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(51,104 posts)still_one
(92,595 posts)incubation period
That is why it is so important to keep the shelter in place going until the current numbers are negligible, before considering opening some things up
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Fkn repukes are going to kill even more people, en masse! 🤬
TN Gov Lee must be putting the pressure on mayors. Memphis is looking at how to open hair & nail salons! WTF cares about getting those services now?
Would you go for a haircut or manicure so someone who works 1:1 with people all day could breathe over your head or in your face?
kentuck
(111,111 posts)They are hurting him.
uponit7771
(90,378 posts)... that means we're under testing for sure
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)These sorts of visuals have conspicuously absent from most e-print media!
Doodley
(9,191 posts)dawg
(10,626 posts)maybe it will. We're about two weeks past where it crested, so if it's going to start dropping it should do so soon.
The alternative is that we've only managed to reduce the effective R0 to around 1.0, so the infection will continue to spread at these levels until it has burned all the way through to herd immunity. (Which would be such a horrific shit show, that most people aren't even allowing themselves to think that it might be possible.)
Igel
(35,404 posts)If the number of tests performed drops, it will drop.
If the number of tests performed increases, it will increase.
dawg
(10,626 posts)I know personally of a forty-something year-old who had flu-like symptoms and then suddenly died. They were never tested and probably won't be tested posthumously.
No one knows the real number of infections and deaths, but they are certainly being undercounted.
kentuck
(111,111 posts)They do not want the tests.
lostnfound
(16,208 posts)Because so many dont have symptoms and so many are never tested.
Seems inevitable that this will not go away for at least 18 months, coming and going in waves.
Since I dont count on Dumbo doing anything but aggravate the situation, Im thinking about worst case. A 5:1 ratio would drop below 1:1 when 80% of public has been exposed. Some amount of behavior change on the part of the same parts of our society, plus improved treatments that shorten the infection period, might bring that raw number down to 50%.
Delphinus
(11,850 posts)people tested before going back to work. It's insane to think about opening things up until more testing is done. What did Pence say the other day 3.3 millions - 1% of the population?
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