Just this week I had my first 3 cases in an extended family and maybe more to come...all infected by a young family member who has been in Seattle the past 3 weeks during the riots.
So far all fairly young and with 1 day of low grade fever only...they wouldn't know they had it, except for original case getting tested. Another exposed family member is already traveling and south in Boise before finding out that someone had tested positive. And another family member is immunocompromised with millions of medical dollars already spent in his/her short life at one of a handful of top medical centers in the whole world which are all here in the US interestingly (for treatment/surgeries that would not be done anywhere else in the world), but has hopefully not been exposed. What is your solution to the above issues? Try to think multi-dimensionally with your solution.
Areas in the US with prior low rates, are ripe for increases. This infection will wax and wane in different areas.
Does this article say what you imply?...don't just read headlines.
The European Commission says travel restrictions should not be lifted for countries "where the situation is worse" than in the EU
time.com
Secondly, do you figure other countries with positive cases are crappy countries, given that the countries that test most have more cases?
Third, are you saying that the fed govt was wrong not to institute nation-wide Marshall Law a few weeks ago and takeaway authority from the states who let people travel & gather together in large groups from all over to assault their fellow citizens and pass infection all over the nation where undoubted vulnerable uninfected people live?
Fourth, how do you explain increased rates in only 3% of counties in a crappy country, and flat hospitalization and death rates virtually everywhere?
5th, do you take into account recent antibody tests in your numbers that arent recent infections and account for an estimated 16% of so called new cases?
6th, since when did european health departments considering doing the same thing that we are already doing while assessing a whole host of factors, somehow mean that we are a crappy country?
7th, I am sorry if anyone feels personally attacked by anything that I have posted, while trying to debunk false or unnecessarily inflammatory information. But if you are the one posting this time and time again, regardless of your motives, are you yourself not to blame?...or should those of us interested in some of these medical, economical, and ethical questions, and who actually work in this field just sit and say nothing? Or if you are a bomb thrower, and can't defend your position with facts, or worse yet ignore facts which dispute your feelings, then should you ban yourself from the thread?
Personally, I usually participate when I am stuck somewhere on call and bored, but I have difficulty letting some misinformation go unchallenged if I do decide to participate. Hopefully it is just a defect of being a free American with a natural disdain for mindless group think, and a reverance for critical thinking and rugged individualism.
