I very much admire Gov Cuomo - he is perfectly straight forward in his approach, putting aside partisanship and truly care about his state and the New York City. I encourage everyone to watch his updates to see for yourself. We need more leaders like him. In his presentation, he is telling how to run the Federal goverment and recommendations - which just illustrates the competance of the executive branch of the US Govt. Same thing with Gov Newsom of California.
In normal times he is utterly infuriating and represents some of the worst qualities you see in a politician. In a crisis... well, you need a solid pair of hands and a leader capable of making big decisions effectively. And he is definitely that.
I am not ready to change my assessment of him. There were ample situations in in "peace time" for him to push harder but he didn't. DeBlasio may be more inept, but Cuomo only pushes things hard after they become very popular. That's still not leadership.
My wife likes him but I get quite infuriated at how slowly he moves. The NYC mayor is doing better with the little he can do. And Cuomo keeps overruling NYC mayor.
In comparison to Trump, he is less partisan and more decisive. But overall, his press conference is very little material.
Still in this difficult time he is a beacon of hope.
Except New York has roughly 50% of all cases in the U.S --- ~15k of the 32k total as of this writing. Newsom at ~1.5k seems to be doing much better if we’re judging by that metric
(If anything Washington, which is facing roughly linear case growth without a shelter in place in effect, is arguably handling the best of anywhere in the US. But I recognize NYC being so dense is intrinsically in a bad spot in a pandemic)
I don't really know, but I'll guess. Maybe the estimate is done by taking the total for one day and subtracting out the total for the previous day? If the data were a bit messy and revised down, this might result in an occasional negative value.
I've seen this claim around a lot - is there a handy link that shows the testing that NY is doing and/or their true positive rates as compared to other regions?
Germany has the lowest death rates on record even though the population of infected per age group was similar to Italy, but they are being very selective on testing dead people, so it could be a very misleading statistic - we may not know the true data, Germany may be doing something better than Italy or it could be worse and we just do not know, same as with all the states in the USA, if something is not being measured, all bets are off without a representative sampling or full sampling.
When the dust settles, it will be interesting to not think in term of absolute number of deaths, but in term of additional mortality over a normal year. I understand that something like 99% of people who died of this virus had pre-existing conditions, in many cases serious ones. Logically, a fraction of the victims may have died of something else that same year.
> Germany may be doing something better than Italy
been curious about that super spreader story we have been hearing about italy. they probably need to study what happened there so we can all learn from it.
maybe italy has a life style that made it easier for the virus to go around?
The shape of social graphs is likely very different across countries, but I don’t know of studies checking this. However, there are anecdata aplenty. My hometown in Spain has a lot of part timers in senior living facilities, so you will find, for instance, physical therapists working 2 or 3 facilities over the course of a week. We have confirmed examples of one therapist who contracted the virus somewhere, and now it’s on every facility he visited: Over a hundred people tested positive with him as the only link.
There is also how common it is for adult children to live with their parents, who might be retired already. Different networks do seniors and millennials that go to different places and have different links, but help the infection travel fast.
Given the low ICU capacity, a single case like this can overwhelm a local hospital system, with predictable results.
Latest update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlZeKTlpcqU