President Trump wore a mask in public for the first time Saturday, more than three months after public health officials from his own administration recommended that all Americans cover their face when social distancing was not possible.
Trump’s decision to don a mask during a trip to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center followed several months of controversy over his reluctance to abide by public health guidelines even as coronavirus cases surged nationwide. Before wearing the navy-colored mask Saturday, Trump had disparaged his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, for wearing a mask and publicly downplayed the importance of face coverings.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...0fb_story.html
glad to see this
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One of the mysteries in recent weeks is why deaths in New Jersey remain so high. Cases have come down a lot. It is a sort of the reverse of the situation in other states where cases went up sharply but deaths didn't. Reporting lags might be the answer in both situations.
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nsacpi (07-11-2020)
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Two questions come to mind
1) Which month does this graph end
2) The numbers on top of each spike. Do they represent a single peak month? If so it is a bit misleading because COVID has been killing people for over 4 months now. The right comparison would be something like a four month total compared with other periods when the four-month total was high.
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The 1026 is overall deaths. You ideally want the gap between the solid and dotted lines. That's your excess mortality number. And you want to sum it up over an appropriate number of months.
The point I'm making is one month of COVID might be similar to one bad month of flu. But there are two differences. One is COVID is now a multi-month phenomenon in Sweden and elsewhere. So you need to take that into consideration. The other difference is that Sweden has implemented various measures (plus spontaneous behavioral changes) that you don't see during the flu season. So in a sense one month of COVID (with social distancing etc) is like one bad flu month.
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I can't understand how these experts aren't being bowed down to
lmao that sturg is still whining about "experts." grow up man.
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What happens when you do the right things and get your country back on track
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This happened in Virginia too
goldfly (07-12-2020)
goldfly (07-12-2020)
Over 15,000 new cases reported by Florida.
Testing way up. That's good to see.
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