Coronavirus in DFW - News & Discussion (Dallas, Mesquite: food, estimate)

[serger]

Originally Posted by calgirlinnc

Regarding WalMart only allowing a certain number of people in and out, I'm reading Kroger and Target are doing the same thing now. Can anyone verify?

Some stores (not in DFW) will not allow children under the age of 16 in.

Not sure about those. Trader Joe's does it, when people leave, they let people in.

Central market let's all in, at least as of couple of days ago.

[calgirlinnc]

Haven't seen this reported yet. Tarrant County has unsurprisingly extended the shelter in place order until April 30. All gatherings of more than one person are banned.

[LeavingMA]

Originally Posted by biafra4life

I'm going to be positive and assume that this guy is just trolling, or maybe doing some type of ironic comedy...God I hope so. Otherwise, with geniuses like this running around, the rest of us are screwed.

I'm not trolling, but where are we now...basically we have admitted people are going to get this and we need to keep the hospitals for the people that need it. I did not want to seem like I don't care, but this is a virus we are going to have to deal with years on out. I just believe the fact when it was here and we thought we could control it and know you had it, we were being naive. It is very difficult when some have it and have minimal to moderate symptoms (which many thought was the flu), meanwhile others suffer awfully. It is easy for us to assume we have control over this stuff, but we don't.

It is interesting now that I talk to people that they think they may have had this virus (me included) and we just don't know. There is no current good test for those that had it and survived. I think the people that have had this are probably 4 times the current confirmed rate. I just think some spreading panic was just as bad as the disease.

I think we eventually find people with the "flu" had this back in December and January and we had no clue. So sorry for having a different opinion. Blame what or who you want but this was coming here whether people liked it or not. Let us protect the people that need the hospital and the healthy stay home.

I admit this is worse than I expected and I never wish anyone the worse and for many it won't be good. Let us be at least realistic instead of acting like we live in a bubble. I have donated money, helped local places, so don't ridicule me. I am trying and know physically, mentally, and emotionally that this is going to be the most difficult period in 100 years or so. I am doing my part so not to thing I am infecting anyone if I am infected. Who knows, we are all guessing at this point and hoping for the best.

[Katana49]

Originally Posted by LeavingMA

IThere is no current good test for those that had it and survived. I think the people that have had this are probably 4 times the current confirmed rate.

They just approved a 15min antibody blood test 2-3 days ago... But who knows when that will translate to being able to get one. My guess is that we're still a month or so away from that, maybe more.

[move4ward]

Originally Posted by serger

I know very well what Korea did. They were smart, we were not. And we actually had more time to get our act together, instead of " intelligence' reports now. Germany also did things very well, but for obvious reasons they couldn't do as well as Korea.

Australia, Portugal, Taiwan, and Japan are also doing well. Portugal is testing 8,470 per million.

The key was ramping up their testing capacity, so that they could do contact tracing with results. A suspected case can have results within 48 hours. They can get out and start working, once their results come back negative.

USA was so late to the party that we can't do contact tracing. If testing capacity ramps up to do contact tracing, then everybody can go back to work.

[Wittgenstein's Ghost]

Originally Posted by move4ward

If testing capacity ramps up to do contact tracing, then everybody can go back to work.

Yes, I think this is the answer moving forward after the shut downs. We have to get our case numbers low enough and our testing capacity high enough, though. Basically, we need to reset and have high testing capacity. We can then take an approach similar to what South Korea did initially.

[grneyedmustang]

Originally Posted by calgirlinnc

I hate to tell you this, but many people are already at that point.

Agreed. I'll leave it at that because this is a DFW forum and I don't want to turn this into a political post.

[CDContribuitor]

NY Gov Cuomo claims in the press conference today that NY death rate decreasing for the first time. (It's too early to confirm that it is going downhill from here, in my opinion. We need to see a decreasing death rate at least for a week.)

Italy and Spain death rates are decreasing as well.

[CDContribuitor]

Absolute Death Rates and Numbers (Source: bing.com/covid ) for worldwide, US, Italy and Spain.

