The diagnosis data is suspicious, and no one wears a mask … The magic week of the US outbreak.
Editor’s note: Editor’s note: This article comes from WeChat public account “ Silicon Rabbit Race ” (ID: hi3wyu), author of Cyber Peach Ching Jing.
Recently, my little friends in the United States are heartbroken.
California and Washington State have declared a state of emergency. Rumors of gun storage and foodstuffs spreading all over the Internet. The shelves of disinfectant and hand sanitizers and masks in the supermarket are empty. One company after another enters home office.
Trump says the new crown virus “like a flu” and calls the virus “corona flu”. The CDC’s US Centers for Disease Control frequently made mistakes and no longer announced the number of people being tested for the virus.
How far has the US epidemic progressed?
According to the New York Times article today:
Thursday, March 5, 2020, at least 211 patients with new coronary pneumonia in the United States are being treated, and 12 deaths have occurred in 18 states across the United States. Please note that on Thursday, one day, 48 new cases were added.
In this article, the New York Times answered the following questions:
1. Where are the confirmed patients distributed?
Washington and California are the hardest hit areas.
Note: This data reflects the place where the patient was admitted, and some patients traveling abroad who were infected with the virus (such as passengers on the Diamond Princess) are currently receiving treatment in California
Data source: C.D.C, state and local clinics, hospitals
2. Starting this week, the number of newly confirmed cases in the United States has surged
Data source: C.D.C, state and local clinics, hospitals
3. Source of infection
The first source of infection: Diamond Princess
Second largest source of infection: unknown, no traceability
The third largest source of infection: Kirkland nursing home in Seattle
Since the U.S. epidemic has become increasingly tense this week, the parties have taken the following actions:
1. Technology companies require employees to work from home
Including Microsoft (Seattle), Amazon (Seattle & Bay Area), Google (Seattle), Facebook (Seattle & Bay Area), LinkedIn (Bay Area), Twitter, Square, etc.
2. Cancel a large event
Dozens of large-scale events such as Google I / O Developer Conference, NVIDIA GPU Conference, Microsoft MVP Summit, Facebook Developer Conference, IBM Think 2020, Miami Music Festival have been cancelled.
A $ 8.3 billion grant
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill today to spend $ 8.3 billion on the crisis of the spread of the coronavirus.
Among them, more than 3 billion U.S. dollars are used to develop virus treatment programs;
US $ 2.2 billion allocated to CDC (American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention);
US $ 1 billion for overseas support;
US $ 20 million for administrative expenses and loans to US small businesses;
4. Self-help
Including but not limited to, voluntarily applying for home office, reducing or not going to restaurants and gyms, purchasing material reserves, etc …
As well as protective actions organized by the company, such as Microsoft, the official requirements are that all employees will work remotely from March 5th without special requirements.
If employees want to go back to the office to pick up things, they need to report to the manager. If employees or family members have suspected symptoms, they can directly contact HR through the company’s green channel. HR can help guide patients to get corresponding medical resources and assistance. The entire process is strictly confidential and personal privacy is protected.
What are the changes in life for those who work / learn in the United States?
Si Tujun interviewed several friends who are currently working / study in the United States. From your feedback, I found thatThe following points:
1. Panic buying of hand sanitizers, masks and other anti-epidemic products in supermarkets
2. The calibre of the diagnosis data currently published is not uniform. The data of the CDC CDC cannot be trusted. There is no official explanation, and the partners feel that they are in a “aggressive” state.
3. Nearly no one is wearing a mask, which makes everyone afraid to bring it and fear of discrimination.
4. I think that the protective measures adopted by public institutions are not enough and they are not taken seriously
The actual number of diagnoses in the United States has always been a doubt.
Let ’s look at the CDC data first: (far behind)
Total Cases 99 is the number of patients diagnosed with CDC
States reporting cases 13 Number of confirmed diagnoses independently for each state
Currently, the CDC published 122 cases of confirmed diagnosis
Earlier this week, US media reported that “the official website of the CDC has reduced the number of confirmed diagnoses.” Since then, journalist Judd Legum has tweeted that “the CDC no longer announces the number of people undergoing testing.” And bluntly, “This is covering up the facts.”
The New York Times confirmed at least 211 cases and 12 deaths;
John Hopkins CSSE (John Hopkins University) data, confirmed 215 cases, 12 died.
Lastly look at the data of one third of an acre in the Overseas Study Forum: 228 cases were diagnosed and 12 died.
It is currently located in the center of the US epidemic area, and the residence is a 15-minute drive from Cyber Peach Ching Jing (Weibo: Cyber Recently, the current situation and countermeasures are “extremely ridiculous and incredible.”
Here is her share with Silicon Rabbit.
