This Thread Blows - C19 and beyond

mfennell said:
The death rate for flu last year was less than 1% for 65 and older. In China, the results for Covid-19 seem to be a bit over 10. 80+ is 14.8%.
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It’s seems like the rates are way skewed considering the lack of testing.

Can anyone say for sure that a few million more people had it, didn’t suffer severe symptoms, and got better, and therefore were never tested?

That would have a dramatic impact on the death rates.
 
mfennell said:
Sign your parents up too? 19 dead at a single facility in Seattle. The death rate for flu last year was less than 1% for 65 and older. In China, the results for Covid-19 seem to be a bit over 10. 80+ is 14.8%.
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yes of course, anything can kill old people at a home....Flu, colds, pneumonia....very dangerous. So yes, you use common sense with elderly people with weakened immune systems, but they are not at my sons school. Personally, Im not buying that anyone knows what the death rate is for covid-19 since nobody has been testing for it until the past few days.....I can tell you that if you walked into my wifes ER last week and asked to be tested....they wouldn't do it unless you told them you were at this home in seattle.....they wouldn't test her last week if she asked since she had no recent travel history or reason to be tested. Meantime she is dealing with patients with these symptoms all day every day....that dont test positive for the flu or strep. They know what the death rate is for cases bad enough to hospitalize and kill people, but most cases arent anywhere near this bad.
mfennell said:
We are keeping facilities open but they are strongly encouraging work from home. No meetings with more than 20 people (even at customer request). Travel was already drastically curtailed (requires approval of a corporate officer in our ~10k person company). They expect these limits to remain in place for at least two months.
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and im totally on board with this, most of us that do office work wont be affected by working from home...I mean why not.....Closing schools tho, thats idiotic. Especially since kids seem to be the least affected.
 
so it's okay to let the student body take classes remotely (people that pay) but it's not okay to let people work from home that you (employer) have to pay. I see how this works.
 
ekuhn said:
Rutgers makes Online Class move after spring break.

www.nj.com

N.J. coronavirus: Rutgers cancels classes, will go online after spring break

The university is following steps taken by other colleges to combat the coronavirus outbreak.
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These kids going to catch anything on spring break? If so - leave it at home!

If youve survived a frat party or a crazy night at Court Tavern or Scarlet Pub - you'll be fine....
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RPI just went online, and requested that the students don't return from spring break because of limited services
 
An old client cancelled a large off site conference last week.

Cost $1 million.

This is clearly going to affect the economy quite a bit.

For context, the year of the Spanish flu, the U.S. economy contracted 5%.
 
mfennell said:
Sign your parents up too? 19 dead at a single facility in Seattle. The death rate for flu last year was less than 1% for 65 and older. In China, the results for Covid-19 seem to be a bit over 10. 80+ is 14.8%.

Listening to an all-hands at work right now. We have been getting internal updates since Jan 28 as the situation unfolds. It is true that so far seasonal flu affects many more people and kills many more. It's not about where Covid-19 IS it's where it's GOING. Cases are doubling about every 4 days in the US. That is not a good trajectory.

We are keeping facilities open but they are strongly encouraging work from home. No meetings with more than 20 people (even at customer request). Travel was already drastically curtailed (requires approval of a corporate officer in our ~10k person company). They expect these limits to remain in place for at least two months.

Our CTO has an MD from Harvard Medical (and a PhD in chemical engineering from MIT because why not, I guess). I'm going to trust his judgement here.
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I have to say, I like the response I’m seeing from companies/entities making on their own, absent commands from on high.

Other updates:
Pearl Jam has decided to postpone their tour.

And my boss sent an email saying she’s fine with us working from home.
I’m 2 days ahead of you.
I thanked her for her leadership.
 
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