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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAn American in Wuhan, what to expect. Plus, the CA & WA Blue way of doing it
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https://news.yahoo.com/act-though-going-lot-longer-093031383.html
'Act as though it's going to be a lot longer': American in Wuhan warns U.S. over lockdowns
.... Don't go into this thinking it's going to be over in a few weeks, Benjamin Wilson told NBC News from his apartment in Wuhan where he and his family spent eight weeks in confinement.
After initially experiencing problems getting evacuated back to the U.S., Wilson, 38, chose to stay in the city where he has lived for more than 16 years, with his Chinese wife, Li Qin, and seven-year-old daughter Jasmin as it went into lockdown in late January.
For six out of the eight weeks that the family spent cooped up inside, they could not leave their apartment at all, relying on delivery services for their daily needs. ....
For more than two months, Wuhan residents faced draconian restrictions, with all movement in, out and around the industrial city of 11 million people blocked. ....
With its subway and train service resuming this weekend, some businesses, supermarkets and shopping malls have also re-opened their doors, hoping for customers to start trickling in. Travel restrictions are also expected to be lifted on April 8.
But despite restrictions easing off, Wilson said there has been a shift in the psyche of Wuhans residents, with few rushing to go outside or take their masks off. ....
https://news.yahoo.com/flattening-the-curve-on-coronavirus-what-california-and-washington-can-teach-the-world-130405639.html
Flattening the curve on coronavirus: What California and Washington can teach the world
.... All of this new information points to the same hopeful, if tentative, conclusion. In areas of America that caught the coronavirus early in its trajectory and quickly implemented the sort of strict, sweeping social distancing measures recommended by public health officials the curve may be starting to bend. The virus may be starting to spread more slowly. Staying home may be starting to work.
And as Birx has been telling the public all week, the two states to watch are Washington and California. For now, only 8 percent of COVID-19 tests there are coming back positive compared to 35 percent in New York and New Jersey, 26 percent in Louisiana and 15 percent in Michigan, Connecticut, Indiana, Georgia and Illinois. ....
Assuming its model is correct, the IHME also projects that neither California nor Washington is likely to exceed its hospital resource capacity. New York, by contrast, has already exceeded it, and is likely to continue to need many more hospital beds, intensive care beds and ventilators than it had before the pandemic. ....
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An American in Wuhan, what to expect. Plus, the CA & WA Blue way of doing it (Original Post)
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Apr 2020
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(2,198 posts)1. Thanks! KnR!11!
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(70,744 posts)2. You're welcome - and I like your punctuation!11!