Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Excellent points all. I, too, work for a non profit. I was rash and stupid with that one.

 

in the streets of American cities

 

I think that’s an old-school television in the upper right corner.

 

Beat Swine Flu in a two-month span compared to a year

 

He's had it. I think he's balding on top, and the short sides come and go. What's different is that he trimmed hell out of his beard so that it would not interfere when he wears a mask.

 

Adjusted coronavirus model predicts fewer people in US will need hospitals, but 82,000 will still die by August - CNN

 

400 health professionals press HHS on minority access to coronavirus tests

 

Rovell is such a scumbag.
Bezos donates 100 million dollars to food banks, and Rovell takes to twitter basically saying he's a cheap bastard for only donating 100 million.

 

Optimistic or pessimistic, how accurate is any of this data?

 

It's not so much it's inaccurate, it's that it's fragmentary and created through differing methodologies which allows either for it being lumped all together resulting in confusion (bad) or bits lifted out for cherry-picking (worse). How many different charts and graphs have we all seen in the last month? There's no one agreed upon set of metrics to provide an overall view. Considering how new this disease is, that's not surprising, but it is unfortunate. The only things I'd say I know with certainty is that this is all very very bad and that social distancing seems to be working to at least some extent at keeping it from getting worse.