The feeling is that the shutdown and distancing and the overall public information efforts are starting to take hold, but some dire-sounding warnings are coming from the people who know about such things:
WaPo:
Americans are being advised to steel themselves for one of the most agonizing weeks in living memory, as President Trump and his advisers predicted parts of the country were nearing a peak of cases of covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
The president at Sunday’s White House coronavirus task force briefing hailed numbers from New York showing a one-day decline in deaths while warning of New York and New Jersey, “they’ve really become a very hot zone.”
Still, Trump, along with Vice President Pence, projected confidence not matched by the White House’s medical advisers.
“We’re starting to see light at the end of the tunnel,” Trump said Sunday, even as Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-diseases expert, hedged earlier in the day, saying, “I will not say we have it under control. . . . We are struggling to get it under control.”
note: NYT and WaPo have lifted their pay walls on COVID-19 stories.
And the really shitty kicker is that because of this ridiculous slap-dash bullshit "response", there's no cohesion in the approach to this thing, and so we have the usual Cult45 clusterfuck, but on meth-infused steroids.
NYT:
WASHINGTON — A coroner in Indiana wanted to know if the coronavirus had killed a man in early March, but said that her health department denied a test. Paramedics in New York City say that many patients who died at home were never tested for the coronavirus, even if they showed telltale signs of infection.
In Virginia, a funeral director prepared the remains of three people after health workers cautioned her that they each had tested positive for the coronavirus. But only one of the three had the virus noted on the death certificate.
Across the United States, even as coronavirus deaths are being recorded in terrifying numbers — many hundreds each day — the true death toll is likely much higher.
More than 9,400 people with the coronavirus have been reported to have died in this country as of this weekend, but hospital officials, doctors, public health experts and medical examiners say that official counts have failed to capture the true number of Americans dying in this pandemic. The undercount is a result of inconsistent protocols, limited resources and a patchwork of decision making from one state or county to the next.
Growth Rates
Cases:
1.06 - World
1.08 - USA
Dead:
1.07 - World
1.14 - USA
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