COVID-19: Scrimmage games | July 23 (NBATV), 26 (NBATV), 28 (FSSW) for DAL

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I have a concern that the China/Wuhan numbers are actual. This was going on for months before it was officially recognized by the Chinese government so nobody really knows what the actual count was. We may be only seeing part of the curve, never mind if China is filtering the numbers so they don't look so bad.

Anecdotal reports of Iran using mass graves and Italians getting stuck with deceased family members because nobody wants to come retrieve the body. 

The whole idea of cancelling events and social distancing is not to eliminate the disease but to flatten the curve so that patient needs don't overwhelm medical services. This means trading intensity for time, which means this is not going to blow over in a couple of weeks.

And this also means that extensive global travel was occurring for a couple of months after the emergence of the virus, which also means that perhaps thousands of people around the world who thought they had a cold may indeed have picked up this coronavirus.  Therefore, the actual number of coronavirus cases may be much larger than the known cases.  This is why the high mortality rates that are being bandied about may be quite overstated.

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Three coronavirus cases just announced here in Tyler:

"All three of the confirmed patients have a recent travel history outside of the United States. The test results were confirmed by the Public Health Lab of East Texas (PHLET)."

Also, my UT Dallas student daughter just told me UTD extended Spring Break to two weeks and all classes are online.