Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[Pyro as Bill]

SpokenTruth said:

This is why the US should have gotten it's ass in gear long ago.  Look at this trajectory as compared to all other major infection nations.  This is as of today.

Not to tempt fate but it looks like the theory in Downing Street might be the right approach.

S. Korea and the UK have done the most testing relative to the outbreak size. The UK is currently increasing from 1000/day to 10000/day. Theory goes that if you plough money into testing instead of pointlessly testing temperature at airports then you'll have the most accurate numbers whereas without accurate test numbers, you'll be further along the curve than you realise.

We haven't done anything major yet except close the odd school. We kept flights going until the airlines stopped them. If you look at the S Korea curve and take into account that some woman from a crazy sect infected over 1000 people alone then their curve would be similar to the UK's and would also be getting quickly overtaken by countries with possibly underreported cases like they are doing now by Iran, Italy and the US.

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/coronavirus-can-south-korea-be-a-model-for-virus-hit-countries

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/opinion/letters/south-korea-coronavirus.html

Last edited by Pyro as Bill - on 11 March 2020