List what state you are in and give a short paragraph on what you see or don't see in your surroundings with Covid 19

El Cabron wrote:

Southern NM: Non-essential businesses have been closed. Schools are closed. The Lowe's is busier than ever. I've seen more people walking and running this week than the past two months.

The same is happening in NW PA. Lowe’s, Home Depot are as busy as ever. Some rural communities like where I live are operating like nothing is going on...... yet all not essentials are closed. And only drive thrus are open....

Ophthalmologist in STL Missouri. My pt load is at a minimum - emergency consults/procedures only; nil elective surgeries. In terms of COVID-19 +ve patients, numbers are low (manageable) and currently decreasing. PPE stocks are good.

Many people are out walking/running/cycling, and, for the most part, adhering to social distancing.

Wholefoods (where I grocery shop) has people queue outside the store, allowing 10 people in at a time.

Howard County, Maryland - Between D.C. and Baltimore. Slightly less people walking around the lakes. I only run alone or with one other person. Tracks are closed but people still use them occasionally. Groups of people seem to only be families. Businesses only doing pick-up and take out. Runners haven't disappeared, if anything this is increasing the amount of exercise people do. MANY MANY masks worn by walkers.

rg2 wrote:

Our problem is that some areas should have stay at home and be shutdown like New York and New Jersey area which have half of the entire us cases/deaths. However, there is no reason in most areas but politicians are being extra cautious because no one wants to be that governor/mayor that was in charge of an area that happened to blow up in cases. Look at all the flack Florida was getting for keeping their beaches open. The crazies would be on your case if you didn’t by in to the fear mongering.

This perception is a problem.

Given the rate of spread, and delay in symptom onset, if you wait for there to be lots of cases it will be too late. The mark of success will be that folks think it was an overreaction. Look at California....not many deaths

I'm in the Northeast, and a medical professional at an academic center. My commute is really easy.

Our ICU is full of patients with COVID 19. We have lots of other patients with it. A few of our nurses and docs have it as well.

A few people in my town also have it

Despite my username, I live ten minutes from downtown LA. The notorious LA traffic is now sporadic like an early Saturday or Sunday morning. I've been out for a run of 5-8 miles almost every day since the shelter went in effect and have yet to be accosted by anyone. There are a decent number of people walking as couples, families, or dogs. I try to wave and smile when I can and usually receive a warm wave back. The few runners I do encounter are very courteous to maintain at least six feet when crossing paths. My best friend, very healthy in his mid 40s, was hospitalized in mid March with COVID-19. He's recovering and in self quarantine now. BTW, testing is still way behind, but Governor Newsom, has owned the problem and vows to do better. A decent number of school districts have decided to remain closed for the 2019-20 academic year while others are taking a wait and see approach. The education of students varies depending upon the district and teacher.

My family back in rural NE Iowa says opinions are everywhere. There have been a number of COVID cases for sparsely populated county. Even my hometown of 2,000 people has one confirmed case. Most of the educated folks have an understanding of why social distancing is important while the ignorant keep doing their thing. I'm keeping my fingers crossed COVID doesn't get into the local nursing home or spread through the county because it will overwhelm the healthcare system. I estimate 50% of Iowa's population has at least one of these conditions: obesity, a pre-existing health condition, or advanced age.

Stay safe and informed.

This is what I've been waiting for. I'm convinced that it went around my part of the bay area in December. It would be good to know for sure.

hopeful... wrote:

Not just to me, they'll announce the study results. The study has gotten media attention both locally and nationally as it was referenced in the Washington Post among other places.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-health-202/2020/04/01/the-health-202-serology-tests-to-pinpoint-number-of-u-s-coronavirus-infections-are-key-to-reopening-country/5e83736988e0fa101a757059/https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/04/04/coronavirus-new-stanford-research-reveals-if-youve-been-exposed/

Bib #1 wrote:

Is Stanford going to tell you what % of the random people test positive? It’d be interesting stat to know

former Iowa great wrote:

Sort of irrelevant when so many young people are committing suicide. Maybe you should care about them. Or what about all of the people who are starting to commit violent crime because they have no food or shelter. These stories are not being sensationalized but they are easy to find. 3 children have died in my state during school hours that would be alive today. I would absolutely trade this young lives in exchange for the out of shape elderly people that have died in the state from Covid 19. Add to that all of the quality of life impacts to the 3 million people in my state, and I would even giveup absolutely everything if it meant my children and everyone else could get back to normal.

I absolutely care about the terrible economic impacts and I think our country should be doing much more to provide food, shelter, and care during these times.

Pittsburgh, PA- Most things are shut down due to stay at home orders, food places doing take-out only, playgrounds roped off and closed in most places, basketball hoops removed, "essential" stores are either mad houses or not busy at all depending on where and when you go. Walmart just changed things to limit number of people in the stores with aisles roped off so you can only walk through one way to reduce browsing, floors are marked for 6 ft apart and security guards trying to enforce the 6 foot social distancing. Streets and the rivers are not busy at all. Pretty quiet outside. Not many people outside on the many cloudy and rainy days we have, lots of people on the major bike paths along the river on nice days. People seem to be keeping social distance, but some are not making as much effort to do so as they should when they pass on the bike bath. From what I've heard, hospitals are not overwhelmed and actually have less ER patients than normal and are well stocked with supplies. COVID19 cases are growing here at a fast rate, but so far everything seems fairly under control. I've heard Philly is much worse.

