now that Kobe, Iowa, State of the Union, Impeachment are falling out of the news cycle maybe more will be paying attention
here is a decent piece this morning from CBS
https://twitter.com/RamyInocencio/status/1225781947017785345
Not bad. Thanks for posting. Still not touching the 800 pound gorilla, though, and that is that these official numbers appear to be just measuring the ability to test, and that the real numbers (both dead and infected), are clearly massively higher than claimed.
I wish they would do more to show people how it kills, how long it takes for people to go from symptoms to death, how much advanced medical care is needed to help severe patients — anything to differentiate this in peoples mind from the flu.
Unfortunately, most people I have talked to are convinced that this is just another hype — that western healthcare will cure this, that only a few people have died, etc. Hopefully they are right, but if they are not, then the overwhelming majority of people are not in any way psychologically prepared for what could happen (a marked departure from most of history, such as 100 years ago, where people knew that these types of things really do happen every now and then).
NBC News
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8 more Americans from a quarantined cruise ship off Japan have been confirmed to have the coronavirus, bringing the total number of US citizens diagnosed on the liner to 11, cruise operator says.