1. Residents and medical staff are basically not alert
Protective measures are approximately equal to none. As a result, 12 firefighters and policemen who escorted patients to the hospital at the elderly center had symptoms. 19 people lacked protective measures and had direct contact with patients. A total of 29 people were isolated .
Directly on the picture, let ’s take a look at the differences between our domestic, Italian, and front-line scenes where I live:
The content source network has been verified
2. Over 10,000 students petition, Huada refuses to suspend school
So far, about 15,000 people have petitioned to close the campus, but Huada refused to suspend classes on the grounds that “the virus will not spread through the air.”
Not only Huada, but also Bellevue Elementary School, where my colleague’s son is located, more than a week ago, students were isolated because of direct contact with the infected person. .
The principal and teacher sent emails to emphasize that they must come to class. Absent from school for personal reasons will “miss a lot of important content.” They also emphasize that children are more immune and should be sufficiently resistant to this “flu” virus. .
(Bellevue district technology companies gather, the education level and economic ability of the residents are higher than the average level)
3. Insufficient vigilance of the enterprise, some people delay the illness because of this
A brother on the well-known programmer forum Blind has just been diagnosed. He posted how his boss repeatedly refused his leave request after he had obvious symptoms.
On the right is Amazon’s internal mail. One person confirmed the infection. Just now he was allowed to choose whether to work from home or not (not mandatory, you can go to the company to continue working).
The authenticity of the email has been confirmed with linen friends
4. Shortage of test kits, expensive treatment costs
Matt McCarthy, an infectious disease doctor, is also an assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell University in the United States and works at New York-Presbyterian Hospita.
In CNBC ’s SquawkBox show, New York Presbyterian Hospital is one of the busiest hospitals in the United States, and there is a serious shortage of test suites. “The CDC said the test suite is coming soon, but it is March , I haven’t got it yet. ”
And “(It’s this time) I have to explain why, and begged (the health department) to do nucleic acid tests for people.”
Before, the CDC had a set of virus detection standards, and those who did not meet the requirements (experienced symptoms, visited a severely infected country, and had close contact with the diagnosed person) could not be tested. However, after cases of unknown infection continue to occur, the CDC modified this standard so that “clinical doctors or individuals suspect infection” can be tested.
Although virus detection is free (but kits are scarce), the cost of treatment is high. American medical care has always been known as expensive, and a considerable part of the low-income group does not have comprehensive medical insurance. Who will pay for the treatment?
5. Or build a long-term quarantine
Previously two Chinese colleagues who came to the United States for business travel. They used to live in a hotel between the nursing home (considered as the American version of Wuhan South China Seafood Market) and the receiving hospital. They were ordered this morning. Checked out because I want to requisition the hotel as a quarantine. I do n’t know if it ’s the one reported by Yahoo News:
6. There are also large rally events
In the past Sunday, about 400 people were called by leftist MP Kshama Sawant (known as “Sanwang”) to fear the epidemic and rally in front of Amazon’s “big brother-in-law’s ball” to protest “head tax “, The scene looks like this:
A larger 10,000-person rally may soon be held in Seattle as scheduled (at least it is not currently said to be cancelled):
7. Protection and transmission of tramps becomes a problem
There is still a big problem. How can trampling under the overpass in the urban area prevent and control? According to incomplete statistics, as of 2019, there have been more than 20,000 street sleepers in Huazhou. Who will protect these people?
From FOX news and real shots
8. The current number of infected people may be 1500 (only 200 were diagnosed)
Trevor Bedford, associate professor of epidemiology, new crown expert, and doctor of biology at Harvard University, analyzes that the current number of infections may be as high as 1500 according to a statistical data model:
Professor Bedford found a high degree of similarity after comparing the sequences of the first and recently infected patients in Huazhou on January 15 Offspring.
In particular, P-value .03 in statistics means that there is not enough statistical data to support the hypothesis (that is, the virus in the two cases is not related). In other words, the conclusion is that the virus is related in two cases:
9. No one wears a mask
I haven’t seen anyone wearing a mask in the company in the street or in other public places.
Americans around are generally not afraid, and they all told me that it is similar to ordinary flu.
My boss also had a cold and had been quarantined at home since last week. He said he asked the doctor to test him but did not test him. Masks are completely out of stock and can’t be bought. There are no common medical types, let alone NH95.
This is the magic week of the U.S. outbreak.
The number of confirmed diagnoses is rapidly increasing. As of press time, a Microsoft employee has confirmed that her husband lives in the Life Care Center nursing home in Kirkland. An employee of a technology company in Yangval County, Sunnyvale, Bay Area confirmed the diagnosis …
In this case, protecting yourself, washing your hands frequently, and not going to crowded places is the greatest protection and responsibility for yourself, your family, and those around you.