Thursday April 16 2020


The tomatoes are coming along.

There are some things that are so stupid you cannot spin them. Why would you decide to pull funding from the worlds largest health research organization in the middle of a pandemic? That is insane.

I went to the dentist today. I had a temporary crown on and they wanted to put on the permanent. I also had a temporary filling replaced. Everything went well. I put on sweat pants, t-shirt, a washable jacket, cloth mask, and gloves. I took my driver's license and a credit card, plus 409 and paper towel. When I parked my car I switched to safety glasses and my N95 mask. The dentist only has one patient at a time in the building. I was the first patient at 8:30 AM. I used a paper towel to push the button to open the doors to enter the building. None of the staff was wearing masks. I did not sit down while I waited for the dentist which only took a couple of minutes. When it was time to go I took off the mask and let him work on my teeth. After the procedure I put my mask back on. Used Purel on my gloves. When I got home I put all of the clothes in a bag and took a shower. Then we washed the clothes. I washed off my phone, the drivers license, and the credit card with 409 as well as the gloves. Then I washed my hands.

So the CDC has messed up the graph of the US again. I believe they intended to show states over 100,000 as dark brown but the key is incorrect. Here are the graphs for today:









211550New York
71030New Jersey
29918Massachusetts
28059Michigan
26490Pennsylvania
24593Illinois
24424California
21951Louisiana
21865Florida
15492Texas
15409Georgia
14755Connecticut
10784Maryland
10783Washington
8955Indiana
8280Colorado
7791Ohio
6889Virginia
5836Tennessee
5123North Carolina
4895Missouri
4241Alabama
3962Arizona
3721Wisconsin
3656South Carolina
3624Mississippi
3529Rhode Island
3211Nevada
2637Utah
2291Kentucky
2263Oklahoma
2197
District of Columbia
2014Delaware
1995Iowa
1862Minnesota
1663Oregon
1587Idaho
1583Arkansas
1494Kansas
1484New Mexico
1168South Dakota
1139New Hampshire
974Puerto Rico
952Nebraska
770Maine
759Vermont
718West Virginia
517Hawaii
415Montana
393Wyoming
365North Dakota
293Alaska
135Guam
51Virgin Islands
13
Northern Marianas
0
American Samoa
0Marshall Islands
0Micronesia
0Palau





The US hit 2618 deaths per day on April 15. Comparison of the UW model to the actual data.





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