I would suggest the data backs that up:
A little hand washing and breathing room and pneumonia deaths plummet.
Posted on 03/31/2020 5:09:18 PM PDT by abb
Social distancing and stay-at-home orders are working to slow and blunt the ongoing coronavirus pandemic according to fever trend data aggregated by remote health monitoring company Kinsa Health. Kinsa has sold more than one million of its bluetooth-linked digital thermometers and their users upload their body temperature data to the company's centralized database. The company's stated mission is to "stop the spread of contagious illness through earlier detection and earlier response." Data from its users' thermometers have enabled the company to track the spread of flu in real time and forecast where it is headed in three to four weeks.
The company has now devised a way to track the spread of the coronavirus pandemic by focusing on atypical fevers associated with COVID-19. The company is able to generate a U.S. Health Weather Map that tracks these atypical fever trends around the country. The New York Times reports that as of Monday morning, fevers were down in three-quarters of the country from their peak levels on March 17. In hard-hit New York City, Kinsa data show that the number of fevers is trending downward, which correlates with the good news that the COVID-19 hospitalization doubling rate in that city has dropped from two days to four days.
The decline in reported fevers correlates strongly with the implementation of social distancing measures such as shutting down schools, along with bars and restaurants. The places that locked down earlier are the areas where the number of fevers began falling first. Social distancing lowering all U.S. feversKinsa Health
As an added bonus, the Kinsa data show that social distancing has pushed down the national trend of influenza-like illness below its generally expected levels for this time of year. In other words, owing to the lockdowns, Americans are experiencing fewer bouts of normal seasonal flu and colds than they would generally be enduring now.
Kinsa's technology is part of the future health surveillance toolkit that will enable rapid public health responses to nascent disease outbreaks.
Ronald Bailey is science correspondent at Reason.
Excellent.
I would suggest that sickness from all types of communicable diseases are at a lower rate due to the ‘lockdown’.
I had heard that infrared meat thermometers would good to use in case.
Social Distancing Shows Signs of Curbing Virus on West Coast
By Dina Bass, Nic Querolo, and Sophie Alexander
March 31, 2020, 1:25 PM CDT Updated on March 31, 2020, 3:09 PM CDT
Social distancing NYC style and they still do not get it.
Where is their Gov, and Mayor who also promoted to go out and be in groups?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIMu911TcWU&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR0COs_fzTXdiHD2jW_BOsR8djODeUweS5pTNb-UHBXk-lpc5Z9_aeArl-k
Oh Great.
I think I’ll stick to an old fashioned mercury in a glass tube thermometer, rather than one that reports your temperature to the internet.
Although I’m afraid that such things will soon be mandatory.
Things like this are mandatory in China today.
I would suggest the data backs that up:
A little hand washing and breathing room and pneumonia deaths plummet.
Just also as a FYI for anyone looking at getting one of these... Their customer satisfaction team, even in the middle of all of this, quickly replaced ours which was dead within 24 hours of buying it, with a return label so they could figure out why it died.
That they’re also in San Francisco and still getting not only data but customer service done in the middle of all of this is pretty amazing. Foolish, but amazing.
5-9 day delays in getting testing results back; I don’t know if it’s social distancing or just a lack of reporting of test data.
secondly, a LOW fever is also associated with covid.....
third, I will be so glad when this is all over....I'm anxious for the world to start turning again...
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