Just watched yesterday press conference. He is in a bad mood again 
Also I am not sure what US sells to Italy, Spain and France. He hesitated so did he ship surgical masks to them?
Sound like the task force is seriously looking into intrusive contact tracing, hospitalization of positives and wearing masks.
Washington state is now slowly going down the league table. Jersey is still charging full steam ahead. Michigan hot on California’s tail.
Bay Area had a good day today relatively speaking. Hopefully the trend will hold. We went into the lockdown earlier than most other places.
Daily new cases. Clearly shows Italy has turned the corner and Spain about to. US not yet but curve bending in the right direction.
Cumulative case chart. US should cross 1M in April.
“Conclusions
Occupancy of US ICUs was stable over time, but there is uneven distribution across different types and sizes of units. Only three out of ten beds were filled at any time with mechanically ventilated patients, suggesting substantial surge capacity throughout the system to care for acutely critically ill patients.”
Interesting. It makes you wonder about some of the videos going viral that show hospitals aren’t busy at all.
It seems the issue in NYC is hospitals have been closing for years.
“Until, that is, the city started closing them. Since 2003, 16 hospitals have closed around New York City, four in Brooklyn alone, putting more and more pressure on the remaining hospitals to see more patients under more crowded and facility-challenged conditions. ”
It seems the state cut the Medicaid reimbursement rates by 2% which screwed hospitals that mostly serve Medicaid patients. They had to close. The irony that Democrats pretend to care about the poor by expanding Medicaid, then cut funding, leading to hospital closures in the communities they claimed to be helping.
It MAY be necessary in some densely populated urban areas but we absolutely should NOT be doing those things everywhere. Deaths from poverty will vastly outnumber deaths from CV in the long run.
In rural areas it was Obama’s theft of 700 billion from Medicare to fund ObamaCare that resulted in hospital closures. Rural areas have older populations and hospitals couldn’t survive on the lower Medicare reimbursements.
Masks recommended by CDC
Yesterday press conference, Debbie said the pattern is similar everywhere. This shouldn’t be surprising, as I mentioned previously,
Place to place doesn’t mean city to city only, also dense (urban) to less dense (rural).
Leaders are desperately looking for reasons to shirk their responsibilities and cite constraints that is beyond their controls/ incomplete data to deal with the issue well.
AFAIK, leaders are expected to deal with unstructured problems with hazy data. If it is so clear so structured with completely accurate data, almost any laymen can deal with it.
Are there any companies who want me as the CEO who would delegate operational issues to managers and can’t handle unstructured strategic issues due to constraints and zero to incomplete data?
CEO’s got fired for much less serious screwups. I never heard the excuse “it’s the lower lever guys’ fault” ever acceptable in the boardroom.
The buck always stops at the top. At least it should.
State/ Nation…Population (in mil)…Cases…Deaths…Death/mil
Germany…xx.83.8…76544…858…10.2
UK…x…x.x…67.9…29474…2352…34.6
France…xx…65.3…52128…3523…54.0
California…x.39.6…8704…184…4.6 <<<<<<<< Well Managed
New York…x.19.5…83712…1941…99.5 <<<<<<<< Screw-up
Washington…7.5…5482…225…30
Situation in California is well managed* for the same kind of federal support as New York and Washington, and have same kind of data. Why?
*Even better than Germany which is cited as one European nation that managed the crisis well. Remember California is a State and hence didn’t have as much resources and money as a nation has.
Btw, if I am not wrong, federal doesn’t have much control over state, WH issues guidelines and not orders for States? State and local cities have more influence over the crisis. So VP Pence is correct to say,
“a response to the threat of the coronavirus threat that is locally executed, state-managed, and federally supported.”
