Eskimo Joe

Okay.

Correct. There are some folks out there who think they can accept COVID patients and that's really not the point of them. To be clear, I wasn't insinuating anyone on this board thought they should be used for COVID patients.

The hospital ships are designed for trauma injuries in battle. They aren't designed intrinsically for clinical cases such a COVID et al. It's true they can be used for offloading some of the daily hospital burden on a city like LA or NYC, but utilizing these ships presents layers of logistical challenges such as ferrying patients, extra patient tracking between the civilian and military sector.

The other issue is culture. Places like India, Japan, etc. it's normal to wear a mask if you're sick and have places like train stations thoroughly cleaned each night. Their society doesn't whine like an immature child when they have to modify their movement for a few weeks during a public health event.

My friend in PA is an x-ray tech who was furloughed through June 1. He works in outpatient and doesn't have the training to support the ER yet since he's only been there about 6 months. What Phin said is true, but it's a stretch if anything thinks it's widespread.

Some hospitals are temporarily furloughing staff in their outpatient clinics who are not qualified to support ER or specialty COVID operations. It's isolated to mainly rural hospitals locations that don't have a specialty (IE: trauma, stroke, etc.)

Annapolis has been working very well with the counties thus far. It's a damn sight better than what's happening between DC and everyone else. The plan is to open things up with a dimmer and pauses in between to seen what acts as a vector. I can tell you right now that mass transit is going to be tough because all of the GIS and public health community tracing data is pointing to that as an incredibly efficient vector for COVID19.

No that is not what I said at all. Please do not puts words in my mouth.

Given the discordant leadership by the governors in those states, it is certainly plausible to see these states have higher secondary spikes when things open up compared to the rest of the country. To say I'm call for "hundreds of thousands of deaths" is a dubious assertion. Our healthcare system is taxed and unfair to the consumer so if you go into the hospital and survive you're stuck paying off medical bills for awhile and don't have expendable income to participate in our consumer based economy.

Florida, Oklahoma and South Dakota say hi.

The Carroll County tornado makes it the 2nd tornado in that watch box and verifies the watch box. IMO, while the SPC SWODY2 & SWODY1 have been pretty iffy in the Mid Atlantic of late, their watch boxes have gotten really good.

You'd think that gov IT would learn about server capacity by now. Whatever your estimate is, just double it.

RE: Stimulus check status website https://www.cbsnews.com/news/stimulus-checks-tracking-website-live-today-2020-04-15/

Couple of thoughts about this past event. These are my own casual observations, feel free to add/subtract/disagree. 1.) Severe weather events are messy here 9.9 times out of 10. We usually bust on the low side of things. No matter how animated the meso models are leading up to an event, always remain skeptical and rely on the nowcasting stuff the morning of to determine where everything is lining up. 2.) The warm front will struggle to push north of I-66 the night before the event. It seems that no matter what happens, warm fronts tend to settle out between I-66 and the Potomac and not make much progress until around late morning or lunch. The longer northward progression is delayed, the lower the chances of a middle to high end event. 3.) Big dynamics with okay instability beats great instability over meh dynamics. The February event and this past event on April 13th show that it doesn't take much surface based instability to get things going if upstairs is rocking. 4.) Sub 1000mb lows just to our NW don't go quietly into the night (Credit: @Rainshadow). The June, 2013 event, the Feb 2020 event and the April 13th event reinforce my thoughts on #3.

Some private labs slow or stop processing tests on the weekend.

OSPREY EOC...internal through the state but it's hard to share into local gov products. Having the AGOL feed is more ubiquitous. Thanks.

Is there a way the data can be published as a service for other programs to ingest it?

For MD, the two early indicators that we're peaking or coming off the peak are the "Hospitalizations" and "Released from Isolation". In those two boxes you will see a "Last 24 hours". Until the "Release from Isolation, Last 24 hours" numbers match or exceed the "Hospitalizations, Last 24 Hours" for 3 days, we aren't coming down.

You're going to see some re-analysis and back log reporting over the next 10 -17 days as we near the peak. The reporting system and staff area realllly being strained.

There is such a backlog of tests nationally, and under-testing that we're missing a fair number of symptomatic cases and probably missing fatalities.

Higher than Katrina (1,811), just shy of Pearl Harbor (2,403). We've been having a Katrina a day in this country for almost a week.

Yesterday in upper Montgomery County:

That Kent Cointy cell put down some damage east of Dover AFB per Delaware State OEM.

Interesting how the 12z HRRR actually nailed today's storm mode and motion. Everything after that was crapola from an HRRR perspective.