[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by RollChiefsRoll

So let’s say we finally get the curve flattened out. Then what? If we’re released back into the wild without easy access to rapid-results testing, won’t there be another spike?

Originally Posted by Mecca

Yea that is actually a good possibility, some places that did well early like Taiwan started to open things up and then they get hit with a second wave.

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, patience. It's not just about getting past the peak of the curve. You have to completely descend the other side. Otherwise, you're just going to end up creating a second peak.

Originally Posted by dirk digler

All you have to do is look at China for that answer. The started opening things back up then had to turn around and close them again. Same thing now with South Korea. Probably going to be that way until a vaccine is ready.

This. We already have data that when you reopen too early, outbreaks reoccur.


Because of fear, they can open everything back up, but people are not going to go out and spend money until they feel safe.

Originally Posted by penguinz

Not sure I trust Sunday numbers. Deaths for las Sunday were significantly lower than the day before as well.

The numbers on Sunday were down last week. It was not the beginning of a trend. This week is going to be bad by every single model out there.

Originally Posted by Monticore

Unfortunately the list of underlying condition would included a large portion of the population.(heart disease, lung disease, asthma, COPD, cancer, immunocompromised , GI and liver disease, hypertension , diabetes, obesity)

82 million Americans have a pre-exsisting condition.

Originally Posted by Donger

Update on the plasma donor in California:

On April 1, Garcia donated his plasma for experimental transfer into three patients.

As of Sunday, he said, doctors told him that all of his plasma has been donated. The patient who was in the worst condition has since improved, Garcia said doctors told him.
The patient was taken off some medication, is healthier in terms of oxygenation and is doing incrementally better day by day, a spokesperson for the hospital told CNN in an email late Sunday night.

Now that's something that could give hope to people.

Originally Posted by O.city

There’s some recent papers written that are starting to show some interesting stuff

Maybe this is more of a blood issue than a true respiratory one.

True, it just uses the Respiratory system for easy access to the blood. It's a good assumption that the patients that are previously without a pre-existing conditions. They present to the ER and within 72 hours are dead. No way that happens on the scale its happening without the virus being in the blood.