Note- my sister-in-law is a nurse in Chicago and says it's a madhouse there. They have so many COVID19 patients that they had to set up tents in the parking lot. Not enough PPE for hospital workers. They get one N95 mask per day. Entire ER nurse unit got infected, so all those nurses are out recovering. They weren't letting nurses get tested for it until recently even if they had symptoms. My sister-in-law had symptoms of COVID and until this week, they refused to test her and kept making her come to work sick. Finally this week they decided to test her and make her stay home until they got results. Outside of the hospitals, the streets downtown are crazy quiet and dead there right now.

I personally know one person (in KY) who lost her mom to COVID19 yesterday. Her mom was in her 80's though. Not sure of her health condition before she got it.

SE Wisconsin

Walk daily 55- 60 mins (3 miles) with 83 year old father on rail to trail pre-dawn

More deer than people...a few regular runners...cardinals....bird songs

no dogs yet dog poop...lots of cop cars

Get out early for your run and enjoy the morning

I’m a CCM doc at BJH in St. Louis...you haven’t been keeping up. ICU pts arerapidly increasing. COVId pts are taking over multiple icUs. Multiple ICUs in STL county are already full. Still manageable for now, but barely, and only w all faculty /fellows working night and day

Some one stole 15, 000 masks? Sure buddy

CT, about 30 miles from NYC.

It’s bad. There are 7 seven confirmed positives at my work with four more waiting for test results. The local hospital has a trailer in the back to store dead bodies because the morgue is full. A family member (not immediate) died from covid last week.

There are people wearing gloves and masks everywhere, even when they’re jogging or driving or whatever. The streets are empty. It’s all pretty f cked up right now.

Please explain. CT has 30,000 deaths per year. That is about 10,000 to this point of which 200 are Covid 19. That is only a 2% increase.

Greenwich Village, Manhattan, NYC: BIG changes since the last full moon.

Not a ghost town--people on pretty much every block, at any time--but definitely quiet. NYT says subway use is down 80+%. My spouse is in an essential occupation--takes the subway but says there's no trouble keeping 2m apart. Same for me when I take the PATH train to Jersey City to get groceries: very few riders. Definitely less vehicular traffic. Delivery guys on bikes are ubiquitous.

Grocery stores and some drug stores have an old-fart hour at the beginning of the day. Very convenient--otherwise there'd be a lot of standing on line. People everywhere generally very good about the social-distance thing, but grocery stores and others have marked out spots to stand while waiting.

Masks fairly common but not universal by any means--maybe 50-60% of people I see? Lots of people walking/jogging/biking by the Hudson, but almost no one in my particular workout areas there (parking garage ramp, 200m stretch of boardwalk).

I guess everyone knows that the hospitals' situation is very tough. Bodies being stored in refrigerated trucks. A strong percentage of folks are "essential" workers in service and healthcare positions and they're exposed to a lot of people every day. Not seeing any peak in cases/deaths yet, and every day we're hearing about younger, othewise-healthy individuals getting very sick or dying. Every day.

Wife works in hospital in Iowa-no patients-hospitals are slow and empty. Iowa is now cracking down heavily on social distancing now-just recently, but with all businesses, parks, and campgrounds closed people are now walking, running, or going for drives. I think traffic has actually increased because everyone is so bored...

My county got an F on the cell phone tracking showing an actual increased amount of travel.

Not sure what numbers you’re looking at, refer to this for some better news:

Perspective from Upper East Side, NYC.

There’re people around, but it is much, much quieter than a typical day. I was early to WFH (second weeks of March), and there were probably 20x the people on the sidewalks then. Vehicle traffic is very low. Masks of some form have gone up in the last few days from 30-40% usage to somewhere around 70-80% usage (excluding runners who have them on at lower rates) in my neighborhood. People are very good about distancing with the lone exception being a checkout aisle or a line to pick up takeout or whatever. That is where you’ll see some lackadaisical distancing (impatience). Workers at restaurants/bakeries etc. are just grateful for you to come in. I had to wait in line to enter Fairway this past Sunday, but it was the first time that they limited people coming in.

Central Park remains overcrowded. I don’t want to get COVID-19 (if I haven’t already), so I know I am taking a bigger risk than I’d like to every time I run. I do my best to weave and avoid people, but the bridle/upper res/lower res just have too many people. When there’s a cop on horseback maintaining 4 feet plus (6 feet is often hard) is more doable as they call out people and generally get people from stop being idiots. There’re some walkers who have no idea what they’re doing and walk 3 abreast or in the middle of the bridle path which should be for passing. It’s better when the weather is crappy. A little rain and social distancing is easy.

The community highlight of every day is the cheer that goes up for healthcare workers at 7 every night. I usually encounter it at the end of my runs and join in by clapping and it feels like a great human moment. The spirit of most people seems good — I know I’m lucky to not have anyone in my immediate circle affected.

state: New York. I live in NYC so self explanatory yeah that’s it