This article explain some of it... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/health/coronavirus-masks-hoarding.html
I think this could sum it up. If you're having to throat swab, IV, and intubate a patient who is very sick and has a huge viral load, a face shield and N-95 mask would be absolutely mandatory (and you need them in supply). If you are just driving to Whole Foods in the suburbs where you might hear someone cough one aisle over, the N-95 mask is totally worthless. You are more likely to get it by picking up the same avacado as some sick person did. So just wash your ****ing hands, please.
So presumably 250 total cases, or so, in the area, most of them unmeasured and untracked. Everybody needs to take a deep breath, (but not near a coughing person), because the numbers are about to take a big jump once they really start measuring more broadly.
Well, exponential growth has been happening. We just don't know exactly how unmeasured the US case load is. But yeah, every two weeks, caseload will increase by 10x, without really serious measures to interrupt it.
Pence sounds like he is on top of things, knowledgeable and well spoken -- he is showing what appears to be legimate compassion -- well done VP.
I have an international flight to Dublin, as well as a flight to Barcelona, a cruise booked from Barcelona, a loft apt in Barcelona, a hotel in Barcelona, cottages in Ireland all booked, all starting at the end of April. Either I take my chances of n 5 weeks of travel or I might be screwed on a whole lot of money. This blows. I can't even get excited about my trip now.
