I misremembered here. The date of our lockdown was actually the 23rd of March. The 16th was the date on which government advice was issued for us all not to socialize, not to visit restaurants, pubs, cinemas, theatres, etc, and to work from home if able.
Today's figures have pushed the death toll over 6,000 in this country. So it is more likely that there were 1.2-1.8 million infections at the time that Patrick Vallance told MPs that there were likely 55,000 cases, a figure which itself probably sounded unbelievably too many to most at that time, with an official count of only 1,950. But it was probably an underestimate by a factor of twenty or more, and the official case count was underreporting the amount of infections by a factor between 500 and 1000.
No. By meta-discussion, I mean a discussion about a discussion, rather than about the subject of the discussion. i.e. This thread is supposed to be about the coronavirus pandemic, but people have instead been talking about the thread itself lately within it. The prefix meta- means beyond in this case, like in the word metaphysics.
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It is still scary, because 1% of a very large number is still a large number. Your number of deaths today only tells you how far the virus spread up until about a month ago, and you don't know for sure how far it has travelled in the interim, or whether the measures taken have had the desired effect.
It's hard to believe that there were only 30 reported cases in the US on March 1st, only 5 weeks ago, and we're going to have over 400,000 cases by day's end. That's a growth factor of over 13,000(n) in 5 weeks. I shudder to think what that number will be in another 5 weeks, because even though we've brought the growth factor down enormously in the last couple of weeks, we seem to have leveled out around a growth factor of 2.7(n) each 8 days. Here's what that looks like if we don't bring it down any further:
USS Theodore Roosevelt WILL evacuate and quarantine its 4,000 crew on Guam after unprecedented plea by captain of the aircraft carrier that sailors could die as coronavirus cases QUADRUPLE on board
The 4,000 sailors aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt are to be evacuated from the nuclear warship a week after at least 25 positive cases of coronavirus were identified on board and the ship was forced to dock in Guam. Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly said Tuesday that the Navy is working with the captain of the ship, its medical officer and the government in Guam to bring the sailors to shore as quickly as possible but there currently not enough beds available.
The announcement came after a letter from the ship's captain Brett Crozier pleaded with the Pentagon to let the bulk of its 4,000-person crew off the warship so they can quarantine safely, warning that 'sailors do not need to die'. The Navy is now working to identify sailors who are clear of coronavirus who will be able to maintain the ship's functions while the rest of the crew are taken into quarantine, as officials battle to ensure the United States is protected while also protecting the safety of its personnel.
Fired captain of USS Theodore Roosevelt tests positive for coronavirus as it's revealed top US commanders 'were opposed to his dismissal but were OVERRULED by Navy secretary because Trump wanted him gone over letter'
Captain Brett Crozier, the officer who was relieved of command of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt after a letter warning of a coronavirus outbreak on board the ship leaked to the press, has tested positive for COVID-19. Two Naval Academy classmates of Crozier who remain close to the family revealed the diagnosis. Admiral Michael Gilday (left), the chief of naval operations, and General Mark Milley (middle top right), the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, believed that the Navy should have allowed an investigation into the letter written by Crozier (left top right) to run its course. Defense Secretary Mark Esper initially sided with the officers. But Esper eventually yielded to Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly (right top right), who favored immediately dismissing Crozier from his post in command of the USS Theodore Roosevelt (bottom right) because he believed that is what President Trump wanted, according to The Washington Post.
