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NYC is ground zero

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  • jon-nycJ Offline
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    jon-nyc
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    #1

    Statewide over 40% positive test rate.

    It’s over 50% in NYC.

    https://covid19tracker.health.ny.gov/views/NYS-COVID19-Tracker/NYSDOHCOVID-19Tracker-TableView?%253Aembed=yes&%253Atoolbar=no&%3AisGuestRedirectFromVizportal=y&%3Aembed=y

    Only non-witches get due process.

    • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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    • KlausK Offline
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      #2

      Wow, that's a lot. Just today the corresponding numbers for Germany were published. Over here the average positive rate was around 7%.

      I wonder whether that means that we just test more or whether it means that a larger percentage of Americans is infected.

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      • MikM Offline
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        #3

        Or the tests one of us is using is crap. Or our criteria for testing is more stringent.

        “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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          #4

          A little of each.

          Germany tests 50k a day. NY state tested 23k yesterday, most of those in NYC and surrounding counties.

          Only non-witches get due process.

          • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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          • KlausK Offline
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            Klaus
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            #5

            Given that so many thousand tests are performed each week, why has nobody yet done a random test of, say, 1000 random people, to get a number that is actually useful for policy?

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              jon-nyc
              wrote on last edited by
              #6

              How would that conceivably change anything NY is doing?

              Only non-witches get due process.

              • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                Klaus
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                #7

                You don't think it would be useful to know how prevalent this actually is? (which would also yield better estimates for death rates etc.)

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                  #8

                  I do, but at the current crisis moment in NY it wouldn’t conceivably change anything.

                  Only non-witches get due process.

                  • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                  • KlausK Offline
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                    #9

                    Well, let's take the two extreme cases:

                    Case 1: 50% of the population in NYC is infected. In that case, one could assume that NYC is presumably done with COVID-19 within a few weeks, and it won't get much worse.
                    Case 2: All who are infected have been tested. In that case, this could just be the beginning. OTOH, isolating the known infected still makes sense in this scenario.

                    Of course none of the extreme cases is particularly likely, but I think getting some better data at this point would be possible and should be done.

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                      #10

                      I think we can rule out the extremes from the testing data we do have and the realistic outcomes wouldn’t change our strategy now.

                      Besides, we could use antibody tests for this, one of which is now approved by the FDA

                      Only non-witches get due process.

                      • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                        wrote on last edited by jon-nyc
                        #11

                        Been three days since I updated this.

                        "NYC - 51,809 - up 9.2%
                        NJ - 25,590 up
                        Westchester - 11,567 - up 8%
                        MI - 10,779
                        CA - 10,080
                        LA - 9121 - up 42%!
                        FL - 8010"

                        NYC - 67,551 - 9% daily growth rate
                        NJ - 37,505
                        MI - 15,718
                        Nassau County - 14,398
                        CA - 14,055
                        Westchester - 13,723 - only 6% daily growth.
                        LA - 13,010 - 13% daily growth rate
                        Suffolk County - 12,405
                        FL - 12,151 - 15% daily growth

                        Nassau and Suffolk counties are the two counties of Long Island. Nassau borders the city, Suffolk is further out.

                        Probably makes sense to think of NYC, Westchester, Nassau, Suffolk, and NJ as a 150k+ case cluster.

                        Only non-witches get due process.

                        • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                          Jon

                          You’ve been tracking the NY data very closely. Is the actual matching up to the Cuomo narrative?

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                            Loki
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                            #13

                            IHME is back up. It says NY needs 5664 ventilators. Very different than Cuomo’s 30k

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                              jon-nyc
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                              #14

                              “Narrative” doesn’t seem like the right word.

                              He looks at a bunch of models. The more pessimistic McKinsey model shows a need for ~30k ventilators.

                              I haven’t seen the details behind the McKinsey models but I’ll bet they turn out to be more accurate than IHME In most particulars. See the flaws that Cochran points out, which I quoted in the previous thread. Baked into IHME is:

                              • believing CCP data.
                              • considering our social distancing efforts the equal of Wuhan’s 2nd round in efficacy (When they were welding doors shut)
                              • envisioning the fall to be the same rate as the increase, IOW post-lockdown R = 1/R0

                              Only non-witches get due process.

                              • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                              • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                                “Narrative” doesn’t seem like the right word.

                                He looks at a bunch of models. The more pessimistic McKinsey model shows a need for ~30k ventilators.

