No Federal Leadership Leaves US Totally Screwed

[kpete]

As cases of the novel coronavirus in the U.S. continue to emerge, the outbreak is expected to "spread quickly" in at least 10 states, according to an analysis by the website Rt.live of each state's reproduction number (the "R number" ), the number of people that one infected person will pass the virus on to, on average.

The R number, officially called the basic reproduction number (R0) or the basic reproduction ratio/rate, is a metric used to describe the contagiousness of an infectious disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

When the R number of an outbreak in any given region is measured to be greater than one, the outbreak is expected to continue, while it is expected to end if the R number has a value of less than one, the CDC explains.

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"Values over 1 mean we should expect more cases in that area, values under 1 mean we should expect fewer," Rt.live explains.

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[Wounded Bear]

1. Good info! nt

[Blue Owl]

2. K&R

[Buckeye_Democrat]

3. The federal military sure isn't managed like this!

I'm not suggesting they don't have problems, but it's not like, "It's up to each state military for what they do!"

[Pobeka]

4. No public education. Public thinks it's over, goes back to normal. Recipe for disaster. n/t

[uponit7771]

5. K&R, a federated quick test/trace/isolation and sentinel program could have us back to near normal .

... and this bug squashed but right now we're doing little different than we did in 1918