Gene DellaSala Has Coronavirus

47 states to go KY canceled schools starting Monday for 3 weeks.

I went to Costco today. The place was a zoo. No bottled water, paper towels or toilet paper left. Just empty shelves. No problems in the wine and Vodka sections though, thankfully.

Nonoise ...

You know that guy whose name cannot be mentioned here? Well, 46,000,000 of your fellow citizens put Mr. No Name into office and agree with what he’s doing and the results attained so far. A certain percentage of those 46,000,000 are audiophiles. And a certain percentage of those audiophiles post on this site. You might want to take that into consideration before posting certain things. I do respect your passion though.

Frank

geoffkait20,213 posts03-12-2020 1:55pmIn Italy the numbers are 15,113 and 1,000. Do the math.

The data-set in Italy will prove to be much different than America.
The median age here in America is 38.3 year and in Italy it's 47.3. it's the oldest country age wise in Europe.

Scientific Journal notes that most deaths in Italy are from people in their 80's and 90's. (By coincidence I was just driving back to my office and a Radio show stated the average age of death due to Coronavirus in Italy is 81)

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-deaths-from-coronavirus-are-so-high-in-italy/

One factor affecting the country’s death rate may be the age of its population—Italy has the oldest population in Europe, with about 23% of residents 65 or older, according to The New York Times. The median age in the country is 47.3, compared with 38.3 in the United States, the Times reported. Many of Italy’s deaths have been among people in their 80s, and 90s, a population known to be more susceptible to severe complications from COVID-19, according to The Local.

Given Italy’s older population, “you would expect their mortality rate to be higher on average, all else being held equal,” compared with a country with a younger population, Gordon told Live Science.

Scientific Journal also noted that the mortality rate in Wuhan where the Virus originated is much much higher than the rest of China:

A recent report from WHO found that the fatality rate was 5.8% in Wuhan, compared with 0.7% in the rest of the country, Live Science previously reported.

Scientific Journal also reprots that as preparedness and testing expands, Mortality rates drop.

Finally, the country may not be catching many of the mild cases of COVID-19. Often, as testing expands within a community, more mild cases are found, which lowers the overall death rate, Gordon said. This was the case in South Korea, which conducted more than 140,000 tests and found a fatality rate of 0.6%, according to Business Insider.

No shirt, Sherlock.

Say, aren’t you the math wizard who posted this earlier today?

”Initially as noted earlier here, the initial numbers in China were showing the approximate same projected mortality rate as our early numbers. Now with a much larger pool of data it’s less than 1/2 of 1%.”

Do they think the water supply is going to dry up??