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COVID-19 in America

I don't know if this has already been posted but Florida fired a data scientist after she refused to alter their Covid stats to support reopening. Not just that, but she has built her own dashboard with the data floridacovidaction

Story in the Washington Post in their CV live updates feed Washington Post
 
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The fucked up US healthcare system. Greedy profits for those at the top.

Health care workers applaud Michael Flor upon his release from Swedish Issaquah last month Pushing the wheelchair is Dr. Anne Lipke, Flor’s critical care doctor. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)

Remember Michael Flor, the longest-hospitalized COVID-19 patient who, when he unexpectedly did not die, was jokingly dubbed “the miracle child?”

Now they can also call him the million-dollar baby.

Flor, 70, who came so close to death in the spring that a night-shift nurse held a phone to his ear while his wife and kids said their final goodbyes, is recovering nicely these days at his home in West Seattle. But he says his heart almost failed a second time when he got the bill from his health care odyssey the other day.

“I opened it and said ‘holy [bleep]!’ “ Flor says.

The total tab for his bout with the coronavirus: $1.1 million. $1,122,501.04, to be exact. All in one bill that’s more like a book because it runs to 181 pages.
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And if the battle with the virus wasn't bad enough:
“I feel guilty about surviving,” he says. “There’s a sense of ‘why me?’ Why did I deserve all this? Looking at the incredible cost of it all definitely adds to that survivor’s guilt.”
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www.seattletimes.com

Coronavirus survival comes with a $1.1 million, 181-page price tag

The COVID-19 patient, from West Seattle, has insurance and so isn't on the hook for the vast majority of the charge. But the gold-plated cost highlights one reason why American health care is so hard to reform.
www.seattletimes.com www.seattletimes.com
 
Many people believe that Canadians are nice people, but we aren't really.
Americans who are in the Canadian rural areas are being harassed by the locals.
It seems to be our "Yankee go home" moment.

toronto.ctvnews.ca

Toronto-area drivers, Americans being threatened in Ontario's cottage country

An Ontario cottage country mayor says drivers with American licence plates are being targeted and verbally assaulted by "vigilantes" who don't want them in their region during the COVID-19 pandemic.
toronto.ctvnews.ca

An Ontario cottage country mayor says drivers with American licence plates are being targeted and verbally assaulted by "vigilantes" who don't want them in their region during the COVID-19 pandemic.

"Americans are afraid," Muskoka Lakes Mayor Phil Harding told CTV News Toronto on Tuesday. "I have heard of a couple incidents where locals have literally accosted people with American licence plates."

The Canada-U.S. border has been closed to non-essential travel since March, leaving Americans with a second residence in Ontario unable to visit their properties. On Tuesday, the Canadian government announced the border closure would be extended until July 21.
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elbows said:
Arizona also has quite a lot of data available online, and the picture there sucks too.

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Data is from several tabs of the 'Hospital COVID-19 Specific Metrics' section of AZDHS | COVID-19 Dashboards
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In early May, University of Arizona researchers providing the state government with coronavirus models and projections warned that there would be a steep rise in cases unless the state delayed reopening by a couple of weeks.

The Republican state government responded by telling them to "pause" their work on modeling, cutting off the university team's access to Department of Health data sets, and saying they would be relying on data from the Trump administration instead, which they said was not available to the public.

thehill.com

Arizona health department told university to stop doing COVID-19 modeling

The Arizona Department of Health Services reportedly told a team of academic health experts to “pause” their work on models and projections for the coronavirus outbreak.S. Robert Bailey…
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King of the fudging

In an interview with Variety, Aron says theaters won’t require their moviegoers to wear masks. “We did not want to be drawn into a political controversy,” he contends. “We thought it might be counterproductive if we forced mask wearing on those people who believe strongly that it is not necessary. We think that the vast majority of AMC guests will be wearing masks. When I go to an AMC feature, I will certainly be wearing a mask and leading by example.”
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consequenceofsound.net

AMC Theatres to reopen in July, won't require face masks to avoid "political controversy"

It's come to this.
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Scaring off people who don't want to spend hours in an enclosed space with maskless, potentially infected strangers to avoid displeasing the kind of doofuses who think masks are part of a Marxist plot to take away their freedom doesn't seem like a great business plan, even before you take into account the possibility of lawsuits.
 
Well it did buy some time, whether they did much of use with that extra time I am not currently able to judge. Some of the advantages of ramping up testing capacity are wasted if you dont act appropriately when the testing data shows bad things happening.
 
Supine said:
killing your voters ahead of an election is a novel election technique I’ll give him that
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If Trump is a two-termer, then he'll probably get Part 2 the same way he got Part 1; the Electoral College.

Unless Trump screws the pooch with his base badly enough that they can't convincingly swing it for him.
 
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