machines use). Therefore it is possible we could choose as a nation to buy more of these quick test machines and put them to work in more places in a big way (with large guaranteed contracts for instance), which would help a lot in tracking down new infection better, saving more lives.

The good news is that this kind of big expansion of rapid testing has become a possible thing we could do, if we choose to do.

So it's possible to transistion to a good situation like South Korea -- where people can work, and widespread testing and contact tracing keeps the general population safe to a large degree (far better than we have had).

Our stay at home effort that has slowed the virus greatly (where people followed it), and these new technologies, make it possible for the U.S. to become successful like South Korea.

That's great news -- that it is possible to get to that better situation.

 

[loveofourlord]

There may never be a vaccine. There are many deadly diseases deadlier than this that have no vaccine. We have to be careful like no touching our face, wash hands often then, face mask (I am going to wear a clown mask ) and enjoy life.

well it depends on A) how fast it evolves, something like HIV evolves too fast to vaccinate for, but something like chicken pox barly mutates in ways taht makes you lose imunity. We will have to see where this one lies. and B) a disease that is super rare and kills fast like ebola wasn't a concern till it got out of control.

 

[sfs]

There may never be a vaccine. There are many deadly diseases deadlier than this that have no vaccine.

I'm trying to think of deadlier infectious diseases that have both no effective treatment and no vaccine and I can't come up with any that cause more than a handful of cases.

 

[charsan]

I'm trying to think of deadlier infectious diseases that have both no effective treatment and no vaccine and I can't come up with any that cause more than a handful of cases.

One in tiawan (sp) that went in the brain and kils fast, no vaccine for it. Plus compare to the other things we have COVID is not that deadly.