7 Major Coronavirus Developments — RI Ranks Poorly for Social Distancing — April 12
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7 Major Coronavirus Developments — RI Ranks Poorly for Social Distancing — April 12
Unacast is a company specializing in the analysis of “human mobility data,” which has developed a Social Distancing Scoreboard that measures average distance traveled as well as “nonessential visits” to venues.
On Sunday’s score — data is functionally 48 hours old— Rhode Island scored a grade of D+.
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Grading States
Unacast says, “To account for natural dispersion, our third metric is change in the number of potential human encounters. Since our data can’t tell if two humans actually met, we’re defining “potential encounters” as the probability that two devices that were in the same place at the same time.”
Rhode Island’s D+ score is tied with Connecticut for the lowest grade in New England.
On Saturday, Raimondo said that Rhode Island had "two things" working against it in the fight against coronavirus -- being the most densely populated state and having a high percentage of seniors.
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7 Major Coronavirus Developments - April 12, 2020
So Much for Shutdown in Warren
Warren Golf Range was open Saturday.
The company confirmed they were open by phone and posted photos on Facebook that the driving range was open -- 'until 7 pm.'
Pope Francis Easter Mass
Who Coronavirus Is Killing
"The coronavirus is killing about 1 in 10 hospitalized middle-aged patients and 4 in 10 older than 85 in the United States, and is particularly lethal to men even when taking into account common chronic diseases that exacerbate risk, according to previously unpublished data from a company that aggregates real-time patient data from 1,000 hospitals and 180,000 health-care providers," reports the Washington Post.
Disturbing Data from South Korea
Reuters reports:
South Korean officials on Friday reported 91 patients thought cleared of the new coronavirus had tested positive again.
Jeong Eun-kyeong, director of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC), told a briefing that the virus may have been “reactivated” rather than the patients being re-infected.
South Korean health officials said it remains unclear what is behind the trend, with epidemiological investigations still under way.
Queen Elizabeth II Easter Message
This was the first Easter message by the Queen during her tenure.
American Institute of Economic Research Criticizes Government at All Levels, Especially the CDC
The conservative think tank writes:
The lack of preparedness at every level of government (federal, state, and local) has nothing to do with a lack of funding or inadequate staffing. Instead, it has everything to do with governments’ bloat, mismanagement, cronyism, and poor focus.
the WSJ reported on three distinct failures made by the agency (helped by the FDA).
“CDC officials botched an initial test kit developed in an agency lab, retracting many tests. They resisted calls from state officials and medical providers to broaden testing, and health officials failed to coordinate with outside companies to ensure needed test-kit supplies, such as nasal swabs and chemical reagents, would be available, according to suppliers and health officials…
“This was kind of a perfect storm of three separate failures,” said Tom Frieden, who directed the CDC from 2009 to 2017, citing the botched test, overstrict FDA rules and sidelined private labs.”
Numbers
2,348 Cases in Rhode Island
22,860 Cases in Massachusetts
56 Deaths in RI
686 Deaths in Massachusetts
533,502 Cases in the United States
20,580 Deaths in the United States
1,794,273 Global Cases
109,783 Global Deaths
413,128 Global Recoveries