                                I haven’t seen the details behind the McKinsey models but I’ll bet they turn out to be more accurate than IHME In most particulars. See the flaws that Cochran points out, which I quoted in the previous thread. Baked into IHME is:

                                • believing CCP data.
                                • considering our social distancing efforts the equal of Wuhan’s 2nd round in efficacy (When they were welding doors shut)
                                • envisioning the fall to be the same rate as the increase, IOW post-lockdown R = 1/R0
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                                Loki
                                wrote on last edited by
                                #15

                                @jon-nyc said in NYC is ground zero:

                                “Narrative” doesn’t seem like the right word.

                                He looks at a bunch of models. The more pessimistic McKinsey model shows a need for ~30k ventilators.

                                I haven’t seen the details behind the McKinsey models but I’ll bet they turn out to be more accurate than IHME In most particulars. See the flaws that Cochran points out, which I quoted in the previous thread. Baked into IHME is:

                                • believing CCP data.
                                • considering our social distancing efforts the equal of Wuhan’s 2nd round in efficacy (When they were welding doors shut)
                                • envisioning the fall to be the same rate as the increase, IOW post-lockdown R = 1/R0

                                Today IHME says 24,000 ventilators are needed in the US in total. It is also 5 days later and their model is tracking the screenshots I took. Also says NY is peaking which appears to be the case. I don’t mind Cuomo making the case for resources but last week it was all vents all the time as a political football and now we are seeing who may be right.

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                                  jon-nyc
                                  wrote on last edited by
                                  #16

                                  Today the McKinsey models are far more accurate.

                                  No way we peak Thursday. Cases are nowhere near peaking and we still have >50% positive test rate.

                                  Only non-witches get due process.

                                  • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                                  • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                                    Been three days since I updated this.

                                    "NYC - 51,809 - up 9.2%
                                    NJ - 25,590 up
                                    Westchester - 11,567 - up 8%
                                    MI - 10,779
                                    CA - 10,080
                                    LA - 9121 - up 42%!
                                    FL - 8010"

                                    NYC - 67,551 - 9% daily growth rate
                                    NJ - 37,505
                                    MI - 15,718
                                    Nassau County - 14,398
                                    CA - 14,055
                                    Westchester - 13,723 - only 6% daily growth.
                                    LA - 13,010 - 13% daily growth rate
                                    Suffolk County - 12,405
                                    FL - 12,151 - 15% daily growth

                                    Nassau and Suffolk counties are the two counties of Long Island. Nassau borders the city, Suffolk is further out.

                                    Probably makes sense to think of NYC, Westchester, Nassau, Suffolk, and NJ as a 150k+ case cluster.

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                                    jon-nyc
                                    wrote on last edited by
                                    #17

                                    @jon-nyc said in NYC is ground zero:

                                    NYC - 67,551 - 9% daily growth rate
                                    NJ - 37,505
                                    MI - 15,718
                                    Nassau County - 14,398
                                    CA - 14,055
                                    Westchester - 13,723 - only 6% daily growth.
                                    LA - 13,010 - 13% daily growth rate
                                    Suffolk County - 12,405
                                    FL - 12,151 - 15% daily growth

                                    NYC - 72,181 - 7% increase
                                    NJ - 41,090
                                    MI - 17,221
                                    Nassau - 15,616
                                    CA - 15,332
                                    LA - 14,867 - 14% increase
                                    Westchester - 14,294
                                    Suffolk - 14,185 - 14% increase
                                    MA - 13,387
                                    FL - 13,317

                                    Louisiana now has more cases than Westchester.

                                    Every entity I didn't put a percentage increase on gained less than 10% (usually just under)

                                    Again I like these (2nd deriv) trends.

                                    Only non-witches get due process.

                                    • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                                      I would like to see a comparison of states with similar sized countries. I hear compare US vs Italy or Spain...No, compare US vs Italy, Spain, France, and Germany combined...Let’s compare Italy with New York and New Jersey... Let’s compare Spain with Texas....

                                      The Brad

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                                        Loki
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                                        #19

                                        Jon

                                        Do you know in NY what the average time from test to result is? I assume the cases tally is based on the day of the result?

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                                        • LuFins DadL LuFins Dad

                                          I would like to see a comparison of states with similar sized countries. I hear compare US vs Italy or Spain...No, compare US vs Italy, Spain, France, and Germany combined...Let’s compare Italy with New York and New Jersey... Let’s compare Spain with Texas....

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                                          George K
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                                          @LuFins-Dad said in NYC is ground zero:

                                          I would like to see a comparison of states with similar sized countries. I hear compare US vs Italy or Spain...No, compare US vs Italy, Spain, France, and Germany combined...Let’s compare Italy with New York and New Jersey... Let’s compare Spain with Texas....

                                          That's right. John Burn-Murdoch posts nightly updates with those pretty graphs showing rise, etc. When the US deaths exceeded the number from any other country, he posted the graph, with the comment "American exceptionalism."

                                          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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