+1, CDC and FDA have been laughably behind the 8-ball as well, limiting testing and for a time requiring that Covid-19 tests also test for SARS and MERS. Those restrictions have been lifted and tests should become broadly available very quickly, but institutional response to this thing has been very poor.

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A Vegas quarantine would certainly allow them to redefine "what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas" LOL!

I feel sorry for the businesses being irreparably harmed by the fear-mongering that is going on. People need to just use common sense.

Have you actually read about whats going on in Italy? An advanced country of 60m people and the 9th largest economy in the world is shut down. Do you think they did that because of 'fear mongering'.

Italians have one of the healthiest lifestyles in the world too. Who knows what this virus will do once it's out in the fattest nation on earth.

Current temps in Qatar are lows in the 60s, highs in the upper 70s. Not hot enough to judge the effect (or lack thereof) on the virus. Also, the seasonal effect may have more to do with the tilt of the earth than the temps. During winter, the northern hemisphere doesn't get as much UV-B radiation due to the tilt and therefore there is less Vitamin D photosynthesis in human bodies.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3092571/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3897598/

It seems the **** is hitting the fan today.

It's not a total mystery why this disease is affecting old people more than the young.
It's something to do with the efficiency of cilia cells; the hair-like structures responsible for moving mucus around the lungs, keeping them lubricated etc.
The viruses responsible for SARS/MERS are known to specifically attack cilia cells in the lungs. If those cilia cells don't work well there is a build-up of debris and mucus, leading to breathing problems. [Source: Nat Geo]
The cilia cells of children literally beat at higher frequencies than those of adults. [Source: BMJ]

Basically, old people are more likely to suffer terrible consequences of Covid-19, because their lungs are already slow and full of scar tissue. Put it this way: an 80-year old has experienced eight decades of life, and their lungs have had to cope with other viruses, pollution, and cigarette smoke, for 80 years. Kids have healthier lungs that can still effectively 'clean' themselves.
In short, it's not really age that causes death from this illness. It's lung health. Children generally have healthier lungs, with more effective cleaning abilities, which is why care homes are full of old people, not children, on oxygen therapy.
Indeed, the reason why infections and deaths are skewed towards the elderly is that the elderly are more likely to be ill already.

This is not to say that young people are completely safe. It's to say that anyone that already has breathing problems (which are more common in the aged) should take extra care.

I think the current estimate of the doubling rate (which constantly changes, as the growth is exponential, not linear) for the world excluding China (which has already peaked) is six days. But the doubling is happening much faster in the US, isn't it?
If 6 days was the doubling rate for the US, and there are 1010 cases today, you could expect
2020 cases by 17th March.
4040 by the 23rd.
8080 by 29th of March.

So there would be about 10,000 confirmed US cases by the end of March if the doubling rate was - and stayed at - six days. If the doubling rate is four days (like it currently is in the UK), the number of cases by the end of the month will be much higher.
On https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus it says the current doubling rate in the US is.... one day. Yikes!

There's only 300,000 citizens and 3 million total people in that country I think. Gonna suck to be a foreign worker there because there's about 0% chance they'll get to stay in a hospital bed if a citizen needs one.

Doubling rate in countries like USA is hard to figure because we still aren't actively testing. We probably had 5000 cases last week. When you start looking you will start finding more cases.

"Testing for the coronavirus in Nevada has increased by 12 times over the past week, as labs have tested 168 people whose results have come back negative, according to the state Department of Health and Human Services.

That number was just 14 a week earlier on March 4.

Nevada health officials are also monitoring 164 people who have traveled to a region where the virus is more widespread or come into close contact with a traveler from one of those regions. A total of 341 people have completed monitoring without developing any symptoms, officials said."

What is the "monitoring" process? This is different than self quarantine?

You do realize that teams that miss out on the NCAA AND the NIT are barely in the top 100, right? It is not exactly a hugely popular event. The virus excuse gives them a way to put that tournament out of its misery, never to be heard from again...

The winner of that tournament is the best of the teams that not only could not crack the NCAA bracket but then were crappy enough not even to be in the 32-team NIT field.

FWIW, Pokershares has cancelled the market on the number of Covid cases in the US. #EverythingIsCancelled

FWIW, I think that due to the incubation period and the slowness of testing, the number of actual cases is likely to be a magnitude greater than officially reported. i.e. There are possibly over 15,000 people in Washington state that are already infected.

what is the worst that can happen?

Nobody cares about those teams but it makes an impact to the sports betting world and sports books.

Yea, I saw that went away this morning.

The NO, Main Event won't play out just took the lead tho -111 to -110.

And so it begins ..

Last week, USA#9 tested almost nobody -- you had to have been to Wuhan or South Korea to warrant getting a test, and tests weren't available at all in many places. As USA#9's testing capability ramps up, we'll see a huge spike in cases in the short term, which is just the testing catching up to reality. I would expect to see the doubling rate be much higher for the next week than it is after that.

With all due respect I think you are the one being irrational here. This is a very serious issue and these businesses declaring the media is fear mongering are choosing money and profits over human life. Why would you feel sorry for them? Its disgusting.

welp I should cancel my trip in late may but im a dumbass and wont unless we are fully quarantined