Worldwide %Increase DailyDeath
22-Mar 14611
23-Mar 16491 12.87 1880
24-Mar 18605 12.82 2114
25-Mar 20912 12.40 2307
26-Mar 23714 13.40 2802
27-Mar 26909 13.47 3195
28-Mar 30839 14.60 3930
29-Mar 33908 9.95 3069
30-Mar 37140 9.53 3232
31-Mar 42089 13.33 4949
1-Apr 46809 11.21 4720
2-Apr 52863 12.93 6054
3-Apr 58787 11.21 5924
4-Apr 64549 9.80 5762


US Death %Increase DailyDeath
22-Mar 428
23-Mar 558 30.37 130
24-Mar 705 26.34 147
25-Mar 910 29.08 205
26-Mar 1201 31.98 291
27-Mar 1543 28.48 342
28-Mar 2211 43.29 668
29-Mar 2458 11.17 247
30-Mar 3146 27.99 688
31-Mar 3833 21.84 687
1-Apr 4794 25.07 961
2-Apr 5794 20.86 1000
3-Apr 7381 27.39 1587
4-Apr 8407 13.90 1026

NY Death %Percent DailyDeath
22-Mar 56
23-Mar 150 167.86 94
24-Mar 210 40.00 60
25-Mar 285 35.71 75
26-Mar 385 35.09 100
27-Mar 519 34.81 134
28-Mar 728 40.27 209
29-Mar 965 32.55 237
30-Mar 1244 28.91 279
31-Mar 1550 24.60 306
1-Apr 1947 25.61 397
2-Apr 2373 21.88 426
3-Apr 2935 23.68 562
4-Apr 3565 21.47 630


Texas Death %Increase DailyDeath
22-Mar 5
23-Mar 7 40.00 2
24-Mar 9 28.57 2
25-Mar 13 44.44 4
26-Mar 18 38.46 5
27-Mar 18 0.00 0
28-Mar 34 88.89 16
29-Mar 34 0.00 0
30-Mar 38 11.76 4
31-Mar 41 7.89 3
1-Apr 58 41.46 17
2-Apr 70 20.69 12
3-Apr 90 28.57 20
4-Apr 105 16.67 15


Italy Death %Increase DailyDeath
22-Mar 6077
23-Mar 6077 0.00 0
24-Mar 6820 12.23 743
25-Mar 7503 10.01 683
26-Mar 8215 9.49 712
27-Mar 9134 11.19 919
28-Mar 10023 9.73 889
29-Mar 10779 7.54 756
30-Mar 11591 7.53 812
31-Mar 12428 7.22 837
1-Apr 13155 5.85 727
2-Apr 13915 5.78 760
3-Apr 14681 5.50 766
4-Apr 15362 4.64 681
5-Apr 15887 3.42 525


Spain Death %Increase DailyDeath
22-Mar 2182
23-Mar 2696 23.56 514
24-Mar 3434 27.37 738
25-Mar 4089 19.07 655
26-Mar 4858 18.81 769
27-Mar 5690 17.13 832
28-Mar 6528 14.73 838
29-Mar 7340 12.44 812
30-Mar 9053 23.34 1713
31-Mar 9053 0.00 0
1-Apr 10003 10.49 950
2-Apr 10935 9.32 932
3-Apr 11744 7.40 809
4-Apr 12418 5.74 674

[calgirlinnc]

Grocery Update:

Did my 10 days worth of shopping today.

Walmart was limiting number of people in the store but I was able to go right in. It was actually a much better shopping experience compared to normal. The majority of shoppers were wearing masks and were really conscientious about not getting too close to each other.

No TP or paper towels. There were wipes. Low on eggs and pasta but everything else was pretty much available.

Kroger was not limiting shoppers. They did have someone cleaning off the carts. Maybe about 1/4 of the shoppers were wearing masks. Some people were carrying on like everything was normal, getting their iced Starbucks coffees and not bothering to distance themselves.

No TP/paper towels, cereal was very picked over, limited pasta, limited cake mixes, everything else was pretty normal.