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Did they confirm Gary Sanchez?

And Rita Wilson...seemingly, situation in Australia is a lot calmer, unless you need toilet paper.

Down now below 23,000 in after hours/extended trading...another 600 points down.

Emmanuel Mudiay is sick as well...not sure if it’s related to Gobert, but wouldn’t be a shocker.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/coronavirus-cancel-everything/607675/ I think this article might already have been cited...but it’s definitely worth revisiting.

That’s just not practical with too many time changes/jet lag... OKC basketball game cancelled tonight by NBA.

https://sports.yahoo.com/jazz-thunder-rudy-gobert-ruled-questionable-days-after-touching-mics-to-make-a-point-about-coronavirus-201553536.html GS Warriors also going to no-fan home games, at least temporarily.

I’m assuming that policy is for American/US-based students....but yeah, the same thing happened here in China, unless you were still awake at 2:00 a.m. on morning of January 23rd, you would have had no clue that the entire province was going to be locked down at 10 a.m. the following morning for what will likely be at least two month’s duration.

Just heard from one of my former Chinese students at Duke that all international students are being allowed to remain in dorms/on campus for the immediately foreseeable future. Hoping that all US schools will adopt similar policies...

How this plays out with political rallies the next 3-4 months will be fascinating. Eight months before the election, that will have huge/unforeseen consequences. Candidates will have to adapt to live-streaming...social media and traditional forms of media (t.v., radio, newspaper) will receive more emphasis. Uncharted waters. With the massive cancellations around the country rolling in, the legal responsibilities for going ahead with them despite all the warnings...I’ll just go back to 1918 and the Spanish flu. Philadelphia not cancelling public events for a couple of weeks and St. Louis being more proactive led to a differential of 12,000 vs. 1,800 deaths at that time. Likewise, here in Wuhan, we witnessed the mayor giving the go-ahead for a 40000 attendee Chinese New Year’s celebration with 12000+ shared dishes (at circular tables where everyone takes food from the same pots) on January 18th, five days before the city lockdown. They wanted to present an image of economic vitality and set a world record...this was weeks after the national government in Beijing was notified of a SARs-like pneumonia spreading. That decision alone will cost hundreds of thousands of lives across the globe.

Maybe that will actually help Iowa in the Big Ten tournament...because bringing back Alford to coach those games might be the only other solution. I jest. The experience of watching from home and buzzer beaters going off in empty arenas, it’s going to be surreal...you’ll definitely see so much more focus on the coaches and bench with no bands, obligatory end of game crying fans shots, cheer squads, etc.

https://www.policygenius.com/life-insurance/does-life-insurance-cover-coronavirus/

Two quick points. 133 million Americans are reported to have underlying conditions, or roughly 40% of the US population. One of the major lessons here in China was the high percentage of smokers (and it's still a majority of the population of males over 50 here) had staggeringly negative outcomes throughout this...and how much unrecoverable damage it does to the lungs, even to those who end up surviving it through emergency interventions and therapeutics/HIV-family drugs more commonly known as antiretrovirals.

Isn’t there a clause that kicks in with lots of insurance world-wide that kicks in when a pandemic has officially been declared by the WHO? CNN did it 2-3 days earlier, obviously that declaration wouldn’t be legally enforceable. Figuring out a new schedule when you have the split of teams you do between AZ and FL is a logistical nightmare...not to mention the pitchers in AZ are going to put up lopsided numbers on the negative side of the ledger. Detroit and Minnesota would have to play against each other almost every week? The biggest stadiums down there are around 10-12,000....like just a few AAA parks?

Seattle and Santa Clara, CA....already took those decisions away from the individual teams and MLB by capping the size of any event. Boston, LA, NYC and the DC area (enhanced risk to continuity of power) could easily be next the way things are trending. In NYC, one lawyer, age 50, spread it to roughly 50 members of his synagogue. At any rate, let’s wait and see what happens with the First Four in Dayton early next week. Master’s must be nervous as well. Talking about Olympics being delayed or moved back 1-2 years, comments that were quickly disavowed in Japan, that has political reasons to undertest there as well to suppress numbers and scare intl athletic community.

The beverage company must not like most major news networks sticking with coronavirus over Covid-19.

