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I deleted the previous version of this tweet; I had assumed the data from coronavirus.1point3acres.com… were by county, but the "New York, New York" entry looks like all 5 counties of NYC, not just New York County (Manhattan).
Coronavirus cases per 1000 people, given current reports (which involve insufficient testing in many places):
Wuhan: 4.24
NYC: 0.44
Hubei excluding Wuhan: 0.37
New York state: 0.28
Washington state: 0.18
USA (all): 0.042
California: 0.025
China excluding Hubei: 0.010
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Wow, California has only 9.3% of the Coronavirus cases when we have 12% of the population. I had thought things were worse than average in California, but I guess New York and Washington are really pushing the average up.
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You're still allowed to do during-quarantine food shopping.
Though I do recommend trying to do it as infrequently as possible. We've been trying to limit to two grocery stores total, each once a week or so (staggered).
(And stores were *much* emptier yesterday than Monday!)
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Is it putting the housing in the places where the supercommuters live or the place where the supercommuters work?
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Can also look at buybacks or dividends as the opposite of a public offering of new stock (e.g., an IPO).
A buyback says that the company has more cash on hand than it has better-than-market-return uses for.
A stock offering is saying that a company has good uses for new cash.
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It would be nice if the US had a president who could give a speech like this.
Earlier today, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addressed Canadians and gave an update on the Government of Canada’s response to #COVID19.
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But I think nitter.vloup.ch/XihongLin/status… makes it clear that it's not enough for containment
Yes. The quarantine-at-home strategy used between 1/23-2/1 in Wuhan ie, some confirmed cases were isolated at home, helped reduce R from 3.8 to 1.25, but not good enough. An important lesson for us to learn. Centralized quarantine of confirmed cases after 2/1 was effective(R=0.3)
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I think the likely range of answers to these questions should influence the decisions on how extreme the measures we should be willing to take to get containment.
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Questions I'm wondering about tonight, about COVID-19:
1. If we give up on containment, what happens? Does it go around the world and go away, or does it become endemic?
2. If it becomes endemic, how does this change human life expectancy (in developed & developing countries)?
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That's a very inconvenient departure time. I guess they want to allow connections at both ends?
Presumably nearly time to update en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longes… , at least with a better source (which I can't find)...
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If you're using Respec, it's just an infinite loop, but if you're using bikeshed, you at least fall through to python (which I'm sure has its own chewing gum and bailing wire).
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"Of the three types of intervention we looked at, the early detection and isolation of cases likely had the strongest impact" theguardian.com/world/2020/m…
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OK, Facebook is clearly just using the last place I gave it location permission (which is something I generally only do when posting from airports).
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It would be more interesting to see the entire metro area's rail lines at LA scale. Many suburban lines through-run into the subway; many suburban lines run at frequencies under 15 minutes all day.
Tokyo's rail network shows what a world class metro area's should look like:
jreast.co.jp/e/routemaps/pdf… (English)
pasmo.co.jp/area/transport/p… (日本語)
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I think there's something in there about weeks when we're worried about food markets probably not being good for the stock markets.
On the other hand, perhaps those weeks aren't really the time to worry about the stock markets...
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This one looks like the Mendocino Fracture Zone: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendoc…
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