24,000 confirmed cases today of C-19 yesterday it was @ about 15,000

[Botany]

C-19 is exploding and I know that not testing asymptomatic has to be done but that will allow the
disease to sweep the nation because people are highly contagious for 2 to 3 weeks prior to starting
to show signs of the disease.

God Damn it none of this had to happen. Thanx Donny and Trump voters.

[Ohiogal]

1. I hope

there is a special place in Hell reserved for those reprehensible politicians who were warned that this was coming and did nothing except adjust their portfolios.

[emmaverybo]

2. Why not test asymptomatic? I mean other than that we don't have the kits. We need to test

certain asymptomatic groups, such as health workers, people in care homes, people still in the community interfacing with larger groups of people so we can isolate them to stop the spread. We do not need to hospitalize them. We can find places where they can get basic care and monitoring and shelter—dormitories and other unused facilities.

[LizBeth]

3. I haven't been following the numbers at all. So U.S. was at 15k and today at 24K for sure.

I am going to start paying attention. Thanks.

[meadowlander]

4. This is a good website for tracking the numbers across countries

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

The US shot from like 15th to 4th on the leaderboard in the last three days once we started actually testing people. We're now clearly in the "top 3 countries that fucked their response up" along with Italy and Spain.

[LizBeth]

5. ty

[GusBob]

6. We are 4 in number of cases

[Ms. Toad]

7. Yesterday ended at 19,383

(You're most of a day off - but still alarming.)

[Fiendish Thingy]

8. You are spreading false information - delete or edit your OP

Incubation period is 4-5 days, not 2-3 weeks.

[Squinch]

9. What? Everything I've read said it's generally up to 14 days and can be longer.

Do you have a link for 4-5 days?

[Fiendish Thingy]

10. No link - BC health authorities here in Canada

The 14 day figure is how long it takes for the virus to run its course and for the infected person to stop “shedding” the virus. So, yes, they can be asymptomatic and contagious, but if they are going to have symptoms, they should show after a 4-5 day incubation period.

That’s why there is a 14 day quarantine/self isolation period- it wouldn’t make sense for someone to isolate for 14 days, and then have symptoms arise once their quarantine ended- if that was true, the Quarantines would be closer to 30 days I would think.

[Squinch]

11. That's not what I've been reading.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/faq.html

Q: When is someone infectious?

A: The onset and duration of viral shedding and period of infectiousness for COVID-19 are not yet known. It is possible that SARS-CoV-2 RNA may be detectable in the upper or lower respiratory tract for weeks after illness onset, similar to infection with MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV. However, detection of viral RNA does not necessarily mean that infectious virus is present. Asymptomatic infection with SARS-CoV-2 has been reported, but it is not yet known what role asymptomatic infection plays in transmission. Similarly, the role of pre-symptomatic transmission (infection detection during the incubation period prior to illness onset) is unknown. Existing literature regarding SARS-CoV-2 and other coronaviruses (e.g. MERS-CoV, SARS-CoV) suggest that the incubation period may range from 2–14 days.

This was updated on March 17.