Long Suffering Fan

Hi, I read TBD almost every day. Thanks everyone for posting! I really enjoy the extra content this site brings. I'm posting today for the first time only because I would feel guilty if I didn't. There is some good news out there. It just hasn't gotten a lot of traction yet. I know a few people in the medical field. They tell me: - They were going to have to all do shifts in NYC to help out, but all of that has been cancelled. They no longer need the help. - Their hospital, which normally runs at 120% capacity, is currently at 50%. I know that is because elective procedures have been cancelled, but a few weeks ago there was a real fear that that space was needed to handle the influx of covid patients. - This is causing some doctors to be laid off. Think about that. We are in the middle of a health crisis and we are able to lay off some of our health professionals. - Out in Washington State they are dismantling a temporary field hospital they built and returning ventilators back to the supply. - A friend of mine believes she has Coronavirus. When she went in to get tested, they sent her home without a test and told her that, at this point, they would not treat her any different if she tested positive. I know that, at first glance, that sounds like bad news, but it shows that we have seen these improvements while we still don't even have wide spread testing yet. It also means that any fatality percentage numbers we are seeing are skewed when we are not even testing people with symptoms. - Another doctor told me that they believe the mortality rate of this disease will be in the area of 0.3% to 0.5%, which is way lower than we feared. - He pointed me to Iceland and the UAE as examples since they have done so well with testing. Most everyone there with symptoms is being tested. Iceland has tested over 10% of its population. They have 8 deaths and 1711 cases. The UAE has tested 6.5% of their population. They have 25 deaths and 4521 cases. - This likely means that many more in America have already had the disease. All of this is very positive news, so take heart. 2-3 weeks ago, it looked like it could have been MUCH worse than this. We still have a long way to go, but things look much brighter than they did at one point.