Yeah it could be partly a cultural thing with the elderly living in nursing homes or on their own in Germany. Germany is also reporting very few (2) serious cases, maybe it's only/mainly spreading among the young in Germany? Or the classification is screwed up as 3 more died today without ever being listed as serious.

No wonder maximum efforts are currently in force to socially distance people. There's simply no knowing how widespread it already is with all this conflicting data and limited actual testing.

Many countries aren't properly reporting them so that column isn't much of use. Germany's been at 2 since the first time I've taken a look on that table.

Some other candidates that are very likely not reporting all serious cases: Iran, Switzerland, USA, Sweden and probably a lot more.

We can. But it probably started in the US and troops participating in WW1 spread it into europe.

424 new cases and 5 new deaths in New York State. 1374 total cases.

Edit: Governor Cuomo just said to expecr us to peak with the number of new cases in 45 days.

Didn't CureVac come out and state that report was false and that no offer was made, and that they had merely been invited to the White House to discuss vaccine development with the US' Coronavirus Task Force along with other companies also working on vaccines?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2020/03/16/german-company-curevac-says-no-offer-trump-coronavirus-vaccine/5062072002/

"By Monday, the White House had dismissed the charge, CureVac said it had no offer from the United States and the German government was meeting about the issue.

CureVac issued a news release on March 3 announcing that its CEO, Daniel Menichella, was invited to the White House to discuss vaccine development with Trump and members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, together with other companies working on vaccines."

Hard to say. The chinese theory is based on lesser infection rates and the assumption they had natural immunity. But it can also be misreporting, the world wasn't as globalized back then can also be a reason or they had immunity from a similar strain. So there are different possible explanations.

Uhoh, 45 days to peak expectsw a pretty high peak. But maybe it's worst case scenario.

Yeah seems like it. He did mention that if he can get NJ and Connecticut to agree to a lock down he will considernlocking down the state. His reasoning was that if he locks down the city people will go to Long Island,  if he locks down the state people will go to CT or NJ.

PA got shutdown yesterday. 

45 days, that's half of the prediction for not doing anything at all. Total lock down shouldn't be longer than 2 weeks to peak (for the incubation period to run its course)

Big world, lots of different strategies. We'll know in a month which was the most successful, what was overkill and what was too little.


France is in total lock down, you need a special form to go outside.

Israel urges its citizens to remain home and go out only for “vital needs and services”. Shopping for food is allowed only if no delvery option is available. Parks, beaches and malls will be off-limits. People will be allowed to exercise outdoors for 10 minutes if nobody is nearby

Austria Vienna Airport’s traffic at bare minimum
rail transport down 70%
Restrictions already in place include:
- gatherings of more than five people are banned
- people are urged to self-isolate
- schools and shops selling non-essential goods are closed
- borders with Italy and Switzerland are closed
- no restrictions in place along the border with Germany which has, however, introduced its own border controls
- visitors from Britain, the Netherlands, Russia and Ukraine can enter only under certain conditions

Most other countries are closing schools, closing restaurants and banning gatherings over 50 people.

Some do less. Holland for example is keeping schools and day cares open for children of people with essential jobs. (From healthcare, to police, stores, transport, media, government). Probably not smart to have these people infecting each other through schools and day cares, just my 2 cents...


The world as a giant beta test for what to do after the initial wave is slowed down :/