Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[Nautilus]

SvennoJ said:

John2290 said:

I watched the conference but perhaps I missed something cause I missed that 480,000 calculation, did they address the fees of all this? Will it be free to people? Will the government fund these hospitalizations or will it have to cross a certain trehold of severity and with so many sick surely they have to write the cost of this off as the US starts to rebuild or get the reigns back on the economy. Did they even adress if tests will be free? 

And what is the time frame on these deaths and how many whitin the intital spike? Any info there?

I have no idea. I did read somewhere that tests would be free but that could be a different country, I start getting them all mixed up. US did reserve 1 trillion to fight the pandemic I think.

That estimate is the worst case scenario if we don't act. It's to get people to start taking this seriously. If we contain it, it will be a fraction of that, hopefully.

Nautilus said:

Considering the incubation period, the crisis lasting somewhere around 1 to 2 months was expected.

The question is then what. After we contain this by essentially shutting the country down, any vaccine is likely still a year out. And it's 1 to 2 months to reach its current peak. Wuhan is still not in the clear and I would like to know more about what China is doing now to stop it from spreading again.

Then we go back to the point I was trying to make.People have to live their lifes.Take the necessary measures, but nothing more can be done about it without a vaccine or a cure.