From ft.com That’s just ICU. Not necessarily counting severe/recovering but still requiring daily hospitalization before release. By Tuesday, the first day of a nationwide clampdown on travel and social contact, the total number of infections across Italy had increased to 10,149 from 4,636 on Friday. While about one in 10 have since recovered — and at least 631 people have died — 877 patients are currently in intensive care. Lombardy, which has one of the best-resourced regional health systems in Italy, has been facing a surge in acute cases. As of Tuesday the number of people infected in Italy’s industrial heart had risen to 5,791, including 446 in intensive care. “Franky, I don’t know for how long the health system can cope, I don’t even want to think about how it could end,” Massimo Galli, head of the department for infectious diseases at the Sacco Hospital in Milan, told the Financial Times. “We are holding up, but other hospitals are much worse off than us and it is a fact that we will come increasingly under pressure.”

And they’re a nationalized healthcare system where all the costs to patients are basically subsidized. We’ve gone away from more treatment-oriented to high-tech diagnostic, basically, get them in and out as quickly as possible, convert to outpatient status. That won’t work at all with coronavirus...it’s going to be a high stress, staff and bed-intensive process requiring multiple weeks for a single patient.

Baseball related discussion...unless you guys want to continue in SLAM Covid-13 dedicated thread. It’s an interesting topic, but hard to separate baseball from political considerations these days.

Fixed.....three options. Maybe I’m already anticipating the option we’d all like to see is off the table by then. The new ballpark in Texas is supposed to open with an exhibition game on Monday, the 23rd.

https://kdvr.com/sports/san-jose-sharks-adhering-to-public-gathering-ban-may-play-in-empty-arena/ Not exactly. https://www.nhl.com/news/nhl-san-jose-coronavirus-ban-sap-center/c-316072038 Between Seattle, Santa Clara County/CA, Boston in the last 24 hours, NYC, Florida and the DC metro area...you’re going to see more of these situations. Cities that began interventions earlier had significantly lower peaks of pneumonia and influenza-related mortality. And cities that implemented four or more interventions had a lower median peak weekly death rate (65/100,000 people) versus 146/100,000 people from cities with three or fewer interventions. The response between Philadelphia and St. Louis made a great case that social distancing does work. In Philadelphia, the first case was reported on Sept 17 and authorities downplayed the significance of the case. They even allowed a city-wide parade to happen on Sept. 28. School closures and bans on public gatherings did not happen until Oct.3, 16 days since the first case. Meanwhile, St. Louis had its first case on Oct 5 and the city implemented social distancing measures two days later. What was the effect? The 14-day difference in response time between the two cities represents approximately 3-5 doubling times for the epidemic. The peak weekly death rate from pneumonia and influenza-related deaths was 257/100,000 people in Philadelphia. The same metric in St. Louis was 31/100,000. https://microbialmenagerie.com/social-distancing-1918-influenza-coronavirus-covid-19/

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-does-coronavirus-treatment-cost-cdc-health-insurance-2020-2 https://amgreatness.com/2020/03/10/wuhan-virus-exposes-the-danger-of-reliance-upon-china/

Fine, we’ll go with a poll question in an attempt to steer the topic away from polarizing directions... Another option would be to start the season late/r and institute the 14 game playoff format as there’s no better time to experiment than the situation the US is going to be collectively facing the next 2-3 months. https://theathletic.com/1666353/2020/03/10/well-make-it-work-how-chicagos-teams-are-dealing-with-coronavirus-concerns/?source=dailyemail https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2875675-report-mlb-seriously-considering-expanded-playoff-field-starting-in-2022

The death toll skews old even more strongly. Overall, China CDC found, 2.3% of confirmed cases died. But the fatality rate was 14.8% in people 80 or older, likely reflecting the presence of other diseases, a weaker immune system, or simply worse overall health. By contrast, the fatality rate was 1.3% in 50-somethings (13x flu mortality rate), 0.4% in 40-somethings (4x flu mortality rate), and 0.2% in people 10 to 39 (twice as dangerous as the common flu.) https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/03/who-is-getting-sick-and-how-sick-a-breakdown-of-coronavirus-risk-by-demographic-factors/

Did any of them die...get quickly removed by a rapid response team in hazmat suits, with no goodbyes, no funeral...no ashes to collect after the cremation even? Have you been reading about what is going on in Italy and Iran, for example? Because 6-8% of infected adults in Italy are not dying from the common, ordinary flu strain...which everyone at least can be vaccinated against. As of Monday, only 1,707 people had been tested by the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. More tests may have been conducted at lower level public health laboratories but the number of infections could also be bigger, according to a new Cedars-Sinai study, which estimated that between 1,043 and 9,484 people in the US may have been infected by March 1. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3074506/coronavirus-lesson-china-dont-make-patients-pay-tests-and