Your daily terror.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

If you like to geek out on this stuff, you can sign up for monthly updates here:

http://www.cdc.gov/Other/emailupdates/

[Left]

They seem really concerned for something that hasn't proven to be very contagious yet. But 42 deaths out of 79 cases isn't comforting odds.

Oh, forgot to mention this.
79 known cases.

...Chances are that most people are clearing it on their own, or their doctors are just throwing anti-inflammatories and antibiotics at them, without any knowledge of what the patient actually has...and then those people clear it, and life goes on.

IOW, it's a selection bias; only the most ill people are going to be tested to actually see what they have.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

They seem really concerned for something that hasn't proven to be very contagious yet. But 42 deaths out of 79 cases isn't comforting odds.

Oh, forgot to mention this.
79 known cases.

...Chances are that most people are clearing it on their own, or their doctors are just throwing anti-inflammatories and antibiotics at them, without any knowledge of what the patient actually has...and then those people clear it, and life goes on.

IOW, it's a selection bias; only the most ill people are going to be tested to actually see what they have.

That may tend to be true in general with many illnesses, but the reason the tracking information for this is particularly informative in terms of mortality rate is that they have been able to follow exposures because it has so far been mostly spread in hospitals.

[Left]

They seem really concerned for something that hasn't proven to be very contagious yet. But 42 deaths out of 79 cases isn't comforting odds.

Oh, forgot to mention this.
79 known cases.

...Chances are that most people are clearing it on their own, or their doctors are just throwing anti-inflammatories and antibiotics at them, without any knowledge of what the patient actually has...and then those people clear it, and life goes on.

IOW, it's a selection bias; only the most ill people are going to be tested to actually see what they have.

That may tend to be true in general with many illnesses, but the reason the tracking information for this is particularly informative in terms of mortality rate is that they have been able to follow exposures because it has so far been mostly spread in hospitals.

Did not know that...

Ooo-oo...Iatrogenic boogaloo...

http://www.who.int/csr/don/archive/disease/coronavirus_infections/en/index.html

...I'm skimming through things.  Caregivers picked it up from their less-healthy patients, that's not good.

[Left]

I forgot about this...I'd feel remiss if I didn't add it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV938U4Y96w

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

We should all move to Madagascar.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

They seem really concerned for something that hasn't proven to be very contagious yet. But 42 deaths out of 79 cases isn't comforting odds.

Oh, forgot to mention this.
79 known cases.

...Chances are that most people are clearing it on their own, or their doctors are just throwing anti-inflammatories and antibiotics at them, without any knowledge of what the patient actually has...and then those people clear it, and life goes on.

IOW, it's a selection bias; only the most ill people are going to be tested to actually see what they have.

That may tend to be true in general with many illnesses, but the reason the tracking information for this is particularly informative in terms of mortality rate is that they have been able to follow exposures because it has so far been mostly spread in hospitals.

Did not know that...

Ooo-oo...Iatrogenic boogaloo...

http://www.who.int/csr/don/archive/disease/coronavirus_infections/en/index.html

...I'm skimming through things.  Caregivers picked it up from their less-healthy patients, that's not good.

In general, if I think I've spotted a glaring logical inconsistency that somehow the CDC completely missed or in some other way I think I am outsmarting all of them, I like to doublecheck my assumptions, since typically they possess more of the facts than I do.

[McGrupp]

We should all move to Madagascar.

I agree. It's always the hardest to infect in the pandemic video game.
http://www.kongregate.com/games/darkrealmstudios/pandemic-2

[LMNO]

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

I started playing again the other day because of this thread and FUCKING MADAGASCAR.

[East Coast Hustle]

We should all move to Madagascar.

I forgot all about that.

[East Coast Hustle]

Goddammit. I have been playing that damn game since I made that last post.

THANKS ALOT OBAMA CPD!

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

Goddammit. I have been playing that damn game since I made that last post.

THANKS ALOT OBAMA CPD!

Happy to be of service!

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

I KILLED EVERYONE 

[Freeky]

HOW DID YOU KILL MADAGASCAR?